[Photo credit: AVP Volunteer 2 by yuan2003, on Flickr]
As any charitable organization knows, volunteers are superstars. They give love and expertise and don’t ask for a dime in return. They can be especially helpful if your organization has a website. Bearing in mind that an entire Web development project is long-term and requires dedicated knowledge and commitment that you’re better off hiring someone to do (upshot: it’s easier to fire someone whose work you’re not happy with), there are still plenty of other tasks you can assign out to people who want to help. Here are a few.
[BTW, did you read Engaging Volunteers in Your Marketing Efforts or Volunteers and Website Management?]
- Social networking cheerleader
- Add comments to blogs
- Contribute blog entries
- Participate in discussion on bulletin boards
- Data entry (i.e., cutting and pasting info into a new site)
- Website promotion
- Adding your website to directories
- Writing news updates about events
- Website literacy workshops
- Checking for dead links
- Updating old content
- Convert press releases for websites
- Usability testing (i.e., make sure everything works in a logical way)
- Bug reporting (i.e., look for and report errors or problems)
- Identify requirements for new development
- Browser testing
- Taking pictures for the website
- Formatting and uploading pictures
- Making videos for the site
- Uploading videos onto a service like YouTube or Vimeo, and adding them to site
- Help manage wiki
Anything we missed? Add your ideas below.