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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jun 08 2008 | By: baraza

Do you want to help wildlife in Africa? Do you want to do more than donate money and leave comments on your favorite WildlifeDirect blog? If your answer is yes then you have come to the right place!

We are looking for talented people out there who are willing to be virtual volunteers to help support our conservation bloggers. If you are passionate about both conservation and social change then consider helping one our bloggers, as a virtual volunteer.

Maybe you have never been to Africa, or met a gorilla face to face, but you may be a walking encyclopedia on blogging and can rattle off tips and tools for all our bloggers. You probably have enormously greater access to the internet and information that our conservation bloggers. If you fall in love with any of our blogs, and you want to do some social good, we want to hear from you. Each virtual volunteer will be assigned specifically to help an individual project could be gorillas, orangutans, giraffes or a park, on WildlifeDirect.org.

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Like most of our conservation bloggers, the Lion guardians work in the wilderness

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What will WildlifeDirect Virtual Volunteers do?

Virtual Volunteers will be responsible for promoting, circulating and networking individual blog posts on relevant sites, creating linkages between blog posts, and perhaps even creating content on a weekly basis. One virtual volunteer will be assigned specifically to help an individual project on WildlifeDirect.org. We want volunteers who are obsessed with blogging and social networking, and can help to achieve success of individual blogs. The nice thing is that you can work from home, it will only take a few hours a week, and Virtual Volunteering for WildlifeDirect will make you be happy.

Responsibilities:

  • Online research to support field bloggers identify important opportunities, themes, networks, relevant links and topics.
  • Profiling the blog and people or organizations doing the field projects on relevant social networking sites (eg. digg, technorati, myspace etc).
  • Collaborating with the rest of the WildlifeDirect team and bloggers.
  • Where relevant, reading and responding to user comments and guiding online conversations in a constructive direction .
  • Monitoring the blog for inappropriate comments and redirecting conversations to the proper forum if necessary.

Qualifications:

  • An unwavering passion for wildlife
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills, (a big plus if you have photography or video skills)
  • Blogging and/or social networking experience (eg. Facebook, Youtube, Goear and other similar sites)
  • A creative mind, with a good ability to find interesting relevant things online,
  • A good sense of humor!
  • Language skills are a plus (for French and Spanish translations especially)
  • Lots of friends
  • High speed internet
  • 2 – 4 hours per week

If you are interested, pleases contact us on info@wildlifedirect.org use Virtual Volunteering in your Subject line.

16 Responses to “Virtual volunteering”

Nancy, on 10 Jun 2008

I would love to be a virtual volunteer, but unfortunately am not immediately equipped to do so, though I have most of the qualifications, especially creativity, sense of humor and friends (some French and Spanish too). Consider this a seed planted, however. I love you guys, I love Africa, its people and wild life and places, and want to help.

Paula, on 10 Jun 2008

Thank you Nancy. Please keep your eye on the volunteer page and let us know when you are available.

Avril, on 25 Jun 2008

Hi Paula

I would dearly love to volunteer but I have only recently started my blog and am still trying to figure out how everything works.

I have placed links to wildlife direct on my blog as well as my website and if there is anything I could do to help, please let me know. I could place articles on my website and blog?

As a wildlife artist too, painting wildlife and conservation is my great passion, if I could help in that capacity, I would be very happy. So, if you know of a way I could help this wonderful organisation, please let me know.

Paula, on 26 Jun 2008

Hi Avril
I’m very interested in what you may be able to offer. Can you send us your link to your website and artwork so that we can look? We’re interested in xmas card designs for eg.

Avril, on 27 Jun 2008

Hi Paula

I would love to help you and this wonderful organisation. My website is http://www.clareartist.com and the web album with better quality photographs is http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/avrilbrand

I am building up my wildlife collection with the intention of one day having enough paintings for a wildlife exhibition in Ireland of which I want to donate a good percentage to conservation projects.

So, if there is any way I can help now, I will be extremely happy to do so.

Avril, on 27 Jun 2008

Hi Paula

I wrote a message earlier but it did not seem to go through…

My website is http://www.clareartist.com and you can see better quality photographs on http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/avrilbrand

I would love to help in any way, so you can just let me know.

Robin Andreae, on 08 Jul 2008

Hi Paula,

I’d be interested in helping. But I’m on very slow dial-up and I’m not exactly what you call an encyclopedia of blogging. Presently, I have two blogs which I haven’t posted in for some time. I don’t have a whole lot to say, I guess.

However, I am an artist and would be happy to donate any work for WildlifeDirect. Also, I organized the “Art Helping Mountain Gorillas” ebay auction last year and know quite a few other artists. (arthelpingmountaingorillas.googlepages.com) who would more than likely want to lend a hand with any art that you need. I am a board member of “Art for Critters”, too. You can see my website and art by clicking the link in my name. there is a link to my blog on my website. So the bottom line is for art and artists, I’m good, for blogging so-so and for willingness to help I’m there.

So if there’s anything you need and I can help with, please let me know. I’m a very big fan of WildlifeDirect and strongly support what you are doing.
~Robin

Gemma, on 10 Jul 2008

Hi Paula,

This sounds like a great initiative, and I’d definitely be interested in helping out. I’ve sent an e-mail with all the necessary info, so please feel free to drop me a line if there’s anything I can do.

Jamie, on 10 Jul 2008

Hi Paula,
I have been following WilfelifeDirect for awhile now and would love to help out in any way. I sent an email with information to info@wildlifedirect.org, and please let me know what I can do!
All the best,
Jamie

Siggi, San Diego, on 16 Jul 2008

Hi Paula,

I would like to help as well, but am also not a ‘encyclopedia of blogging’. ;-)
But I am on facebook and work with this as a social network and some other travel & wildlife forums. Also LOVE research and my biggest passion is with the elephants. I am the owner of Kenya Travel Ideas (http://www.kenyatravelideas.com) and have a link to wildlifedirect.com set up already, and have also told people about the work your doing.

So, whatever you think might be something I can help with, I’m more than happy to do so.

All the best,
Siggi

Paula, on 17 Jul 2008

Thank you Robin, Jamie, Gemma and Siggi, I’m in USA right now and will be back in Nairobi next week - I will get back to you individually as soon as I get back. Thanks so much for your enthusiasm!

Farrah Ashline, on 31 Jul 2008

Please count me in to volunteer! What wonderful, important work for wildlife you are doing!

Farrah Ashline

Erin, on 04 Aug 2008

Hey - I’m also really interested in this and sent an e-mail to the listed address. I just wanted to make sure it’d been received! I’m in school right now studying anthropology and conservation, and the community based conservation things that Wildlife Direct is involved with … exactly what I’m interested in!
Asanteni,
Erin

admin, on 20 Aug 2008

Greetings everyone,

I’ve sent out emails to all of you - and I look forward to hearing back on your interest for the various tasks ahead.
Paula

Gitonga, on 20 Jul 2009

Hello,

I came across this page, and I am curious if this is still an active part of the site. The reason I ask is that there seems to be no updates on requests since last year.

Anupama, on 11 Aug 2009

Hi

I would like to join the project if it is in INDIA .

regards,
Anupama

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