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Virtual volunteering

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.

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

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.