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Involving International Online Volunteers: Factors for Success, Organizational Benefits, and New Vie

In conjunction with the Institute for Volunteering Research's November 2005 conference, "Volunteering Research: Frontiers and Horizons," this research was undertaken to assess current common practices among organizations successfully involving international online volunteers; to explore the role online volunteering may play in building a more cohesive global community; and to assess the relationship between involving online volunteers and building organizational capacities. This paper offers a brief history and overview of online volunteering practice and details survey results regarding organizations that involved the Outstanding Online Volunteers of 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 at onlinevolunteer.org.

A listing of all of the research I know about regarding online volunteering, by a variety of authors, is listed here:
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