Talk:Micro-volunteering

Sparked.com

The Extraordinaries is now Sparked.com. I'm assuming someone from that organization is watching this page and will make that change as appropriate.

As of June 1, 2011, the Sparked.com web site says micro-volunteering is online volunteering (it's the main graphic on their web site, in fact). There have been several blogs by people at The Extraordinaries/Sparked that had previously claimed it was not online volunteering, while blogs by volunteer management practitioners had said that, indeed, it is. Per Sparked.com's own web site, that debate is now closed.

Examples of micro-volunteering, identified and produced by people not a part of Sparked.com and by anyone that is not me, are needed on this page.

-- Jcravens42 15:58, 01 June 2011 (UTC-8)

Please keep edits factual

"The practice of micro-volunteering was created by the San Francisco-based social enterprise called The Extraordinaries (now renamed as www.Sparked.com), founded in 2008." This is NOT TRUE. Microvolunteering has been going on since the Internet came about. It is a practice as old as the Internet itself. The phrase for this practice, which was called "Byte-sized" volunteering by the Virtual Volunteering Project back in the 1990s, can be probably be attributed to Sparked.com, but to credit them with inventing the practice is blatantly false.

"In sum, micro-volunteering uses crowdsourcing techniques and often involves many people collaborating on the same project -- much like Wikipedia -- whereas virtual volunteering generally is a one-to-one experience." This is a complete mischaracterization of virtual volunteering, with no basis in reality and, therefore, has been deleted.

And, again, examples of micro-volunteering, identified and produced by people not a part of Sparked.com and by anyone that is not me, are needed on this page.

-- Jcravens42 20:00, 07 July 2011 (UTC-8)

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