I believe in online volunteerism. Those of you who know me have seen and shared in a lot of what I care about. I do a great deal of online work and I promote it every chance that I can. In fact, sometimes I promote it HERE. In November’s Item I related how Doe Network could help you to make a difference by volunteering online from your computer and your living room.   I help with the teams or donate money to WordPress, Firefox Support, [...]

For geeks, getting away from the computer isn’t an easy task, but some of us are actually community and want to make some kind of a difference. Now you can go sign petitions til the cows come home, but realistically, unless you convince 50 thousand other people to do that you’re probably not going to make a huge difference in the overall scheme of things but there are a few ways online that you can. Internet volunteerism isn’t just a silly phrase and you really [...]