Micro-volunteering

Recent term coined to describe volunteering done in small chunks of time, even in minutes. While micro-volunteering can be done in various ways, it most often is a sub-set of virtual volunteering and is done online or via smartphone.

I Really Want to Know: What’s Going on Out There?, Susan J. Ellis

Days, Hours and Minutes of Service - Enough Is Enough, Susan J. Ellis

Leader or Liability: Are Leaders Sabotaging Volunteer Engagement?, Andy Fryar

Selections from Volunteer Engagement 2.0, Wiley and VolunteerMatch

Virtual Volunteering Revisited, Susan J. Ellis

How To Develop A Microvolunteering Project

Aimed at charities and nonprofits interested in exploring the world of microvolunteering. , 2011, pp. 42

"Donate Your Brain!" Microvolunteering Project of Tech Soup

http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/p/dyb.aspx

Great example of how to create and run a micro-volunteering project.

We Are What We Do

http://www.shiftdesign.org.uk

A UK-based site that "creates stuff that makes it easier for people to do small, good things everyday," which they call "actions."