For some people, it will be a preferred avenue of volunteering, but for many people, it will be an additional avenue of volunteering. Those in charge of technology use at your organization claim that your organization doesn't have the computer or Internet capacity to involve volunteers virtually. Virtual volunteering has little to do with technology and everything to do with people. Virtual volunteering does not increase Internet costs for your organization, if your organization already has access to the Internet. The Internet affords a volunteer manager many critical resources , in addition to a new way to find and involve volunteers.
Staff is unwilling to be one of the first organizations involving volunteers virtually.
Numerous organizations already engaged in some form of virtual volunteering. Becoming familiar with them can help staff see that this is a new idea, but not an untried idea. Unfamiliarity with the details and practicalities of virtual volunteering, coupled with some unwillingness to learn more about these matters until you're certain you'll be able to do it. The following ideas can help as well. Your target should be those employees who already work with volunteers in some capacity, as well as those volunteers who have a long-term relationship with your organization and work with other volunteers.