The volunteer works with the page on the BCN server so the organization can participate in the page development. BCN also relies upon volunteers to maintain the BCN website. The basis of our homepage is to bring information to the community. Volunteers check the links and seek out new information. They also do basic tech support for nonprofits, such as fixing e-mail or training staff on software applications.
Volunteers also oversee public access sites in the library, senior centers, and municipal buildings.
BCN volunteers also come up with ideas of how technology can be used by nonprofit organizations to function more effectively, and often discover a need in the community that BCN can meet. One example of this is LINC, a listing of all the human services in the county and who they target. Whether service is performed virtually or onsite, volunteers and staff communicate primarily by e-mail . Brenda's personal experience volunteering offline has been a big asset to her management of online volunteers. I have volunteered since I was 10 for various organizations in capacities as coordinator to clean up crew.