Speaking of ACS-TV, Did you know that the National Institutes of Health has a huge (and I do mean huge) library of video casts? It’s something to see. In addition, the NIH also hosts NIH Radio. Unfortunately, their radio site does not make use of RSS feeds, something they really need to look into.

First, I apologize for the title. I really wasn’t intending to be punny. I recently became an audible.com subscriber. At work, audio books save my sanity by making mundane tasks tolerable. As I was searching audible for information on social networks, the Internet, blogs, learning and intelligence, I was once again struck by my personal bias. When I search for ...

On ServiceLeader.org‘s site I found a listing of the types of work that Virtual Volunteers can do. The listing breaks these volunteers down into two task groups: Technical assistance and direct contact volunteers. Technical Assistance Volunteers provide assistance with task or objective based assignments and/or assignments in which they possess a particular expertise. Tasks and assignments could include:

I’ve been doing a lot of online searches lately on the topic of volunteerism. The first thing that struck my attention was the fact that many of my searches lead to Canadian sites such as Volunteer.ca and Volunteer Canada. Volunteer.ca has an amazing resource center with hundreds of listings relating to volunteerism. I was so impressed with this site, I ...