Volunteer Blog Movement

An action of The Volunteers in Action Institute for the Global Youth Service Day

What is this?

Interested people form an Action Group

Plan and perforn an action that contributes to the solution of the problem.

Identify a necessity in the community

The Global Youth Service Day

The Global Youth Service Day has been celebrated since the year 2000 in more than 120 countries.

The Volunteers in Action Institute imagined the action of the Global Day celebrated in other ways:

In the ON-LINE World

With actions aimed at fighting digital illiteracy.

Button of the Movement:

The action of digital inclusion was called:

VOLUNTEER BLOG MOVEMENT

The button, added by affiliated blogs, announced the VOLUNTEER BLOG MOVEMENT and invited users to become familiar with the site

hosting the event

http://www.blogvoluntario.org.br/

Participating blogs set aside one or more posts that

taught people, with little or no computer skills, basic

computer operations.

April 25th, 26th, 27th

Posts’ Topics:

• How to open a folder in a computer;

• How to archive a document;

• How to search for Web sites;

• How to use Windows’ programs;

• How to use Web tools and etc.

The FIRST broad-ranged ACTION in ON-

LINE VOLUNTEERING IN BRAZIL was

initiated.

The Volunteer Blog Movement was a success, see the statistics:

470 subscribers 661 posts in Technorati425 posts in Google Blog Search63,305 RSS readers (approximate number)124 followers in Twitter

http://www.blogvoluntario.org.br/

DATA from 14/04/2008 to 05/06/2008:http://www.blogvoluntario.org.br/

Visitors Rate of rejection

Page Displays

Pages/visits

Average time on site

% new visits

Site’s use

The visits to the site had a better percentage in Direct Traffic and sites of

reference. The issue aroused the interest of thousands of people from

different cities

SEE:

All sources of traffic sent a total of 8926 visits

Direct Traffic

Sites of Reference

Search Engines Search Engines

259 (2.90%)

Direct Traffic

1,529 (17.13%)

Sites of Reference

7,138 (79,97%)

* Tabelas nos próximos slides?

 

Participation of the blogosphere in the Volunteer Blog

Movement, in addition to surpassing the expectations of

The Volunteers in Action Institute, brought together the

largest number of posts already seen on the digital

inclusion cause.

How many thousands, if not millions of new Internet users were aided by volunteer blogs?

The Volunteers in Action Institute thanks all the

blogs that voluntarily participated and contributed

to the Global Youth Service Day.

We contributed to the formation of several stars!

The Volunteers in Action Institute – VAI – also thanks our

partners and Ueba BlogBlogs who helped promote the site,

and Knowtec for the development of the site and the active

strategies in social media.

See you soon!