As any charitable organization knows, volunteers are superstars. They give love and expertise and don’t ask for a dime in return. They can be especially helpful if your organization has a website. Bearing in mind that an entire Web development project is long-term and requires dedicated knowledge and commitment that you’re better off hiring someone to do (upshot: it’s easier to fire someone whose work you’re not happy with), there are still plenty of other tasks you can assign out to people who want to help. Here are a few.

1. Social networking cheerleader


2. Add comments to blogs


3. Contribute blog entries


4. Participate in discussion on bulletin boards


5. Data entry (i.e., cutting and pasting info into a new site)


6. Website promotion


7. Adding your website to directories


8. Writing news updates about events


9. Website literacy workshops


10. Checking for dead links


11. Updating old content


12. Convert press releases for websites


13. Usability testing (i.e., make sure everything works in a logical way)


14. Bug reporting (i.e., look for and report errors or problems