What if you had more people to help your organization do its work?

What if you had the entire Internet to help your organization do its work?

TechSoup is giving us a small taste of this dream with its new initiative, Donate Your Brain. The program creates a way for anyone, anywhere to help any nonprofit by providing quick answers and suggestions specifically for Internet, software and other technology-related questions.

Any nonprofit can post questions in the TechSoup forums, in their LinkedIn group, or on Twitter using the hashtag #TechSoupDYB, and anyone out there in the wide Internet world can donate THEIR brain and give you an answer.

TechSoup is calling Donate Your Brain a microvolunteering initiative, and indeed it has many of the qualities. It’s made up of quick, discrete tasks that people can do from anywhere. Unlike some of the organizations that have pioneered microvolunteering, such as Sparked.com and Help from Home, Donate Your Brain does not live on one platform – it utilizes the distributed nature of the Internet to get your questions in front of brains that can help.

While the definition and application of microvolunteering is definitely still up in the air, TechSoup has found a new model that explores the potential value for nonprofits looking for bite-sized bits of help.

Here are ways you can use Donate Your Brain to get help for your nonprofit:

• Post a question on Twitter using hashtag #TechSoupDYB.
• Post your question on the TechSoup Glocal LinkedIn group, tagged with “DYB.”
• Post your question to the TechSoup Community Forum, tagged with “DYB.”

Click here to learn more about the Donate Your Brain initiative.

Do you think programs like Donate Your Brain can provide the help nonprofits need? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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