多亏了互联网，现在每个人都是政治家(political)。您几乎无法打开任何社交媒体网站，而不会受到每个可以使用智能手机的人的政治观点的轰炸。这(Which)是很多人！
问题是，这会带来多少真正的变化？如果您对自己的政治品牌有强烈的感觉，无论它是什么，您如何对选举和竞选的结果产生影响？毕竟，除非你让你的候选人上任，否则你想要的政策永远不会通过。以下是一些关于如何自愿参加在线政治运动以产生真正影响的提示。
审核您的技能
如果您想自愿参加在线或其他方式的政治运动，您需要提供一些东西。由于这是您追求的在线志愿服务，这意味着某种可以数字化使用的技能。
竞选活动总是需要一些明显的技能：
这只是冰山一角。你是(Are)有研究资格的人吗？也许您可以帮助民意调查数据或设置调查。你(Are)是专业的营销人员吗？在政治竞选中显然需要来自该行业的人。
您也不必是超合格的专业或技术人员。也许你真的很擅长整个Instagram的事情，或者擅长传播这个词。关键是，在你作为志愿者获得一份演出之前，你需要知道你到底在卖什么。因为，即使志愿者没有得到报酬，不合适的志愿者最终也会让候选人或政党付出一笔巨款。
清理您的社交媒体形象
在您考虑申请成为政治竞选的志愿者之前，您应该努力通过您的社交媒体存在并清理任何可能使竞选活动犹豫与您联系的东西。
我们都在过去的社交媒体中重新发布了模因或至少有一两个非彩色评论。尝试从活动本身的角度看待您的在线形象，并决定是否有任何事情会使您作为虚拟志愿者看起来不那么有吸引力。如果是这样，请考虑暂时关闭您的一些帐户或清理您作为虚拟志愿者期间需要的帐户。
做独立的竞选工作
虽然大量的热情和正确的技能将使您成为在线政治竞选志愿者的有吸引力的候选人，但这可能还不够。那么为什么要等待被选中呢？通过独立参与竞选活动，从人群中脱颖而出。
你(Are)是平面设计师吗？为什么不开始制作出色的图形来宣传您的候选人或鼓励人们为您的政党投票。让活动知道如果他们喜欢，他们可以自由使用该内容。
您也可以利用现有的平台和网上朋友圈为您的候选人拉票。你可能会为你的事业做很多好事，就像你成为竞选活动的正式成员一样。
它还可能使以官方身份参与竞选活动变得更加容易。通过表现出主动性，它要么使您的申请更具吸引力，要么增加您被注意到并提供报价的机会。但是，重要的是您不要踩到官方活动的脚趾并保持品牌知名度，同时不要给人留下与您有官方联系的印象。
在线加入(Join)官方活动组(Official Campaign Group Online)
当您想为政治竞选做志愿者时，第一个也是最明显的去处是您想要支持的政治家或政党的官方竞选网站、社交媒体页面或Facebook群组。(Facebook)他们通常会为志愿者提供职位，其中许多职位将特别针对虚拟志愿者。
如果他们的主要大型活动网站似乎没有任何内容或竞争过于激烈，请不要担心。大型政治运动通常有数百个较小的分会和您可以自愿参与的区域项目。
作为虚拟志愿者，您也无需关注与您关系密切的活动章节。可以使用您的帮助的活动的任何部分都是潜在目标。因此，寻找那些似乎最需要帮助的人，并从在那里提供您的服务开始。
跨境志愿服务
政治比以往任何时候都更成为一个全球性问题，那么为什么要将志愿服务限制在自己的国家？掌权者影响的不仅仅是那个国家的公民。所以，如果你有一个首选的候选人或政党，你想在另一个国家看到负责人，为什么不自愿提供帮助呢？互联网把整个世界变成了一个地球村，所以即使你没有投票权，你仍然可以发出你的声音！
在线搜索“虚拟志愿者”网站
“虚拟志愿者”是指完全按照本文的内容去做的人，除了他们出于各种原因这样做。这意味着您可能会在帮助饥饿孤儿的活动旁边找到参与政治活动的志愿者机会。
VolunteerMatch是我们发现一百多个政治志愿者项目的网站，其中包括选民外展项目。您还可以在UpWork或Fiverr等自由职业者网站上找到机会，但要格外小心。这将我们带到下一个技巧。
警惕诈骗！
可悲的是，每当出现一种新型的在线活动时，总会有一个新的骗局。我们已经在慈善机构的虚假捐赠活动中看到了这种情况，这也适用于寻求竞选捐款的人。
在成为政治运动的在线志愿者时，请务必做一些功课，以确保您提供时间和技能的人实际上与您想要支持的运动正式相关。更重要的是，您永远不必为了志愿服务而为竞选活动捐款。也可以在经济上捐款，但如果这是为了志愿服务的要求，那肯定是可疑的！
始终获得第三方确认，无论您被提供志愿者职位的人都是光明正大的。通常不需要太多努力来确保您不被带去兜风！
数字政治游戏
虚拟志愿者的使用仍然很新，众包帮助和社交媒体管理的重要性也是如此。这意味着不仅您对成为虚拟志愿者的整个想法不熟悉，而且竞选经理自己也在制定规则。
再加(Add)上全球大流行的独特情况、新的投票方式和一些独特的竞选挑战，这既是一项令人兴奋又令人生畏的工作。但是，如果您对此充满热情并愿意加倍努力在政治上活跃，那么只有您的才能和想象力会限制您改变世界的能力。
How to Volunteer for a Political Campaign Online
Thanks to the internet, everyone is political these days. You can hardly open any social media website without being bombarded with the political opinions of every person who has access to a smartphone. Which is a lot of people!
The question is, how much real change does this bring? If you feel strongly about your brand of politics, whatever it may be, how can you make a difference to the outcome of elections and campaigns? After all, unless you get your candidate into office, the policies you want will never come to pass. Here are a few tips on how you can volunteer for a political campaign online to make a real difference.
Audit Your Skills
If you want to volunteer for a political campaign, online or otherwise, you need to have something to offer. Since this is an online volunteering gig you’re after, that would mean some sort of skill that can be used digitally.
There are more than a few obvious skills that campaigns always need:
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Are you someone qualified in research? Maybe you can help with polling data or setting up surveys. Are you a professional marketing person? There’s clearly a need for people from that profession in political campaigning.
You don’t have to be an ultra-qualified professional or technical person either. Maybe you’re just really good at the whole Instagram thing or are good at spreading the word. The point is that before you can get a gig as a volunteer, you need to know what exactly you’re selling. Since, even though volunteers are not paid, unsuitable volunteers can end up costing a candidate or party a fortune.
Clean Up Your Social Media Image
Before you think of applying to be a volunteer in a political campaign, you should make the effort to go through your social media presence and clean up anything that might make a campaign hesitant to be associated with you.
We all repost memes or have at least one or two off-color comments in our social media past. Try to look at your online presence from the perspective of the campaign itself and decide whether anything would make you look less attractive as a virtual volunteer. If so, consider either closing some of your accounts temporarily or cleaning up the ones that you’ll need during your stint as a virtual volunteer.
Do Independent Campaign Work
While a lot of enthusiasm and the right skills will make you an attractive candidate as a volunteer for an online political campaign, that might not be enough. So why wait to be selected? Stand out from the crowd by doing your part for the campaign independently.
Are you a graphic designer? Why not start making great graphics promoting your candidate or encouraging people to vote for your party. Let the campaign know they’re free to use that content if they like it.
You can also use your existing platform and circle of online friends to canvass for your candidate. You may very well do as much good for your cause as you would have being an official part of the campaign.
It may also make it easier to get in with the campaign in an official capacity. By showing initiative it will either make your application more attractive or increase the chances that you will be noticed and made an offer. However, it’s important that you don’t step on the toes of the official campaign and stay on-brand while not creating the impression of an official association with you.
Join an Official Campaign Group Online
The first and most obvious place to go when you want to volunteer for a political campaign is the official campaign website, social media page or Facebook group for the politician or party you want to support. They will usually have postings for volunteers and many of those positions are going to be for virtual volunteers in particular.
Don’t worry if their main, big-tent campaign site doesn’t seem to have anything or if there’s too much competition. Large political campaigns usually have hundreds of smaller chapters and regional projects you can volunteer for.
As a virtual volunteer, you don’t need to focus on campaign chapters that are close to you either. Any section of the campaign which could use your help is a potential target. So look for the ones that seem the most in need of help and start by offering your services there.
Cross-border Volunteering
Politics are a global issue more than ever, so why limit your volunteering to your own country? Whoever is in charge affects more than just the citizens of that country. So if you have a preferred candidate or party you’d like to see in charge in another country, why not volunteer to help? The internet turns the whole world into a global village, so even if you don’t have the vote, you can still make your voice heard!
Search for “Virtual Volunteer” Sites Online
“Virtual Volunteers” are people who do exactly what this article is about, except they do it for all sorts of causes. Which means you’re likely to find volunteer opportunities for political campaigns right next to ones for helping hungry orphans.
VolunteerMatch is one site where we found more than a hundred political volunteer projects, which includes voter outreach projects. You may also find opportunities on freelance sites such as UpWork or Fiverr, but be extra careful with these. Which brings us to the next tip.
Be Wary of Scams!
Sadly, there will always be a new scam whenever a new type of online activity emerges. We’ve already seen it with fake donation drives for charity, and that applies to people looking for campaign donations as well.
When it comes to being an online volunteer for a political campaign, be sure to do some homework to make sure that the people you’re providing your time and skills to are actually officially affiliated with the campaign you want to support. More importantly, you should never have to give money to a campaign in order to volunteer. It’s fine to also donate financially, but if it’s a requirement in order to volunteer things are certainly fishy!
Always get third-party confirmation that whoever you’re being offered a volunteer position with is above board. It usually doesn’t take much effort to ensure that you aren’t being taken for a ride!
The Digital Political Game
The use of virtual volunteers is still quite new, as is the importance of crowdsourced help and social media management. This means that it’s not just you who are new to the whole idea of being a virtual volunteer, but the campaign managers themselves are making up the rules as they go along.
Add to this the unique situation of a global pandemic, new ways to vote and some unique campaign challenges and it’s both an exciting and daunting job. But if you have the passion for it and are willing to go the extra mile to be politically active, then only your talent and imagination limit what you can do to change the world.
