Virtual Volunteers - Invisible and Invaluable
Whether from a cyber café in Bangladesh, San Diego, Toronto, or Hong Kong, volunteers have made a significant contribution towards the enhancement of Macdonald Youth Services' (MYS) programs and services
This narration is available for download from The Internet Archive.
See this resource about Online Volunteering to learn more.
November 2007 - Although voice e-mail, video mail and video conferencing can provide enhanced forms of communication, a non-profit organization should also provide a Web-based instant messaging tool to allow easy communication with any of their online volunteers or potential online volunteers. One such free (text-based) instant messaging service (Meebo is a similar service) that a non-profit organization can place on their Web site is called Plugoo.
Download (Right Click, Save) the PDF from The Internet Archive created by MYS online volunteer Kimberly Mickelson that explains how to easily use Plugoo. For further information, www.mys.ca/volunter or RandyTyler@gmail.com
See this Online Volunteering Resource for more.
More information about virtual volunteering, visit this Online volunteering Resource.
Posted by: laurakujawsk, PNNOnline, on Tuesday, March 11, 2003
Topic Special Features One nonprofit in Canada realized that it was becoming increasingly difficult to recruit volunteers to help with their program. They acted on the adage that "when one door closes, another opens." Read this feature article to discover how Macdonald Youth Services is finding the volunteers that they need.
By Randy TylerWhen it became ever more difficult to recruit face-to-face volunteers, our youth treatment agency, Macdonald Youth Services (MYS), turned to the global Internet for help. Whether looking for a graphic designer, video editor, software developer, database creator, writer, web designer or voice narrator, for example, our organization has been at the leading-edge and forefront recruiting volunteers from around the globe. This new kind of faceless, highly-skilled volunteers, whether from such far flung locales as Bangladesh, Toronto, Texas, Sri Lanka, Montreal, New York or Hong Kong, have various reasons for getting involved, but their willingness to help us, an organization they will never see, or even know where it is located on the map, is unprecedented and amazing.With the global explosion of online users, the Internet is revolutionizing and forever changing the face of volunteering. Never before have volunteers had the opportunity to donate their time and talents to an organization a province, state, country or continent away from the comfort and convenience of their home. See PNNOnline for the complete article.
For further information visit this online volunteering resource.
Virtual Volunteering, at one level, is defined as volunteering via the Internet. MYS's definition of online volunteering, conceived by Randy Tyler in 2003, reflects a deeper phenomena. Geoff Edwards, an MYS Vancouver-based online volunteer voice artist, brought life to Randy's definition in his voice narration. For further information, www.mys.ca/volunter or RandyTyler@gmail.com. Download Geoff's narration (mp3) from The Internet Archive.
Visit this online volunteering resource for additional information.
August 2, 2004 - MYS reaches to the air waves to attract virtual volunteers. Thanks to MYS Vancouver-based Online Volunteer Voice Artist, Geoff Edwards, a 30 second ready-to-air Online Volunteer Recruitment PSA was distributed to radio stations. For further information, please contact www.mys.ca/volunter or RandyTyler@gmail.com. Download the 30 second MYS online volunteer recruitment PSA from The Internet Archive.
For further information about online volunteering visit this resource.
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Additional information, visit online volunteering
For further information visit this online volunteering resource.
Online Volunteering and Virtual Volunteering Resources Available on the Web:
http://www.online-volunteering-resources.org
http://www.coyotecommunications.com
