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MYS Launches Global Directory of Web Sites that List Online Volunteer Opportunities
2007-11-21, 1156 views - Randy Tyler/Macdonald Youth Services
MYS launched "The Global Directory of Web Sites that List Online Volunteer Opportunities", today. This unique global directory will allow any non-profit organization to easily find Web sites to list their Internet-based volunteer opportunities.

How to Use Audio and Video Testimonials in Your Online Volunteer Recruitment Strategy: A Video
2007-11-17, 226 views - Randy Tyler/Macdonald Youth Services
To assist in the recruitment process, allow your Internet-based volunteers to communicate the rewards and benefits of volunteering online with your non-profit organization in an audio or video message.

Free Eyejot Video Mail Puts a Human Face on Online Volunteer Programs
2007-10-08, 180 views - Randy Tyler/Macdonald Youth Services
Eyejot is an easy-to-use Web-based video mail service that takes email to the next level of communication. Learn how to use this free and powerful Web-based service to bring online communication to the next level with your Internet-based volunteers.

How to Record and Send Voice E-Mail to Your Online Volunteers - An Instructional Video
2007-08-27, 246 views - Randy Tyler/Macdonald Youth Services
Voice e-mail is one productivity application that non-profit organizations should be using to communicate with their online volunteers. There are times where text-based e-mail is not as effective or efficient as voice e-mail in conveying a message.

Online Volunteers Play a Key Role in Success of Special Events
2007-08-01, 262 views - Randy Tyler, Macdonald Youth Services
Many non-profit organizations still rely (only) on face-to-face volunteers to help execute their special events. However, a Canadian charitable organization has shown Internet-based volunteers can play a key role in the success of special events.

Online Volunteering: A Great Fit for Retired Albertan
2007-06-21, 345 views - Randy Tyler/Macdonald Youth Services
It was 2005 and retired Albertan Gail Drinnan couldn't find a local online volunteer opportunity. Now two years later, Drinnan still volunteers via the Internet to help Macdonald Youth Services (MYS), a charity located 800 miles away in Winnipeg.

Retaining Online Volunteers: What You Need to Know
2007-06-14, 225 views - Randy Tyler/Macdonald Youth Services
To assist with success (from the perspective of both the potential volunteer and organization), the not-for-profit organization has a responsibility to develop and implement a professionally accepted online Volunteer screening and assessment process.

How to Productively Manage Your E-mail: An Instructional Video
2007-06-05, 277 views - Randy Tyler/Macdonald Youth Services
Setting up folders to organize your mail, configuring a range of filters (with associated actions), and creating stationary files for commonly used messages, are just some of the many ways that many e-mail applications can be configured.