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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.