Online Volunteering Resource & Podcast by Randy Tyler Launched at http://www.mys.ca/aov

Macdonald Youth Services (MYS) Officially Launched their Online Volunteering Resource and Podcast entitled “About Online Volunteering: Information Non-Profit Organizations Can Use”. Please visit now at: http://www.mys.ca/aov

MYS extends their thanks to Online Volunteers Gail Drinnan Producer) and Chuck Brown (voice over) for creating this launch
video.

For further information, please contact Randy Tyler, the resource developer, at: http://www.mys.ca/cgi-bin/randy_email.cgi

This Online Volunteering Web resource and podcast shares MYS’s successes in working with online volunteers from around the globe over the last nine years, provides information about relevant technological resources, applications and changes that may assist other non-profit and charitable organizations in the development of their Online Volunteer Program and through podcast interviews with their online volunteers, addresses for example, how their Internet-based volunteers got involved, what motivates them to stay involved and what type of tasks they perform.

“We hope that through sharing our successes and best practices other non profit organizations will be inspired to try online volunteering as an alternative and proven method to address some of their volunteer needs”, stated MYS’s pioneering online volunteer program developer, Randy Tyler, who (along with online volunteers) developed the Web resource and podcast.

The About Online Volunteering Web resource and Podcast uses the free (open source) and highly extensible WordPress blog to share information along with the PodPress plug-in to publish podcast episodes. For a subscriber’s convenience, two different RSS Feeds have been provided. One RSS Feed includes all blog postings, whether text or podcasts episodes; the second feed includes only the podcast episodes (which are both audio and video files). The podcast (also entitled “About Online Volunteering”) only feed also has a one click subscribe button for those people using Apple’s iTunes as their chosen podcatcher. And for those people not using an RSS Feed Reader or podcatcher, new content can be automatically received via e-mail.

Macdonald Youth Services (MYS), a trusted and respected registered charitable healing and support agency based in Winnipeg, Canada, has been Building Better Tomorrows for Manitoba’s at-risk children since 1929. Through a variety of innovative and leading programming, MYS provides services for thousands of Manitoba’s young people on a yearly basis. Since 1998, MYS has been at the forefront of successfully utilizing highly-skilled online volunteers from around the globe to enhance their programs and services.

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