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