Online Volunteering Shows No Limits: Volunteers Produce Video PSA (MPG2)
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Without a budget for TV production, Macdonald Youth Services (MYS), a leading Canadian registered charitable organization, set out to recruit online volunteers to produce what is usually thought not doable via the Internet: create an engaging video awareness message that would illustrate MYS's rich 75 year history in Manitoba. But the potential of the Internet to help non-profit organizations in one of the most challenging of tasks was unleashed. Online volunteers from Detroit, Michigan; Toronto, Ontario; Clinton, New York and Portland, Oregon joined virtual hands to produce a 30 second, 75 year time capsule TV PSA about MYS (that is currently airing on local TV).
"Traditional volunteer opportunities have been difficult to maintain and schedule because I often travel with my wife on her business trips. After a web search, I found a site ... that offered involvement in something called "Virtual Volunteering," said Detroit-based Online Volunteer Kibben Miller, who produced and edited MYS's video.
For further information about how MYS has been succesfully working with online volunteers since 1998, please visit:
http://www.mys.ca
Thank you for your interest.
Randy Tyler, MYS Virtual Volunteer Program Developer
E-Mail: <a href="http://www.mys.mb.ca/cgi/randy_email.cgi">E-mail Randy</a>Without a budget for TV production, Macdonald Youth Services (MYS), a leading Canadian registered charitable organization, set out to recrui...all »Without a budget for TV production, Macdonald Youth Services (MYS), a leading Canadian registered charitable organization, set out to recruit online volunteers to produce what is usually thought not doable via the Internet: create an engaging video awareness message that would illustrate MYS's rich 75 year history in Manitoba. But the potential of the Internet to help non-profit organizations in one of the most challenging of tasks was unleashed. Online volunteers from Detroit, Michigan; Toronto, Ontario; Clinton, New York and Portland, Oregon joined virtual hands to produce a 30 second, 75 year time capsule TV PSA about MYS (that is currently airing on local TV).
"Traditional volunteer opportunities have been difficult to maintain and schedule because I often travel with my wife on her business trips. After a web search, I found a site ... that offered involvement in something called "Virtual Volunteering," said Detroit-based Online Volunteer Kibben Miller, who produced and edited MYS's video.
For further information about how MYS has been succesfully working with online volunteers since 1998, please visit:
http://www.mys.ca
Thank you for your interest.
Randy Tyler, MYS Virtual Volunteer Program Developer
E-Mail: <a href="http://www.mys.mb.ca/cgi/randy_email.cgi">E-mail Randy</a>«
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