Great post about encouraging people to seek out non-profit or charitable organizations to further develop their SEO and Web Design skills. When considering a charitable or non-profit organization to volunter online with, there are many other ways for indivduals to enhance their resume than SEO or web design tasks.

Some Additional Ways to Volunteer Online

Since 1998, our charitable organization, Macdonald youth Services, has been at the forefront involving online volunteers from around the world to assist us in fulfilling our organizational mission. What do these highly-skilled online volunteers do? They perform a range of diverse tasks, such as professional voice overs (eg, for podcasts, PSAs), video editing/production, copywriting, Flash design, software development (Perl and PHP), database development and graphic design (eg, annual reports, posters, brochures) to name a few tasks.

To learn further information about our leading-edge program, we invite you to visit any of the following:

The New York Times
A November 2006 article in the New York Times included our organization’s work in this area:

http://tinyurl.com/y3ds5u

MYS Online Media Centre

Our online Media Centre includes extensive information about our online volunteer program, such as TV interviews, a list of news sources that have profiled our program, samples of highly-skilled online volunteers’ contributions and a list of international software vendors that have donated their fine software:

http://www.mys.ca/media

“About Online Volunteering” Blog

An additional source of information is our resource for sharing our successes with other non-profits and charities entitled “About Online Volunteering: Information Non-Profits Can Use (which includes an associated podcast). As a way of promoting our organization and concurrently recognize our online volunteers, we have a South Dakota-based (USA) Online Volunteer Audio Producer interviewing our online volunteers which we post as podcacts.

http://www.mys.ca/aov

Podcast Interview with Multimedia Designer

In fact you may be interested in listening to an interview with one of our online volunteers that I issued a news release about this week (which was an interview with Dan Tombs, a self-employed multimedia designer from Saskatchewan). A short excerpt from Dan’s audio interview:

“This is too easy.” said Tombs “… anybody can do this, anybody that’s got … any talent in the graphic arts or video or audio can be a contributor …”, added Tombs.

To listen to John Small’s (as mentioned, John Small, an audio producer from South Dakota, is one of MYS’s highly-skilled online volunteers) Skype to land line interview with Dan Tombs, please download the mp3 file (4.8 MB) from the following URL (or the podcast is available through Apple’s iTunes as well):

http://www.mys.ca/aov/media/MYS_DanTombs.mp3

Hopefuly this additional information will inspire others to consider some of the many ways that the Internet allows an individual to help a non-profit organization from the comfort and convenience of their home-based computer.

Thank you for your interest in the work of the non-profit sector.

Regards,

Randy Tyler, Volunteer Co-ordinator/Webmaster
Macdonald Youth Services
http://www.mys.ca/volunter
Winnipeg, Canada
Ph: 1-204-949-4292
E: http://www.mys.ca/cgi-bin/randy_email.cgi

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