10 Reasons a Non-Profit Organization Should Use A Free Web-Based Instant Messaging Service to Communicate with their Online Volunteers

Download 10 Reasons to Use Plugoo IM    By Kimberly Mickelson Although voice e-mail, video mail and video conferencing can provide enhanced forms of communication, a non-profit organization should also provide a Web-based instant messaging tool to allow easy communication with any of their online volunteers or potential Internet-based volunteers. One such free (text-based) instant messaging service (Meebo is a similar service) that a non-profit organization can place on their Web site to enable easy, real time chat with their virtual volunteers is called Plugoo. To download a six page guide that articulates how to use Plugoo's free Web-based Instant Messaging service within your online volunteer program, which also includes 10 reasons a non-profit organization should use Plugoo’s free instant messaging service to coomunicate with their online volunteers, please see the download link at the top of this entry. To subscribe or unsubscribe from MYS’s About Online Volunteering News E-Mail List, please visit the URL below: http://www.mys.ca/cgi-bin/media/mail_list.pl About the Author: Kimberly Mickelson is a Macdonald Youth Services’ Winnipeg-based Online Volunteer. For further information about Macdonald Youth Services’ Online Volunteer Program, please contact or visit: Randy Tyler Volunteer Co-ordinator/Webmaster Macdonald Youth Services Winnipeg, Canada Volunteer Online with a Leader About Online Volunteering - Information Non-Profits Can Use E-Mail Randy Tyler PGP Key T: 1-204-949-4292