Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Experts point to several reasons why we are feeling a loss of vitality, productivity, and wellbeing in our virtual workplaces: Online-mediated interaction and communications deprive us a full sensory experience as we are only limited to audio and visual experiences (when using video conferences) or just text.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last year, I did a workshop at a conference for professionals who do audio description, a service that makes visual images of theatre, television, movies, and other art forms accessible to people are who blind or have low vision. Just added these to my trainer kit). My audience included many people who were blind.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

DSLR Audio Isn’t Good. To capture better audio get a camera with a mic-in jack (these are a bit more expensive) or get a portable recorder. Most DSLR cameras do not have continuous autofocus which means that your subject will come in and out of focus as they walk toward or away from the camera. For our videos we use a Tascam DR-07.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Connections fail, audio crackles, people can’t figure out their systems, and shared documents are unreadable. Good audio is essential. Use Available Technology to Its Fullest, but Be Prepared for Problems. If you’ve been in a virtual meeting, you’ve probably witnessed or experienced tech problems.

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MAY 3, 2007

But wait a minute, what if I could create a screencast out of a screensharing session or using a web conference system like Ready/Talk that offers video/audio recording? So, I just plunged in with Ready/Talk and made a quick video/audio capture of me talking to myself while looking at my screen. What did I learn?

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AUGUST 22, 2007

So that left me with a few hours of video and audio to edit and that's too much to do in Camtasia. Because the screencast is conversational, the screen doesn't have to exactly synch the audio. I was careful to name the audio and screencapture files the same so I could easily match them up in Camtasia.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

If you want to get acceptable audio for video blogging on an inexpensive camera you need to control the noise/environment or get really close to your subject. Certainly not everyone can afford to purchase expensive equipment to ensure broadcast quality audio. Photo by Kino-Eye in Flickr. I asked him about shooting techniques.

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MARCH 1, 2007

I have to stick it in people's faces to get acceptable (to me) audio quality. Speaking of good audio, I raised this question on the video bloggers listserv and David Tames (who took the photo stills in the video) offered some great tricks here. How to use more than one audio track. So, I like let them know.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Make personal videos or audio. This isn't 1:1, but when you shoot personal video or make very personal audio, people get the sense that they've seen you, and that helps with the time between connections. Just blend it in with the other media you make.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Remember the whole conference will be archived, so you if you can't spend the entire two days online listening in real time, you can always download the audio files and listen later. (I'm If you are on the fence about signing up, NTEN is offering up 25% discount. I'm planning to download to my Ipod and listen while walking.)

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JUNE 29, 2016

Incorporate the three learning styles: visual, audio, and somatic. Provide experiential education, giving learners the opportunity for reflection, abstract conceptualization, active experimentation, and concrete experience.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

Logistics are not separate from the learning design – so think carefully about the supplies, materials, and audio visual needs and how they can support the learning. You have to design a variety of activities and you need to think about how the space can accommodate them. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Robin Good's Web-Based Delivery of Audio and Video Materials provides a great feature-by-feature comparison. The requirements to start benefiting from these new services and opportunities include: some familiarity with the basic audio and video file formats existing out there. of the most popular video sharing tools.

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

Twitter Training Notes and Audio File. Flip Cam Training Training Video , and Audio File. They've set up some fabulous training materials and guidelines for the capture team. Overview of Launch Meeting. Deployment Packet. Agenda with Twitter IDs.

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JULY 26, 2007

Now, I'm going to officially nudge Dave to use the SlideShare Slidecaste new feature that allows you add audio to your slides. On the surface, it doesn't really relate to nonprofits, but there's lots to translate. I would love to hear Dave narrate his slides.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2005

We have a couple of projects going on at the Walker Art Center that are audio based. We started off wanting to make audio tours freely available to all of our patrons and we were unhappy with most of our commercial options. And after we saw how popular podcasting was getting we packaged the same audio up as podcast (on that same page).

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

Preferably, a mic that will plug into our Powerbook although I'm assuming audio inputs are standard? audio from a distance) rather than a person sitting down and recording a podcast or an interview. audio from a distance) rather than a person sitting down and recording a podcast or an interview. sku=273158. sku=701368.

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

Lack of technical skills or software tools in cutting, splicing, fading the audio and weaving it with the video track. You can't "silence" the audio in the video by clip or sections of the story board. Reflection: This time I experimented with using QuickTime Pro as the audio editor and video editor.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

They can listen to the audio, follow links, and leave comments. You Can Use Your Phone or your digital camera with video: He demonstrated how to do an audio podcast with your cell phone and a video podcast with his camera using hipcast. His camera is a Cannon SD300, but the newer versions have better audio quality.

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MARCH 6, 2007

Some techniques that I learned about that I want to put into practice in future work: Capturing secondary audio with an external mic and recorder and then synching them during the editing process. For example, I figured out a way to silence the audio in a "b" roll and replace it with a -over narrative.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

Imagine if you were using audio in asychronous way in a forum - audio as dialogue - imagine how easy that would make it to scan the conversation. Charlene Li writes about the potential of Google Talk to generate searchable conversations.

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JULY 19, 2006

Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides. I also turned off my audio. Also, we should ask people not to take photos or chat during the presentations as the sound of cameras snapping made the audio hard to hear.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

And if the quality of the audio is bad, can’t hear everything well. That means everyone – the facilitator, note taker, and even the senior manager. The idea of this exercise is to foster empathy for remote participants who can’t see everything that going on or everyone’s faces.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

It has both audio and the slidedeck and I was told it was quite packed with useful info. The changes are too numerous to mention but the quality has improved, user control has improved and what people expect to find on YouTube and how they interact with it has also changed. I have pasted my entire 1-hour webinar below. Search is critical.

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MAY 10, 2005

Gregory Heller did a little snippet of a audio clip of his conversation with Amanda Hickman about tagging. I mean maybe the idea would be to somehow aggregate all the audio feeds of all npotech sessions podcast that one could subscribe to. Sort of do what nptech tag in delicious does for audio.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

With enough time, I could actually make a audio version on slideshare. One pattern that was interesting is that negative comments referred to us in that way, while positive ones used our names. The podcast from our session can the Craigslist Foundation site and our slides can be found here.

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

The tools listed include one from each - text, audio, and video - but there are many, many others.  This is any form of concentrated content created using social tools that broadcast text, voice, images, or video to targeted Web and mobile communities.   This includes Twitter, Utterli, and Sesmic. 

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MAY 28, 2005

Last week I posted about Dave Gilbert's experiment with podcasting "unnofficial audio guides" at Moma, a project called "Apologia: We love MoMA. These audio guides were inspired by a recent podcasting trend called "sound seeing," in which people record narrations of their vacations so others can enjoy.

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MARCH 26, 2007

Also, my audio was very garbled and my skype and Second Life were a bit too much for my computer and it crashed. I spoke briefly about nonprofits in second life and techsoup efforts , although I had some audio/technical problems. That "bumping into" situation happens a lot on Second Life and is one of the good qualities.

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DECEMBER 21, 2006

I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions. Hat tip to Alan Levine/CogdogBlog for the transcription and facilitating the audio. with audio archive of session can be found here. We could also IM our questions from the adults were listening and observing. Technorati Tags: VECoP

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MAY 3, 2010

It's still a journey we are on and we've had many success till date - Skype reading sessions across countries, helping us get books to children across the country, audio books created for the blind , iPad apps being made of our content and so much more. Example of Partham Books on mobile phones.

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JULY 30, 2005

Her presentation on audio blogging was fantastic! It helped me move past my audio phobia and I'm going to do it, damn it! I only knew a handful of blogher participants, so I was delighted to see fellow Berkman Thursday night blogger , Lisa Williams. Here is Lisa's opml blog with blogher coverage , including her presentation.

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AUGUST 16, 2005

It records in WMA format (Windows Media Audio). I fiddled around with Audacity to attempt to edit and splice several audio files. One piece of software I will explore is whether or not I can edit the audio using MovieMaker which comes free with windows. So, I told my tale of woe into the recorder.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2005

Moviemaker has the ability for you to change the volume on chunks of the audio over and the audio on the video clips, however you can change volume within the clip. Production Notes: Harry was fascinated by the microphone and as result was too close to it. So, some of the over is a little distorted.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

The tools listed include one from each - text, audio, and video - but there are many, many others.  Micro Media: Any form of concentrated content created using social tools that broadcast text, voice, images, or video to targeted Web and mobile communities.   This includes Twitter, Utterli, and Sesmic. 

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Media Consumption: Total photo views, audio plays, and video plays for the content you have uploaded to your Page. New / Removed Fans: The number of people who have become a new fan of your Page or stopped being a fan of your Page. Page Views: Total number of times a Page was viewed per day.

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AUGUST 4, 2005

Ponzi will be posting her audio interviews she did during blogher hopefully soon. Read about her experiences doing audio during a conference session here. She did about 30-40 of them! Wow, I'm impressed. She rocks as an interviewer! Seems like a debate or possible feud is brewing.

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