Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

We used Google Hangout because they found it was more robust for video, audio, and screen sharing in that remote location. Using Google Hangout, you can switch between slides and camera, although when you are in slide mode, you can’t see the remote participants. The Google Hangout was projected on the screen.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

Photo and Video Editing Ability. To effectively work with image and video content, your new media manager must be adept at using photo and video editing software. Video content needs to be edited and embellished with visual effects, animation, and audio. HTML Knowledge.

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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. see the photo at the top).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I couldn’t help but think – what if Joe Page or other community foundation board members had flip cameras, some video and story telling training and shared their stories on the Alaska Community Foundation Facebook page? Photo by Aliza Sherman. It’s much easier now with smart phones and the flip cameras. Some Tips.

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2015

Researchers are trying to make these canes "smarter" by adding a GPS, facial recognition software, and a camera. The XploR's camera and facial recognition software work together, and the researchers claim that it can recognize a face from 30 feet away. If it finds one, it will alert the user via a Bluetooth earpiece.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

Museum visitors can use the in-app camera to photograph individual works of art which the app recognizes to serve up information about the piece, comments from past visitors, and for some works, audio orientations from the artist. ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum. Historic St.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

A good camera is easily the most expensive item you’ll need, and the most essential, but you don’t have to break the bank on professional-level equipment. Holding a camera usually results in shaky footage that can turn your fundraising video into the Blair Witch Project. Photo: Photochiel.

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See3

AUGUST 31, 2009

Choose the Right Camera for Your Needs. There are so many great cameras on the market today, but they’re not all going to be right for your organization. If you’re just shooting for the web, we recommend the Flip video camera. Of course, making a video doesn’t end with the camera. For stock photos, try Fotolia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

In camera editing: You edit in the camera as you go along. So that by the end, you just have good stuff in your camera. Of course, that means you have learn how to use the editing controls of your camera. And, with a tiny camera and I need magnifying glasses to read the controls. I tend to negotiate off-camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Photo by Justin Benttinen. Next week the Communications Network Conference will unleash a Gorilla Capture Team who live twitter, use FLIP cameras, digital cameras, and blogs to cover the conference. Twitter Training Notes and Audio File. Flip Cam Training Training Video , and Audio File. Deployment Packet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

I purchased a $10 digital camera for Harry from the drugstore. He has been taking photos and then using them to illustrate a digital diary. I showed him the basics of how to extract the photos from the camera, how to insert them into PowerPoint, and some basic instruction on PowerPoint. | View | Upload your own.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

An effective nonprofit video can be as simple as a Flickr photo stream set to an audio track or a really great interview. Today's smartphones have fairly sophisticated built-in video cameras and editing tools that, if used wisely, can create great movies. However, one aspect of quality, sound quality, did warrant mention.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Mobile devices seem to be everywhere and are easily used to take photos and record videos. Your mobile device’s native photo and video applications are a good place to get started but applications, or apps, can sometimes do a better job or improve on your product. Mobile Video Is Great, But Has Limitations.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. And some participants were turned off by the video recording—they found it too scary, and being on camera distracted them from telling their story – especially older people. Photos are fun. How do you edit the stories?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

I am beginning to post the photos, videos, and notes that I took while I was there. As many of you may have already read, part of my project budget was to include video blogging camera kits to give as prizes or awards to encourage video bloggers. David Saski from Global Voices contributed these $10 digital cameras.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Smart mobile devices usually include a camera, location-aware GPS, a barcode. access related text, images, audio, and other content from. Photo: Gesa Hemelmans. We hope the ideas below will. inspire libraries (and nonprofits!) to think about innovative ways to. use apps and mobile technology. scanner, and Internet access.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Mobile devices allow multi-touch and gesture navigation, precise GPS-based location tracking; have audio, video, and camera capabilities; let you send real-time notifications and SMS messaging; and more. But uploading GPS-tagged photos from a war zone may very well endanger the person who took the photos.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

"In this short film, Hope House honored us by allowing our cameras into a maximum security prison to document their camp program reconnecting children with their incarcerated fathers. "We are thrilled to have won the audience choice award for our video, 'Where Manos Serves.'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

The photo above is from the poster session and shows what my screen looked like logging in remotely from in the Boston area. I had skype with a video camera and Second Life application opened (which kept crashing my computer.) Alas, no photo as my computer just couldn't handle anymore stress at that moment.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Multimedia elements like photos, videos, and audio break up long text blocks and allow readers to form a deeper connection with the subjects of your stories. Through A/B testing research, some organizations have found that using photos of people in web content leads to more conversions than paintings or generic icons.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Built-in mike MicroTrack 2 by M-Audio. Need to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting). Podcasting Hardware Olympus Digital Recorders $125-$200 on Amazon Samson Zoom H4 Handy Digital Recorder. About $270 on Amazon.com. About $270 on Amazon. Comes with a microphone, or you can buy a better quality one. Need headphones to monitor sound.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The photo above was taken at last night's TechSoup Mixed Reality Event. 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. Both events had their share of clunkiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Why not join, upload your logo in the photo pool, and write a wall post promoting your latest your Facebook project! I wonder how many of those 300 cameras will actually get used? Here's some inspiration if your organization gets a camera from YouTube. Not sure if they reached their threshold. It's recently been updated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

(I realized that I only thought about this in the context of project - for example capturing video (plus text, photos, etc) from a conference.). The advice/questions: Do most people have and know how to use video cameras to post video replies? The tools used are low cost (Logitech camera and MovieMaker software).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Just ensure that you’re able to secure an expert to teach who’s comfortable speaking on camera and familiar with the hardware and software necessary to make it happen. Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. 6) Craft nights. 9) Movie screenings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Use phone line with audio clarity and stability. Turn on your video whenever possible and be camera ready. For example, you can share photos of your workspace or your location. Here’s an example of an icebreake r where I asked everyone share a photo of their space. Find a quiet space to participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. " This was a rich conversation and was not able to capture all the details as my audio faded in and out and was multi-tasking in a major way, so here is what I as able to capture. NMC Flickr Photos. Gary Hayes photos in flickr In Kenzo's notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. Use phone line with audio clarity and stability. Turn on your video whenever possible and be camera ready.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Optics matter, and you can bet there will be reporters aplenty doing live shots and photographers snapping photos galore on big days like oral argument and when a decision comes down. So here’s Part Two of our checklist: Plan for your presence at the court. Think through tech needs.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2015

Some of the most captivating imagery produced by nonprofits in recent years hasn't been photos — it's been viral videos. Both Premiere Elements and Premiere Pro CC allow you to sequence clips, add audio (like narration and natural sound), include transitions, manipulate color, and add titles. Audio import format support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it We are seeing a great stream of tagged flickr photos from the conference - more than 2400 at last peek. Geotagging Photos.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

Camera ZOOM FX - photo enhancement app. Photoshop Express - for photo editing on my phone. Overdrive media console – is an audio and ebook downloader and reader app which is especially useful for ebooks you get from the library. the apps that TechSoup folks like. Wes Holing, Web Content Developer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

SnapWidget allows you to display your Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram photos in a collage format on your website or blog. Social Print Studio enables users to download photos directly from Instagram and Facebook to create print calendars, cards, and tiny books. Graphic Design & Photo Editing. SnapWidget :: snapwidget.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Squared is a service that enables Instagrammers to print their favorite Instagram photos or convert them into magnets and posters. SnapWidget allows you to display your Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram photos in collage format on your website or blog. Paper is a mobile app for organizing notes, photos, and sketches.

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