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. However, one aspect of quality, sound quality, did warrant mention. As was noted, "creativity and passion" can overcome what is lacking in technical quality.

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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. How to make the transitions smoother without that annoying burp sound or without it abrupting stopping midstream. When is it best to ???shot

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

But one scenario, well I had that very question in a video I just published : I create a short movie, comprised of a video clip and three digital photos that I took, my -over and a royalty-free soundtrack song, which I bought from Premium Beat. s licensing and that of the sound bite? Sounds of Samba??? shout-out???

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

At first thought, data and storytelling sound like an odd mix. "Data" sounds dry, while storytelling weaves narratives aimed at appealing to people's emotions. Users can add text, videos, images, audio files, Twitter feeds, PDFs, and more. And data storytelling is at the forefront of such initiatives.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Shoot outside, and you’ll find that even the slightest breeze can sound like a hurricane on video. An external microphone can drastically improve audio quality. Photo: Photochiel. Some, like lavalier or lapel mics, are small enough to clip onto clothing. Others are handheld.

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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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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The campaign is also on Google+ and uses SoundCloud , a social media company that allows one to record audio messages and share them online. SoundCloud allows him to explain his positions in short sound bites that can be embedded on his website and shared via social media. Photo: Susan Chavez. Share in the comments below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

AUGUST 28, 2018

Add the total for all the line items for the event (drinks, food, sound equipment, etc) to your net fundraising goal to get a gross dollar amount that needs to be raised from the event. Have someone on your fundraising team create a briefing document with short bios of each attendee (3 sentences will do) along with a photo of each attendee.

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See3

AUGUST 31, 2009

We’ve found that viewers are more willing to excuse poor visuals than poor audio. Good sound makes all the difference. For stock photos, try Fotolia. Check out Creative Commons , too—you might find quality photos that you can use as long as you attribute the source. Take Advantage of Online Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

David Berlind captured in my flickr photos. As David acknowledged to the audience before launching into a audio geek show and tell session, "Your equipment depends on your needs. There are trade-offs to different approaches in terms of sound quality to keep in mind. This represents the high-end, professional equipment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Built-in mike MicroTrack 2 by M-Audio. Need headphones to monitor sound. 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. Electro-Voice Microphone 635A.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Freedom Fone leverages audio as a mobile function using IVR, a technology that allows a system to detect voice and keyboard input. IVR allows a user to call, enter or say specific numbers, and listen to or contribute audio content. Many of the audio responses were later rebroadcast on the program. . Photo: Bart Sullivan .

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

You could even get creative with documentation--photos instead of text, music instead of words--but it's limiting. This may sound silly, but there are probably some people who'd be happy to contribute in this way (and may not want to write their own comment). designate the difference between languages using design.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. Photo and Bio. Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. Snap a photo of the donor while at your facility or event and frame it and send it to them (also from Get Fully Funded ). Community impact or commemorative wall.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube. Yes, it sounds overwhelming when David talks about monitoring all the boards on the USHMM website. Same as the blog, but requires a microphone and some audio editing software. If you are comfortable producing audio content, it's quite simple to start a podcast.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For many organizations, the use case where maintaining these ratios is most difficult is when a photo is used as the background for text, as the image’s color variations create inconsistent contrast. To solve this problem, place a color overlay on the photo so the text background is all one color. Transcripts of audio-only content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? isn't as negative as it sounds. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. Sounds like it could be part of a future wiki carnival.?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Use phone line with audio clarity and stability. 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. Here are some more tips for making audio-only conference calls more impactful.

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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. That sounds like me right now. NMC Flickr Photos.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

The photos above were provided by Paul Martin of the Science Museum of Minnesota from their award-winning exhibition RACE. When he speaks about these photos, Paul spends little time on the content of the exhibits. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday may sound like a great one-off event for your organization, but you may also be worried about retaining donors in the long run. Here are some of our favorite from Qgiv’s list of virtual fundraising ideas : Virtual bingo night Photo or cooking contests Virtual scavenger hunt Classes, tutorials, or webinars Online game-a-thon.

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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. Do not multi-task (do other work) during the meeting.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2022

Alternative text (alt text) is used to describe non-textual elements, like photos, icons, and data visualizations. Alt text will provide context when an image is missing, and accessibility tools will convey the text to audio. Remember, social media isn’t just about brand-building—these messages matter.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

Sounds like there might be some overlap with your museum audience? Each leg of their journey gets logged online by the geocachers so that a continuous travelogue is created, including any photos that the geocachers choose to post. It might be accompanied by a podcast, so it becomes a city-wide audio tour! Traveling public art!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Is it video and audio? We've done audio, we've done video, we've done text, and we've done some photo slide shows. That sounds like a horrible way to die. That sounds really nerdy, but it can actually be really fun. And are stories only written? What are the mediums? We do all kinds of multimedia.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Here's an in-depth review with specs and photos: [link]. Note that alarms will still sound in airplane mode unless you either set the phone to vibrate mode or disable alarm sounds in the calendar app. The Pre doesn't include voice memos or any other tool for recording audio through the mic. I like the shape and size.

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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. Otherwise, your speakers may be drowned out by the sounds of the city. So here’s Part Two of our checklist: Plan for your presence at the court.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.) We collaborated with two local organizations--the Rebele Homeless Family Shelter and Dominican Oaks retirement community--to conduct oral histories and produce a small audio and photo-based exhibit on maintaining love in tough situations. making a special gift).

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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. The Basics.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

I’m also a girl dad and I can’t miss an opportunity to show photos of my three daughters. What do you sound like out in the world? And that can be written, videos, photos, audio, there’s a lot of ways to tell a story and it’s okay to take the same story and retell it in all of these ways.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Use coloured overlays when displaying text over photos. Keep this in mind when adding photos, infographics, audio recordings, and videos to your website, as these make a stronger emotional impact than text alone. On the back end of your website, add a short description of each photo or graphic in the box marked “alt text.”

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

When you enter, you start the visit by "logging in" at a kiosk that records your name, your voice, your photo, and your favorite color and music genre. When you make an audio mashup, your voice is part of the mix. When you make an audio mashup, your voice is part of the mix. When you augment an image, you distort your own face.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

million tweets and 914,000 photos shared, the Movember movement did something right. On Friday alone, there were 78,000 tweets and 10,000 photos shared of him. What’s the sound of your nonprofit’s brand? And I want more. Be upfront, Be quiet (sometimes), and be prepared. And we talked. You should.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So on a very simple level, I’m sure most of us have seen a 360 photo on Facebook. It’s not focused on this perfect, beautiful photo of you that’s completely filtered. And then does your audience mainly like photo, or video or, text? We couldn’t do tours. If you haven’t, just go to Facebook.360,

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

the crowd-curated photo exhibition now open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Why is a leading technologist paying such loving lip service to a photo exhibition? Shelley’s team created new rules for every step, from the attribution options during the open call to the way the photos were sized and hung to represent the data set.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. Modelled on eugenicist theory, the software is used to capture people’s faces and compare the photos to existing databases, with the aim of identifying and locating people – often producing highly racist results.

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