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Tips To Make Online Meetings Less Exhausting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Encourage being on camera. We are not used to seeing ourselves on camera. If you want to look better on camera, you can raise the level of the laptop or use a light close to you! Interactive Meeting Techniques. Effective Brainstorming Techniques by Beth Kanter. How To Look Good on Camera (NY Times).

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Is That A Camera in Your Pocket? Tips and Tools for MobilePhonetography As Part of Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Carry your camera phone around and snap impromptu photos of your #nonprofit. Mobile phone cameras that have touch screen allow you focus with your fingers. A few good apps for your camera bag … There are hundreds and hundreds of photography apps out there. And it is those limitations that help you focus on your subject.

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Simple Ways To Reduce Virtual Fatigue for Nonprofit Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Before they left, they had to tilt their cameras down so he could see their phones that were left behind. Taking a brief walk, leaving your desk and screen, is one of the best techniques for getting rid of that overwhelmed feeling that happens. He asked them to leave his phones behind and take a ten-minute walk around the block.

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What's a Watt Stopper? My First FLIP Camera Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm playing, err, testing a FLIP HD Camera- the ULTRA HD. And, all I can say is WOW. I've been away from making media for a little bit and so it is nice to come back to it with a little perspective on how cameras and video editing have gotten so much easier. Now back to the FLIP camera. FLIP Camera. Editing Software.

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Icebreakers for Online Meetings That Introverts Will Love

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. Can this technique work for an online meeting? Each person shares their drawing and you guess who it is.

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Tips for nonprofits from Candid’s year of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts 

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Setting up to record video takes time, whether it’s prepping the space or getting yourself camera-ready. Video production takes time and energy Even with a year of experience and better planning techniques, making videos still takes quite a bit of time. There are a couple reasons why we do this. First, it saves time and energy.

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Jonny Goldstein's Shooting Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm pleased to present my fourth installment in my interview series with famous video bloggers about video blogging techniques that nonprofits or others might use. When I first started to make video blog posts, I had no idea how much my shooting techniques would impact the amount of time I would have to spend editing. Click to play.