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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! You can also check a few ice breakers and energizers on our video recording of the session. Interactive Meeting Techniques.

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

Candid

Today, we are celebrating our first anniversary of short-form video on TikTok , Instagram Reels , and YouTube Shorts. What began as a three-month experiment has now blossomed into a consistent social media video production program. Here is a snapshot of what happened and our tips for creating short-form videos at your nonprofit.

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Simple Ways To Reduce Virtual Fatigue for Nonprofit Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This video by Dr. Baxter Bell offers some exercises to help relieve and prevent neck pain. 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.

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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.

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Tips for Shooting A Winning Video For Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: After you read this guest post, you’ll have lots of great tips for your nonprofit’s video. And don’t forget, The 5th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards is now open for submissions from members of the YouTube Nonprofit Program until March 2nd. The HD DSLR video revolution is here.

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Get the Equipment You Need to Shoot a Professional-Looking Video

Tech Soup

A compelling story makes a video stick with its audience, but if it looks poorly made, nobody's going to watch it. Pick Your Camera. A camera is probably the priciest piece of equipment on this list – but it doesn't have to be. Most of the modern smartphones' cameras can shoot high-resolution video.

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Choosing an Event Videographer for Your Hybrid Event

AccelEvents

Event videography is a professional, or team of professionals, whose sole job is to film, edit, and produce high-quality video recorded footage of your event. . Typically, the person who operates the camera and is actively filming your event is called the videographer. There are a number of videography styles to choose from.

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