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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. In this segment I interview Jonny Goldstein about how to shoot video without shooting yourself in the foot in the editing room. Jonny's tips include: 1.

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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Our Ning site currently has over one hundred members who post videos, start discussions and connect with others.

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's the description: The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video???from It was very liberating for me to create a screencast like this -- no storyboard, script, no retakes. Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). You'll also need some video editing software. Rashmi Sinha offers some thoughts on how to do it.

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NTEN and SalesForce Screencast: Learnings About the Interview/Documentary Approach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you're making a screencast, and you end up having a vertical monopoly on the process (you write the script, do the filming, operate the mouse, do the editing, and produce it), you need to become a super learner. So that left me with a few hours of video and audio to edit and that's too much to do in Camtasia.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

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You can get a demo, you can watch videos, all kinds of cool things on our website. Because, you know, is it giving them a script for a phone call, or a template? Yes, we do need to provide the board with scripts, like a voicemail message, and some talking points, if they do have someone pick up the phone.