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The Nonprofit Weekly Roundup: Signature Sounds, Writing It Down, and Picking Up Tabs.

Connection Cafe

Here are this week’s nonprofit highlights: What’s the sound of your nonprofit’s brand? Colleen Fahey’s article, How Audio Enhances Your Brand Content: Find Your Signature Sound , provides guidance for how your nonprofit can strengthen its voice. Have you ever thought about it? You should.

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[Guide] Creating Video for Nonprofits

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

We shared Yash’s invaluable insights on digital storytelling and we couldn’t resist sharing his advice on creating compelling videos. How do you think about sound when you’re creating a video? Sound inspires me. Aside from music, the quality of your audio is really key. Video has a special place in the digital world.

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Podcasting as Digital Storytelling: Behind the Scenes Look

NTEN

Of course, in its most rudimentary form, a podcast is simply a digital audio recording delivered to listeners who can hear it at their convenience. We'll discuss the question, and we'll have a little fun, but we'll also give practical answers and advice. Are you interested?”. That's because some stories tell themselves.

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Where to Find Great Free Music for a Video

Tech Soup

If you're creating a video, a podcast, an online training, or any other project that might benefit from adding some sweet tunes, the Free Music Archive (FMA) offers more than 80,000 free, completely legal-to-use audio downloads. Give new sounds a chance. Here's how to get the most out of this free resource. A Little About Us.

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Tips for Shooting A Winning Video For Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Check out your local camera shop for rentals and expert advice. DSLR Audio Isn’t Good. To capture better audio get a camera with a mic-in jack (these are a bit more expensive) or get a portable recorder. Either way you’ll need to add a microphone to the mix to get the best sound. For our videos we use a Tascam DR-07.

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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

That sounded like good advice, since it might take me quite a while to get to step 1. (If, I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I made a few tests to see how it might work I also got some advice from Jon Udell. However, the idea of editing a long file in Camtasia does not sound appealing to me.). So that left me with a few hours of video and audio to edit and that's too much to do in Camtasia. I recently read a blog entry by Jon Udell.