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Oh Yeah, and I shoved a camera in his face

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want to get acceptable audio for video blogging on an inexpensive camera you need to control the noise/environment or get really close to your subject. He pulled out his cell phone and took some footage. He offered to send it to me and I got him on camera giving me permission to use it. What does that mean?

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tharum Bun , a blogger in Cambodia that I have known for ten years, did an introduction and I presented for 25 minutes. We used Google Hangout because they found it was more robust for video, audio, and screen sharing in that remote location. Here’s a few reflections about presenting remotely in locations outside of the US.

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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 camera editing: You edit in the camera as you go along. So that by the end, you just have good stuff in your camera. I tend to negotiate off-camera.

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And the Winner is. Jaffe's Join the Conversation Book Giveaway and How To Do A Giveaway Contest on Your Blog

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Joseph Jaffe offered bloggers a review copy of his boo, Join the Conversation: How to Engage Marketing-Weary Consumers with the Power of Community, Dialogue, and Partnership. He attended the Cambodian Blogging Summit and received the digital audio recorder to create language lessons for his students (offline podcasts!) (The

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Production Values, Do They Matter?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I posed a question on the video bloggers list about how to get good audio. That's on the agenda for the Boston Mediamakers meeting this Sunday. David Tames offered some great tricks here. He's leading the discussion on Sunday. David kindly pointed me to the online discussion and some tips from Arin Crumley.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. " Does that include cell phones? I wonder how many of those 300 cameras will actually get used? Here's some inspiration if your organization gets a camera from YouTube. and color schemes for your blog.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. "As a blogger, one issue is 'who is reading?' Dr. Mizuko mentioned some research they were doing on continuous partial attention of young people's media and mobile phone use. They document their learning."

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