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Imagery and Authenticity

Non Profit Quarterly

Kendra Hicks is a brilliant visionary politician who’s running for her first City Council seat in Boston, District Six. And as soon as I started listening to it, it was so visual and so powerful that I thought, wouldn’t it be interesting to try to illuminate her narrative with some ambient sound, as we call it.

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My Learnings from the Boston Media Makers Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Boston Media Makers meeting on Sunday was inspiring. Some techniques that I learned about that I want to put into practice in future work: Capturing secondary audio with an external mic and recorder and then synching them during the editing process. lighting, sound, framing, etc.? Click here to play video.

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Podcasting 101 Live Blogging from Boston Podcamp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Record Two families of mics Dynamic mic - $80 SHURE SM57 or 58is top of the line- any $20 USB mic Castblaster - can que up your audio files and sound effects - DJ tool. Adjust the audio signal and keeps the quality high. Audacity or goldwave can help you get a soft audio louder. Garageban is king for Mac. Cost about $500.

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Learning Journal: Experimenting With Adding Music to Web Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lack of technical skills or software tools in cutting, splicing, fading the audio and weaving it with the video track. Thanks to my new friend, Uncle Seth (aka Jay Moonah ) and what I learned at Boston PodCamp , this is not true. I wanted something that had violin and cello, sounded classical, and an upbeat, driving tempo.

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Leesa Barnes: How To Plan A Killer Podcast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Leesa Barnes drove all the way from Toronto to Boston to attend Podcamp, basically driving all night! passion and purpose * who do you want to listen to your podcast * competition * consistency * be you, everyone else is taken - original * personality of the host * audio quality. Leesa Barnes, Cubicledivas.com Podonomics.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. That sounds like me right now. local time).

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[VIDEO] Emerging Trends in Nonprofit Social Media Marketing

Bloomerang

The last time we actually went to anything I think, it was the 2019 Boston Pride parade, always a favorite of ours and our family. Boston Children’s Hospital, learn more about us. One Can Help and Rosie’s Place, really tiny organizations where I live in Boston, both former clients of mine. That sounds cool.