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Your Nonprofit Should be Using Public Service Announcements (PSAs)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

How to Leverage For-Profit Advertising Tactics for Free. By creating a script with pronunciation as well as a pre-recorded audio file, you’ll have a better chance of your PSA airing since you provided a variety of options. Once you map this all out, write the PSA out in script fashion word for word.

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

Candid

Make video part of your broader content workflow Consider how video script writing can fit into the broader way you create content. This can mean creating a video that gets expanded into a blog or shortening a blog into a video script. It started as a 90-second video script. We tie our videos to our blog posts.

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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

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If you are producing a video (rather than just filming things onsite), prepare an engaging script or captions. There are many sites that offer free, royalty-free music for videos, in all sorts of genres, that generate all sorts of moods. Free Music Archive: [link]. A few I can recommend: Mixkit: [link].

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Podcasting as Digital Storytelling: Behind the Scenes Look

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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. He did this by: Scripting a short introduction that kicks off each episode. Can we use free and inexpensive social media tools to create and test a beta version of our podcast?

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Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

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Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates. No reason to be afraid: the important part of this definition is that the audio content is syndicated. The bit rate determines the quality of the audio.

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Jonny Goldstein's Shooting Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use a script: Write out your questions in advance and this keeps you on track. I have to stick it in people's faces to get acceptable (to me) audio quality. Speaking of good audio, I raised this question on the video bloggers listserv and David Tames (who took the photo stills in the video) offered some great tricks here.

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's the script. will scan later) Also, I haven't fully mastered the editing features yet as I was just trying to get it from script to filming. I am using a free trial of Captivate from Macromedia. The timing errors make it more of a comedy than an instructional video, but you have to start somewhere.