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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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[Guide] Creating Video for Nonprofits

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

Aside from music, the quality of your audio is really key. It’s okay for the footage to be blurry or black and white, as long as the audio quality is great. Instead of scripting anything, you spend a day with the organization and you see what you get. That limitation has started to generate these beautiful bio videos.

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

Get Fully Funded

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. YouTube also has its own audio library offerd free of charge. Free Music Archive: [link].

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

NTEN

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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Live Streaming Basics for Virtual Events

AccelEvents

A virtual event with a live stream will generate audience engagement by showing the virtual audience real people, doing real things, in real-time. Depending on the clout of your brand, you may want to carefully control the speaking portion with scripts. . Audio Equipment. Things to Consider When Running a Live Stream.

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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They threw themselves into writing scripts and filming, gathering costume pieces, and otherwise doing much more in 24 hours than I would have thought possible. The audio-visual crew did a top-notch job juggling all the video, countdown clocks, slides, props and miking, adding to the sense that this social media stuff is really big-time.

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Live Streaming Basics for Virtual Events

AccelEvents

A virtual event with a live stream will generate audience engagement by showing the virtual audience real people, doing real things, in real-time. Depending on the clout of your brand, you may want to carefully control the speaking portion with scripts. . Audio Equipment. Things to Consider When Running a Live Stream.

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