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

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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. YouTube also has its own audio library offerd free of charge. Using the techniques of storytelling for nonprofits can make a huge difference in the results of your fundraising. A few I can recommend: Mixkit: [link].

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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. When I first started to make video blog posts, I had no idea how much my shooting techniques would impact the amount of time I would have to spend editing. Click to play.

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Using Web Conferencing Software To Create A Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But wait a minute, what if I could create a screencast out of a screensharing session or using a web conference system like Ready/Talk that offers video/audio recording? The father of screencasting, Jon Udell , who of course is a technical expert in everything, uses this technique -- the screencast interview or talk show.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you're making a screencast, and you end up having a vertical monopoly on the process (you write the script, do the filming, operate the mouse, do the editing, and produce it), you need to become a super learner. So that left me with a few hours of video and audio to edit and that's too much to do in Camtasia.

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Podcasting 101 Live Blogging from Boston Podcamp

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This information is probably for someone who is burning serious about podcasting or after you've experimented with some of the techniques that Steve Garfield shared. (In Gather your ideas Create a script - don't go free form or you might end up with a lot of ums and ahs. Adjust the audio signal and keeps the quality high.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wasn't as smooth as I would have liked swtiching between my "scripted" remarks and incorporating people's questions in the chat line. I wanted to use more video examples, but only selected one that was more of a music video in case the audio didn't work. But, there were great questions.