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Can You Hear Me Now? Does good-quality audio really make a difference?

Association TV

One frequently overlooked, but just as important, piece of the content puzzle is how it sounds. When planning a video, content creators frequently focus on the visual intrigue of a project – how will it be filmed, how will the message be conveyed on-screen, what branding and assets will be used.

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Imagery and Authenticity

Non Profit Quarterly

This poem illustrates through three kind of case studies, what has happened to certain black men when they’ve gone out into nature. 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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Thank You Marissa Mayer for Yahoo’s No Work From Home Policy

Tech Soup

Amidst all the sound and fury it became clear that the famous Yahoo telecommuting ban affected just full-time home workers, around 200 out of 12,000 Yahoo employees or 1.6 One thing we use quite a bit at TechSoup for meetings involving our telecommuters is the ReadyTalk audio and web conferencing service. percent of employees.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

However, the idea of editing a long file in Camtasia does not sound appealing to me.). So that left me with a few hours of video and audio to edit and that's too much to do in Camtasia. Because the screencast is conversational, the screen doesn't have to exactly synch the audio. This became the case study in Act 3.

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Online Community Meetup Recap: Engaging Voters with Social Media

Tech Soup

The campaign is also on Google+ and uses SoundCloud , a social media company that allows one to record audio messages and share them online. SoundCloud allows him to explain his positions in short sound bites that can be embedded on his website and shared via social media.

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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. If you recall dear readers, I studied music in college and was on a career path to being a professional flutist until I got distracted with nonprofit management, technology, and a thousand other things.

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Sustainable Agriculture Scholarships and Photo Competition

Have Fun - Do Good

Sounds like we need to start fostering a next generation of farmers. They will award two $10,000 Undergraduate Scholarships, one $10,000 Graduate Scholarship, four $2,500 Undergraduate Scholarships, and four $2,500 Graduate Scholarships to students pursuing studies in sustainable and organic agriculture. Photo Credit: Tomatoes by Me.

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