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Be Fundraising Alert! Lift Your Nonprofit and Boost Your Career

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The problem is that most people throw out an entire process leading up to those three seconds, and an equally important process after. Think of this comparison. The director tells the actors what to do, where to stand, and how to deliver the script. Get a clock that counts seconds, like your watch or cell phone.

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How To Create Explainer Videos That Donors Will Love

Nonprofits Source

For that, you can use meaningful animation, unexpected script turns ( narrative ), and adequate characterization. Rather than saying that “food waste is a common problem,” use something like “Did you know that X amount of food goes to waste each day, just in Los Angeles alone?”

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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. If anything, the juxposition of the cell phone footage with my camera footage shows that my camera audio and visual quality looks and sounds great in comparison. And, with a tiny camera and I need magnifying glasses to read the controls.

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Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There are some interesting comparison’s out there – see Notmyself, Phil Crissman , and Jeff Croft for a good review of Ma.gnolia’s open API. First, the major problem is that there are, at this point, so many of them, and although many (most?) Ma.gnolia is a new(ish) social bookmarking tool. bookmarks to ma.gnolia.)

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The key on Pathable is that we can ask them questions that they respond to with tags to describe themselves or interest: This creates some interesting effects- you can find other people with common interests based on tags, and Pathable does a tag comparison to suggest other people you may want to get to know during the conference.

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[VIDEO] The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication

Bloomerang

And so I’ll do like a script with them. And so that’s great that you want to do a script, but then, once you have that script down, you have to throw it away and you have to really gauge how the conversation is going by the person that you’re speaking with. Contrast and comparisons. Love to waste.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's the script from the screencast written back in October. Act 1: The Problem. If you want a detailed comparison of these and other social bookmarking services, you can read one at Consultant Commons. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Some of my thinking has definitely evolved. Introduction.