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Video Marketing on Social Media: Best Practices & Inspiration for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Becky Brooks , Director of Communications at Animoto , an online video maker that makes it easy to create marketing videos for social media and beyond. Animoto even offers special pricing and Storyboard templates for non-profits. They created a square version and landscape version of the same video using Animoto.

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Upcoming Webinar December 12: Sowing Stories from Your Community - Video Pre-Production

Tech Soup

From sowing the seeds of a good story from the community you plan to record and having thought-provoking questions in hand, to the need. for storyboarding and sometimes scripts, to what kinds of equipment are. Eastern) to hear from our friends at Lights.Camera.Help as we walk through some of those.

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Even More Ways to Tell Your Story with Your Smartphone

Tech Soup

Price: Free Pros: Great storyboarding tools; Can import clips from camera roll (rather than internal app camera) Cons: Videos can only be five seconds. At first glance, Montaj might seem like a cheap Vine rip-off as you only get five seconds instead of six to tell your story. More Apps to Consider. Montaj (iOS).

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3 Strategies for Effective Nonprofit E-Learning

The Nerdy NonProfit

So, how can you create effective content for nonprofit e-learning? Who are you creating e-learning content for? Let’s say you’re creating courses for Valerie (or any other volunteer you can visualize). Well, in the excitement of creating new e-learning courses, it’s easy to get hung up on all of the shiny details.

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In Search of Bachelors and Philanthropy in Rural Alaska and Video Story Capture Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I couldn’t help but think – what if Joe Page or other community foundation board members had flip cameras, some video and story telling training and shared their stories on the Alaska Community Foundation Facebook page? I was lucky enough to talk my host into driving me to Talkeetna so I could document this fabulous story.

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4 Steps to Breaking Down Complicated Content

Media Cause

Pros: Can tell a more developed story at once. Can do a drip campaign where you tell a bit of the story at a time. . Pros: Opportunity to create in-depth, compelling stories. With any of these examples, you’ll always have the opportunities to use text, graphics, and video to convey the story.

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Video Storytelling Made Easy with Adobe Spark

Tech Soup

But what really makes a story shine is a strong, concise message, told in a way only your unique perspective and voice can. Are you telling a personal story, creating a fundraising pitch, inspiring others to care about a cause , or teaching potential customers about your business? How to Create Video with Spark.

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