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A Look at Nonprofits and Vlogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the conference, I attended a session on video blogging with Ryanne Hodson and was inspired to go play in a vlog sandbox. I was also curious to see whether there were nonprofits using vlogs to promote their causes. Now almost a year later, there is renewed interest in vlogging and nonprofits. Here's a synthesis. The Issues.

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Why aren't the Walker Arts Center Bloggers Vlogging?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wonder if they considered vlogging? They do have some video clips and flash movies, but these aren't exactly vlogging. Maybe I missed it, but why aren't they vlogging it? (I My next task is to find out more about podsafe music sources and better understand music file formats that will work with Microsoft Movie Maker.

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Windows 8 Apps for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup

Need a good vlogging (video blogging) tool? Norton Satellite from Symantec is a free app that scans your Facebook feed for malicious links, as well as your Dropbox and local files for malware. File Management. You can access, view, edit, and share your stored files right from the Start screen. Productivity.

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Compression Confessions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Our wedding was before the days when people created wedding blogs or wedding web sites or engagement moment sharing vlog posts -- and even a little before video taping was common. So, I decided to mark the Anniversary in flickr , blog post, and this vlog post. It compressed the file down to 5.7 I uploaded it to Blip.tv

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Videobomb: Check it Out!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He works for this non-profit that supports independent, non-corporate audio and video file sharing (among other things). it makes me want to get back in the vlog thing again. Technorati Tags: nptech , vlogging , video There's some truly funny, creative, brilliant pieces here already, and more coming in all the time.

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Beth's on the Move: Packing With A Flip Camera

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The files are smaller so uploading is faster and once it's seen on a typical youtube embed there's little difference in quality. Tags: vlog. I think it's best not to use the zoom. I would generally recommend just get in closer! One last thing. Well, back to cleaning up and making sure the boxes are labels.

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Web Video for Social Benefit Sector: Some learnings.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was up too late editing a screencast to do a content analysis yesterday, instead I found a great thread on Nonprofits and Vlogging over at Social Edge facilitated by Patrick O'Heffernan. May need to get some technical instructions on how to convert the file formats or use a service like hipcast. Check out this popular YouTube user.

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