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5 Tips to Effectively Tell your Story with Video

Tech Soup

Feel confident being able to effect change in your organization with video. These 5 tips from Atomic Training can help you get on your way to producing effective videos. 1) Plan ahead: Coming up with an engaging video from being to end might be a bit overwhelming - planning ahead can save you a lot of time in the end.

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Video Is A Must For Your Organization’s Content Strategy

Connection Cafe

What would you rather do: Watch Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in a movie theater, or flip through the storyboards? I know the storyboards seem pretty cool, but if you have to choose just one, you’d probably watch the movie. Why we love video. 80% of people remember a video ad they viewed in the past 30 days.

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Will this video editing software also do my laundry?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm in the process of preparing material for the Screencasting Session at NTC (BTW, I'm presenting with Ian Miller from C3 who is sponsoring the NTC Video Contest last call). A) The Hollywood Movie B) Home movies to document something important. Steve played it the software and created this video). No rehearsal either.

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How to Create a Giving Tuesday Video

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Nonprofits have been using videos to fundraise for a long time now. Did you know that 57% of people who watch a nonprofit video go on to give? Which is why it’s important to create Giving Tuesday videos. Get started on your Giving Tuesday videos by following the tips below. Storyboard. What’s the video’s purpose?

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The timing errors make it more of a comedy than an instructional video, but you have to start somewhere. Screencasting (and the software) has three functions: storyboarding, production, editing. So, here's my first incredibly sloppy and choppy screencast of how to use this neat little bookmarklet. I hope you get a good laugh.

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After a few phone calls back and forth between my video host tech support and the cable company and a visit by the cable man with a new modem, I was finally able to get this sreencast uploaded today. I originaly produced this at 800x600 as a SWF with highest quality audio/video and the resulting file was a whooping 72,000 KB.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So that left me with a few hours of video and audio to edit and that's too much to do in Camtasia. I got enough information to put together an outline and rough storyboard So, I had the overall structure for the 15 minute screencast. (However, the idea of editing a long file in Camtasia does not sound appealing to me.).