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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Graphics and Video

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Itunes/Quicktime comes native with MacOS, and Windows Media Player for Windows. The other realm of stuff that I know some about is video. In term of viewing, on the proprietary side are the players that come with the proprietary operating systems.

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I'm Video Blogging from NetSquared Year 3!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I had an opportunity to eat dinner with the Nonprofit Commons group that will be doing a session. Well, off to double check my compression settings for QuickTime. I left Australia on Sunday afternoon and arrived in the Bay Area on Sunday morning. Rik Riel has a write up here. This morning Vince Stehl gave the morning welcomed.

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Connect with TechSoup at NCVS!

Tech Soup

Elliot will be talking with participants about technology planning for nonprofits, and Evonne and Susan will be talking about interactive online events and social media tools. NPSM Social Wiki — The new NPSocialMedia wiki offers a one stop resource guide for nonprofits seeking help with social media at the 101 level.

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Live Blogging Podcamp: Steve Garfield's Thunderstorm of Podcasting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I aslo think it is a fabulous technique for capturing and sharing knowledge from conferences and other nonprofit gatherings as I noted here. He said the free and cheap programs for video making are imovie (mac) or moviemaker (pc) or quicktime pro. He uses quicktime pro to export it. Steve introduced himself and his site.

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Nonprofits and Videoblogging: Janitors Own Words: Video from SEIU

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One thing we learned is You Tube is an easy way to get video out to people without also having to give them a crash course in what software to download to watch this QuickTime, or that Windows Media. What did you learn about using video/youtube that would share with others? They're familiar with it.

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Learning Journal: Experimenting With Adding Music to Web Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Tools: -Windows Movie Maker -QuickTime Pro. Finding Good Quality Music Sources Isn't Impossible.

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a powerpoint that Cheryl Hanback and I used to lead an N-TEN Affnity Group of technology trainers at last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference. I rendered ten different versions (6 in SWF with different audio sampling and video frame rates and sizes) and 2 in Quicktime and 2 in WMF.)