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Video Storytelling Made Easy with Adobe Spark

Tech Soup

An eye-catching opening, slick text animation, smooth transitions — these are all important elements of polished social videos. In all cases, video stories are most memorable when they have a core message — a "so what" moment. A few strong pieces of copy can help your video shine. Who Am I Talking To?

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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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Join Our 2016 Digital Storytelling Challenge!

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For the sixth year, TechSoup's annual challenge will help nonprofits learn how to increase their storytelling skills for fundraising and advocacy purposes. Storytelling skills are also a prerequisite to successful advocacy. Our partner See3 has announced the winner of the 2016 GoDooder Video Awards. Learn more.

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

Tech Soup

Before you push record on any video, there are some key steps you. should take to ensure your video will achieve the goals you set out for. for storyboarding and sometimes scripts, to what kinds of equipment are. for storyboarding and sometimes scripts, to what kinds of equipment are. Pacific time (2 p.m.

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Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Storytelling Recap

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The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Campaign. kicked off with a special edition of Nonprofits Live on the topic of collaborative storytelling. Collaborative storytelling refers to working with a team, sometimes distributed, to produce video. A production grid outlines: What will happen in a video from moment to moment.

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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? If the latter, I have a storyboard in my head and edit as I go. Don’t take a vacuum cleaner approach.

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Even More Ways to Tell Your Story with Your Smartphone

Tech Soup

If your organization isn't already using Instagram, Vine, or another video/photosharing tool, now is the time to start experimenting. The Twitter-owned app lets you record six-second video clips and share them with your friends on various social media networks including Vine's own internal network. More Apps to Consider.