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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. Facebook has, for a couple years now, committed to making their platforms “video first.” Consumers ranked video as their favorite form of content from brands.

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6 Video Marketing Tips For Nonprofits

NonProfit Hub

Video marketing is probably the best medium available at the moment for engaging audiences and promoting messages. According to research by HubSpot, 90% of users make decisions based somewhat on videos, and 92% of viewers on mobile platforms share video with others. Storyboard It Out. Firstly, why are you making it?

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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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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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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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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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