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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

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If you are producing a video (rather than just filming things onsite), prepare an engaging script or captions. There are many sites that offer free, royalty-free music for videos, in all sorts of genres, that generate all sorts of moods. Free Music Archive: [link]. A few I can recommend: Mixkit: [link].

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Podcasting as Digital Storytelling: Behind the Scenes Look

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Of course, in its most rudimentary form, a podcast is simply a digital audio recording delivered to listeners who can hear it at their convenience. After the CTK team and I had compiled a list of frequently asked nonprofit technology questions, I started emailing and calling some of my favorite colleagues. Are you interested?”.

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Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

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From questions about the actual production of the files, to distribution, to listener metrics and feedback, there are plenty of moving parts that can raise questions. Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates.

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Jonny Goldstein's Shooting Techniques

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Use a script: Write out your questions in advance and this keeps you on track. I have to stick it in people's faces to get acceptable (to me) audio quality. Speaking of good audio, I raised this question on the video bloggers listserv and David Tames (who took the photo stills in the video) offered some great tricks here.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

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I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". In fact, we gave away a couple of free copies. Be prepared to improvise more and drop the script if it isn't working with the audience.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you're making a screencast, and you end up having a vertical monopoly on the process (you write the script, do the filming, operate the mouse, do the editing, and produce it), you need to become a super learner. So that left me with a few hours of video and audio to edit and that's too much to do in Camtasia.

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Podcasting 101 Live Blogging from Boston Podcamp

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The next session I attended was Podcasting 101 by John Walker of themshow.com He gave us an overview of the process, equipment, and skills you need, answering questions along the way. Gather your ideas Create a script - don't go free form or you might end up with a lot of ums and ahs. Content is first! Garageban is king for Mac.

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