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Need Some Inspiration To Video Blog? Look no further.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Screen capture of video blog I was an early adopter of video blogging and screencasting. I really miss making videos and screencasts. For inspiration, I had to look no further than the " On the Road: Tanzania ," a video blog from the UN World Food Programme. Video Guides for Nonprofits. FLIP Camera.

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What's a Watt Stopper? My First FLIP Camera Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been away from making media for a little bit and so it is nice to come back to it with a little perspective on how cameras and video editing have gotten so much easier. It automatically uploads to Youtube or other service or emails the video. . Flip Video Camera : These are easy to use, inexpensive cameras with a built-USB port.

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Camtasia and the Chipmunks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Christine was using some of the wonderful how-to videos on the TechSmith site (and I also think my screencasting primer too). Christine Martell has been teaching herself how to screencast and completed her first screencast. What's really impressive is that it made Screencast of the Week over at TechSmith , the makers of the software.

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Converting GoToMeeting recording to something you can actually use

Judi Sohn

You can't post the file to any web service or play it back on a Mac.unless you specifically go to in to preferences before the recording begins and toggle a little button which converts the final file into a more standard video file. So on to the second application, Any Video Converter. We were fortunate to have him join us.

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The Making of "Product Demo - Mobile Beacon" Video

Tech Soup

Digital Storytelling is in the air around TechSoup these days, and thanks to a grant from Symantec we have been able to experiment and create some new videos. We aimed to make this video informative, concise, and personable. Just as important, lighting in your set can make or break our video. What did you think about our video?

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10 New Nonprofit Trends

Qgiv

Nonprofits have noticed this and are starting to make use of the video sharing platform to reach its 700 million active monthly users in order to fundraise. Fundraising videos. Fundraising videos are a favorite of the upcoming nonprofit trends. That said, nonprofit videos aren’t just for reaching Gen Z donors.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One thing I learned just two weeks ago from a phone call to the TechSmith tech support guy is that the.wmv files from Ready/Talk can be run through microsoft media encoder - so they could be pulled into Camtasia and edited. However, the idea of editing a long file in Camtasia does not sound appealing to me.).