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Video Marketing on Social Media: Best Practices & Inspiration for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Animoto even offers special pricing and Storyboard templates for non-profits. Tell One Story at a Time. However, since the appetite for video on social is huge, it’s actually advantageous to tell one story per video. Sticking to just one story also helps keep the video shorter for distracted attention spans.

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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? I was lucky enough to talk my host into driving me to Talkeetna so I could document this fabulous story.

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How to cure stage fright: The science behind public speaking

The Next Web

When I’m preparing to give a presentation or a talk at a conference, here’s my process: About a week before, I draw out a storyboard of about 15-20 slides, thinking over the content using stick figures or a few words that I may put on my slides. Tell your audience right away how you are going to help them so they tune in.

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5 Tips to Effectively Tell your Story with Video

Tech Soup

Start with drawing up a simple storyboard. It doesn't have to be fancy, just start scribbling some ideas of how your story will get from start to finish. Your storyboard can help you come up with a list of scenes, camera shots, and props you will need. If your video gets too long, your audience will lose interest.

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

Tech Soup

From sowing the seeds of a good story from the community you plan to record and having thought-provoking questions in hand, to the need. for storyboarding and sometimes scripts, to what kinds of equipment are. Eastern) to hear from our friends at Lights.Camera.Help as we walk through some of those.

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Even More Ways to Tell Your Story with Your Smartphone

Tech Soup

Price: Free Pros: Great storyboarding tools; Can import clips from camera roll (rather than internal app camera) Cons: Videos can only be five seconds. At first glance, Montaj might seem like a cheap Vine rip-off as you only get five seconds instead of six to tell your story. More Apps to Consider. Montaj (iOS).

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What exactly is the Jodorowsky’s Dune crypto collective trying to make, anyway?

The Verge

Last year, a collective of cryptocurrency fans pooled millions of dollars to buy a copy of the story bible for director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s legendary never-made adaptation of the novel Dune. The actual situation seems more ambiguous than some critics are suggesting.

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