Finishing What You Start, Especially When You’re Tired
Eric Maierson of MediaStorm recently wrote an encouraging blog post about finishing what you start. (If you don’t know MediaStorm, it’s a multimedia agency that produces video stories for a lot of...
View Article3 Websites with Excellent and Legal Music for Videos
I spend a lot of time researching music for videos that I produce, so I thought I’d share my top three websites for very good, license-free, legal and free (or cheap) music. Be sure to check that the...
View ArticleWhen the World is Your Target Audience
(Many of you come to NGOS looking for information on creating a regional communications strategy, so I tapped the expertise of my friend and former colleague Racine Tucker-Hamilton, who was gracious...
View ArticleCollecting Stories With Program vs Communications Staff
Before I started freelancing for NGOs last year, I firmly believed that given a choice, communications professionals should always be the ones collecting stories and aiding in the gathering of stories....
View ArticleWhy It Pays to Hire a Professional Translator For Your Video Shoot
I wish I could swallow a pill that would automatically give me fluency in foreign languages. Until that pill comes along, I rely on people to translate for me when I’m filming in countries where I...
View ArticleNew Skills: Learning Audio Basics for Interviews
Happy 2016! It’s a new year and by this point you should be being bombarded by every source in the universe telling you to create a new you. We like you just the way you are but thought it would be fun...
View ArticleWhat Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About Music Licensing
I was recently editing a video project and my client asked to change the music in the video. She sent me songs by several popular artists. And, as I was drafting my email outlining the technicalities...
View ArticlePodcast 2: How We Negotiate Contracts When Working With Nonprofits
One of our post popular blogs was written about contracts in 2012. Since then it’s received about 4200 hits so we decided it was time to revisit the topic. In this podcast we talk about how we created...
View ArticlePodcast 3: How Photographers and Nonprofits Can Collaborate Successfully
What does a successful collaboration between a photographer and a nonprofit look like? An unsuccessful one? In this podcast, we discuss keys to successful collaboration. If you’d like to see more of...
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