MiniMatters Blog

Insights on Video & Storytelling

Explore expert advice and creative ideas to help your organization use video more effectively.

Great Video Will Help You Win the Story Wars

Great video begins with a great story; we've always known this and at core we believe all human beings get this. That's why we found Jonah Sachs'...

LinkedIn Videos for LinkedIn Company and Nonprofit PagesNonprofit Program channel.

As of September 30, 2012, LinkedIn had more than 187 million members in over 200 countries and territories. It's a fabulous resource for learning about...

YouTube Campaigns that jazz up your YouTube Nonprofit Program channel.

Now that we've had a few weeks to recover from the elections, it's (perhaps) possible to contemplate what your nonprofit can learn from the whole election...

Video Interview Tips—Communicating Your Best Message

Part 3 of our Common Interview Concerns Series, this time offering video interview tips for communicating your best message....

Video Interview Tips—How to Sound Good in a Video?

Part 2 of our Common Interview Concerns Series, with some video interview tips to help you to sound good on the video's audio....

Video Interview Tips—How to Look Good in a Video

MiniMatters presents a 3-part series of video interview tips tackling common concerns about appearing in a video, starting with how to look your best....

Fundraising videos should show both beneficiaries and donors.

Fundraising videos should show both beneficiaries and donors. Our client the American Chemical Society imagined fundraising videos that would show donors...

Association videos benefit from a collaborative process.

As we discussed last week, successful collaboration is the foundation of a good video. Association videos, in particular, can gain quite a return from...

Video production is the product of collaboration and teamwork.

Video production is the product of collaboration and teamwork. Video production is an involved process, and a video like this one shows how teamwork...

Remix videos are underutilized by nonprofits

Remix videos are underutilized by nonprofits While the word, "remix" brings to mind popular music, remix videos are a trend on Youtube and other video...

iPhone cameras are great–within reason

iPhone cameras are great--within reason Video cameras are evolving and becoming more powerful and more convenient. Smartphones may be as well. So it's no...

YouTube annotations can be interesting and dynamic

YouTube annotations can be interesting and dynamic YouTube annotations let you layer clickable text, hotspots, and links over your video. While...