Author Archives: Kate Epstein

True/False Friday: Powerpoint is the gold standard for professional presentations.

False. Powerpoint is, without a doubt, the industry standard for presentations. It’s a proven standard and most of your organization’s audiences have seen enough of them to know what to expect. There are any number of resources that will tell you … Continue reading

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Tip Tuesday: Videos are the key to effective testimonials. (With five great reasons why!)

When we at MiniMatters realized how well the work we’d done for the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI had turned out, we asked our contact, Anita, to let us create a video testimonial for our Web site. … Continue reading

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Tip Tuesday: For personalized searching of the Web, compare Trapit to Google Alerts and see the power of the visual.

Trapit is a great tool for personalized searching that produces visually appealing results. While Google Alerts can be a powerful tool for anything you need to watch like a hawk—like anything that names your organization itself—its approach is rather everything-and-the-kitchen-sink, … Continue reading

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True/False Friday: In innovative online video, Americans always do the cool stuff first.

False! Innovation in online video can come from a lot of places. We at MiniMatters are very impressed with what BeLonG To Youth Services, in Dublin, Ireland, has done in this fundraising video: The video is told from the viewer’s point of … Continue reading

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Tip Tuesday: Consider video when you have a big organizational change to introduce.

When the National Petroleum and Refiners Association determined they should become American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, they brought MiniMatters in to create a video that would lay out the change for their 200+ member companies. The video gave a confident and … Continue reading

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True/False Friday: That special organization event you’ve been planning for will be over all too quickly.

You put so much energy into planning important events that sometimes it seems they go by in a blur. But the truth is, your special organization event doesn’t have to be over so fast. Our client the National Capital Gift … Continue reading

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Tip Tuesday: A new Web site is a great time to build your video strategy.

Video has a lot of uses, but virtually every organization that uses online video posts it to their own Web site. While adding video is a great way to spruce up and contemporize just about any Web site, when an … Continue reading

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True/False Friday: The photo looks great! It’ll be great in our video!

Unfortunately, this one is often false. A photo can have great composition and color, but when you look at it on your computer screen you really can’t tell if it’s a sufficiently high resolution to work in your video production. … Continue reading

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Tip Tuesday: Plan ahead so your video media strategy can take advantage of tent pole events.

Mother’s Day is coming. You still have time to rush order your mother or your wife some flowers for her day, but videos that tie into Mother’s Day should have been produced a few weeks ago. Mother’s Day is a … Continue reading

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True/False Friday: Video is a great tool in all stages of fundraising

True.  Just how true was driven home for us yesterday at the first workshop we attended at the excellent Association Foundation Group’s 10th National Conference. LISTEN! Give! Stay!  What you need to do to attract and keep donors was all about the importance … Continue reading

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