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Join Melissa Kiser, Information Technology Librarian at Allen County Public Library, as she explores how nonprofits can leverage video to connect with their communities. Discover strategies for understanding your local area, utilizing technology effectively, and making your nonprofit a vital part of the community. From average home prices to local parks and colleges in Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana, learn how to engage your audience with videos that showcase community events and library services. Let’s recognize our shared importance and strengthen our ties through compelling visual storytelling.
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Using Videos to Build Community Presented by Melissa Kiser Information Technology Librarian Allen County Public Library
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We have two jobs Know our communities Make the tech work for us
Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana • 340,000 residents in the county
Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana • 340,000 residents in the county • Unassuming midwestern town
Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana • 340,000 residents in the county • Unassuming midwestern town • Average home sells for $115,000
Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana • 340,000 residents in the county • Unassuming midwestern town • Average home sells for $115,000 • Cost of living 9% below national average
Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana • 340,000 residents in the county • Unassuming midwestern town • Average home sells for $115,000 • Cost of living 9% below national average • 87 parks, 10 colleges
Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana • 340,000 residents in the county • Unassuming midwestern town • Average home sells for $115,000 • Cost of living 9% below national average • 87 parks, 10 colleges • All-America City
Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana “fat” and “dumb” – and fixing it
How do you know your community? news newspaper blogs people Twitter radio TV
The Bike Summit video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_YEAGEIVVw
The farmer’s market video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVXNiw-u-dE
The Tin Caps video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jreNEl_3FqU
Jobs, Dreams, and You http://tscrobinson.com/
Why video? • Good PR • It’s an item of interest on the homepage • Keeps ‘em coming back • Friendly, personal, makes patron feel like someone is talking to them • Incorporates community stuff into library video • Ties the community back to the library
How I do it • Pick a format and stick to it • introduce myself • state date of video/events • list big events going on • be at an event that you mentioned the week before • group events together if possible (all at one agency, all one type of event, all one age group)
How I do it • talk about a service we offer, physically or virtually; examples: • Dunkin Donuts • Book Clubs page (Book Talk feature) • PINs--gave lots of reminders before deadline • SRP--mentioned in previous four videos
Video-making tips • talk as if the patron is standing in front of me • incorporate something I enjoy • planning in the future to do videos incorporating my running, my new kitten, camping • nothing too fancy-schmancy • needs to look very casual and off the cuff, "man on the street" feel • have A LOT of energy • keep them relatively short to accommodate attention spans