Ideas to inspire your social impact storytelling
The Be Inspired Films blog is a great place to get video & storytelling inspiration for your charity, social enterprise, b corp, sustainability, corporate responsibility or social purpose projects. This is where we share our ideas on the best video production, animation, online events, user-generated video content & storytelling techniques & approaches.
4 Things CSR Teams Can Learn From Marketers About Using Social Media
If you speak to CSR executives you will commonly find the following aspirations:
We want wider audiences to know and care about our CSR journey
We want to build a trusted relationship with our stakeholders
We want to get credit for the genuinely good work we’ve already done
In spite of these aspirations, the state of the current practice is to then proceed as though these aspirations didn’t exist, pushing out dull and data-heavy reports that may be useful to expert audiences, but not fit for purpose for the objectives above.
6 Impactful Videos From 2017 And What We Can Learn From Them
2017 was a year dominated by video content. It was the year that Instagram Stories exploded, that YouTube consolidated its position as storytelling platform of choice for creators across the globe, and that Facebook, Apple and Netflix doubled down on their investment in new video programming.
Telling Your Company’s CSR Story Better In The Social Media Age
Most companies – even when they use powerful storytelling media such as video – fail to capture the attention or the imagination of their target audience with their CSR stories and attempt to confront and overcome problems of the world.
Lessons from 10 Years Creating Videos in the Charity Sector
With lightening speed improvements in technology, particularly how most of us now have a high powered video camera on our smartphones, it has never been easier or more affordable to record high quality video.Thanks to social media, you can now share your story with a click of a button.
5 Useful Tips for Live Streaming an Event.
Here's why you're not already live streaming an event and how to overcome the common challenges and benefit from the opportunities live streaming an event can offer
3 Reasons why It’s time to Move Beyond the Hero In Storytelling.
The stories we tell have the power to make sense of - and shape - the world around us.
It’s time we looked beyond traditional heroic narratives for a more inclusive form of storytelling, a collective narrative that can bring us together to tackle the biggest challenges of our time.
How to Develop Inspiring Story Content for Video
Why is storytelling so important to us and how to best move your audience to action? Particularly when you want to make a positive social impact, how best to do that using video?
Case Study: Connecting Brand Values With a Social Cause
Recently there has been a noticeable trend for brand involvement in campaigns around social causes. Procter and Gamble’s International Women’s Day campaign was a hit back in March. Here’s why we like it...
The Power of an Authentic Narrator in CSR Storytelling
Stakeholder voices are the most powerful vehicle if they exist, since they often have a direct and emotionally powerful story.
3 Things that make your CSR Story more COMPELLING
There are 3 elements to creating more compelling stories that companies can implement immediately in how they talk about their corporate social responsibility.
Maximise the Value of your Events with Video
Do you put on events? Do you find they often require a lot of hard work and considerable expense to put on? Do you ever wish you could capture the magic and continue to share it even after the event is over?
How to Spice up your Message with Animation
Animation can be a great way to spice up a message and also a powerful tool to elicit an emotional response in the viewer, when they may otherwise not necessarily connect with your message.
Video as a Powerful Fundraising Tool
People tend to give more when they feel an emotional connection with the cause and when they feel their money will make a real and lasting difference. The challenge is how to give people this experience effectively at scale.
Let Video help you with your Perfect Pitch
Sometimes you get an opportunity that can potentially make a huge difference to your business or charity. It might be an invitation to pitch to investors or funders where a lot is riding on the outcome.
Speaking Events: Spotlight on Birmingham’s Social Enterprises
On July 16th Ravinol took part in a panel discussion at a PR Media workshop in Birmingham run by Social Enterprise West Midlands.
Awesome use of Video! Top 5 good cause videos that took the World by Storm
Check out the top 5 good cause videos that took the world by storm in 2014.
Awarding Pioneers of the Sustainable Energy Sector
Rav and I went to the New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2015 with our friends from Blue and Green Tomorrow!
Be Inspired Films Nominated! Award for Outstanding Client Satisfaction
Dressed to the nines Rav and I attended the Recommended Agency Register awards last month and had a blast!
Clash of the Titans: The Fight for Online Video is on!
Is Facebook set to take over from the Youtube giant?
SKOLL Supports Future Social Leaders!
Conor shares his and Ravinol's experience interviewing the Skoll candidates last week, taking a look at the positive social enterprise attitude entrepreneurs are bringing to the world of business.