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APRIL 3, 2013

TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge is here! All April long, we're putting on events to sharpen your digital storytelling skills. Then, you submit your own short video (up to 90-seconds) or five-image slide show to our challenge to win prizes! Never participated in a tweet chat before?

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MAY 21, 2013

Get your world-changing ideas together and warm up your programming fingers because the National Day of Civic Hacking is happening across America on June 1 and 2, 2013. Using publicly-released data and code, participants will be able to swap ideas, share skills, and solve challenges that affect Americans on both local and national scales.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Now imagine if you could harness the talent, skill, vision, and drive of all the smart people you know to create massive change for good. Will you rise to the challenge? For the purposes of this contest, Microsoft Citizenship recommends the TechSoup Hacker Help Wiki. We all know smart people. as a reference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Harvard Business Review, March 2013. SSIR Blog, January 2013. There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it. .” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

What challenges have you faced? Virtual Volunteering Wiki : in conjunction with the 2013 release of the Virtual Volunteering Guidebook later this year. And we will continue to revise our microvolunteering initiative as we learn lessons from our own program, as well the experiences of others. What successes have you had?

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