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2012 SXSW Interactive – #nptech Highlights

Amy Sample Ward

We’ve all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics “going viral” online before our eyes – the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. I’ve been….

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TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge: Tools for Telling Your Story

Tech Soup

Finished video or photo stories created according to the challenge guidelines can be submitted at the challenge website. Pacific time, January 31, 2011. Melissa and Erika explained the process and equipment needed to shoot, produce, and broadcast a digital story — here's some of their advice from the webinar. read more.

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Scary Security Stories to Tell in the Dark

Tech Soup

His Twitter account was used as a platform to broadcast hatespeech to his thousands of followers. This meant a year's worth of family photos, important documents, and saved emails. But the absolute worst part of the attack? You can fight back! Attack of the Killer Outdated Software.

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Video Streaming Apps — To Stream or Not to Stream

Tech Soup

Whatever form that storytelling takes, from photo essay to member video, story-driven content is dynamic, shows impact, and can attract new potential donors. We saw how Twitter changed information-sharing in 2011 Egypt, after all. The nonprofit sector thrives on a community of rich storytelling. Live Streaming and Appropriation.

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Storymakers 2014: Meet Our Esteemed Judges

Tech Soup

Before joining CIR, Joaquin served as senior vice president for digital innovation at American Public Media and founding senior vice president for diversity and innovation at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Erinn joined the GuideStar team when Philanthropedia was acquired in 2011. Vanessa Chase. Bailey Rosser.

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Right now in digital charity

Connection Cafe

According to the 2011 Millennial Donors survey, 65% of people surveyed want to find guides on charity websites on how their support could make a difference and 52% want to learn about volunteer opportunities. Twitter was just a channel to mobilise people to give up their time to create real offline fundraising events.

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Five Ways to Ensure Your Event Makes Headline News

Connection Cafe

Photos that help tell your story. Great photos can help ensure your story gets picked up. Have an event hashtag that lets people tweet about the experience preparing and participating, but also broadcast messages to a wider audience by using existing hashtags that relate to the cause your event supports. Use relevant hashtags.