Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

We all have a story. That's what the Digital Storytelling Challenge seeks to accomplish every year. We want to help inspire and educate you to be able to tell your own story with confidence and with success. We want to help inspire and educate you to be able to tell your own story with confidence and with success.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

TechSoup invites you or your organization to participate in the 2012 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge ! From online discussions and learning opportunities to excellent award donations , TSDigs has something for every organization. How to get involved: Submit a one-minute video or five-photo slideshow to win prizes!

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

My friends at TechSoup asked me to pass along info about their upcoming digital storytelling event. Looking for an innovative and compelling way to tell your organization's story? We will help you learn how to maximize the impact of your organization's message with online audio, video, and images.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 2, 2021

Having a coherent communications plan where you package your message will help ensure each piece of content you share is part of a greater story you are telling. Your message can be written, verbal, or even visual, but all messages should tell a story. Package your message and brand as part of an overall story. Spread the word?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The DoGooder Nonprofit Video Contest is back and calling for your best 2011 nonprofit videos! Did your organization create impactful videos in 2011? Do you want your organization to be recognized for making great videos and maybe win some incredible prizes? Organizations are more video savvy than ever.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video. Productions.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2015

It’s that time of year again- the DoGooder Video Awards are back! If you made a video in 2014 that had an impact in your community or around the world, we want to see it. Compelling video can advance social change and create real impact. The DoGooder National Video Awards contest opens today!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2012

In this year's Third Annual Digital Storytelling Challenge , powered by Lights. over 200 nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs from 25 countries worldwide submitted one-minute videos and five-photo slideshows to showcase the impact they are making on their respective communities. We look forward to seeing you at the awards party!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Video is one of the best ways to tell your nonprofit's story. It's four times more inspiring than static content, and by 2016, online video users will likely double to 1.5 TechSoup has put together some great tips for how to make a good video, including pointers on how to optimize composition , lighting , and sound.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2012

In this year's Third Annual Digital Storytelling Challenge , powered by Lights. more than 200 nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs from 25 countries submitted one-minute videos and five-photo slideshows to showcase the impact they are making on their respective communities. >> RSVP on Meetup or Facebook !

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

RSVP now for TechSoup's fourth annual Digital Storytelling Screening and Awards Party on Tuesday, May 28 at 7 p.m. Pacific time at PARISOMA — and join us in celebration of the many powerful digital story submissions that came to us from all over the world! Featured Appearances.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 8, 2021

I highly urge you to consider sharing meaningful videos, and in-person and online testimonials at your events — whether live, virtual or hybrid. Mission moments” are a great time to deliver your organization’s strongest stories to a captive audience. A few strong, communicative photos can go a long way!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

For the sixth year, TechSoup's annual challenge will help nonprofits learn how to increase their storytelling skills for fundraising and advocacy purposes. Good stories power fundraising and marketing. Storytelling skills are also a prerequisite to successful advocacy. Take Part in the Digital Storytelling Challenge!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

For the sixth year, TechSoup's annual challenge will help nonprofits learn how to increase their storytelling skills for fundraising and advocacy purposes. Good stories power fundraising and marketing. Storytelling skills are also a prerequisite to successful advocacy. Take Part in the Digital Storytelling Challenge!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

One of the biggest highlights at the Nonprofit Technology Conference each year, without surprise, is the awarding of the annual DoGooder Video Awards. So, without further adieu, the 2013 Annual DoGooder Awards Go To. Winner of Best of Nonprofit Video Award. Winner of Best of Nonprofit Video Award.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge is underway! If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video. Productions.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Digital storytellers! We have so many wonderful stories rolling in! But what good is a digital story if it’s not shared? You spent time and talent on creating your video or picture slide show, now we invite you to show it off! You've invested time and energy into your digital story — now campaign for it.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2013

We photograph breakfast, road signs, sunsets, and precious moments in between life happenings because that's the power of storytelling. But, it's really what we do with those stories that makes the magic happen. Fundraising Marketing social media video community webinars tsdigs digital storytelling'

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 21, 2009

You may have heard about TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Online Event that's been going on all month. We received over 100 submissions from nonprofits and libraries around the country (and world) who've shared their digital stories in video , photo , and GoldMail formats for the Digital Storytelling Challenge!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

Submissions for the 2012 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge have closed, but the fun has just begun! While our community is busy from March 6 – 12 picking their favorites for the Audience Choice Awards , our panel of expert judges will be selecting the top digital stories from among hundreds of entries.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Here at TechSoup, we’re big on stories because we believe they can change lives. That's why we’ve created a month-long global campaign built around the transformative power of storytelling, uniquely customized to the nonprofits, libraries, and social benefit organizations we serve. Are You Up for the Challenge?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

For a second time in April, the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge partnered with the CommBuild tweet chat. This time the topic was on storytelling and social sharing for communities. The chat opened with the question, "How does storytelling build and strengthen community?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In the past few years, we've seen the transformation from long to extremely short-form digital content like that on Vine and Instagram, and we've experienced the rise and fall of numerous storytelling apps never to be seen or heard of again. But how can stories touch hearts and minds if they go unnoticed and unheard?

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Digital storytellers! We have so many wonderful stories rolling in! But what good is a digital story if it's not shared? You spent time and talent on creating your video or picture slide show, now we invite you to show it off! You've invested time and energy into your digital story — now campaign for it.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

As my colleague Ale noted in her post a few days ago, the 2014 digital storytelling contest and event series (now called Storymakers ) has arrived! You'll not be able to participate as a "viewer" but you can showcase the excellent storytelling you may already be doing at your organization! Pacific time (2 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Note from Beth: After you read this guest post, you’ll have lots of great tips for your nonprofit’s video. And don’t forget, The 5th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards is now open for submissions from members of the YouTube Nonprofit Program until March 2nd. The HD DSLR video revolution is here.

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Care2

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Are you looking for a better way to tell your organization's story? In this webinar you will learn: What the story wars are and why you need to join the fray! How to create your own Story Strategy Map. Tired of watching your cause drown in the flood of marketing messages that surround us?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Online video takes this interaction one step further. A report by tech giant Cisco found that 51% of all consumer internet traffic in 2011 was video traffic. The figure is expected to rise to 54% by 2016, at which time video-on-demand traffic will have tripled. Video is a very powerful arrow in the content marketer’s quiver.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2012

TechSoup asked for digital stories and you delivered more than 200 stories! Digital stories came in from all over the globe from all types of social benefit organizations throughout the month of February. The Audience Choice Award is your chance to pick the digital story you feel made the biggest impact.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Mark your calendars for TechSoup Global's Digital Storytelling Online Event ! The Digital Storytelling Online Event discussions will occur in the TechSoup forums with expert hosts from the webinars. Your organization has a story to tell. But it doesn’t have to be a bland, corporate-sounding video or canned sound bite.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

Best Video Winner — Learning to Improvise Can Be Life-Changing. Please visit the site to view this video). Our Best Video winner hails from the proud city of Detroit and is the unanimous top choice. Story of Tomorrow Winner — SEEDS final. Please visit the site to view this video). Honorable Mentions.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

If you've taken some risks with your organization's video work this year, great news: thanks to The Case Foundation, the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards will be adding a special category for "Fearless" videos. Fearless video means taking risks for the sake of creating moving content that inspires the viewer.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. In previous years, we called it our Digital Storytelling Challenge. Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Last night, we held our Digital Storytelling Challenge Awards Party here at TechSoup headquarters in San Francisco. We screened highlights from the more than 100 video, image, and GoldMail submissions and celebrated the great work nonprofits and libraries are doing to tell their unique and important stories.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Focus on selling – Judge ads by sales results, not awards. Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots. Apply those lessons to general advertising.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

You can hand out information sheets, play inspirational videos, and invite live speakers to share their stories with attendees. If you’re hosting a hybrid or virtual event, the venue you choose must have reliable audio and video capabilities for a livestream , especially if you’ll have some form of entertainment.

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