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#14LCS Recap: Content Round-Up

NTEN

We''re grateful for the articles, blog posts, videos, photos, and more from the 14LCS community. All of us all NTEN are amazed (but not too surprised, really) by the degree of engagement at the 14LCS, and by the movement of individual ideas into actionable projects during the Idea Accelerator. Did we miss anything?

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Build Your Storymaking Skills with Free Events and Webinars

Tech Soup

Topics include the latest storytelling tools, fundraising strategies, and a video 101 seminar. San Francisco, California: Nonprofits and Storytelling: How to Create Social Impact, First-Person Stories. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Video and Photography 101. San Francisco, California. Thursday, March 31. Friday, April 1.

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6 Tips to Improve Your Next Fundraising Campaign Using Digital Storytelling

Tech Soup

Photos, videos, selfies, and personal stories allow us to embed emotional content in fundraising campaigns. What photos and videos can you use to tell your campaign story? Avoid using stock photography, since this turns off donors. Tip 4: Create a Video to Tell Your Story. Keep your video less than two minutes long.

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Mobile for Good: May Edition

Tech Soup

To stop the growing problem of smartphone theft, a state senator in California has introduced a bill that would mandates manufacturers to sell devices with built-in kill switches. Weirdly, in California, there was some resistance to the bill by a domestic violence nonprofit. Digital Storytelling Apps and Tools.

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Join Our 24-Hour Round-the-World Twitter Chat

Tech Soup

Learn what others are doing to build the capacity to communicate to their audience and community through short videos, photographs, data visualizations, and other narrative forms. Topic: Improving how NGOs use photography and video. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. We hope to see you at #Storymakers2016! VANCOUVER.

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Storymakers 2014: Meet Our Esteemed Judges

Tech Soup

For the past decade, she has been running her own mortgage business, which lends in California, Washington, and Oregon. He also founded the Positive Light project, a crowdsourced and crowdfunded photography project and coffee table photo book that is changing the way the world sees Bangladesh. Mikey Leung. Bailey Rosser.

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What do Digital Touch and Yellow Cling Peaches Have in Common?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am enjoying the weekly Farmer's Markets in California. Yesterday, I couldn't resist doing some macro photography of the cling peaches at the Mountain View Farmer's market. Make personal videos or audio. Just blend it in with the other media you make.

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