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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

He also shared an interactive map on his website so people could track the road trip’s progress visually using a tool called Track My Tour. Mark shared his progress around the country in YouTube videos (he’s been featured on the YouTube homepage, blog posts , and his Twitter feed.

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New on SSIR: #4Change Examines Social Media for the Climate Change Movement

Amy Sample Ward

“Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). The power of social media and the authentic storytelling that takes place is in the opportunity for people to inspire other people to take action, which leads to lesson #2. Lesson #1: Voice.

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App Review: When Instagram Isn't Enough, Steller Helps You Build Stories

Tech Soup

So when a new digital storytelling tool comes along, we jump at the chance to test it out. The Brooklyn Public Library created a story about its Bike the Branches program , featuring maps, photos, and an Albert Einstein quote. The next icon, a camera, lets you replace the photo if want. Or any other storytelling mobile apps?

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Top 10 Sources for Free Images

Tech Soup

I like this resource for maps, flags, and people photos. Wherever possible, choose natural or unposed images,rather than showing a group of people smiling at the camera. For example, pictures of volunteers working will be more compelling than a smiling group posed for the camera. Many of them are public domain. spanhidden.

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Social Video Questions, Answered: Join TechSoup July 20

Tech Soup

Is It Different from Digital Storytelling? cloud-based tools that facilitate group process around mapping, making. for this one hour talk show series with leaders in the nonprofit social video field sharing their storytelling tips, production budgets, viral. including: a product matching program, storytelling trainings, social.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. Documenter: Using a digital camera, the documenter should capture photos of the process – the set up, the activity, and the products from the activity. The lead is also in charge of the pivot and communicating that to other facilitators.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

Jorge Luis Borges points out that a 1:1 scale map is useless. Daum Communication , a leading internet services provider in Korea offers a map service with a streetview option, much like Google Maps does in the States. You can select from various past dates when the streetview camera captured the image.