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. As the Dean of Story.

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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. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

TechSoup’s digital storytelling challenge is open between now and September 26, 2014. Submit your digital video, five photographs, or a super-short story. Looking for inspiration for your digital story? They are holding digital storytelling events all month! Naples, FL: Digital Storytelling Workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The internet and 24/7 connectivity to the world around us have changed our relationships with people, businesses, and nonprofits in ways we couldn’t have imagined just a few years ago. Naturally, our buying behaviors have radically changed as a result of this trend. 5: Collaborative Storytelling Sells.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

and the leaves are starting to change color. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Raleigh, North Carolina: Nonprofit Storytelling: What You Need to Know. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

One of my biggest takeaways from last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in San Francisco was this oft-repeated advice on social networking, specifically Facebook and Twitter: you can't make them come to you. For Mercy Corps, that meant storytelling. We just had to keep telling our story. Social media, indeed.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2016

Since our last storytelling Twitter chat , both the opportunities and challenges in producing a great digital story have increased. More stories flooding our social media airwaves mean that it's increasingly difficult to get a non-visual story heard. Topic : Storytelling in central and eastern Europe and Eurasia.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

At TechSoup, we're all about using technology to tell your nonprofit, charity, or public library's story. So when a new digital storytelling tool comes along, we jump at the chance to test it out. Steller (free; Apple iOS) is an app that lets you build stories with your photos, videos, and text. Getting Steller Set Up.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Victoria, Canada: The Art of Transmedia Storytelling: Creating Story Worlds Across Platforms. San Francisco: Let’s Learn About the Future of Mobile Impact. Baltimore, MD: March Tech & Social Change Meetup. Discover their story with NetSquared Houston. Don’t be shy - come join us!

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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. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8th.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Abuja, Nigeria: A Well-Told Digital Story Is Powerful. Storymakers. Wednesday, May 11.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly). San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly). San Francisco, California: Social Impact in Tech: Panel Discussion with LinkedIn, Lyft, and Salesforce. Kampala, Uganda: Digital Storytelling for Nonprofits Workshop.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We’ve been inspired and moved by your stories. So without further ado, meet our judges, a collection of storytelling experts who will be choosing our awardees. Awards will be announced at our gala on October 22, 2014 at SOMArts in San Francisco (you can RSVP and get your invitation here ). Vanessa Chase.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

James Nickerson , Social Media Strategist, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. ” Tips via @humbertokam : pre-package stories, let talent speak for itself, optimize for the channel and be authentic. Humberto Kam , Director, Online Engagement & Marketing, Monterey Bay Aquarium. SMOP14 panel sharing their fave.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

San Francisco, California: Mobile Apps for Change Demo Day. Las Vegas, Nevada: Online Courses (Storytelling). San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Hello digital storytellers! Our friends Eric Mason and Melanie Duve at Wix are busy helping all kinds of do-gooders create meaningful websites because they believe your home page is the most important page in your digital story. Below, lets examine a few examples of nonprofits with great stories to tell, led by exceptional home pages.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Philadelphia, PA: Crowdsourcing Change: Applying the Social Web to Some Philly Nonprofits. Portland, OR: Visual Storytelling & Growing Your Digital Media and Protecting It. Baltimore, MD: February Tech & Social Change - Social Media Analytics. Vancouver, Canada: Social Media Success with HootSuite. Wednesday, February 5.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The list includes See3 Communications '' 2013 Benchmarks for Nonprofit Video , mGive ''s recent Text Giving Study , M+R Research Lab ''s eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , and the 2013 Visual Storytelling Best Practices Guide by Resource Media , all for free! Not in San Francisco? Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The list includes See3 Communications '' 2013 Benchmarks for Nonprofit Video , mGive ''s recent Text Giving Study , M+R Research Lab ''s eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , and the 2013 Visual Storytelling Best Practices Guide by Resource Media , all for free! Not in San Francisco? Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

But with recent changes to Facebook Pages and the newsfeed algorithm that now prevents parts of your audience from seeing everything you share, nonprofits big and small are turning to Facebook ads for as little as $1 per day to ensure eyeballs and engagement. 08 CPC, and $.002 5. Knowledge is power.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 8, 2009

I started volunteering at a San Francisco based arts education organization, Streetside Stories. The program teaches autobiographical writing in Bay Area public schools using storytelling (oral, written, digital). Not only did hearing their stories help me put mine in a different perspective, it was fun!

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

How to Tell A Compelling Nonprofit Story: Part 1 (#12NTC) , Nancy Schwartz. Nonprofit storytelling tips from the pros , Debra Askanase. Why Fundraisers are Failing at Storytelling -- and What They Need to Change , Lori Jacobwith. Why Fundraisers are Failing at Storytelling -- and What They Need to Change , Lori Jacobwith.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

As I mentioned last week, I'll be speaking about blogging at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco this month. In the interview transcript below, Elizabeth talks about the conference and offers tips for writers who want to write for change. Elizabeth Pomada: Hi, I'm Elizabeth Pomada. It's been very fast.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 23, 2013

“Changing the world is like eating an elephant.” In the coming months Net2Local will also be participating in the Digital Storytelling Challenge and more social media surgeries. We’d love to bring them all to San Francisco, but that would be too expensive!) …and here’s the joke I prommised.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2011

Data and storytelling are, to quote the great American sage, Forrest Gump, “like peas in a pod”. Great maps unfold stories in successive layers of visual focus and comprehension. It's also fun to manipulate, looking at how crime changes with times of day and other features. By Larry Orman, Executive Director, GreenInfo Network.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

Tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to empower change and seek justice within the communities you serve. The Local Impact Map is a rich storytelling platform that uses mapping technology to place stories in a global context — as you can see in the picture below. Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

We wanted to share stories of that help and local support, otherwise everything would have been confounded in misery. We have changed our communication to be exclusively pandemic-related for the first six months of the year. When the world changes you want to stay relevant. Individual teachers and schools were.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

After a little hiatus, I am resuming my Solutionary Women series, profiles of women who are creating social change. This week's Solutionary woman is Viet-Ly Nguyen, a former co-worker from Streetside Stories , who I interviewed for my Big Vision Podcast last winter.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / San Diego, CA / Not available. Examine major gift planning in the context of current economic conditions, changes in donor populations and increased competition for the charitable dollar. Agents of Change Summit. Agents of Change Summit. Fundraising. Technology.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Affect is a new community event highlighting the diversity of work and design behind social change. It’ll open with candid stories about the ups and downs of working in social good and close with an afternoon of action and volunteering with local nonprofits. Convene with thought leaders in social change from around the world.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Austin, Texas: How to Make Infographics That Change the World. San Francisco, California: Positive Impact Party. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2017

I've seen a lot of exciting changes in what is possible as well as a lot of cautionary examples of websites withering from neglect. Your Website Is a Place for Stories. Ensure that your organization can generate stories and has a place to put them on the website. Each story should connect to an action.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). When Batkid saved San Francisco, the whole country watched. Checklists.

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

So I was at a university and in the early part of the pandemic, the university was hit hard by just the economic changes that were happening in the country and in our state. So we’ve now heard your personal stories and I want to start helping the people who are in the audience right now. Mimosa: Absolutely.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Namely, how to spice up an email program, tell compelling stories, show the human side of your organization, and build strong emotional connections between your audience and your issue. Better yet, use your own activists and have them say who they are, why they care, and how your campaign is helping them change the world. in Sociology.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Before I started working for myself, I worked for six years as a program director and teacher for Streetside Stories. Streetside uses written, oral and digital storytelling to teach young people in the most underfunded Bay Area public schools how to write autobiographical stories.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Social media may be changing that across the globe. In August 2011, a group that identified with Anonymous shut down San Francisco's BART public transit system's website after BART cut off all mobile phone service to prevent a projected protest. Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. .—says

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