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Storytelling, Design, and Communicating With Your Audience

NTEN

When pie charts about pie detract from your story: how to hold content as the star and design as the back-up singer. The fundamentals of designing for storytelling in tech products can be woven into the overall strategy of nonprofit organizations. design Social Media storytelling' Samihah Azim. Product Design Manager.

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TechSoup's Top 10 Tech Topics of 2016

Tech Soup

TechSoup covered tech topics this year from Microsoft Excel to working in the cloud. These were the top 10 TechSoup tech topics of 2016 (say that 10 times fast). Our Digital Storytelling Challenge. Check out our resources on great nonprofit storytelling and learn more. You told us what you wanted to know, and we listened.

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Your Top 10 Tech Topics

Tech Soup

Whether you're looking for basic tech training, hard-core IT training, or nonprofit-specific training, our list of nonprofit tech training resources has you covered. Our Storymakers campaign offered storytelling how-to webinars and events, culminating in a contest to identify the very best nonprofit videos.

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Storytelling for Community with Data Visualization: CommBuild Tweet Chat Recap

Tech Soup

The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge partnered with the first CommBuild tweet chat of April to look at storytelling for communities. More specifically, the CommBuild tweet chat was about using data visualization for community storytelling. Charts, graphs, or maps are a common and practical way to relay information.

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

Tech Soup

We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech.

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Tools to Tell Your Digital Story Available Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge is back and there are some great prizes in store for organizations with the most creative, compelling, and entertaining stories. If you’ve never created a digital story with a distributed team, then read this recap to learn how some well-known nonprofit storytellers do it.

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Moving from Story to Narrative

Tech Soup

Although storytelling has become quite the buzzword, do you understand how it fits into your narrative? Stories are for others to witness and are mainly about the storyteller. Your Narrative and Digital Storytelling. Narratives lend themselves to transmedia storytelling, so use different tools like video and photography.

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