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Even More Ways to Tell Your Story with Your Smartphone

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TechSoup's Ale Bezdikian tested out Vine during TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Contest. Price: Free Pros: Great storyboarding tools; Can import clips from camera roll (rather than internal app camera) Cons: Videos can only be five seconds. Get inspired and check out how five nonprofits are using Instagram video.

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Join Our 2016 Digital Storytelling Challenge!

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For the sixth year, TechSoup's annual challenge will help nonprofits learn how to increase their storytelling skills for fundraising and advocacy purposes. We also have a contest in which we're giving away US$7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera. May 31, 2016 — Contest closes. Learn more. What Can You Do?

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AFP ICON 2023 Recap

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In order for your nonprofit to scale and succeed, you must understand your data, and often the best outcomes come from challenges within the data. Storyboarding can help you understand the full picture of what you want to show and what the most important aspect is to focus on.” “Map out the story you need to tell.

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Build Your Storymaking Skills with Free Events and Webinars

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We also have a contest in which we're giving away US$7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera (but don't be afraid to start with the cell phone in your pocket!). San Francisco, California: Nonprofits and Storytelling: How to Create Social Impact, First-Person Stories. Columbus, Ohio: Nonprofit IT Forum: Assistive Technology.

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My Slides from the Screencasting Session and Please Vote.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is quite possible that Beth is some manner of prototypical superhuman android sent from the future to bring nonprofit tech. minute videos, map out the screencast before you actually film it, create a storyboard, write a script, use music. I hope to see more nonprofit technology presentations in there. no more than 3.5

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Will this video editing software also do my laundry?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm in the process of preparing material for the Screencasting Session at NTC (BTW, I'm presenting with Ian Miller from C3 who is sponsoring the NTC Video Contest last call). I think that is where the power of screencasting for nonprofits lies. After thinking about this for a while, I boiled it down to two metaphors.