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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. Storytelling skills are also a prerequisite to successful advocacy. Take Part in the Digital Storytelling Challenge! Learn more. What Can You Do?

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Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Storytelling Recap

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The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Campaign. kicked off with a special edition of Nonprofits Live on the topic of collaborative storytelling. Collaborative storytelling refers to working with a team, sometimes distributed, to produce video. A production grid outlines: What will happen in a video from moment to moment.

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5 Tips to Effectively Tell your Story with Video

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Start with drawing up a simple storyboard. Your storyboard can help you come up with a list of scenes, camera shots, and props you will need. Atomic Training is proud to be a part of this year's Digital Storytelling Challenge. storytelling tsdigs digital storytelling Atomic Training tsatomictraining'

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Upcoming Webinar December 12: Sowing Stories from Your Community - Video Pre-Production

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for storyboarding and sometimes scripts, to what kinds of equipment are. Event Online Seminar video webinars tsdigs digital storytelling tsevent' Eastern) to hear from our friends at Lights.Camera.Help as we walk through some of those.

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Build Your Storymaking Skills with Free Events and Webinars

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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. Looking for inspiration or hands-on help with your digital storytelling? Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories.

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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. The other big news in digital storytelling apps is that Instagram now supports videos in addition to photos. But don't write Montaj off; the app packs some powerful storytelling tools.

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In Search of Bachelors and Philanthropy in Rural Alaska and Video Story Capture Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If the latter, I have a storyboard in my head and edit as I go. While it is intended for storytelling with powerpoint, I think the frameworks and templates she offers for narrative arcs are very valuable. Storytelling with social media, of course, is more than you and your subject with a camera. Sharing the Story.

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