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New on SSIR: A New Tool for Digital Storytelling

Amy Sample Ward

—– I’m really excited by tools that enable digital or transmedia storytelling. I think there’s huge potential for organizations to use multiple mediums, content, and locations to help document and advocate for the change they want in their communities and around the world. Do you have a hyperlocal online network/space?

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NYU Guest Lecture: Data for Strategy Building and Storytelling

Amy Sample Ward

Data: Strategy and Storytelling. I’ve documented the community and content mapping processes before, you can use the slides above to see the process or review the blog post with instructions. You can also use these links to get the templates: Community Mapping template. Content Mapping template!

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Nonprofit Blog Writing 101: Best Practices, Tips & Tricks

Qgiv

Use your About page as a jumping-off point and go more in depth, using engaging historical photos, maps, and documents as much as you can. Her early career focused on content creation, engagement and digital storytelling work. Another great topic is the history of your organization. That’s totally natural.

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Forum One Takes Home 8 WebAwards!

Forum One

million pages of documents in the Freedmen’s Bureau archive, the largest transcription project ever undertaken by the Smithsonian. If you would like to help transcribe the remaining documents, please visit the Smithsonian Transcription Center. To date, more than 400,000 pages of records have been transcribed.

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5 Ways to Use Data Storytelling for Advocacy

Tech Soup

And data storytelling is at the forefront of such initiatives. At first thought, data and storytelling sound like an odd mix. "Data" sounds dry, while storytelling weaves narratives aimed at appealing to people's emotions. It does so by collecting sightings from social media and mapping them. Images: Silk.

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Frogloop Guest Post: 4 Tools to Help Any Nonprofit Tell Stories Online

Amy Sample Ward

As we all continue exploring the vast horizons of the internet and the social tools it offers, be sure to check out the applications that help you continue telling stories with the power of video, maps and more. And for good reason: I love tools that help make quality content and storytelling something that all of us can create.

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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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