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Go Around the Globe with #Storymakers2014

Tech Soup

Are you ready to join a global, Storytelling conversation on Twitter at #Storymakers2014 spanning the globe from India, Libya, Kenya across Europe, Canada and the United States. Topic: Mobile tools and platforms for telling your story. Topic: What sort of stories should nonprofits tell. Storymakers2014 is going around the world!

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

Libya, Djibouti and Jordan have also granted restricted access to micro data to selected individuals and organizations. He says that organizations must understand what stories they want to tell with their data before gathering data sets. Some examples of NGOs using data visualization to tell important stories are also given.

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Events Roundup: NetSquared Loves You this February

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Tripoli, Libya: NetSquared Tripoli Meetup. Victoria, Canada: The Art of Transmedia Storytelling: Creating Story Worlds Across Platforms. Warsaw, Poland: e-volunteering. Washington, DC Developing a Holistic Mobile Strategy. Wednesday, January 29. Manchester, United Kingdom: CiviCRM meetup. Thursday, January 30. Tuesday, Feburary 4.

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How Text Messaging Has Revolutionized Giving

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They adopted their SMS campaign in order to reach their 15,000 members quickly to respond to a crisis in Libya. Text messaging allows organizations to reach members quickly and social media allows them to keep their members’ interest by sharing stories, photos and videos.

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Why Social Movements Need Stories

Tech Soup

That’s why stories are important, especially if our goal is to build a social movement: stories help us understand and relate to each other. These stories were reminders of the otherwise normal lives experienced by demonstrators on the other end of our WiFi connections. Simple Storytelling Solutions and the Arab Spring.

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The 5 Best Social Impact Games of 2010

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And even though this game was released a few months ago, the relevance of promoting non-violent revolution is more apparent than ever with the events in Tunisia, Egypt or Libya. # The story was tied into a comic book narrative and like Interro-bang, players were encourage to share their exploits via social media.

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