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JANUARY 26, 2011

The second annual TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge is coming up on January 31 st. Create a digital story (60 seconds or less video or 5-panel picture story) that conveys your nonprofit’s mission and work in a compelling and creative way. Need some tips to create your digital story?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2016

A compelling story makes a video stick with its audience, but if it looks poorly made, nobody's going to watch it. So as you're plotting out your next great digital story, make equipment-planning and budgeting part of the process. Most of the modern smartphones' cameras can shoot high-resolution video.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Week three of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays in May focused on use of video for nonprofits and libraries. A topic covered in its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , video can be a powerful tool for. While video is an effective medium, the perceived costs of equipment and editing tools coupled with the question of what will.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

Submissions for the 2012 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge have closed, but the fun has just begun! While our community is busy from March 6 – 12 picking their favorites for the Audience Choice Awards , our panel of expert judges will be selecting the top digital stories from among hundreds of entries. As the Dean of Story.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Mark your calendars for TechSoup Global's Digital Storytelling Online Event ! The Digital Storytelling Online Event discussions will occur in the TechSoup forums with expert hosts from the webinars. Your organization has a story to tell. But it doesn’t have to be a bland, corporate-sounding video or canned sound bite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Note from Beth: After you read this guest post, you’ll have lots of great tips for your nonprofit’s video. And don’t forget, The 5th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards is now open for submissions from members of the YouTube Nonprofit Program until March 2nd. The HD DSLR video revolution is here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2016

" Based on short summary text before the start of the story, you already know that Grace was assaulted. You have three sentences or fewer to catch your reader's attention and convince them your story is worth reading before they move on to something else. You need to think about it the same way when writing your story.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The second webinar of the TSDigs event series focused on video production. The webinar, Capturing Your Story on Camera , featured David J. Capture Video the Way the Pros Do. Neff began by advising organizations to approach capturing video much as a professional director would. Neff , co-founder and CEO of Lights.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The second webinar of the TSDigs event series focused on video production. The webinar, Capturing Your Story on Camera , featured David J. Neff began by advising organizations to approach capturing video much as a professional director would. The same principles that make a good movie also make a good nonprofit video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

” A wink and nod to a famous novel and movie in Brasil about a women with two husbands named Marcleo. Stories are social. The importance of digital reputation management – stories last forever and can spread quickly. Everyone loves a good story. The audience laughed. Content is king.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

When I think of story telling, I think of books. The art of storytelling though, and documenting an event or a slice of time is, of course, not restricted to bound pages. Stories surround us on the radio, in newspapers, in our music boxes, in short web videos and on large screens in movie theatres.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The final installment of TechSoup’s Digital Storytelling Challenge webinar series covered video post-production and editing. Arguably, one of the more challenging aspects of digital storytelling required a slight departure from past webinars. The version of the story you edit and produce is most important version.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

TechSoup’s digital storytelling challenge is open between now and September 26, 2014. Submit your digital video, five photographs, or a super-short story. Looking for inspiration for your digital story? They are holding digital storytelling events all month! Naples, FL: Digital Storytelling Workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

I've been away from making media for a little bit and so it is nice to come back to it with a little perspective on how cameras and video editing have gotten so much easier. I made a movie about another interesting piece of technology that is on my desk called The Watt Stopper. For example, storytelling. FLIP Camera.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

No matter what outlet you think might suit your target audience best, here are two tips that can help you work with the media to recruit volunteers: Pitch a story. Newspapers, magazines, and blogs focus on storytelling. Frame your need for volunteers as a story that reporters or bloggers can tell and share with their audiences.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Nonprofits have been using videos to fundraise for a long time now. Did you know that 57% of people who watch a nonprofit video go on to give? Which is why it’s important to create Giving Tuesday videos. Get started on your Giving Tuesday videos by following the tips below. What’s the video’s purpose? Storyboard.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

Two of the articles that most influenced me were written by Don Carson, Disney imagineer turned video game designer, about "environmental storytelling." (You The unifying story is espionage, and the game-like question: “Do you have what it takes to be a spy?” Orient People to the Unifying Story or Theme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

I just love this video introduction from the good folks from Freedom for IP. Marnie Webb tagged " Stories for Change ," an online community of digital storytellers. A Confusing Love Story. Not a ten in these stories, but one post came from NTEN which rhymes with ten. The NpTech Summary. Met Citizen 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

Click here to play video. Because there are only two audio tracks and the volume control adjusts the audio on both for the entire movie, this was hard to do. (I With moviemaker, it is a pain to move around the little bits of audio, pictures and video in the timeline without the program crashing or completely messing things up.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

If you're thinking about trying out TechSoup's 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge by making a 90 second video about your charitable work, uploading it to YouTube, and sending the link to us, you might find Adobe Story Free useful. Once inside the Adobe Story Free online application I found it easy to use.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

They counteract this by telling the stories of people both past and present who have connections with the American Red Cross. Don’t be afraid to share people’s stories because it will make your organization feel a lot more friendly and open. They’ve been mentioned in television shows and movies since their conception.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2007

Similarly, in a video game, you are controlled by the time of the game—the time you have until your energy bar goes to zero or all the aliens are killed. If a video game tells you a bomb will go off in 30 minutes unless you pass the level, it energizes you. Tags: storytelling game. Where do you cast your vote?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

Nonprofits are familiar with writing blog posts that provide program updates, tell success stories, comment on breaking news and current affairs, and promote calls to action. The rise of mobile and social media has profoundly altered how journalists frame and format their stories, and the same is true for nonprofit bloggers.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

2) Storytelling: The iPad offers a new format for one-on-one sharing of compelling interactive stories. Showing a lawmaker a photo slideshow, short video, animation, or visualization will feel more natural on a panel than on a laptop. It's a great way to create better understanding across language and cultural barriers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Branding themselves as the “Play” button for the Web, Wibbitz automatically converts text-based posts and articles into engaging, interactive videos so your supporters “never have to read again.” Vinepeek gives you a glimpse of Vine’s potential for visual storytelling. Wibbitz :: wibbitz.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

The arts are a wonderful way to make a difference in the world because they are fun, engaging, and oftentimes help you to tell stories, all key elements to attracting and keeping people involved in a cause. Free Range is known for being the most successful cause-based viral movie makers ever. Great question!

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

They can be presented as PDFs, videos, interactive web pages, online booklets, or in other unique formats. Include photos or videos to show what your efforts looked like. They value and appreciate a book-style annual report with detailed stories, infographics, and charts. Home movie quality just won’t cut it.

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