Last night, Techsoup held the Digital Storytelling Challenge Awards Party at their headquarters in San Francisco. They screened highlights from the more than 100 video, image, and GoldMail submissions and celebrated the great work nonprofits and libraries are doing to tell their unique and important stories. These stories help convey the work they do, advance their missions, and highlight the communities they're working within by giving a visual (and sometimes audio) story to help supporters connect with their mission and values.

If you missed the party, here's the full line up of the awardees:

* First Place: Kramden in 60 sec by the Kramden Institute awarded a Flip Video camera.

* Second Place: Dragonfly Forest by Dragonfly Forest awarded Adobe Audition software and a Flickr Pro account

* Third Place: Tabor Kalaka 2009 by The Community Foundation of Odorheiu Secuiesc awarded Adobe Production software.

* Fourth Place: 30 Ways to Create Peace by Legacy International/Global Youth Village awarded a Goldmail Synergy account.

Honorable Mentions were awarded a Philips MP3 player:

* MBYC Youtube edition by Mojave Basin Youth Corps

* Faith in Practice TSDigs by Faith In Practice

* Bridges Digital Storytelling by Bridges for Women

Techsoup expressed thanks to all of the organizations and libraries who took part in the challenge by sharing their digital stories and they added a special thanks to their partners who supported the whole series of digital storytelling events and resources throughout the month.

Learn more about the full series of resources here and join Techsoup in recognizing the support of these organizations in making it possible to highlight amazing digital stories from social benefit workers around the world:

Adobe
BAVC
Center for Digital Storytelling
Flickr
Flip Video
GoldMail
Lights. Camera. Help.
ReadyTalk
That's Not Cool
See 3 Communications
Streetside Stories
WITNESS
Youth Radio
YouTube
Amoration (Second Life producer)

Thanks to the many staff and volunteers at TechSoup, the full Digital Storytelling Online Event was quite a success!