Do you have a story to tell? The Center for Digital Storytelling wants to help you share it as a video-narrative combining still and moving images, first-person narration, sounds and music.

The DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards, from See3, in partnership with YouTube, are back again for the 5th year! The Awards are open for submissions from members of the YouTube Nonprofit Program until March 2nd.

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:

Many of you have probably already heard about TechSoup’s Digital Storytelling Event and tomorrow night they’re rolling down the red carpet for the finale!

Learn more and check out the great digital stories!

Wondering what fellow CTC VISTA Jessica McCoy and I have been collaborating on since September? Check out the launch of a new online project, StoriesForChange.net, sponsored by both of our host organizations!

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San Francisco, CA

Wishing you were able to come to the San Francisco Net Tuesday last month and hear about vlogging and digital storytelling for nonprofits? No problem. Now you can listen to an interview with Eddie Codel and Irina Slutsky, the creators of Geek Entertainment TV, and with Amy Hill, Community Projects Director of the Center for Digital Storytelling, as well as a recording of Amy's presentation, on the NetSquared podcast.  Big thanks to David Collin, our Net Tuesday podcaster, for recording the interviews and presentation, and to The Hat Factory for hosting the event in their awesome space.

Request for Proposals (RFP): One-Year Contract for Website Design and Development for the URL www.StoriesForChange.net

Deadline for Proposals: Friday at 5:00 PM EST, November 17, 2006  

At the Gathering of Community Digital Storytellers (see blog at http://communitydigitalstorytellers.blogspot.com/) in June of 2006, more than forty digital storytelling facilitators from a wide range of communities across the country came together at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Participants connected with one another; and shared teaching methods, organizing strategies, and approaches to distribution. Participants also began to identify ways to form collaborative efforts to take this important work to the next level of impact. This event was sponsored by MassIMPACT, Creative Narrations, and the Center for Digital Storytelling.