Evonne Heyning is an Interactive Producer with TechSoup.

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries.

Our ability to collaborate effectively in the cloud and create meaningful media together is quickly evolving as more nonprofits expand their borders.

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox, Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo, Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation.

On February 8, Nonprofits Live  will explore how to collaborate on video stories across borders and office boundaries. We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place, and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language.

Our guests will talk about consistency, production quality, distribution tips and ways to work effectively together to achieve the greatest impact with your nonprofit stories.

This special digital storytelling episode of Nonprofits Live will include secrets from the pros for nonprofits submitting photo and video stories to the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge in February. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts!

Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video

Windy Borman - Filmmaker & Strategist  

 Windy brings over a decade of professional experience in film, video, event planning, theater, and the nonprofit sector to D.V.A. Productions. As an independent filmmaker, Windy has produced and directed promotional videos, films, and documentaries, including “The Tillamook Burn” (2003), “The ‘D’ Word: Understanding Dyslexia” (Sundance 2012), and “The Eyes of Thailand” (2012).

She is an experienced Director, Producer, Researcher, Screenwriter and Social Media Marketing Strategist with field and studio experience on large- and small-scale productions in the United States, England, Ghana, Thailand and Laos. Windy founded D.V.A. Productions in 2006 to produce dramatic, engaging, life-changing documentaries, films and media in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. Windy currently serves on the Advisory Board for Bay Area Women in Film and Media (BAWIFM).

David Evan Harris - Global Lives  

David Evan Harris is Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project and Research Director at the Institute for the Future. David is a cross-disciplinary mediamaker, working at the intersection of art, activism, and academic inquiry on the politically charged questions surrounding globalization and social justice.

His forthcoming book, Você Vai me Servir ("You Will Serve Me," Annablume Publishers, São Paulo, 2012) is a comparative ethnographic study of relationships between domestic workers and their employers in Brazil and the US. In Brazil, David wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV.

His writings and photographs have been published in print and online with the BBC,Guardian, Adbusters, the Sarai Reader, Glimpse Magazine, Next American City, Focus on the Global South, Alternet, and Grist. He has spoken publicly about his work to audiences at the Smithsonian, UC Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC Santa Cruz, the British Museum, Apple, Google, Adobe, and numerous other conferences and public events around the world.

Thomas Grasty - Stroome  

Driven by a desire to make a game-changing difference in how people consume content, Tom comfortably resides at the junction where media and technology collide. A recognized thought leader in the field of collaborative media, Tom was awarded a Knight 2010 News Challenge grant for Stroome, a collaborative video editing and publishing platform designed to simplify the production of user generated video content.

He was recently named an “Innovator to Watch” by the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation. A regular contributor to PBS MediaShift Idea Lab, Tom also blogs for the Huffington Post.

Aaron Bramley - Lights Camera Help 

Aaron Bramley is the Co-founder and Director of Communication/Education for Lights. Camera. Help. In this role, he's responsible conceptualizing the organization’s vision and working to see it through.

He focuses on communication, collaboration, nonprofits, video, social media, and the bleeding edge technology behind these things. He learns, he teaches, he shares and he works to make the world, or at least a small part of it, a better place. Follow @aaronMSB at @lightscamerahelp.

RSVP today to join this event on February 8 at 11 a.m. Pacific time and participate through Watchitoo with Twitter, Facebook, and social channels.

Please spread the word about the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge and enter your photo stories or videos in February!