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Screencast: Call for Blog Actors!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm researching for a screencast that I will shoot over the next few weeks on the topic of widgets that can be used for your blog to enable conversation or support nonprofit programs. I'm looking for widgets that can easily add any of the following features: Integrating calendar or events info on your blog. mail on your blog.

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Quick Tips for Improving Screencasts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am so thrilled that Michele Martin has started screencasting because I'm sure I'll learn something. In the comments, Sue Waters ( who was nominated for a Best Blog at Edublog ) points to some tips she wrote on her excellent blog in response to Michele's query. I monitor topics as well as my ego (my name, my blog url).

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Need Some Inspiration To Video Blog? Look no further.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Screen capture of video blog I was an early adopter of video blogging and screencasting. I really miss making videos and screencasts. For inspiration, I had to look no further than the " On the Road: Tanzania ," a video blog from the UN World Food Programme. Tags: screencast vlog. FLIP Camera.

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Another Cambodian Video Blogger. Yeah!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click To Play Earlier today I posted about discovering some new photo blogs, podcasts, and videos from Cambodian Bloggers. Vuthasurf left me a comment that he created a video clip, uploaded to blip.tv, but was having trouble getting the video to display in his word press blog. Any other video bloggers want to offer some advice?

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The very calm Preetamrai , the Southeast Asian Editor for Global Voices who is also attending and leading a workshop at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit told me about his very cool new app from Techsmith, JingProject. It was very liberating for me to create a screencast like this -- no storyboard, script, no retakes. Yet to be created).

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The Top (insert type) Bloggers Lists

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am waiting for a couple of videos to be available on YouTube so I can play with the remixer on TestTube and finish the Cambodia Video Blogging Workshop materials and screencast. Seems like the "top bloggers lists" or "the best of XYZ blogs" lists are circulating.

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My Slides from the Screencasting Session and Please Vote.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are my powerpoint slides from the Screencasting Session at NTC. My favorite quote about the session was from Jason Zannon at Democracy in Action: Beth Kanter delivers herself of a tour de force on screencasting. I've heard that there will be more screencasting or at least one as this blogger notes. no more than 3.5