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Screencast of the Week: Foxy Tunes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm obsessing about screencasts - I'm learning, creating, making mistakes, and even beginning to like this rabbit I jumped down. I need to do the same for screencasts. So, I've decided to start a weekly post "Screencast of the Week" using the tag "scotw" This screencast comes from FoxyTunes.

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Learning Journal: Experimenting With Adding Music to Web Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The next technique that I am exploring in my screencasting/videocasting skill set is the addition of music. My (incorrect) perception that non-copyrighted music is crap. I thought that any non-copyrighted music might be hopelessly amateur. Are there other sources for music with flexible copyright license?

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Happy Halloween from the Halloween Video Blog Festival

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I created the screencast based on a very quick review in YouTube. So, for Halloween, I went searching on youtube for some Halloween videos and all I saw what looked copyrighted material and some crap. He uses some music that a group has authorized for remix - yet another idea for music that you can use without breaking copyright laws.

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Amy Gahran's Advice for Finding Free To Use Flickr Photos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I did a screencast on this topic back in September , but I wish I had Amy Gahran's advice on the topic. I'm going to quote them here: Is the subject of the photo copyrighted? She tells you how to do the search, gives you an example, and shares some pitfalls to avoid. Does the Flickr user really have rights to the image?

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you've been following my widgets category , you know that I'm working on a screencast and have been researching and playing with widgets. For the script, before jumping into the how-to of widgets, the screencast will give some context, of course. Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set.

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Web Video for Social Benefit Sector: Some learnings.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was up too late editing a screencast to do a content analysis yesterday, instead I found a great thread on Nonprofits and Vlogging over at Social Edge facilitated by Patrick O'Heffernan. YouTube keeps the copyright, some others don't. The newswires were filled with stories about Google/YouTube Marriage yesterday.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Finally, here's a screencast on strategic blog commenting, although a lot of the advice is mostly for those who already have a blog, much can be learned. Here's a screencast to show you how. " Resources: Beth's Tagging Screencast. account and learn the basics or watch this screencast. the work of copyright holders.

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