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Jon Udell Answers My Screencast Question!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" A long-delayed response to Beth Kanter's Screencasting Question " let alone get a detailed and informative answer to a screencasting question.! About a month ago, I started to experiment with how to do the "conversational" screencast that is Jon's signature. So, I blogged it. Unfortunately, I can???t

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The jing project is their first experiment in the Mac platform. It was very liberating for me to create a screencast like this -- no storyboard, script, no retakes. I'm working on a screencast and it might be excellent way to do research or share implicit geek shoudlder-to-shoulder knowledge across the Internet.

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Using Web Conferencing Software To Create A Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm working on a screencast (Google Analytics) and I'm not an expert in using the software. Do you stick to your comfort zone and only make screencasts on the topics that you know like the back of your hand or do you stretch and venture into a topic or software that is not only new territory but may be difficult to learn?

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I thought this might be a good experiment for my screencasting sandbox. So, here's my first incredibly sloppy and choppy screencast of how to use this neat little bookmarklet. understanding screencasting software and creative process, like vlogging, is a time sink. Here's the script. I hope you get a good laugh.

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

View the Screencast here. As a follow up to last week's screencast on how to use flickr as a visual resource, here is a post about how to share your wonderfully visual powerpoints with others via your blog or flickr. After seeing Nancy White's experiment and discovering Amit Agarwal's excellent instructions for. My work flow.

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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. What are a few good examples and how easy are they to install?

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.) It is also cross platform.