Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Third Anniversary of Screencasting: Micro Screencasting? Jing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He reflects on the genre and how people are using it and the significance of jing from Tech Smith, a screencasting application that makes it very easy for anyone to do a screencast. I just whipped out Jing and recorded my testing, verbalizing my thoughts or doing an adhoc think out loud process ???

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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. Here's the description: The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video???from Update about embedding from Laura Whitehead : Jing saves as an SWF, which is easily embedable using something called the SWF object.

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A JingProject Sticker for My Laptop

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I met Betsy Weber, TechSmith Evangelist, at SXSW and she gave me a Jing Project sticker for my laptop! Thanks Betsy.

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Another Cambodian Video Blogger. Yeah!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, I made a quick screencast with jing project to illustrate the steps. 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. I also suggest to Vutha that he do the following: Post the video (use the word press setting - see flickr).

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Quick Tips for Improving Screencasts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I'm on the topic of screencasts, I was so pleased to discover that the Jing Project has a blog loaded with lots of good tips. (I also go cast a vote for Sue's blog over at Edublog ) That lead to this post.

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Video Blogging in Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It took me a long time because I also made a series of screencasts using jing. I have spent almost all day today testing different ways to compress and host video posts that might work where the Internet access is slow or if you are video blogging from an Internet cafe and the computer does not have windows movie maker on it.

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NTEN and SalesForce Screencast: Learnings About the Interview/Documentary Approach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One my failures was an attempt to get the interviewees to use Jing to answer my interview questions. Then, attempt to screencapture the jing recording or transform the.swf file into.wmv or.avi and pull into Camtasia. It didn't work for both technical and human reasons.