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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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ScreenSteps: Simple documentation

Judi Sohn

I took screenshots with Skitch , recorded movies with Jing. The problem is that things change. They have a hosted version , but at a minimum of $20/month it's more than I want to spend now compared to a one-time software license purchase. Took forever. And when they do I'd have to redo/update the documentation.

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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. The only problem is that your remixed video takes forever to get posted on YouTube. It was actually quite liberating not to be carefully scripted and staged. I should do that more often. I always like to start with the why. That's not gonna work.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

I know my co-workers cringed and ran every time another email from me began with "Try this." Focus on solving problems, not adapting to solutions. Instead, I solve a problem one step at a time. I experimented with video, using Jing to produce screencasts. I don't write a manual no one will actually read.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

I know my co-workers cringed and ran every time another email from me began with "Try this." Focus on solving problems, not adapting to solutions. Instead, I solve a problem one step at a time. I experimented with video, using Jing to produce screencasts. I don't write a manual no one will actually read.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Nonprofits Lead Fortune 500 in Social Web Adoption, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In response to the Facebook flip, Doc Searles, in this post and a follow-up argues that we should "stop petitioning Facebook and Google to solve our problems for us." " and that it's "time to comeup with some new rules of engagement - ones that work for us as well as them." Lee LeFever as done it again.

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