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Third Anniversary of Screencasting: Micro Screencasting? Jing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reading Jon Udell's blog and discovered that today is the third anniversary of the term screencast! Here's a screencast to mark the date. 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.

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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 It was very liberating for me to create a screencast like this -- no storyboard, script, no retakes. from your computer to anywhere.

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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. This tip caught my eye: Use fixed width to capture and auto pan Ideally, for most situations, when creating a screencast it is best to use a fixed region (640 wide by 480 high) and set the screen recording to autopan. Very sparingly.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Add Beth's Blog: Screencasts to your page. High bandwidth version on screencast.com Screencast Wiki. I'm pleased to announce that the second screencast is now available. Now comes the reflection on the process, the craft of screencasting. about his editing process for a screencast that uses this interview technique.

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Recap: Community Organizing Tools from the Experts

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Additional resources: Mail merge with Google Drive and MailChimp DocumentMerge Text expansion utilities: We spend much of our days typing the same thing over and over, but a text expander app can remove the drudgery from your life and make you appear to be the fastest typist ever Mac: TextExpander ( A Comprehensive Guide to TextExpander ) Windows: (..)

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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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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.