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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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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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New Screencast: Google AdWords and SalesForce Integration

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NTEN and SalesForce.Com Foundation sponsored my latest screencast called "Leveraging New Audiences for Nonprofits" (using GoogleAdWords and SalesForce Integration). And, now for some reflections on the screencasting process. I haven't seen many screencasts. I've add some of those to the screencasting primer.

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My Slides from the Screencasting Session and Please Vote.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are my powerpoint slides from the Screencasting Session at NTC. My favorite quote about the session was from Jason Zannon at Democracy in Action: Beth Kanter delivers herself of a tour de force on screencasting. I've heard that there will be more screencasting or at least one as this blogger notes. no more than 3.5

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The content that I cover in the screencast, btw, is a quick peek at two Facebook apps.

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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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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Surfing a tag stream (another word for a collection of content found in one screen using a tag) can also help you discover other people, s, and ideas. 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.