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RIP: del.icio.us

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My early days in social media were spent immersed in tagging and social bookmarking. Marnie Webb introduced me to the NpTech Tag and a whole nonprofit tech community embraced it. My first screencast was about tagging and featured the social bookmarking service, delicious. I hope he shares it. Here’s the description.

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the bookmarking and search capabilities of web browser software. 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. I've been researching screencasting software.

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Tagging for Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing Webinar and Action Learning Exercise I'm

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I decided to use the Ethan Zuckerman advice of point don't write -- and pointed to some excellent screencasts and videos about social bookmarking. I'm thinking about doing a remix though because there is redundancy and also because I just discovered a way to download youtube videos and convert them so I can remix.

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NpTech FriendFeed Room: NpTech Punk Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Get up to speed with FriendFeed (here's the quick what, how ) (See Andy Robert's Screencasts too). account with a couple hundred bookmarks tagged Friend Feed. Join the NpTech FriendFeed Room (can't find it, leave a comment and I'll send you an invite). Collaborate Task: Louis Gray is the poweruser of FriendFeed. He has a del.icio.us

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Diigo: Turn Web Pages Into SlideShows

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Diigo announced the preview of a new application that lets you create a slide show out of your bookmarked pages. So, this is another easy to implement screencasting technique if you don't need to show details of a drop down menu. Hat Tip Jd Lasica. I haven't yet tried it, so not sure of the claim "without a hassle."

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The New Permalink: How?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the meantime, I'm going to ask Tech Support and if I learn I'll create screencast. I'd also like to know how to add the "bookmark this post in delicious" feature that Marshall is using on typepad. Wow, potential to loose an entire weekend screencasting. bookmark this. posting page. Best, Albert

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My NTC Session Planning Wikis.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Screencasting Panel. Screencasts are a great new way to answer simple how-to's and record the answers to those frequently asked questions for posterity. A recording of your , the image on your screen, and some additional elements, screencasts are perfect for explaining how-to's for your applications and other specific, tactical uses.

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