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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One thing I learned just two weeks ago from a phone call to the TechSmith tech support guy is that the.wmv files from Ready/Talk can be run through microsoft media encoder - so they could be pulled into Camtasia and edited. However, the idea of editing a long file in Camtasia does not sound appealing to me.).

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Screencasting (and the software) has three functions: storyboarding, production, editing. Next I'm going to try the free trial of Camtasia (Udell uses that one) and go back to fooling with Camstudio (the free open source tool). Some immediate reflections on screencasting while it is fresh in my head. and needed a small project.

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TechSmith is the maker of my favorite apps, Camtasia and SnagIt. It was very liberating for me to create a screencast like this -- no storyboard, script, no retakes. Then I noticed that Andrew Parker had just tweeted it. (I I mention Andrew because he is seeing if there any Twitter t-shirts that I can take to Cambodia.

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