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Resources to Sharpen Your Technology Training Skills

Tech Soup

Technology trainers: you're superheroes, but not super human! When you work at a nonprofit or public library, it might feel like you constantly need to learn new skills to stay on top of emerging technology and adoption. But it's nearly impossible to know everything about every type of technology.

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Camtasia and the Chipmunks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is an issue that I have struggled with as a technology trainer for the past 15 years. She comments: The are limitations of e-learning that focus on telling me how things should work rather than how to think it through when they don???t. What I used to do was show the how things should work method first.

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Save on Thousands of Products with JourneyEd.com for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup

JourneyEd.com products come from more than 200 vendors and include products like Camtasia, virtualization software from VMware, and more. You can use discounted products from JourneyEd.com to save on technology costs for those products. Lock 'n' Charge Technologies. Camtasia Studio 8. How Does It Work? Kensington.

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What's a Watt Stopper? My First FLIP Camera Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I made a movie about another interesting piece of technology that is on my desk called The Watt Stopper. I am also fooling around with Camtasia Studio to see what the more advanced editing features are. So, this is one of items and I'm getting a chance to explore. These would be an excellent tool for on-site documentation. .

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Need Some Inspiration To Video Blog? Look no further.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are using FLIP Cameras and Camtasia editing software to product a series of videos of their deep field work in Africa. If your nonprofit is exploring the use of the video to tell its story, the technology has gotten so much easier and the cameras a lot less expensive. The camera comes with some editing software.

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Using Web Conferencing Software To Create A Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What I really like about screencasting is that it has helped me learn about software and technology. Does he edit in Camtasia? Ready/Talk outputs the file into.swf format which can't be brought into Camtasia for editing. Option 1: Record the.swf playback file using Camtasia after the call.

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The importance of professional development in the nonprofit sector

ASU Lodestar Center

While working in the for-profit sector I had access to the latest technology, studies, and methods to develop professional development courses for organizations such as Meritus University, University of Phoenix and Lockheed Martin. All NMI certificate courses will be offered online starting in March, 2013.