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Resources to Sharpen Your Technology Training Skills

Tech Soup

Thankfully, there are many free or inexpensive training programs that can help you polish your technology skills. TechSoup's Tech Training for Nonprofits and Libraries. Learn how to implement and conduct effective tech training for your nonprofit or library staff! Register now for online training.

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Need Some Inspiration To Video Blog? Look no further.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Screen capture of video blog I was an early adopter of video blogging and screencasting. I really miss making videos and screencasts. For inspiration, I had to look no further than the " On the Road: Tanzania ," a video blog from the UN World Food Programme. Video Guides for Nonprofits. FLIP Camera.

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Camtasia and the Chipmunks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Christine was using some of the wonderful how-to videos on the TechSmith site (and I also think my screencasting primer too). I'm remembering back to some trainings I had to do for arts educators in the mid-1990s and had to teach some software. This is an issue that I have struggled with as a technology trainer for the past 15 years.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been away from making media for a little bit and so it is nice to come back to it with a little perspective on how cameras and video editing have gotten so much easier. It automatically uploads to Youtube or other service or emails the video. . Flip Video Camera : These are easy to use, inexpensive cameras with a built-USB port.

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Converting GoToMeeting recording to something you can actually use

Judi Sohn

You can't post the file to any web service or play it back on a Mac.unless you specifically go to in to preferences before the recording begins and toggle a little button which converts the final file into a more standard video file. So on to the second application, Any Video Converter. We were fortunate to have him join us.

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Using Web Conferencing Software To Create A Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does this express the tension between having the culture of learning and the culture of training! But wait a minute, what if I could create a screencast out of a screensharing session or using a web conference system like Ready/Talk that offers video/audio recording? Does he edit in Camtasia? What did I learn?

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Learning Center at OurMedia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was excited about this because prior to NCDD Conference and the trainings I did, I put together some quick and dirty " cheat sheets " on Web2.0 I would love to see more instructional videos as well. However, I can only get as far as the free evaluation copy of captivate or camtasia allows.