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Jon Udell Answers My Screencast Question!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" A long-delayed response to Beth Kanter's Screencasting Question " let alone get a detailed and informative answer to a screencasting question.! About a month ago, I started to experiment with how to do the "conversational" screencast that is Jon's signature. So, I blogged it. Unfortunately, I can???t

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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. It is very easy to use. You can capture and narrate in snap. Yet to be created).

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are lots and lots of bookmarkets around, some good, some bad, and some designed to work specifically with Web2.0 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. Here's the script.

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Video Blogging in Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It took me a long time because I also made a series of screencasts using jing. It was actually quite liberating not to be carefully scripted and staged. It offers very simple features and the interface is well designed. I should do that more often. I always like to start with the why. That's not gonna work.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you've been following my widgets category , you know that I'm working on a screencast and have been researching and playing with widgets. For the script, before jumping into the how-to of widgets, the screencast will give some context, of course. So, perhaps widgets should be designed to reach first-timers or new readers.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months.