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Compression Confessions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I conceptualized the story, shot the clip with my cheap digital camera with one hand, and copied the one minute clip to my hard drive. I found a few recipes for compression, although not a windows/quicktime pro one. It compressed the file down to 5.7 It was in avi format was about 118 MB. Crap, I need to make it smaller!

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The instructions from Digital Inspiration were fantastic, but I made a few newbie mistakes that took me more time and were a little frustrating: 1.) And, now I'm not sure where my upload bombs of png files were due to that problem or not). Since I already invested a bit of time, I figured what the hell, I'll make a screencast.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I mentioned that I was able to track only the last 1500; he replied and said that their tool actually archives all hashtagged tweets, which he was able to send me as a data file, which is how I got the 1874 total. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. A Nice After the Conference Idea.