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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The jing project is their first experiment in the Mac platform. Here's the description: The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video???from You can upload to their host or you can download a.swf file. TechSmith is the maker of my favorite apps, Camtasia and SnagIt.

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Video Blogging in Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have spent almost all day today testing different ways to compress and host video posts that might work where the Internet access is slow or if you are video blogging from an Internet cafe and the computer does not have windows movie maker on it. It took me a long time because I also made a series of screencasts using jing.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I made a few tests to see how it might work I also got some advice from Jon Udell. 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.