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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 It was very liberating for me to create a screencast like this -- no storyboard, script, no retakes. from your computer to anywhere.

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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. I should do that more often. I always like to start with the why. right now two reasons: Sometimes pictures and people's voices are a better way to tell a story than text alone.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you're making a screencast, and you end up having a vertical monopoly on the process (you write the script, do the filming, operate the mouse, do the editing, and produce it), you need to become a super learner. One my failures was an attempt to get the interviewees to use Jing to answer my interview questions.