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My Slides from the Screencasting Session and Please Vote.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are my powerpoint slides from the Screencasting Session at NTC. My favorite quote about the session was from Jason Zannon at Democracy in Action: Beth Kanter delivers herself of a tour de force on screencasting. I've heard that there will be more screencasting or at least one as this blogger notes. no more than 3.5

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Will this video editing software also do my laundry?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm in the process of preparing material for the Screencasting Session at NTC (BTW, I'm presenting with Ian Miller from C3 who is sponsoring the NTC Video Contest last call). You can create screencasts using both approaches. I think that is where the power of screencasting for nonprofits lies. Is there a way?

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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 I go search for some music for the soundtrack.).

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line. So here is my current survey of the landscape.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line. So here is my current survey of the landscape.

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Digital Storytelling: Expert Tips by J.D. Lasica

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" I subsequently joined the group of volunteers working on the project and am working on some how-tos myself, including a primer on screencasting. As I'm struggling to learn screencasting - which is telling a digital story about software - I found this article enormously useful and helped me avoid several temper tantrums!