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ScreenSteps: Simple documentation

Judi Sohn

I took screenshots with Skitch , recorded movies with Jing. After playing with all the options, I ultimately decided to export the files to HTML, upload online via FTP and serve in a Salesforce custom web tab aptly named "How Do I?" and I tell them. Took forever. The problem is that things change.

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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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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

I experimented with video, using Jing to produce screencasts. With Screen Steps, I can easily edit the file to replace an image or rewrite a step. If someone prefers to create a Word file rather than a Google Doc, that's fine. If they'd rather email a file than collaborate online, that's fine too.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

I experimented with video, using Jing to produce screencasts. With Screen Steps, I can easily edit the file to replace an image or rewrite a step. If someone prefers to create a Word file rather than a Google Doc, that's fine. If they'd rather email a file than collaborate online, that's fine too.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. However, the idea of editing a long file in Camtasia does not sound appealing to me.).

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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. I've included some tips for getting good clips in small video files. I decided to show how to use moviemaker because I think it will be important to compress the files. It was actually quite liberating not to be carefully scripted and staged.

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Crazy for the Tools

NTEN

Collaborative Files I couldn't get through my day without Dropbox , which I have blogged about before. Dropbox continuously replicates local files to a personal cloud file space and synchronizes those folders across multiple computers and mobile devices. Within a personal file space, you can define shared folders with others.

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