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PowerPoint from Screencasting Webinar
Thursday, December 17th, 2009 Posted in Screencasting | 8 Comments »
If you're interested in the PowerPoint for my screencasting webinar, here it is below. [caption id="attachment_5364" align="alignnone" width="580" caption="Powerpoint for Screencasting webinar (click the image to download the file)"][/caption] I always smile ... Read more..What I’m Presenting on at the Dallas Summit
Friday, November 20th, 2009 Posted in Screencasting | 4 Comments »
At the STC Summit in Dallas this year (May 2-5), I'll be giving a presentation titled "Developing a Personal Voice in Audio." I'm moving in the direction of screencasts, focusing ... Read more..Embedding Videos into Madcap Flare
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 Posted in Screencasts | 6 Comments »
One of Flare's shortcomings is the inability to easily embed video files. However, if you use the Camtasia Studio's Express Show format as your video format (and you choose the ... Read more..Why Is It Important for Video Tutorials to Be User-Led?
Friday, November 13th, 2009 Posted in Screencasting | 9 Comments »
I recently spent 10 days in Florida visiting my family and giving a couple of presentations to the STC-Suncoast and STC-Orlando chapters on blogging. You can hardly take a family ... Read more..Two New Tools I’m Learning
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in Screencasting, Technical Writing | 3 Comments »
Sometimes I can hardly believe I've gotten along for so many years as a technical communicator without a thorough understanding of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Flash. They seem critical to ... Read more..How Google Does Help
Saturday, June 27th, 2009 Posted in Screencasting, Technical Writing, Web 2.0 | 7 Comments »
With all the talk about latest trends and avoiding extinction as communicators, and integrating web 2.0 and wikis, blogs, podcasts, and other interactive social media into help, it's a good ... Read more..Official Google Blog: Google Voice invites on their way
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Official Google Blog: Google Voice invites on their way. This is the kind of short video tutorial I want to learn to do. To get dynamic motion in videos, am ... Read more..Google Voice
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Google Voice. The help content for Google Voice is pretty cool -- just a list of basic tasks (about 20) with short instructional video clips. I don't know why the ... Read more..How Video Can Turn Your Career Around
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 Posted in Screencasting, Technical Writing | 2 Comments »
When I talk to most technical writers, video is a format they haven't done much with. This surprises me, because I find that, as a user, video tutorials are often ... Read more..Screencasting — Workflow and Presentation, by Collin Turner (Podcast)
Saturday, January 17th, 2009 Posted in Podcasts, WordPress | 1 Comment »
[audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://idratherbewriting.com/podcasts/collinturner.mp3] Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 65 min. Screencasting Presentation Summary In this podcast, Collin Turner presents on "Screencasting -- Workflow and Presentation" to the Intermountain STC chapter ... Read more..