Engage Social Media » Video http://www.engagesocialmedia.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:01:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 My New Favorite Video Content: Screencasts http://www.engagesocialmedia.com/blog/2009/12/my-new-favorite-video-content-screencasts/ http://www.engagesocialmedia.com/blog/2009/12/my-new-favorite-video-content-screencasts/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:35:23 +0000 Erik http://www.engagesocialmedia.com/blog/?p=285

When it comes to showing how something works online, it’s hard to beat a good video screencast. This is my new favorite content type.

I first realized the power of a good video screencast when I watched real estate investor/social media practitioner Chris Record‘s video on how to best utilize Facebook events. It was a perfect video on how to use a particular capability. I sent Chris an email asking him what technology he used. He graciously responded: Screenflow for the Mac (which I have).

I quickly shelled out $99 to download a copy and went to work creating my first screencast for a blog post at work. I had been planning on doing a post on how to utilize certain features of our universal communications software, VoxOx. Instead of writing the instructions out using well-placed screenshots, I could now easily record a short video. After a few practice tries (I did it in one take), here’s the final product.

Do you have a cool screencast to share?

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