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How to Scale Your Tutorial Videos and Create More Successful Users

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Chandra Owen, Instructional Designer at TechSmith, joined this episode of The Visual Lounge to share her processes and insights behind planning to scale your videos. Chandra’s work as an Instructional Designer means she creates content for TechSmith’s customer education team, including video, written tutorials, and webinars.

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Making Videos – Collaboratively!

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We teach math and wanted to be able to share each of us writing on our documents and have both of our faces visible to our students in our videos. The problem we encountered was that as soon as we each shared the document we were writing on, we couldn’t have our faces showing. Share docs/presentation in Google Hangout (GHO). ?You

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How to Get Helpful Video Feedback

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While Google Docs is a great option for writers to easily get the feedback they need—are there best practices in place for video feedback? I sat down with one of TechSmith’s Video Production Specialists, Andy Owen, in search of the answer. The post How to Get Helpful Video Feedback appeared first on TechSmith Blog.

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Employee Highlight: Meet TechSmithie Katie Moore

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In our Employee Highlight series, we will introduce you to various TechSmith Team Members, or TechSmithies, as we like to call ourselves. My name is Katie Moore and I’m a senior marketing manager here at TechSmith. Staff development and training is really important to TechSmith so we spend a lot of time focusing on that.

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5 Ways to Use Screen Captures to Cut Down on Email

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It’s easy enough to leave comments or suggestions in a Google Doc, but how much context gets lost in those text comments? You can write up a big long email, call a meeting, make a PowerPoint presentation (complete with screenshots of graphs with important points called out), or you can make a video. Shorten the feedback loop.

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How to Write a Script for a Video (With a Free Template!)

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Have you ever tried to write a script? The first thing you want to do before you create a video is write a script, even if it’s brief. The first thing you want to do before you create a video is write a script, even if it’s brief. And although writing a script can seem daunting, don’t worry. But it doesn’t have to be.

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Everything You Need to Make a Successful User Manual

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Defining your audience is one of the most important parts of writing a user manual. Writing your copy. For example, if I wanted to explain the blur tool in Snagit, I would write something like this: “Our blur tool is useful for many situations. In this guide, we will talk about everything you need to make a stunning user manual.

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