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Why we love ScreenFlow: screen capture for the Mac

14 May, 2012
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by Rob Cottingham

If you spend any time teaching people about online tools, or documenting them, or pitching them, chances are you've thought about screen capture software. And last week, a post on the Web of Change email list asked for recommendations on just that topic.

I weighed in on the side of Telestream's ScreenFlow, and I'm sharing it here in case you're looking for something for your next computer or Internet tutorial:

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And the award goes to...

(actor at an awards ceremony) Gracious, shmacious. There's no way in hell I'm going to applaud when I've just lost the Best Actor award to an Xtranormal character.

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Common Craft's latest move helps point the way for content creators

9 August, 2011
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by Rob Cottingham

Sachi and Lee LeFever's company Common Craft has reinvented itself a few times... and each time, they just get more and more useful. From an online community consulting firm, Common Craft turned into a creator and provider of simple, charming and monstrously popular explanatory videos - starting with the now-famous RSS in Plain English.

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NTC: Online conference/seminar tools

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Social media, on purpose

Rob on what 2010 will bring for social media

15 February, 2010
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by Rob Cottingham

I missed passing this along when it first came out, because I didn't know those nice CBC people had put it on YouTube. It's their segment on what to expect in 2010 for social media, based on an interview they did with me in their stunning new Vancouver studios.

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It's a video... it's a widget... it's..!

Personalized video, Facebook widget raising funds for BC Children's Hospital

20 August, 2009
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by Rob Cottingham

As causes go, you can't get much closer to our hearts than with a children's hospital. The thought of having to take one of our kids there is wrenching, and I'm sobered by the fact that thousands upon thousands of children - and their parents - go through that every day.

We want those kids to get the care they need swiftly and effectively. We want our best medical knowledge brought to bear, and we want clean, quality facilities that promote good health as well as healing sickness.

So we jumped at the chance to work with the BC Children's Hospital Foundation, helping them chart a social media strategy for engaging their audiences and raising money.

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Sure you have a great document. But do you have a dancing caribou?

Social media can give new life to old communication vehicles

17 July, 2009
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by Rob Cottingham

For organizations with a strong policy orientation, turning out documents and reports is a pretty integral part of their existence. And often those reports are valuable contributions to the dialogue.

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@SFUWoodwards, here's your camera

Winner in our Twitter contest gets her Flip HD

30 April, 2009
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by Rob Cottingham

Turns out it really is better to give than receive! We just handed Julie Ovenell-Carter, a.k.a. @sfuwoodwards, her brand new Flip MinoHD video camera, her prize in Social Signal's first Twitter contest.

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"Teh Funny": watch it again for the first time

Rob's Northern Voice keynote now available online

28 February, 2009
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by Rob Cottingham

Video genius Bruce Sharpe has just posted the video of my keynote from Feb. 21 at the Northern Voice blogging conference in Vancouver. It's my look at what makes the world of social media so damn funny. You'll laugh, you'll cry... and maybe you'll comment on it.

Graphic by Nancy White

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BC Hydro hits YouTube

8 January, 2009
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by Rob Cottingham

Our friends and clients at BC Hydro have made the leap onto YouTube, with a series of videos promoting their newly overhauled, conservation-enhanced web site.

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