How Not to Run a Product Blog
So many things are started with such good intentions, and then for whatever reason(s) are left languishing in various states of disuse and mismanagement. My gardens and flowerbeds at home were one such example. I couldn't keep up with the work because, well for one thing, I can't tell the difference between Ambrosia artemisiifolia and Cosmos bipinnatus. So I let it all grow wild, and made the excuse that if it flowered, it was pretty to look at. The top of the hill in my back yard still has that theme going (because I still think that if it has flowers it's pretty and the deer need a place to sleep too), but with the help of a good friend I finally started to dive into the beds around the house in earnest this year and I'm happy to say that the results are something to be proud of again.
Blogs are kind of like flowerbeds and gardens. They both need a lot of attention and require constant maintenance in order to be successful. The Screencast.com blog has not had attention paid to it, nor has it been maintained, and for that I take full responsibility. But to carry the flower/garden analogy forward at the risk of becoming trite, the team and I here at TechSmith will be doing a full-scale landscaping job on the Screencast.com blog property this summer. Who doesn't like to roll up your sleeves, break out the shovel and rake, and of course pull a few weeds? I've learned to use mulch strategically, chemicals sparingly (except on ants), and I'll take the same approach with the blog.
Some of you might know Mike Curtis...he's the TechSmithian force behind the Jing blog. He and our Customer Engagement team as well as our development and other technical team members will help out, just so you won't have to listen to my ramblings all the time. Each week I'll pick an (anonymous) entry from our collection of Customer Feedback and publish my response. Hopefully these posts will provide more insight into the direction of Screencast.com. Mike and the others will augment those discussions with references to tutorial videos and help content and maybe even a contest or two along the way. You will even start to see developers from other product teams contributing with more technical discussions on the future of screencasting and online video. Ultimately my vision is to have the Screencast.com blog be a blog to which you subscribe because you don't want to miss a word we write.
Screencast.com is still alive and growing - even if our blog didn't demonstrate that very well. And we're still working hard to bring you the best place to host your original quality screen recordings and captures. We've just been busy these past few months weeding the code and killing some bugs...
-Dirk
How can I use Jing on web sites in showing them would it be legal or possible? I have a new Web Site I would love to show, would I be able to use Jing on it in what I have to offer if so how can I do it?
Interesting comment Denise,
I think what she is asking is "How can I make Jing one click an image onto my facebook account and show something to my friends?"
Wait - thats what I'm asking. You have no forum, at least for non-paying users, but as a hopefully "one-day-paying" and proud user of Jing I want this,
Integrate social media accounts ala Digsby or Hootsuite/Ping. Jing is so bloody useful I want it to be even better. I'm not certain how many of the Mys/FB/Bebos actually allow it, but I'm certain that you could automate a transfer from my jing file bucket to an album on my FB. Photobucket would be another great one to push files out to. I would also like to have the image file copied to the clip board like a normal screen capture.
While I am asking for the world, I would also like to be able to set a hotkey combo to auto capture the entire screen (basically the old screenshot, but showing the Jing Sun) preferably *not* the systemic prnt scrn button - as that could be compramised.. I guess.. but umm..
Yeah - I don't care if its a "share on fb" button on the save dialog or an automatic setting I have to configure at screencast.com - thats what I want. By FB I of course mean "whatever" social media sites.
Hmmm... stream typing.. idea! What if the account connecty part was site side and the settings for what link (twitter link? fb link? photobucket link? etc etc etc) is configured in the app - possibly only the pay version (ooooohhhh let me configure it, but in the free ver it doesn't work and only links people back to Jing.com/Screencast.
Oh, and Screencast should be like myspace.. I mean .. why not?
Let me think.. anything else.. hmmm... :smoke: nah.
Agreed! I am guilty of creating a personal blog that I don't maintain as well as I should. I am starting a business and working to create a website. Obviously I will have to better maintain a website than I have a blog. What landing page software would you recommend? I have definitely noticed that Screencast.com is doing a much better job keeping the blog updated. I always appreciate the fresh information you provide to us readers!