Re: Tutorial: How to Use the Apache CMS Web Interface
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com wrote: On 6/15/12 3:09 PM, Rob Weir wrote: My first attempt making a video with Camtasia. Hopefully this will be useful to someone starting to use the CMS for the first time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcDZN3Lu6HA well done, I love short video tutorials ;-) with a good fresh coffee at hand. Maybe you can share some more experience how you create it, what steps are necessary to trim the video etc. This was done with a 30-day trial version of Camtasia Studio: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html It works like a screen capture tool: You define what area of the screen you want to record, what audio device to capture, etc. After recording it has a simple editor to insert titles, transitions, remove unnecessary pauses, etc. Finally, it takes the project, encodes it as WMV and automatically uploads it to YouTube. There is a lot more depth to the Camtasia features -- I only scratched the surface -- but you can get a lot done with just the basic features. Other than that, the idea is the same as any tutorial, whether given live, printed, video, podcast, whatever. Have a clear idea of what you want the user to take away, and break it down into clear steps. I'm familiar with Camtasia but not have used it personally...it would be nice to investigate the open source alternative Roberto mentions. It would be a nice attribution to the camstudio.org group if we setup a YouTube area. I can think of many more such short video tutorials describing features in the office. For example many users don't know the concept of styles. So how about a short video explaining style and to create and use one. Or edit/change an existing one... Another idea would be a set of short videos examining each of the new features in AOO 3.4. that would be good too! Many many short videos of the same style, means common intro page pointing to our project + content video + common finish with further info regarding the project or something like that. Maybe also a common place on Youtube for these. +1 Right now the videos are just in my personal account. But it would be better, think, if we had an AOO-branded account where such things could live. This would make it easier for the users to find. Yes! Maybe Drew would be willing to port his videos there also. A sterling idea! Or maybe the way to do this is via common tagging? It's perfect promotion for our project in several ways. We provide useful tutorials that help our users, we show how easy it can be to join the project and do something useful, we do some good marketing for our project in general... Juergen -- MzK Known commonly as the jackass, this long-eared little creature is respected throughout the southwest—roundly cursed yet respected—and here he is usually referred to by his Spanish name, burro. Because of his extraordinary bray, he is sometimes ironically called the Arizona Nightingale. -- Arizona, the Grand Canyon State: A State Guide, By Federal Writers' Project
Re: Tutorial: How to Use the Apache CMS Web Interface
Totally agree. Very well done. Regards, Dave On Jun 20, 2012, at 4:50 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: This is awesome Rob- I plan to link to it from the CMS docs on www.apache.org. Very well done. - Original Message - From: Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 1:58 AM Subject: Re: Tutorial: How to Use the Apache CMS Web Interface On 6/15/12 3:09 PM, Rob Weir wrote: My first attempt making a video with Camtasia. Hopefully this will be useful to someone starting to use the CMS for the first time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcDZN3Lu6HA well done, I love short video tutorials ;-) with a good fresh coffee at hand. Maybe you can share some more experience how you create it, what steps are necessary to trim the video etc. I can think of many more such short video tutorials describing features in the office. For example many users don't know the concept of styles. So how about a short video explaining style and to create and use one. Or edit/change an existing one... Many many short videos of the same style, means common intro page pointing to our project + content video + common finish with further info regarding the project or something like that. It's perfect promotion for our project in several ways. We provide useful tutorials that help our users, we show how easy it can be to join the project and do something useful, we do some good marketing for our project in general... Juergen
Re: Tutorial: How to Use the Apache CMS Web Interface
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com wrote: On 6/15/12 3:09 PM, Rob Weir wrote: My first attempt making a video with Camtasia. Hopefully this will be useful to someone starting to use the CMS for the first time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcDZN3Lu6HA well done, I love short video tutorials ;-) with a good fresh coffee at hand. Maybe you can share some more experience how you create it, what steps are necessary to trim the video etc. This was done with a 30-day trial version of Camtasia Studio: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html It works like a screen capture tool: You define what area of the screen you want to record, what audio device to capture, etc. After recording it has a simple editor to insert titles, transitions, remove unnecessary pauses, etc. Finally, it takes the project, encodes it as WMV and automatically uploads it to YouTube. There is a lot more depth to the Camtasia features -- I only scratched the surface -- but you can get a lot done with just the basic features. Other than that, the idea is the same as any tutorial, whether given live, printed, video, podcast, whatever. Have a clear idea of what you want the user to take away, and break it down into clear steps. I can think of many more such short video tutorials describing features in the office. For example many users don't know the concept of styles. So how about a short video explaining style and to create and use one. Or edit/change an existing one... Another idea would be a set of short videos examining each of the new features in AOO 3.4. Many many short videos of the same style, means common intro page pointing to our project + content video + common finish with further info regarding the project or something like that. Maybe also a common place on Youtube for these. Right now the videos are just in my personal account. But it would be better, think, if we had an AOO-branded account where such things could live. This would make it easier for the users to find. Or maybe the way to do this is via common tagging? It's perfect promotion for our project in several ways. We provide useful tutorials that help our users, we show how easy it can be to join the project and do something useful, we do some good marketing for our project in general... Juergen
Re: Tutorial: How to Use the Apache CMS Web Interface
I'd suggest this is the kind of thing that would fit really well with the proposed conference. We have hackspaces and this is an ideal way to get newbies contributing to the project quickly and easily. Anyone want to coordinate something like this? Ross On 20 June 2012 15:07, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com wrote: On 6/15/12 3:09 PM, Rob Weir wrote: My first attempt making a video with Camtasia. Hopefully this will be useful to someone starting to use the CMS for the first time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcDZN3Lu6HA well done, I love short video tutorials ;-) with a good fresh coffee at hand. Maybe you can share some more experience how you create it, what steps are necessary to trim the video etc. This was done with a 30-day trial version of Camtasia Studio: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html It works like a screen capture tool: You define what area of the screen you want to record, what audio device to capture, etc. After recording it has a simple editor to insert titles, transitions, remove unnecessary pauses, etc. Finally, it takes the project, encodes it as WMV and automatically uploads it to YouTube. There is a lot more depth to the Camtasia features -- I only scratched the surface -- but you can get a lot done with just the basic features. Other than that, the idea is the same as any tutorial, whether given live, printed, video, podcast, whatever. Have a clear idea of what you want the user to take away, and break it down into clear steps. I can think of many more such short video tutorials describing features in the office. For example many users don't know the concept of styles. So how about a short video explaining style and to create and use one. Or edit/change an existing one... Another idea would be a set of short videos examining each of the new features in AOO 3.4. Many many short videos of the same style, means common intro page pointing to our project + content video + common finish with further info regarding the project or something like that. Maybe also a common place on Youtube for these. Right now the videos are just in my personal account. But it would be better, think, if we had an AOO-branded account where such things could live. This would make it easier for the users to find. Or maybe the way to do this is via common tagging? It's perfect promotion for our project in several ways. We provide useful tutorials that help our users, we show how easy it can be to join the project and do something useful, we do some good marketing for our project in general... Juergen -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
Re: Tutorial: How to Use the Apache CMS Web Interface
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com wrote: On 6/15/12 3:09 PM, Rob Weir wrote: My first attempt making a video with Camtasia. Hopefully this will be useful to someone starting to use the CMS for the first time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcDZN3Lu6HA well done, I love short video tutorials ;-) with a good fresh coffee at hand. Maybe you can share some more experience how you create it, what steps are necessary to trim the video etc. This was done with a 30-day trial version of Camtasia Studio: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html It works like a screen capture tool: You define what area of the screen you want to record, what audio device to capture, etc. After recording it has a simple editor to insert titles, transitions, remove unnecessary pauses, etc. Finally, it takes the project, encodes it as WMV and automatically uploads it to YouTube. There is a lot more depth to the Camtasia features -- I only scratched the surface -- but you can get a lot done with just the basic features. An open source alternative could be CamStudio, it's probably not so feature-rich, though. http://camstudio.org/ Roberto Other than that, the idea is the same as any tutorial, whether given live, printed, video, podcast, whatever. Have a clear idea of what you want the user to take away, and break it down into clear steps. I can think of many more such short video tutorials describing features in the office. For example many users don't know the concept of styles. So how about a short video explaining style and to create and use one. Or edit/change an existing one... Another idea would be a set of short videos examining each of the new features in AOO 3.4. Many many short videos of the same style, means common intro page pointing to our project + content video + common finish with further info regarding the project or something like that. Maybe also a common place on Youtube for these. Right now the videos are just in my personal account. But it would be better, think, if we had an AOO-branded account where such things could live. This would make it easier for the users to find. Or maybe the way to do this is via common tagging? It's perfect promotion for our project in several ways. We provide useful tutorials that help our users, we show how easy it can be to join the project and do something useful, we do some good marketing for our project in general... Juergen -- This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your system. Thank you.
Re: Tutorial: How to Use the Apache CMS Web Interface
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: This is great Rob. I've linked to it from the ComDev site. At the end you ask for suggestions and requests... The only part of this that is specific to OOo is the initial technique for finding the bookmarklet. It would be great if you could provide an Apache short URL and put that in the video as an overlay (i.e. alternatively type s.apache.org/cms into your browser -note that is a real shorturl I just created) Done. Can we have one for non-committers that shows them how to edit and submit a patch? Yes, that would be a good part 2. (Or part 0) -Rob On 15 June 2012 14:09, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: My first attempt making a video with Camtasia. Hopefully this will be useful to someone starting to use the CMS for the first time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcDZN3Lu6HA Regards, -Rob -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
Re: Tutorial: How to Use the Apache CMS Web Interface
On 06/15/2012 09:09 AM, Rob Weir wrote: My first attempt making a video with Camtasia. Hopefully this will be useful to someone starting to use the CMS for the first time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcDZN3Lu6HA Regards, -Rob Nice job. Good video. Thanks, Carl
Re: Tutorial: How to Use the Apache CMS Web Interface
Hi. 2012/6/15 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org: My first attempt making a video with Camtasia. Hopefully this will be useful to someone starting to use the CMS for the first time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcDZN3Lu6HA Good! Albino
