The Sharing Foundations bid to win $50,000
Beth Kanter has been participating in Parade Magazine’s America’s Giving Challenge. $50,000 will be awarded to the project that gets the most unique donors before January 31, 2008. Beth has selected the Sharing Foundation, which provides education for children and young adults in Cambodia. With a little help from her blogging friends, she is now number three on the leader board. You can participate by donating as little as $10 through the widget above set up by Michele Martin at the Bamboo Project. The effort is gaining momentum, as Beth has requested donations in honor of her birthday on Friday.
It has been a fascinating campaign to watch. Beth has done some interesting things with photographs. I am learning how to screencast, and that is another topic Beth has been incredibly generous in sharing of her knowledge. In honor of her birthday, I have made this screencast about her use of images in the challenge.
And here is a real pro-screencast done by Harry, Beth’s 10 year old son with a little help from Mom.
Hi Christine–thanks so much for spreading the word about America’s Giving Challenge! I see that you’re also getting more use out of Camtasia–thanks for this great screencast!
Christine:
I’m sitting here crying .. this is one of the best birthday gifts I’ve ever gotten. What a great eye you have too ..
All snapshots.
I also loved how you used Camtasia (is it Camtasia?) I didn’t realize you were a screencaster.
Technical question – is there an embed code for the screencast? I must reblog this as soon as I get back from taking the kids to school!
Thank you thank you
What a remarkable ‘bethkast’…I have soooooooo much to learn from you talented ladies! This is just awesome, I’m linking to it in our Shaping Youth blogpost on Beth’s work right NOW as so many social media gurus need to see this demo! Fabulous! gosh…I need to get someone to show me this stuff firsthand…Any screencaster specialists based in the S.F. Bay area? (I’m a demo-driven gal, in ‘learn by doing’ mode) Thanks for this Christine…pleasure to virtually meet you!
well, gosh, I’ve learned half the other stuff from Beth and that crowd, so I should probably take off the intimidation hat and give it a go. Thanks for the nudge to the neophyte, here!
Hi Christine – congratulations on making it to the Techsmith ‘Screencast of the Week’, and also, thank you for your fabulous screencast! Keep up the fab work!
Just trying to help out in some way. Looks like the widget you set up is getting lots of attention. Amazing what can happen when you tap into the blog network.
Beth,
Glad you liked it. Your wonderful screencast resources are part of what made it possible. I’d say I am a beginner screencaster, having been doing it for two weeks or so. Yes it is Camtasia, and this is my first one where I don’t sound like a chipmunk due to the update released a couple of days ago. I’ll send the embed code by email.
Hope you have a fantastic birthday!
Hi Amy,
I have only been screencasting for a couple of weeks, and I learned by reading Beth’s wiki and using the online demos on the Techsmith Camtasia website. It wouldn’t have taken me even that long if I had known there was a bug in the software (fixed a couple of days ago).
I like to learn hands on also, but you might be surprised at how easy this can be. You can even try if for 30 days for free and see