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In Part 1, I explored how individuals could leverage screencasting. Here in Part 2, I want to explore some uncommon uses for screencasting in a business environment.

One point that I want to elaborate on here is this concept of tribal knowledge.

I think a lot of businesses just avoided a disaster. Baby boomers were nearing retirement age in such a great number and so fast, that I believe businesses were really going to feel it. However, they were saved by the Great Recession because this delays the boomers from retiring. However, it doesn’t diminish the need to capture what’s in their heads.

In days long gone, we used to sit around camp fires and tell stories. Elders passed their experience to younger generations. From this, traditions were established and more importantly, knowledge was transferred. In more modern times, we used to have apprentice and mentoring programs. Those too are long gone. But how do we transfer today’s knowledge?

I believe screencasting is one of the techniques we can use to capture and disseminate key information. It’s easy enough for most authors to develop and now with broadband internet, it’s easy to distribute.

You’ll have to let me know in the comments if you see additional uses for screencasting. In the meantime, here is Part 2 of the video.

I was asked by Lynn Elliott to do a guest post over at the Screening Room blog. This is Telestream’s blog for their ScreenFlow product; my preferred screencasting tool. I was more than happy to help.

I think most people relate screencasting to computer tutorials. Now granted, that makes the most sense. However, I think we need to view screencasting in a much larger picture. I see it as a new form of rapid video creation. One that savvy users can capitalize on. Let me explain.

American society is moving from a manufacturing society to an information and service society. Heck, there is so little manufacturing left in the US, lets just say it’s over. What this means for workers though is that we’ve become knowledge and concept workers. Now that we need to communicate concepts and ideas, we need tools that enable us.

And please don’t say it’s a PowerPoint with bullet points on it.

In this video, I explore a couple of ways you can use screencasting software. For other than computer tutorials of course.

Did I really call the former Vice President, Dude?

In Part 2, I’ll explore some uncommon business uses for screencasting. Stay tuned.

Skype is a great service for making free & inexpensive phone calls. What a lot of people don’t realize is that you can also conduct video chats.

What’s great though, is that with screencasting software, you can record and enhance your video chats. This is a great way to conduct remote interviews, train, and collaborate.

For this presentation, I collaborated with my friend Terry Brock. Terry has conducted numerous business interviews with Skype and knows a thing or two about doing them. And of course we did this in Skype!

This is the actual Skype video and was recorded from my desktop using ScreenFlow.