Calling all TechSmith users – We need Champions!

Are you a power user of TechSmith products? Or perhaps you're not a power user, but you would love to learn more and get rewarded for it? We invite you to join the TechSmith Community today! What is the TechSmith Community? We have a wonderful community of users who help each other out with questions, share new ideas, and make suggestions for product improvements and features. Anyone who buys, tries, or knows about our products can benefit from this community. What exactly is a Champion? Photo Continue reading

Survey: TechSmith Community and YOU!

Hello out there!  As Austin Powers once said, “Allow myself to introduce…….myself”.  My name is Renee Badra and I am excited to be in a brand spanking-new position here at TechSmith called an ‘Online Community Specialist’!  In my previous position, I managed the TechSmith Customer Service Department for many years.  Now I am part of the Marketing Department and will be working with the social media team to engage with YOU…our customers and friends (I hope)! What does community Continue reading

UPDATED: The Forge – Using Visuals in Community

UPDATE: Recording of this episode is below and posted to YouTube. If you haven't noticed, the watering holes of the web are getting increasingly visual. Facebook timeline, Pinterest, Google+ are all giving more priority to photos and visuals. Infographics are hot. What does this mean for you as a communicator and content creator? How can you use visuals to engage people and build community? In the video below we explored these questions and shared some of our own experiences. Segments Continue reading

Matt Lagrotte and his Camtasia Studio Story

Last weekend I jumped in the car and headed to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Why? They were having a "GiveCamp". Haven't heard of a GiveCamp? Well, they truly a wonderful thing. Here's the lowdown: "A GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for non-profit organizations. This custom software could be a new website for the nonprofit organization, a small data-collection application to keep track of members, Continue reading

Come Visit TechSmith! May 28 is ‘Take Your Customers To Work Day’

Now here's a 'holiday' I'm excited to celebrate and I hope you will join in too! I just learned that May 28th is 'Take Your Customer To Work Day'! We like to think that every day is 'Take Your Customer To Work Day' at TechSmith and our doors are always open to visitors... We love it when users come to visit. We've even had people spend part of their vacation with us! So, on May 28th, I'd like to invite you in to visit TechSmith in Okemos, Michigan. Come have coffee (or a beverage of your Continue reading

Presentation in a Box – Free to Order

I'm at 360|Flex this week and was at Microsoft TechEd last week. After talking with many of the attendees, I noticed that one of the things that the shows have in common is that a lot of participants also are active in User Groups. And, that reminded me of something that many newer blog readers may not know about. If you participate in a User Group or professional association, or are conducting a workshop, class or brownbag, and would like to show off Snagit, Camtasia Studio, Jing, Morae or UserVue... Continue reading