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Screenr – Amazing Web Recording Tool

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I was watching my Twitter feed today and someone posted a link to a site called Screenr.com with instructions to watch a cool video. I was thrilled to find this wonderful tool. Screenr has created a free web based tool that allows you to create videos of what is happening on the screen. You can click on links, go to different web pages, watch Youtube videos, and even add your voice as commentary. It captures everything and saves it as video that can be viewed on the Screenr.com site or uploaded to Youtube for viewing there. You can even download the video to your hard drive as an .mp4 file. Prior to Screenr, I used a software I purchased called Camtasia. While Camtasia has many features not present in Screenr, many of them are not needed for creating simple screencasts. Additionally, using Camtasia requires you to install it on your computer and then upload the finished video to the web in order to embed it within in your site. Both are time consuming and can be cumbersome. Screencasts have a number of wonderful and useful business applications to help you communicate with your customers or audience. Some ways that came to my mind are:

• Provide voice guided tours of your website
• Help videos to assist customers with navigating around your website
• Video email responses to customers who have functional questions about software they have purchased from your company

I would love to hear some ideas from readers about how they might use Screenr.