Come for the Ride!

To help with product adoption, one of the things we’ve been thinking about is creating online tutorials for non-savvy internet users. Even though we try to make our service easy to use and intuitive, I’m sure some people will still have issues finding things on their first try. To help minimize the number of calls for troubleshooting, online demos (if done right), will be a huge time saver!

While I’m sure there are a number of screen capturing tools out there that can capture mouse movements and help create videos, the thought of creating and syncing audio and video in one shot seem pretty daunting; at least for me who hasn’t done it before. Luckily, a compromise between the two extremes exist in Slide Share.

SlideShare.net allows you to post your pdf’s, Power Points and some other formats to create slide shows on the web. The slides can then be embedded onto a blog or page similar to YouTube videos. You can also create slide shows with sound which is exactly what we needed. For an example, check out the slide below.

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