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Online Presentation Tool for Libraries.

Meryl Evans sent me several links, mostly to do with RSS:

Newsletter Wars: Email Vs. RSS

Is RSS the Great Spaminator

FeedDemon Tutorial

While I enjoyed all of these links, what really blew me away was Wink, the software Meryl used to create the FD tutorial.

"Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots of your software, use images that you already have, type-in explanations for each step, create a navigation sequence complete with buttons, delays, titles etc and create a highly effective tutorial for your users....

This is a good example of how you can create tutorials in Wink, by capturing screenshots, mouse movements and specifying your own explanations with them. And all this in a standard Windows-based UI with drag-and-drop editing makes it very easy to create high quality tutorials/documentation....

Capture screenshots from your PC, or use images in BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/TGA/PCX formats.... Export your presentations as Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, HTML or any of the above image formats. Use Flash/html for the web, EXE for distributing to PC users and PDF for printable manuals."

And best of all, it's free! The one drawback is that appears to be for Windows machines only, even though the output can be cross-platform. This could be a great tool for libraries that want to offer step-by-step instructions on their web sites.

[The Shifted Librarian]
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