{"id":19,"date":"2007-10-23T14:14:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T21:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/2007\/10\/23\/show-people-how-to-use-firefox\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T14:38:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T21:38:01","slug":"show-people-how-to-use-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/2007\/10\/23\/show-people-how-to-use-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Show people how to use Firefox!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be very cool if we could make videos\/screencasts for a few of the more popular &#8220;help&#8221; articles in the knowledge base. I did some basic software research and found a program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jingproject.com\/\">Jing<\/a>, which is free, easy to use, and works on Windows and Mac. It can record what you&#8217;re doing on your computer and save it as a video clip, which can then be uploaded and integrated into a knowledge base article on <a href=\"http:\/\/support.mozilla.com\">support.mozilla.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.screencast.com\/users\/djst.mozilla\/folders\/Jing\/media\/a817b08f-8b99-41c9-b4ec-3e0328a38685\">Sample video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some articles that we could produce video clips for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.mozilla.com\/kb\/Installing+Firefox+on+Windows\">Installing Firefox on Windows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.mozilla.com\/kb\/Customizing%20your%20Firefox%20with%20add-ons\">Customizing your Firefox with add-ons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.mozilla.com\/kb\/Importing+from+Internet+Explorer\">Importing from Internet Explorer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.mozilla.com\/kb\/Windows%20Media%20Player#Installing_the_plugin\">Windows Media Player (installing the plug-in)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.mozilla.com\/kb\/How%20to%20make%20Firefox%20the%20default%20browser\">How to make Firefox the default browser<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyone interested in making one of these videos, or working on making the list of videos to produce more complete?<\/p>\n<p>We also need a short page with instructions on how to make the videos, e.g.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>where to get the software and how to install and use it<\/li>\n<li>guidelines, e.g\n<ul>\n<li>use a default desktop background for the OS<\/li>\n<li>use a new firefox profile (no add-ons, standard toolbars, etc)<\/li>\n<li>if the video is just about the search bar, only record that part of firefox to make the video smaller\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>how to upload and embed a video in an article<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to record a video clip, or if you have suggestions for more articles that would benefit from it, or if you want to write that short instruction page, please join us in the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.support.planning\/topics\">mozilla.support.planning<\/a> newsgroup, or comment in this blog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be very cool if we could make videos\/screencasts for a few of the more popular &#8220;help&#8221; articles in the knowledge base. I did some basic software research and &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/2007\/10\/23\/show-people-how-to-use-firefox\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}