Yesterday a good Twitter friend posted this tweet about video sharing. It isn’t tax or accounting related, but it has generated a lot of engagement in the accounting community.
For my folks who were at #SNH19, what’s your one takeaway? What’s the one thing you can commit to doing?
Mine is figuring out video.
— Megan Genest Tarnow (@MeganTarnow) June 21, 2019
This is something I’ve tried to do once and it didn’t work very well so I had given up. I know there are programs and apps out there but I was looking for an easy way to do it, and wanted something free or very inexpensive since it’s only something I would use every once in a while.
You can see that Megan’s tweet generated a lot of engagement and I thought I’d summarize the suggestions. Mainly so I can come back to them easier, but I also thought someone out there might be looking for the same thing.
Here are the recommended programs and apps from other accountants that use video sharing.
- Loom – simple but limited. free. https://www.loom.com/
- Camtasia – everything you need to record and edit. https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html
- Zoom – perfect for live presentations and screen sharing. I believe they have some options to record your screen activity and then post it as a video for sharing with others. https://www.zoom.us/
- Wistia – was recommended for short videos. https://wistia.com/
- TechSmith Snagit – quickly & easily capture screenshots, create images & record video. https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html
If you have any additional tools you think we should know about, please comment here or go to Megan’s post and add it there.