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Screencasting for editors by Malini Devadas and Hilary Cadman
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from a session on screencasting. I have screencast before using different software programs and edited videos for Youtube. And I was a bit puzzled as to how all this could be used by an editor for the purposes of editing. Or as part of a business. Part One of the presentation was telling us what screencasting was. And what is wasn’t. Screencasting is basically like taking a screenshot but instead of an image, ending up with video as the result. Video of whatever may be on your screen at that time. I am aware of people using screencasting for gaming purposes to showcase…
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27 ways to support diverse writers
I had this thought one day. I should qualify that it was between the hours of midnight and four am, generally not a great time for coming up with new ideas for me but a good time to work on ideas I already have. I thought about how I didn’t always see a lot of non-POC authors discuss, read, review POC authors’ works or interview them despite doing so for various non-POC authors regularly on their blogs. There are some authors who don’t do that sort of thing on their blogs at all for anyone else’s work and that’s fine and up to them but there are some that do…
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The Australian Women Writers’ Challenge 2016
So in case you didn’t know, I often volunteer, and often fail (sorry Elizabeth) at rounding up and discussing what people have read for the Australian Women Writers’ Challenge in the genres of non fiction and short fiction and poetry. Occasionally, I interview authors for podcasts as well. The Challenge aims to get people reading more books written in all genres by Australian female and female identifying writers and to promote their work since we seem unable to rely on mainstream media to do a good enough job of doing so with no gender or racial bias involved. This year we hope to introduce a bingo card element to the…
