Jing – a quick way to create and share screencasts

After a bit of a lay-off from reading blogs, I've been catching up with what Tom Johnson's been blogging about. One post that caught my attention was a screencast about Jing:

Jing is a cut-down version of Camtasia that provides a quick way to record a screen capture video and audio recording and then share it, for example on a blog. The real benefit of this is that, rather than writing out procedural steps you can quickly record a "here's how it's done" mini-demo and post it - e.g. onto SharePoint - for people in your team or organisation to view.

Makers TechSmith have a simple little animation that explains the benefits of Jing very nicely: