Cast4Cash Contest Update - May 19-er 2009

An update on the contest - yippeeee!

Just under two weeks to go to get your entry into the Screencast 4 Cash contest as the deadline was extended to Monday, June 1, 2009.  Once you’ve entered, be sure to encourage your friends and fellows and fans and family and followers to vote for your entry.  Right now, individuals can vote once per week, but starting June 2, folks will be able to vote daily.  Now, if you’re questioning the advisability of hassling your friends about spending one minute to vote for your entry, consider reminding them that, for every vote they cast, $0.10 will be donated to the Youth for Technology Foundation.  The good people at YTF work with underprivileged communities to offer technology resources and training.  Who can argue with a cause like that?

What better way to spend your Memorial Day weekend than pulling together a scintillating screencast…and making plans for how you’ll spend your cool $1000 once you win!

Know lots of stuff but not anything about screencasting?  Screencasting is a way to record all of the activity that happens on your computer screen (and even your voice over to explain what’s going on).  This makes it the perfect medium for teach folks about SW apps, development, gaming, etc.  The good news is that it’s pretty easy – the bigger hurdle is finding something you can teach about.  If you’ve got something you can teach, give Jing Pro for screencasting a try – it’s only $14.95/year and is a fantastic screencasting application from the good folks at TechSmith (who also make Camtasia Studio and Snagit, which are fantastic products once you get really serious about this screencasting and business – and are conveniently awesome contest prizes that’ll be handed out to our winner).

So, no excuses – get to casting!  We want to learn what you know, and you’re the only one that can teach us that.  Once you’ve got your lesson created and uploaded, next step is to promote your entry to get out the vote.  There are contest entrant badges, contest twitter and other interfaces, and embed codes on each entry player to help you with this part.  Check out the contest landing page and your lesson page for all of that and more!

The final push is officially upon us, so this weekend is really a great opportunity to carve out some time to get a lesson created and uploaded and promoted.  It’s a great cause, and quite frankly, there aren’t so many entries that winning is a pipedream.  :)  For those of you that just can’t find the time to invest in a screencast between now and June 1st, even getting out there to vote on the entries (and encouraging others to do the same) will mean more money raised for the Youth for Technology Foundation, who incidentally, can now be found on Twitter (@youthfortech).

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