The Visual Lounge lets you find out about TechSmith behind-the-scenes. Watch screencasts and videos from other customers, meet up with your fellow TechSmith users and staff, and get more tips and tricks!

So it's my turn to be insightful, possibly witty, and otherwise provide you all with information (knowledge) that will help you to learn. After all, isn't that what training guys do?

When Betsy asked for guest bloggers - I admit I jumped at the chance. She suggested that I talk about some of the presentations that we've given recently at NECC in our tradeshow booth. Well, with the chance of risking never being invited back, I think I'll present something else.

So as an Instructional Designer I know that each of you go about learning and using TechSmith's products in different ways. You probably each have your own unique slant on how and what you would like to learn about, well, anything.

So this is my chance to reach out and talk with you. As an instructional designer, I want to hear about how you like to and would like to learn TechSmith's software.

• What instruction do we need to provide to take you well past the point of being a blah user to a boastful user?
• What topics would you like to see and why?
• What presentation method (I won't name any for fear of skewing the results) do you learn best from or at least like to learn from?

You can e-mail me here with any feedback or ideas.

So here's the bonus, because I'm a training guy, I really can't pass on this opportunity to help you to learn. We use Camtasia Studio all of the time to create tutorial videos -so I thought I’d pass on the first chapter of our training manual that we use in the Camtasia Studio workshops we teaches. Click here to download it. (PDF 83.2 Kb)

Also, we've have a lot of other tutorials for Camtasia Studio and the other products, which you can checkout at our Learning Center.

Matt Pierce is the Training Manager for TechSmith Corporation - born and raised in Michigan, and having lived lots of other places, has fallen in love with learning and trying to understand how to best help others to learn. He is a nice guy and although Betsy cringes every time he says it - he's happy to be writing on the blog!

Note from Betsy...I would never cringe!