Howcast – useful video tutorial for end user

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It is time consuming to provide user a training to educate them to use your product or give them a tutorial by using text with static screen capture, seems like people are prefer to watch and listen instead of read now a day, or they are being lazy and hope you can help them solve the problem. May be one of the reason is because it is hard for them to catch up from the user manual with text and static images. Obviously, video tutorial/demo is more easy to be study and learn since it have a motion picture with sounds, as a human being, we all learn from the things we saw/heard before we are able to read when we are young.

This is why most of the product now will provide video demo and tutorial to teach you how to use it. Example, an iPhone from Apple, it is not difficult to use this touch screen phone, but yet Apple still provide the video demo/tutorial in their website, to educate some of the users for how to use it.

一般上在网络上要提供教学给读者、用户,大部分的人很懒惰去读,他们都希望你帮他们解决问题,而不愿意自己花时间学习。其中一个原因,可能是在文字上的吸收比较辛苦,毕竟实际上的使用都需要靠自己能够摸索得到的范围去明白该工具的使用方法。而视讯教学有声效、有影像画面,比起文字教学,视讯能给客户的吸收范围来说也比较直接、容易。毕竟人类的学习能力一开始都是以看、听为开始,后来才从文字上学习,由其是当我们还小时。

这就是为什么现今的产品大部分都提供视讯教学、视讯演示等等,比如iPhone,实际上不难使用,但为了不同的客户群,Apple还是提供一些视讯教学与演示,好让客户明白其功能与使用方法。

Howcast

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Howcast is a website that provide a video tutorial to teach the end-user of how to do this and that, according to the category that you choose, you can browse tones of videos there and learn something. Some might look stupid, but you never know, some people really need it. However, i do subscribed their podcast, as sometime i do find their video is useful. Most important, it is FREE!

Howcast 这网站也许就是为这原因而产生,它提供你各种分类的视讯教学,分类很多,甚至教你人际关系之类的教学等。有些也许看起来还蛮笨的,但你不会知道,对某些人来说那些就是贴士!我有订阅他们的Video Podcast,因为偶尔他们的教学还蛮有用的。最重要的,它是免费的!

This is one of their example of video tutorial

Website 网站:http://www.howcast.com/

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