Greetings friends, family, colleagues, customers, and newcomers too - welcome everyone. I’m Tony Dunckel, and it is my pleasure as the product (err, project) manager to bring you Jing.
The Jing Project is our journey to discover how we can improve everyday conversation. Think of all those IM chats, emails, blog posts and comments you’ve made over the years. Now imagine a more visual world where integrating screen captures and screencasts into those took nothing more than a matter of seconds. Can you imagine it? I can - I’ve seen it, I’ve lived it - it’s Jing.
Our goal is to explore this with all of you and together see how we can bridge the visual world and our daily conversations into a richer, more effective way to communicate.
Before we embark on our journey, I’d like to introduce a few of my comrades, who represent the real genius behind the Jing Project and who will be contributing to our discussion on this blog.
“I'm Michael, the Lead Developer for Jing. I worked on the Windows development side of Jing and the original (constantly changing) project concept. If you’re upset about the system requirements... it's my fault.”
-- Michael Malinak
“Well, I'm Chris, and I work with the Instructional Design team at TechSmith. I didn't work on the development of Jing, but I got to tag-a-long for the ride, which has been a lot of fun. Oh, and I made the intro video too.”
--Chris McQueen
“Hello people of the interwebs! My name is Alan. I am the interface designer for the Jing Project. I absolutely love Jing, and I'm extremely excited to see where you, our users, will help us take this project!"
-- Alan Dennis
“I'm Don, and I made the sun shine on the Mac version, and some other stuff. We used Jing a lot during its development, and we think you'll find it useful, too.”
-- Don Sherry
“Hi, I'm Nick. I did the Jing Project's page, blog, and other webbie things. I also helped out with the Mac interface. We hope you have just as much fun using it as we had making it.”
-- Nick Gorsline
“Matt Dyer is a user assistance developer who enjoys writing about himself in the third person. He does his best to make sure that you know all the cool stuff you can do with Jing.”
-- Matt Dyer
“Hi, I'm Betsy, the Chief Evangelist at TechSmith. I can't wait to see all of the wicked cool things you do with Jing! Feel free to contact me so I can show off your masterpiece here on the blog!”
-- Betsy Weber, visit my blog
And with that, we invite you to not just use Jing, but to live it and incorporate it into your daily conversations. This blog is all about your feedback and creating an open dialog about where we should take this concept. Have fun!