Suggestion to help more casual users of Cantabile

[brad]

Hi All,

I really like the ideas behind all this, but in practice I’m not sure what the best solution is. Certainly there are some forum members here who answer questions better than I do and I’m very appreciative of the time and effort they put in to this.

I’m open to suggestions on how to best address this problem. I’m also open to providing a platform for anyone willing to write up case studies, tutorials, walk-throughs etc… Weather that be sticky posts, guest blog posts, links to external articles or other formats I’m open to pretty anything in that area.

At this stage I’m struggling with balancing development vs support vs creating training materials so any assistance or suggestions is welcome!

Brad

[bartok2112]

I think guest blogs or tutorials would be great.

[terrybritton]

Tell you what, everyone. Post links to the individual posts you found useful (right-click on the “time period since posted” to the far right of the poster’s name, at the top above the “Reply” button, like “12d” and copy link location to paste here) and I will make a video for any of those that look like I can do so. In some cases, I may collate a few into one video.

I’ve got doing tutorial videos well under my belt (see https://www.youtube.com/c/terryleighbritton) - I don’t want to be the “only one” doing videos (you can find many videos by me there on how to make videos!), but I don’t mind helping, and it will get me back into the flow of doing them. (I’ve not made one in over a year now…)

That’s my offer! I just need the suggestions!

Terry

[cfcboc]

Sounds great, Terry!!

Just to clarify…are we to post the links to: (1) this existing thread, or (2) embed each link in a separate post with a title on what the link relates to, or (3) should we just start a post called “Terry Britton Video”?

[terrybritton]

You can just post them to this thread. I am following it and receive emails when someone posts.

Terry

[Corky]

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I have plenty more that have really helped me.

[terrybritton]

Those are great! Let’s collect around 10 or so, so that I can examine them to see what I can consolidate into single videos with a few items in some cases. Good start here, for sure!

Terry

[terrybritton]

Here’s another good topic: MMC - Record Play Stop forward rewind

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