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Customize Your Broadcast Page Message

By on July 8, 2013 in Screenleap

About a year ago, we launched our broadcasting feature, which made it possible for you to share your screen to a handle that you select (i.e., http://www.screenleap.com/your_company). Viewers can view your broadcast simply by going to your broadcast page. When you are not actively broadcasting, your broadcast page serves to welcome your visitors: previously, a visitor would see a generic message; with this update, you can now customize the message that is shown to those visitors.

How It Works

You will need to sign up for a free Screenleap account in order to use the broadcast feature. After signing in to the Screenleap site, you will now see a Customize your broadcast page link. Clicking on this link will show you what visitors to your broadcast page will see when you are not broadcasting.

Screen share broadcast page default message

You can customize the message shown to visitors by clicking the Edit button at the top of the page and then on the name or description to update the message.

Edit screen share broadcast page message

Click the Update button when you are done to save your changes. If you are a user on a Premium Account, you will also have the option of customizing the messages that are shown to visitors when you are in the middle of a restricted or locked broadcast (see next week’s blog entry for more details).

Ideas For Use

You can use the broadcast page message to further engage your visitors:

  • Contact Information – Put your contact info so that your visitors will know how to get in touch when you are not broadcasting.
  • Simple Meeting Scheduling – After you schedule a presentation, update your broadcast page message with information about the presentation so that viewers who show up early will know that they are in the right place.
  • Supplementary Materials – Include links to supplementary materials (such as white papers) that your viewers can review after seeing your presentation.

What’s Next

Next week, we will cover two additional broadcasting features that we just released: broadcast restriction (the ability to restrict a broadcasts to viewers with an access code that you specify) and broadcast locking (the ability to lock an active broadcast to prevent new viewers from joining).

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Screenleap Screenshots: The Fastest Way To Take, Mark Up, And Share Screenshots

By on March 21, 2013 in Screenleap

We launched our all-in-one browser extension last month that allows you to take screenshots and to screen share your browser window from one tool. This month, we would like to delve deeper into the screenshots feature.

Screenshots is the easiest way to take screenshots of web pages, mark them up, and share them with others. Even though we are big fans of screen sharing, we realize that it might not always be the best way to share the contents of your screen. For interactions where immediate feedback is not necessary, you can now use Screenshots to easily take screenshots and share them with others.

Take And Share Screenshots With Fewer Steps

At Screenleap, we love to remove unnecessary steps from processes. Having tackled screen sharing, we also wanted to streamline the process of taking and sharing screenshots. Despite being something that people do frequently, taking and sharing screenshots today still requires far too many steps:

  1. Take a screenshot using a utility found on your computer.
  2. Save the screenshot to your hard drive.
  3. Find the screenshot on your computer.
  4. Open the screenshot in a image-editing tool.
  5. Mark up the screenshot.
  6. Save the screenshot back to your hard drive.
  7. Attach the screenshot to an email.
  8. Send the email to the other person.

That’s a lot of steps—especially if you have to do it more than once. Using Screenshots, you can do the above in fewer steps using a single tool:

  1. Take a screenshot.
  2. Mark it up using the built-in editor.
  3. Share it via email, Facebook, Twitter, or to your Screenleap public/group feed.

Markl Up Screenshot

Share Publicly Or With A Group

A feature of Screenshots that distinguishes it from other screen capture tools is our support for public and group sharing. When you take screenshots, they are automatically saved to your personal feed, which only you can access.

You can publish the screenshots that you want to share to a public feed that anyone can access or to a group feed that only people you invite can access. You can use group feeds to share information with your team, perform group research, get design feedback, and to report bugs.

Install Screenshots

Screenshots is available as a browser extension on Chrome and Firefox. We will be releasing a Safari version as soon as a Safari bug is fixed by Apple. You can install the extension by going to the Screenshots installation page. Once installed, you will be able to quickly take and share screenshots of web pages without leaving your browser. There’s no need to remember keyboard shortcuts or launch a separate screen capture app.

We would love to hear how you are making use of Screenshots and how we can make it work better for you so please share them with us!

Happy Screenleaping!
The Screenleap Team

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