A blog by Tella

Articles about Tella, its community, and all things video-communication.
Because sometimes words are just fine. 📚

October 20, 2021

3 Ways to Convert Slides to Video

Convert your slides to video using Tella. Use PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, PDFs, or images. Great for simple screen recordings, polished video presentations, or basic slideshows.

Grant Shaddick

September 17, 2021

How to create a video knowledge base for your MVP

You've hacked together an MVP. Now it's time to hack together some help docs. But writing a bunch of detailed docs for a fledgling product is overkill. Learn how video-based documentation can help instead.

Grant Shaddick

September 1, 2021

How to Create and Sell a Course with Tella & Podia

Course creation is all the rage right now. And today's tools mean you can launch a course in half a day. Learn how to record lessons in Tella and how to create and publish a course website on Podia. 💸

Grant Shaddick

July 13, 2021

How to Record Your Screen on Chromebook

Screen recording has become an essential way for teachers to communicate with students. The rise in popularity of remote and virtual learning has meant that teachers need to start wearing another hat: video content creator. Learn how about the different ways to record your screen on a Chromebook.

Grant Shaddick

January 29, 2021

How Open Scout Onboarded 50 People Across 6 Timezones

Learn how Open Scout onboarded a 50+ person team across 6 timezones, using async videos in Tella. Before last year's launch, Adam and his team needed to onboard scouts across six different timezones. For the new recruits, joining Open Scout meant getting familiar with the company, and learning about the world of venture capital and startups. With such a big group and so much content Adam's team was faced with a challenge more akin to online education than VC.

Grant Shaddick

January 21, 2021

How Draftbit Scaled User Onboarding with a Video Knowledge Base

Learn how Draftbit built a video knowledge base on Tella to scale their onboarding and activate new users.

Grant Shaddick

October 21, 2020

Tips to improve your home video setup

Free tips, tricks, and gear suggestions to optimise your home video setup for 2021. Lighting, cameras, mics, and more. For content creators, startup founders, and remote workers to look, sound, and present better on video.

Grant Shaddick

August 21, 2020

Tella Participates in YC Summer 2020

We've got some pretty cool news to share: Tella has been part of the latest Y Combinator batch! Yup, the first fully remote batch. There weren't many dinners in Mountain View, instead there was a lot of Zoom. 😄

Grant Shaddick

August 12, 2020

Tella for Sales Teams

Sending cold emails can be rough. Learn how using video can improve your conversion, and scale your outreach.

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