Hey - just me, testing out the embed part of the new flickr video option. The what??? If you haven t heard - flickr now allows video uploads for pro members (translation - those who have paid $30 a year for a flickr pro account). The limitations? Not overly produced (I think the idea is to upload those videos people take with their phones); 90 seconds max in length (you can do a lot in that time frame); and only certain video formats are allowed - if you re interested, you can read more about the specifics here.

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Formats: Quicktime | iPod Quick video of the How to Rawk SXSW, just to give you a flavor of the first session. The lighting was pretty cool, and they found an accordion player who plays popular tunes on his accordion. Here, he s singing an AC/DC song - he also closed the session by sing Hit Me Baby One More Time by Britney Spears.

YouTube | QuickTime David Free and I gave a preconference on podcasting and videoblogging at Internet Librarian 2007 - it was a blast. This video was created by the attendees - class-takers did the filming, volunteered to be talent and the video shows the podcasting part - someone did the voiceovers and someone else edited the podcast. And here s the pdf file for my part of the presentation. Enjoy!

Michael Porter made a Meebo chat room for Internet Librarian 2007 - let s see if I can embed it in this blog post

YouTube version | MP3 I recorded a new song and video for y all! This song is all about social networking and how people are using the emerging social web to connect with each other, to communicate and in my case, to sing songs to my blog readers. When writing the song, I was thinking about facebook, twitter, MySpace, and all the social connections that are happening 24/7 - I find it extremely fascinating. Social Digital Global Shift by David Lee King I haven t seen her since high school never thought I d see her again but yesterday I got a facebook request she asked to be my friend so I took a little time to catch up browsed through her photobucket and blog I watched some funny videos of her kids and then I wrote this song cause it s a social digital revolution social digital relationship social digital communication it s a social digital global shift I have friends around the world they re growing globally some of them live in Saskatchewan while others live in D.C. Enjoy!

Last Saturday morning, I gave a keynote at the LITA Forum - very fun crowd! So, as promised, here s a pdf of my slides. But wait - there s more! Why not browse through the slides while listening to the podcast version of my talk? If you think that s fun we can even go one further how about listening to the Q t attend and other interested dudes. Enjoy!

Quicktime version | YouTube version I ve owned an iPhone for about two months now, and thought I d make a video sharing my likes and dislikes.Dislikes: Stocks icon - works great, but I could care less about the stock market, so it s not terribly useful to me Calendar - again works great but I have a work calendar and an everything else calendar so I have both synced up to Google Calendar. That works fine. Usually. [translation=I haven t quite figured it all out yet]. Likes: Pretty much everything else. Ease-of-use is awesome. Included apps are great. I originally thought I d get a Treo, but waited for the iPhone to come out to see what it was like and haven t been disappointed! Update: I had a little trouble viewing the video, so I ve been playing around with it. It should work now! And there s a .mov and a YouTube version now, too.

The SirsiDynix Institute presentation I gave with Thad Hartman on August 14 went well! Here’s a link to the presentation (audio and screencast/video). As usual with these webcasts, there wasn t enough time to get to all the questions at the end, but Sirsi/Dynix sent me the questions that were asked… and here they are, with answers: Question: Do you have use statistics to share with us for your online / digital initiatives? e.g. How much use or users? Answer: Not yet – our new site isn’t up yet! On our current website, we have approximately 30,000 visits per month. We get an additional 30,000 visits on our various public blogs. Question: How can a reluctant director be convinced to offer computer classes in the library? He feels that other than catalog instruction, computer classes are not the purpose of the library. Answer: Placing gobs of patron requests for computer classes in front of manager’s and director’s and board member’s faces is one way to do it. Admin likes numbers. Question: What sort of staff involvement is required to maintain physical and digital displays, blogs, etc. And Question: How much staff time is spent on the digital side of this project? Answer: On the digital side – we have a number of staff working on our digital branch. We have: Two full-time web workers, one focused on design and maintenance, and one focused on programming We have a “Creative Group” made up of the two web workers and our two graphic designers. They focus on design and access issues We have a Digital Branch Taskforce make up of about 10 staff who are making decisions on the redesign And… we have all of our library staff, who will potentially be content developers (some already are). Question: David, if you remember can you post the public library with the community wiki, so we can have a look please? Answer: It’s the SCRLD Wiki Project, at http://www.scrldwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page - created by the Stevens County Rural Library District. Here’s what they say about the project: “The wiki project is dedicated to creating an online wiki guide to Stevens County, Washington, USA. We hope that all of you who know and love the area will contribute your knowledge to the wiki and all our visitors may learn more about Stevens County. If you like this site, please tell your friends! The more people who get involved, the better this guide will be.” Question: Some communities, probably mostly in schools, are reluctant to embrace 2.0 technologies. How does a librarian change those attitudes? Answer: Ultimately, you might not be able to change the school’s attitudes. You can certainly meet with school officials and show them “the rest of the story.” For example… if you block MySpace, and the local public library has a MySpace presence, the school is ultimately blocking the library (and that’s certainly NOT their intent). So education is one good way to tackle it. Also simply providing access to 2.0 technologies yourself is a great way to tackle it – kids can’t get to 2.0 sites at school, but they can learn about them and use them at the library. You could even partner with teachers to do this – for example, my library has partnered with a local high school on Second Life projects – they supply the kids, we supply the PCs and the SL island. Question: I have seen a lot of interesting ideas on the digital branch. How do you check if your clients use these new ideas? And how do you know they like it? Answer: We ask and we observe. Asking = focus groups (which we are holding in September). Observing = watching what patrons use on your library’s public computers. At my library, we see patrons using FaceBook MySpace, gaming sites, YouTube, Meebo (a web-based instant messaging service), etc… so we know they are familiar with 2.0 tools. Question: I browsed the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library website during your presentation, and I noticed that one way you connect to your users is by encouraging them to complete a reading interest survey and then providing them with a customized, personalized reading list. Has this been well-received by your users? Answer: Yes! It’s a great service, and the patrons that are using it really like it. And like most libraries, I don’t think we have heavily marketed that service… but then, we are in the midst of writing a new marketing plan, too – so this will hopefully change. Question: How often do you have to scrub comments - moderate? Answer: We currently moderate all comments – I’m not certain how often we have to edit them (I don’t think we generally have to edit). Question: How much have you used social networking sites, such as Facebook, to promote library services and to achieve the goals of your library? Please give examples, if any. Answer: We currently use MySpace (here, here, here, and here), YouTube, and Flickr. One big goal of our library is to create a Digital Branch, and we are using these tools to help us do that. And don t forget that this presentation was the first in a two-part series! Next up on September 18: Dump the Org. Chart: Get `Er Done!: Management for a 2.0 Library by Gina Millsap and Rob Banks.

Yesterday, I participated in the LITA BIGWIG Social Software Showcase. It was very cool! The Showcase had more of an unconference feel, which was nice. So rather than doing a formal presentation with a brief Q and A at the end, I created a screencast of my presentation (linked above) about cool Twitter add-ons, and then at the Showcase David Free and I sat at a table and had good conversations with interested attendees. We talked about a range of things, from Twitter to Facebook to other techie topics. I think ALA could use some more of these my guess is the interest groups and poster sessions are supposed to cover this type of ground, but I m not sure they re achieving that. The Showcase DID achieve it. So let s definitely have more! ala2007 twitter bigwigshowcase07