David Lee King

David Lee King is the Digital Branch & Services Manager at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, where he plans, implements, and experiments with emerging technology trends. He has sp...

Climbing Out of the Box Mashing Up Our Community View more presentations from David King. I spoke at the Massachusetts Library Association conference today - fun time! Here’s the Slideshare version of my presentation - moved from traditional mas...

Early this week I gave a version of my trends and transformations talk to the Kansas Historical Society and Archives staff. They’re doing some pretty cool things with podcasting, experimenting with video, and blogging. Here’s the talk: Emer...

… and I gave two breakout sessions. Here’s the first one: Setting up the New Stuff: Planning & Implementing Library 2.0 View more presentations from David King. And here’s the : Emerging Trends and Change: Guiding Libraries Throu...

I also gve three presentations at Lincoln City Libraries in Lincoln, Nebraska. Great staff - very energetic! My keynote session was titled “The Future is Not Out of Reach: Trends and Transformation.” Here’s the Slideshare version: The...

This week, I spoke in a couple different places… I visited Florida and lead a couple of SEFLIN workshops. Great fun! The first talk was all about Mashups: Climbing Out of the Box: Mashing up our Community View more presentations from David King. ...

I just finished a webcast presentation for the SirsiDynix Institute titled Tinkering in the Techie Toybox: Staying on Top of Consumer Technology. As promised, here are some links mentioned in the presentation: Topeka & Shawnee County Public Librar...

Just gave this presentation at the Hawaii Library Association yesterday. Managers Pay Attention! Why Social Networking and Web 2.0 is Important for your Library View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web 2.0) Share: ...

One of the two big presentations I gave at the Hawaii Library Association, all about Web 2.0 tools and services, how kids and teens are already using these things, and how librarians need to be learning them, too. Go Go Gadget!!! Technology, Trends, an...

This is a pecha kucha format presentation I gave at Internet Librarian 2008 and also at the Hawaii Library Association annual conference. Enjoy! The Librarian IS the Product View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: promotion promoting) ...

Designing The Digital Experience View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: digitalexperience digital) Here are my slides from my Designing the Digital Experience presentation… enjoy! Share:

The Future is Not Out of Reach: Trends, Transformations and Accessibility View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web 2.0) Here’s the presentation I used in Spain, for those interested. The shorter version stopped at slide 26 - t...

I spoke at the Allen County Public Library’s Library Camp 2008 on Tuesday - what a blast! It was a good day - full of learning, speaking, and great ideas being discussed. I also enjoyed hanging out with some cool people - a mix of Allen County s...

Think it’s only geeky librarians like me that use social media tools like Twitter or YouTube or wikis, and your community isn’t really there yet? Think again. Here are two examples of people in my local community (Topeka, KS), engaging wit...

You HAVE to watch the amazing cool music video Michael Porter and I made!!! Here it is: And go to Michael’s blip.tv account for a larger version of the video. Want the MP3? Find it here and at last.fm Go read Michael’s post for the nitty-g...

From Michael’s last post you can see that Michael and I recorded a snappy little library song last week. We are really proud of the work we’ve produced and now YOU get a chance to be in the video!! It’s a jumpy little ditty about library ...

Some of you probably saw me wandering around ALA2008 with a Flip video camera… well, here’s why: ALA let me borrow one of their cameras! Daniel Kraus, the guy behind most of the videos on AL Focus (a cool blog from ALA) lent me one of their...

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...

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Click To Play 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 acco...