David Lee King
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 spoken in the U.S. and Canada about emerging trends, website usability and management, digital ...
David’s Video of the Computers in Libraries 2007 InfoTubey Awards
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At the Computers in Libraries 2007 conference, Information Today held the first InfoTubey Awards. From their website, “[the Infotubey] awards will be ...
Straw Tricks at the Computers in Libraries 2007 post conference
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I taught a post conference session with David Free at the 2007 Computers in Libraries conference on podcasting and videoblogging, and we needed something to videotape. here’s our video!
ps - this is my attempt to post it - ...
Straw Tricks at the Computers in Libraries 2007 Post Conference
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I taught a post conference session with David Free at the 2007 Computers in Libraries conference on podcasting and videoblogging, and we needed something to videotape.
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Topeka’s Second Life Library
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library has been developing a Life presence. We have a storefront building in CybraryCity, so we formed a library committee to figure out what to do with it. This post explains what we’ve done so far.
Last night, ...
Tracking SXSW with Netvibes
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SXSW is this week! For those of you not familiar with SXSW, it’s a very cool “content” conference. It used to be pretty much just focused on music, but in recent years it’s also included film and ...
Podcast with Jon Udell, Ed Vielmetti, and John Blyberg
I haven’t even listened to this yet - mainly trying to remember it for when I have time to download and listen. But with those three names, it’s gotta be interesting!
Here’s the link to the podcast…
ALA Midwinter 2007: It can be confusing!
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ALA Midwinter was a big conference - one that had many meetings in many different hotels. To the right is a video of me trying (almost unsuccessfully) to get to a program at the conference. I was confused - the hotel the program ...
Michael, david and DDR
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Michael Porter and I decided to test out DDR, which was set up at ALA’s Techsource booth at the ALA Midwinter meeting just held in Seattle, WA. As you can see from the video, we had a good ...
My First Second Life Video
This is my first attempt at making a movie using the Life movie tools, and it came out ok. In the video, I’m sitting down and chatting with Stephen Mandelbrot in Cybrary City. Take a peek!I have to admit - I felt kinda odd doing that! The chair had ...
Library Catalog Usability and a Test of CamStudio
I am playing with CamStudio, and needed to create a short screencast, so…
At the same time, I was looking at Sirsi/Dynix Horizon sites, and found something slightly amusing (to me, anyway) and thought I’d share.
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David’s internet Librarian 2006 Wrap-up
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I usually do a conference wrap-up post after Internet Librarian… this year, I decided to post in a videoblog format.Enjoy!
IL2006 Day 2: My Introduction to Videoblogging Video
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I spoke at Internet Librarian 2006 on videoblogging (among other things), and took a quick video as an example of videoblogging. Here’s the Video!
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For a Future Videoblog Presentation
Some videos I’ll be showing as examples in a couple of upcoming videoblog presentations:
David Lee King - Sidewalk Art
Steve Garfield - I Can’t Open It: Progresso Soup
Michael Verdi - Experiment 2
One in the Hand - Speed Dialing/Shortcut ...
Celebrating My Second Blogging Anniversary with a Song
For my blogging anniversary, I’m not going to spew y’all with boring numbers about how popular my posts are, how many people subscribe, etc. Instead, I’m going to give you some good, old-fashioned entertainment (well, maybe not ...
Check out Gliffy
Really - go check Gliffy out (also mentioned by Stephen Abram and the Librarian in Black). Now. Especially if you are in charge of your library’s website or mess around with web design.
What is Gliffy? Gliffy is a free, online version of ...
David’s First Experiment with Screencasting
I’ve wanted to play around with screencasting for awhile now, and recently when looking at job ads, it dawned on me - why not make a screencast of some bad website usability? That way, I can test out screencasting and at the same time, provide ...
Example of Using Video for Library Events
I’m still experimenting with video, as you can see here. This was taken today, at my library’s First Fridays event. This month, we had a band performing on the stairs to our way-cool library parking garage. We also had free hotdogs and an ...
Better Microphones for Podcasting
In my post on Pointers for Successful Webcasting, I mentioned buying a better microphone, and also going one step further and setting up a podcasting studio as ways to improve your podcast and webcast sound quality. This post goes into a little more ...
Better Microphones for Podcasting
In my post on Pointers for Successful Webcasting, I mentioned buying a better microphone, and also going one step further and setting up a podcasting studio as ways to improve your podcast and webcast sound quality. This post goes into a little more ...