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 First Video Podcast!
I said I might do this... and I have made my threat a reality! I have just done my first video podcast (well, technically, it's my one. The first one's a little silly, and was not posted here :-). Complete with the proper RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures. Of ...
Messy Desk (a videoblog post)
Yes, another video (third one, actually - here are links to my first [warning: "just testing" silliness] and [warning: big file], for those extremely interested sorts). My library recently purchased a digital camcorder and video editing software with the ...
Videoblogging with a Treo
I'm playing with my new Treo 650 - and discovered that it takes video. So of course, what do I do when I discover that? Immediately play with it... here's the result of my experiment.
Ok - very silly test video, I know. Nonetheless:
I can capture ...
Videoblogging with a Treo
I’m playing with my new Treo 650 - and discovered that it takes video. So of course, what do I do when I discover that? Immediately play with it… here’s the result of my experiment.
Ok - very silly test video, I know. Nonetheless:
I ...
Annual Staff Day
We just held our annual Staff Day last Friday, and it was a good one! For those interested, here’s some of what we did:
In the morning, we had food (very important at any Staff Day event). Then our library director spoke about change, his ...
CIL2006, Day 0: the Video
I’ll be tossing out some random video this week - they’re all snippets of my time at Computers in Libraries 2006.
This one an exciting narrative of my subway trip into Washington DC.
One thing I’ve noticed rather quickly with the Treo ...
The Braxton Hotel
This is a video of my hotel that you might have read about in this post.
Friendly people, but sort of a dive…
Just sayin’.
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CIL2006, Day 1: The Video
Here’s my little video snippet of Day One at Computers in Libraries 2006. It was a good first day, as you can see in all the blog posts about it! Make sure to go and read about it.
This video includes (not neccesarily in this order):
The ...
CIL2006, Day 2: My Morning Stroll to the Conference
In my continued experiment with the Treo’s video capabilities, I created a video of my morning walk to the conference. Hope you enjoy it!
I’m deciding that Treo video works great to capture snippets of video, useful for things like video ...
CIL2006, Laptops and Notetaking
One final video from the Computers in Libraries 2006 conference. This one is from Paul Miller (the Talis guy) speaking about Web 2.0 and library catalogs.
The video is short - when watching, take a peek at all the laptops! I counted seven of them, and ...
CIL2006 - Slides from My Presentation on Experience Planning
Here’s a link to my slides from my presentation at the Computers in Libraries conference. I presented a session titled “The Basics of Web-Based Experience Planning.” Other people have blogged about it here, here, and here.
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Law Professor Bans Laptops in Class
From this article… a professor has banned the use of laptops in her class. The article says “Professor June Entman says her main concern is that
students are so busy keyboarding they can’t think and analyze what
she’s telling ...
33 Wikis in 33 Days
The eastwikkers blog is running a series on wikis - “33 Wikis in 33 Days.” The goal is to highligh each wiki, briefly describe what the wiki is for, why they like it, and what one can learn from it.
The focus isn’t on the software used ...
The Web 2.0 Awards
The Web 2.0 Awards is a website that has “over 300 web 2.0 sites in 38 categories” - rated and ranked. There’s a winner in each category, and runner-ups are also mentioned.
It’s not always terribly accurate - for example, under ...
Finding Sounds
The LibrarianInBlack posted about the Soundogs sound effects search engine. It seems to be pretty cool… But FindSounds is cooler.
FindSounds is a specialized search engine for sound effects and musical instrument samples. You can specify audio ...
How to Write Blog Post headlines
Gee - mine’s not nearly as good as the original post’s headline: Writing Headlines That Get Results. Go take a peek at this post, though - there are some great suggestions in it about writing better headlines for your blog posts.
The ideas ...
CSS Primer Using Dreamweaver 8
For those library website designers out there who are just starting to experiment with using CSS instead of tables, this article is an excellent place to start.
The article explains how to set up Dreamweaver 8 for CSS styling, and then how to build a ...
Vloggercon 2006!
Who knew? Vloggercon 2006, a conference about videoblogging, is being held on June 10th and 11th in San Francisco.
I like their text: “this is not your average tech conference, kids” … “the theme of Vloggercon 2006 is ...
Penguins at the Omaha Zoo
Update: How funny… this post was SUPPOSED to show up on my fledgling non-library blog, davidleeking.com/etc - not my library techie blog!
I’m doing an “etc” blog to get other non-library stuff out of my head. It will most likely ...