CIL2008, Preconference: Podcasting & Videocasting Bootcamp

David Free and I had a great time with our preconference workshop yesterday. Here’s a link to my presentation, and David Free’s post on the session (includes a link to his presentation and a link to the podcast we made). And of course, the video we made is at the top of this post.

PLA 2008 Day 1: Take Your Online Services to the Next Level: Audio, Video and More!

Speaker: Michelle Jeske
Why - make connections with a new audience.
Sunnyvale public library podcasts - audio and video broadcasts… cool! Nice looking site - blog-based
Charlotte and Mecklenberg example - LibraryLoft author presentation
NYPL example (they’re really been transforming lately - fun to watch)
Denver Public Library- Stories for Kids podcasts- teen tech week - podcasts created by teens [...]

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Cell Phone to Podcast Tools

I’ve been looking into mobile podcasting tools, specifically services that allow you to post podcasts to a blog from your cell phone. Here’s a list of tools I’ve found that do this:

Gcast - run by the people behind GarageBand (I actually have some scary bad songs somewhere on GarageBand)
TalkShoe - seems to do this and [...]

IL2007: Podcasting & Videoblogging Bootcamp

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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 [...]

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 second attempt to post it - something went wrong the first time around… update: and it worked! Yippie!
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Straw Tricks at the Computers in Libraries 2007 Post Conference

Update - ok - this post didn’t work… but I reposted the video, and everything worked THIS time. The REAL Straw Tricks post can be found here. Thanks for everyone’s patience!

Update on ALA’s District Dispatch Podcast

Remember awhile back, when I posted about ALA’s District Dispatch blog? Jenny Levine commented (among others) - which is good, because she “has the power” (said with that superhero echoey effect) to fix that kind of thing.
And she did! today I can successfully listen to and download the audio file manually, and I can also [...]

It’s NOT a Podcast, ALA!

I was just getting ready to dump the ALA District Dispatch feed into iTunes and/or just download their podcast… but I can’t.
Why? Well - first of all, there’s no direct link to the audio file in the post. And second - because it’s not a podcast (see Greg Schwartz’s way cool Podcasting: An Introduction for [...]

Podcast from Topeka

Take a peek at this blog post from my new employer (Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library). They made a podcast! But not only did they create a podcast and drop it on their Papercuts blog… they made a podcast called “What the Director is Reading” - and recorded Gina Millsap, the library director, talking [...]

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