Video Coolness at My Library

Have you been thinking about diving into video? Confused about where to begin? Here are some ideas, taken from the highly creative people that work at my library.
First off, the William Allen White booktalks. What are they? From our Papercuts blog: “Traditionally, the Kansas William Allen White (WAW) book award nominee booktalks have been performed [...]

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 [...]

IL2007, Day 3: Do You Need a Videographer?

Nick Baker
He started out by taking a digital storytelling workshop. That started him paying attention to storytelling in film.
Anyone can do this! Nick is not a professional videographer - he’s a reference and web services librarian who took a class or two on video and (more importantly) had an interest.
His administrators support him - even [...]

How’s the iPhone Working Out?

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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 [...]

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 presented to those organizations or individuals for outstanding YouTube productions. Premiering at the 2007 Computers in Libraries conference, these awards recognize those creating YouTube library-related productions. [...]

Great Video Resource

I just found this great article on the online video industry (from the Read/WriteWeb). The author discusses online video, and divides the online video industry into handy categories:

Video Sharing
Intermediaries
Video Search
Video eCommerce
Video Editing & Creation
Rich Media Advertising
P2P (Peer To Peer)
Video Streaming
Vlogosphere

Each category has example websites/links - go explore!

How David Makes Videos

From comments on my ALA Midwinter 2007: It Can Be Confusing post, Nancy Dowd asks:
“David, What great quality video - what kind of camera did you use? Any hints on how you posted the video?”
Cool question, and thanks! Here’s what I do:

I currently use a Sanyo Xacti HD1A camcorder (here’s a great review of the [...]

John Edwards announces his Presidency Via YouTube

Check this out - John Edwards is using YouTube to announce his presidency. And if that’s not enough, he’s also “invited” some webbish 2.0 types down to New Orleans with him to, well, do their thing (ie., Robert Scoble has been blogging about it and plans to shoot video, and the Rocketboom folks actually filmed [...]

Funny Youtube Video about a Crazy Librarian

Update: Embedding did something odd, so I’m just linking for now.
I’ve never attempted embedding a Youtube video into my posts, so I’m trying that out in this post. And - this video is funny! It looks like it was made by some high school students - all about a crazy librarian who kills students that [...]

Web Video Cheat Sheet

Here’s a great list of video hosting sites (61 of them, to be exact). The list includes:

website name and URL
If the service offers video editing capability
the file size limit
cost
if you can keep a video private
if it requires a software download
general comments

The only other thing I’d like to see on this list is if the [...]

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