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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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 650 video – it doesn’t pick up sound (as in, my voice) very well. I’ll have to see if I can figure that one out a little better (hmm… one of those earpiece/speaker combo things for cell phones?).
Anyway – enjoy.
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 projections for the next year, and about his trip with the Urban Libraries Council to Singapore and Hong Kong. Then a comedy troupe performed for us for about an hour, and did all sorts of team building types of skits (yes, that involved us).
Then we had a set of breakout sessions. I was one of those – I did a shortened version of my Introduction to Web 2.0 presentation – it went well, with lots of questions and comments the rest of the day.
Other morning breakout sessions – View from the Other Side of the Counter: Managing Customer Service Perspectives, Creating Stress Resilience, See No Movies? Hear No Music? Speak No Catalog?, and Kansas City Hot Spots. Three IT staffers did the “See No Movies” session – they focused on new things to do on our public PCs, like how to download an MP3 file, how to burn a CD, etc.
Lunch came next, along with a gaming demonstration – DDR (Dance Dance Revolution Extreme, to be exact) for anyone who wanted to experience it. Everyone thought it was extremely fun (or funny, depending on one’s point of view). As you can see from the photo, there was definitely a crowd!
Then afternoon breakout sessions. Crystal, who attended the Gaming in Libraries conference in December, spoke about games, and what our gaming taskforce is planning to submit to management group. Great presentation, and it really got a lot of staff talking and thinking about games, programming around games, and what our library can do to reach out to the gaming community.
Other afternoon breakout sessions? Let’s Play Yan-Koloba, Healthy Habits, Storytelling Adventures, and a tour of the Central Library.
Then more food – check out this video of the two chocolate fondue pots that were set up! After the short break, we participated in a team-building exercize, then had a closing Q&A time with the director, gave out awards, and held a raffle.
In general, here’s what went on: change, Web 2.0, gaming, new technology, customer service, and team-building. Yes, and food. All great things to talk about in a library!
What does your library do? Is there time for staff to get together, discuss possibilities for the next year, learn something new, and celebrate doing a good job as a team? If not, I’d suggest starting – what’s not to love about these things?
Ok – very silly test video, I know. Nonetheless:
Reading all these, I can see a way to sum it up – cheap video is capable of capturing the moment – it will capture the relevant info, so you can use it later as supplementary material (for whatever you’re doing).
Update: Gee, Dave… it helps to actually include the link to the video…
Some of you will get a kick out of this. I just got a mention on Rocketboom, a techie, newsie videoblog (an extremely popular one, too).
Remember those Blogging Delivered billboards I posted about a day or two ago? The Rocketboom folks also found them interesting – and included one of my pics in their January 10 videoblog! They linked to my flickr account, too.
My wife just chuckled, and accused me of blogging about a videoblog that blogged about my flickr feed blogging billboards… that I blogged about… (ahem – sorry – just a little giddy with squeamish videoblogging delight).