You too can You Tube!
I selected this short video, which captures the heart beat of Toronto sublimely...
This Library vid was a clip taken from the excellent spoof movie UHF by Weird Al Yankovic:
But this short one is a great public service ad for libraries:
This short advertisement would be a great deal of fun to emulate for TPL, perhaps starring Dewey, our KidsSpace mascot. Now that YouTube has a Canadian version, it might be possible to highlight our showcase branches to students, newcomers and other Toronto residents who may not realize all TPL has to offer. However, it would have to be tastefully done and that isn't cheap. In our cash-strapped city, this might be a more cost efficient marketing ploy than the lame "The library isn't a fad" trapped-in-the-Sixities poster campaign.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Friday, November 2, 2007
23 Things Assignment #7
Podcasting
I finally had a reason to get around to listening to Mugglecast. When you go to the recommended list site for podcasts, on the right sidebar is a list of the TopTen Podcasts, and, sure enough, Mugglecast was there. It's broadcast by the people behind Mugglenet.com, one of the top Harry Potter fan websites out there.
So I sat at my desk for a little listen... 90 minutes! The podcast is 90 minutes long. So, basically, I listened to the intro, the ads and the opening theme and a few bits of the commentators gasping over the Dumbledore Revelation. I will go back to this.
I tried a few more of the podcast recommendations.
Cinema Slave was rather interesting. I did love the ad for a Doctor Who podcast. It was a good intro to the kinds of special effects this media supports. This podcaster had sound clips of the movie he was reviewing and promised trailers and news updates. Again, it was quite long so I only listened for a short while.
Anime World Order's description sounded good but features far too many obscure movies and rather amatuerish interviews with creators to be too interesting.
When I was adding the podcasts to the Bloglines Feeds, I looked into my ComiPress Manga News RSS to discover there was a brand new MangaCast. I subscribed but that cast was not supported by our networks, needing more DIVx decoding and such or subscriptions to i-Tunes or its ilk.
One thing I discovered on this blocked podcast was that podcasts post text scripts of the contents, maybe to help people reviewing, quoting or just having a had time understanding the dialogue.
I finally had a reason to get around to listening to Mugglecast. When you go to the recommended list site for podcasts, on the right sidebar is a list of the TopTen Podcasts, and, sure enough, Mugglecast was there. It's broadcast by the people behind Mugglenet.com, one of the top Harry Potter fan websites out there.
So I sat at my desk for a little listen... 90 minutes! The podcast is 90 minutes long. So, basically, I listened to the intro, the ads and the opening theme and a few bits of the commentators gasping over the Dumbledore Revelation. I will go back to this.
I tried a few more of the podcast recommendations.
Cinema Slave was rather interesting. I did love the ad for a Doctor Who podcast. It was a good intro to the kinds of special effects this media supports. This podcaster had sound clips of the movie he was reviewing and promised trailers and news updates. Again, it was quite long so I only listened for a short while.
Anime World Order's description sounded good but features far too many obscure movies and rather amatuerish interviews with creators to be too interesting.
When I was adding the podcasts to the Bloglines Feeds, I looked into my ComiPress Manga News RSS to discover there was a brand new MangaCast. I subscribed but that cast was not supported by our networks, needing more DIVx decoding and such or subscriptions to i-Tunes or its ilk.
One thing I discovered on this blocked podcast was that podcasts post text scripts of the contents, maybe to help people reviewing, quoting or just having a had time understanding the dialogue.
23 Things Assignment #6
Office Tools
A friend who is a high-up corporate administrative assistant said that her organization uses Google Docs all the time and I can see how it would be helpful in a setting where many departments may have to contribute.
I haven't yet been invited to the class group doc nor has 23Things made any additions to my doc so I cannot comment much on the experience.
However, the other librarian at my branch is also doing these assignments and google docs won't take her addition to the group document because, apparently, there's no connection to the website??? Sigh. We've had dropped circ sessions and slowing shared drive access for the past few days.
It just goes to prove that a good tool like google docs is only as good as the speed, bandwidth, and connectivity of the network being used.
A friend who is a high-up corporate administrative assistant said that her organization uses Google Docs all the time and I can see how it would be helpful in a setting where many departments may have to contribute.
I haven't yet been invited to the class group doc nor has 23Things made any additions to my doc so I cannot comment much on the experience.
However, the other librarian at my branch is also doing these assignments and google docs won't take her addition to the group document because, apparently, there's no connection to the website??? Sigh. We've had dropped circ sessions and slowing shared drive access for the past few days.
It just goes to prove that a good tool like google docs is only as good as the speed, bandwidth, and connectivity of the network being used.
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