I spent the afternoon reading the blogs of other librarians engaged in Web 2.o exploration. I saw some great blog pages and found some interesting ideas. I hope the library will use some of our discoveries-- Twitter, RSS feeds, LibraryThing--to better our service to the patrons. Librarians are already using some web 2.0 featues on their own, such as sharing LibraryThing accounts with patrons (I know Book Pusher does this). But none of it has been used system wide. Hmmm. . . . Maybe we should keep all this quiet or there will be some new entries to the Policies and Procedures Manual and more rules to follow! Shhhh. . . .
And I think I'm going to have to get me a great avatar like Happier Blue has (but with a cat, of course).
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
I haven't posted to this blog since I started playing around with Twitter. I'm now following and being followed by several library staff and friends and it is fun to get little tweets or microblogs during the day. The branches are so isolated from each other but with Titter you can find out that one branch is really busy with school kids and that another branch is having a pizza party. If there were a way to have a branch or system twitter, it would be an efficient way to broadcast brief information system wide. For example, announcing a branch's phones are down or their electricity is out. But since Twitter is designed to be person to person, I'm not sure how well that would work.
At first, I didn't realize that it is normal to be followed by complete strangers. I freaked out and blocked the first unknown person who was following me. My husband informed my that I'm not supposed to do that. Poor etiquette. I'm sorry, whoever you are! Now several other strangers are following me, but I've decided not to follow them. I think it is more fun when you know people. You can see that I figured out how to embed my tweets in my blog.
At first, I didn't realize that it is normal to be followed by complete strangers. I freaked out and blocked the first unknown person who was following me. My husband informed my that I'm not supposed to do that. Poor etiquette. I'm sorry, whoever you are! Now several other strangers are following me, but I've decided not to follow them. I think it is more fun when you know people. You can see that I figured out how to embed my tweets in my blog.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Sneaks Live!
Today at work I turned the Sneaks video clips into a movie using Windows Movie Maker. It was really easy and only took about 40 minutes. Then I posted it to our Area Programming Blog. That blog is restricted to library staff, so I figured it would be okay. Now I need to get a CD so I can burn a copy to give to the school. I will surprise Book Pusher with the video tomorrow. Movie Maker has a special effects feature that allowed me to rotate the movie back to vertical. Viewers will no longer get a crick in the neck!
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Annabelle on the deck
Okay, I've set up YouTube so that I can post videos directly to my blog. Let's see if this works. . . It seems to work, but if I try to edit it once inside blogger, it gets all messed up. So don't touch!
My First Youtube Video
Well, I uploaded this video to Youtube but can't get it to connect to my blog from there. However, it seems to upload okay from my computer. Hmmmm. . . Here is Annabelle enjoying a good roll on the warm steps:
Disappointment
I went to work yesterday morning with the intention of saving the video clips to my flash drive and bringing them home to play with today. Then I was dismayed to discover that my library issued flash drive is 8 MB and the smallest clip is 40 MB. hmmmmm. And we didn't have any blank CDs in the branch either. I thought about making a short shopping trip on my lunch hour, but it was about to rain cats and dogs out there so I stayed put.
When I got home, (minus the video clips) it occurred to me that I own a fancy pants digital SLR that I've only used 1% of the features of. Surely it must have video too, like Book Pusher's camera. But it does not do video. . . .so I dug out my old Nikon Coolpix and it was a miracle: video! But the battery needs to be charged since I haven't used it in about a year.
So today I'm going to make a video of my cats and upload it to youtube and then link it to this blog. This blog is supposed to be anonymous, and what could be more anonymous than adding another cat video to the billions already out there? Except that this video is of my precious sweeties. So now I'm waiting for the battery to charge. Then my cats have to do something faintly interesting. My husband says youtube is full of videos of sleeping cats. My cats can to that--piece of cake!
When I got home, (minus the video clips) it occurred to me that I own a fancy pants digital SLR that I've only used 1% of the features of. Surely it must have video too, like Book Pusher's camera. But it does not do video. . . .so I dug out my old Nikon Coolpix and it was a miracle: video! But the battery needs to be charged since I haven't used it in about a year.
So today I'm going to make a video of my cats and upload it to youtube and then link it to this blog. This blog is supposed to be anonymous, and what could be more anonymous than adding another cat video to the billions already out there? Except that this video is of my precious sweeties. So now I'm waiting for the battery to charge. Then my cats have to do something faintly interesting. My husband says youtube is full of videos of sleeping cats. My cats can to that--piece of cake!
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