I think online video has great potential in libraries as training tools for both staff and public. Handouts and procedures are often either too simplistic or too hard to comprehend easily.
Watching short clips lets you take the information in easily and can be supported by the handouts or procedures. I’m not sure about quality. Is it better to have something up as long as it gets your point across? So many things that we see look so professional I would be embarrassed to put anything up that I produced as it wouldn’t look very good…..
How could we use it in libraries?
The 3 obvious option are to
1. promote services by creating short introductions/training clips
2. promote books via book trailers
3. promote our events by posting past ones.
eg:
Sunday, January 16, 2011
I now have a Twitter account http://twitter.com/#!/brucie995 and have posted my first tweet and also sent my first retweet!
I think I will have to come back and edit this post after I've had a play for a couple of days. Not too sure yet what to make of Twitter. My only experience so far is when I've followed some posts online to with regards to conferences that I've not been able to attend. Have generally found those posts hard to follow as for me they were "out of context" and full of abbreviations.
I think I will have to come back and edit this post after I've had a play for a couple of days. Not too sure yet what to make of Twitter. My only experience so far is when I've followed some posts online to with regards to conferences that I've not been able to attend. Have generally found those posts hard to follow as for me they were "out of context" and full of abbreviations.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Facebook has changed so much since I last used it regularily, I can't quickly wrap my head around it. I think it has gr8 potential as a communications tool.
It's been about 18 months since I last really logged on. Because I don't have internet at home, and had a commute to work of about 1 hour to 1 and a half hours I found all of the pokes and game request really annoying to wade through.
I would like to start playing with it again, because i would like to understand all of the new features - facebook likes to copy other websites that are doing good things with technology, like geolocation ......
I also need to wrap my head around who can see what nowdays. Facebook keeps amending the privacy settings - so that mine are differnet to what I originally set and I think nowdays friends of friends can see my posts.....
Not sure - that's why I need to play and research....
It's been about 18 months since I last really logged on. Because I don't have internet at home, and had a commute to work of about 1 hour to 1 and a half hours I found all of the pokes and game request really annoying to wade through.
I would like to start playing with it again, because i would like to understand all of the new features - facebook likes to copy other websites that are doing good things with technology, like geolocation ......
I also need to wrap my head around who can see what nowdays. Facebook keeps amending the privacy settings - so that mine are differnet to what I originally set and I think nowdays friends of friends can see my posts.....
Not sure - that's why I need to play and research....
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