2008 West Coast Tour

Here's a full list of my upcoming presentations for the Fall. They're all in California, but West Coast Tour sounds more impressive than California Tour. Anyone want to make t-shirts?

September 25, 2008: Practical Podcasting and Videocasting (Infopeople Workshop). Alameda County Library, Fremont, CA.

October 19, 2008: Podcasting and Videocasting Bootcamp (Preconference Workshop w/ David Lee King). Internet Librarian 2008.

October 24, 2008: Practical Podcasting and Videocasting (Infopeople Workshop). California State Library, Sacramento, CA.

November 6, 2008: Practical Podcasting and Videocasting (Infopeople Workshop). Buena Park Library District, Buena Park, CA.

November 7, 2008: Practical Podcasting and Videocasting (Infopeople Workshop). San Diego County Library Headquarters, San Diego, CA.

December 3, 2008: Practical Podcasting and Videocasting (Infopeople Workshop). Mountain View Public Library, Mountain View, CA

December 5, 2008: Practical Podcasting and Videocasting (Infopeople Workshop). Monterey Park Brugemeister Library, Monterey Park, CA.

I'm pretty excited about the Infopeople podcasting workshops. They'll be very hands-on, all day affairs. So if you are in any of the above areas of California and would like to learn about podcasting and videocasting, head over to the Infopeople website and register. They're remarkably affordable as well.

Also, if you have any tips for food/ drink in any of the above areas, please let me know.

Internet Librarian Props

Hello again. I've been meaning to kick the proverbial blog tires lately and see if it'll still start. I was incredibly overwhelmed by work in the time leading up to Annual and it has taken me a little bit of time (and a few well earned vacation days) to get back to semi-normal. And honestly, my interest in blogging, and most online social activity really, has waned in the past few months. Although it is starting to return. But more on that another time.

I do have another round of presentations coming up, including another edition of the Podcasting and Videocasting Bootcamp that Mr. David Lee King and I have done for the last few Internet Librarian and Computers in Libraries conferences. Sam over at infodoodads talked about our session at the last IL the other day, saying it was the inspiration for his One Minute Critic videoblog. Very cool! I'm always excited to hear about new podcasts and videocasts that come out of our sessions. The post also gives some great reasons to use blip.tv, aside from it being Dave and Dave Show approved. Thanks very much for the nice words, Sam, and great job on the videoblog!

I'll have several more West Coast Fall Tour dates available in the near future when they are officially online.

NJLA2008: Practical Podcasting Preconference

Thanks to everyone who came out to the "Practical Podcasting" preconference session at the New Jersey Library Association conference today. There were a couple of technical issues, but hopefully everyone learned a little about podcasting and videocasting in libraries. Here are my slides, complete with the images that freaked out as a result of the PowerPoint crash. Additional information, including links to podcasts we discussed, is available on my wiki.

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The audio recording part went great. All of the "talent" and technical folks did a great job. I'll get the video finished and online tomorrow. Sorry again for the technical problems!

I had a blast talking to everyone today and I hope all the attendees had fun as well.

CIL2008: The Dave and Dave Show - Results!

Today I had a nice Facebook message from Elizabeth Davis of the Lackawanna County (PA) Children's Library, one the CIL2008 graduates of the Dave and Dave Show. Otherwise known as Podcasting and Videocasting Bootcamp. She made this short video of a puppet show from her library as a test of videocasting to show her colleagues.



Elizabeth said they are going to hopefully be doing more with audio and video, so keep an eye out on their library blog.

If you are a past attendee and are also making audio and/or video content at your library now, let us know!

CIL 2008: Podcasting CyberTour

Thanks to the ridiculously large crowd that came out for the podcasting cybertour at CIL on Tuesday. I'm amazed and glad that so many folks took time out of their lunch to listen to me speak. I hope you all learned some useful information. Links to all of the resources, including featured audio and video podcasts, are available on the wiki page for the talk. And, as always, please let me know if you have any questions.

Here is the presentation, complete with a couple of additions we talked about but weren't included visually.

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Thanks again for coming, and I'm sorry for the delay in getting the slides online.

Ticer Video

During my talk at the 2007 Ticer Institute a week or so ago I planned to record and edit a video during the session. Of course technical difficulties and time ruined that plan. Ah well. But one of the participants - I'm forgot to get his name during the insanity - shot some footage of people working on the audio podcast part of the session. I edited it and here it is:

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Again, I apologize to the people who attended the session for not getting through all of the objectives.

TIcer 2007 Podcasting / Videocasting Talk

Thanks to everyone who attended my talk on podcasting and videocasting at the 2007 Ticer Institute today. I hope everyone learned something in the session and had a good time as well. Here are the links to podcasts and videocasts that I talked about.

• RSS In Plain English (1)


• Claude Moore Health Sciences Library (UVA)


• The L-Team (Williams College)


• GPC Decatur Campus Library


• Dowling College Library Omnibus


• University of North Carolina, Pembroke Library Minute


• Arizona State University Library Channel


• Purdue University Boilercast


• Ohio University Alden Library Audio Tour


• Information and Circulation (Cal State Long Beach)


• WPI Library Audio To Go


• Fairfield University Library Podcasts


• ENGnetBASE (Georgia Tech)


• UCOL Library Podcasts


• Library Guide For Nursing (California State University , Fullerton)


• Moraine Valley Community College Library

We also created a few of our own podcasts during the hands-on part of the session. They are available on the blip.tv site for the class. I will edit the video footage and get it online as soon as I can. I am sorry again for the technical difficulties that caused us to not get finished with the video in class.

Other information from the session, including links to creation tools and additional readings is available on my wiki.

Thanks again for coming. And inviting me to come to the Netherlands.

Keep Your Eyes On The Road

This evening I'm heading out to Brussels, via a 4 hour layover in London (think there's Old Speckled Hen in the airport?), for the 2007 Ticer Institute. I'm talking on Thursday morning about podcasting and videocasting in academic libraries. There will be a pretty large hands on component to the session, so perhaps look for some audio and video online. I'm excited, and slightly nervous, about talking to a group of librarians whose native language is something other than English, but I'm sure it'll go well.

I'm spending a day and a half in Belgium and a couple of days in Amsterdam after, so look for pics on Flickr. I'll definitely have Internet access in Tilburg and looks pretty plentiful in Amsterdam.