Center for the Book Awards!

My tasks for this past week were to help set up for the Center for the Book Awards in the State Library on Sept 7th and then take pictures for the award ceremony on the 8th.

The set up included creative planning to make sure that everyone signed in and had room to mingle. We also set up the refreshment area and searched the entire building to find enough chairs (40). The room looked ready that evening and we set up a meeting time for the next day.

The ceremony was a HUGE success with over 50 people in attendance. I took around 90 pictures and posted the edited set of 60 on flickr. link here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scsl/sets/72157624917412158/

set up from 3-5

awards 1:30-5

Total - 5.5 hrs which brings me to 45.5

Setting up for the Social Media Idea Exchange

Curtis and I spent time today to search for and pull books in the SCSL collection that related to current uses of social media in the workplace and in government institutions. These books were used in a small display in Room 309 for the Social Media Idea Exchange.

Time Spent 2-5
Total hours : 36

And now a month later...

So apparently my sinuses wanted me to take a break. I'm back in action now and met up with Curtis to discuss the stuff he's been working on (social media talks, Book Fest planning, new videos for Lion's Roar and more) and what i can do to get back into the swing of interning.
We discussed new projects and a schedule for the coming week. I worked from 2-5 that day and learned how to create an animoto video (30 second promo videos for free) on the computer and on my phone! I like the program and the randomization of each video.
-Chess

Total hours - 40

More summer camps

Ruth's Summer Camp session about Screencasting (10-11)
During this Summer Camp session, i got to learn about the joys of screencasting and I'm not in ownership of a list of free screencasting tools (well, websites that host free screencasting). I loved Screencast-o-matic but the artistic side of me disliked the giant highlight bubble around the cursor.
1 hr

Meeting with Rob (2:30-3:30)
I met with Rob Lindsey to talk about the statistics for the Lion's Roar podcast. We decided that with only 20 views in the past month, that the format of "Lion's Roar" was not effective as a recorded podcast. The amount of time that Curtis and his crew spent on writing the script, finding the volunteer and editing the recording were not beneficial. I suggested creating a video blog (vlog) version of the Lion's Roar and submit it to youtube. Research for current library vlogs...
1 hr


Video creation and editing (for teens?) with Kelly from ImaginOn (1-3:30)
2.5 hrs


Hours 4.5
Total hours: 33

iPad playtime! AKA: Pimp my iPad!

The past two days i've been working/playing with the SCSL iPad to get the reference/productivity apps ready for patron use! My only limit is that they had to be free apps. Also the way these iPads were set up, i could not test any of the apps yet.

Here are the ones from yesterday
My Congress - look up your members of Congress

pubMed on tap lite

Evernote - fun way to sync notes on web and computer, text/photo/audio notes

Newsweek for iPad - i don't know if we could use this since we have to pay 2.99 to add one on there. boo.

USA today - looks fantastic and a lot more free than the Newsweek.

The Wall Street Journal - Same deal as Newsweek

Fluent News Reader - News aggregate

Ted Mobile - not sure if this is the official one or not but it plays the TED talks

Here are the ones i found last night
Gale Access My Library
US Code
Nibbly Bits (more silly but still interesting)
HTML5 Reference Guide (will anyone be using this for code?)
Info-tech mobile
EncycloClip
City Slicker (Charleston visual tour)
iBrainstorm
Wikipanion or Simplepedia (which one will work better when dled?)
Astronomy Pic of the Day (NASA pictures)
Legal reference with Law Stack and Fastcase
ABC News

And today
Dragon Dictation
White and Yellow Pages
Wikihood

Hours worked Yesterday (2-5 and 9-10:30)
and today (3:30- 5) for a total of 6hrs
Total 28.5

Podcasting, i knew ye well.

Today is a day of new plans. From my talk with Rob Lindsey, web guru for the SCSL, last friday, i found out that there were only 22 subscribers for the "Lion's Roar" podcast. After a year of podcasts and effort to make this a news source for the SC State Library, there was only one response posted. Curtis and I chatted about who the audience really was and what we wanted to do with the podcasts. The consensus was that the podcasts were not a good enough medium for the information and the effort to market/retool the podcasts was not going to be time efficient or helpful. Curtis then mentioned wanting to keep the Lion's Roar momentum but use video based blogging instead. Earlier in this internship he had showed me "Tech Tuesdays" (see in list below). With the combination of a good (free?) screencasting tool and talking into the webcam, we have the goal for the evolution of the Lion's Roar. Curtis sent me in search of good library vlogs and beyond the ones that started in 2007/8 and only had a few videos, i was able to compile a good list of library youtubers as examples for our new project. Check out the list below:

• http://www.youtube.com/user/TopekaLibrary - Tech Tuesdays - Great example
• http://www.youtube.com/user/SumterCountyLibrary#p/u/10/P_CExwGCJWY- Sumter County Library (only two so far) - I know Ford (who does these vlogs) and he's doing solid videos... he just needs to speak up and look excited!
• Arizona State University http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyhSQO1lQHo -These are perfect. Visually and audibly interesting, concise and funny.
• Matthews public library in fredricksburg, PA http://www.youtube.com/user/matthewslibrary - good videos to show/talk about what's happening and not just tape parts of it.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Ui-JNGpaY NYPL instructional/introduction to website
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ms_eBU8MQ&feature=related - NYPL - maps screencast
• Denver Public Library - shout outs from patrons and events - http://www.youtube.com/user/denverlibrary
• http://www.youtube.com/user/irondequoitlibrary#p/u/6/ERH4bHclsTY - Irondequoit Public Library - mostly book talks

Hours worked today - 2-5PM - 3 more hrs down
Total hours... well check with me after i've uploaded the other posts... 22.5

Social Media on the GO!

This post will cover the presentation that I gave on Friday, July 23rd. The sweaty palmed me gave a presentation for the SCSL Summer Camp sessions (the second one!) on the uses of Twitter, Foursquare and GoWalla. I spend about 15 minutes to give my prezi presentation and found out the subtitle of my presentation: WE FREAKING LOVE PREZI. Once i showed them the general outline of prezi and then went back to explaining each service, i took a few questions and had an iPhone handy to show typical use. Curtis helped with the timing because he wanted to make sure that we gave them enough time to play with the location based media (or prezi). The reaction was mild but it would have helped if people had actually brought their own cell phones to test everything out (oops). After plenty of time to test everything out, we got some feed back (see the picture below) on how they could use these options and what could be changed about the presentation. Overall, great experience.


The pictures from the day The Flickr Set from SCSL Flickr

The time i spent editing from my first draft to the final at SCSL (Wednesday 21st 2-5)
The time i spent on the worksheet and editing at home (2 hrs)
Presentation time (from 10 to 11)

Total time spent - 6 hrs.
Total hours so far - 19.5

the final prezi:

Social Media on the GO! - July 23, 2010 on Prezi

Zoomified

Two weeks ago, I created my first Prezi draft for the presentation of Social Media on the GO! This web based presentation site allows you to create non-linear presentations where you can freely zoom in and out of your presentation full of details, pictures, videos and more! Here is the link to my fist draft. The path i created was simple but some of the pictures were not helpful. I worked on those in the final draft.

Prezi link! <-Click there!

Hours worked 2:30-5PM : 2.5hrs

Total worked 13.5

Where was I?

Hours worked today 2.5 - worked on outline for the hour long presentation/class and caught up on goals with Curtis. Enter sites found and outline here:
Twitter (intro, display of library uses, images) - 15 minutes
Check-in based social media (brief overview, video, security issues)
Foursquare (intro, uses in marketing/incentives , uses in libraries, howcast video) - 15
GoWalla(intro, uses in libraries, trips and pick up items) - 15 mins
time to mess with the tech (make a twitter acct, check in with foursquare mobile)

Hours from ALA : 2 at the Social Media vs the search engine session :
Sadly, this session was not really helpful since half of the session involved an example of how to know your audience - specifically teens in high school and college, 30 minutes was focused on facebook being important to reach a younger audience and how twitter helped. The last 30 minutes was an unhelpful Q&A session. I really wish there was some talk about techniques that help social media beat out search engines.

Hours from last week: 1.5 from : 8 Bit Librarian and a GoWalla experiment (checked in at Tios, found item, picture of the SC State library map) , #inatweet meme

After two national conferences, one national holiday and some extra work hours, i'm finally back on the road to redemption (or well work of some sort...)

Total hours worked: 11

Plans in motion

Today's Meeting with Curtis lasted from 2-3PM and we were able to catch up (I had been to SLA in New Orleans last week and there was conference drama). One of the new presentation software I saw in use was from this site Prezi Maybe i can use that in the video... speaking of the video, I think i've found a good soundtrack from my favorite royalty free music site and now i also have the correct selection of images. I was working on that from 3-4. The plan is to get the "Day in the Life" video done this week before i leave for ALA and then look at creative ways to revive the "Lion's Roar" podcast. Right off the bat, i'm thinking more clips of live sound and music and a more versatile script. On July 23rd, Curtis and I will be hosting a SC State Library Summer School class called " Social Media on the GO!" that follows twitter, Gowalla and foursquare.

The count so far, 5hrs.
-Chess

The full tour

Today Curtis gave me the full tour around the State Library (set in two different buildings). I was able to meet most of the staff, get a library card and even see the secret Sub Basement with old government docs and backissues. Always fun! The picture is of me sitting in my work station/area in the State Library Administrative Building (which has a few open spaces for intern work but this one has pelicans!). More on my video projects when i get home...

A state... i mean a start

Today i started my blog about my internship for the SC State Library under the head of communications, Curtis Rogers. Last week on Wednesday June 1st at 2PM I met with Curtis Rogers about my internship. We went over possible ideas, good reading material and ideas for the first video projects. Time to begin!
-Chess