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