David Lee King

social media | emerging trends | libraries

ALA2007: Libraries as Conversations with Gamers

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Eli Neiburger, aadl.org

– Showed stats – gaming is a major part of the content industry
– there are more adult women gamers than teenage boys
– teens say “email is how you talk to old people”
– Pokemon the game has more text than some school curriculums do – it requires significant text literacy
– video gaming is like a gateway drug for libraries – gaming programs are creating lifelong library users
– remember – Princess Leia had a bun! Libraries can be cool

My Twitter Presentation – Part of the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase

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(update – the BIGWIG sites seem to be down, but there are updated links to both twitter presentations. Enjoy!)

I was asked to participate in the first ever BIGWIG Social Software Showcase “unconference.” (site seems to be down). What is the Showcase, you ask? From the LITA blog: “LITA BIGWIG (Blogs, Wikis, and Social Software IG) is pleased to present the first ever online, unconference at ALA Annual 2007. The Social Software Showcase will be occuring around and during Annual. We have gathered eleven librarians and leaders in the field to present on cutting edge technology and social software. Regardless of where you are in the world, you will have the opportunity to view and discuss the presentations on the official Social Software Showcase Wiki.”

For my part, I added a screencast about Twitter add-ons, meant to be a part 2 to David Free’s Twitter, Part One (updated links to each presentation).

So – go read about the Showcase, watch/listen/read all the presentations as they get added to the Showcase wiki, and participate!

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What ALA and SXSWi Could Have in Common

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I read two things today (well, really lots more than that, but I digress) that come from extremely different areas of my scope, yet are related:

  1. Karen Schneider’s ALA: What is to be done post;
  2. The SXSWorld magazine’s announcement that SXSWi panel proposals will be accepted starting June 1.

So how are those two things related? One of Karen’s points was to “Make conferences greener and more lithe.” She made some good points about ALA conferences and changes that could be made to make them better.

And then, when reading the SXSWi panel application thing, here’s what they do: “As with the 2007 event, much of the 2008 programming will come directly from ideas from the SXSW Interactive community.” For the 2007 conference, SXSW collected ideas for programs, and then let visitors to the SXSW site vote on which programs they found worthy… and the conference was made up primarily of those user-chosen panels.

Generally, I think ALA programs are chosen by individual program committees (of which there are many, if I’m not mistaken). Why not ask ALA members what they want to see?

that’s just one way among decidedly many … other ideas?

David’s Video of the Computers in Libraries 2007 InfoTubey Awards

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Quicktime .mov format | Youtube version

At the Computers in Libraries 2007 conference, Information Today held the first InfoTubey Awards. From their website, “[the Infotubey] awards will be presented to those organizations or individuals for outstanding YouTube productions. Premiering at the 2007 Computers in Libraries conference, these awards recognize those creating YouTube library-related productions. Awards will be presented to the top five productions that demonstrate creativity, humor, and sincerity (of course!) in marketing a library or library services or enhancing the library’s value.”

I created this video of the event… enjoy! Here’s the Powerpoint that went along with the event (some slides shown in the video).

*warning: this video is sorta big (41MB file), so it might take a little while to play/download/etc.*

**and it was a little dark in the room – I lightened it up a bit, but still dark nonetheless**