David Lee King

social media | emerging trends | libraries

How to Carve a Thanksgiving Turkey (way off-topic)

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This Thanksgiving, I have the honors of carving “The Bird” (a 21 pounder, to be exact – we’ve got like 28 people descending upon us tomorrow!). Unfortunately, I have no idea how to do this. Really! I mean, I’ve certainly tackled turkeys before… but my handiwork usually ends up resembling more of a hack-fest than something that would sit on Martha Stewart’s table.

So I thought to myself “hmm, self. I wonder if there are any helpful turkey tips out there in web 2.0 land?” And guess what??!?!!?? There are. Since you might also be as thanksgiving-turkey-carving challenged as me, I thought I’d pass along the tasty turkey tutorials to you, too:

“But wait, David! I’m a visual learner – what about me?” OK – how’s about some YouTube videos?

And finally, I leave you with It’s JerryTime – The Gobbler. Everyone (in the US anyway) – enjoy Thanksgiving!

New Song and Video: Social Digital Global Shift

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I recorded a new song and video for y’all! This song is all about social networking and how people are using the emerging social web to connect with each other, to communicate… and in my case, to sing songs to my blog readers.

When writing the song, I was thinking about facebook, twitter, MySpace, and all the social connections that are happening 24/7 – I find it extremely fascinating.

Social Digital Global Shift
by David Lee King

I haven’t seen her since high school
never thought I’d see her again
but yesterday I got a facebook request
she asked to be my friend

so I took a little time to catch up
browsed through her photobucket and blog
I watched some funny videos of her kids
and then I wrote this song

’cause it’s a social digital revolution
social digital relationship
social digital communication
it’s a social digital global shift

I have friends around the world
they’re growing globally
some of them live in Saskatchewan
while others live in D.C.

Enjoy!

What did David do today?

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What does a Digital Branch Manager do, exactly? I frequently wonder that (since I AM one and all)… so I thought I’d keep track of what I did today. The list below provides an interesting snapshot into what a librarian might do in a new-fangled, social networking, digital branch management type job:

  • attended a meeting about progress with Second Life projects
  • attended a meeting about the upcoming election year and content possibilities with the Digital Branch (ie., blogs, community sharing, partnerships, etc)
  • created a draft document of digital branch content and staffing guidelines and emailed it out to our guidelines group for review
  • drooled over the library’s new iPod Touch – the last of our Techie ToyBox goodies to arrive!
  • Worked on a digital signage project – gathered some info on LCD panels and stands, then handed it off to someone else to find pricing (ate lunch around then, too)
  • errands and coffee!
  • Wrote an annual review for someone
  • pfutzed around in Second Life until my computer had a serious crash (blue screen and everything)…
  • Rebooted, then examined pics and screenshots for a Second Life presentation at IL07
  • Decided to take my own snapshots of our Teen Second Life project, so back into Second Life… wandered around our island taking snapshots
  • Turned on my Mac, updated my Keynote presentation with snapshots
  • Created some PDF files of upcoming presentations and handouts
  • Throughout the day: scanned a ton of blogs, read and responded to emails, checked twitter (and tried out twitteroo for the second time)
  • And of course, wrote this blog post 🙂

Whew! Time to go home.