David Lee King

social media | emerging trends | libraries

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!

Information Tomorrow has finally arrived!

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Information tomorrow: reflections on technology and the future of public and academic librariesCool beans! Rachel Singer Gordon’s newest book, Information Tomorrow: Reflections on Technology and the Future of Public and Academic Libraries, just came out. I know, because I received a copy in the mail today.

And why did I receive a copy? Because I wrote one of the chapters! My chapter is chapter 10, An Experience to Remember: Building Positive Experiences on Library Web Sites. It’s about… you guessed it… experience design and library websites. If you read the chapter and still want more, never fear – I’m 2/3’s of the way through a whole book on the topic. So hold on to those longings 🙂

But please don’t stop at my little chapter! There are a bundle of amazing authors in this book, including:

  • Stephen Abram
  • Lori Bell
  • Steven J. Bell
  • John Blyberg
  • Robert Bocher
  • Daniel Chudnov
  • Jill Emery
  • Meredith G. Farkas
  • Megan K. Fox
  • Beth Gallaway
  • Joseph Janes
  • David Lee King
  • Jenny Levine
  • Tom Peters
  • Dorothea Salo
  • John D. Shank
  • Michael Stephens
  • Rhonda B. Trueman
  • Jessamyn West
  • Alane Wilson

Wow – just wow. I’m thrilled to see my name in this smorgasboard of emerging library delight.

Lee County Library System Presentation

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sanibel beachOn Monday, I spoke about Web 2.0 and emerging trends at the Lee County Library System’s staff day in Fort Myers, Florida. The day before, I worked extremely hard, as you can tell from the accompanying photo 🙂

Anyway… here’s the pdf of my presentation. And an FYI for those of you who are thinking “where have I heard of that library before?” You might have recently read about Lee County and their License to Play / learning 2.0 program in a couple of places.

Keep an eye on them!

Tracking words with Twitter

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Twitter recently added a Twitter Tracking feature that lets you track keywords and phrases that twitterers use while twittering. Just for kicks, I tracked the word library for 24 hours – every time someone entered the word library into twitter, I received the update… Here’s what I got back from Twitter:

First, my own test updates:

  • testing something out – library
  • Cool – I’m playing with twitter tracking. I’m tracking library – and it took like 10 secs from enering the word to getting the notification

Before you read the twitters, think about this – have you ever wondered what your customers think of you? Ever wondered what people think about [fill-in-the-blank]? This Twitter Tracking tool allows you to get a small, rather random glance at people’s thoughts on a topic.

{fyi – this isn’t all of them – not even half. And I removed most of the references to things like iTunes Library, JavaScript Library, and I think one World of Warcraft Library reference. Oh, and two library thing references and a library elf reference, too}

So – here’s what people twitter about libraries – I found this fascinating:

  • met stefanie at the library by chance meeting. she picked out a book for me.
  • @ the library with jay, testing netwerx
  • The girl across from me at the library kind of has man-hands.
  • heading home.. maybe a quick stop at the library?
  • Sooo we’re back. It was okay. Bought some yummy bagels since I had a craving for ’em…got new library card and took out my book for 4MP!
  • back to the library for the 4th time in 2 days 3rd time today if i dont get at least a c on this test ill die
  • I really hate the campus library. No, I hate researching a topic I care nothing for.
  • late night meeting with a client at the local library
  • Yahoo! Hack Event today at the University of the Philippines College of Engineering Library and Computer Science Building Lecture Hall.
  • finally started studying. law library.
  • back at the library to file away to videos before hopping on a jet plane south
  • Guy who hasn’t checked out a library book in 30 years. I totally introduced him to the art of calling us to put things on hold. He’s happy.
  • library is surprisingly crowded
  • More cellphone rudeness I wasn’t aware of: apparently it’s ok to take phonecalls in a public library now. Happened 3x in the last hour.
  • All alone in a smelly corner of ASUs nerd library.
  • Getting ready to read my new book from the library and going to sleep after. Have a good night!
  • sunbathing outside state library. Wanna join us?
  • Workers divided in vote on deal to end civic strike: Vancouver’s library workers have rejected a proposed…
  • It’s just gonna take too much time for it to download before I can watch it. Gonna have to go to the library again.
  • Yay Harry Potter 7 CDs are in at the library!!! I’m still on book 5, oh well, still exciting!!!
  • Another awesome thing about the restaurant: it’s across a public library. I just got my first SF library card!
  • this evening has flown by — busy, busy!  but that’s the way I like it when I work late!  I wish I worked for a library with wi-fi!
  • getting irritated at this guy walking all about in the library, IT’S SO DISTRACTING!
  • I found our Scienrtific library a great place to catch up on sleep. Much to the amusement of the security guard! 🙂
  • Am back at Gotham Library for the morning, doing my old job. It’s very amusing, have caused a lot of double-takes.
  • Amending my article about NZ music for the Radio Journal. Need a few more references – but they’re sitting in a library in Auckland. Damn.
  • stalking people in the library for Research Method class… What a stupid assignment?
  • What is the nicest library I can see in Rome/Vatican?
  • just emerged from the “library.” draft one done. editing now.
  • Time to get Gretel ready for story time at our local library. Must. Remember. Camera.
  • I love finding an older picture on Flickr & seeing that it’s been viewed once. Like finding that library book that’s never been checked out.
  • back from library forum, there are some really great ideas floating around the library
  • I love my kids mondegreens. Kaya this morning – “dad, we have to take this library book back today or it will be over dude”
  • I might have to start dropping elbows on these kids in the library that won’t shut the hell up.
  • working from library today – walk through downtown and the sound of commerce ringing clear
  • Back in the stinking library.
  • Listening to a preschool story group reciting “Diddle Diddle Dumpling My Son John” with a teddy bear at the library.
  • Library has ALL of the Thin Man movies! Thin Man Marathon! (with cocktails!)
  • “The library isn’t good for books” Wow. Gwan UCC!
  • off to the library to get some intense work done before dreamweaver/CSS class this evening (mix in some Game database work on the side pls)
  • Research at the UM Map library on consumer water usage in Israel and Palestine
  • sitting in the library missing my lesbians.
  • sorry thelonedrifter, the library sucks
  • @addisontodd that’s ’cause you’re illiterate… not the library’s problem
  • Headding to the library
  • Technically, you’re not supposed to use the reference computers for MySpace, but maybe if you to add the library’s page to your f-list …
  • Library is packed with noisy beings, other languages and exposed underwear.
  • in a library that’s not mine, leeching wifi and writing

Another Twittering Library

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From my comments on this post… try this on for a cool way to use Twitter. Here’s what the library is doing, to the best of my knowledge (Julie, correct me if I get it wrong, please!):

  • posting real-time reference questions to twitter.com/askusnow
  • using the Twitter feed to update “the ‘currently being asked’ section of our internal AskUsNow! staff website.”

Is that a cool use of twitter, or what? Going just a little further out from that, why not post those questions on the public website? They’d be anonymous, so that shouldn’t be an issue. But I’m thinking posting real-time questions in your library’s digital space is a great way to show real live conversations taking place. Those tweets might just start more conversation, etc etc.

Cool service – thanks Julie for mentioning it!