David Lee King

social media | emerging trends | libraries

Hung out with T is for Training

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Last week, I was on the T is for Training Podcast (Maurice Coleman’s way-cool podcast).

It was fun! We talked about my library’s experience during Covid, broadband initiatives, digital multimedia spaces in libraries, and training and learning around each of those topics.

To say the least, we covered a LOT of ground.

So – have a listen, subscribe, etc! Also, make sure to go to the podcast episode page – the page has a bunch of links to things we discussed during the show.

Listen to The Library Pros – a library-focused podcast

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Have you heard of The Library Pros? It’s a library focused podcast done by Christopher DeCristofaro and Robert Johnson.

Here’s what they say about The Library Pros: “A Librarian and Information Technology Pro talking libraries, library tech and everything in between!”

Here are some podcast episodes to listen to:

  • My episode! They interviewed me. We talked about social media, emerging trends, and audio recording.
  • Gina Millsap. They also interviewed my library’s CEO, Gina Millsap. We have about 220 staff – just 218 to go and they will have interviewed everyone at my library 🙂
  • Brian Pichman. He talks about makerspaces and technology.
  • Sarah Houghton. She talks about blogging and a lot of other library goodness.

So – check it out and take a listen!

Community and Colleges – 2 Interviews

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communitysignalI recently participated in a couple of interviews. Here’s some info about both of them:

  1. Community Signal podcast – I talked with Patrick O’Keefe about libraries and their communities, both online and offline versions. It was a fun talk! We covered a wide range of material, including digital branches and what online community professionals can learn from libraries. Check out the podcast (and the article) here.
  2. McKee Library interview – I participated in an email interview with McKee Library, and they posted it this week. In the interview, they asked me 4 questions: What am I working now, How have libraries been part of my life, What is your favorite book and why, and my advice for today’s college students. Check out my answers here.

Interviews are always fun to do, and hopefully provide some good thoughts and discussion, too. Enjoy!

Notes on Podcasting

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These are some notes I took on podcasting at last fall’s Podcamp Topeka. I “rediscovered” them, and decided they could be useful to some of you.

Rob Walch, who’s Vice President of Podcaster Relations for Wizzard Media/Libsyn and does the Today in iOS podcast, gave this presentation. Here are the notes – maybe more libraries need to start a podcast!

Some podcasting facts:

  • There are over 1.8 million blogs, but only 200,000 podcasts
  • Podcasting is much easier to listen to now. You can still do it the old way – dump it to an iPod. But you can also use an app, download directly from iTunes to your iPod, or just listen on the web.
  • Podcasts have really loyal audiences – one podcast has listeners who are getting tattoos related to the podcast!
  • Audio is much more popular than video podcasts. Audio is much more portable.

iTunes and podcasting:

  • iTunes is really important to the success of a podcast
  • The podcast’s title is really important, especially in iTunes. Make sure to stuff keywords into the title, because that’s a primary keyword area for iTunes.
  • Artwork has to be great on iTunes. There are apparently two guys at Apple who pick featured podcasts for the podcast app, and they don’t pick bad artwork…

September 2012 podcasting stats from Libsyn (a major podcasting service):

  • 50% got 153 downloads per episode
  • 20% – 1000 downloads
  • 10% – 4000 downloads
  • 8.6 % – 5000 downloads per episode
  • 5% 10,400
  • 1% – 50,000
  • If you can get to 1000 listeners, you are doing an awesome job

Submit your podcast to:

  • iTunes
  • Podcast411.com – directories
  • Zune next best place
  • Blackberry podcasts

Some How-To’s for Podcasting:

  • One mic – you hold it, you are in control of it.
  • Don’t host on your website. If you store your media files there, and your podcast gets too popular, your whole website might shut down… that means you have shut your whole business down. So host the podcast somewhere else….
  • Frequency sweet spot … Weekly and consistent – like every Friday. You will be put into people’s routines. Same day, same time
  • Edit! Hugely important. Even in interviews. Editing is good. Remove ums, ahs, etc.
  • Prepare – do some prep work.
  • Get a call in number for your show and leave voice mail messages. If people hear themselves, they share it. Especially teens…

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Circulating Ideas, Episode Eighteen

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Circulating Ideas PodcastI was lucky enough to be on the Circulating Ideas: The Interview Librarian Podcast with Steve Thomas today.

It’s a good show! We talked about my new book, the Internet Librarian 2012 conference, stuff my library is doing, the Ebooks for Libraries website, and probably a whole bunch more stuff that I’m forgetting at the moment.

Give it a listen! Here’s a link to the show page, and to the mp3 file. Enjoy!

PS – why not subscribe to the Circulating Idea podcast while you’re at it? It’s a great show!