L2 Crew meeting April 30

We will meet tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. in the Board Room. Please let me know if you will be able to make it or not.

I would like for us to discuss our plans for the library video tours, twitter, branch blogging, and any problems or new ideas you all may have. So put your thinking caps on and let's get ready for a great meeting.

I look forward to seeing you all together again.

~Melinda

Webware Winners

The 2008 Webware 100 are the 100 top Web apps according to Webware users. Here is a sample:

• OpenID - The one-signon-for-all-sites standard gains momentum. Could easily become the Web-wide universal login within a few years
• Miro - An open-source media player and organizer.
• uStream - An innovative live video streaming company.
• RememberTheMilk - Handles the simple job of keeping your to-do list.
• FotoFlexer - One of a group of online photo editors similar Picnik.

You can see all the winners here.

Video by Computer Class

Created in the computer class at Five Points this morning. Patrons participated in video subject selection, making video, photos and editing.

Catch the Reading Bug Video

Are there any plans to do a "Catch the Reading Bug" promo video on YouTube?
There are many ways to go with this title:

• Catching an illness called The Reading Bug
• Turning pages with an eventual discovery that is an insect reading?
• A book montage with titles from Sam & the Firefly to Miss Spider's Tea Party
• Bugging (nagging) someone?
• Someone eavesdropping (using a bug)
• A kid chasing & catching a VW (bug) with books?
• Computer virus - Why isn't little Susie using her computer this summer? The Reading Bug.
• Having people with "bug" antennae on there heads at the library.

For more ideas watch this excellent professionally done “Catch the Reading Bug” psa promoting youth summer reading in Virginia.

GroupTweet.com?

Could we use this ?

GroupTweet.com is a new site based on the Twitter API, allowing private groups and sending tweets only to group members.

When you want to send a message to the group, send a message to the group’s Twitter account, and GroupTweet.com will immediately send it back out as a tweet sent from the group account, which all members will receive since they are following that account. This way, private message is received only by approved group members, and not published to public Twitter timelines.

Strange but True Book Titles?

Have you ever encountered a strange or very intriguing book title?

Here are some titles from our catalog that I find interesting:

How to Survive a Horror Movie

The Sweet Potato Queens' Wedding Planner/Divorce Guide

The Executioner Always Chops Twice

Al Capone Does My Shirts

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

How to Survive a Robot Uprising

Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining

Six-Legged Sex: The Erotic Lives of Bugs

Outwitting squirrels

Getting Stoned with Savages

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

If I Were An Evil Overlord

The Gallery of Regrettable Food

I think we could use these strange but true book titles in a video or an interesting blog post. Imagine a video of someone frenetically pulling these strange book titles from the shelves until she find the one she needs.

Do you have more strange book titles to add? Anything to add to the idea?

Volunteers for blog entries?

Would one or more of you like to volunteer to write a blog entry for Thursday night's movie and/or an entry for Alabama Bound? If you are interested, would you leave a comment saying so? That way, we won't have duplicate entries. Thanks a bunch crew!

BPL Digital Collections: The Video

A BPL Digital Collections video is in editing and post production.

To preview it: click on the start button then chose run. In the run box type \\snap\Groups\Photographs\Then click on the file “ digital_Collections_003.wmv.”

Any suggestions before it goes public?

February Stats

Cumulative statistics for podcasts:
February 2008
number of podcasts 19
number of downloads 259
number of items streamed 376
combined total 635

Cumulative statistics for YouTube:
February 2008
videos 34
videos viewed cumulative 19705
subscribers 34
channel views 4393

Cumulative statistics for blip.tv:
February 2008
Videos 5
videos viewed cumulative 713

Cumulative statistics for Slideshare (PowerPoint presentations:)
February 2008
Number of slideshows 7
Number of views 2584

Cumulative statistics for flickr:
February 2008
Total photos 1045
Total site views 29158
photo views 66,984
photostream views 29,069
photo sets views 4874
combined view total 100,927

BPL News Blog:
February 2008
Average daily number of visitors 67
Average daily number of visits 77
Aggregate item views 691 views of 87 items
Email subscribers 63
RSS subscribers 36
Blog entries 24 by 5 different staff members