You Too Can Youtube

I love Youtube and I am glad that the Chester County Library has a Youtube page. In my non-work life I use Youtube for many things. I have watched my favorite parts of TV shows on Youtube. Sometimes I watch music videos or live performances of songs I like on Youtube. Sometimes I just watch funny videos on Youtube.

Here is a video created and produced by some members of my library marketing class during the spring of 2006. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItCIHAksjf4

I remember this being the first time I had heard of Youtube. Our professor told us it was the next big thing and that this was the technology kids are using today. He sure was right.

I remember when they made it and now it has had over 62,187 views. They made the video to promote national library week in 2006. It just shows you what kind of exposure you get on Youtube. Just think in a few years the CCLS contest views might have that many views.

I think Youtube can be a great place for libraries to get exposure. It is fun and entertaining. Plus it is easy to use and video do not take very much time to load. People use Youtube to learn new skills. One time I used Youtube to help me find videos on how to make a roux for a recipe. Youtube might be a great place to post a video on how to use the online catalog.

#12 Tagging & social bookmarking in Delicious

I took a look at the 23 Things Blog today and saw it was about Delicious. I first opened an account on Delicious in May of 2006 at the behest of one of my professors and as part of a library technology class. As I was looking through my old bookmarks I found a rare gem of a bookmark that I had forgotten about.

It is a short movie made by my friends in a Library Marketing class we had taken in the Spring of 2006. It seems like something that could have been entered in this system's Library Youtube Contest. I am happy that it has had over 60,000 views on Youtube. It is funny and musical. Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItCIHAksjf4

Okay, back to Delicious. Well, as I said before I have some experience with it in graduate school. I think our assignment back then was create 50 bookmarks and tag them. We needed to bookmark sites about certain technology related topics. During the course of the class we learned about some of the topics like folksonomies and blogging but I never really did learn what some of the topics we where supposed to bookmark where. These include Ajax, Ning, and Digg. (These are topics I would like to explore further I think.)

I want to say that I think Delicious has become more useful in the last 2 years. It has more features than it did the last time I used it. Today I learned how to send another user a bookmark. I also learned how a little bit about how firefox and Delicious work together. I also learned that Delicious lost its periods (which I think is an improvement).

Here is my Delicious site: http://delicious.com/Kgaffron
I am Kgaffron if you would care to network with me.

The strength for me in Delicious is that it is an online place to keep your bookmarks. The social aspect of it is nice. I have a lot of bookmarks and tags about web design and library reference because the summer I created my account I was taking a class in library reference and library technology. When I was in school it was useful because I could look at my classmates' boookmarks and I am sure in this 23 Things learning process I could learn from other people interested in library 2.0 and the 23 Things.