Week 9: Podcasts, Video, Audio
Video
I am familiar with the video sharing website YouTube and have mainly used this site to look for videos related to personal interests or view videos linked to from other sources such as email listserves and blogs. Since I don’t own personal equipment to record videos I have never created any video content to share with the online community.
I enjoyed exploring VideoJug and Metacafe for their niche content. Since I will be throwing a holiday party soon I searched for “how to” videos via VideoJug and located this excellent and concise video. If I had the appropriate content to record videos I think that Metacafe is an excellent source of info for amateur videographers.
We currently do not use video for trainings at my workplace. I think that VideoJug would be a great place to post training videos, either related to your specific workplace or to people looking for research assistance in general. I had never heard of VideoJug before so I am not sure how many people would think to go to this site instead of YouTube. However, it would be a great place for libraries to host their “how to” training content.”
**Also of note to government information professionals – President-elect Obama will be posting all of his addresses as videos online that will be accessible through his website as well as YouTube. I believe that this move illustrates the mainstreaming of video content into our society.**
Podcasting
This was my favorite site by far. The design was clean and simple. The site was organized intuitively for users by broad subjects like art and people which were further subdivided.
The PodShow link went to a site called Mevio that featured video content. Podomatic featured more user-generated content such as tag clouds but it seemed more disorganized.
NetLibrary
I have used NetLibrary during graduate school. Unfortunately my local public library does not have a subscription! I thought that OCLC’s tutorials were excellent. NetLibrary provides a nice complement physical libraries. It would prove very useful to those traveling on business or for people searching reference works. While I would not want to read for pleasure via the computer, the full-text book search capabilities would come in quite handy for research.
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