I've seen and used YouTube before, but I hadn't used any of the other video sites, so I tried blip.tv and MetaCafe. MetaCafe was nice becuase I could filter a search to a categories ( I searched "visiting Alaska" in the "travel & Outdoors category"). I ended up watching someone's home video of visiting Homer, AK. Blip.tv didn't have any categories to search in, so the same search, and I noticed under the screen pics of the videos, it showed the string of tags that my terms were found in... of course, not all were relevent, such as "visiting Buenos Aires"....
On Sciencehack, I scrolled through one of the categories "How is it made" and watched the first little bit of how they make firemens' helmets.
Maybe it's the connection at the library, but almost every video I watch paused every few seconds (well, every 10-15 seconds) as it loads or whatever it does.
I found a funny video on YouTube of babies laughing (yes, I have babies on the brain)...
I think there that video clips could be used to promote library activities, showing clips from similar type programs (showing how much fun a program is), and/or even doing something simple like having a YouTube "StoryTime" -- somethng like, "can't get enough of the X librarian at storytime? Visit her online and have her read books to you at home! Then having a link (or embeded video online) of someone doing a storytime. There are probably endless possibliities of using videos for marketing or promotion of past and future programs.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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