Friday, May 16, 2008

MLA Web 2.0 Week 7: Podcasting and Hosted Video

I think that libraries and hosted video to post tutorials about how to use their databases, services, etc. I want to see if we can use YouTube or Odeo to host some Flash versions of tutorials created in Camstasia. We use Plone shareware to run our Web site, and apparently it has trouble handling the Flash files. We have put up the files as Windows Media files and QuickTime files.

I think the videos can be used for PR purposes. I found a video posted on YouTube by a reporter for our campus newspaper, the Daily Egyptian, about the renovation project at Morris Library. It shows how good it is now, and how bad it was, and that more work is needed:

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