Finding Your Voice: creative ideas for library podcasts and vidcasts

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Finding Your Voice: Creative Ideas forBeginning a Pod- or Vidcast Series

Jason PuckettInstruction Librarian/Communication Liaison

Sarah SteinerLearning Commons Librarian/Social Work Liaison

Create Your Plan of Attack

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Step 1: Identify audience, aims, outcomes

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Step 2: Identify medium

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Audio

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Tools• Audacity (free)• Wavosaur (free)• SoundForge Audio Studio 9 ($55)• Garage Band (for Mac)

Video

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Tools• Windows Movie Maker (comes with

most Windows OS)• Jing (free w/ upgrades available)• Pinnacle VideoSpin (free)• Cyberlink Power Director (under

$100

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Step 3: Identify approach

(Formal)

(Informal)

One-shot vs. Serial

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Step 4:Identify needs

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Step 5: Identify allies

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Step 6: Create

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Step 7: Upload and market

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Fun with RSS

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Free Samples

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Video

“Ask”Carrie Donovan, Indiana University Bloomingtonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3APyP2ADZhg

Audio

http://www.library.gsu.edu/podcast/“Library Insider” podcastGSU Library

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Gearing up

About thirty bucks

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Gearing up

Blue Snowball, about $100

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• Pic of the Exchange audio room

Gearing up

Probably a couple hundred dollars

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Gearing up

$ A lot

Audiohttp://dekalblibrary.org/podcastsDekalb County Public Library

Audio

“Meet the Databases”Fairfield University, CThttp://www.fairfield.edu/library/lib_podcasts.html

Video

http://www.library.gsu.edu/learningcommons/“Learning Commons Theatre”GSU Library

Sarah: ssteiner@gsu.eduJason: jpuckett@gsu.edu

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