Week 9, Exercise 20

A coworker suggested today that I look up "The Secret" on YouTube. I found that there were many entries for it. Here's one that offers an appealing way to remember the ideas.



There is quite an amazing range of material presented. One video I encountered shared a teenager's angst at being humiliated on a TV show. I have to wonder at the wisdom of baring one's soul in this manner for some of the responses were so unkind. I can't help but wonder if he didn't feel worse in the end.

Potential library uses for videos: storytelling, tutorials

Site components that could transfer: what's new at..., popular [books] for mobile devices

Week 4, Exercise 9

I decided to check what was out there in the blogosphere about "library marketing." I found that Technorati yielded the most results that were right on point. At the other end of the spectrum, Topix.net was quite disappointing in that most of what it found were references to people who had "Library Marketing" in their title.

Here's what I added to my feeds today:
The "M" Word - Mareting Libraries
Library Marketing - Thinking Outside the Book
Library Videos - the best of...
Lib Talk Blog

To check them out for yourself, find the feed at: http://www.bloglines.com/public/playtowork

The biggest payoff came from a Google search on "library marketing" where I found this link: http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Marketing The site includes links to several blogs on the topic.

2/14/07 Update: May have to revise the above statement. Tried a search engine called blogsearch.google.com and found this del.icio.us site: http://del.icio.us/chrystiehill/lbc+marketing