[Web4lib] Announcement: OPAL online program about podcasting

[Tom Peters]

Greetings!  On Thursday, December 8 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, 1:00 p.m. Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 7:00 p.m. GMT, Greg Schwartz will host an online program that provides an introduction to podcasting.  
 
This online program is part of the OPAL Collaborative (www.opal-online.org), a group of dozens of libraries on several continents that are providing a wide variety of online programs of interest to library users and librarians worldwide.
 
The URL to enter the online room is http://67.19.231.218/v4/login.asp?r=67955673&p=0.  This OPAL event is free and open to everyone with a computer and an internet connection.  There is no need to register and no registration fee.  This event is scheduled to last approximately one hour.  
 
Please Note:  The first time you enter an OPAL online room, your operating system may ask for your permission to have it download and automatically install a small plug-in.  The web conferencing software used for OPAL programs supports users of various Microsoft operating systems (Win 98 and higher), Mac OS X, and Linux.  
 
Greg Schwartz, the presenter, is by day the Circulation Support Supervisor for the Louisville Free Public Library (http://www.lfpl.org/), and by night a husband, father, and blogger and podcaster extraordinaire of Open Stacks (http://www.openstacks.net/os/).
 
This OPAL online event is sponsored by the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center (http://www.mitbc.org/).  
 
If you are unable to participate in this live online event, it will be recorded and placed in the OPAL archive (http://www.opal-online.org/archive.htm).  Also, the MP3 version of the audiorecording will be--you guessed it--distributed as an OPAL podcast (http://feeds.feedburner.com/OpalPodcast).
 
If you have questions, please feel free to contact me. 


Tom Peters

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