[Web4lib] Puppet Shows on Google Video

[Peter Schoenberg]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I have uploaded the 10 puppet show movies to Google Video, Yahoo Video
and YouTube

	Google's process was the most complex and slow.
	Yahoo was very quick and smooth.
	YouTube was quite quick, not quit as smooth

Interestingly, most of the uploads cannot yet be found by a search.  The
only two that can be found are the two google videos I uploaded earlier
this week. There appears to be a delay in the indexing of newly uploaded
content, in addition to the approval delay.

In looking at the puppet shows on the three sites, most are just amateur
and odd, most have very poor production.    Because our shows were shot
and produced by a local TV channel as a partnership, the quality of the
sound and image is much better than most of what is out there - they are
five minutes in length.

While we may be lost amid a sea of low quality efforts, I think kids and
parents who find our puppet shows will be pleased.     Is this not
typical of library web offerings, higher quality but lost in a sea of
lower quality stuff.

	If you just want to see the movies, you can go straight to our
site:
		http://www.epl.ca/Storytime/

Peter
__________________________________________________ 
Peter Schoenberg                  (780) 496 1855 
Manager - Information Services - Edmonton Public Library 
                           www.epl.ca       


-----Original Message-----
From: Bonnie Swoger [mailto:swoger at geneseo.edu] 
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 4:28 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Cc: Peter Schoenberg
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Puppet Shows on Google Video

Definitely upload to YouTube.  It has seen phenominal growth lately, 
partly do to its incredibly easy interface.  This article from TechWeb 
describes how fast its growing.
http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=191000082&cid=RSSfeed
_TechWeb

A Reuters story also called YouTube "the leader in Internet video
search"
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=1285
5295&src=rss/technologyNews

-------------------

Bonnie J. M. Swoger
Web Design and Educational Technology
Milne Library
SUNY Geneseo
Geneseo, NY  14454
Phone: (585) 245-5593

"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till
sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." -John Muir



Peter Schoenberg wrote:
> Edmonton Public Library now has 2 puppet shows on Google Video - 8
more
> are awaiting verification and show be online soon.
>
> The easiest way to find them is to search Google Video for Edmonton
> Public Library.
>
> 	(There is a typo, now fixed but not yet live, in one of the
> descriptions).
>
> I have added the words Puppet Show to the title (once again, the
revised
> title is not yet live) to help with retrieval.
> 	I am wondering if I should add the word puppets and the phrase
> puppet shows to the description to make them more visible for parents
or
> kids looking for puppet shows.
>
> I was thinking of trying youtube next.
>
> 	What are the top shared video sites currently?  Where else would
> you suggest uploading them.
>
> 	They are of course on our web site in the Kids section.
>
> Peter
> __________________________________________________ 
> Peter Schoenberg                  (780) 496 1855 
> Manager - Information Services - Edmonton Public Library 
>                            www.epl.ca       
>>
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