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Using Videos to Build Community. Presented by Melissa Kiser Information Technology Librarian Allen County Public Library. Let me introduce myself. @mekiser. Your nonprofit is part of a larger community. Let’s recognize and act as if your nonprofit is vital. We have two jobs.
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Using Videos to Build Community Presented by Melissa Kiser Information Technology Librarian Allen County Public Library
Let me introduce myself @mekiser
We have two jobs Know our communities Make the tech work for us
Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana • 340,000 residents in the county
Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana • 340,000 residents in the county • Unassuming midwestern town
Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana • 340,000 residents in the county • Unassuming midwestern town • Average home sells for $115,000
Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana • 340,000 residents in the county • Unassuming midwestern town • Average home sells for $115,000 • Cost of living 9% below national average
Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana • 340,000 residents in the county • Unassuming midwestern town • Average home sells for $115,000 • Cost of living 9% below national average • 87 parks, 10 colleges
Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana • 340,000 residents in the county • Unassuming midwestern town • Average home sells for $115,000 • Cost of living 9% below national average • 87 parks, 10 colleges • All-America City
Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana “fat” and “dumb” – and fixing it
How do you know your community? news newspaper blogs people Twitter radio TV
The Bike Summit video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_YEAGEIVVw
The farmer’s market video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVXNiw-u-dE
The Tin Caps video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jreNEl_3FqU
Jobs, Dreams, and You http://tscrobinson.com/
Why video? • Good PR • It’s an item of interest on the homepage • Keeps ‘em coming back • Friendly, personal, makes patron feel like someone is talking to them • Incorporates community stuff into library video • Ties the community back to the library
How I do it • Pick a format and stick to it • introduce myself • state date of video/events • list big events going on • be at an event that you mentioned the week before • group events together if possible (all at one agency, all one type of event, all one age group)
How I do it • talk about a service we offer, physically or virtually; examples: • Dunkin Donuts • Book Clubs page (Book Talk feature) • PINs--gave lots of reminders before deadline • SRP--mentioned in previous four videos
Video-making tips • talk as if the patron is standing in front of me • incorporate something I enjoy • planning in the future to do videos incorporating my running, my new kitten, camping • nothing too fancy-schmancy • needs to look very casual and off the cuff, "man on the street" feel • have A LOT of energy • keep them relatively short to accommodate attention spans