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Webcast Recording: “Welcome to ATLAS! Using Social Media to Promote Digital Photos”

Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS in Webcasts

Alliance Library System (ALS) and LearningTimes recently conducted an online conference to debut ATLAS, a new set of social media tools to promote history and digital photographs. A recording of the event is available for anytime playback from the link below.

Recorded: Monday, June 29, 2009.
Duration: Approx. 85 minutes

ATLAS (Alliance’s Trail to Learning-Casts and Syndicated Sites) is a new set of social media tools ALS is using to promote information and photographs about Illinois history. ATLAS features a podmap of Illinois where the user can click on a city or geographic area to see what information is available. One of the sites for Peoria contains a videocast, podcast, and text about Lydia Bradley, the founder of Bradley University. A user can enjoy the video and audio on a computer or download to a handheld device. The products will also be available on I-tunes and users can subscribe to the topics of interest to them. In addition to the podmap, there will be an online community around the podmap for users to contribute resources, comments, and experiences. Learning Times is also using this technology with the Smithsonian  and the National Museum of the US Air Force.

The program on June 29th introduced librarians to ATLAS, its beginnings and where we hope to go next. The agenda for the program included:

• Introductions – Kitty Pope, ALS Executive Director
• ATLAS project/background/history – Lori Bell, ALS Director of Innovation
• Meet Albert Cashier, one of the historical figures on ATLAS – Angie Green, ALS Library Development Consultant
• Meet Lydia Bradley on ATLAS – Valerie Brandon, ALS Innovation Administrator
• Overview of podcast training – Jonathan Finkelstein, LearningTimes
• Introduction to and overview of ATLAS – John Walber, LearningTimes
• Project evaluation – Tom Peters, TAP Information Services, and Eric
• Questions – all

“We are thrilled to introduce this exciting new tool to the library community and we hope Illinois libraries will participate to make information available statewide.”
– Kitty Pope, ALS Executive Director.

“We think this will begin a new trend in digital imaging sites and collections to make them more interactive using these exciting social media tools.”
– John Walber, LearningTimes

This project was funded by an LSTA grant from the Illinois State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.