[MNASIS-L] OPAL online program about podcasting

[Janet Arth]

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 
(<http://www.opal-online.org>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>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/>http://www.lfpl.org/), and by night a husband, 
father, and blogger and podcaster extraordinaire of 
<http://www.openstacks.net/os/>Open Stacks (http://www.openstacks.net/os/).

This OPAL online event is sponsored by the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center 
(<http://www.mitbc.org/>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>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>http://feeds.feedburner.com/OpalPodcast).

If you have questions, please feel free to contact me.


Tom Peters

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