Oh, welcome back everybody. It is the top of the hour. It is 11 a.m. central time here in Lincoln, Nebraska. And it is time for our next presenters. Session number three here at 11 o'clock. Making the most of Facebook and blogging. How to use social media effective in a small library. We have Penn Wilson, a librarian at Dorothy Pike Memorial Library and Miranda Brumbau, also a librarian at the Platt Public Library both in South Dakota. So ladies, I will let you go ahead and take it away. Okay, my name is Pam and as I was thinking that this was a really good talk for us because our population in the late present is 599, so we're pretty small. It is important, I believe, to be up in the times with technology, so people will see that we aren't dinosaurs. We're actually really up on things. So one of the best ways I think do that is to have a Facebook page where you can share with your patrons what you have coming into your library. The first page that we have here, this is the administration panel, which looks a little bit different than probably what you're used to with having a personal Facebook page. You're able to see notifications, how many people are viewing your pages. And one important thing, you have to have 30 likes on a professional page in order to get that information, which is in the end sites that you can see in the middle of the screen there. It's really good information to have so you can keep track of how many people you are reaching. This page, this is what I like to do with my pages, take pictures from online and put them on your Facebook page to show what books you have coming in. You can also take pictures of events that have happened at the library. You can see on the next page too, on the bottom left you can see something that says organic and viral. The organic means it's the people that like your page that have seen your post. The viral is actually people that have seen the post through your friends. So if you say you have 30 likes, you can be reaching hundreds of people in all actuality. This is a breakdown of the chart that can show you age groups of people that are coming to your page, gender. So I guess you can tell by us we have a lot of females in the 35 to 44 range and then 55 to 64, that's mostly what our patrons seem to be. You can also view the states, as you can see there's a couple from Nebraska that have viewed our page through some of our friends that like our page. And it's kind of important information so that you can see if maybe there are certain age groups that you need to do a little bit more to reach out to. And this page is a little bit more of a broken down of the chart you just saw. You can see on the reach how many people we have reached on each post, age users or people that have shared your post. The virality percentage there you see is what percentage of your post was able to be seen by other people than your friends that like the page. Let's see on the next page might be the last one. And I'm not sure if I'm able to bring up my page to show you a little bit more entailed. Do you want me to? I'm not sure how we can switch that. Do you want me, well I can't open your Facebook, do you want me to go back to the first slide Pam? We could try that, I was hoping I could show a live version of my Facebook page but we might not be able to do that. Pam I can give control to you. Would the presenters be able to switch? Okay that would be great. Okay we'll switch here. Okay we're seeing your screen panel? There we go. It's everybody you see. Oh great it's up. Good thing here too you can see that the administration panel that I was talking about where you get your notifications, you have your index page. But one thing I really want to show is down here you have these little tabs where you can click them and it will take your patrons to different places. I did add thanks to Jane at the state here in South Dakota, South Dakota titles go for overdrive. When you click that it takes your patrons to your South Dakota title page. It might not be working for me. When one of your patrons hits that tab it takes much of the overdrive link. Which is kind of handy that way you know they can just go to your Facebook page and I know they can go there. Pam I think there's a button at the bottom of your screen label to show all content. I think if you click that that would make that screen work. Let's see. That's not what this should look like. And there's also something that I did mention you can highlight. I'll remove the highlight so you can see that this strength so that it's smaller so that's something you really want to draw attention to. You can highlight it and it will show up bigger on your page. Here's an example here where you can see that this post had 27 people that saw it. When you run your cursor over that it will bring up an explanation. And then viral will show you the number of people that saw your post from a friend that likes your page. We also carry DVDs so I do update the page with DVDs so that people realize that we have more to offer than just books. And also like audio books we got audio books in. So it's really fun to have this because you can keep people updated and just let them know that you are not a dinosaur library. You are technology. I'd like to show a little bit better the insights page. This will show you percentages per week on what you're reaching. Like we have now we have 41 total likes. Friends of fans is 6,734. So you can see that you can have a wider reach than just those 41 people that like your page. So we've reached, you know, our reach has gone up, which is always good to see. And also I wanted to say that for setting up your professional Facebook page, just in case anyone has any questions on how to do that, you would go to Facebook and you would hit up Create a Page. And you want to select a page for a business. And once you select that drop down column, and there will be a library listed so that you can select that and it kind of helps you to set up a recording being a library, which is really helpful. And I'm not sure anyone has any questions. Yeah, looks like we got some questions coming in from the audience. Okay, one question is how do you get people to like your page? How are you getting people to come there? What we first did, we had a lot of our library board, my fan members, friends that would like a page in order to get us up to that 30. And once you do that, you know, friends of theirs start to see your page and they start to add you as well. So it didn't take long. It took us maybe about a month to get up to those 30 likes. It was a little frustrating because we want to get to that so that you can have that chart. We can see how many people you're reaching in the age groups and the genders. But yeah, just have your family, your friends like the page. Okay, have you noticed any increased library activity due to having the Facebook page? We definitely have. A lot of people have overdrive through our library where they can get e-books through the state. That's one of the handy things with having that link on the website or on the Facebook. People can just go to your Facebook page and then they get to it through there. But, you know, we have a lot of people that aren't really used to e-books and how do you use them? So I've had people coming in saying, oh, we didn't realize that we could get e-books through the library. So it was kind of good to get that information out there as well that we can help them with their e-readers. One suggestion for getting people to like your page and beyond that I have here, too, is that board members and council members, you should make sure that they like your Facebook page. If they're on Facebook, get them on there right away. Correct. Yes, that's really good because they are able to see what I'm doing because I am the only librarian. There is no other staff at our libraries to want it. So they kind of, you know, they can keep an eye on me. Luckily, they like what I'm doing. So it's good for them to be on it as well so they can see that, you know, we're reaching people. We're staying at the time so people are really enjoying having it. We've had people come in once they've seen that we have a book on our Facebook page that we have that book in stock and they come in and they check it out. And I did have a craft day back in October for the kids for Halloween and I had posted it on Facebook and we had quite a few children come through just because they saw it on their Facebook page, the parents, and they brought the kids in. So it's really a good way to communicate with your community members and let them know what you're up to. Yeah, we have actually quite a few comments here on ways to increase the Facebook views. Some people have said you can get, Facebook has very cheap options for promoting pages now for $10 or $20 people have put out ads and gotten $50 or $20 new links right away from using that. Yes. Right there it says get more likes. Yep, exactly. It doesn't cost much and it gets a good return. Yes, definitely. Oh, who did you have to approach to approve getting a Facebook page for the library? Did you have to go through any sort of process to persuade someone in authority to let this happen? I did talk to the board members before I did anything because I felt I'm pretty young and I'm really into technology and I thought it was really important, especially with a small town library, to be able to have a Facebook page to reach people, especially teenagers. They're all about Facebook now and that's one area that we really need help in. We need to build our team readers coming into the library. It didn't take too much coaching. We do have a couple of older members on the board, which they don't know too much about computers, but luckily they trusted me and they told me pretty much to go for it. Okay. There's a technical question. How did you get that overdrive tab up there on the Facebook page? That I got through, Jane, who is in the South Dakota State Library, she sent me information on how to get that link. I have to talk to your libraries on how to do that, enable to get that South Dakota titles to go tab to look like that. Pretty much what you go, you add one of these plus points here and you can go to find more apps. It's actually an app and you have to have information or to that and you would do like a search all apps to be able to find it. I don't know if it'll come up or not because I had a direct link to that one. Yeah, and actually a couple of people are saying that Overdrive actually has information on their own website about how to get that into your page. Yeah, it was pretty simple. It took me maybe three minutes to get up there. We're sorting through the questions here. A lot are coming in. Okay. What about negative comments or people using bad language? How do you deal with that? Luckily, we have not had that, but being that you're the person that set up the page, you have this administrative powers where you can delete them. So if you had the post that you didn't like, you can go up here. Yeah, you could delete the post. So it's something like that. And you saw it, you could get rid of it quickly. But you have full control over whatever is on your page.  That is true. Yeah, that helps a lot. Okay, someone who is not very computer savvy. What about people who are not computer savvy? Is it easy to get those books on the Facebook like what you were doing there? How difficult was that? It is. What I've done, can I bring up another page? Would that be okay? Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Okay. What I like to do to find pictures of books, you would go to Google search and let's just say Percy Jackson comes to mind for me. You enter it and then you would go to images and get this picture here. You would click it, right click it and put save image as.  Okay, and then you would just like, you could enter like Percy and save. And it is saved now to your computer. So say you would go up here and put photo video, add photo video, and then you would browse to find the picture that you just saved and then you could do a question like I have here on this one of the Send Wonders book. So Google is pretty handy because you can find books, DVD, pictures, pretty much anything like that that you could join your web page. Okay, great. That was a good demo of showing how to do that. Do you have something on your page, some sort of info asking people to keep on subject, is it too fantastic about the library and not comment to you about other city problems or agencies or issues? Or how do you have any problem with that? What do you mean again? So trying to keep people who are commenting and chatting on your page on topic to just talk about the library rather than about any other city problems or issues or agencies. Yeah, we really haven't had anything come up where they've posted anything about city problems. I don't even know if the city has a Facebook page to be honest. They do have a web page, but so far we haven't had anyone coming on and saying anything about anything besides the library. We do have a couple of questions actually going back to putting those book covers up. We want to, are there any copyright issues with taking them off of the internet doing that? And someone else actually suggests is when they do it, they put a little copyright caution there. Do you have any, are there any issues with that? I haven't had any issues come up. We aren't using the pictures to sell anything. We're just promoting that we have the book. I know copyright sometimes it's a little finicky situation there. But I've been to other Facebook pages where they have pictures and I haven't seen any problems there either with using pictures like these. I'll throw in here. This is Michael at the Library Commission. If you're sticking to the covers of the books, you're probably pretty much okay. There is a thing in copyright law about what are called creating useful works. And in essence, you are kind of marketing the stuff you have. If you're super, super mega concerned about pulling it off of Google, take a photo of it with your camera phone or something and post that instead of the actual physical item you own and then you'll be you're completely 100% bulletproof there at that point. Yeah. And I've never taken anything like where it's got excerpts from inside the book or anything like that. It's always just the cover. Okay, a technical question, I guess, is are the comments that people put up posted immediately or do they go through an administrator or someone to approve them first? They actually come up immediately. Yeah. I don't think Facebook does that. You do get a notification. Once someone is posted, you do get a notification here. You would click that and you'll see that someone came up and either liked something or posted a comment. Yeah. Facebook doesn't work that way that you approve comments and things like you might do on your blog or something like that. It's automatic, but you can see what comes up.   Yeah. Michael's raising his hand. Correct. Yeah. Well, Ann, I just, I'm watching the Twitter feed here and Robin Hastings has, if you search Twitter for our hashtag, BTSL, she has posted the link to the overdrive instructions for getting a linking to your overdrive account through your Facebook account. So that is available. We'll put it in the show notes too. But if you're on Twitter, you can find those there. Thank you, Robin. Yeah. Oh, and another suggestion about putting those books in there is, and I talk about this too when you're talking about it, some OPACs do include the feature, and it's something that's been purchased along with it, of including book covers. And this one library provides links to their own catalog record from Facebook. That's where it goes to when you go to that feature. And they pull the book covers from their OPAC where they've gotten them from officially in a problem. Sure. So that is a way to do it as well. There's only one more question about the Facebook at the moment. Feel free to type in any more if you have them. I've caught up finally. I'm not sure if this is a question you can answer or we can at all. Someone says they've not been able to get a unique URL for their Facebook page without having a cell phone number. Is there any way around that? I don't think so. I don't think my cell phone number is in Facebook. Mine isn't. Mine, they didn't ask me for it and I didn't give it to them. I'm hesitating here because I know how it works on YouTube, which I realize is not Facebook. But I know in YouTube there's a verification system where if you give yourself a number, they'll send you a text message. And then with a code in it, you have to type the code back in to verify that you are you. That seems to be what someone is describing. I was not aware of that in Facebook for me. No, I'm not really sure. I don't really understand what that is that has happened in there. I've created multiple Facebook pages and they haven't. Someone says that's what Facebook is going to be doing. So maybe it's something new. I don't know. I have to try and create a page. Yeah. Last time I created a page was only like in January. I don't know then if it's something new like here in the south. He says it's what Facebook is going to do, start doing. Sorry. We don't know much about that yet if it's something new coming. Right. And again, just thinking about how other systems do that. Now, whether or not you want to give Facebook your cell phone number, that's probably issue number one. Issue number two, I would say is I would assume Facebook would only use that for the verification process. It's not going to necessarily list it like your personal cell phone number on your library's page. And then you can probably remove it after you've done the verification. But we are kind of talking some vaguely educated speculation at the moment. So sorry, we don't have a specific answer for you on that one. Yeah. I was going to say this is the address right here for my page and this is what we use even at the state. They have a link right to my Facebook page and it gets from right there. Okay. Yeah. So you have a custom URL. Yeah. And I know I can tell you the way it has worked previously when I created Facebook pages of the last few years is you create a page. This is the old way. Create a page and it would be Facebook.com, forward slash a bunch of random numbers. Then if you got up to 25 people to like your page, they would then say, okay, cool. Enough people like you now you can actually make it specific to be like so-and-so public library. That did change because recently I did pages. I was able to just create it automatically asked you for what do you want to call it. But then it adds numbers after that too. So they're kind of working towards, of course, when you start off having a page, you want to have it called something logical like Facebook.com forward slash main street public library. And then it would be a bunch of random numbers after that still. And I'm not sure how that then clears out now. But maybe they're switching to something new. I don't know. Facebook is changing things. Everything up there. All right. So let's see what we got here now. Oh, someone has another suggestion for promoting that they use billboards to promote their Facebook page. And from the understand it's not very expensive. I have no idea. But cool idea. Okay. This is a question. I don't think it's a question that any of you guys would be able to answer. I'm not sure if we can. Someone has a personal page for their, a personal page for the library. I want to switch it to a business page. I don't think you can switch it. You'd have to create a new just page for the, for the library itself. You can't, if you buy, originally made it as if you were a person and made it for the library, you can't just say, okay, I want to change it. You've made it incorrectly. Unfortunately, in the first place, you're just going to make a new one and then gradually tell people on your first page, sorry, we're now actually made this page instead and start sending them over there. Yeah. From my experience, that's what would happen. You have to make it, set it up right from the start as a business one. Okay. I just got, okay. The new way I described about getting a specific URL that now lets you put it in and then adds numbers afterwards, someone did the same thing. Once they got 30 likes, it took off those extra numbers and now their URL is just like the library that you see here. So if they, you're able to take it right away.  But eventually you'll be able to take that off of the URL. You get to say it, share it to people, and make it a much nicer, cleaner thing that goes out there. Oh, there's things coming in. Oh, does making a Facebook page cost anything? No, no, no. Facebook is free. Facebook is totally free service. You do not have to pay anything to create a page to do it in your time costs. So you do not have to pay anything. The only cost thing we were talking about earlier was that they do offer a service to create an ad that will help promote your page a little more and get more people to know about it. That's an extra thing voluntarily if you want to do that. But they're not paying at all. You do not have to pay to promote posts or anything. All of these things are optional ways of getting more activity on your page. There is nothing that you have to pay to use Facebook and to do anything. Well, have either of you considered using the pay for advertising service? For our library, we don't have an advertising budget. So it's not an option. It's not an option for us. But bigger libraries with bigger budgets, they probably could definitely benefit by that. Okay. And I'm going to, well, Chris is looking through it. I have one other question, kind of maybe a bigger picture question. In both of your libraries, is this the online presence? Did you have separate websites? Other things, or is this pretty much your focus? This is where you are online. Well, before I got there, we had nothing really. There was one page that was not updated, and I tried to get access to it. But for some reason or another, Facebook would not let me. I tried to prove who I was, but they needed more information than I had. So I started this one. I pretty much didn't have anything. I'm getting a lot of great feedback back from the community saying that they really like what I'm doing. They're able to see what we have. I updated, oh, at least a couple of times a week, at least. And it really is. It's helping with reaching more people, getting more people into the library, letting them know, too, that we know about e-books and how to get them situated when they get one for Christmas. They don't know what to do with it, and they bring it in, and we can help them with that. So it's good for them to see that we know about technology well. Oh, here's an interesting question. And this is, I think, more of a subjective answer. How much updating is too much? Well, you don't want to go and update and put, you know, things that aren't very relevant or just to be putting content in. It's got to be something that would be of interest to your patrons. I average probably maybe two to three posts a day, and I try to stab them a little bit. But you don't want to, like here, I wasn't going to go and put, oh, Time Magazine came in and they do another posting, Entertainment Weekly came in, and then another posting, Sports Illustrated came in. I combined it all into one post. So, you know, you don't want to have overkill, definitely. Okay, and do you have multiple Facebook admins, multiple people that are able to access your page? Right now I'm the only one. If there was ever something where one of the board members would like to help with the page, right now they haven't shown any interest, but you can add someone. They have to like your page first, but then you can add them as an administrator and they would have the same abilities as you would have on editing and adding information to the site. So, okay, it looks like we've pretty much reached the end of Facebook questions. And please, you know, continue to send those in. Did you have something on blogging also you wanted to talk about? Yes, that will be me. Okay, switch you back. Okay. All right, you're all set. Okay, hello, and thank you for joining this presentation. First of all, 79% of Americans regularly use the Internet, and there are more than 31 million bloggers in the United States. Blogging is a form of social media that includes Facebook page, Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. That depends on the social engagement of Internet users through comments, guest posting, and re-blogging. So what is a blog? Here we have a definition of blog that states it's a website that contains online personal... Let me get this out of the way. That is an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer. Well, how does this relate to your library? Okay, let's see. Here is a screenshot of the blog we have at our library. Our library started the blog in August of 2012, and so far we've had 585 viewers. The goal of our blogging is to promote our library through the Internet and to connect with potential patrons and those who, for whatever reason, such as disability or distance, can't come into the library to keep up with us. We want the blog to eventually also become a source of community information. So what are we posting on our blog? We are currently posting about information about new books that come into our library, just like Pam has on our Facebook page. And we also include news about library programs, including our book club and Storytime. We plan to include more information about community events, and we would like to start posting interviews with local people and articles about community organizations and local businesses as a way to make our blog more of that community resource and to expand our reach as a library from a reading room to a community partnership. Here is one of the pages on our blog that includes a history about our library and contact information, including the email and the opening hours and times for our library and who the director is. And we also have a link to the overdrive program here at the bottom you can see that and also information about how to get signed up for the overdrive program with our library. And then at the bottom of this we have hyperlinks to all of the state library databases. So our patrons can come on here and they can go through there and quickly find the database that would be interesting to them, and they all of the links work. I checked in yesterday to make sure. Another page here from our this is more of the blog post page that people see when they first log into the website. On the left hand screen of the screen at the bottom you'll see the Facebook link. Our Facebook page at the library is also linked to our blog page. So whenever we post a blog post it automatically is published on our Facebook page to cross publish that. And above that we have a follow button. Users can go there and click on the follow button and enter their email and then they'll receive an email notification each time we post a blog. And then on the right hand side is the blog role which lists all of the most recent blog posts that we have so sort of an easy access there. Here is another post that we have done is a story time with photos. And images of books as Pam mentioned and videos will earn you more visitors than just posting words. After all pictures say a thousand words. When we do post pictures like this it automatically goes to our Facebook page and then the parents of the children are all friends of our Facebook page and they can go on and share the photos with their friends and family so that's turned out really well. And then here is a post talking about our book club and about a book. We always include the image of the book. Just as Pam mentioned we go to Google search for the images to find the clean clear book covers to post on there. And then we also have posted YouTube videos for how to use the overdrive program. We have had a lot of patrons that are interested in setting up their e-readers but they've had issues with getting started because there's so many different devices out there that you can make to get started with that. So we found several different videos for several different e-readers that patrons can go on and actually watch and action how to get started. Okay so building a blog. If you are interested in building a blog for your library here is how we got started. First we chose a blog host. Here are several of the most popular ones. We chose to go with WordPress for ours. You can pay to start a blog just like a Facebook page. It doesn't cost anything other than your time of course. You can pay to upgrade your blog so that you can get more advanced templates and images and things to add to your blog but it's not necessary. And you can also opt to purchase your domain name. As you can see from the very second to slide there our domain name is platpubliclibrary.wordgress.com If we paid the fee every year to purchase the domain name it would just become platpubliclibrary.com which is not something we've chosen to do yet but it would be an option. And through WordPress here is the behind the scenes of our blog it's called your dashboard. This is where all of the magic happens. This is where everything on the left hand side you can see where your post that would be where you add a new post to your blog. You can also screen all of the comments which is very important. I don't know if you can read there but we've had 231 spam comments already in 7 months. A lot of spammers go on and try to hyperlink to your blog and sale things sale random things that have nothing to do with your blog and it's very techy. So you can go on there as the administrator and block those and make sure that doesn't get put on your blog and you can screen all comments before they're posted too which is what we do. We approve everything before it's posted on there and you can also see the statistics of your blog which you can see right now we've posted 58 posts yet. So better blogging practices. Here are some tips we've learned through working with our blog and the best time to post your blog is between Tuesday and Friday from 10 to 2 because that is statistically when the most people are on the web looking at blogs and if you want to get yours in the reader so that people are going to see it in real time that's the best way to do it. When you first start a blog you want to start by posting weekly to just start your network there and to get your users or the readers familiar with your blog and that way they can anticipate each week that there'll be a new post and get them sort of in the habit of reading your blog. You can do auto posting which if you know that you're going to be busy from 10 to 2 which most people are during the week, you can set up say on Sunday you can write your blog out and prepare it and everything and then save it and have it set to auto post at a particular day and time so that it's done, you don't have to worry about it, it's out there and you can do that the same time and day every week. The ideal is to build up your posting to daily. You can post daily that's the ideal that's not overkill yet, you don't want to post several times a day and of course your posts want to be relevant to your patrons and your community and your readership and you want to invite readers to comment on your posts which encourages the social engagement and really helps make people appreciate your blog and show connection with your blog and then you want to reply to their comments. You don't want to leave people hanging. You want to let them know there's another person on the end of the blog that cares about what they're saying and that there's a social interaction there and you also want to include widgets on the blog post for sharing to social media so at the end of each post of our blog we have a Facebook sharing button Twitter, LinkedIn, all of the different social media buttons that way if someone wants to share their post it's easy they can just click a button and go. Through WordPress there is a thing called Reader which makes it very convenient to publish a post if you don't have anything pressing at your library to talk about. You can use the readers to find posts relevant to whatever you're looking for. On the right hand side you'll see topics and you can go through those and you'll notice libraries there, Hobbits, those are the most popular topics that people are looking at blogs for right now or you can also search for topics such as library, author, books and then you find posts as you'll see on the left hand side here are some posts of the blogs that our blog follows so that we can see each every time they post those are the ones that we have re-blogged before so we can continue our network there and then you can re-blog the posts which sounds a little bit, we'll discuss that in the next slide but that way you can expand your network without having to create new posts all of the time. So re-blogging. Here is an example of re-blogging for our library a popular blog on WordPress is called The Librarian who doesn't say shh and we recently posted a blog from this we recently re-blog a blog from this that was called Top 10 Favorite Romances and it's from a weekly internet meme called the Top 10 Tuesday. When you re-blog something you save time in creating the post for the day and you expand your network so whenever you re-blog something the person that you re-blog it from goes on to your site and typically they'll make comments and they'll also start following your blog to expand your network and you can reach a lot more readers that way because perhaps they will start re-blogging your posts because the idea is to expand your network let's talk about that now. Billing your network in closing I want to discuss networking which is one of the biggest deals with blogging to get your website recognized by users who are searching for either your library or your city when they do a Google search. This has to do with search engine ranking which is a very complicated algorithm however the ultimate goal is to get your blog on the first few pages of the Google search results. To do this you want to build your network and here are some tips some ways to do that. First you want to include posts on your blog about your library of course but you also want to include a majority of posts about your community about other businesses and organizations and if they have websites and blogs you want to talk about those on the library blog to just expand your network there and you also want to encourage local businesses and organizations to post about your library blog on their blog sort of a win-win situation there you post about them they post about you and you share the information perhaps you have a live chamber of commerce that you can talk about their website or blog and then they can mention your blog on their website and all of the people that would not normally look for the library blog would see that on the chamber of commerce page and just expand your outreach there. You also can read blog posts from other blogs which we've mentioned that have similar interests such as other library blogs you could hook up with other library blogs in your state or at least in your community and you can also guest post on other blogs which means you can write posts for other blogs and when you do that you want to hyperlink to your own blog in that post so that it's connecting your website back to through the post. And that's the end of my presentation. So anybody has any questions? Yes, we do have a couple questions. Let's see.  Okay. We do have one question I'm going to jump to those ones but someone wants to know when you talk about when to post what time the 10 am to 2 pm they wonder if that was eastern time I think you meant whatever your local time is correct? Right, whatever your time zone is. Because typically people that are in your area will be searching for stuff about they'll be more related to your library stuff so we would be more interested in information about the Midwest than we would about the east post. Let's say your time zone on that. Another question, do you recommend having both a website and a Facebook page? Is it redundant? Is there a time issue? I have some answers to that but what do you guys think? I think that it's good both ways. It does take a little bit more time to have the blog and the Facebook page but once you get into habit of it you can do a new blog post in 15 or 20 minutes a day. We create a new blog post and we have new books out and then we or we have a program that happens such as a story time or book club and then whenever we publish it on the blog it automatically publishes to Facebook so we kill two birds with one stone there. That's not going to say you don't really have to worry about the time issue because you can't have things automatically feed right in your Facebook page and boom it's got the content that you created on your blog. Right, right. I will say you will have to then pay attention to people leaving comments on your blog and on the Facebook page but you don't have to write it twice so there is still a little extra time. Right. Another question, do you require photography release to use pictures of minors on either your Facebook page or your blog? That would be an issue if we had parents that the parents that are involved in the story time are active in the story time and they are okay with having the pictures on the Facebook page and they're by the blog. We've never had any parent that has said that they don't want to have their pictures taken and when I do take the pictures during the programming I always say these are going to be posted on Facebook page and then if we were going to put it in the newspaper we would always mention that too. That gives the parents an opportunity to speak up and say I don't want my child on the Facebook or the blog and yet we haven't had that issue and they're definitely open not to put that on there if they do not want it of course. Yeah, that's a good way to do it. Let them know and then they can write there and say please don't. That's it for our questions from the audience at the moment. If anybody has any questions go ahead and type them in. Any more coming through? One test did come in. Why should I blog? Why would you blog as opposed to just having a Facebook page? We, there's not well Facebook is the most popular form of social media but the more avenues of social media you have the more frequency the more availability you have online. So say we could also do a Pinterest page that shows crafts and stuff that we do at the library. The more avenues you have the greater you can expand your network and there's more opportunities for exposure for your library. Exactly, yes. Yeah, I totally agree with that and I will expand stuff you put in Facebook can only be found in Facebook. So if you post about new books in the library on Facebook and somebody Googles your library wanting to know what new books you've got they're not going to find it. So by putting it on a blog which is kind of out on the open internet and not in the kind of closed environment of Facebook you thereby increase the exposure that way also. And it's like what you're saying too it goes along with the be where your patrons and users are. If they're using Facebook then you know that and have something there but not everyone does. There are many, many people that are not on Facebook and are against it and have issues with it for various reasons so you can make sure that you're being where your users will get to you. Know your audience, know your town, know your community and work with where they are. Well your blog is part of your website isn't it? I mean if you have a website and so you've got access to your computerized catalogs on your website advertisements for your programs are going to be on your website your policies and procedures we hope will be on your website then it's just logical to have a blog as a place to post things about events and interesting news items and stuff on your website right? Right more of the current events section because your website is stagnant once you put that on there it's usually not changed unless there's a major change in the library so having a blog is just the current events what's happening day to day it's more personal I think for our community. And one of our upcoming presenters sent us a question in a separate back channel we have here have you ever thought about attaching a blog for your patrons to review books linked to your website so either a separate blog for your patrons or maybe change a little and say encouraging your patrons to make great content for your blog. That's a great idea I like that idea don't be great especially to create new posts and to make more of a community effort that's a great idea. No we haven't thought about that but I am now and you can do that on Facebook also I know Omaha Public periodically will put on their Facebook page something like you know hey we just got this great look what else by this author have you read or ask questions to kind of encourage that contribution of the content. Someone just commented to our OPAC allows patrons to rate and review titles so that's another way of getting your patrons involved and what's going on with your library offerings. One last question that I'll throw out there. One last question which I don't even know how we're going to answer this one how many social networks do libraries use all of them whatever is available. I would think the most relevant. Like you could do the good read you could have a good reads group for your library which would be really relevant. The Pinterest page is really relevant for summer reading programs where you can go on there and a lot of libraries post their crafts and activities for summer reading LinkedIn would not be one I would probably use. LinkedIn. That really is the same purpose. Obviously depending on how much staff you have you can only spend so much time on this. And I would say ask your patrons what social networks are you using. If 99% of your patrons say they're on Facebook well hey that's probably a good place to start if you're trying to reach some Pinterest. Maybe you want to try Pinterest. You don't have to be everywhere. We realize that it is time consuming but you need to be somewhere. You need to be out there. Alright, so thank you Pam and Miranda that was wonderful. Looks like we've gotten through our questions and we are at the 50 minute mark so we are right on schedule as we should be. Thank you ladies very much. That was a wonderful presentation.


What is up everybody? How are y'all doing today? I'm Glad to be here with you. Yes. It's a wonderful Wednesday. We're here in the bunker and we're about to do some Restoration on a Sony PVM as you see in the title and I want to say this is normally not the day we stream It's Mondays Tuesdays. So this is Wednesday, which is Normally the least viewed day it says according to my analytics for my audience So if you could help me out by dropping a like on the stream I see Jake is here. Thank you Jake and We can get going here in a second. I have some announcements a couple of one big announcement. Hey, DJ gaming I've won very big announcement that I'll get to in a second and a couple things to say here to get things started But man, what a wonderful week it is here. Spring has begun Things are starting to warm up which always makes me feel better It also makes me really want to start cleaning things. So I've been doing a bit of organizing I've been rearranging some things in the shop and I did and I'm still having some issues with the streaming setups. I can't believe it's like 2024 and I'm still having issues With my streaming setup and you'd think I'd know all this stuff by now, but every time every time There's something cursed about this basement and every time We hit about three to five months the whole system Solely in this PC in this streaming bunker area Decides to go haywire and it usually involves a windows update and then the system never comes back online It just blue screens black screens every time you try to restart it or turn it on and never boots up And I generally have to go back and do a full hard reset of windows. That's what I had to do last week and that was on the last couple streams and So Here's some people complaining Ronnie. Sorry still cold there, huh? Zeph core welcome in Robcat. Hey So anyway, I thought I had the system all back together But we realized there was some issues with the background audio. So I've not been able to fix that yet I'm still getting a lot of crackling in my Specifically just the jazz music for the background. So until I figure that out. I'm not going to make everybody's ear hurt I do I thought I had it figured out with the settings, but that wasn't correct because it's still doing it But anyway, since that's happened. I've not been able to figure that out. Everything else seems to be good Hopefully the stream will maintain good Frames and everything and we can still be up up to date But that is that okay. Yeah windows enough said right such an amazing thing. Okay, so as I said, I'm working on a 14m for you I've already done the power supply restoration not much to that. It's a full recap There's a lot of caps on the M series power supplies So you're looking like 18 or 19 capacitors and if you want to do them all there are some very high Number expensive capacitors in that kid. I'll get the old ones so I can show you but There's a lot of these larger capacitors in The M series power supply kit. These are the ones that come out of it.  Yeah, cool. Okay. These ruby con 35 volt 4,700 micro farad capacitors There we go in focus finally. Sorry about all that this capacitor is gonna be very expensive. Okay, and then There's three of them in one power supply and there's a couple of other big ones, there's a 25 by 330 Which is another high one and then there's a giant filter cap on there That's a 160 volt by 1000 micro farads. So those capacitors alone on that power supply board are gonna run you a lot Money generally speaking. I mean a couple of those capacitors are gonna cost four three to four dollars a piece And that 160 may cost you six or seven But it gets it all freshened up, it's also got a fresh coat of solder on there been fully cleaned up it's back here and It's in the machine and what I'm actually working on today is this board right here and Many of you who are looking at your screen already know what that is That is a neckboard for this Sony PVM. It's pretty standard for this PVM family and a Sony Neckboard and what we need to do on this is recap this and then reflow all the solder on this board Thankfully, we don't have many caps on this board. We have one on this side and then One more on this side Robcat that's not a bad idea. I just don't know I'd be playing it from my cell phone or I guess my cell phone. I'm not sure right. I mean Let's like it's sitting right here. Let me I'll hit play in a second Maybe we can trouble shoot it together everybody if anybody knows anything about this stuff. If not We'll decide whether it gets too bad because it's it's kind of a disappointment. It's not have it there Hey, hey rollpats, but this is the board. We're working on and I just wanted to say a couple things right before first off man, she poor I want to say sorry and Everything to my buddy volt are I don't know if you've been following on Twitter, but he had a refrigerator line that brought water into his refrigerator Blow up and cause damage to his basement and has a basement dweller here he definitely has compassion from me and So I know it's gonna set him back on some of his projects Specifically that new horse simulator. He was making for Bob but You know, that's just that's just from here at me here right now. You probably hadn't heard anything about that so anyway much love to volt are hope he's doing all right and Man watch out for those refrigerator lines guys. I used to be an insurance agent I still have my license in insurance and when I worked in home insurance You wouldn't believe how many times people would have a little water line go boom right behind the refrigerator and It's just an open line at that point There's no like safety check valve it literally will just run water behind your refrigerator under your floor and If you have stuff under the floor It's gonna come down there and it can be running for hours and put gallons and gallons of water and trigger nothing You wouldn't know it's like having a live hose unless you're down there seeing it hearing it or something So that's what happens. I know this sounds crazy, but I actually Would go and buy the cheaper refrigerators that didn't have any kind of ice maker or Water filter thing in the front anyway, and that way I could save on not buying an expensive refrigerator And also you didn't have to worry about that hosix bloating if you didn't even have a connection You just turn that valve off So yeah, it's like crazy. So yeah, lots of problems with that. Hey everybody. I see a lot more people showing up That's awesome. Thank you all for coming and so much much sympathies there, so let's get in and again, we're gonna look at this Overhead view of our board here. I'm gonna get some of these computer contraptions out of the way and And Everything will go good. Thank you all again. Thank you for hitting the like button every time you hit the like button It does help this show it does help this show It helps me get live viewers in it also helps people who come in and want to watch it on the playback realize it's happened and We're still hitting good numbers on the show, which is awesome and I've been working on two and I have two episodes almost Done on pretty big CRTs guys there It's the Sony KV FS 120 and Also the Sony or no, what's the other one a JVC D series 32 inch? So that's two new Videos coming. I've just got to sit down and actually get time to To work on the video production part But I've got two videos that are coming that are about consumer sets and I think we've already seen the JVC D series I mean we've seen but you guys on the live show have seen both of those CRTs already At least parts of them. This is gonna be like the full episodes the full retro tech Episodes on them, you know, these are two two of the Ones that I probably should put grades on like I did the Toshiba last year So let's check it out. I'm gonna put my headphones on. Let's see how bad this crackling goes It's so soft and simple. You would be like, why are you gonna crackle? All right, I'm gonna let it run there for a second Maybe we'll get lucky You know, maybe we'll get lucky Maybe it'll be like Valentine's Day and that one day the married man of 20 years gets lucky, right? Huh or your birthday? Am I right married guy? Any sympathy out there What do you guys think? Well, let's see Let's just hope and pray because God knows I need to sing my life away when I'm here and Soldering it's kind of just like part of the whole experience from there. It is I've got to get that cleared up. Hopefully it's just not too bad. I do apologize though. So I Hear it. I hear it. It's like a nasty river and Ripley River I will do my best to do Get rid of that before the next stream But I guess the choice is do you want that or like no music and I almost don't want no music. That's just How am I supposed to get any rhythm, you know soldering? This is a secret guys. You don't know this stuff I'm trying to help you. I'm trying to pull back the curtain on this Soldering is all about rhythm. It's just like dancing. It's a dance. It's a dance between you the wand The solder and the board, right?  All right enough of me just rambling, right?  Come on We've all heard this We've all heard you ramble before Now if you just if you're just like Getting started I am gonna reflow Just on these points here first we have our Capacitor right here. Let me see if I can zoom in any Well, that's too far Oh too far there's a little Let's see Let's see, baby Okay, we're getting closer. We're getting closer There it is There it is See 713 right there Right there right there Honey you see I'm a rocket man You know Shatner Has a great album from like the early 2000s of all spoken word renditions of tunes I'm a rock it man Rocket man I See you I see you down there and there and there Oh welcome down to The CRT Cabana, baby. We're getting loose. We're getting right. We're getting ready for the main event We're getting ready for that neck reflow. That's right. You all love it We're getting ready to reflow that neck but before we do that, baby, we got to get some Pre-work done we got to get those old capacitors out and today's style is not anything new quite old in fact it is a Demonstration Of solder wick folks. Yeah, I got one loose leg there All right guys one loose leg Let's try to get this other one out without adding more solder to the mix.  Oh gosh when I was like 12 years old and show much showtime had Our cinemax would play showgirls It was like it was crazy Sorry Here we go 250 40 sit 4.7. There we go finish up the roundup. That's right. It's roundup day Lovely Wednesday for retro I remember when I had When I wasn't even making retro content and I used to just sit around waiting for the roundup There we go.  I just saw a boob And you're like, oh my goodness And it's it did it was just weird. I was like, how was this even on TV? They tried to scramble it All the good old days of analog video Streamed straight to your television box grandma 713 I have to talk If anybody has any ideas about that Crackle fix or if you just pretend like it's my crackly old voice Right. Hey Brian. Welcome. All right. Just recording our value here. It's only one more And it's the opposite side. There we go. Where are you? Oh Knock it off there for me Hey, Mark Ha, I got new issues. No, actually, I just probably should just get on a call with you or something sometime But whoa Let's burn my cable But I have such a backlog right now. I have to just keep working on CRTs. I Have such a backlog No time to stop like I Have eight of them in the shop right now four more on the way I have a bunch of time-based correctors on the way to fix So I've really got to get through that Also just paid my good old taxes this last weekend My good old state and federal Taxes for 2023 and boy ouch Oh, I I can just say I bought the government a very bad cheap We're not bad. I guess a decent used vehicle, right? That's all I could say Hey Jake, thank you Jake with the $10 Super chat Jake is way black. I had a neckboard crack in half was able to pair it with still flickers What would you recommend for fixing the plastic or the cracked PCB? Sorry also Make a video about filming CRTs camera settings angles lightings etc You know Jake, thank you I'm not the biggest expert on filming CRTs really the best person is John Lineman, I think and the secret for most of those Videos is all and a lot of guys tell me this to you know the same thing with like my life in gaming They use a see a certain camera It's like a Panasonic camera And I'll talk about the neckboard here in a second But I know that's the best way. I'll be honest with you other than that My cell phone does the best and it always looks better. It really just depends on there's Certain backgrounds on a CRT will look good certain ones won't But yeah, I could make something talking about that sometime Now There we go. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye 705 As for your question on the broken PCB but oh for the settings So my setting is always to just have the camera that I'm trying to record the actual screen on Set to 60 frames per second okay and You can't really use light in front of the CRT at all. You maybe can angle it from the sides up from the bottom a little bit Most of the time you can come from backlight But otherwise you have to have a good long control over Your backgrounds right I mean you can't have background light. It bounces off everything. It bounces off the glass and impacts your recording And fixing the broken Fixing the broken PCB Okay, I'm gonna upgrade this cap So for that you need to reinforce this board if it's broken and that can be done a couple ways Um, depending on how bad it is But you want to get it kind of solidly back together So one thing that you can do is you could come in and you put super glue Fast drying super glue in there and then you can sprinkle on I've done this before in videos. You don't you sprinkle on some baking soda onto that liquid and it'll immediately harden And then you can kind of clean it off and that's how you kind of piece it back together And also if you need to you can definitely use an epoxy, but I find that to be much messier But I like to apply that kind of thing with a just a toothpick And then go in and um It's never it's never kind of the same. It's just like using techniques to put it together one day. We'll do a put back together of a pcb, but again The retro tech queue calls, right? The customers have requested things lovely things Restorations, that's the best part, right? I need to save other people's stuff before I work on my own things But it's always good to have so much. It's always good to have more things to do than Trying to struggle to figure out things to do Okay, I think that's been one of the beautiful things about the way this whole Community and everything that I've been trying to work towards and have done has been good is that I never run out of Things to work on I'm trying to never run out of things to work on. I always want to have work here I always want to have projects lined up And I'd rather be able to say I missed Doing projects than not knowing a project to work on I'd rather say I couldn't get a project done. I guess or have it on a Have it on the back burner. I guess there's never anything that when you're in retro most of the stuff is not Time sensitive It's not like the modern news If I come out with a review of a crt that that's not going to get A lot of attention Uh one time of the year as opposed to another After something happens, there's nothing like that's going to make that larger um I would I would definitely do that if there's sometimes to Jake if it's real bad you can go in and kind of Uh put bracelets in I mean you can do that also like use the really thick legs off capacitors Just make sure you don't have any way to short them okay She can either add those to grounds and then Maybe put heat shrink tubing on those if you need them Oh that crack crackling in the Audio is driving me crazy This part is very vital This neck board has really solder that breaks down quite easily over time. Look at that Like those are ones. I haven't touched up yet that g1 h1 and ground It's very just thin And you got to go reflow that now. This is good solder. So it just takes a reapplication A lot of times I work on crt's that used lack or used a very bad solder And then I have to go and reflow solder remove solder and then flow new solder in Those are really a pain in the neck like trashy solder A lot of consumer crt's have that Trashy trashy low quality solder. It's either lead free or really light on lead No, I mark. I rarely ever see a man. I don't I have had people been asking me more and more about CRTs that are widescreen And I don't really see them. I don't really have any I have a broken fw 900 I did restore an fw 900 And that was a project that I did and Goodness, I can't even remember It's been almost a year now. I want to say and What's weird jake? I hear it when I like the jazz is playing and if I turn the jazz off it won't do it I don't know. It's something But that that neck This part of the neck is going to be the most vital to reflow But you also got to be careful like I said, it's that dance, right because you don't there's plastic in here uh Right here You don't want to melt this plastic. You can still melt it I mean personally, I don't really Think I need a widescreen crt If if I can't, you know, right, I mean I have some actually I guess I do have some bvm d24s But that's like the only ones right? There's some cool ones that that are very rare. I think economy probably has a bvm That's widescreen But those also are bigger tvs I don't have space to keep like multiple large tvs And uh, yeah, my favorite is Has always been four by three stuff on crts. That's just one of the characteristics that Most of them had and I just like it Like standard. It's all right. It's good to have both. You have a good widescreen and the modern setup and Way easier to find a good high quality four by three crt than generally A great widescreen crt So you got everything over on this area? How's that looking much better, right Yeah, and the weight good call Ronnie those things are so heavy It's very hard to move them This is the busy area up top. That's going to be the secondary area We're going to head up and all right. There we go. That's better. Let's see if I can get that to I wonder if I could zoom in any If I get close to that picture for you guys Not get too grainy looking Let's do a little zoom in here That's a better zoom Let me just remind you that when you do a reflow tend to not want to A lot of these parts won't matter, but you don't want to like do the same Like a two leg part through whole part. You don't want to do The same part back to back on a reflow Like I just did right there. See how I went back to back to the same part Now a lot of them are going to be okay because the parts are bent the legs are bent a direction But sometimes they'll be straight you'll hit it with heat too quickly and that part will just drop right out of the board Because the solder's still molten enough you can do it back to back if you give it a second A couple seconds that you know It's solid again Okay All I gotta do is finish up this connector Don't want to hold that one long either. That's plastic on the other side Got this whole area done now. We can go to the top part And then at the end we're going to install the two capacitors And then we'll do a we'll give this thing a nice bath Trying to find something to set this on let me let me see if I can find it Maybe I can run this camera up a little bit and actually So I just think so much better when I have this kind of easy music hitting me up All right. Yeah, let's get in here. Let's see if we can't do a little better down in here Oh, that's going to be pretty. We're going to zoom in a little closer. See See how much we can get it. Darling show me your secrets Show me your love and secrets Yes, sir smooth my soul Ease me now You could tell the dull from the shiny Right up here is the shiny that we've done now. They're not cleaned Because as I heat them up Flux flows from my core Flux ladies and gentlemen flux flows from my core Well the core of my solder, of course Beautiful Do me a favor drop the like Drop the like hammer if you can Help us Help us grow. How are we doing in there? I don't think any closer down in there If I could get that. Oh, yeah, look at there. Oh, that looks good.  I mean, obviously some people have real toys I just bridged that What am I gonna do? No How could you you're supposed to be a professional Dear me What will I ever do now? Can't believe it. I might as well retire Look at that. How will I ever recover? Oh, never mind. Everything's good. I can't believe it.  Look You got to celebrate all the milestones in life There we go There we go That's right, brother chris That's what you do Mess things up so you can fix it And instead of like that Whitney Houston song. I think it was waiting to exhale. You're waiting to inhale. You're constantly exhaling You're waiting to inhale Sorry guys. I've been ignoring the chat. I'm trying to burn through this board So I hear some people talking about something so that's cool. Good Excellent to have ideas on Hardware Shared There we go. I'm like a machine Who's here koala? Welcome Just hanging doing some solder soldering here On a neckboard koala fresh off A new write-up for retro rgb Great job Great job You know anybody Can Um, if you have a good idea, yeah, you could go in and bob's very open about Having people contribute ideas especially great things and it's a great write-up about the scalers and I recommend everybody go check it out If you haven't already also featured this week on the Weekly roundup which dropped this morning Oh Yeah, it's better to get it out there Better to get it out there. Just don't leave it for a twitter article There's so much more. It's funny twitter stuff just disappears man. It's like old tweets. They're there, but it's not It's so weird how there's no barely ever any interaction with them It's like a tweet something it gets interaction for a little while and it's just gone so The website is something that's Way better retro rgb. I mean and it's permanently written on there Well, unless you remove it for some reason but searchable findable It's great stuff down the road I will tell you shipping costs discussion looks like being had shipping costs. Goodness gracious shipping costs have gone up Especially for me shipping anything from over here on the east coast out to the west coast the shipping has gone up This year, it's absolutely evident always use you ship if you can Name your own price tool basically Name your own price tool that's something I need to do I need to do a video about that a little bit clearer one on just setting that up What else do I need to do a video on I need to do a video on creating your cap stock That's what I'm probably going to do on a stream. I've been wanting to do that on a stream. What if I just showed you Exactly what to order So you could have a nice little stock of capacitors For your shop or your whatever workspace whatever it is That you may be having or using for crts if you do, you know Whatever really it's a good It's a good stock of caps that'll get you through a lot of Restorations repairs etc But I could show you how to order that how much it will cost I've never had a bad Um Yeah, okay cool cap stock. I've been thinking about that. That's what I wanted To do I was going to go through and I was like, all right. Let's just set up I'll just set up on the screen. We'll go through and um I'll do a side-by-side video where I actually go through and I'll I'll pull up a sheet To order. I heck maybe I can do both websites mouser And digikey. We'll do both of them and then we'll see if there's any price difference We'll try to get the same capacitors on both of them And then we'll see what the price difference is and hopefully it's right on the same But it won't be And then you'll be able to see how many capacitors you need the the cost um So you could have a huge huge cap stock For like a hundred dollars And I mean that would be like enough to keep you for a while and then you could go through and just monitor what's been used Add back to it, but you're going to get so many parts with that hundred dollars that um You're going to get a big price break on some of these pieces and you're going to end up There's going to be smaller capacitors that are very popular that you're going to use a lot And you're going to end up with um A big price break on them You'll be able to order 50 of them and you'll get them for pennies You'll get them for a third of the price you would if you were just to buy five for seven and um Then what i'll do is i'll just save I'll just save the Worksheet I guess that has the caps listed in there and and if anybody wants to go and order them I think they could just click that length that link Yeah, it's definitely a stock issue with mauser mark. I noticed they run really low on parts a lot But yeah, that will definitely that's what i've been wanting to do But I've had so many crts to actually work on i've not had time to just stop and do that But that that'll be fun. I would do that. I'd rather do that, you know goodness I'd almost need to do that probably on a real video not just a live show I could probably do both Maybe I could do one platform on a actual video And then i'll say hey come hang out and we'll do a live stream of the other of the other uh Distributor And then we'll compare prices Between the two I think that's what i'll do that way I could do one of each a live show for the people who watch the live show Oh, yeah, now I need to put the uh capacitors in here Before I forget I was about to clean that up, but I didn't have the caps in here And the challenge for all of you will be to find some type of um What shall we what shall we call it vessel? That's a good one vessel to hold all your capacitors and to keep them neatly organized so you know You're going to grab a certain capacitor Something with bins and slots. I'm not going to tell you exactly what to pick But that's my recommendation Yeah, uh adjacent I I've thought about that a lot. I even mentioned that on a video earlier this year I'd love to be able to organize that thing. Look guys. Here's the secret. Okay I haven't told anybody online this because this has been happening in such a fast pace. I am actually uh Moving from here not to like a different area. It's like a Three miles from where I live right now But it will give me an opportunity to have a better situation set up um And once I get that done that would be fun like I This could be part of like a one or two day course, but you guys would have to be willing probably to travel There's plenty of hotels around here. I can do it during a cheap area um but What I would like to do is do a master class in person or here um I may be able to set it up if you guys could come to a convention Especially the one in nashville if you could ever make yeah the bunker will be well it won't it will be different It has two individual buildings They're not huge ones 12 by 20 ones 12 by 10 12 by no 12 by 20 12 by I can't remember it 12 by 20 12 by 16 I think the two buildings are like that So those are going to be the two new bunkers uh Right 12 by 20 had 240 square feet and like another 180 or 200 square or something like that. So yeah So here would be the class right you'd have to come to the class I could teach Uh, I could teach like a whole day here. We I would rent out a facility like a classroom and then That would be the deal right you come in you Stay in a hotel somewhere and you spend all day We'd work on things you'd be here together And then like I would probably release that as like an exclusive video series on patreon or something for people Well, what it'll help me do too is reorganize things now Do a better situation The problem still is going to be a the large crts are such a pain To get more than one of them in here And then like I'll get one done and it takes forever like the problem is now. I don't have any heat out where they're at So well, that's a good thing. I'll be able to actually work on them easier But I can't get them like down here and then Once I do get them done that I'm like trying to scramble getting in contact with the owners Hey, your crts. He's done even though we haven't spoken since like January But the classes we could go through soldering. I mean Be all kinds of stuff every bit of it Heck I could even go through business portions of the classes If that's what anybody wanted. All right, let's go back to a single view everything, right? 705 The issue with the house I'm at now is I'm renting it and I don't I mean it's not like a house There's nothing wrong with it. There's nothing really wrong with it except for the fact that it's not It's not really it. I mean it's not in the right school district for my kids Um, that's the biggest issue really Yeah, we'll have to pre-plan it. Like I said the the thing is It would have to be I don't know I could do like it. I do like introductory classes at the Conventions, but it probably wouldn't that probably wouldn't be a great idea because then it would be difficult To dedicate the whole time to it the CRT Masterclass in-person event and that's everything on this board So I can turn the iron off for a second There we go Let's clean this thing time to clean time to clean I need to real fill my alcohol bottle somebody use alcohol and just clean these boards Hey, look at this. We got Got a couple new members on the patreon. Thanks you guys for whoever signed up today Just got a notification. I appreciate you since this since the stream started. That's awesome All right, let me get Get the alcohol ready here Give her a drizzle You could use an old toothbrush for this if you want but You know, you know, it's just an old ESD brush as long as it then conduct electricity. You know what you're thinking you're thinking Why does his board look so pretty every time?  We're getting off that board I'm gonna give it one little more bath because it's still got some sticky residue all over it. That's right About to hit the epic conclusion of the restoration on just the neck board Isn't that exciting? This is just the neck board if you work on a restoration you too can restore just a neck board Hey negator What's up? Look at that Now this is wood plastic fiber There we go. Let's let's take a look here and see how we're doing. They're all clean on here. Let's take a good close look in here Look at that.  I don't think this board is going to have any problems Probably at least not till 2062 and I'm not exaggerating Let's uh get Let me go get my blower and blow this pad boy Here we go. Yeah, you got to get that really good.  Whoo Nice to clean. I I like to come through here do one more little check and just make sure that No parts are grounding out against each other what I mean like what I don't want this resistor to like be pushed against the leg of this um Heat sink or something or against another part. There's a lot of parts in here and They can bend So you want to make sure nothing's going to short out and cause a problem More than likely it won't but you always got to be careful. I've seen stuff like that happen. There we go I think it's time. I think it's time. We got this back into the shell back into We need to get this back into the frame and test But before that I need to clear a couple things out of the way Make sure everything's triple checked Well, we never miss out This is going to be it the big climax for the neck board Will it Will we be triumphant? Is that how you say it will we triumph or will it be we triumphant? Is that how you say that? All right Now this is the time We're going to install this thing over here. Let me show you before I do that I want to actually point the camera over there And I'm going to make it so it's not Inverted On you and By doing that You'll be able to see You'll be able to see me install this and we'll check out We'll check out our progress. Hey RC. Welcome.  There's the rear The rear of the crt And there's another crt in the background. Look at that. We got two two crts in the shot So I'm going to put the neck board back on there. Um and okay Oh, no, don't do that on me. Stop that. Let's go pc view Resize this Oh, I almost have it everybody. There we go I'm going to go install this neck board right now. It's going on there. Okay You need to double check. I'm pretty sure of the cable. I just need to check my pictures to make sure I have the k I've looked at this so many times That I don't even trust myself um I have to always check the cabling To make sure I put it back together correctly. All right. How about that? We got it installed We're going to turn it around and power it on. Hey, let's see what happens Our sent in Nothing's smoking Promising. All right, good Well Hold up There we go There we go and is Gotta remember In the process, let me turn that light out so in the process of turning that or restoring that neck board You could easily spin like the g2 voltage potentiometer, which is what happened there And that just caused the voltage to be wonky and caused the discoloration the blacks Won't be black everything had like a red issue. You can see it with a red issue or a green issue So let me see you crank that sucker back into the correct range There we go though. It's good So that has a fully rebuilt neck board and power supply, but it still needs one more thing That's the deflection kit Audio works fine. Everything's good And that's it there we go folks Air Zonk Let's get back in here and see what's going on but We'll let that run for a second make sure there's no hiccups on there I just want to see it act That's good.  Have you not seen my video on the um What is it gdm? I think it's a c520 that I have I love it. It's four by three. It's flat screen. I like it more than like a d20 personally It's great just has two vga inputs, but it's basically the fw 900 only it's a four by three version of it Oh, hey, okay. Yeah, I did a video Um, yeah, I mean if you want to go check that out. That's what I'm saying. It's like the quest for my favorite CRT, right? Let me see if I can find that one Hello, hello retro tech, where are you? Let's look for it Um, now here's something I will show you everybody. This would be fun. Let's go to my channel here for a second and We will look at one thing. So I'm going to pull this over here to the side and um Navigate you through something that maybe if you're new here and you have no idea It's hard to navigate a lot of things on my channel occasionally. Okay But if I go over here, um To the pc view, all right now you see my channel, right? This is us live. How cool is that? Thank you all again for showing up. Um But if we look here, I want to show you a couple things first off playlists these are the the playlists I have here are uh These are the only ones that are listed the cathode ray podcast, which is just archives. Okay Then I went through and I actually separated my channel into seasons. Okay Like here was 2022 Here was 2023. Let's see And so if you're looking for videos These are like the most important videos I made that year Like 19 videos here 28 videos in 2022 19 last year this year. I've made three so far So they're all in retro tech 2024 So I have three seasons and then I have the live show which is the bunker Which is what we're watching today and that's all the live shows are there So if I go back here, I believe I'm hoping that it's into 2022 playlist Oh, there's there's the pretty face Let's see because if it's not then that means it's an even older video and so I'm I'm just showing you stuff that Yeah, I'm sorry. It was older than 2022. This is like the 2021 season, which is not on here So that's my fault. Maybe I can figure out a way to add that before next time But That's one way I have had this channel organized. Let's see if I could find that video Otherwise you have to go here and you scroll all the way back Now there are some videos that I made throughout the year that I did not include in the seasons because they're just like not relevant to now This we're going to go way back to three years ago probably Where is it? This is before I even moved Here it is Driving 300 miles to find the perfect Sony PC CRT The gdm c520. So this is my favorite PC CRT. Another reason is because during the same time period Yeah, I did restorations here on this 2003 gateway PC, which is mine from Which is my computer from college So I went here and I restore it and then here I also restore it more upgrade it. So these are a couple of videos about those kind of things. That's my favorite one Yeah, this is this is about three years ago And that'll give you the whole Shebang on why I like it so much. Look at that Now there's I'm not playing any music. Look at this. This is back when I used to know how to make a video There's the pc right? That's what I wanted. That looks so cool. It's a silver just like the gateway There's doom 2 Look at this 480p brother How Amazing is that 480p? This is the old shop. Oh, I'm getting nostalgic here. Everybody. This is the shop in Tennessee I can't believe it. We're on sub shop 2.  What is this one? I don't even remember what that game was No, I haven't worked on that one gs mickey Or mickey if I got that sorry So this video is majorly a vlog about going and picking up the crt from this place a hundred miles away and then I mean doom 2 right original doom 2 on that.  Even in this video That's really the one you want if you're looking for a pc crt I need to do a restoration on it.  So My idea of missing something. I don't know I miss people There's things about Tennessee. I miss that Tennessee didn't have any You know, Tennessee was great that they didn't have an income tax for living there So it's like a haven For people who don't want to have to pay more taxes. That's a nice thing, but That's all right Gosh, that's an old video man Is it just run Doom 2 in the background doom 2 is so cool because you can just let it run and it'll just play I need to go set that back up. Look how smooth that transition is anyway that's just A flashback two years ago On retro tech now, let's get a sneak peek of what we'll do next time on a live show which is Shop for capacitors Do do do Hello digikey. I don't even use digikey very much, but Thing I'm going to type in this search bar is I think I'm going to type I think I'm going to type in this search bar aluminum Electro Litic capacitors and it'll pull up for you. Oh my gosh My goodness. This is so ridiculous the verification That I'm not a robot I don't know. I don't have a problem with either of them actually shipping them to me where I live Basically whatever I pick for shipping it will be there So let's see what this does. This is definitely the one I'm least familiar with That's what we're going to do this one on the live show next time the digikey version Okay Let's get in here Making resize this a little bit There's a lot of different types of capacitors. Okay And the vast majority of the ones we're working with are not going to be Are not going to be Where's the delivery type or the insert type application? See you can even pick all kinds of stuff. We need to put in The type Through hole, okay Because that's what we're doing. We're doing through hole We're not doing surface mount if you need surface mount capacitors, which this will not be what I'll be building We're going to pick through hole. All right, and that's going to eliminate everything that's crap that we don't need So always make sure you select that And then you can go down here and you can move on over to the next category And the most important category to select Is down here In stock That's right. We're in stock show us what we want Show us what we need all right Now one of the very most common 10 micro farad 10 micro farad Don't worry about tolerance because then you might get yourself stuck Where's my voltage here? Why don't I why can't I get voltage? 10 there we go and We're going to pick 50 50 volt 10 That is a very common capacitor Okay I like to pick this Man, I don't know Okay, I'm looking at my options here. I'm going this one Ah, no, I'm not See if I if I go on, uh, I'm not doing anything We're not looking for bipolar. We're looking for polar And there's a lot of these going to be left. Okay, if you want more you can put more Um, we don't want Axial we want radial No, we don't want radial doing axial we want axial right Let's see. It'll show us. No, we don't want we want radial Why is it only showing me one capacitors in stock? See, what what have I picked here? I've done something wrong on this because it's only giving me one One that's in stock Surely there's more than one in stock Let's go back to our search options. What did I pick here? I have picked something that is not Liking it's not liking what I'm picking All right guys, I'm going to be honest with you. This is a bit of see I don't see the filters up here Stacked yeah, I don't know what all this stuff there we go finally Uh clear we'll clear that We got our voltage rating our stock options our capacitance our mounting type And I don't understand how this site could only have How the hell does how do these guys only have one available according to this So this is this is this is I I just don't like digikey's website. Sorry I know people are going to say oh, you're you're just I don't like them. I'm going to be honest with you guys. I order from them One out of 20 times because I just don't like their website And their search options It's like too many options And let's just see I found I did all that searching and I found one capacitor in stock for a 50 volt one 50 volts 10 micro farads, we're going to go to here. So you'll notice the same kind of thing I typed in This time we're going to look at these lovely things here. We're going to again do Radial okay Radial that is through hole radial Maybe the through hole thing was the thing I shouldn't have picked You can even go here general purpose same thing in stock Now let's go 50 volts dc capacitance 10 10 micro farads what we're looking for And then we're going to go in stock blah blah blah blah. Let's apply filters and see how many this comes up with 50 Why am I what is wrong with that? What would I do on that digikey thing? That not need to select the through hole So I'm going to narrow this down a little bit further by selecting this 105 degree temperature rating on here apply filters We're going to get rid of some of that stuff And then we're going to come down here and look at all these amazing capacitors that we have all in stock Next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to sort these by price And I'm going to make sure I'm looking at the cheapest ones to begin with Okay Now now you got to decide what your tolerance is for parts. What? What do you want? What brand do you really want? And is there some characteristics to a capacitor that you want? Now me for 50 volt 10 cap stock This cap is better than the ones that was normally selected and used in parts You're going to have these worth capacitors right here. I like them. They're all in stock always. They're very well priced But they're not always the best option Let's see what a nishikon would be You also want to look at your order sheet, right? I want to get 50. I want to get a price break on 50 if I can So that is something that I need to look at here. Look like I can get these down to nine cents if I get 50 I get these down to 11 cents if I get 50 These are going to be 14 cents if I get 50. Let's go see what the rubicons would be Uh, they're going to be 19 cents if I get 50 All right If you want to order 100 you get a price break 15 cents for the panasonic And then they're just going up from there usually So that's really the reason is you can get a price break on these and these are going to be good enough for the majority of your work Let's see what the difference isn't these. Let's see what the difference is in these three These three different products All right, so this one is a 5000 hour And where's the ripple current 97 milliamps? this one is 2000 hours Where's that ripple current rating at 48 milliamps? So It's got Lower ripple current, but it's a lot lower life. It's half the life. Okay And then finally this third one, which is our Middle of the road price. It's a 4000 hour with a ripple current of 2.6 ohms, so that's probably the highest. Okay So if it were me, I'm going to choose not I'm not going to pick this one This one's immediately eliminated And I'm going to say between these two you're going to get twice as long of life on this one Which is opposed to that one. So I if this was going to be my cap stock, I would be fine going, you know what? This is one that I need to order And you just do that Then you go through and that's so you get 50 of those for seven dollars 50 Okay, I know I'm probably bored everybody to death I'm going to figure out some more on That digi-key site so that we can do the digi-key version because I'll be able to blow through the mauser version I'll be able to do that next time, but we're going to do that next time We're going to go through digi-key and we're going to figure out how to properly shop for capacitors because we have to have competition We have to have fair competition as far as The monitor it's still going great everybody Thank you all for joining me today. It's been a fun stream. We've hit an hour over an hour and a half. Wow awesome Thank you everybody. I really appreciate your time today. I appreciate the super chats I appreciate all your awesome questions and contributions to our chat here and hanging out in the community and I will see you all in the next stream Where we'll work on some more capacitor orders have a wonderful day


Russians are trying to seize Avdivka Koch and chemical plant with multiple drones. The Russian occupiers continue their attempts to capture the Avdivka Koch and chemical plant. They are attacking with small groups of infantry and have a huge number of drones. Dmitro Lazutkin, head of the press service of the 47th Brigade, said this. The situation remains quite complicated. The enemy keeps launching attacks non-stop. They are trying to capture the Avdivka Koch and chemical plant. Recently our soldiers targeted a sabotage and reconnaissance group, killing at least 15 people, he added. Lazutkin said that it has been noisy in the city for several days. The Russians are launching attacks, dropping precision-guided bombs. There are periods when Avdivka and its outskirts are struck every 30 to 40 minutes and the territory of the plant in particular as well. Lazutkin reported that there has been no reduction in the number of Russian soldiers near Avdivka. They are constantly coming in waves. These are usually small groups of 10, 12, 15 people, sometimes with military equipment. They have a lot of drones with thermal images. We have those too, but at the moment they are gaining the advantage over us. He added that the Russian's losses are several times higher than those of the armed forces of Ukraine. Lazutkin stressed that there is a lack of high tech devices due to their high cost.