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These are ideas and projects LeMasney Consulting has been involved in that we are particularly interested in sharing with a larger audience.

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Technology Classes with John LeMasney

Mark Twain on what is important.
Mark Twain on what is important.

Hi, I’m John LeMasney, a father, artist, photographer, and new resident in Charlottesville, Virginia. I have the honor of announcing that Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (JMRL) has agreed to let me speak in a free technology series in their beautiful downtown location. I love technology, and want to share what I love about it, continuing the work I’ve done for 20 years in the Northeastern part of our country. If you have a topic or a venue that you’d like covered, please contact me, and let’s make that happen. Let’s do something great together!

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Making Photos Great for Free.

Wednesday January 4th ​from 6-7pm​

In this session, come and learn about how to take your digital photos and transform them into art with Virginia based artist, designer, and photographer John LeMasney. With great free tools for photo manipulation, illustration, and catalog management, you can do what the professionals do without the costs. Come and learn about photo technique, lighting, and more, while growing your toolbox beyond point and shoot.

Okay google, what year is it cc-by lemasney
Okay google, what year is it cc-by lemasney

Introduction to Internet of Things and Home Ecosystems.

February 1st from 6-7pm

In this session led by Virginia based artist, designer, and photographer John LeMasney, come and learn about the leading ecosystems that have emerged as AI assistants in the home. We will discuss all the major platforms like Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Apple Siri, but we will focus deeply on the present and future state of Google Home, Google Now, ChromeCast, Chromebook, and related items in the Google Ecosystem in a in-session demonstration. If you are interested in having your lights blink when your partner leaves work, having an always listening all intelligent assistant in your home, or learning automatically that you need to leave a little early due to local traffic, you should join us!

wordpress statistics and analytics
wordpress statistics and analytics

​Analytics, or the art of discovering your audience.

March 1st from 6-7pm

If you have a web site or presence in social media, that’s great! How many people visited it today? How about last week? Where did they live? Were they 15, 30, or 50? How many people saw that Instagram post? What is your most popular pin on Pinterest? What browser were they using? Analytics is any system that gives you insight about the way that your content was used. Let Virginia based artist, designer, and photographer John LeMasney help you answer all of those questions and others when you learn about analytics tools in social media, publishing platforms, and other places. We will discuss many platforms for analytics, including Google, social media, and more.

IFLL initial logo study by lemasney
IFLL initial logo study by lemasney

Design for the Non-Designer.

Saturday April 1st from 1pm-2pm

In this session, come learn about digital visual communication with Virginia based artist, designer, and photographer John LeMasney. You likely did not encounter a lot of visual communication training in school, if you went to school in the US. The problem there is that successful contemporary mass communication is expressed today by artists and designers with specialized skills like visual literacy, software tools, and a sense of brand and audience awareness that graphic design can amplify. Design is important today, and if you are not sure where to start, here is a good place.

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A large group of birds in Virginia cc-by lemasney

Large group of birds in Virginia, cc-by lemasney
Large group of birds in Virginia, cc-by lemasney

Large group of birds in Virginia, cc-by lemasney
Large group of birds in Virginia, cc-by lemasney

This video is a recording of a gathering of birds in December in Virginia. I was surprised by the number and presence. In the video is my son Jack, exclaiming that I should stop capturing this beauty of nature. It’s at a 7 eleven in Waynesboro, VA along Rosser Avenue.

If you like it please share! If you like them, please subscribe for more! I’m always looking for ways to connect with people about tech, design, teaching, and lots of other topics. If you think we should talk, connect with me at https://about.me/lemasney

“Birds migrate to move from areas of low or decreasing resources to areas of high or increasing resources. The two primary resources being sought are food and nesting locations.  Birds that nest in the Northern Hemisphere tend to migrate northward in the spring to take advantage of burgeoning insect populations, budding plants and an abundance of nesting locations. As winter approaches and the availability of insects and other food drops, the birds move south again. Escaping the cold is a motivating factor but many species, including hummingbirds, can withstand freezing temperatures as long as an adequate supply of food is available.” – The Basics of Bird Migration: How, Why, and Where | All About Birds from https://www.allaboutbirds.org/the-basics-how-why-and-where-of-bird-migration/
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Request for feedback

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feedback, please?

Looking for a little feedback help.

Hey, all. I hope you are doing well! For those of you I’ve worked with in the past, please consider giving me a review on Google Maps. I’m looking for ratings, photos, and reviews because the move from NJ to VA wiped out my reviews, and it looks like I’m a newbie here. Thanks in advance, and if I can help you with Photos, WordPress, Design or anything else, I’d love to!

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Check out my latest additions to Google Maps here: https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/113310933187570157722/photos/

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My recent work with Que Publishing

John LeMasney Que
John LeMasney Que

Introduction to Raspberry Pi LiveLessons Video Training Que
Introduction to Raspberry Pi LiveLessons Video Training Que – http://goo.gl/dzID3i

I made some videos earlier this year.

I had the great pleasure earlier this year of working with Que Publishing to develop and release several video how to products about WordPress and Raspberry Pi. You can see some samples here: I really enjoyed the experience of walking to the studio in San Francisco. The air was so warm, and the food was so very good and fresh. It made it a joy to work in the studio and come out into the bright sunshine.

I loved it. It wasn’t until recently that I had an opportunity to reflect on my experience, and it was really healing. Thanks to Que and Pearson for the professionalism and gratitude that I was shown in that process. It was a delight to get to know all of you.

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John LeMasney Que http://goo.gl/dzID3i

“John LeMasney is a designer, artist, writer, poet, technologist, consultant, open web advocate and open source evangelist. He is most interested in helping people to use technology to make their lives, work, and world better.” found in John LeMasney | Que at http://goo.gl/dzID3i

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Who are you now?

Jedediah Higgins House, Princeton, NJ, Interior, Buddha and lotus wall piece, cc-by lemasney
Jedediah Higgins House, Princeton, NJ, Interior, Buddha and lotus wall piece, cc-by lemasney
Jedediah Higgins House, Princeton, NJ, Interior, Buddha and lotus wall piece, cc-by lemasney
Jedediah Higgins House, Princeton, NJ, Interior, Buddha and lotus wall piece, cc-by lemasney

A very good friend asked me, “Who are you, now?” She asks because I had a major life event this year, in February, that changed my life. I gained some clarity about the answer, and here it is.

I am a consciousness here.

I believe that I am a part of the universe, a part like any other, moving along, exchanging materials, nutrients, and other effects, as best I can. I work towards the end of my time, making notes of my insights and ideas, so that my experience and record can potentially further the rest of us, and their ancestry, and so on.

I am a part of a collective cooperative evolution.

Our experiences are a collective knowledge. We are just starting to see tools, like Google, whose effort is to collect and make available the knowledge of the whole. It is an exciting time in mental evolution. It is moving quickly, and becoming unstoppable. I am relieved by this. Now for the process to maintain or improve its ethics is my new concern.

What is the purpose of life?

The purpose of life is to make it better than it was. To grow what is here into something better than all of us could individually. If our society saw this, we would change what we know as education, and let people simply be and grow into whatever they would like. I did not get that realization until later in life:

I am not wrong; I am not right. I just am.  I am not everything, nor nothing. I just am.

I feel like I am a good organism, as opposed to a virus. I feel like I leave my ecosystem better than I find it. It is the best aspiration I can think of: To be a good organism; I’m a beneficial part of a holistic system.

This helps me to make many decisions. For instance, I want to be cremated because I feel like that would be just one more thing I could do, quite literally: to fertilize and help grow that which comes after me. I want to do this in life, as well.

Who are you, now?

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A splash of sunlight, breaking through as rays, to break the silent air cc-by lemasney

A splash of sunlight, breaking through as rays, to break the silent air cc-by lemasney
A splash of sunlight, breaking through as rays, to break the silent air cc-by lemasney

A splash of sunlight, breaking through as rays, to break the silent air cc-by lemasney
A splash of sunlight, breaking through as rays, to break the silent air cc-by lemasney

I loved this capture. I love this time of day, 4 or 5 pm in the afternoon, that magic hour of light. With the curtains being sunlight-proof, the sunlight has to be crafty to get in. I can always tell when it is 4:30 or so, because of that certain slant of light. Today, I caught it. Here, it’s for you. It wants you to have it. It’s yours.