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DATE/TIME:
Part 1: Monday October 15 from 6:30 to 8:30
Part 2: Monday October 22 from 6:30 to 8:30
LOCATION: Â Technology Center, Princeton Public Library
Interested in creating your own blog? In this two-part course, social media and technology expert John LeMasney will teach how to start and manage a blog for free through WordPress. Prior web design experience is not needed. Skill Level: Basic Seating will be held for students who attended Session 1.
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“This two-part webinar will introduce you to Pinterest, the explosively popular free visual bookmarking service. In Session One, Pinterest experts John LeMasney and Hilary Morris will introduce you to the service, showcase how others are using it effectively and share their savviest tips to help you get started following, pinning, & liking pins yourself! In a highly-interactive Session Two, we will discuss your experiences in the few weeks that have passed, answer questions about your practice, and discuss strategies for future pinboard improvement. By attending this two-part webinar series, you can expect to: Gain new insights into your library’s audience. Generate content for library’s social networking and blogging practices Connect with highly engaged, tech-savvy users in your local and online community. Expand your library’s brand placement and presence as well as other related brands. Increase visibility and reach among your target audiences. Define your library brand’s visual elements far beyond the logo. Â Registration Information Limit: Â 100 Register online by using the link below. Link to Online Registration – Login Notice: Â You MUST log in first to see the online registration link. Only Authenticated Users (who have a LibraryLinkNJ Website user account) can register for any event or program. Use “User Login” on the left side menu or at https://librarylinknj.org/user. If you have not yet created your account, go to ” quoted from FREE Webinar: Pinterest: Community Engagement Through Visual Bookmarking | LibraryLinkNJ at https://librarylinknj.org/content/free-webinar-pinterest-community-engagement-through-visual-bookmarking
I recently worked very closely with Julie Strange on a library program’s visual branding project that focused on the ideas of exploration, new horizons, and breaking barriers. The Development of Emerging and Aspiring Librarians (DEAL) program called for visual ideas that conveyed space, light, innovation, clarity, revelation and focus, all of which influenced the final design.
DATE/TIME: Aug 7 2012 – 6:30pm – 8:30pm
LOCATION:Â Â Technology Center
Spread the joy of your summer vacation by sharing memorable moments with family and friends. Technology Instructor John LeMasney will cover how to upload, organize, and edit your digital photos using Google’s Picasa. Learn how to resize, tag, add captions, create collages, and add special effects. We recommend that students bring a flash drive containing digital photos for use in class. Skill Level: Intermediate
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On June 26th, 2012, John LeMasney will be speaking to the Princeton PC Users Group (PPCUG) about two open source media management tools, Miro, and VLC, and their related projects, VLC editor and Miro Video Transcoder.
With these free (free as in freedom as well as free as in free pizza) tools, you’ll be able to manage, enjoy, and share the media free of proprietary restrictions you might find in other media managers and players.
John will also talk about online media managers, including Google music and Spotify.
John LeMasney is a father who lives and works in and around central New Jersey. He is the Manager of Educational Technology Training and Outreach at Princeton University since 2011. He had worked from 1998-2011 at Rider University as the Manager of Technology Training. He was recently awarded a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership with honors from Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture with honors from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA.
He 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.
Tonight, I returned to the BCUG Graphics focused sub-group, for maybe the 4th time. I always enjoy the professionalism, humor, and attentiveness of this very special group and its memorable members. In the past, I’ve talked about open source concepts, Picasa, Sketchup, Inkscape, and other technologies.
In this visit, I came to talk about two great open source video projects, VideoLan Client (VLC) and Miro Media Player. VLC is a swiss army knife of video tools. You can play almost any codec out of the box, transcode videos from one format to another, clip portions of videos to new files, create playlists, stream video to others on your network and elsewhere, and all in a simple, configurable interface. I described VLC as being for geeks and tweakers, but it would also be apropos to say that it is a video geek’s heaven. I demonstrated a few of its more useful features, and also introduced VLC’s side project, a video editor (VLC Movie Maker) which by their own admission is pre-alpha, and not highly usable yet, but the work that they’ve done so far is amazing and delicious. I can not wait until this tool is more well-developed, so I can stop using WIndows Media and Quicktime based tools. VideoLAN is an amazing project, and I love what they do.
I also demonstrated Miro. Miro is a video player too, but a whole lot more than that. Miro is based on VLC, and so it has all of those features and then some. With Miro, you have a built in torrenting client, podcatcher, RSS manager, auto-transcoder, music cataloging, video cataloging, and video search with configurable search engines. When you do a search, you have the ability to save the search as a podcast, e.g. auto-downloaded video set. Miro also has a side project that I showed called Miro Video Transcoder. This tool is a simple one window interface that allows you to drag a pile of files onto it, and have it save them all in a format that you choose. The list of available formats is long and it does quick work.
I hope that my sharing has helped the folks at BCUG Graphics workshop to enjoy their video half as much as I enjoyed myself tonight.