These are posts centered around presentations delivered by John LeMasney on various technology, branding, and design topics.
Hi, everyone! Tonight at 7pm at Princeton Public Library, I’ll be explaining the who, what, when, why, where, and how of food blogging. I’ll be talking about best practices, tools, reasoning, methods, and more. Please join us in the chilly technology center at PPL!
Saturday, June 15, 2013
7:30pm until 8:15pm
In this session, local graphic designer and technology consultant John LeMasney will demonstrate how to get started with digital graphic design using free (open source) software, and will introduce the concepts of color choice, font choice, visual inspiration, best practices, and resources. If you ever find yourself tasked with putting words and images on a page in an interesting way, but have never had any training in how to do that effectively, this class is for you!
May 14, 2013 – 7:00pm -8:30pm
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. Session 2 will be held on Tuesday, May 21.
Skill Level: Basic
No registration necessary
I was fortunate to talk as part of the Library Link NJ Technology Speed Dating session today at the Mullica Hill branch of the Gloucester system. I decided to record the talk and give a link to the slides in the event anyone who was at the session or who is interested in Dropbox might want to learn what I shared. Thanks to Library Link NJ for the platform!
If you are interested in using Dropbox, please consider using my referral link to help us both gain a bit of extra space! We’ll both get 500 MB extra space as soon as you install from this link.
Here’s a link to the presentation:
Last week, I was fortunate to meet for four hours with a company that wanted to learn how to use PowerPoint 2010 more effectively, make better, more engaging presentations, learn a bit about design tools like Inkscape and the GIMP, and develop a base of design skills. We all learned a lot about color, look, feel, design success, and more. Thanks so much to the company in question, and I love Hoboken‘s view of NYC. I can’t wait to go back.
Here are the presentations I used to walk the group through the issues.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iC0N-C2xRgH6xlvB6Gt0RXb6HcefgoGh0JrmtaEMrLk/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/121kHFLhNGrP85vKdR5ti1tRFVzMbwRmboBRuzRLFg7A/edit?usp=sharing
“DATE/TIME: Apr 16 2013 – 6:30pm – 8:30pm
LOCATION: Technology Center
Have you seen those beautiful posters that visualize and demonstrate statistics in fun and elegant ways? Those are called infographics, and you can make them with some time, practice, and free design tools. In this two-hour session, John LeMasney shows you how to make interesting, sharable graphics that help you make your point. We’ll look at some examples of great infographics, recreate one or two, and then use what you learned to make an original personal infographic that might be the next viral hit on Pinterest, Facebook, and everywhere else. Skill Level: Intermediate No registration necessary”
(from
Here is the presentation from last night’s talk:
The Graphic Design Experience Every Student Needs to Succeed
Blogging platform WordPress celebrates 10th birthday
What is Dropbox???
Celebrate the End of Summer at These Five Attractions in Southern New Jersey
Death by Powerpoint
What to do with Charts
Design beautiful PowerPoint slide decks with Slidevana
