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
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: Â Apr 16 2013 – 6:30pm – 8:30pm
LOCATION: Â 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:
I really love the truth in this quote by Oscar Wilde on the difference between living and existing: “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all”
I decided to create an illustration of the idea to underscore it.
In this session, Sean Piotrowski and John LeMasney talk about customer service in the contexts of the value of recognition, client engagement, and not being a total jerk just because you suddenly realize that they don’t hold immediate clear value for you.
I prefer open standards because they do not constrict their use. Hashtags are a great, very simple example of the idea. Because it is simply an understanding among people that a preceding hash (also known as a pound sign or number sign) means that I am categorizing the attached text and extended content, I can use it anywhere where the convention is known and used. It was popularized for this purpose on Twitter, but other systems, networks, and platforms support it for this purpose including Google Plus. When I add it to my title in this post and publish it, the Googlebot that finds it makes sense of it as a categorization, taxonomy, and meta-information about the post, and makes it easier for people who are looking for that type of content to find it. Hashtags may have been popularized on Twitter, but because it is simply an agreed upon typographical convention, any can use it anywhere that text is used, and the system on which it is used can choose to make use of it.
Blogging platform WordPress celebrates 10th birthday
Death by Powerpoint
What to do with Charts
Design beautiful PowerPoint slide decks with Slidevana
Illustration Source Congratulates Marie B. Cros whose Work Has Been Selected to be Published in American Illustration 32
Always Right: A Guide to Improving Customer Relationships
