pacific coast sunset joy nature light portland cc-by lemasney
I have had the most obvious revelation made clear to me. This is the truest thing I know, at the moment, if truths have ranks.
My God is the Sun.
Maybe you knew? I decided to lay out 10 themes that helped me. With illustrations, many from my Instagram at http://instagram.com/lemasney and please join me there too!
Everything you know, everything you ever ate, everything you will ever know, requires the sun.
chanticleer point Portland women’s forum cc-by lemasney
Even artificial light, every light you ever saw, is due to the Sun. Without it, we are nothing.
Princeton Parklet Maple Seeds cc-by lemasney
The meaning of life: Help the best evolve to the next level.
The universe in my rear view mirror cc-by lemasney
To grow and to extend ourselves to our own best selves.
Beyond our own limitations, we stretch through generations to overcome.
Jack and Daddy working on a robot
Religion is analogical. Rebirth and regeneration and cycles are all a part of the Solar natural process.
unidentified found object a toy helix made of plastic exalted in late day quick approaching sunset cc-by lemasney
Advents are, historically, more about agricultural or personal success than ethereal presence.
Jedediah Higgins House, Princeton, NJ, Interior, Buddha and lotus wall piece, cc-by lemasney
The correlation between Biblical Figures and Constellations. Zeitgeist. The Christ is an analogy for our Sun, and His Father, our Father, is the Universe.
Religion is an analogy for nature, where the Sun is Christ. cc-by lemasney
We are made of it.
Nature and bricks and sunlight square by lemasney
Life and Death. We are reminded everyday. Never forget.
pacific coast sunset joy nature light Portland cc-by lemasney
Lib20: Media Specialist Symposium at Stockton University
I am very excited to have been asked to present the keynote and other presentations at Lib2.0 2015: A Media Specialist Symposium, in October 2015 at Stockton University (http://www.ettc.net/lib20/). At the event, I have been asked to talk about the following topics. Details for each session are below. If you are interested in having these topics delivered at your staff day training, conference, ot other speaking opportunity, please contact me at 609 553 9498 or john@lemasney.com
The aim of organizational branding efforts is to make these three ideas merge:
We are presenting a brand of some kind now (active or passive, intended or unintended) that we hope creates a positive, accurate perception by our stakeholders.
We have stakeholders that perceive our brand in some way, and we must discover what that perception is, even if it is not positive or correct.
We can do actions, enforce policies, and check stakeholder perceptions to align our brand with our intended perceptions, the very intent of branding. We are doing these things to underline and reinforce what we are, and our patrons and other stakeholders understand and agree.
Come and learn about your library’s brand, and what can be done to improve or maintain it.
Social Media For Librarians and Media Specialists
We’re in what is referred to as the third wave of Social Media: The first wave was one in which people got Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google Plus, Hoot suite, and other social media accounts to connect with others socially and casually. The second wave was one in which organizations discovered that everyone was on these services and that they should probably be there too to take part  in the conversation, without necessarily knowing what that might look like, what their intent was, or what to expect about outcomes. Now, organizations are starting to make sense of how those social media accounts can help them to engage stakeholders differently than they do in person, track and make sense of visits, interactions, and connections and how that affects the rest of their work, and develop plans for success in social media in similar ways to the way that they developed their strategic plans. Come and learn how to make the most out of your social media efforts, how to decide if what you are doing is what you should be doing, and to discover what success looks like in social media outcomes.
Infographics and Visual Literacy for School Libraries
There is a trend in social media towards the visual. Images, videos and graphics get the most attention and lead more people to your other content. Social media platforms like Pinterest have grown powerful in a short period and reflect and strengthen the trend. The issue: while many of us are visual learners, not everyone considers themselves a visual creator, and so participation in the trend often is limited to simply sharing others’ images. In this session, we discover new tools that will help you to develop a beautiful visual representation of your ideas without having to become a certified graphic designer, photographer or visual communicator (even though you are likely doing those things already without much help or guidance). Learn how to create and find great images that support your ideas.
Creating Sharable Content for Libraries
In this session, John LeMasney will share 10 key ideas to consider when creating sharable content. What makes an article, image, idea, quote or other media particularly sharable? What technologies and methods can help you to give an interesting idea the best chance of being shared? How can copyright be honored and original sources be found? Why is there such emphasis now about sharing visual media over other forms? Join us for this session to help us find the answers!
Google Cloud-Based Services for Libraries
Learn how libraries can use Google’s free suite of office, productivity, organization, and life tools to improve communications and increase visibility in your community. We’ll discuss what can happen when library staff, administrators, and patrons use Google Drive, Hangouts, Maps, Calendar, Gmail, and Google Plus to advertise, communicate, and share information more effectively.
Top Ten Transliteracies for School Libraries
Transliteracy is the ability for a communicator to flexibly use a variety of methods to communicate their ideas more fully. This skill is an increasingly important one. Communicators who embrace photography, audio editing, coding, graphic design, video editing, can speak to a broader audience more easily. Let’s look at ways in which libraries can embrace, learn and take advantage of these literacies to communicate more effectively with their communities of service and practice.
“Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.” ~David Hume.
I decided to use Inkscape to illustrate this quote with some of my Instagram-based photos of a recent collaborative sculpture project I helped to execute to help illustrate the story of that sculpture, from conception to execution. I thought the quote was apt. Please stay tuned to http://lemasney.com for the whole story of the maple seeds in the #PrincetonParklet.
