I had the honor of speaking at a retreat for the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students (ODUS) at Princeton University on the topic of using social media to better communicate with students and potential students. It was a lively discussion on assumptions, practices, standards, authority, authenticity, and locality. Here is my minimalist slide deck for the 2 hour-long talk.
Date: Monday, March 19, 2012
Location: Princeton University’s Campus Club
5 Prospect Ave., Princeton, NJ 08540-5299
The Program: Pinterest is an exciting new social networking service that uses visual media to promote ideas. John LeMasney will give a broad overview of Pinterest and explain how to use it to promote your personal and organizational brand. With Pinterest, you can follow others, and others can follow you; pin visual items, like photos and videos, to categorical boards and repin others’ pins that you find interesting. You can collaborate with others to make collective boards. You can like things that you enjoy but that are fleeting or less categorizable; pin things that you find online, or things that you upload yourself. Pinterest takes the best parts of Diigo, Twitter, Facebook, and other networks and gives them a very pretty, unified face. It is a quickly growing network, with phenomenal adoption rates, and users who often say they are addicted to pinning.
About the Speaker: John LeMasney is the Manager of Educational Technology Training and Outreach at Princeton University. He is a father, artist, designer, technologist, consultant, and open source evangelist living and working in New Jersey.
I gave a talk in the Princeton University Seminar Series called the Productive Scholar on Inkscape, the premier open source illustration program.
I created this composition of this imagery as an example of compositing in class.
So here is our final version of the branding for the Cornerstone themed TEDx event on June 1st at Princeton Public Library. I’m proud and excited to be a part of it.
tags: TED, TEDx, open source, creative commons, WordPress, postaday2011, Inkscape, design, graphics