John W. LeMasney

ICON PC User’s Group: Best practices for Facebook

lemasney — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:21:45 +0000

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Presented a talk on Facebook tonight to the ICON PC user’s group in Long Island, NY.

Presentation is here: Google Docs presentation

NJLA Adult Services Forum

lemasney — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:58:22 +0000

On October 26th, 2011, I gave a talk on Google Plus, the relatively new social media platform, using the service’s hangouts feature to present remotely to NJLA’s Adult Services Forum.

Google+ How Libraries can Use Next Gen Social Networking will be covered by John LeMasney who will tell us about this new, much-anticipated tool from Google, how it extends the capabilities of current tools like Facebook and how we can use it to improve our communications and services

NJEdge.net: WordPress: a versatile academic solution

lemasney — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:52:01 +0000

On November 18th, 2011 I gave a talk at NJEdge.net’s Conference 8.0 in Plainsboro, NJ with my Princeton Colleague Ben Johnston on the topic of WordPress being used at Princeton to solve various academic needs.

September 27th, 2011: PPCUG: Gmail, Thunderbird, and modern messaging.

lemasney — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:48:56 +0000

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I gave a talk on the various interconnecting messaging tools that Google provides, as well as an overview of Thunderbird as it interacts with gmail.

Thunderbird 7 enters beta (h-online.com)

September 22, 2011: The Productive Scholar: Inkscape

lemasney — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:25:33 +0000

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I gave a talk in the Princeton University Seminar Series called the Productive Scholar on Inkscape, the premier open source illustration program.

June-July 2011: GIMP Workshops

lemasney — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:34:48 +0000

In June and July of 2011, I presented a series of six workshops on the open source photomanipulation application called the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) at Princeton Public Library. In the series, inspired by one of the attendees, I decided to focus on emotion and color in design. Below are the presentation framework, the source and project files, fonts, brushes, etc.

Project files are available at http://www.lemasney.com/downloads in the folders palettes, fonts, textures and brushes.

NJALA 2011: Using Inkscape

lemasney — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:22:45 +0000

I gave a presentation to the NJ Association of Library Assistants in Mercer County, NJ on June 7th, 2011. The topic was Using Inkscape.

365sketches.org show at Ocean County Library, Toms River, NJ

lemasney — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:05:49 +0000

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I showed prints from my 365 Sketches project in the upstairs gallery of the Ocean County Library in Toms RIver, NJ. The show was up for the entire month of June, 2011.

Event: TEDxPrincetonLibrary: The Cornerstone Event

lemasney — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:59:05 +0000

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June 1st, 2011: For a few months leading up to June, 2011, I was part of a team that came together to produce a TEDx event under the TEDxPrincetonLibrary brand. I was responsible for the web presence, graphic design and branding, and other technology related tasks. On the day, I was mostly responsible for setting up the stage for each speaker. http://tedxprincetonlibrary.org/

Talk: Princeton Newcomers: On the Future of Mobile Computing

lemasney — Wed, 18 May 2011 13:13:57 +0000

On May 17th at 10 a.m. I gave a talk to the Princeton YWCA Newcomers about the future of mobile computing.

Here is the writeup:

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1lY5cnJqAGtwT3PUOBJYn15SZ_XjtocdPjE_bqFTxs_U

Here are the slides:

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Ad-YsRMv5bPqZGNrZm05ZndfMjI0ZHp0azdoZGg&hl=en

John W. LeMasney

ICON PC User’s Group: Best practices for Facebook

NJLA Adult Services Forum

NJEdge.net: WordPress: a versatile academic solution

September 27th, 2011: PPCUG: Gmail, Thunderbird, and modern messaging.

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