June 29, 2009
May 19, 2009
May 18, 2009
Video Rig
Ron Fredericks writes: LectureMaker set up a special video rig to film a ride from Silicon Valley to San Francisco. The camera was mounted into a car with a small tripod secured with gaffer tape. The lens was outfitted with a circular polarizer to eliminate glare from the in-car navigation unit. The photo below includes a Zoomify web navigator plug-in and a wordpress plug-in to make blog posting easy called YD Zoomify.
| Driving to the Commonwealth Club - the Setup |
Using the video camera setup described above, I recorded my trip up to the San Francisco Commonwealth Club. Watch the video to see visual landmarks along the way. Listen to the video to learn what others feel is the best parking strategies when driving to the Commonwealth Club. Finally, watch the video to see how to get to the Gold Room inside the Commonwealth Club building itself.
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March 28, 2009
Bay Area Toastmasters Speech Contest
Ron Fredericks writes: I am the videographer for the C2 and C5 Toastmasters interational Speech contest International and Table Topics (impromptu) speech content for Sunnyvale, Mountain View, and Palo Alto.
Event Location Cubberley Center in Palo Alto
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Toastmasters International official web site: Bay Area Club Events
February 25, 2009
Bay Area R User Group 2009 Kickoff Video
Ron Fredericks writes: In February I attended the Bay Area R User Group meeting recently held at Predictive Analytics World 2009. Michael E. Driscoll, one of the two kickoff meeting co-chairs, was gracious enough to let LectureMaker capture the video for the event as a technical marketing “lighthouse” project.
Today I am happy to present this video to my readers.
If you manage the marketing, feature roll-out, or web site design, for a social network or professional ecosystem, then you need the techniques presented in this video.
Watch this video to learn about:
- The open-source analytics programming language called R
- How Google and Facebook approach analytics to predict their web user community’s behavior
- Where to download R and get enterprise level support
- How the meeting co-chairs use R
| The R and Science of Predictive Analytics: Four Case Studies in R - the Video | |||
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Panel of four recognized R users from industry:
- Bo Cowgill, Google
- Itamar Rosenn, Facebook
- David Smith, Revolution Computing
- Jim Porzak, The Generations Network
Moderator and co-chair of Bay Area R User Group:
- Michael E. Driscoll, Dataspora LLC
November 21, 2008
Use Screencasting In Your Next Lecture
Ron Fredericks writes: Screencasting is an easy way to document your activities on a computer. Its a digital recording of computer screen output, opten containing audio narration.
During a recent poll, I found very few people were aware of screencasting . Watch my online lecture on the subject to learn how to:
- Express your ideas as a screencast on the web,
- Embed them within documentation instead of screenshots mixed with tedious explanations, or
- Use them as visual aids to enhance your next public lecture, as I have done here.
March 30, 2008
How to Display Math Symbols in WordPress
Ron Fredericks writes: Have you ever wanted to include math equations in your blog posts or lecture materials? Here is an easy and slick way to get the job done. Use Embedded Components new WordPress plugin called WordPress Math Publisher, or wpmathpub, for short.
As an example, when I embedded the wpmathpub [pmath size=xx] tag into my blog post — like this:
Code (mathtext)
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Where:
I get the following mathematical equation displayed in my blog post:
where:
is defined as a
is defined as b
You can learn more from the plugin’s wiki-like documentation on wordpress.org site itself from here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmathpub/
You can post questions or comments on this plugin from here:
http://www.embeddedcomponents.com/blogs/2008/03/wpmathpubsupport/
March 16, 2008
March 15, 2008
LectureMaker.com Gets a Face Lift
We choose Wordpress as our content management platform for LectureMaker’s new web site.
