Ron Fredericks writes: Blue Cube Toastmasters Club recently held an open house to attract new members: Blue Cube Makes a Movie. The agenda for the open house was to make a movie. I directed, produced, and published this movie as a demonstration of what Blue Cube Toastmasters Club is all about.
Watch this movie to:
Learn about Toastmasters International,
Demonstrate how Toastmasters’ self-help public speech and leadership training works, and
Show potential future guests and experienced Toastmasters what makes Blue Cube unique as a club worth visiting/joining.
Blue Cube Toastmasters Club presents: the movie
Background Notes
LectureMaker hosts the Blue Cube Toastmasters Club in its conference room. LectureMaker owns a professional video studio down the hall from its conference room, so it was only a matter of time before the club members got together to make a club movie.
Ron Fredericks writes: LectureMaker’s Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony is over now. But I would like to share this testomonial delivered by Dr. Pieter Kark during the event.
This video uses LectureMaker’s green screen, a simple photograph background, teleprompter, and some basic studio techniques during the recording.
The Video Demonstration
Dr. Pieter Kark presents:
An overview of his experience using LectureMaker’s video studio for the first time.
Ron Fredericks writes: The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Machine Learning / Data Mining Camp event had a full house. The video presented here attempts to capture both the content and the excitement surrounding this event. Use the table presented below to learn more about the video’s content. Use your mouse to highlight topics presented by our moderator, Dr. Hoffman, and her panel of experts. Click on the dots, once the content has loaded, to jump directly to this content. Post comments related to this event or the online eMedia itself.
Use these links to jump to publications discussed by the expert panel
Ensemble Methods in Data Mining: Improving Accuracy Through Combining Predictions (Synthesis Lectures on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery)
Giovanni Seni (Author), John Elder (Author), Robert Grossman (Series Editor)
Learning MySQL [Paperback]
Seyed M.M. (Saied) Tahaghoghi (Author), Hugh Williams (Author)
Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition [Paperback]
Hugh E. Williams (Author), David Lane (Editor)
Navigating the Video’s Time Line
Have you noticed all those red naviagtion dots embedded into LectureMaker’s video player? These dots allow a viewer to quickly get a sense of what content is included in the video.
“I usually regret when people ask me to watch online video because I just don’t know if my time will be well spent – especially a long video – so I added these red dot hot navigation spots to put online video back on Internet time” – said Ron Fredericks, designer of LectureMaker’s video player.
With these navigation dots, the nature of “Watch my video” has really changed for the better!
Here is a list of navigation dots embedded into this video. This may help you quickly find content of interest in this video.
Table 1: Navigation embedded into this video (red dots, a.k.a. bread crumbs)
Elapsed
Time
Percent
Played
Description
0
0%
Introduce Dr. Patricia Hoffman, Applied Mathematics & Machine Learning
0:36
1.12%
Introduce Dr. Ted Dunning, Chief Technology Officer at DeepDyve
1:08
2.00%
TD: What makes a good data mining modeling opportunity (intro missed)?
2:50
5.23%
Introduce Mr. Joseph B. Rickert\nRevolution Computing
3:16
6.02%
JR: Can you compare and contrast data mining vs statistical analysis?
7:30
13.84%
Introduce Dr. Giovanni Seni\nElder Research & Santa Clara University
8:01
14.65%
GS: How do ensemble methods improve the accuracy of predictions?
10:16
18.92%
Introduce Dr. Michael Walker\nStanford University & Walker Bioscience
11:09
20.40%
MW: Machine learning & data mining in bio-tech & pharmaceuticals
RW: How does eBay search for items from the longtail?
16:40
30.71%
Introduce Dr. Mike Bowles: Startups, Data Mining, & Quantitative Finance
16:58
31.23%
MB: How do you use data mining for automated trading systems?
18:59
34.92%
Introduce Mr. Greg Makowski\nPrincipal Consultant, Golden Data Mining
19:25
35.66%
GM: How do you use SAS Enterprise Miner tool for fraud analysis?
20:40
38.04%
MW: Has data mining been used to enhance personalized medicine?
23:11
42.70%
TD: How do corporations take advantage of data mining?
25:30
46.98%
MW: How can we use current tools to model biological systems?
27:32
50.73%
MB: Can you elaborate on use of data mining tools to build trading models?
29:28
54.28%
TD: What methods do you use to compare technical text data vs. other text?
32:45
60.33%
GS: How can a data mining model be built to be more scalable and reusable?
36:45
67.81%
JR/TD: What training can help statisticians move into data mining field?
41:18
76.17%
TD: Is there value in mining household electricity and natural gas data?
44:36
82.14%
GM/TD/GS: How would you approach a rare event target with data mining tools?
47:57
88.31%
TD: Can Machine Leaning be augmented with text mining?
49:59
92.06%
JR/MB: Do you see convergence between statistical analysis and data mining?
53:00
97.61%
Audience Follow-up: household data collection of electricity and natural gas
54:09
99.63%
Credits
Deep-Pixel Event Photograph
The seating area was completely full as attendees listened to the data mining expert panel.
The snapshot presented here shows LectureMaker’s high-definition portable broadcast video studio with two seperate video cameras and several other media sources. Two studio lights are seen on either side of the panel discussion table to help reduce video noise.
ACM Data Mining Camp Event held at eBay, San Jose – the snapshot
Event references
For details on the event, check on these two links:
There are several breakout sessions after the initial panel discussion. If you are a presenter for one of the breakout sessions please post a comment with your email address (not pubic) to this blog post so I can coordinate with you in advance
Toastmasters International: Officer Training Keynote Speech
Ron Fredericks writes: Many events include a keynote speech as part of their venues. Yet, very few events I have attended deliver a keynote that I would want to share with others outside the event itself. This particular event was graced with a keynote speech that was entertaining, informative, and motivational as a goal for the human spirit as well as for the attendees of this officer training session. As a result I am fortunate to be able to share this particular event’s keynote speech as a LectureMaker video for others to watch – even to those that have never been to a Toastmasters officer training event.
The February 25′th Sunnyvale officer training event itself was put together by Toastmasters District 4, Division C governor Frank Chen. Great job Frank, and the same goes to your event team and trainers as well. Additional thanks to Toasters R Us club and Synopsis for providing the venue for this training session. I would also like to thank the members of the Blue Cube Toastmasters club for helping me to setup and film this special event – Gopal Patil in particular for volunteering as key grip and cameraman on short notice.
Frank delivered a compelling and informative introduction to Vish. I plan to refer back to Frank’s technique as demonstrated in the video from time to time so I too can try and deliver such a compelling introduction to talented presenters at future events. A wrap-up session was delivered by Diane Vaughn as the final scene in this video. She breaks the keynote speech down into small enough chunks along with their associated segues so viewers can better understand the structure behind this compelling keynote speech.
Event Video
LectureMaker presents:
Toastmasters International officer training event,
keynote speech by Vish Pattanashetty – the video.
Ron Fredericks writes: the video presented here is the polished version of Nitesh Jain’s humorous speech during the division C humorous speech contest Friday October 23′rd 2009. Nitesh was representing his Toastmasters R Us club, having already won first place at the area contest.
LectureMaker filmed the video and hosted the video as part of this blog page. I’is a demonstration of LectureMaker’s video and audio event capture techniques. LectureMaker offers global reuse of events by filming at remote sites, then hosting the video with exeptional quality on its web site. Contact LectureMaker when you need to:
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LectureMaker presents
A Walk In Muir Woods, a humorous speech by Nitesh Jain the video
Ron Fredericks writes: LectureMaker was on scene filming Marko Gargenta deliver his Introduction to Google’s Android Software Platform during the September 3′rd regular meeting of the Software Development Forum (SDForum) Mobile Internet Special Interest Group meeting. Peter Lam was the host representing the Software Development Forum for this meeting, while Peter’s co-host Joe Jasin was traveling. The site for the event was located at the Orrick Law Office in Menlo Park with very friendly facilitators and signage to help a new visitor like me easily locate the meeting within the three building complex.
Marko is an industry expert in Android, a technical and business trainer for Android and other open-source technologies, co-author of PHP and MySQL by Example published by Prentice Hall, leader of the San Francisco Android User Group, founder of a leading technical training company called Marakana, and more…
The presentation covers both a business and developer perspective with several practical examples and live demonstrations. See the list of quesitons and main topics represented as red navigation dots embedded in the video, as well as a time line near the end of this post. (more…)
Ron Fredericks writes: Companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP have demonstrated the fantastic value derived from their influencer ecosystems. Nick Hayes in a lecture at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club shows attendees just how they too can identify and leverage significant value from the diverse individuals who influence decision-makers in their ecosystems.
Thanks to Barbara French and Nick Hayes of Influencer50, I was able to capture and post Nick’s lecture as a video (below). I would also like to thank the San Francisco Commonwealth Club’s team for making video setup and tear-down so easy.
I took the snapshot, shown below, during the Commonwealth Club event itself. It’s an extreme wide-angle shot taken with lots of extra megapixels. Nick Hayes and Kevin O’Malley are addressing the audience during the final round of Q & A . Barbara French managed to completely fill the event to standing-room-only capacity. LectureMaker’s portable video broadcast station can also be seen in action near the bottom of the photo as well. You can zoom in and navigate around this photo by clicking and dragging with your mouse. [Note: the photo repaints itself into sharp focus in a few seconds after each change in perspective.]
Nick Hayes – Event Speaker A marketing pioneer, international business strategist, author and speaker. His expertise and vision in influencer strategies has landed Hayes as an advisor to the Fortune 500. He is founder and president of Influencer50, an influencer identification and engagement management company based in San Francisco. He is the author of Influencer Marketing: Who Really Influences Your Customers?
Barbara French – Event Organizer An expert on influencer relations, including identifying top influencers and engaging with them by building mutually beneficial relationships, creating influencer programs and transitioning from internally driven to influencer-led marketing. Barbara is the president & managing editor at Tekrati Inc and senior consultant at Influencer50.
Kevin O’Malley – Event Host With an international background in cross-cultural communications and linguistics, Kevin O’Malley applies unique training and coaching skills and partnership building to the world of corporate speaking and events. Kevin is one of the principles at TechTalk / Studio
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.
published by Prentice Hall, leader of the 