LectureMaker has already made a name for itself blending art, online video, business communication, and technology, using its multi-camera hi-def portable broadcast service for streaming and on demand video capture of business events. Now LectureMaker has opened a new video studio located in Sunnyvale CA for its members.
“Sunnyvale has never had a place for its business community to learn, develop, produce, and publish lectures with so many features akin to the film and movie making industry“, said Ron Fredericks - LectureMaker’s business videographer and founder.
LectureMaker is the Bay Area’s video enhanced communications “dojo” for people involved in engineering, science, marketing, sales, business, and executive management. Its a place to create, edit, publish, and promote, your next vision to a global audience through video.
Experiment with new online presentation techniques,
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Create, edit, publish, and promote, your next vision to a global audience through video.
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Contact LectureMaker to learn how to use LectureMaker’s studio to create your next business or educational video - Introductory classes and in-studio demos will be announced soon.
Would you like LectureMaker to create a video for your company or product? Request a quote for your next video project.
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: I will be speaking for 45 minutes during the Next Step Toastmasters Advanced Club meeting held at the Biltmore Hotel. Read on for more details, or go here to register now>
Event Overview and Event Give-aways for Attendees
Demand for high quality Internet video has sky rocketed recently – especially for business marketing. Richard Robinson, industry head for B2B marketing at Google, says
“The fact is that B2B professionals are looking to consume content in a much easier way, but at the same time expect it to be in a rich media format, engaging and hard-hitting.” More
Yet the pool of talent with suitable equipment available to capture, produce, and publish your next high quality video is very limited. There is some good news for the Bay Area’s Silicon Valley. Access to a broadcast studio, ready to capture, produce, and manage the online programming associated with live HD video as well as video on demand, has just arrived in the Bay Area thanks to LectureMakerLLC – a new company with a recent grand opening celebration.
Ron Fredericks, co-founder of LectureMaker LLC, will present high definition (HD) video techniques you can use from home, followed by the newsworthy introduction to working with LectureMaker’s broadcast studio to create your own “TV style” programming or educational shows. Some free video studio time will be given away during this event to registered attendees.
LectureMaker will also take applications from the audience to sponsor one individual’s use of LectureMaker’s Online Broadcast Video Studio for an entire year – this winning candidate can use LectureMaker’s Sunnyvale studio to perfect their on camera lecture presentation skills as well as publish reqular HD videos over the year as part of their own programming. A chance to become a global expert in the field of their choice. All video production costs inside LectureMake’s studio will be covered by LectureMaker. Some restrictions apply.
Advanced Toastmasters club meeting from 3 pm to 4 pm
Location: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Drive, Santa Clara, United States, 95054
Ron Fredericks Biography
“I am Ron Fredericks, a loving family man, and creative new media technology leader focused on social networking and business innovation at LectureMaker LLC. I co-founded LectureMaker and sponsored the Blue Cube Toastmasters club because I believe public communication is the solution to better family life and the under-utilized catalyst to rebuilding our global economy.“
Ron Fredericks studied Biophysics at UC Berkeley for 12 years. He demonstrated his leadership skills by productizing his optics patent in quantitative biochemistry as a key element to launching a biophysics corporation.
He gave back to his community by managing over 800 public speeches by software technologists and entrepreneurs as the editor of the Software Developer Forum (sdforum.org). He has traveled extensively as a software technology leader and technical editor for the Digital Equipment Corporation’s User Society (DECUS) – one of the first global open-source software ecosystems.
He later went on to manage over 1000 global partnerships that produced new software tools, and their related marketing, sales, and support strategies, for the global device manufacturing industry. Ron has won sales and marketing awards for his management of interactive web sites that helped automate many of these partnerships for Intel and then again at Motorola.
Ron Fredericks used the social engagements in his technology career to become a leader in business video Internet broadcasting. Ron found his passion for video as a communications medium from Pacific Data Images during their demonstration of their morphing visual effects on Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” music video in 1991. From that day forward he started building his own video communication techniques and vendor relationships. Today LectureMaker’s Sunnyvale video studio is the first business video studio in the Bay Area to offer lecture development support, and real-time lecture broadcasting to the Internet in true High-Definition (HD) format.
Ron was first recognized by the electronics industry as a leader in online lecture broadcasting back in 2005. Gil Basaak of CMP Media writes …
“LectureMaker … is an on- and off-line Web conferencing and demonstration service that accommodates attendees even after the actual meeting ends. The service combines streaming multimedia, an interactive blog, transcript recording, print engine, and, to help locate qualified sales leads, a record of visitors. Billed as a general-purpose sales and presentation tool, LectureMaker serves as a full-featured foundation for marketing embedded systems and components for use even by those who are unaccustomed to presenting in public.”
Join Ron Fredericks as a member of LectureMaker’s “walk-in and do-it” studio to become a better public speaker and gain more recognition as an expert in your field of interest with regular online video publishing.
Video Broadcast Studio ~ Lecture Development ~ Internet Video Hosting ~
Integrated Marketing and eCommerce
Ron Fredericks writes: LectureMaker’s Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony coming up next week, so I thought it was high time to show my clients and prospects just what a person can do in a LectureMaker studio in under one hour.
The demo shows you how to build a light weight hard disk storage device for portable transport of 640 Gigabytes of digital data. Unlike most of the portable hard drive vendors – I show you exactly how to assemble, partition, and format the drive using Windows 7 or Vista. I will post a Mac version too if there is any interest.
This video uses some techniques I have created to demonstrate both hardware and software. This type of video is a case study for many of the Silicon Valley high-tech firms who need to quickly and accurately demonstrate their products to users, partners, sales teams, and tech support engineers to name just a few….
LectureMaker presents:
A Hardware Software Demo From LectureMaker’s Studio, by Ron Fredericks
Ribbon cutting ceremony with Sunnyvale’s Mayor
Live music by Jimmy and the Waverunners
Food, beer, wine, and soft drinks
Make your own videos during the celebration
About LectureMaker Studio
Features:
Complete Video Studio for Business, Education, & Government
Professionally Staffed
HD Streaming, DVDs, Blu-Ray, Video Hosting, & Marketing Analytics
Speech Training & Professional Speakers Referral Network
Make Your Own:
Interactive Video Conference Calls
Dynamic Demonstrations
Online Training Sessions
Sales Webinars & Presentations
Technical Support Sessions
Internet TV Broadcasts
Virtual Events
Business News Briefings
Town Hall Meetings
University Courses
Panel Discussions
Supercharged PowerPoint Presentation
Why is LectureMaker Celebrating Now
One year in development with its vendors, LectureMaker announces the first Bay Area high-definition video streaming studio for live Internet broadcasts, conference calls, and on-demand video presentations. All the tools, techniques, and services you need to design, produce, publish, and market a complete video in as little as one hour.
Introductory studio membership for sale beginning March 24’th: Monthly membership fees start as low as $250 for studio time & support
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
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Played
Description
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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
Ron Fredericks writes: Business video is an exciting opportunity for any company who needs to crowdource its market base, increase sales at lower cost, provide distance training, successfully leverage popular social media sites, and build more valuble relationships from existing clients while finding new prospects.
LectureMaker has a “first of its kind” video studio located in Sunnyvale California, where you can use:
high-def streaming,
top notch video cameras,
hardware accelerated screencasting, and
create green screen virtual environments
WITH INSTANT RESULTS. No tedious video editing required. Get onsite help from a trained videographer, and a dynamic video blog all integrated into a powerful web publishing process to add crowdsourcing and relationship marketing to better meet your competitve business needs.
Join me to learn more about the value of business video, LectureMaker case studies, and the work flow behind making a great video, during this event.
Visit LectureMaker at the event to learn more about the newest and most advanced high-definition video studio in Silicon Valley – a place for your company to create, stream, and host high quality videos for business, technology, sales, and marketing.
One free video studio package with one year of web hosting, blogging, and web analytics will be given away by the Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce during the event – Wow!
Cost is $20/person payable to the Chamber of Commerce at the event.
You don’t have to be in San Jose to participate in this event! Join my podcast instead!
I’ll be podcasting live from the event floor. Have any quesitons? Want to listen in? Can’t make the event in San Jose?
Then, join me while I’m at this event from 6:30pm to 7pm during my live podcast – with your telephone:
Podcaster: Ron Fredericks, Business Videographer & LectureMaker Founder Dial-in Number: (712) 432-0111 Access Code REQUIRED: contact podcast@lecturemaker to get the access code
This may be a first! I will be using my cell phone to create an interactive audio bridge to my conference line. From this line I will be presenting to you and to live event attendees at the same time. You can interact with me during my presentation and you can ask questions from my event attendees too!
“This type of leading edge event management is just the type of thing I do here at LectureMaker: help business make the most from its ongoing need to present their products, services, and brands – better than the competition” says Ron Fredericks, founder of LectureMaker LLC.
