Announcing LectureMaker Video Studio

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,
• Lower your travel costs while contributing to the the emerging green economy,
• Create, edit, publish, and promote, your next vision to a global audience through video.

 

LectureMaker’s Video Development Flyer

Video Production and Publishing		Develop Online Lectures Quickly and Professionally

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.

 

Top LectureMaker™ Videos Produced by Ron Fredericks

Driving to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco by Ron Fredericks, LectureMaker	Android Introduction by Marko Gargenta, marakana Presented by Peter Lam, Mobile SIG Co-chair, Software Developers Forum
Pivotal Progress by Dr. Thomas J. Buckholtz	Marketing Is Broken, Influencers Can Fix It by Nick Hayes, Influencer50	The Science of Predictive Analytics Hosted by the Bay Area R User Group

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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.

LectureMaker Will Do A Live Interactive Podcast!

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.

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Ron Fredericks writes: Would you like to become a better public speaker? Are you a marketer, engineer, sales person, scientist, student, or perhaps unemployed at the moment? Do you live or work near Sunnyvale California? If the answer is yes, then our Tuesday evening public speech training meetings may be a useful to you.

On most every Tuesday evening from 5:30 to 6:30pm the Blue Cube Toastmasters International club meets in LectureMaker’s conference room. The club is focused on self help for its members by following the Toastmasters communication and leadership training tracks. Guests are welcome.

Use this training to learn better communication and leadership skills that may significantly enhance your career, family, and social life.

More Information

Speak persuasively, with impact, or to inform others using LectureMaker’s video studio. But use this meeting as a low cost high impact training program that would help you fine tune your next video production. For more details go to the Blue Cube home page.

Note: Toastmasters International, and Blue Cube Toastmasters Club, are not affiliated with LectureMaker, LLC in any way. LectureMaker sponsors Blue Cube with the use of its conference room and with volunteer leadership. LectureMaker video studio is not part of Toastmasters International or Blue Cube, but the video studio is sometimes used by club members in their public speeches or to film certain local Toastmasters events.

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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.
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Sunnyvale’s Blue Cube Toastmasters Club Presents…

“Avoiding Identity Theft – registration closed”

Discussion

Ron Fredericks writes: Did you know that over 10 million people were affected by identity theft in 2006? Over $15 billion was stolen from individuals in just one year alone.  Blue Cube Toastmasters club is fighting back with its 3-member presentation team.  During the seminar you will learn more about identity theft and several practical steps you can take to avoid it.

Seminar on Avoiding Identity Theft

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Welcome to Blue Cube

The Blue Cube Toastmasters Club members meet regularly in a business-like environment to develop and improve their public speech and leadership skills.

The club meets at LectureMaker LLC’s office every Tuesday from 5:30pm to 6:30pm
830 Stewart Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94085

Figure 1 – Ron Fredericks is hired as a technical marketer and public speaker, Moscone Center, thanks to skills learned as a Toastmaster.

Who can participate

• Guests are welcome
• Visiting Toastmasters from other clubs are welcome
• Toastmasters officers from area, district, and beyond are welcome
• Adults 18 years or older may apply for membership
• Blue Cube Club officers reserve the right to refuse individual participation at its sole discretion

Benefits to Jointing Blue Cube
The main benefits to joining any Toastmasters club revolves around public speech and leadership training.

One special benefit of LectureMaker’s sponsorship of the Blue Cube Toastmasters Club is that members can request their speeches and evaluations be videotaped and published. Some of those videos are posted here.

Contact Ron Fredericks to learn more about LectureMaker’s sponsorship of Blue Cube Toastmasters Club to:

• Request a password to access members’ only videos
• Learn how to become a club member
• Create blog posts for the club’s benefit
• Get more information on meeting agenda or membership

Best regards,

Ron Fredericks
Phone: 408-390-1895
Email: RonF@LectureMaker.com

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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.

Like the lecture? Get the book:
Influencer Marketing: Who Really Influences Your Customers?

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.]

San Francisco Commonwealth Club – Event
Wednesday May 20′th starting at 5:30pm
Commonwealth Club’s welcome page

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?

Not sure how to get to this meeting? Then maybe you will find this little movie helpful:
Driving to the Commonwealth Club

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

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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

The Lecture Maker

Gopi Kallayil was the winner of our joint district contest

Toastmasters International official web site: Bay Area Club Events

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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:

1. The open-source analytics programming language called R
2. How Google and Facebook approach analytics to predict their web user community’s behavior
3. Where to download R and get enterprise level support
4. How the meeting co-chairs use R

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

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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.

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