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Life With Google Apps 2

101713 Google Apps Nick3927-sqMarch 27, 2014
Thursday, 5-7pm
VCMC Social Room
FREE

Nick Shelton, Google Evangelist, shows you how-to make your personal, business or nonprofit organization life easier!! Discover how Google uses communication tools to communicate with teams and customers around the world. Focuses will include:

  • Gmail: The world’s most popular email service for your computer and smart phone. Easy and convenient communication with friends and contacts, also use it for chatting and archiving your conversations. New customized tabs keep your organized.
  • Google+ Hangouts: Learn how you can do video conferences from anywhere from any device.
  • Calendar: Use your calendar to keep tract of events, create additional calendars for your personal life and work, share or export your calendar, and add alerts and reminders.
  • Google drive: Storage system linked to your google account. Use it to store and share documents that you can access on the go… from Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, Android. It is safe, secure and shareable. Use Google’s productivity apps Docs, Sheets and Slides that let you create online documents, work on them in real time with other people, and store them in your Google Drive online — for free.


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WordPress Open Studio Weekend: Beginners/Intermediate

doorWordPress 101 Hands-on Workshop (Beginner)
March 29, 2014, Saturday, 12-5pm
Early Bird $50 (Veterans $40) ends March 22
Regular $65
Veteran $55
Tickets Eventbrite

PHP Basics For WordPress
March 30, 2014, Sunday, 10am-4pm
Early Bird $99 (Veterans $85) ends March 22
Regular $125
Veterans $110
Tickets: EventBrite

 

Saturday March 29: WordPress 101 Hands-On /Workshop 
Daunted by the task of creating your own WordPress blog? Learn to create one from scratch during a HANDS-ON, half-day workshop. We have designed a comprehensive hands-on workshop, teaching the basics of building a WordPress blog, step-by-step. The workshop can also help prepare you to create a more robust and comprehensive website, using WordPress.   Continue reading →


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The I(eye) In Media

Opening Friday, March 14, 6-9pm, 2014
Exhibit March 15, 16, 22, 23, Saturday and Sunday, Noon-5pm
Free

An installation project about the “I” in media and how we make it, subculture media catalysts, and how to add your “I (Eye)” to the media. Featuring Godzilla, green screens, slinky satire, and photography.

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An installation project about the “I” in media and how we make it, subculture media catalysts, and how to add your “I (Eye)” to the media.

“The media” is made by people, and we are the people who put ourselves in the media as much as we are the media. We are activists, makers, hacks, hackers, photographers, costume designers, poster people, video viralists, and culture-harvesters who hang flyers. Continue reading →


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Troubleshooting Social Media & Blogging

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Conquering Communication Blues: Troubleshooting Social Media and Blogging Platforms
Tuesdays, February, 1-4pm, 2014
RSVP http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-Open-Studio/events/165012162/
$10 requested donation
Veterans Community Media Center, 1720 Market Street @Gough

Come join us on our first Meetup of 2014.  Excited to explore how WordPress and other blogging platforms that should intergrate with Social Media. Bring your questions.
All skill and knowledge-levels welcome!

WordPress Open Studios Developing a supportive community of creative and skilled people Continue reading →


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Jerome Carolfi: Developing Narrative In Documentary Editing

Network & Bring Your Work For Advice
November 16, 2013
Saturday, 1-3 pm
$15/$12 (early bird)
Veterans Free — Limited to 5
The Happiness Institute
actorsdialogue.com
RSVP:  eventbrite.com by Friday, November 15.

Learn to incorporate creative, narrative principles into your documentary, with practivcal editing techniques. Visual examples will be used to highlight concepts originally developed by Christine Steele. Innovative doscumentry film editor (Tall, Hot Blondes), as explained by Jerome Carolfi. Continue reading →