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Spring 2012

April 13	Mobile Websites at Stanford: A Mobile SIG Open Meeting - Brian Young, University IT - Anthony Christopher, Lane Library Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
April 20	Microsoft Presents - Ashanka Iddya, Microsoft Solution Specialist and Cloud Evangelist Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
May 11	Distributed Computing - Folding@home, and Cloud Computing Demo - Professor Vijay S. Pande, Chemistry (and by courtesy, Structural Biology and Computer Science) - Alex Chekholko, University IT - Phil Reese, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
May 18	FarmShare - Shared Computing Environment - Alex Chekholko & Jason Bishop, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
June 1	Open Source Software at Stanford
June 8	FileMaker Pro 12 - Coming soon
June 22	Adobe's Creative Suite 6 - What's New - Coming soon
June 29	Document Storage at Stanford
July 13	Mobile Device Management

Winter 2012

January 20	FarmShare - Shared Computing Environment - Jason Bishop & Alex Chekholko, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
January 27	HTML Newsletters - Mark Branom, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
February 3	What's New in Zimbra 7 - Jo-Ann Cuevas-Pagliaro, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
February 10	Confluence Basics - Kiran Joshi, Assistant Project Controller, Administrative Systems Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
March 2	HTML Newsletters - Tips and Troubleshooting - Mark Branom, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
March 9	WebEx at Stanford - Jo-Ann Cuevas-Pagliaro, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
March 16	Stanford Sites: Support for Building Websites at Stanford - Zach Chandler and John Bickar, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
March 30	Mobile Device Management - Mark Mellis, Information Security Office

Fall 2011

September 9	Google Analytics: Search, Social, and Conversion Optimization - Phil Mui, Ph.D, Group Product Manager for Google Analytics. Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
October 14	SCRIBE: A Document Conversion Platform for Stanford University - Sean Keegan, Associate Director, Assistive Technology, Office of Accessible Education Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
October 21	Securing the Road Warrior - Mark Mellis, Information Security Office Operations Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
November 11	Accessibility and HTML 5 - John Foliot, Stanford Online Accessibility Program (SOAP) Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
December 2	Open Source Software at Stanford - Mark Branom, University IT - Irina Zaks, Law Communications Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation

Summer 2011

July 15	Prezi: The Online Mindmapping Presentation Tool - Mark Branom, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
July 29	Developing for Mobile at Stanford - Brian Young & Scotty Logan, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
August 12	Mobile Device Management - Security for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch - Ammy Hill, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
August 26	Computer Literacy Open Forum - Mark Branom, Tim Torgenrud, Jo-Ann Cuevas-Pagliaro, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation

Spring 2011

April 22	Command-Line NetDB - Drew Saunders, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
April 29	Drupal 101: How to get started with Drupal at Stanford - Mark Branom, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
May 13	Adobe CS5 Design - Photoshop / InDesign / Illustrator - Rick Miller, Adobe Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
June 10	What's New in Drupal 7 - John Bickar, Stanford Libraries - Zach Chandler, Academic Technology - Marco Wise, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
June 17	Update on the Scientific Research Computing Facility (SRCF) Project - Phil Reese, Research Computing Strategist in University IT and the office of the Dean of Research - Norm Ringgold, Head of IT Operations and Infrastructure at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
June 24	Stanford Web Forms Service - Update - Marco Wise, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation

Winter 2011

January 21	Twitter @ Stanford - Mark Branom and Dave Ream, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
January 28	HTML 5 - A Postcard from the Trenches - John Foliot, Stanford Online Accessibility Program Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
February 4	Second Life in Action: Learning, Collaboration, Innovation and More! - Pierre Khawand, People-OnTheGo, and Deni Wicklund, SULAIR Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
February 11	OpenSocial at Stanford - Integration and Mashups for Social Media - Bruce Vincent & Scotty Logan, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
February 18	Doing More with Stanford Email and Calendar - Jason Cowart, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
February 25	Intermediate Networking: Ethernet and IP - Drew Saunders, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
March 11	Google Analytics: How to get and retain the "right" users to your site? - Google Analytics Team: Yi Wang, Ph.D. (Product Manager) John Jersin (Product Manager) Kate Cushing (Associate Product Manager) Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
March 18	Open Source Tools in Higher Education - John Bickar (Stanford Libraries), Irina Zaks (Law Communications), Mark Branom Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
March 25	Stanford Managed Desktop Service: Windows and Mac OS X Provisioning, Monitoring and Configuration Management - Jay Stamps, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation

Fall 2010

September 10	Introduction to Networking - Drew Saunders, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
September 24	Stanford Web Forms Service - Marco Wise, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
October 8	Facebook @ Stanford - Mark Branom and Dave Ream, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
October 15	Qualtrics: Survey Software at Stanford - Austin Nilsson and Jeff Richins, Qualtrics Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
October 22	Adobe Creative Suite 5: Photoshop - Bryan O'Neil Hughes, Adobe Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
December 10	GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program): A Free Open-Source Alternative to Photoshop - Mark Branom, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation

Summer 2010

July 9	Drupal Workshop 6 - Installing Modules - Sharon Krossa, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
July 23	Open Source - OpenOffice.org - Mark Branom, University IT - John Bickar, Stanford Libraries Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
July 30	Converged Communications - Cisco VoIP - Ammy Hill, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
August 6	Protect Your Data and Protect Yourself - Ammy Hill, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation

Spring 2010

April 2	Why Use a Content Management System (CMS) - Mark Branom, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
April 9	Shopping with Stanford's SmartMart - Cheryl Penn, Purchasing and Contracts Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
April 23	New Features in Stanford Email and Calendar - Ammy Hill, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
April 30	Drupal Workshop: Menus, Blocks, and Books (oh my!) - Sharon Krossa, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
May 7	Google Search at Stanford - Brian Young, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
May 14	iStanford App Development - Tim Flood, Director of Student Affairs Information Systems - Aaron Wasserman, Director of Blackboard Mobile, and Stanford senior - Pablo Jablonski, Blackboard Engineer, and Stanford senior Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
June 4	Power Googling - Nancy Blachman and Tasha Bergson-Michelson, Google Guide Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
June 25	Multi-Media on the Stanford Web (Panel) - Mark Branom, University IT - Brent Izutsu, Project Manager, Stanford on iTunes U and YouTube - Kim Hayworth, Academic Technology Specialist - Don Davis, Stanford Video - Sean Keegan, AVP for Student Life - Forrest Glick, Director of Educational Technology - Andy Wasklewicz, Technology Architect Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation

Winter 2010

Jan 22	Drupal Workshop Part 3 - Sharon Krossa, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
Jan 29	Clearing Away the Clouds: Cloud Computing at Stanford - Phil Reese, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
Feb 5	Google Analytics - Beth Liebert, Google Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
Feb 12	Getting Started in Data Visualization using JMP - Melodie Rush, JMP Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
March 5	Securing Stanford Email - Ammy Hill, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
March 12	Drupal 7: What's New? - Matt Cheney, Chapter Three
March 19	Open Source: Revolutionize Your Research: Zotero and LibX - John Bickar, Technology Specialist, Cubberley Library - James Jacobs, Government Documents Librarian Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
March 26	Drupal Workshop: Introduction to Content Types, Fields (CCK), and Views - Sharon Krossa, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation

Fall 2009

Oct 2	Online Accessibility - Understanding the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2 - John Foliot, Stanford Online Accessibility Program Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation Presentation Slides (will open in a new window/tab)
Oct 9	Wireless Networking at Stanford - Kris Lao and Rosy Alvarez, Networking Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
Oct 23	Working Remotely: Lessons Learned from University IT's Pandemic Exercise - Matthew Ricks, University IT - Chris Lundin, University IT - Keith Perry, Environmental Health & Safety Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
Nov 6	Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Beyond - Bryan O'Neil Hughes, Adobe Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation
Dec 4	Drupal Workshop Part 2 - Sharon Krossa, University IT Watch the Streamed Video of the Presentation

Summer 2009

July 24

Home Networking
- Kent Reuber, University IT

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PDF of Presentation

July 31

Introducing Captioning at Stanford (captioning.stanford.edu)
- John Foliot, Stanford Online Accessibility Program
- Sean Keegan, Office of Accessible Education

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Aug 14

Google: Search Engine Optimization
- Stephan Spencer, NetConcepts

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PowerPoint Presentation

Supplementary Resources:
- http://www.netconcepts.com/learning-center/
- http://www.stephanspencer.com/category/search-engines/
- http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/

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