From djac at stanford.edu Fri Sep 9 08:55:58 2011 From: djac at stanford.edu (Technology Training) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 08:55:58 -0700 Subject: [opensource] Today's FREE Tech Briefing - Google Analytics: Search, Social, and Conversion Optimization Message-ID: Trouble viewing? Open in web browser. Tech Briefings are informal, interactive seminars on computer-related topics of interest to the Stanford Community. This is your opportunity to get technology updates from and ask questions of subject-matter experts. See the latest schedule at techbriefing.stanford.edu. This week's free Tech Briefing: Google Analytics: Search, Social, and Conversion Optimization TODAY -- 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. LOCATION: Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall, Room 111 PRESENTER: Phil Mui, Ph.D, Group Product Manager for Google Analytics This talk will discuss hidden gems of analytical techniques for optimizing your search, social, and online campaigns with a goal toward maximizing some objective function: such as engagement, conversion, or other goals. Learn from Google Analytics, and other popular and free tools such as Insights for Search, Keyword Tools, etc. Next Tech Briefing: UNIX at Stanford Friday, September 16, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Miss a Tech Briefing? Session Videos are now available! To see the latest filmed Tech Briefings, visit the Video Series site. To subscribe to the Tech Briefings RSS feed via Stanford Events, point your RSS reader/browser/catcher to: http://events.stanford.edu/xml/byOrganization/144/rss.xml . QUESTIONS? Call Technology Training at 723-4391 or send email to techtraining at stanford.edu . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From djac at stanford.edu Fri Sep 16 09:58:38 2011 From: djac at stanford.edu (Technology Training) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:58:38 -0700 Subject: [opensource] Today's FREE Tech Briefing - UNIX at Stanford Message-ID: Trouble viewing? Open in web browser. Tech Briefings are informal, interactive seminars on computer-related topics of interest to the Stanford Community. This is your opportunity to get technology updates from and ask questions of subject-matter experts. See the latest schedule at techbriefing.stanford.edu. This week's free Tech Briefing: UNIX at Stanford TODAY -- 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. LOCATION: Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall, Room 111 PRESENTERS: Mark Branom, with Adam Seishas, IT Services UNIX is the command line operating system that governs the main Stanford file system infrastructure, including all of the content found on the main Stanford web pages. Understanding how UNIX works makes it easier to manage, create content, and manipulate files on the Stanford servers. In this session, learn basic UNIX commands, file structure and management, as well as some of the most useful and popular tools like: - File structure/management (mkdir, cd, rm, mv) - Editors (EMACS and Pico) - Setting your .login and .project files - Creating aliases - Email (Pine, elm, mail, mh) - Newsreaders (slrn) - Finding people (finger) - Finding machines (ping, traceroute) - Granting access (pts) Come with questions, and we'll do our best to answer them! Next Tech Briefing: Multitasking: How it is changing the way children and adults think and feel Friday, September 23, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. For those who missed Prof. Cliff Nass' presentation at last spring's IT Open House, we'll show the video of his talk on his team's highly cited research on electronic multi-tasking. After the video, Dr. Danielle Lottridge, Prof. Nass' Post Doctoral Assistant on the project, will fill us in on the research completed since the spring and answer questions about the video and about current and future research efforts. Miss a Tech Briefing? Session Videos are now available! To see the latest filmed Tech Briefings, visit the Video Series site. To subscribe to the Tech Briefings RSS feed via Stanford Events, point your RSS reader/browser/catcher to: http://events.stanford.edu/xml/byOrganization/144/rss.xml . QUESTIONS? Call Technology Training at 723-4391 or send email to techtraining at stanford.edu . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: