Mindgrub's consultants are available for speaking opportunities as well custom application development. We have spoken at National and International conferences including the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB Show), Governement Video Show, SALT, several regional social media conferences, and have appeared on national radio programs such as NPR. The following is the list of our 2010 speaking topics. Contact us for more information.
Social Media: Technology to Reach New Audiences
Social Media Marketing in 3 steps
Want to save your company thousands of dollars in marketing costs and reach a wider audience? You need to use social media marketing. Find out how in 3 easy steps.
Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter API Integration
Learn how to integrate with the most populate social media sites through the use of their Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and RSS feeds.
Create a Facebook App 101
Learn how to create an application for Facebook in this introductory session. Create your first application, integrate with Facebook's API and publish it to your Facebook page.
Hyper-Local Media
CNN might have been the first news company to empower the viewer as the reporter with iReporter, but they are not the last. Having viewer correspondents and recording, distributing and viewing hyper-local media is the next big wave. Find out where it is going.
Social Media on Your Smart Phone
In this past year social media on your smart phone has taken off. It has grown up for location based services and getting restaurant and retail information. Mobile devices have become the de facto norm for viewing the latest in social ongoing and online media and now augmented reality is getting into the game. Learn the latest trends in social media on your smart phone and see where it is going next.
Mobile Application & Marketing Production
iPhone Application Development 101
Want to build your own iPhone application but don't know where to start? Come listen to leading iPhone application consultancy, Mindgrub, tell you everything you need to know. With over a dozen applications to market and in development, from simple RSS readers to complicated location based services and augmented reality frameworks, Mindgrub can get you up to speed, fast.
Augmented Reality on your Smartphone
AR has been around for decades but never in the palm of your hand. Augmented Reality games and information distribution for urban centers is exploding in 2010. Learn how to utilize this new medium for marketing, gaming and news distribution and see what it takes to build a mobile app.
Leveraging QR Codes for Mobile Advertising
The next big thing in mobile advertising is through the use of QRCodes. Automatically subscribe users to your newsletter or send them coupons with the quick scan of their mobile device. Learn how to advertise with QRCodes in your retail store and draw more customers.
How to Advertise with Location Based Services
Learn how to deliver your store's hours, coupons or specials to users as they pass by your storefront. Learn how to engage tourists in all your city has to offer. Capture new customers where you didn't think an audience existed. With over 3 billion people worldwide using mobile devices its clear location based services marketing and advertising is the next hottest trend.
Social Media on Your Smart Phone
In this past year social media on your smart phone has taken off. It has grown up for location based services and getting restaurant and retail information. Mobile devices have become the de facto norm for viewing the latest in social ongoing and online media and now augmented reality is getting into the game. Learn the latest trends in social media on your smart phone and see where it is going next.
Emerging Technologies
Emerging Web3.0 Technologies You Need To Know
This annual session is back with a refreshed look at the latest and greatest web 3.0 technologies. Learn about social media from discussion boards to micro-blogging and the hottest trends and applications in social media and location based services.
Micro-Blog Publications
This session will look at the new micro-blog tools such as Twitter, Pownce and Jaiku. We will examine how to utilize micro-blogging to effectively get your message across. Learn the latest in social media marketing and how to broadcast your message automatically from your content management system to the websites in the social cloud.
Real-Time Search
Tired of having to search for information? The next paradigm shift is letting it come to you. Learn how to use real-time searches for hot topics using applications such as Tweet deck and Google Trends. Learn how to evaluate the popularity of hot topics and determine if they should be your next meta-keywords or potentially, business venture.
Google Wave
Learn how to utilize combined communication platforms such as Google Wave and Cisco to bring your email, wikis, blog comments, multi-media and chat into one location. Learn to streamline corporate and project communication and how to setup these systems at your office.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 101
Learn the insider tips for good search engine optimization. Learn what content improvements are best, what HTML markup to use, how to do keyword analysis and the best places to blog and post. Learn to implement the entire gamut of SEO tricks and tools possible, to bring your site to the top of the search results lists.
Embrace the Widget
Stop writing so much code from scratch or don't even start. The web is chalk full of reusable widgets that you can embed directly on your website. Learn about RSS feeds for content distribution and widget WYSIWYG creation applications. Learn about first hand widget campaigns that have spread information internationally and through viral means.
Podcasting 101: Record, Distribute and Subscribe
This session will demonstrate how to podcast from recording and encoding audio and video to distribution. We will example how to produce and subscribe to real simple syndication (RSS) feeds and use popular RSS readers such as the Adobe Media Player.
Flash CS4
Actionscript 3.0 Interactive Media Development 101
Learn how to write solid Actionscript 3.0 and integrate with Adobes Interactive Media Server to produce e-cards, rich gaming and interactive music performance websites.
Flash for Blackberry, Android (and iPhone)
iPhone has long shunned having the flash player on their phones. Some companies have made emulators but the apps are getting rejected from the store. Blackberry and Android however are embracing the use of the Flash Platform and you should too. Come find out how to make Flash CS4 applications for Blackberry and Android.
Make Great Flash Widgets
Learn how to write Flash widgets from scratch using Adobe CS4. Learn to use tools such as Gigya and Sharethis to make your widget go viral. Learn about RSS feeds for content distribution and widget WYSIWYG creation applications to push content directly from your database.
What's New with Flash CS4
Learn the newest features of Flash including the new animation engine, motion presets, new drawing tools and 3D. Learn to use the Inverse Kinematics (IK) tools and the latest updates to the Actionscript programming language.
Widget configuration with Dreamweaver CS4 (75min)
Learn to implement widgets on your website with Dreamweaver CS4. Stop writing so much custom code and embrace prebuilt widgets. Learn to implement popular social sharing widgets Gigya and Sharethis and learn how you can make your blog or HTML content go viral.
Adobe Flash & Device Central CS4
Learn how to make mobile Flash applications utilizing Adobe's device central. Learn how to research device settings and which version of the Flash platform that device will work with. Learn to use templates and publish mobile flash content using Flash CS4.
Flash Video 101
This session will cover the gamut of Flash Video production from producing custom video players to the differences between flv and f4v. We will discuss interactive video production using Adobe's Interactive Server. We will look at the suite of Adobe server products including the Interactive Media Server, the Rights Management Server, the Streaming Server and the Encoding Server. We will discuss the latest in Flash Video compression, mobile video, live streaming, closed captioning, distribution and much more.
How to Produce e-Card Video
The latest trend in e-Cards is the ability to "elf" yourself, become a team's quarterback or take part in a political campaign. Learn how to super-impose pictures of people onto funny video sketches real-time using Adobe's Interactive media server. Learn what it takes to make the next online viral video website.
Digital Video Production
3 Ingredients to Make Your Video Go Viral
Ever wonder what it takes to make your video get 10,000, 100,000, 1 million views online? In this session we will analyze the key ingredients to making a video reach a large online audience. We will discuss how to produce, package and distribute video for online mass appeal and how to leverage the social cloud for marketing and business use.
Mobile Video
Learn to produce video specifically for mobile distribution. Learn what players and video formats work with specific smart phones. Learn about mobile video distribution and advanced topics such as video for mobile augmented reality games.
Flash Video 101
This session will cover the gamut of Flash Video production from producing custom video players to the differences between flv and f4v. We will discuss interactive video production using Adobe's Interactive Server. We will look at the suite of Adobe server products including the Interactive Media Server, the Rights Management Server, the Streaming Server and the Encoding Server. We will discuss the latest in Flash Video compression, mobile video, live streaming, closed captioning, distribution and much more.
How to Produce e-Card Video
The latest trend in e-Cards is the ability to "elf" yourself, become a team's quarterback or take part in a political campaign. Learn how to super-impose pictures of people onto funny video sketches real-time using Adobe's Interactive media server. Learn what it takes to make the next online viral video website.
