Tech Briefings

Timely Info for Power Users and Stanford's Technology Community

Overview

Tech Briefings are free, informal, and interactive seminars on computer-related topics of interest to the Stanford community, which are held every Friday from 2:00 to 3:30 PM, and require no registration. 

Sessions are led by knowledgeable IT Services staff or other IT professionals.

All Tech Briefing sessions are held in Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall, Room 111).

Have an idea for a Tech Briefing? Click here to let us know. 

Questions? Comments? 
Contact the Tech Briefing coordinator at techbriefings-owner@lists.stanford.edu.

Upcoming Tech Briefings 

May 10	Stanford Box for Groups
May 17	Adobe CS6: Photoshop / InDesign / Illustrator, and Creative Cloud
May 24	No Tech Briefing due to Memorial Day Weekend
May 31	International Travel Data Security
June 7	Stanford Online
June 14	FileMaker Pro

Date	Topic	Presenter(s)
May 10	Stanford Box for Groups Presentation (PPT) Have you tried Stanford's Box service yet? It may be just the solution for your department's documents. Learn how to create folders for your group using Workgroup Manager and Box and how using Box may just solve other problems for you - like having too many big attachments filling up your inbox! This Tech Briefing will cover the basics of using Box, plus how to create a workgroup and integrated that workgroup with Box to allow files to be owned by the group rather than individuals who may come and go.	Ammy Woodbury, IT Services
May 17	Adobe CS6: Photoshop / InDesign / Illustrator, and Creative Cloud Adobe’s Rick Miller will demonstrate features of Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator in Adobe's Creative Suite 6. He will also talk about Adobe's new Creative Cloud feature. Creative Cloud allows you to work fluidly and productively with some of the hundreds of new timesaving features and enhancements to Adobe's industry-leading tools for digital imaging, publication design, and tablet publication.	Rick Miller, Adobe
May 24	No Tech Briefing due to Memorial Day Weekend
May 31	International Travel Data Security What would happen if you left your iPhone in a taxi in London? What do you need to do to prepare to travel to China? Is it safe to use wi-fi while traveling? This Tech Briefing will cover the basics of international travel data security for high risk and lower risk countries. Learn what tools are available to you to travel safely and how to prepare your computer and mobile phone for travel. We'll also have one of the new Travel iPad Kits available to show off and information about how to get one for upcoming travel.	Ammy Woodbury, IT Services Mark Mellis, Information Security Office
June 7	Stanford Online	Amy Collier, VPOL
June 14	FileMaker Pro	Phil Smith, FileMaker Pro

Previous Quarters of Tech Briefings

Did you miss a Tech Briefing? Visit the Tech Briefing archive to download presentation information where available, or view our video archive of select Tech Briefings.

Subscribe to the Tech Briefings Mailing List

To subscribe to the Tech Briefings Mailing List, either:

• Visit https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/techbriefings and enter your email address in the Subscribing to techbriefings section
• Or, send email to techbriefings-join@lists.stanford.edu

Subscribe via the RSS / iCal Feed

Tech Briefing announcements are available as both an RSS feed and an iCal feed via events.stanford.edu

RSS: http://events.stanford.edu/xml/byOrganization/144/rss.xml
iCal: http://events-prod.stanford.edu/byOrganization/144/eventlist.ics

To add the events in Zimbra:
1) In Calendar, click Create a new calendar.
2) Give the new calendar a name (e.g., Tech Briefings).
3) Choose the color you want the calendar to use.
4) Check the box "Exclude this calendar when reporting free/busy times"
5) Check the box "Synchronize appointments from remote calendar", and in the URL field, enter http://events-prod.stanford.edu/byOrganization/144/eventlist.ics
6) Click OK.

Tips for Presenters

So, you're going to give a presentation at an upcoming Tech Briefing. Find out what services we provide and what's expected of you. Refer to this PowerPoint document Tips for Presenters for guidelines on preparing for your presentation. You will find templates, as well as other useful information regarding timelines, marketing, and resources.