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Held every Friday, Tech Briefings are free informal, interactive seminars on computer-related topics of interest to the Stanford community. No registration is required. 

Sessions are led by knowledgeable IT Services staff or other IT professionals, and run from 2:00 to 3:30 P.M.

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

FarmShare - Shared Computing Environment
HTML Newsletters
What's New in Zimbra 7 
Feb 10 SmartMart and HP
Feb 17 Mobile Data Visualization at Stanford using Roambi
Feb 24 Confluence Basics
Mar 02 Video Conferencing at Stanford
Mar 09 WebEx at Stanford
Mar 16 Stanford Web Services
Mar 23 Apple Presents
Mar 30 TBD
Apr 06 OS Build Systems
Date Topic Presenter(s)
Jan 20

FarmShare - Shared Computing Environment 

FarmShare is Stanford's free shared research computing environment, which will be available to the Stanford Community on January 20.

In this session, learn how to get started with FarmShare (formerly known as "timeshares"), see examples of the format, and learn of FarmShare features, including how it:

- Supports different types of computing tasks
- Maintains locally installed software on each machine
- Provides a selection of software, including popular licensed applications
- Supports long-running, multi-day jobs, as well as parallel processing (via MPI or OpenMP).
- Includes a Queuing system (Grid Engine) 

More information at http://farmshare.stanford.edu

 - Jason Bishop & Alex Chekholko, IT Services
Jan 27

HTML Newsletters

These days, email isn't just plain text anymore. In this session, learn the basics of creating email newsletters with colors, fonts, and graphics, laid out into columns and sections.

We'll cover the tools and steps you need to take to create beautiful, professional emails, as well as some of the problems you might encounter (and how to fix them!).

Mark Branom, IT Services
Feb 3

What's New in Zimbra 7

This Briefing will cover some of the new and updated features in Stanford's Email and Calendar system, coming with the Zimbra 7 upgrade in February. Some of these features include:

- Stanford Modern look and feel
- Schedule a time to send messages
- The ability to recover deleted items
- New Create Appointments tab in calendar
- Revised Appointment Details page
- Email reminders for appointments
- And many more!

Jo-Ann Cuevas-Pagliaro, IT Services
Feb 10 SmartMart and HP  
Feb 17 Mobile Data Visualization at Stanford using Roambi


Let’s talk about using exciting mobile data visualization tools at Stanford!

Sri Vemparala and Tim Flood will introduce you to Roambi Analytics and Roambi Flow, two mobile apps that bring together mobile technology, business intelligence, and digital publishing.

This articulates a vision for education of the future, with a demonstration on how these tools can benefit recruitment, administration, research and instruction with the relevance that only mobile technology can deliver, and tell you how you can get involved.

Tim Flood, Senior Technology Consult

Sri Vemparala, Technical Manager, Administrative Systems
Feb 24

Confluence Basics

Confluence is a wiki that allows teams to collaborate and capture knowledge. It allows users to create, share, and discuss ideas, meeting minutes, mockups, diagrams, task lists, and other documents. 

This session will go over the basics of using Confluence and will provide information about how to request your own Confluence space for your team, department, or project.

 Kiran Joshi, Assistant Project Controller, Administrative Systems
Mar 2

Video Conferencing at Stanford 

 Michelle Collette, IT Services
Mar 9

WebEx at Stanford

 Jo-Ann Cuevas-Pagliaro, IT Services
Mar 16

Stanford Web Services

 Sara Worrell-Berg, Stanford Web Services
Mar 23

Apple Presents

 
Mar 30

TBD

 
Apr 6 OS Build Systems  

Previous Quarters of Tech Briefings

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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.

Last modified Fri, 27 Jan, 2012 at 9:39