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Think Pinterest is only good for cupcake recipes and wedding inspiration? Think again. Pinterest is a powerful marketing tool for businesses of all stripes. In this course, Pinterest expert Cynthia Sanchez explains the basics of Pinterest and dispels the myths that are keeping some companies away from this powerful marketing platform. She explains how to lay the foundation for a great Pinterest presence, starting with research, a strategic approach, and a website prepped for successful pinning.

Cynthia also provides crucial details on expanding Pinterest reach, including understanding what to pin and how often, writing successful pin descriptions, engaging with influencers, creating boards, and participating in groups. Plus, discover how to use contests, messaging, and Rich Pins; start advertising with Promoted Pins; and measure the results of your Pinterest activities.

In PowerPoint 2010 Essential Training, author David Diskin demonstrates how to engage an audience with images, video, sound, charts, and diagrams in professional presentations. The course also covers a variety of methods to share presentations with others, and provides comprehensive tutorials on how to design presentations that successfully deliver a quality message. Exercise files accompany the course.

Explore the new features that will get video producers and editors excited about Premiere Pro CC 2017. Author Rich Harrington covers all the changes from the initial November 2016 release, updating the course whenever Adobe makes another change to the software. Learn how to use the new and improved interface and shortcut assignments, learn project management tricks for locking projects and creating sequence presets, and explore the myriad of changes to effects, including new title styles presets, audio effects, and Apple Metal and Lumetri effects, plus closed captioning improvements.

This course explores the features that will get video producers and editors excited about Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. Author Rich Harrington covers all the changes, ranging from the redesigned and customizable user interface, enhanced Mercury Playback Engine, and new footage logging in Prelude, to the new Audio Mixer, improved multi-camera editing, revised trimming behavior, and video adjustment layers.

Avid Pro Tools 11 has arrived. Join staff author David Franz, as he walks you through the most anticipated new features in this release. First, explore the performance enhancements that come with the new 64-bit audio engine and find out if your system is compatible with the upgrade. Then learn about offline bouncing, for faster than real-time bouncing. Plus, find out about the new key commands and other improvements that will make working with Pro Tools faster, fun, and more efficient.

You can create a prototype for a mobile CRM application using Framer. Learn how to create assets, build a mockup, simulate interactions with animations, prototype concepts, and more. Join Emmanuel Henri as he shows you how to model interface elements common to a customer relationship management tool, add navigation and views, animate functions, and finalize your prototype.

Note: Real-Time Web with Node.js was created by Frontend Masters. It was originally published on July 12, 2014. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Accelerate your development efforts by learning how to work with HTML5 APIs for real-time communications using Node.js. Join JavaScript expert Kyle Simpson in this course as he conducts a comprehensive Node.js workshop. Kyle introduces several APIs including Storage, Canvas, getUserMedia, and requestAnimationFrame, explaining the benefits and uses of each. Then, he demonstrates how developers can implement these solutions, showing how to use the command line to communicate with HTML5 in real-time through asynchronous code. He also covers file input and output, publishing modules, making socket connections, and more.

Twilight is a very popular and inexpensive third-party renderer for SketchUp. This course shows how to create highly realistic 3D architectural drawings (including interior/exterior elements) with the lights, materials, camera, and render options in Twilight. Author Brian Bradley explains the importance of reflectance in materials, and shows how to manage and save rendering presets, how to correct for perspective, tone, and exposure in the camera, and how to create a variety of material types. The final chapter covers rendering your complete arch-viz scene for a couple types of output, including animation and composites.

Steam has always been a major PC game distributor, and with SteamOS they're now entering the console market. SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen. Jonathan Sears shows what this new operating system has in store for game developers, including a look at the client, the community, and the store at its hub. He also covers Steamworks and the Steam API, and walks through the complete process of submitting a game to Steam and making your game marketable to Steam users—a uniquely social and vocal audience.

Live a life filled with less stress, greater well-being, and enhanced productivity by learning how to make transformational changes. Continue your Thrive journey and discover how to go from coping and surviving to actually thriving. In this course, Arianna Huffington and Joey Hubbard—the director of trainings at Thrive Global—discuss how well-being can contribute to your productivity and success at work.

Get the top 5 tips for selling a product or service to customers overseas. Find out how to research a new market and your options there (from licensing to full-scale distribution), and use the 4 Ps of marketing (product, price, place, and promotion) to create a great marketing mix.

Learn more about this topic in International Marketing Fundamentals.

Learn how to procedurally generate infinite 2D terrain—including biomes with Perlin noise, cities, and even interior structures—with Unity 5. Dan Violet Sagmiller shows how to generate terrain in real time, blend different terrain types, animate complex surfaces such as water, and use serialization techniques to load and save content quickly.

Learn how to troubleshoot Windows 7 environments. In this course, author Steve Fullmer shows you how to troubleshoot hardware and software performance issues, utilize Remote Desktop, review events, use the Problem Steps Recorder, and much more. This course is perfect for Windows administrators looking to elevate their skill set and perform more advanced Windows 7 management tasks.

In the Shooting with Wireless Flash series, award-winning photographer Jim Sugar demonstrates his approach to using off-camera flash in a variety of lighting scenarios, sharing practical tips along the way.

In this installment, Jim shows how to light and shoot a portrait with a dramatic look. He demonstrates a variety of inexpensive lighting tools—clamps, gels, and other light modifiers—to light the subject and the background. He also shows how to offer direction, pose the subject, and make him or her feel more comfortable. The course wraps up with tips on distinct ways to effectively light and separate the subject from the background, using gels, adjusting lights, and modifying the ratios between multiple strobes and the ambient light in the room.

All great WordPress sites start with a great theme. Twenty Fourteen is the default: a new, magazine-style theme with a heavy focus on images and content. In this quick course, Morten-Rand Hendriksen walks through the setup and configuration of Twenty Fourteen, and then helps you get the most out of advanced options such as the featured content grid or slider, custom menus and sidebars, and featured images.

Discover how to manage data entry and reporting tasks more efficiently using Access 2010. Author Adam Wilbert presents lessons on designing forms, organizing and displaying data with form controls, creating flexible queries, and building a form-based navigation system. The course also shows how to build reports from wizards and queries, highlight important data with conditional formatting, and automate reporting processes with macros.

Press releases don't have to appeal just to your readers; they also need to attract the attention of search engines like Google and Bing. Marketing expert Lorrie Thomas shares the top 5 tips for writing search-friendly press releases.

Are you looking to add something extra to your Animate CC projects? After Effects offers camera motion; special effects such as fractal fog, motion blur, and glow; and 3D environments that you can't achieve in vector-based programs like Animate alone. This course reviews the Animate to After Effects compositing pipeline, starting with importing Animate scenes into layered AE compositions. Instructor Dermot O' Connor shows how to control the individual layers and add filters and effects to achieve just the look you want. He covers lighting and tone adjustments as well as atmospheric effects, distortion, and camera animation. Then he shows how to quickly assemble a 3D environment and import your Animate characters into the scene. Finally, Dermot explains how to render your composition and collect the final assets for archival and sharing.

As a business analyst (BA) or product owner (PO) on an agile team, you're tasked with analyzing backlog items, customer experience, and other business processes to ensure that your team remains in tune with the overall project vision—and delivers products that customers adore. This series provides weekly tips that can help you grasp how to best apply agile and collaborate with your team. Instructor Angela Wick goes over different models of how BAs and POs can work together to tackle agile analysis roles and tasks. She also shares strategies that can help you create a healthy and prioritized backlog, bring great testing practices to agile projects, and more.

Agile isn't just for software. It can also be applied in the creation of manufactured physical objects. Manufacturers who bring new products to market are under unique pressures. They must consider the time to market, health and safety, and the cost of materials—all while trying to deliver great products under tight deadlines. In this course, learn how to streamline your project pipeline by leveraging the agile project management methodology within the context of new product development. Discover where agile works best, how to prepare your team and organization to apply agile methods, and how to expand the use of agile for new product development. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll have a foundational understanding of how to use the agile methodology to quickly deliver high-quality results.

Become a Bluebeam pro. Bluebeam is a robust suite of software for working with PDF documents in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries. These tips and tricks can help you use Bluebeam more effectively and become an expert at managing your projects in a paperless environment. Industry expert Jim Rogers offers an ever-growing list of tips and tricks that will help you speed up your workflow and use new features like dynamic properties.

Authentication and authorization are core features of many modern apps. So why reinvent the wheel, forcing your users to create yet another login? Leveraging credentials from trusted platforms like Facebook and Google, you can save yourself precious development time and improve the user experience. This course shows how to authenticate and authorize users of your ASP.NET MVC 5 applications using .NET methods as well as third-party frameworks. Instructor Ervis Trupja discusses the options for identity management in ASP.NET MVC 5, showing how to implement third-party authentication in your app with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, and GitHub. He shows how to set up email confirmation and two-step authentication and control levels of authorization for users. Finally, he discusses how to secure ASP.NET apps against the seven most common vulnerabilities.

ASP.NET MVC provides great features and functionality out of the box, but there's more you can do to optimize your code. Learn how to build applications for long-term productivity and maintainability by streamlining your views, controllers, and models, in this deep dive course from Jess Chadwick. Discover how to separate application and business logic, reuse and simplify views, manage dependencies, reduce markup with HTML helpers, and apply patterns to increase productivity and simplify controller logic. Plus, learn how to take advantage of feature folders, which groups all necessary controllers, views, and models for a feature within a single folder, reducing navigation and search time and enabling feature scaling and code reuse.

Autodesk Civil 3D software is a design and documentation solution for civil engineering that supports building information modeling (BIM) workflows. By learning to use Autodesk Civil 3D, you can improve project performance, maintain consistent data, follow standard processes, and respond faster to change.

This course gets you up and running with Autodesk Civil 3D. First, instructor Josh Modglin shows how to model a surface, lay out parcels, and design geometry, including the making of horizontal alignments and vertical profiles. Next, Josh demonstrates how to create corridors, cross-sections, pipe networks, and pressure networks. Then, he covers working with feature lines and grading objects, and how to share your data. He wraps up by providing an overview of plan production tools.

Regulations like GDPR have made security a top priority for every organization. Luckily, Amazon Web Services offers a plethora of tools for securing cloud-based architecture. This course teaches IT pros how to use AWS advanced security services, techniques, and tools to protect their users, data, apps, and infrastructure. Instructor Lynn Langit begins with the core tasks and services: setting up the AWS root account, billing, and tagging. She then shows how to set up strong authentication with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Config, Simple AD, and full-fledged Active Directory. She covers infrastructure protection with VPC objects such as subnets, and data protection with KMS and Macie. Finally, she reviews security requirements for different application architectures and the associated AWS security solutions.

Note: This course can also be used to prepare for the corresponding domain of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional) exam.