Designing with Canva for Your Genealogy, Society, or Business

Lecture Description

Canva is a freemium model cloud-based graphic design app that allows even the most design-challenged genealogist to create attractive professional digital and print products.

I use it frequently to create:

• Social media and website graphics for my professional and personal blogs
• Social media graphics to share my family history stories (Veterans Day, Fathers Day, Mothers Day, etc.)
• Infographics for my professional blog and my teaching materials
• Postcards, flyers, and bookmarks to promote my work and society, and for family reunions and celebrations

We will walk through navigating around the browser interface and features, review the various design libraries, and demonstrate some of my regular design use cases. You will learn the differences between free personal Canva, premium Canva Pro, and Canva’s Nonprofits program. I will also discuss how I manage my brand kits and branded templates, which I share with my work teams.

Lecture Summary

• Length: 60 minutes, including Q&A
• Audience: Genealogists and family historians, educators, and students

Related Lectures

You might also want to consider booking my other Technology & Social Media lectures.

• Branding and Customizing PowerPoint Templates for Your Genealogy Business or Society (available February 2020)
• Cloud Computing for Genealogy: Applications, Strategies, and Workflows
• Creating Accessible Digital Content for Your Genealogy Storytelling, Society, or Business
• Designing with Canva for Your Genealogy, Society, or Business
  (available March 2020)
• Evernote for Genealogy Research
• Facebook for Genealogy
• An Overview of Cloud Computing for Genealogy
• Using Snagit for Genealogy Visual Storytelling & Instruction
  (available March 2020)
• Using Zotero to Organize Your Genealogy Research or Teaching Materials