So often in digital projects, we push content to the bottom of the pile, or the end of the timeline. As we evolve our strategies, we’re learning that content really needs to come first. Ahava will show you how to avoid this problem and plan your content for success. Using case studies from a major university, a children’s hospital and a major publishing company, you will learn how to set up your digital projects, so that content is a major consideration and doesn’t destroy your project at the last minute.
Managing your Content Projects with Success and PanacheAhava Leibtag
Learn to manage your content projects by treating content like a product, separating content and design meetings, and using simple project management tools and techniques.
Content audits can be mind-numbingly boring and time consuming. They require an incredible amount of patience and curiosity. But, they are an absolute necessity for all businesses, as they manage their digital content assets.
Learn how to:
Distinguish between different types of content audits
Decide what type of content audit you need
Perform a gap analysis
Use the information you glean from content audits
Get creative when you encounter a wall
We will use three case studies—a major university, a healthcare client and a major publishing company—to illustrate how to make sense of content audits. Focus will be on understanding content requirements, how to present data to the C-suite and how to use all the information you learn from a content audit without losing your mind.
The Business of Agile - Better Faster CheaperRyan Ripley
During my last agile transformation a key stakeholder asked me, “Why are we doing this?” I talked about increasing quality, delivering software sooner, and fostering a more collaborative relationship with our business partners. After a few minutes, he raised his hand and stopped me.
“I get all that. BUT how is all of this agile stuff any better, faster, or cheaper than what we do today?”
Leaders must answer the “better, faster, cheaper” question if they want their agile transformation and projects to move forward.
To prepare leaders for this critical question, we explore how “better, faster, cheaper” translates to an agile organization, the metrics a leader can use to track progress towards “better, faster, and cheaper”, and how leaders can demonstrate the benefits gained from their agile activities.
Leadership at Every Level: Practices for Aligned AutonomyMatthew Philip
[Slides from track talk at Lean Agile US 2019]
What does it mean to have leadership at every level of an organization? How do you create aligned autonomy in your team or organization? This talk connects the philosophy of intent-based leadership with practices that enable you to realize the benefits of aligned autonomy, regardless of where your name is in your org chart. By discovering virtual safety nets and vision balloons, you’ll learn how to pragmatically establish safety and alignment of purpose, two of the core traits of high-performing teams.
http://www.leanagileus.com/ #leanagileus19
Slides as presented at the 2019 Prairie DevCon Deliver Conference. http://www.prdcdeliver.com/
Leadership at Every Level: Practices for Aligned Autonomy
What does it mean to have leadership at every level of an organization? How do you create aligned autonomy in your team or organization? This talk connects the philosophy of intent-based leadership with practices that enable you to realize the benefits of aligned autonomy, regardless of where your name is in your org chart. By discovering virtual safety nets and vision balloons, you’ll learn how to pragmatically establish psychological safety and alignment of purpose, two of the core traits of high-performing teams.
Managing your Content Projects with Success and PanacheAhava Leibtag
Learn to manage your content projects by treating content like a product, separating content and design meetings, and using simple project management tools and techniques.
Content audits can be mind-numbingly boring and time consuming. They require an incredible amount of patience and curiosity. But, they are an absolute necessity for all businesses, as they manage their digital content assets.
Learn how to:
Distinguish between different types of content audits
Decide what type of content audit you need
Perform a gap analysis
Use the information you glean from content audits
Get creative when you encounter a wall
We will use three case studies—a major university, a healthcare client and a major publishing company—to illustrate how to make sense of content audits. Focus will be on understanding content requirements, how to present data to the C-suite and how to use all the information you learn from a content audit without losing your mind.
The Business of Agile - Better Faster CheaperRyan Ripley
During my last agile transformation a key stakeholder asked me, “Why are we doing this?” I talked about increasing quality, delivering software sooner, and fostering a more collaborative relationship with our business partners. After a few minutes, he raised his hand and stopped me.
“I get all that. BUT how is all of this agile stuff any better, faster, or cheaper than what we do today?”
Leaders must answer the “better, faster, cheaper” question if they want their agile transformation and projects to move forward.
To prepare leaders for this critical question, we explore how “better, faster, cheaper” translates to an agile organization, the metrics a leader can use to track progress towards “better, faster, and cheaper”, and how leaders can demonstrate the benefits gained from their agile activities.
Leadership at Every Level: Practices for Aligned AutonomyMatthew Philip
[Slides from track talk at Lean Agile US 2019]
What does it mean to have leadership at every level of an organization? How do you create aligned autonomy in your team or organization? This talk connects the philosophy of intent-based leadership with practices that enable you to realize the benefits of aligned autonomy, regardless of where your name is in your org chart. By discovering virtual safety nets and vision balloons, you’ll learn how to pragmatically establish safety and alignment of purpose, two of the core traits of high-performing teams.
http://www.leanagileus.com/ #leanagileus19
Slides as presented at the 2019 Prairie DevCon Deliver Conference. http://www.prdcdeliver.com/
Leadership at Every Level: Practices for Aligned Autonomy
What does it mean to have leadership at every level of an organization? How do you create aligned autonomy in your team or organization? This talk connects the philosophy of intent-based leadership with practices that enable you to realize the benefits of aligned autonomy, regardless of where your name is in your org chart. By discovering virtual safety nets and vision balloons, you’ll learn how to pragmatically establish psychological safety and alignment of purpose, two of the core traits of high-performing teams.
Crowdsourcing your documentation: Managing a crowdsourced documentation projectSusan Griffin
Crowdsourcing is defined as “the act of taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call” (source: "The Rise of Crowdsourcing," June 2006, Wired magazine). If you look online, you’ll find many examples of this concept at work in forums and websites designed expressly for the purpose of shared content creation: Wikipedia, IMDB (internet movie database), and reddit, just to name a few.
What I am talking about here, crowdsourcing a documentation project, is a little bit different. It is document creation that is outsourced to a group of internal users, and project managed by someone with a writing/information architecture background. I would describe this as more of a “controlled crowdsourcing” scenario, with a smaller group of contributors, and contained within a single organization. If you haven’t experienced this yet, chances are that you will, and soon. With more companies needing the writing staff they have to “work smarter and more creatively,” I would argue that this is something we all need to adapt to as professional content creators.
Bringing Execs to the Collaboration Table with Impact MappingEm Campbell-Pretty
Presentation to 10Stories Meetup in Melbourne on 22nd May 2014.
When scaling agile within the enterprise, managing the competing priorities of senior stakeholders is often a challenge. Each stakeholder has their own agenda and determining the right thing for the organisation can be near impossible.
The thought of using many of our classic “agile facilitation techniques” with a room full of executives is enough to send many running for the hills. But the reality is, in the enterprise we need tools that inspire a collaborative mindset at all levels - it’s just not enough for the “teams to work differently”
Impact Mapping is a facilitation technique that brings technologists and senior stakeholders together to meaningfully to explore options. It exposes assumptions and helps shape a path from "We want everything" to "We want to to make these impacts in this order" avoiding the trap of "solutions looking for problems”. Impact Maps visualise “delivery scope in a way that is easy to evolve, reprioritise, grow and shrink as necessary to react to changed market opportunities or new knowledge.” (Gojko Adzic)
In particular, it engages the real decision makers in a collaborative style in short workshops that shape the path, providing the direction and validation required to then transition into the more low-level story based inception work.
In this session Em Campbell-Pretty and Mark Richards from Context Matters will provide an overview of how to create an Impact Map, share some real world examples of how impact mapping has helped support the delivery of software products and provide an opportunity for the audience to start using the tool!
The realities of working in an enterprise (distributed teams, multiple stakeholders, etc) present a series of challenges when trying to plan and scale agile development. Learn how Rosetta Stone knit together a dozen existing JIRA Agile boards into a coherent program-level view of their Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) release train using JIRA Portfolio – without sacrificing team autonomy.
Managing Resistance: How the Kanban Method Supports Lasting ChangeJulie Wyman
“Going Agile” is a big cultural change for most organizations and it’s significance, impact, and effort required for successful implementation can often be underestimated. There are many benefits to be gained by adopting a more Agile approach, including quicker and additional feedback loops, more focus on value, and higher levels of collaboration. However, for Agile to succeed in the long-term it’s essential to set expectations up front and to balance the amount of change with the amount of disruption it will cause. In this session, we will look at how David Anderson intentionally built change management principles into his Kanban Methodology and explore other change management techniques the Agile community can leverage when helping organizations transition to Agile.
Agile Project Management with Kanban (4 Nov 2015)Mai Quay
Agile Project Management with Lean & Kanban, given at Lean Kanban Singapore on 3 November 2015 and the Institute of Systems Science of the National University of Singapore on 4 November 2015
Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL https://bit.ly/2Ffp4js.
Holly Allen talks about the bumps and scrapes, triumphs and pitfalls of Slack’s journey from a centralized ops team to development teams that own the full lifecycle of their systems. Filmed at qconsf.com.
Holly Allen is a leader in Service Engineering at Slack, with SRE, Safety Engineering, and Storage in her portfolio. She is tireless in her efforts to make Slack the software reliable and scalable, and Slack the company a delightful place to work. Prior to Slack, she worked at startups, DreamWorks Animation, and was Director of Engineering at 18F, a civic tech startup in the US government.
Advanced Scrum: Answering the Difficult QuestionsRyan Ripley
Advanced Scrum was presented at the Path to Agility Conference 2017 and was centered around the audiences questions and concerns about their Scrum practices and implementations.
Ever Thought about a Webinar as a Way to Fill Your Sales Funnel?DOYO Live
Webinars are a way of generating high quality cost effective leads that can fill your sales funnel for not only a quarter but an entire year. In this presentation we will provide an overview on how to: Find a compelling topic, presentation tips and tricks and most important coordinating follow up. We will have a webinar coming soon on this topic that you can participate live!
Our Journey to Agile in the Microsoft Developer DivisionTechWell
This is the story about the Microsoft Developer Division and their two-year journey to agile—from shipping every three years to shipping every three weeks. In the old days, long stabilization phases were part of its DNA. Managers were rewarded for micromanagement. Commitments were made months in advance. Maintaining the appearance of meeting commitments was valued over transparency. Gregg Boer shares how this organization within Microsoft transitioned to one that values agile principles—controlling technical debt, enabling teams, eliminating bogus commitments, and rewarding transparency. When applying agile to such a large, traditional organization, the key to success is allowing autonomy at the team level, while ensuring alignment with the organization. Gregg shares successes as well as colossal failures. Learn how management sets direction while teams own their own backlog, how communication up and down can be transparent and healthy, and other lessons on their journey to agile.
Most of the times I have seen the teams spending immense amount of time in mastering the mechanics than the intent.
Key to successful agile adoption is to have the agile as a team culture than just doing it
A short, 1-hour, introduction to the theory of Kanban. I cover the following points:
• Quick history of Kanban
• 2 meanings of Kanban
• Kanban principles
• Kanban practices
• Example Kanban boards
Lars Hyland – What's stopping performance support?Epic
Lars Hyland presented at the eLearning Network's Christmas event on 5th December on the topic 'What's stopping performance support?'. Lars looked at the main barriers to performance support, along with potential future developments in learning technologies and how these may come in useful for performance support.
Content Assessment Hero League presented at LavaCon 2013Jennifer DeAngelo
Case Study: Content Assessment Hero League presented at LavaCon 2013 by Jennifer DeAngelo from Experis GCS. The Content Assessment Hero League fought the evil of increasing costs of content authoring and localization by using the super powers of strategy, reuse, and automation technology. We’ll take a look behind the masks at our heroes’ identities (Experis and Acrolinx), and how they prepared for their fight with the right tools (strategy, process, and software) – and won.
Crowdsourcing your documentation: Managing a crowdsourced documentation projectSusan Griffin
Crowdsourcing is defined as “the act of taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call” (source: "The Rise of Crowdsourcing," June 2006, Wired magazine). If you look online, you’ll find many examples of this concept at work in forums and websites designed expressly for the purpose of shared content creation: Wikipedia, IMDB (internet movie database), and reddit, just to name a few.
What I am talking about here, crowdsourcing a documentation project, is a little bit different. It is document creation that is outsourced to a group of internal users, and project managed by someone with a writing/information architecture background. I would describe this as more of a “controlled crowdsourcing” scenario, with a smaller group of contributors, and contained within a single organization. If you haven’t experienced this yet, chances are that you will, and soon. With more companies needing the writing staff they have to “work smarter and more creatively,” I would argue that this is something we all need to adapt to as professional content creators.
Bringing Execs to the Collaboration Table with Impact MappingEm Campbell-Pretty
Presentation to 10Stories Meetup in Melbourne on 22nd May 2014.
When scaling agile within the enterprise, managing the competing priorities of senior stakeholders is often a challenge. Each stakeholder has their own agenda and determining the right thing for the organisation can be near impossible.
The thought of using many of our classic “agile facilitation techniques” with a room full of executives is enough to send many running for the hills. But the reality is, in the enterprise we need tools that inspire a collaborative mindset at all levels - it’s just not enough for the “teams to work differently”
Impact Mapping is a facilitation technique that brings technologists and senior stakeholders together to meaningfully to explore options. It exposes assumptions and helps shape a path from "We want everything" to "We want to to make these impacts in this order" avoiding the trap of "solutions looking for problems”. Impact Maps visualise “delivery scope in a way that is easy to evolve, reprioritise, grow and shrink as necessary to react to changed market opportunities or new knowledge.” (Gojko Adzic)
In particular, it engages the real decision makers in a collaborative style in short workshops that shape the path, providing the direction and validation required to then transition into the more low-level story based inception work.
In this session Em Campbell-Pretty and Mark Richards from Context Matters will provide an overview of how to create an Impact Map, share some real world examples of how impact mapping has helped support the delivery of software products and provide an opportunity for the audience to start using the tool!
The realities of working in an enterprise (distributed teams, multiple stakeholders, etc) present a series of challenges when trying to plan and scale agile development. Learn how Rosetta Stone knit together a dozen existing JIRA Agile boards into a coherent program-level view of their Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) release train using JIRA Portfolio – without sacrificing team autonomy.
Managing Resistance: How the Kanban Method Supports Lasting ChangeJulie Wyman
“Going Agile” is a big cultural change for most organizations and it’s significance, impact, and effort required for successful implementation can often be underestimated. There are many benefits to be gained by adopting a more Agile approach, including quicker and additional feedback loops, more focus on value, and higher levels of collaboration. However, for Agile to succeed in the long-term it’s essential to set expectations up front and to balance the amount of change with the amount of disruption it will cause. In this session, we will look at how David Anderson intentionally built change management principles into his Kanban Methodology and explore other change management techniques the Agile community can leverage when helping organizations transition to Agile.
Agile Project Management with Kanban (4 Nov 2015)Mai Quay
Agile Project Management with Lean & Kanban, given at Lean Kanban Singapore on 3 November 2015 and the Institute of Systems Science of the National University of Singapore on 4 November 2015
Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL https://bit.ly/2Ffp4js.
Holly Allen talks about the bumps and scrapes, triumphs and pitfalls of Slack’s journey from a centralized ops team to development teams that own the full lifecycle of their systems. Filmed at qconsf.com.
Holly Allen is a leader in Service Engineering at Slack, with SRE, Safety Engineering, and Storage in her portfolio. She is tireless in her efforts to make Slack the software reliable and scalable, and Slack the company a delightful place to work. Prior to Slack, she worked at startups, DreamWorks Animation, and was Director of Engineering at 18F, a civic tech startup in the US government.
Advanced Scrum: Answering the Difficult QuestionsRyan Ripley
Advanced Scrum was presented at the Path to Agility Conference 2017 and was centered around the audiences questions and concerns about their Scrum practices and implementations.
Ever Thought about a Webinar as a Way to Fill Your Sales Funnel?DOYO Live
Webinars are a way of generating high quality cost effective leads that can fill your sales funnel for not only a quarter but an entire year. In this presentation we will provide an overview on how to: Find a compelling topic, presentation tips and tricks and most important coordinating follow up. We will have a webinar coming soon on this topic that you can participate live!
Our Journey to Agile in the Microsoft Developer DivisionTechWell
This is the story about the Microsoft Developer Division and their two-year journey to agile—from shipping every three years to shipping every three weeks. In the old days, long stabilization phases were part of its DNA. Managers were rewarded for micromanagement. Commitments were made months in advance. Maintaining the appearance of meeting commitments was valued over transparency. Gregg Boer shares how this organization within Microsoft transitioned to one that values agile principles—controlling technical debt, enabling teams, eliminating bogus commitments, and rewarding transparency. When applying agile to such a large, traditional organization, the key to success is allowing autonomy at the team level, while ensuring alignment with the organization. Gregg shares successes as well as colossal failures. Learn how management sets direction while teams own their own backlog, how communication up and down can be transparent and healthy, and other lessons on their journey to agile.
Most of the times I have seen the teams spending immense amount of time in mastering the mechanics than the intent.
Key to successful agile adoption is to have the agile as a team culture than just doing it
A short, 1-hour, introduction to the theory of Kanban. I cover the following points:
• Quick history of Kanban
• 2 meanings of Kanban
• Kanban principles
• Kanban practices
• Example Kanban boards
Lars Hyland – What's stopping performance support?Epic
Lars Hyland presented at the eLearning Network's Christmas event on 5th December on the topic 'What's stopping performance support?'. Lars looked at the main barriers to performance support, along with potential future developments in learning technologies and how these may come in useful for performance support.
Content Assessment Hero League presented at LavaCon 2013Jennifer DeAngelo
Case Study: Content Assessment Hero League presented at LavaCon 2013 by Jennifer DeAngelo from Experis GCS. The Content Assessment Hero League fought the evil of increasing costs of content authoring and localization by using the super powers of strategy, reuse, and automation technology. We’ll take a look behind the masks at our heroes’ identities (Experis and Acrolinx), and how they prepared for their fight with the right tools (strategy, process, and software) – and won.
Develop key components of a content strategy
Connect the implementation of the strategy with
Improved workflows for creating, managing, and publishing content
Reduction of risk in lack of compliance, inconsistency, missing information
Generation of revenue through effective multi-channel content delivery
Ask (and answer) questions related to tool selection
Hands-on with FrameMaker and DITA to create topics
Publish PDF and HTML5 formats
Implement an Adobe Experience Manager-based solution to ingest, manage, and publish content
These are the slides from the content marketing workshop Rebekah and I (Ahrefs) conducted for TiECon 2019 in Chandigarh, India.
The objective of the workshop was to give attendees an action plan on how to drive more organic traffic to their site, even if they were not familiar with search engine optimization (SEO).
Building a product content strategy practice at ShopifyAlaine Mackenzie
Content strategists have become an important part of web-focused UX teams – so why are so many product design companies still missing out?
We wanted to find out. So we started a content strategy team at Shopify. In this talk, you'll learn what worked, what failed miserably, and what happened in between.
All illustrations by the amazing Shopify illustration team: Meg Robichaud, Ryan Coleman, and Holly Schofield.
How Content can Kick Start your Professional ReferralsAhava Leibtag
As the landscape of healthcare changes, professional referral partnerships are becoming vital for organizations of every type. But what role can content marketing play? How can you use content to enhance your profile in the eyes of strategic partners like hospitals and physician groups?
If you’ve already mastered content marketing to engage senior residents and their adult children, now is the time to use the same tools to create a powerful network of referral partners that will generate a steady stream of referrals for your higher levels of care services.
Learning Objectives:
-How to use marketing to build healthcare-based referral relationships
-How to create great content to engage network partners and grow referral channels
-Best practices from top healthcare brands that you can use too
Content Measurement and Analytics: Making Positive Change on the Web by Rick ...Blend Interactive
We all want to create useful, usable content—and we want to deliver that content to the right users. But how do we know what works? And how do we use these insights to inform and adapt our content strategy? What does success look like?
Join us as we relate content goals to relevant and meaningful success metrics in order to quantitatively assess the quality of our web content and the efficacy of our content strategy. Say hello to positive change on the web!
Join us and learn to:
Translate strategic business objectives into measurable content goals
Find the right metrics for the right goals (and how to avoid misleading metrics
Measure and adapt your content strategy
Effectively present analytics data to engage content stakeholders and inform their work on the web
Configure Google Analytics to support your measurement plan
Rick Allen has worked on the web his entire career to help shape communications and content strategy. Rick is co-founder of Meet Content, an online resource aiming to empower higher education to create and sustain web content that works. As principal of ePublish Media, Inc., a content strategy consultancy in Boston, Mass., Rick partners with organizations big and small to drive and sustain bold goals.
Working Smarter: Integrating lean startup practices into your companyNatalie Hollier
Case study & afternoon keynote presented at the Mobile + Web Developer Conference in San Francisco, 2015.
http://mobilewebdevconference.com/san-francisco-july-2015/agenda/day-two/300pm.html
"Innovate or die” is the mantra of successful companies. So how can we build innovation into our product development process? More and more teams are adopting lean startup techniques to discover customer needs, focus on building what is valuable, and ultimately deliver great products.
This talk will share how a small education technology startup I worked with in NY scaled from a handful of people to multiple products and teams across 3 countries using lean startup practices. At various stages of growth we faced different challenges in keeping our processes lean, but throughout the journey we tried, failed and learned how to move fast and innovate.
Learn hands-on tools & techniques for applying lean that any team can start small and quickly see results, such as:
* How to move faster using collaborative, cross-functional teams
* Lightweight dev tools for scaling design across many teams
* Building a lean mindset in larger organizations
With real examples and artifacts you will learn how to manage - and thrive - using lean to create awesome products.
Feedback Loops...to infinity, and beyond!Rui Carvalho
Agile. Agile is not a noun we can quantify but an adjective. Why on earth are most people trying to buy some ’agile’ then ? Why are people trying to sell that they are ’doing’ agile?
Maybe it's time to remember the core values of software development, and among them, feedback is a central one. Let’s try to refine our ability to understand feedback and see how it can help to produce better software
Interactive Session: Build a Performance-Driven 2015 Content CalendarClevelandHUG
As organizations plan for 2015, marketers are charged with the development and execution of an effective content strategy—one that is based on historical performance and the customer journey, and designed to support business goals.
This presentation discusses best practices in content marketing—buyer persona development, mapping out your sales cycle and organization of a publishing calendar. Additionally, it features HubSpot tools that support content marketing efforts—personas, content calendar and SEO tool.
The design thinking transformation in businessCathy Wang
Presented at Webvisions Barcelona 2015 By Cathy Wang & Nuno Andrew
The definition of design is shifting from being a noun to a verb. We see it moving away from arts and craft into a methodology of delivering value. Adapting to this shift, designers and changemakers are forming a new way of design thinking.
As designer, not only are we crafting products / services, but we are also learning to see a much bigger system with a deep connection to business factors. How can we influence businesses with design thinking in order to build a solid business platform that delivers meaningful products / services.
Systems thinking is an approach to problem solving. Businesses are an intricate ecosystem, from how the organisation is structured, to people, to commercial planning, to processes. As designers, we practice systems thinking everyday. How do we use this knowledge to craft a business? This, is business design.
In this session, we want to explore what business design means. How to use what we know, as designers, to build stronger businesses? As we continue to adapt design methodologies and systems thinking to a business context, what other manifestations that will evolve? How can design thinking be leveraged in even the most straight-laced silos of a business such as Human Resources and Finance? How do we give design thinking the space it needs in the face of traditional business practice? And most importantly, how do we use our existing design thinking knowledge, to design businesses?
The design thinking transformation in businessNuno Oliveira
Presented at Webvisions Barcelona 2015 (IED) with Cathy Wang.
The definition of design is shifting from being a noun to a verb. We see it moving away from arts and craft into a methodology of delivering value. Adapting to this shift, designers and changemakers are forming a new way of design thinking.
As designer, not only are we crafting products / services, but we are also learning to see a much bigger system with a deep connection to business factors. How can we influence businesses with design thinking in order to build a solid business platform that delivers meaningful products / services.
Systems thinking is an approach to problem solving. Businesses are an intricate ecosystem, from how the organisation is structured, to people, to commercial planning, to processes. As designers, we practice systems thinking everyday. How do we use this knowledge to craft a business? This, is business design.
In this session, we want to explore what business design means. How to use what we know, as designers, to build stronger businesses? As we continue to adapt design methodologies and systems thinking to a business context, what other manifestations that will evolve? How can design thinking be leveraged in even the most straight-laced silos of a business such as Human Resources and Finance? How do we give design thinking the space it needs in the face of traditional business practice? And most importantly, how do we use our existing design thinking knowledge, to design businesses?
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Your website's not just designed for your audiences: it's designed for everyone. Which means it needs to be accessible to everyone.
Often, accessibility falls into the hands of back- and front-end developers. But just as important is the ongoing maintenance of content within the CMS - the headings and images and alt tags and simple verbiage used to communicate your brand's message: a message that deserves to be seen and heard by everyone.
In this talk, we will dive into what we can do as editors to help fuel more accessible websites, separating the code from the content and making clear the responsibilities we all have in making sure the web is a better place for everyone.
"The Accessible Editor" by Corey Vilhauer, from DrupalCon 2018 in Nashville, ...Blend Interactive
Your website's not just designed for your audiences: it's designed for everyone. Which means it needs to be accessible to everyone.
Often, accessibility falls into the hands of back- and front-end developers. But just as important is the ongoing maintenance of content within the CMS - the headings and images and alt tags and simple verbiage used to communicate your brand's message: a message that deserves to be seen and heard by everyone.
In this talk, we will dive into what we can do as editors to help fuel more accessible websites, separating the code from the content and making clear the responsibilities we all have in making sure the web is a better place for everyone.
"Click to Continue" by Sam Otis, from Content+Design Meetup, Oct. 4, 2017Blend Interactive
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"Never Knowing Enough: dealing with the self doubt that hinders your success....Blend Interactive
From Karla Santi's presentation, ""Never Knowing Enough: dealing with the self doubt that hinders your success," given at the Sioux Falls Crossroads Summit 2017 in Sioux Falls, SD.
"Making things real: Content strategy for realistic content management" - Con...Blend Interactive
From Corey Vilhauer's workshop "Making things real: Content strategy for realistic content management" at Confab Intensive 2017 in Denver, Colorado.
Everyone has a plan. Until reality sets in.
You've seen it all before. A marketing team that's created unreasonable expectations. A designer who's looking to break barriers—without regard to the content model. The myth of personalization. The dangers of the completely customizable website.
And now it's your job to bridge the gap between dreams and usable web programming. How do we take what we want and translate it into something usable? How do we take someone's ideas and turn them into a usable web implementation, navigating the constraints and pitfalls of project dreams, organizational bias, and unrealistic expectations?
It's called "reification," and it's the act of making something real. We're not talking code. We're not talking CMS selection. We're simply talking about helping those we work with understand the content management landscape though a common language and practical questions. Let's take the best case scenario and get it closer to a real life scenario. Let's make things real.
"Making things real: Content strategy for realistic content management" - Con...Blend Interactive
From Confab Central 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota - June 8, 2017
Everyone has a plan. Until reality sets in.
You've done the interviews, and you’ve rallied the team, and now you have a dream. Here’s the thing: Your dream isn’t going to work. No dream ever does. Instead, your dream is going to cause disappointment and frustration, because it hasn’t been paired with the content management robots that will eventually serve and store your future website.
How do we prepare our dreams so they can function within the cold world of web programming? How do we help teams understand the reality of content management, and set expectations accordingly? How do we balance the rigidity of a content model with the creative flow of a marketing team? More than anything, how do we get everyone on the same page—from ideation to CMS help text?
It's called “reification,” and it's the act of making something real. We’re not talking code. We’re not talking CMS selection. We’re simply talking about helping those we work with understand the content management landscape through a common language and practical questions. Let’s take the best case scenario and get it closer to a real life scenario. Let's make things real.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
* More effectively plan content projects for both the editors and the CMS.
* Balance the complexity of a content model with the talents and efficiencies of the editorial team.
* Account for structural needs while still maintaining discussion of messaging and overall branding.
* Better communicate how content models affect the final usability of the CMS.
Getting Started With User-Centered Content by Emileigh Barnes & Kate Garklavs...Blend Interactive
Writing for the web is messy and complicated. As web content managers, we must weigh user needs against stakeholder demands, tight timelines, budget constraints, and more. We’re often thrown into projects that are already underway or lack a clear strategy. Our work is constrained by organizational pressures.
In this workshop, we’ll talk about aligning content with project goals, creating a strategy that puts users first, and building products that can maintain momentum and success, even after we’re gone.
“How Silos Learn: Working in the Idea Factory” by Amanda Costello - Now What?...Blend Interactive
Taking up the cry against organizational silos can bring both empathy and cringing. Of course, silos are awful and keep us from doing our best work, but when you’re in the middle of a silo – and maybe that silo is inside ANOTHER silo – well, what’s a website manager to do?
Based on her career among higher education’s ivory-tower silos, Amanda Costello brings together lessons from architecture and the Midwestern landscape to examine not only how to understand our silos, but to teach them a thing or two as well.
In 2017, “adaptive content” has become a buzzword. To some, it’s a complex, long-term initiative to structure content for flexible reuse and dynamic targeting. To others, it’s a way to ensure that everyone, everywhere, sees exactly what they want—like magic! In this talk, Karen shares her perspective (and reservations) on how adaptive content is being used today. She’ll discuss how adaptive content supports targeting content to device type—and why that’s rarely necessary. She’ll also describe ways that adaptive content can support tailoring content according to context—and ways that can go wrong. You’ll walk away with a better understanding of when adaptive content is necessary and how to get the most value from it.
"Empathy Behind the Algorithms" by Chris Corak - Now What? Conference 2017Blend Interactive
Search engine algorithms are always changing, it can feel impossible to keep up. But the goal behind every Google search result has always stayed the same—to give people exactly what they want and need. If that’s Google’s #1 goal, then why would we cater to search engines instead of working harder to make our audience happy? Great SEO that results in better visibility and higher conversions always maps back to the people behind the keywords. In this talk, Chris will show you practical SEO techniques and approaches you can use to make sure your content is helpful, relevant, and findable, too.
“The Beauty of Brevity” by Ravi Jain - Now What? Conference 2017Blend Interactive
The temptation with video content is to do too much: too many stories, too many voices, too many seconds! Parsing a bigger message into smaller bites offers a flexibility to align with an integrated marketing strategy. But it’s not about speeding things up or cutting things out.
Utilizing short form content effectively takes foresight, contingency planning and conceptual agility. In this session, Ravi Jain will walk through the creative process of harnessing the potential of short- form aggregate storytelling.
“Why Content Projects Fail” by Deane Barker - Now What? Conference 2017Blend Interactive
The content management implementation failure rate is higher than it should be, and projects seem to fail for the same cluster of reasons: unrealistic requirements, expectations, human factors, etc. In this session, Deane will discuss the major reasons for project failure learned through almost two decades of implementation experience, and discuss strategies and policies to put in place at each stage of the project to prevent them.
Not Perfect, "Always Better: A Story of Inclusion" by Derek Featherstone - No...Blend Interactive
Jake walked out of the conference room after meeting with Claire (VP of Engineering) and Sanjay (Design Director). He almost felt their glare burning a hole through his shirt. Jake had just sat through a hour-long meeting reviewing the user feedback from last year’s site launch. There had been reports of some accessibility issues for some time, but they’d been mostly ignored. The picture wasn’t getting any better: they were missing out on a lot of potential revenue by being hostile to people with disabilities.
Jake pulled out his phone and sent a message to his team in Slack. “We’ve got some work to do”
What was his next move? How did he begin the work and start to prioritize what needed to be done? How did he change the team’s process to include accessibility in EVERY post launch plan? Check in with Derek to find out what Jake and his team did next; you’ll learn what you need to do after a site launch to ensure your site is both accessible and easy to use by people with disabilities… and stays that way.
Content Design for Mobile Devices - Now What? Conference 2017Blend Interactive
We’ve all been so focused on designing for mobile devices that we’ve forgotten about content. But how your customers find, consume, and share your content on mobile is more important than ever. Learn about how to use content strategy to solve these issues, including content modeling, content auditing, and the core model. It may sound super nerdy now, but it won’t be once you’re there.
"Making Things Real: Taking content strategy from abstract to functional" - M...Blend Interactive
From MinneWebCon 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota - May 1, 2017
Everyone has a plan. Until reality sets in.
You've done the interviews, and you've rallied the team, and now you have a dream. Here's the thing: Your dream isn't going to work. No dream ever does. Instead, your dream is going to cause disappointment and frustration, because it hasn't been paired with the content management robots that will eventually serve and store your future website.
How do we prepare our dreams so they can function within the cold world of web programming? How do we take what we want and translate it into something usable? How do we take someone's ideas and turn them into a usable web implementation, navigating the constraints and pitfalls of project dreams, organizational bias, and unrealistic expectations?
It's called "reification," and it's the act of making something real. We're not talking code. We're not talking CMS selection. We're simply talking about helping those we work with understand the content management landscape though a common language and practical questions. Let's take the best case scenario and get it closer to a real life scenario. Let's make things real.
“Writing for Your Audience — The Message, the Words, the Plan” – Business Sen...Blend Interactive
Every word has an audience. And every audience has a message. Tying those three things together, however, is what takes the act of writing into something more strategic. This talk will touch on determining audiences and message, and then dive into some basics on how to write and plan effective web content that is both on point and on time.
Take idiomatic C# and apply a few favorite patterns and concepts from functional languages like F# to make something hopefully more expressive, more elegant, and less bug-prone.
A talk by Bob Davidson for South Dakota Code Camp 2016.
"The Self-Directed Strategist: Building a Practice and Managing Organizationa...Blend Interactive
There are two big parts to content strategy: the people, and the process. But there's a third one that presents some of the industry's biggest struggles: managing the space between people and process—especially in an organization that is new to content strategy. In this talk, we will discuss managing expectations, projects, and people—within small teams, among changing organizations, and with new clients.
Next Level Collaboration: The Future of Content and Design by Rebekah Cancino...Blend Interactive
Imagine a future where siloed departments and legacy workflows don’t stand in our way. Today’s content is complex, interconnected, and needs to be ready for devices we haven’t even dreamed of yet. Tomorrow isn’t going to get any simpler. Successful outcomes demand a new kind of collaboration. For the past two years, Rebekah has studied how successful teams collaborate and has helped transform the way her team works and produces together. In this session, you’ll hear what she’s learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave with actionable inspiration you can use to unite your team and workflow, too.
This talk will show you:
* What it takes to make effective collaboration possible
* How you can play a key role in creating the cross-discipline teams of tomorrow
* Practical tips you can use to bridge silos, increase productivity, and deliver better project outcomes for everyone
From the 2016 Now What? Conference: www.nowwhatconference.com
Busting the Field of Dreams Theory: Making Content Meaningful, Useful, and Fi...Blend Interactive
Content marketing requires a holistic strategy around your content to ensure it is visible to search engines without sacrificing its value to humans. Getting content noticed means creating high quality, useful content but publishing alone will not guarantee traffic, let alone conversions and sales. The work you put into planning before publishing is the best set-up for success. Strategy helps you choose the right message and content for your audiences, structure it for robots and readers, and promote it on multiple channels.
From the 2016 Now What? Conference: www.nowwhatconference.com
# Internet Security: Safeguarding Your Digital World
In the contemporary digital age, the internet is a cornerstone of our daily lives. It connects us to vast amounts of information, provides platforms for communication, enables commerce, and offers endless entertainment. However, with these conveniences come significant security challenges. Internet security is essential to protect our digital identities, sensitive data, and overall online experience. This comprehensive guide explores the multifaceted world of internet security, providing insights into its importance, common threats, and effective strategies to safeguard your digital world.
## Understanding Internet Security
Internet security encompasses the measures and protocols used to protect information, devices, and networks from unauthorized access, attacks, and damage. It involves a wide range of practices designed to safeguard data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Effective internet security is crucial for individuals, businesses, and governments alike, as cyber threats continue to evolve in complexity and scale.
### Key Components of Internet Security
1. **Confidentiality**: Ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to access it.
2. **Integrity**: Protecting information from being altered or tampered with by unauthorized parties.
3. **Availability**: Ensuring that authorized users have reliable access to information and resources when needed.
## Common Internet Security Threats
Cyber threats are numerous and constantly evolving. Understanding these threats is the first step in protecting against them. Some of the most common internet security threats include:
### Malware
Malware, or malicious software, is designed to harm, exploit, or otherwise compromise a device, network, or service. Common types of malware include:
- **Viruses**: Programs that attach themselves to legitimate software and replicate, spreading to other programs and files.
- **Worms**: Standalone malware that replicates itself to spread to other computers.
- **Trojan Horses**: Malicious software disguised as legitimate software.
- **Ransomware**: Malware that encrypts a user's files and demands a ransom for the decryption key.
- **Spyware**: Software that secretly monitors and collects user information.
### Phishing
Phishing is a social engineering attack that aims to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details. Attackers often masquerade as trusted entities in email or other communication channels, tricking victims into providing their information.
### Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Attacks
MitM attacks occur when an attacker intercepts and potentially alters communication between two parties without their knowledge. This can lead to the unauthorized acquisition of sensitive information.
### Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
APNIC Foundation, presented by Ellisha Heppner at the PNG DNS Forum 2024APNIC
Ellisha Heppner, Grant Management Lead, presented an update on APNIC Foundation to the PNG DNS Forum held from 6 to 10 May, 2024 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
1.Wireless Communication System_Wireless communication is a broad term that i...JeyaPerumal1
Wireless communication involves the transmission of information over a distance without the help of wires, cables or any other forms of electrical conductors.
Wireless communication is a broad term that incorporates all procedures and forms of connecting and communicating between two or more devices using a wireless signal through wireless communication technologies and devices.
Features of Wireless Communication
The evolution of wireless technology has brought many advancements with its effective features.
The transmitted distance can be anywhere between a few meters (for example, a television's remote control) and thousands of kilometers (for example, radio communication).
Wireless communication can be used for cellular telephony, wireless access to the internet, wireless home networking, and so on.
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Multi-cluster Kubernetes Networking- Patterns, Projects and GuidelinesSanjeev Rampal
Talk presented at Kubernetes Community Day, New York, May 2024.
Technical summary of Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Networking architectures with focus on 4 key topics.
1) Key patterns for Multi-cluster architectures
2) Architectural comparison of several OSS/ CNCF projects to address these patterns
3) Evolution trends for the APIs of these projects
4) Some design recommendations & guidelines for adopting/ deploying these solutions.
Bridging the Digital Gap Brad Spiegel Macon, GA Initiative.pptxBrad Spiegel Macon GA
Brad Spiegel Macon GA’s journey exemplifies the profound impact that one individual can have on their community. Through his unwavering dedication to digital inclusion, he’s not only bridging the gap in Macon but also setting an example for others to follow.
58. Define
roles
and
responsibiliSes.
• Project
Manager:
What
is
your
job?
Explain
it
to
the
content
people.
• Content
Strategist:
EXACTLY
what
are
you
in
charge
of
doing?
• Writers/Content
Creators:
Who
is
responsible
for
each
of
the
steps?
• Quality
Assurance:
Who
performs
and
to
whom
do
they
give
that
informaCon?
@ahaval
#NowWhat15
73. Establish
Content
Governance
Content
Analysis
Content
CreaCon
Establishing
workflows
Content
Planning
• Persona
Development
• Messaging
Architecture
• IdenCty
Pillar
IdenCficaCon
Build
OR
clarify
the
business
case
Content
AudiCng
Discovery
@ahaval
#NowWhat15
74. Establish
Content
Governance
Content
Analysis
Content
CreaCon
Establishing
workflows
Content
Planning
• Persona
Development
• Messaging
Architecture
• IdenCty
Pillar
IdenCficaCon
Build
OR
clarify
the
business
case
Content
AudiCng
Discovery
WE
ARE
HERE
@ahaval
#NowWhat15
76. Start
Green
means
the
project
is
moving
ahead
CauSon
Yellow
means
the
project
is
stalled
Stop
Red
means
it’s
Cme
to
stop
and
regroup
@ahaval
#NowWhat15
83. Checklist
of
how
to
avoid
disaster
1. IdenSfy
the
boRleneck(s)
2. Inform
higher
ups
that
Smelines
will
slip
if
you
keep
repeaSng
this
disastrous
content
paRern
3. Bring
in
reinforcements
(Who
can
help
clean
up
this
mess?)
@ahaval
#NowWhat15