How can nonprofits stay focused given all the distractions inherent in today’s attention economy? Social media doesn’t have to be overwhelming—you can take control back. This session will teach you some techniques that you can immediately put into practice and help you work more efficiently and effectively, enabling you to achieve more in less time and ultimately increase the return of your efforts.
Resource List: http://socialmedia-strategy.wikispaces.com/Mindful+Social+Media+Curation
Presentation covers basic information about how to get started with social media, integrate it into your communications function, ways to engage with fans both online and offline, and basic tips for writing for social media.
Presentation given May 3, 2012, at the Spring Conference for the Greater Salt Lake City Public Relations Society of America:
http://www.slcprsa.org/programs-events/spring-conference/agenda/
Talent.me: Professional Networking 101 with Lewis Howestalentmeapp
Getting your dream job is already very difficult and given this economy the job search process is only getting tougher. Networking to get to the right leads has never been as important as it is in this market. Did you know that at least 60% of all jobs are found through networking? This webinar is a primer in Professional Networking and it is as important for experienced professionals as it is for networking newbies. Your host will be Talent.me co-founder Lewis Howes, an expert in social media networking and "real world" networking as well.
Benefits of Content Curation #13NTCCur8Aquifer Media
Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it, and sharing the very best content with your network. Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can actually be a method to tackle this problem. With so much information coming at us from social networks,web sites, emails, and other digital sources,we can no longer afford to sit and whine about it. Content curation can empower us to win the battle over too much information. In addition, there are benefits for both nonprofit organization and the people who work for them, like improving staff expertise, thought leadership, and forming the base of your content strategy pyramid
Presentation covers basic information about how to get started with social media, integrate it into your communications function, ways to engage with fans both online and offline, and basic tips for writing for social media.
Presentation given May 3, 2012, at the Spring Conference for the Greater Salt Lake City Public Relations Society of America:
http://www.slcprsa.org/programs-events/spring-conference/agenda/
Talent.me: Professional Networking 101 with Lewis Howestalentmeapp
Getting your dream job is already very difficult and given this economy the job search process is only getting tougher. Networking to get to the right leads has never been as important as it is in this market. Did you know that at least 60% of all jobs are found through networking? This webinar is a primer in Professional Networking and it is as important for experienced professionals as it is for networking newbies. Your host will be Talent.me co-founder Lewis Howes, an expert in social media networking and "real world" networking as well.
Benefits of Content Curation #13NTCCur8Aquifer Media
Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it, and sharing the very best content with your network. Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can actually be a method to tackle this problem. With so much information coming at us from social networks,web sites, emails, and other digital sources,we can no longer afford to sit and whine about it. Content curation can empower us to win the battle over too much information. In addition, there are benefits for both nonprofit organization and the people who work for them, like improving staff expertise, thought leadership, and forming the base of your content strategy pyramid
Most everyone has dipped their toe into the social media waters over the past few years, taking a peek at Facebook and Twitter to see what the buzz is all about. But we have learned that using social media tools isn't very difficult, however using them effectively,
particularly for social change, is challenging. Beth Kanter will lead
an interactive keynote the key principles for effective social media use that turns traditional organizations into cost-effective,far-reaching and effective Networked Nonprofits.
5 Content Marketing Strategies/Tools to add value and enhance your practice. This session focused heavily on message develop and target audience selection. 60% of the audience -- mostly occupational health nurses -- was focused on internal marketing; 20% on external marketing and 20% on both. 60% of the audience focused on marketing to increase awareness of their practice with 20% focused on getting more clients/patients.
Copywriting for the share without going click-baitTim Vermeire
This presentation investigates why people share things and how marketing can design for the share. It consequently zooms in on specific social networks Twitter and LinkedIn.
Deck used to support "Is There An App For That' discussion at Digital Capital Week - June 15, 2010. Co-Presenters included Tammy Gordon (@floridagirlindc), Wendy Harman (@wharman) and Alison McQuade (akmcquade).
The basics of social media: what social media is, what social media is not, what social media means, why your business or non profit should care about social media. Presentation given Sept. 2011.
Most everyone has dipped their toe into the social media waters over the past few years, taking a peek at Facebook and Twitter to see what the buzz is all about. But we have learned that using social media tools isn't very difficult, however using them effectively,
particularly for social change, is challenging. Beth Kanter will lead
an interactive keynote the key principles for effective social media use that turns traditional organizations into cost-effective,far-reaching and effective Networked Nonprofits.
5 Content Marketing Strategies/Tools to add value and enhance your practice. This session focused heavily on message develop and target audience selection. 60% of the audience -- mostly occupational health nurses -- was focused on internal marketing; 20% on external marketing and 20% on both. 60% of the audience focused on marketing to increase awareness of their practice with 20% focused on getting more clients/patients.
Copywriting for the share without going click-baitTim Vermeire
This presentation investigates why people share things and how marketing can design for the share. It consequently zooms in on specific social networks Twitter and LinkedIn.
Deck used to support "Is There An App For That' discussion at Digital Capital Week - June 15, 2010. Co-Presenters included Tammy Gordon (@floridagirlindc), Wendy Harman (@wharman) and Alison McQuade (akmcquade).
The basics of social media: what social media is, what social media is not, what social media means, why your business or non profit should care about social media. Presentation given Sept. 2011.
This presentation will give a brief idea on proximal myopathy, causes, clinical presentation, history and physical examination, investigations to diagnose the disease easily.
It will be more helpful to medical students.
Join Beth Kanter in a workshop that explores the themes in her recently published book, and discover how to put them into practice. Social media has broken free from the marketing communications and fundraising silos, changing the way nonprofits deliver programs, lead, manage, and even govern. This session will take a look at these trends and how organizations can equip themselves to be fully networked.
How to Build a Volunteer Blog with Form & Function Julie Pippert
How does a bare-bones nonprofit manage to create a strong and consistent online and social media presence without spending big $$ and hiring a team? Same way it manages other projects: volunteers!
But every NPO knows that even the best volunteers need support and coaching, and every volunteer project needs management. That can make it seem daunting or, worse, as a resource drain.
This presentation will specifically walk-through how organizations can create and implement a plan for a volunteer-based online presence that builds connections to community, heightens cause awareness, raises funds and brings valuable rewards.
Using a case study compare/contrast of two national nonprofits’ plans for blogs and social media, learn:
Mobilizing and selecting volunteers
Planning and tasking
Organizing with schedules and deadlines Planning content
Pros and cons of models: regular contributors, guest contributors
I speak in takeaways. Audience members will walk away with a sense of can do!
The most interesting thing about Twitter is that it entertaining, informative, connective, distracting, and (potentially) destructive – all at the same time. As with all this to keep in mind, what are the key things you need to know and understand about Twitter to use it effectively for your organization? Join us as we take you through our 10 essential Twitter tips!
Slides from the Building a Social Media Plan workshop in Calgary & Edmonton, Alberta (November 2009).
Social media can be an incredible tool for your organization, providing you with direct communication channels, access to audience insight, and the ability to reach people all over the world.
But as the proliferation of social media platforms grow, participating can often be overwhelming and confusing. Join us as we take you through how to kick-start your organization's social media action plan.
GuideStar Webinar (03/28/13) - Social Media for Nonprofits: Killer Content in...GuideStar
Great, your nonprofit is on Facebook and Twitter now, but what are you going to say to your followers to keep them engaged? Join us for this free, interactive webinar to learn how to discover, organize, and distribute compelling online content.
In this webinar, participants will:
· Gain practical tips and content curation resources to help you carve the time out of your busy schedule and establish your organization as a thought leader in its field, creating credibility and building your social media follower base.
· Understand how to engage your social media followers, and convert their attention into support for your nonprofit.
· Get turned onto free tools and platforms that can help you identify and share killer content in no time, and harness the potential of social media to engage your most important supporters and allies in valuable conversations.
This webinar is co-presented by Ritu Sharma and Arabella Santiago.
Ritu Sharma is the Co-Founder & Executive Director of Social Media for Nonprofits, the only conference series in the country devoted to social media for social good. She is a public speaker, consultant, and event planner and heads up programming, marketing, and event logistics for the series. Previously, she produced the North American Social Media Marketing & Monitoring conference series for Our Social Times. Before that, she started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team across India, Romania, and the US.
A journalist at heart, Arabella Santiago believes in the power of producing authentic content to develop, strengthen and market a brand. Currently, Arabella is the Director of Marketing and Communications at Scoop.it, a social media publishing platform that allows users to express themselves on topics that matter through idea discovery, content curation and social sharing. Prior to joining Scoop.it, she was the Executive Director of Techweek 2012 Chicago, the largest technology conference in the Midwest with over 5,000 participants. For four years, Arabella ran MediaGuns, Inc., web production company that served businesses, nonprofit organizations and events including The Women's Conference, then led by former California First Lady Maria Shriver. She began her career as a newspaper reporter and has continued to build on her journalism skills. Arabella has interviewed hundreds of leaders, visionaries and celebrities including Richard Branson, Craig Newmark and startup founders Leah Busque and Travis Kalanick.
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This webinar is brought to you in partnership with:
- GuideStar USA, the leader in nonprofit information. Find out more about GuideStar's previous and upcoming webinars here: http://www.guidestar.org/rxg/news/webinars/index.aspx
- Foundation Center, the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide. Learn more about the Foundation Center by visiting foundationcenter.org.
It’s almost Thanksgiving and that means people (read: your prospective donors!) are looking back on the year with gratitude and renewed feelings of generosity. If you haven’t had the time to put together a year-end giving campaign, guess what? It’s not too late to pull one off! Kate Rose went over a step-by-step look at the importance of year-end giving, advice for setting the right goal, tips on choosing a theme, and guidance to find ways (through social media) to have a successful fundraising campaign to close out 2015. Watch the webinar recording here: http://socialmedia4nonprofits.org/its-not-too-late-close-out-2015-strong-with-year-end-giving/
Now that social media channels are a part of the fabric of how we communicate, nonprofits are looking beyond shiny social tools to understand the value of community. Learn strategies from Megan Keane for setting up organizational processes to create a culture of engagement at your organization and find quantifiable ways community can contribute to your mission and impact.
Maybe your organization has used texting since we were playing Snake on our phones. Or maybe you’re just now struggling with how to start an SMS program and integrate it with your website, social media, and app strategy. This session with Sam McKelvie will help nonprofits at any level think about innovative ways that SMS can advance their organization’s mission and how to overcome common obstacles to growing a mobile program. We’ll launch in to the best use cases for engaging supporters/donors and review tactics for using SMS to better reach the populations that your organization serves. This interactive session will also give you a chance to develop new ideas for acquiring subscribers and expanding their interaction with your nonprofit.
Explore the generational, cultural, and technological revolution that's changing our world and learn tactical skills that will increase the effectiveness and sustainability of your fundraising strategies. Roderick Campbell, one of Silicon Valley's brightest social-impact entrepreneurs, will be your unpredictable and amusing guide.
In an increasingly noisy world, we all face a big challenge in making sure our messages are clearly heard. In this session, Anita Jackson talked about how to effectively use social media strategies to complement your movement building work. She talked about which tools help you reach your goals, how to find the audiences you seek, and how to leverage your limited capacity for the greatest impact.
Did you know that 8 out of 10 donors say that online reviews influence their giving decision? If you are a great nonprofit waiting to be discovered, build social proof around it by putting it in front of the right early supporters and create marketing campaigns designed to be shareable. Use it to find new supporters and remind existing supporters why they made a smart choice. In the age of the social web, social proof is the new marketing.
Sending a text message is the easiest way for new supporters to connect with your cause. Nick Allen talked about how to maximize mobile donations and how mobile activist networks run by organizations like the Humane Society and No Kid Hungry are recruiting new supporters. Nick also shared the first US test of a mobile strategy that’s recruited thousands of new monthly donors in the UK by inviting people to send a text message for info, triggering a phone call from the nonprofit.
We’ve all felt the emotional pull of a great video. Videos can convey messages, emotions and impact in seconds. Now, with social media platforms seamlessly integrating video, it’s more important than ever for nonprofits to understand how to leverage this powerful tool. In this very tactical session, Michael Hoffman of See3 Communications shared the best practices for incorporating video into your communications strategy and across social media platforms, with a focus on how it can be used to help make an impact on your year-end fundraising.
Watch the recording on our site: http://socialmedia4nonprofits.org/webinars/use-video-to-drive-donations
Cultivating community is a key way to keep a group in engaged around an idea or cause. In this session Regina Walton talked about building and growing community in a group that meets in person around a central idea: technology for social good. You'll learn about SFTech4Good, the largest of the many worldwide Netsquared groups and NTEN 501 Tech Clubs, and how they keep their member count growing, keep events fresh, and the tools they use to effectively communicate with their large and growing group.
You see the potential that Facebook offers for engaging supporters and creating more exposure for your nonprofit. But with declining reach, and more competition in the newsfeed, reaching your supporters is more challenging than ever before. This presentation from John Haydon will show you innovative ways to get more engagement on Facebook, from high-quality fans.
140 characters and a constant feed can seem like a waste of time. But, if you know how to navigate the good from the stuff that’s for the birds, you can definitely find a pipeline. Stephanie St Martin showed #SM4NP Boston how to use tools like Twitter lists, find influencers, and find potential volunteers from those tweeting.
Creating a strategy for using social media is no longer optional for nonprofits. Social media tools include a fast-changing and constantly growing collection of web-based and mobile technologies. These tools turn formerly broadcast and one-way messages into an interactive conversation and can be hugely effective for social change organizations. In this session, Julia Campbell outlined the 11 steps that your organization can take to create a strategy and plan for your social media efforts. A little planning goes a long way!
Online engagement campaigns are a test for both the organization and its fans, a learning moment, and a check/balance of how you are crafting meaningful ties with your stakeholders. In this session at #SM4NP Boston, Debra Askanase profiled successful online engagement campaigns, breaking down the essential ingredients of preparation, design, execution and measurement.
Crowd-funding for #GivingTuesday, the global day of giving back to launch the holiday season, has fast become a cornerstone of fundraising. These slides from a #SM4NP webinar with Leo Buc and Bre DiGiammarino will give you practical and tactical resources for making it a success.
The data doesn’t lie, the mobile era is upon us. But how do you go beyond the data to make mobile work for your nonprofit? Learn from Ethan Kearns of the Nature Conservancy about many of the real life examples of mobile adoption and understand specific ways to go beyond the surface level statistics to fully grasp the mobile potential.
Stories have the power to spark movements, raise armies of volunteers, and even change the world. But stories with impact don’t just happen—they require intention and heart. So once you have the right story, how can you make the most of it across social media?
In this 60 minute webinar with Jereme Bivins of The Rockefeller Foundation and Kimaya Dixit of Hattaway Communications, we explored how to use your organization’s best stories across channels for better outreach, fundraising, and impact reporting.
Connections matter. Often it is easiest to connect with other people like us, but being able to build relationships across differences and learn from different perspectives is powerful. Discover how to use Twitter chats (or any social platform) to cultivate conversations which amplify your message and increase impact for your constituents. Dorothy Ponton gave this presentation at #SM4NP Silicon Valley.
Do you ever feel like messaging decisions are made in a vacuum at your organization? Some simple testing can make the difference in connecting with your target audience. Learn from Marcia Silva how the Second Harvest Food Bank leveraged a small budget on Facebook Ads to test branding elements, as well as how the data helped them tighten their 2015 childhood hunger messages and improve campaign results.
You’ve heard it over and over again: storytelling gets you more donations. It’s actually easier than you think to create a compelling story. Fairy tales, fireside stories, and your favorite Hollywood movies all follow the tried and true storylines every popular story follows. In this session, Rob Wu, CEO of CauseVox, walked through three storylines that you can use for nonprofit fundraising, and to help you understand how to repurpose storylines for your nonprofit at #SM4NP Silicon Valley.
While content creation is a top priority for most nonprofits, a huge challenge is distribution. When thinking about how to get your amazing content beyond your existing network, consider this: the top 5% of supporters in your CRM, on average, have a reach 200 times greater than your entire email file. These social media influencers not only help extend the reach of your amazing content, but expose more people to your good work. Cheryl Contee, CEO of Fission and Co-Founder of Attentive.ly, explored how to identify your influencers, the best sharable content and how to get them talking about your campaigns at #SM4NP Silicon Valley.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
24. Content Curation: The Practice
Sense
Share
Seek
Framework: Harold Jarche
Networked Learning Is Working Smarter
25. Seek
• Define objective, audience, and topics
• Organize sources
• Use discovery tools
• Scan more than you capture
• Don’t share unless it adds great value
• Discipline
26. Sense
• Product: Blog post, report,
memo, presentation
• Annotate, Archive, Apply
• Add values to your
nonprofit
27. Share
• Feed your network a
steady diet of good stuff
• Comment on other
people’s stuff
• Collaborative sense-
making
29. Tweets links related to organization’s mission
and work as a bipartisan advocacy organization
dedicated to making children and families a
priority in federal policy and budget decisions.
30. SEEK SENSE SHARE
Identified key blogs and Summarizes article in a Engages with aligned
Twitter users in each issue tweet partners
area
Writes for Huffington Post Tweets best of best
Scans and reads every
morning and picks out best
34. Self-Knowledge Is The First Step
A few quick
assessment
questions
Add up your
score: # of YES
answers
35. Self-Knowledge Is The First Step
1. When you open email or do social media or curation tasks, does it make you feel
anxious?
2. When you are seeking information to curate, have you ever forgotten what it was in
the first place you wanted to accomplish?
3. Do you ever wish electronic information would just go away?
4. Do you experience frustration at the amount of electronic information you need to
process daily?
5. Do you sit at your computer for longer than 30 minutes at a time without getting
up to take a break?
6. Do you constantly check (even in the bathroom on your mobile phone) your email,
Twitter or other online service?
7. Is the only time you're off line is when you are sleeping?
8. Do you feel that you often cannot concentrate?
9. Do you get anxious if you are offline for more than a few hours?
10.Do you find yourself easily distracted by online resources that allow you to avoid
other, pending work?
36. What’s Your Attention Focusing Score?
Source: Lulumonathletica
0…1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10
Mindful Online………………………………………………………..Need Help Now
37. What does it mean to manage your attention while your
curate or other social media tasks?
• Understand your goals and priorities and
ask yourself at regular intervals whether
your current activity serves your higher
priority.
• Notice when your attention has
wandered, and then gently bringing it
back to focus on your highest priority
• Sometimes in order to learn or deepen
relationships -- exploring from link to link
is permissible – and important. Don’t
Source: Howard Rheingold
NetSmart make attention training so rigid that it
destroys flow.
38. What are some techniques that you can use
to help you or staff stay focused while
curating content, doing social media tasks, or
email?
39.
40. A Few Tips
Manage Your Attention, Not Just Your
Time
Visualize on Paper
Establish Rituals
Reflection
Manage Electronic Distractions
Manage Physical Space
Just Say No
41. What small habit will you change?
To establish new attention
habits, start small, find a
place in your routine for new
behavior and repeat until
paying attention has become
a habit
What will you try? Write it
Source: Bandragirl: http://bandragirl.tumblr.com/
down.
42. Thank You!
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Here’s a little bit about me.I’ve been working in nonprofits for over 33 years and since 1992 nonprofit tech and training. I’ve been writing a blog, Beth’s Blog, for ten years at http://www.bethkanter.org. I’m currently Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for nonprofits and social media – where they’ve supported my research and writing of two books. First one, Networked Nonprofit w/Allison Fine in 2010. Talked about the how nonprofits need to change their work to embrace a networked way of working – wasn’t about just using the tools. My next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, with co-author KD Paine is due out this all. Meanwhile, through my work at Packard and with other organizations like IIE and the US Department of State, I’ve been designing and facilitating peer learning networks to build capacity of NGOs to embraced networked ways of working and build social media capacity. I just got back from India and launching a learning network of India NGOs that work in the area of Family Planning and Reproductive Health –the Networked Nonprofit Curriculum is based on the ideas in my book and uses cutting edge techniques in online networked peer learning – and I’ve been writing that on my blog.This year has been the year for training literally around the world – I’ve been working with NGOs in Rwanda, Kenya, Ethoipia, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Brasil, Pakistan, and India …..
This webinar is based on the article I wrote for the June edition of the NTEN Change journal while on several long haul jet plane rides.The whole issue is on content curation and I’d urge you to read because the articles are great. They cover how nonprofits can use curation as part of their content strategy. My article focuses on the art and practice of content curation and an overlooked benefit: building up staff expertise AND eliminating information overload.Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network. Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can actually be a method to tackle this problem. With so much information coming at us from social networks, web sites, emails, and other digital sources, we can no longer afford to just whine about it – content curation can empower us to win the battle over too much information.
I was lucky to have a front row seat at the beginning of the nonprofit tech field back in 1992 – when nonprofits were first exploring how the Internet could be used for activist and mission-driven work. I confess to being an early adopter – someone who overpaid for technology tools that didn’t work and still do that today.My first job in this area was with an online network called Arts Wire where I learned new technologies as they came out – like email, HTML, and created and lead trainings, provided online support. I was reflecting back to those days and I realized that part of my work included content curation, although at the time I didn’t call it that.
I maintained a site called “SpiderSchool” in 1994 for about five years – where I searched the web, reviewed, and shared resources about how nonprofits could use this new technology. I was doing content curation – where I was making sense of the web. When I look back on it compared today, there is so much more information being shared – it seems like it was a lot simpler
But I also taught many workshops where I included techniques on how to deal with information overload caused by using the Internet to get our work done …Fast forward to today, I link both these ideas, but have now realized that content curation – the good practice of it – can help reduce that feeling …
Here is the definition
http://www.flickr.com/photos/an_untrained_eye/2998277224/sizes/l/Poll Questions:1.) Is your nonprofit currently using content curation techniques to support an integrated content strategy …?-Not sure what that means-Thinking about it-Do it informally or occasionally-Content curation is an ongoing part of our content strategy2.) What is your biggest challenge to doing content curation on a consistent basis?Time to sort through all the crap to find the gemsGetting overwhelmed with the amount of contentEfficient work flowContextualizing, reviewing, and reading discovered contentFinding good, reliable sourcesContent curation is not valued in our nonprofitOther Challenges
Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community. It isn’t unlike what a museum curator does to produce an exhibition: They identify the theme, they provide the context, they decide which paintings to hang on the wall, how they should be annotated, and how they should be displayed for the public.http://www.flickr.com/photos/ica_mediatheque/3231821124/
What is content curation exactly? It isn’t mindless consumption of online informationCuration has nothing to do with personal expression or sharing nor with collecting links, tweets or blog posts that you may find interesting.Curation is all about "taking care" of something in the sense of helping someone "else" be able to dive in and make sense of a specific topic, issue, event or news story. It is about collecting, but it is also about explaining, illustrating, bringing in different points of view and updating the view as it changes. It is also about sharing with your community – not passing along stuff that you have not read or contextualize or shooting out links. But engaging in dialogue to help them make sense.
http://www.flickr.com/pI also like the metaphor of a sommelier. They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages. They taste many wines to find the best of the best to appropriately complement (even enhance) the food in the restaurant. They can answer questions about the wine to help diners navigate a wine list to make the best choice. The content curator does something similar, but with information.hotos/soavementeblog/6257528545/sizes/l/in/photostream/
One reason content curation is becoming more and more appreciated is because of the huge amount of information available on the web (the equivalent of cheap red wine).
Which makes it hard to find more of this …
There’s so much of it that it is now measured in exabytes, which is equal to a quintillion bytes. The creation and sharing of content on social media and social networks is contributing to this information overload.
Let’s do the math on Facebook for second …800 million users on Facebook x average user shares 90 pieces of content x 12 months … and you get the pictureThe average user on Facebook shares/creates 90 pieces of content a month. With over 800 million global users on Facebook, if you do the math – that’s a lot of information!http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkalo/4815259737/sizes/z/in/photostream/
We can’t blame it all on the amount of information. The problem is our information consumption —we’re indulging too much at the buffet called the web. We need to go on an information diet. And guess what? Mindful consumption of information is at the heart of content curation practice .
The act of content curation can actually reduce our information overload. I believe that sense-making, both individually and in collaborative contexts at work or networked projects, will be the key to navigating the digital information landscape and finding relevant content efficiently in the future.
Improve staff expertise: It used to be that we could be trained to do our work and we wouldn’t need to update and synthesize new information on a daily basis. That’s less true today – and the ability to keep with our fields – esp. through online information is really important.http://www.flickr.com/photos/elitepete/442095833/sizes/l/in/photostream/
A good content curator has developed and honed 21st century work place skills. So investing in the skill and practice you are increasing the longevity of your nonprofit long term.Transdisciplinarity: literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines. A good curator can appreciate content that is not, at first glance, related to their subject. Sense-making: ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed. Social intelligence: ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions. Cognitive load management: ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques. New media literacy: ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms, and to leverage these media for persuasive communication
You can be the Elvis of your nonprofit topic area … Doing content curation can help develop thought leader and brand visibility are the primary reason for nonprofit marketers to adopt content curationImprove Thought Leadership: If your organization is curating content on a particular topic, it can help with branding your organization as thought leaders in the space. If your staff is trained in the techniques of content curation, this process can be a form of professional development, building their expertise in a subject area that can, in turn, have significant returns to your organization’s programs. Better yet, this professional development is a self-directed activity – and it’s free! Not only are they learning on the job, but getting work done, too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/artgalleryofnsw/3699645649/sizes/o/Once you have a strategy plan in place, the next step is to select your curator. This may or may not be your social media manager or staff person. They should know the topic area, but also understand practice of curation. The secret to good curation is the selection of the best and most relevant material. A curator needs to have superb social media monitoring and listening skills — that means knowing the right keywords on the topic and sources, agility with “aggregator” tools, and the daily discipline of foraging for the best content and evaluating your finds before sharing. A content curator should never share something they have not actually read and thought about. The practice of curation is being able to sift through daily whirlwind of tweets, blog posts, and other content streams quickly in order to pick the right pieces that create an accurate view of the subject matter.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/salendron/947936275/Good curators are not packrats or aggregators, the pluck out the best and frame it for better understanding. Part of that might revising a headline, summarize the main points, and relating it back to your point of view.This is a hot debate in the content curator community: Are we creating and leveraging these tools to regurgitate and spit out more noise, or are we working to build tools and to help others understand the value of distilling and making sense of the information wave surrounding us?The debate in content curation circles is that we treat content curation as aggregation, then we’ll miss the point and just create noise. We don’t need more content, but a human point of view guided by intelligent tools- that can help others find and make sense of the information and resources out there.“…either be better at pump and dump than anyone else, get your numbers into the millions, outmass those that choose to use mass and always dance at the edge of spam (in which the number of those you offend or turn off forever keep increasing)…or Relentlessly focus.Prune your message and your list and build a reputation that’s worth owning and an audience that cares.Only one of these strategies builds an asset of value.”If your nonprofit is grappling with developing a content strategy and using content curation as a part of the mix, how will you keep your focus? For me, it is feeding and tuning the sources and the network, pausing, slowing down, and staying focus on a point of view.
http://www.bethkanter.org/good-curation-vs-bad-curation/What is good curation versus bad curation? The image is a remix of a presentation entitled ”Link Building by Imitation” and authored by link building expert Ross Hudgens — and explains the skill set pretty well.Here’s a great visualization of how different can be the traits of content re-use. In the left column you can see what would appear to be the ideal traits of a professional curator, while on the right you can immediately recognize the ones of scrapers, republishers, cheap aggregators and other “thin” publishers as Google would call them.I think it can serve as an excellent reference, when in doubt about whether you are still doing the right thing or not, when it comes to re-using and republishing other people content.You should NOT mix-up republishing, self-expression and easy-content-sharing with curation, because they are in fact at opposite extremes of the same spectrum.Robing Good’s detailed checklist of skills. If you follow his content curation activity, you’ll know that he practices what he preaches.• Optimizes• Edits• Formats• Selects• Excerpts• Writes• Classifies• Links• Personalizes• Vets• Credits• Filters• Taps• Suggests• Searches• Scouts• Hacks Filters and Searches• Is Transparent• Recommends• CrowdsourcesThe list of skills might, at first blush, feel like a lot of extra work. It isn’t once you’ve established good habits. And, the benefits of good curation far outweigh “bad curation.”
http://www.jarche.com/2010/10/network-learning-working-smarter/I’m a huge fan of Harold Jarche’s “Seek, Sense, Share” model for self-directed professional learning. The framework works well for content curation.Content curation is a three-part process: Seek, Sense, and Share. Finding the information (or “seeking”) is only one third of the task, as Mari Smith points out in this video about why curation is important and some tools for doing it. Making sense of the information is just as important. Sense-making can be as simple as how you annotate the links you share, the presentation, or what you’ve left out. Sense-making can be writing a blog post using the links or summarizing the key points in a presentation. But it has to support your organization’s communications objectives or your professional learning goals. Finally, the sharing: it’s about giving the best nuggets of content to your audience in a format that they can easily digest and apply.Putting content curation into practice is part art form, part science, but mostly about daily practice. You don’t need to do it for hours, but 20 minutes every day will help you develop and hone the skills. It is best to do the seeking part in small bursts to avoid feeling overwhelmed.
http://www.jarche.com/2010/10/network-learning-working-smarter/Keeping up to date in your field and finding content that will help you be more effective at work or build your organization’s reputation as thought leader Make sense of the information by creating a product or applying what you’ve learned.Exchanging resources, insights, and conversations with people in your network. Define objective, audience, and topicsOrganize sources Use discovery toolsScan more than you captureDon’t share unless it adds great valueDiscipline
http://www.jarche.com/2010/10/network-learning-working-smarter/Product – writing, report, presentation, memo, Annotate, Archive , ApplyMust add value to your workMake sense of the information by creating a product or applying what you’ve learned.
http://www.jarche.com/2010/10/network-learning-working-smarter/Product – writing, report, presentation, memo, Annotate, Archive , ApplyMust add value to your workMake sense of the information by creating a product or applying what you’ve learned.
Bruce Lesley is one of a growing number of nonprofit executive directors and senior leaders that use Twitter. And, he isn’t tweeting about what he ate for breakfast or one of his personal passions, basketball. He uses Twitter to curate information related to his organization’s mission and work as a bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families a priority in federal policy and budget decisions. He also uses content curation for sources for his guest blogging. His use of Twitter (and his organization’s use of Twitter and all communications channels for that matter) serve this intent:First Focus is working to change the dialogue around children’s issues by taking a cross-cutting and broad based approach to federal policy making. In all of our work, we seek to raise awareness regarding public policies impacting children and ensure that related programs have the resources necessary to help them grow up in a healthy and nurturing environment.If you take a look at Bruce Lesley’s Twitter stream, you will see that he is curating information on public policies impacting children. Bruce does his own curating, using Google Reader and FlipBoard. Any individual or nonprofit organization can curate information using these tools. They can make it strategic by linking the information to their mission. But what is the secret sauce to doing it well?
Bruce Lesley is one of a growing number of nonprofit executive directors and senior leaders that use Twitter. And, he isn’t tweeting about what he ate for breakfast or one of his personal passions, basketball. He uses Twitter to curate information related to his organization’s mission and work as a bipartisan advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families a priority in federal policy and budget decisions. He also uses content curation for sources for his guest blogging. His use of Twitter (and his organization’s use of Twitter and all communications channels for that matter) serve this intent:First Focus is working to change the dialogue around children’s issues by taking a cross-cutting and broad based approach to federal policy making. In all of our work, we seek to raise awareness regarding public policies impacting children and ensure that related programs have the resources necessary to help them grow up in a healthy and nurturing environment.If you take a look at Bruce Lesley’s Twitter stream, you will see that he is curating information on public policies impacting children. Bruce does his own curating, using Google Reader and FlipBoard. Any individual or nonprofit organization can curate information using these tools. They can make it strategic by linking the information to their mission. But what is the secret sauce to doing it well?
Note: This is not only the big outcomes, but also the evidence of peer learning work. ]You all have been doing amazing work since we last got together and your growing skills and networks really paid off recently with regard to the Supreme Court’s decision on the ACA. In her blog, Beth highlighted this day as one of those opportunities to balance strategic communications with the spontaneity of social media. You all jumped on this historic event and demonstrated your social media smarts, including:Being flexible and keeping it simple;Using multiple channels and shaping content for each channel;Leveraging the organic sharing properties of Facebook;Having a broad narrative in mind in advance (win, lose or something in between);Getting your social media ambassadors and “super-users” to help spread your message;Curating content from trusted sources; andFocusing on the story after the immediate announcement and providing analysis.There was a huge amount of activity across our network on decision day and it really was a great demonstration of putting into action what we have been learning as a peer community.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/waferboard/4153245628/Becoming “content fried” is a potential hazard for content curators, and that can get in the way of being efficient. In addition to the technical skills and tools described above, it is also important for staff to incorporate techniques into their daily work life that reduce distraction and stress.The seeking part of the work is a fast-forward, swimming-in-the-stream experience. I can’t possibly read everything, but my content curation skills help me pick out the best stuff to give more attention to. I find I can only do that work at certain times of the day or only for so long. The biggest difficulty I experience is the shifting from this forward-flowing process of consuming, curating, and sense-making of content to learn versus to get something done. The latter requires a different type of attention, so it is good to schedule accordingly.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/nomophobia-attacks-harris-says-74-of-users-panic-over-phone-loss-58-of-us-cant-stay-away-from-mobiles-for-more-than-an-hour/We have to cover a lot of ground in our work today and do it while logged on to the greatest tool for distraction and procrastination ever invented! And now we can access the Internet anytime, anywherehttp://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/nomophobia-attacks-harris-says-74-of-users-panic-over-phone-loss-58-of-us-cant-stay-away-from-mobiles-for-more-than-an-hour/Nearly 60% said they don’t go an hour without checking their phone. Younger folks were the most addicted: 63% of women and 73% of men ages 18-34 say they don’t go an hour without checking their phones.Our connection never sleeps. 54% said they check their phones while lying in bed: before they go to sleep, after they wake up, even in the middle of the night.We need access everywhere. Nearly 40% admit to checking their phone while on the toilet.Learning how to use mindfulnessonline is an essential work place skill!
What is mindful social media?Becoming aware of how you direct your attention – both online and offlineContentcuration online does not control your awareness – you can take control back and through repeated conscious efforts
1.) Manage Your Attention, Not Just Your Time: Don’t just create a to-do list, lay it out on daily and weekly schedules, breaking down key tasks of the project into chunks. Consider the level of concentration and focus that each type of task or chunk requires – and schedule accordingly. For example, if I have to do some writing that requires a higher level of attention for me than does scanning Twitter or reading and responding to email,I schedule my writing time during peak concentration hours in the day. (I’ve charted those – so I know when they occur). I also use a timer when I’m scanning my networks and limit those activities to 15-20 minute bursts.2.) Visualize On Paper: Over the past 10 months, I’ve made a return to paper and markers and using mind maps or visualization techniques to reflect, and plan my week or day. I use this as a pre-writing exercise as well as a reflection exercise. It’s why I felt the need to dive into visual facilitation and thinking techniques as a way to cope with getting “content fried.”3.) Establish Rituals: Rituals in your work life are valuable. The mind map offers a lot of good suggestions for rituals – from decluttering your workspace to healthy habits like sleep and exercise.4.) Reflection: Reflection doesn’t have to be a huge amount of time to be effective. I’m taking ten minutes every morning to practice some visual recording skills like drawing to create my “3 Most Important Things for Today List.” At the end of the day, I look at it, reflect on what I did – and plan for tomorrow. The advice is not to go online or check email until you get your three things done, but that is very hard for me – given so much of my work is online. What I do is try to avoid email first thing in the morning.5.) Managing Email and Other Distractions: I’ve turned off notifications that pop up on my computer screen or send me a text message to my mobile phone.6.) Managing Physical Space: When I see clutter in my physical work spaces, I try to take that as a sign that I need to hit a pause button. Usually it is because I’m doing too much.7.) Just Say No: Maybe you are going to say no to social media for a day and go to meet with people, take a class, read a book, or take a walk. When I’m feeling most overwhelmed, I take a break. Even if it is just to get up and walk around my desk.
There are many content curation tools and they call into two categorieshttp://bit.ly/curation-tools-Robin-Good