The document summarizes the "Bridges to Benefits" outreach campaign being conducted by the Massachusetts Broadband Institute to promote their Benefits Finder portal. It outlines three types of outreach campaigns: 1) "Digital Bridges" to provide digital literacy training to veterans, 2) "Physical Bridges" for in-person outreach, and 3) a website to support the efforts. It then discusses pillars of the campaign including a focus on veterans, building community, and creating access to benefits. Key audiences are identified as veterans and families, content providers for the portal, and advocates to promote the portal.
The document discusses emerging technologies and their impact on digital communication and customer experiences. It provides examples of how technologies like RFID, digital archives, and interactive mirrors are being used by brands like Levi's and Polo Ralph Lauren to enhance in-store shopping and inspire customer loyalty. Retailers are looking for new ways to personalize the customer experience and drive brand engagement using innovative applications of emerging technologies.
This document outlines a proposed web-based service to help newly arrived women orient themselves to life in London. It would be structured based on common issues women face, like childcare or understanding paperwork, rather than bureaucratic categories. Stories from women's experiences would provide context for information. This approach aims to build users' confidence and language skills while efficiently connecting them to relevant services. The benefits would include improved social inclusion and community integration for women, and an effective outreach tool for service providers.
The document outlines BYO consulting's process for developing a constituent engagement strategy for the American Architectural Foundation (AAF). BYO used a human-centered design process including discovery tools like interviews and surveys to understand AAF's audiences. They developed a range of engagement strategy options and tested them with stakeholders. The final strategy was presented to AAF and BYO will support implementation, with the goal of strengthening community and raising AAF's profile.
This document provides information on several advanced digital tools that can help Veterans Service Officers stay organized and conduct their work remotely. It lists tools for tracking expenses, conducting video calls, keeping client notes, managing projects and calendars, creating and storing documents online, file storage in the cloud, sending and receiving faxes via email, scanning documents, and searching documents.
The document proposes three scalable projects for public libraries:
1) An "Adopt-a-Librarian" program that pairs technology experts with librarians to mentor them on emerging tech trends.
2) Hosting quarterly "Backstage Tours" of the libraries for local tech leaders to educate them about library operations and turn them into advocates.
3) A "Geeks in Residence" program that provides workspace for tech entrepreneurs in exchange for volunteering time to engage with patrons and train staff. The goal is to keep librarians up-to-date on tech and build community partnerships.
A Really Simple Guide to Digital Inclusion clarewhite
Created to share ideas from the National Digital Conference 09 in London and to start discussions on digital inclusion in organisations and networks.
Thanks for useful feedback at http://net.digitalengagement.org/profiles/blogs/sharing-the-digital-inclusion
The document discusses emerging technologies and their impact on digital communication and customer experiences. It provides examples of how technologies like RFID, digital archives, and interactive mirrors are being used by brands like Levi's and Polo Ralph Lauren to enhance in-store shopping and inspire customer loyalty. Retailers are looking for new ways to personalize the customer experience and drive brand engagement using innovative applications of emerging technologies.
This document outlines a proposed web-based service to help newly arrived women orient themselves to life in London. It would be structured based on common issues women face, like childcare or understanding paperwork, rather than bureaucratic categories. Stories from women's experiences would provide context for information. This approach aims to build users' confidence and language skills while efficiently connecting them to relevant services. The benefits would include improved social inclusion and community integration for women, and an effective outreach tool for service providers.
The document outlines BYO consulting's process for developing a constituent engagement strategy for the American Architectural Foundation (AAF). BYO used a human-centered design process including discovery tools like interviews and surveys to understand AAF's audiences. They developed a range of engagement strategy options and tested them with stakeholders. The final strategy was presented to AAF and BYO will support implementation, with the goal of strengthening community and raising AAF's profile.
This document provides information on several advanced digital tools that can help Veterans Service Officers stay organized and conduct their work remotely. It lists tools for tracking expenses, conducting video calls, keeping client notes, managing projects and calendars, creating and storing documents online, file storage in the cloud, sending and receiving faxes via email, scanning documents, and searching documents.
The document proposes three scalable projects for public libraries:
1) An "Adopt-a-Librarian" program that pairs technology experts with librarians to mentor them on emerging tech trends.
2) Hosting quarterly "Backstage Tours" of the libraries for local tech leaders to educate them about library operations and turn them into advocates.
3) A "Geeks in Residence" program that provides workspace for tech entrepreneurs in exchange for volunteering time to engage with patrons and train staff. The goal is to keep librarians up-to-date on tech and build community partnerships.
A Really Simple Guide to Digital Inclusion clarewhite
Created to share ideas from the National Digital Conference 09 in London and to start discussions on digital inclusion in organisations and networks.
Thanks for useful feedback at http://net.digitalengagement.org/profiles/blogs/sharing-the-digital-inclusion
In an information rich world, librarians need to move beyond services and consider how they can design a library where they differentiate themselves and create experiences for people that they engage with.
Absolute Pakistan is a proposed crowd-sourced web platform that invites the nation of Pakistan to share stories of everyday people who have done amazing things but never received recognition. The platform aims to highlight positive stories from Pakistan to counter negative media portrayals and inspire unity. Users would submit stories through the website, which would then be featured across social media for public voting. The top stories each week would be featured in a video. The goal is to recognize outstanding individuals, inspire more good works, and potentially connect nominees with investors to help their ideas. Partners are sought to help amplify the platform's presence and invest in creating an enabling platform to develop community members and digital success stories for Pakistan.
The document provides information about an organization called Messrs G Owen & Co that maintains websites and online directories with resources and contacts to help homeless people, including listings of night shelters. It discusses the organization's efforts to engage with homeless individuals through various online services and resources, including podcasts and live chat functions on their website. The organization relies on grants and donations to maintain these services and provides annual reports on contributions received and how funds are used to benefit homeless and rough sleepers.
The Library as a gamechanger in times of social crisisLiz McGettigan
TURNING WHISPERS INTO ROARS – THE LIBRARY - THE GAMECHANGER IN TIMES OF SOCIAL CRISIS
As the threat from Covid-19 increased, library services across the world rapidly realigned, this period saw a dramatic transition to online-only provision of library services, operations, access to collections, and audience engagement at an unprecedented speed. This DIGITAL PIVOT provided a shift for us from collections to connections to supporting our communities, their learning, the caring and new programming. It is a unique moment in time for us to explore opportunities and experiences during this period of extraordinary and rapid service realignment. Now is the time to capitalise on how libraries have supported their communities, to build on the success and promotion that the digital pivot provides. The opportunities this has presented for the library’s audience to shift, grow and change, bringing more people into contact with the library, in different ways, and for different purposes.
Social Media Strategies For Membership Recruitment & RetentionMark Buzan
The document discusses social media strategies for non-profits, including membership recruitment and retention initiatives. It provides tips on developing a social media presence, engaging current and potential new members, and creating content for different social media platforms. The presentation emphasizes using a combination of push and pull marketing tactics to maximize outreach efforts.
This document discusses building social engines to drive business through social media presence, community building, and business development. It promotes using content management systems like Joomla to create mobile-friendly websites and apps to socialize technology. It emphasizes socializing your business by meeting people in person, broadcasting your message, and delivering your authentic self through pivotal real-world interactions. The overall message is that an effective social media strategy involves getting away from computers and actively engaging with others face-to-face.
Virtual Life Stories aims to provide an invaluable service during grieving by allowing customers to create life stories for loved ones who have passed away or themselves to preserve memories indefinitely. The company was founded in 2014 after one co-founder had the idea to memorialize lives after visiting a cemetery. Virtual Life Stories allows users to upload photos, videos, audio and text to create personalized webpages that can be viewed and shared by others as a way to remember lives and pass on treasured memories that may otherwise be forgotten over time.
Virtual Life Stories aims to provide an invaluable service during grieving by allowing customers to create life stories for loved ones who have passed away or themselves to preserve memories indefinitely. The company was founded in 2014 after one co-founder had the idea to memorialize lives after visiting a cemetery. Virtual Life Stories allows users to upload photos, videos, audio and text to create personalized webpages that can be viewed and shared by others as a way to remember lives and pass on treasured memories that may otherwise be forgotten over time.
This document proposes partnering with cultural heritage organizations to create a web-based site for them to engage online. It discusses developing a prototype project with the Westport Historical Society called "Uncovering Westport" that allows users to explore the town through different historical eras and themes on an interactive map. The goal is to engage communities and allow organizations to create and maintain a web presence using open-source tools like Wordpress, Google Maps, Flickr, and YouTube without needing significant funds or expertise. A workplan for the prototype is outlined focusing on key moments in Westport's history to draw on living community memories.
Mobile vikings wallet -Vlerick MFM Workshop 'Mobile Banking and Payments’Vlerick_Alumni
Mobile Vikings is a community-driven mobile operator that uses a unique marketing model. It has over 145,000 members and generates over 2.8 million euros in monthly revenue with high customer retention rates. Mobile Vikings communicates directly with customers through social media instead of traditional marketing and has a very small staff that provides customer support through the community. The company is looking to grow its partner ecosystem to provide additional services like financial, retail, and technology integrations to further enhance the community experience.
Mobile Vikings is a community-driven mobile operator that uses a unique marketing model. It has over 145,000 members and generates over 2.8 million euros in monthly revenue with high customer retention rates. Mobile Vikings communicates directly with customers through social media instead of traditional marketing and has a very small staff. It is working to develop additional services like VoIP, prepaid cards, and location-based loyalty programs that are integrated into a mobile wallet platform. The company sees partnerships as key to continuing innovation and bringing new products and services to its community-driven membership base.
This document promotes an online media company that specializes in social media marketing and driving traffic to entertainment channels and websites. It offers various free marketing services to promote clients' properties, including a landing page, homepage placement, social media promotion, and video submission. It also discusses using mobile marketing and social media to engage customers and enhance experiences. The company distributes entertainment programming about Las Vegas through its "Vegas On Demand" TV channel.
The document discusses how digital technologies have changed marketing strategies from one-to-many push marketing to many-to-many engagement. It emphasizes engaging audiences by providing relevant and valuable content to different groups at different engagement levels. Examples show targeting the right audiences in the right places with the right content, such as informative newsletters, media kits, and social media integration. The key is developing positive relationships through generosity and sharing expertise.
The Public Relations Society of America created a new definition of PR in 2011 to reflect how PR now operates within the digital age where user generated content and engagement are essential. Modern PR creates and manages new media like social media and blogs, and engages customers and journalists through new media outlets. For the Ventura Visitor's Center PR to succeed, it must capture stories that people are engaged with, help create, and will share with friends by providing easily shareable, relatable content. The PR plan outlines strategies like blogging regularly, curating user generated local stories and images, and directing journalists to website content instead of press releases to encourage sharing and engagement.
Great expectations - students today, employees tomorrowStuart McIntyre
This document provides an overview of Cardiff University's efforts to promote collaboration using digital tools. It discusses challenges like supporting a diverse student body and mobile access. Students now expect ubiquitous access via smartphones and tablets. The presentation examines the student lifecycle from prospective to alumni and how tools can enhance each stage. It also differentiates systems of record from systems of engagement and how communities fit in. The goal is to provide students a distinctive experience through enhanced collaboration both within and outside the university.
Veterans and residents of Red Hook, Brooklyn can work together to address the community's needs by mapping its human capital and connecting skills to opportunities. The proposal seeks $5,000 to fund an initial proof of concept where veterans are trained to help identify community skills and needs. This information would be shared transparently and used to support locally-owned projects and solutions decided by community voting. The goal is to create a sustainable process where veterans and residents improve their community by tapping into existing knowledge and abilities.
At Vireo Research our philosophy is simple: Be curious!
With this as our motivator, we bring an unparalleled level of enthusiasm for social trends and all things that people unearth, embrace or reject. We want to know the WHY, WHERE, WHAT and HOW.
Our goal is to elicit clarity on attitudes, behaviors and values in a hyper-media, super-social consumer-driven world.
This means data is the currency within the marketing and communication universe. We will work with you and the people that matter most to you - consumers - to unearth the insights you need to grow your brand.
To learn more, contact us at: becurious@vireoresearch.com
The Digital Diaspora Family Reunion is an interactive public media project that uses multimedia like uploaded family photos to engage audiences. It empowers individuals and communities to share their lives and photos. The key feature is interactivity, allowing users to easily upload, tag and share their photo collections globally or with select people. The goal is to inspire visual literacy, intergenerational dialogue, and appreciation of family archives.
This document provides information about an event showcasing Finnish design and technology including different exhibitors. It outlines the guest orientation process with guests being checked in and given information cards about the exhibitors. The exhibitors included companies and brands focused on industrial design, fashion, food, drinks, technology, mobile services, and music.
20121112 ma veterans portal design process classYasmin Fodil
BYO consulting designed requirements for a Massachusetts veterans benefits portal to provide easy online access to relevant information. Through user research, BYO found the current system too complex. The new portal guides veterans through a diagnostic to recommend tailored benefits, simplifying an overwhelming process. Key features include personalized recommendations based on user input and ratings to share experiences and help others. The streamlined design focuses on critical information without unnecessary social elements.
In an information rich world, librarians need to move beyond services and consider how they can design a library where they differentiate themselves and create experiences for people that they engage with.
Absolute Pakistan is a proposed crowd-sourced web platform that invites the nation of Pakistan to share stories of everyday people who have done amazing things but never received recognition. The platform aims to highlight positive stories from Pakistan to counter negative media portrayals and inspire unity. Users would submit stories through the website, which would then be featured across social media for public voting. The top stories each week would be featured in a video. The goal is to recognize outstanding individuals, inspire more good works, and potentially connect nominees with investors to help their ideas. Partners are sought to help amplify the platform's presence and invest in creating an enabling platform to develop community members and digital success stories for Pakistan.
The document provides information about an organization called Messrs G Owen & Co that maintains websites and online directories with resources and contacts to help homeless people, including listings of night shelters. It discusses the organization's efforts to engage with homeless individuals through various online services and resources, including podcasts and live chat functions on their website. The organization relies on grants and donations to maintain these services and provides annual reports on contributions received and how funds are used to benefit homeless and rough sleepers.
The Library as a gamechanger in times of social crisisLiz McGettigan
TURNING WHISPERS INTO ROARS – THE LIBRARY - THE GAMECHANGER IN TIMES OF SOCIAL CRISIS
As the threat from Covid-19 increased, library services across the world rapidly realigned, this period saw a dramatic transition to online-only provision of library services, operations, access to collections, and audience engagement at an unprecedented speed. This DIGITAL PIVOT provided a shift for us from collections to connections to supporting our communities, their learning, the caring and new programming. It is a unique moment in time for us to explore opportunities and experiences during this period of extraordinary and rapid service realignment. Now is the time to capitalise on how libraries have supported their communities, to build on the success and promotion that the digital pivot provides. The opportunities this has presented for the library’s audience to shift, grow and change, bringing more people into contact with the library, in different ways, and for different purposes.
Social Media Strategies For Membership Recruitment & RetentionMark Buzan
The document discusses social media strategies for non-profits, including membership recruitment and retention initiatives. It provides tips on developing a social media presence, engaging current and potential new members, and creating content for different social media platforms. The presentation emphasizes using a combination of push and pull marketing tactics to maximize outreach efforts.
This document discusses building social engines to drive business through social media presence, community building, and business development. It promotes using content management systems like Joomla to create mobile-friendly websites and apps to socialize technology. It emphasizes socializing your business by meeting people in person, broadcasting your message, and delivering your authentic self through pivotal real-world interactions. The overall message is that an effective social media strategy involves getting away from computers and actively engaging with others face-to-face.
Virtual Life Stories aims to provide an invaluable service during grieving by allowing customers to create life stories for loved ones who have passed away or themselves to preserve memories indefinitely. The company was founded in 2014 after one co-founder had the idea to memorialize lives after visiting a cemetery. Virtual Life Stories allows users to upload photos, videos, audio and text to create personalized webpages that can be viewed and shared by others as a way to remember lives and pass on treasured memories that may otherwise be forgotten over time.
Virtual Life Stories aims to provide an invaluable service during grieving by allowing customers to create life stories for loved ones who have passed away or themselves to preserve memories indefinitely. The company was founded in 2014 after one co-founder had the idea to memorialize lives after visiting a cemetery. Virtual Life Stories allows users to upload photos, videos, audio and text to create personalized webpages that can be viewed and shared by others as a way to remember lives and pass on treasured memories that may otherwise be forgotten over time.
This document proposes partnering with cultural heritage organizations to create a web-based site for them to engage online. It discusses developing a prototype project with the Westport Historical Society called "Uncovering Westport" that allows users to explore the town through different historical eras and themes on an interactive map. The goal is to engage communities and allow organizations to create and maintain a web presence using open-source tools like Wordpress, Google Maps, Flickr, and YouTube without needing significant funds or expertise. A workplan for the prototype is outlined focusing on key moments in Westport's history to draw on living community memories.
Mobile vikings wallet -Vlerick MFM Workshop 'Mobile Banking and Payments’Vlerick_Alumni
Mobile Vikings is a community-driven mobile operator that uses a unique marketing model. It has over 145,000 members and generates over 2.8 million euros in monthly revenue with high customer retention rates. Mobile Vikings communicates directly with customers through social media instead of traditional marketing and has a very small staff that provides customer support through the community. The company is looking to grow its partner ecosystem to provide additional services like financial, retail, and technology integrations to further enhance the community experience.
Mobile Vikings is a community-driven mobile operator that uses a unique marketing model. It has over 145,000 members and generates over 2.8 million euros in monthly revenue with high customer retention rates. Mobile Vikings communicates directly with customers through social media instead of traditional marketing and has a very small staff. It is working to develop additional services like VoIP, prepaid cards, and location-based loyalty programs that are integrated into a mobile wallet platform. The company sees partnerships as key to continuing innovation and bringing new products and services to its community-driven membership base.
This document promotes an online media company that specializes in social media marketing and driving traffic to entertainment channels and websites. It offers various free marketing services to promote clients' properties, including a landing page, homepage placement, social media promotion, and video submission. It also discusses using mobile marketing and social media to engage customers and enhance experiences. The company distributes entertainment programming about Las Vegas through its "Vegas On Demand" TV channel.
The document discusses how digital technologies have changed marketing strategies from one-to-many push marketing to many-to-many engagement. It emphasizes engaging audiences by providing relevant and valuable content to different groups at different engagement levels. Examples show targeting the right audiences in the right places with the right content, such as informative newsletters, media kits, and social media integration. The key is developing positive relationships through generosity and sharing expertise.
The Public Relations Society of America created a new definition of PR in 2011 to reflect how PR now operates within the digital age where user generated content and engagement are essential. Modern PR creates and manages new media like social media and blogs, and engages customers and journalists through new media outlets. For the Ventura Visitor's Center PR to succeed, it must capture stories that people are engaged with, help create, and will share with friends by providing easily shareable, relatable content. The PR plan outlines strategies like blogging regularly, curating user generated local stories and images, and directing journalists to website content instead of press releases to encourage sharing and engagement.
Great expectations - students today, employees tomorrowStuart McIntyre
This document provides an overview of Cardiff University's efforts to promote collaboration using digital tools. It discusses challenges like supporting a diverse student body and mobile access. Students now expect ubiquitous access via smartphones and tablets. The presentation examines the student lifecycle from prospective to alumni and how tools can enhance each stage. It also differentiates systems of record from systems of engagement and how communities fit in. The goal is to provide students a distinctive experience through enhanced collaboration both within and outside the university.
Veterans and residents of Red Hook, Brooklyn can work together to address the community's needs by mapping its human capital and connecting skills to opportunities. The proposal seeks $5,000 to fund an initial proof of concept where veterans are trained to help identify community skills and needs. This information would be shared transparently and used to support locally-owned projects and solutions decided by community voting. The goal is to create a sustainable process where veterans and residents improve their community by tapping into existing knowledge and abilities.
At Vireo Research our philosophy is simple: Be curious!
With this as our motivator, we bring an unparalleled level of enthusiasm for social trends and all things that people unearth, embrace or reject. We want to know the WHY, WHERE, WHAT and HOW.
Our goal is to elicit clarity on attitudes, behaviors and values in a hyper-media, super-social consumer-driven world.
This means data is the currency within the marketing and communication universe. We will work with you and the people that matter most to you - consumers - to unearth the insights you need to grow your brand.
To learn more, contact us at: becurious@vireoresearch.com
The Digital Diaspora Family Reunion is an interactive public media project that uses multimedia like uploaded family photos to engage audiences. It empowers individuals and communities to share their lives and photos. The key feature is interactivity, allowing users to easily upload, tag and share their photo collections globally or with select people. The goal is to inspire visual literacy, intergenerational dialogue, and appreciation of family archives.
This document provides information about an event showcasing Finnish design and technology including different exhibitors. It outlines the guest orientation process with guests being checked in and given information cards about the exhibitors. The exhibitors included companies and brands focused on industrial design, fashion, food, drinks, technology, mobile services, and music.
20121112 ma veterans portal design process classYasmin Fodil
BYO consulting designed requirements for a Massachusetts veterans benefits portal to provide easy online access to relevant information. Through user research, BYO found the current system too complex. The new portal guides veterans through a diagnostic to recommend tailored benefits, simplifying an overwhelming process. Key features include personalized recommendations based on user input and ratings to share experiences and help others. The streamlined design focuses on critical information without unnecessary social elements.
NYU Wagner Digital Innovation Lab, Class 1Yasmin Fodil
This document summarizes the first class of a Digital Innovation Lab. The class included an introduction, workshop, and wrap-up section. It covered topics like disruptive and radical digital innovation, iterative design principles, and assignment deliverables. Students will work in teams and provide peer feedback on pitch decks and problem statements. The final assignment is for students to present their funding pitches.
Improving the Coworking Experience in New York City (NYC)Yasmin Fodil
We approached this exploration from a service design perspective – analyzing how the design of the space, facilities and amenities offered, staff involvement, and coworker interaction affects the experience and addresses the needs of coworkers in that space.
We found that coworking spaces in NYC cater to a wide range of professionals; from artists, to lawyers, to coders, to filmmakers – and come in many shapes and sizes. Through our exploration of local spaces and their members we realized that there is no one set of standards that all coworking spaces should follow. Companies have a variety of differing requirements and desires in mind during their search for the ideal coworking space.
Yasmin introduces herself and her background, including her education at Harvard Kennedy School and Cornell University. She founded BYO consulting, a strategy consultancy that uses design and technology to address public problems. The document discusses frameworks for civic engagement, including levels of participation and considerations for engaging residents through online strategies and addressing barriers to participation.
The document outlines different levels of engagement between institutions and audiences from listening to making decisions together. It presents a scale ranging from sharing information to co-designing initiatives to devolving authority, with the highest level being making decisions together. The levels also correspond to increasing audience reactions from sharing to co-designing to making decisions.
BYO consulting helps clients use design and technology to improve the world. The document presents a proprietary audience engagement model with three levels of engagement - listening, sharing, and co-designing - that correspond to how audiences react. It also shows an ecosystem model with people at the core and projects, organizations, and the ecosystem surrounding them to demonstrate a people-centered design approach that persuades and generates revenue.
Finnish design is known for its simplicity, functionality and natural materials. The Finnish embrace the concept of "less is more" by focusing on high quality, timeless pieces made to last. Their designs emphasize sustainability and connection to nature through the use of wood, stone and other natural elements that blend seamlessly into the Nordic landscape.
Ma veterans portal design process 20111207 finalYasmin Fodil
This document provides an overview of the design process for a new Veteran and Family Portal. It describes conducting discovery research including interviews with veterans to understand their needs and challenges in accessing benefits information. The design process involved stakeholder workshops and user testing to refine concepts. The final design concept for the portal includes a diagnostic questionnaire to provide personalized recommendations on relevant benefits, along with features for veterans to rate and comment on services to help their peers. The goal is to simplify the process of finding benefits information for veterans.
This case study describes the process we used to design the requirements for a new application that better serves Veterans on the web. Human Centered Design // Ideation // Innovation // Government.
Social Media & Civic Engagement: Findings And Recommendations Summary TableYasmin Fodil
The following document is a two-page summary of the Recommendaitons and Findings from our main reseach report on Using Social Media to Enhance Civic Engagement in U.S. Federal Agencies.
Using Social Media to Enhance Civic Participation: Executive Summary and Guid...Yasmin Fodil
This document is an abridged version of our full report Using Social Media to Enhance Civic Engagement in U.S. Federal Agencies, and includes our executive summary of findings and recommendations as well as a set of tools that agencies can use to help with implementation.
Using Social Media to Enhance Civic Engagement in U.S. Federal AgenciesYasmin Fodil
This report was created by Yasmin Fodil and Anna York for their Harvard Kennedy School masters thesis, and looks at the use of social media to enhance civic participation in the United States and the United Kingdom in order to make recommendations to U.S. federal agencies on how to move forward.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
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1. Massachusetts Broadband Institute !
Bridges to Benefits: Outreach + Digital Literacy !
Prepared by: BYO consulting!
Prepared on: 14 March 2012!
2. Types of Bridges to Benefits Campaigns:!
1! 2! 3!
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needed to access the portal. ! our outreach efforts. !
When the MBI launches the Benefits Finder they will also announce their affiliated outreach
efforts – the “Bridges to Benefits” Campaign. The name weʼve chosen is intentional and will give
people a sense of our vested interest in connecting people with information – all of our outreach
efforts can be seen as creating a “bridge to benefits. !
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by
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3. Types of Bridges to Benefits Campaigns:!
1! 2! 3!
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! – from digital natives to Although we are focusing heavily BYOall ofbuildabove resources as
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veterans ! the portal is a digital
initiative, ! will the a wordpress site to
host
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can meet our veterans
that we
! byThis various audienceas
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members.
our
website will act
knowledge and awareness family members where they are. ! a hub that supports and chronicles
needed to access the portal. ! our outreach efforts. !
When the MBI launches the Benefits Finder they will also announce their affiliated outreach
efforts – the “Bridges to Benefits” Campaign. The name weʼve chosen is intentional and will give
people a sense of our vested interest in connecting people with information – all of our outreach
efforts can be seen as creating a “bridge to benefits. !
Prepared
by
BYO
consul4ng
LLC
2011
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4. Types of Bridges to Benefits Campaigns:!
1! 2! 3!
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veterans ! the portal is a digital
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knowledge and awareness family members where they are. ! This website will act as a hub that
needed to access the portal. ! supports and chronicles our
outreach efforts. !
When the MBI launches the Benefits Finder they will also announce their affiliated outreach
efforts – the “Bridges to Benefits” Campaign. The name weʼve chosen is intentional and will give
people a sense of our vested interest in connecting people with information – all of our outreach
efforts can be seen as creating a “bridge to benefits. !
Prepared
by
BYO
consul4ng
LLC
2011
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5. Campaign Development Pillars!
Focus on Veterans - We have designed each campaign to be
accessible and attractive to our unique community. !
!
Build Community - Weʼve integrated traditional organizing methods
so that 1) we reach the specific audiences we need to reach our
deployment goals 2) outreach is not just limited to one instance of
communication but rather sustained by a strong community of
supporters and 3) creates meaningful change. !
!
Create meaningful bridges to benefits - Our most important goal
is to help veterans use the web to access the services + benefits
they need and deserve. All of our campaigns are designed to be a
bridge to those benefits. !
!
6. Weʼve identified three audience categories critical to success:!
1. Veterans + Family Members ! 3. Advocates !
This is our core user group who will use the portal to find information about the benefits This is the group of people who will
and services. ! ensure that veterans, their family
! members, and our content
Low Need Veterans: Low need veterans are relatively stable and less in need of providers know about the portal. !
services and benefits. However, it is important that they know about the portal and − Faith-based leaders !
share it with others who might be in need. ! − Elected Officials !
! − Educational institutions!
High Need Veterans: High need veterans need our services but may not have − Non-elected government
access to the information or resources to do so. It is important that we connect with officials in MA !
them in the places they reside, and connect with the people who surround them. ! − Service providers outside
! of MA !
Family Members: Family members may have service needs and may also be
− Military officials (Defense,
searching on behalf their loved ones. Conducting outreach to family members, and
giving them an opportunity to participate in outreach will be critical to our success.!
Navy, Army, Air Force,
Marine Corps, National
Guard, etc) !
2. Content Providers! − Family Readiness Groups !
This is the group of individuals and organizations who we will rely on to provide information − Veteran Serving
to the portal. ! Organizations (national
! advocacy + policy groups,
VSOs: VSOs often have high case loads, and are looking for a high quality American Legion, VFW,
resource to use. They are veterans, and care about the wellbeing of their etc) !
brothers and sisters in service. Our job is to make their lives easier, and get − Employers !
them invested in the success of the portal. ! − Concerned Citizens !
! − Individuals (Craig
Service Providers: Service providers are at the front-lines helping veterans, Newmark, etc) !
and similar to the VSOs it is critical that they are invested in the success of − Foundations!
the portal. !
7. Outreach Goals!
1. Provide access to high quality content !
!Veterans + families: Access the benefits !
!Content providers: Provide and maintain content !
!Advocates: Spread the word about the finder!
!
2. Reach a large percentage of veterans + families in MA!
!Veterans + families: Share with loved ones!
!Content providers: Refer veterans + family members!
!Advocates: Spread Advocate for support in MA !
!
3. Sustain the site in MA and share the model nationally !
!Veterans + families: Advocate within their veterans community!
!Content providers: Advocate to service providers and MA leadership!
!Advocates: Spread Advocate strategy in other states !
!
9. 1. Digital Literacy!
2. Social Media Toolkit! In the following section we
3. Online Influencers! will describe all of our
4. Email Content! Bridges to
5. Launch Committee!
6. Advisory Committee!
Benefits Outreach
7. Proxy Team! Campaigns. !
8. Community Links!
9. Roadshow !
10. Unconference!
11. App Competition!
12. Story Sharing!
10. 1. Digital Literacy! We have two components to
2. Social Media Toolkit! our digital literacy campaign:!
3. Online Influencers! !
4. Email Content! - Basic Digital Literacy - all
5. Launch Committee! the info users need to
6. Advisory Committee! navigate the web to the
portal !
7. Proxy Team!
- VSO Digital Literacy - web-
8. Community Links! based tools that will help
9. Roadshow ! VSOs improve their
10. Unconference! workflow !
11. App Competition! !
12. Story Sharing!
11. 1. Digital Literacy!
Our social media toolkit gives
2. Social Media Toolkit! the Benefit Finder community
3. Online Influencers! manager everything they
4. Email Content! need to know to plan,
5. Launch Committee! execute, and evaluate social
6. Advisory Committee! media campaigns on the
following platforms: !
7. Proxy Team!
- Facebook!
8. Community Links! - Twitter!
9. Roadshow ! - Linkedin !
10. Unconference! - Tumblr !
11. App Competition! !
12. Story Sharing!
12. 1. Digital Literacy!
2. Social Media Toolkit! Online influencers will help us
get the word out to a large
3. Online Influencers! community of people
4. Email Content! interested in Government 2.0,
5. Launch Committee! Open Government,
6. Advisory Committee! Technology, and Veterans
Issues, giving us the traction
7. Proxy Team!
we need to create a
8. Community Links! sustainable movement
9. Roadshow ! around the Portal. !
10. Unconference!
11. App Competition!
12. Story Sharing!
13. 1. Digital Literacy!
2. Social Media Toolkit! The Email Content Strategy
3. Online Influencers! will result in a content
calendar for the types of
4. Email Content! information to be shared with
5. Launch Committee! the various communities we
6. Advisory Committee! will be engaging.
Furthermore, this strategy will
7. Proxy Team!
include recommendations for
8. Community Links! Email Management systems
9. Roadshow ! and metrics to measure the
10. Unconference! efficacy of email campaigns. !
11. App Competition!
12. Story Sharing!
14. 1. Digital Literacy!
2. Social Media Toolkit! The launch committee will be
3. Online Influencers! comprised of our most
important advocates who will
4. Email Content!
write op-eds, speak at the
5. Launch Committee! press conference, and write
6. Advisory Committee! blog posts in coordination
with the portal launch,
7. Proxy Team!
creating a surge of publicity
8. Community Links! for us. !
9. Roadshow !
10. Unconference!
11. App Competition!
12. Story Sharing!
15. 1. Digital Literacy!
2. Social Media Toolkit! The advisory committee will
3. Online Influencers! be comprised of individuals
who are a sounding board for
4. Email Content!
the project, and who provide
5. Launch Committee!
feedback and advice on the
6. Advisory Committee! ongoing direction of our
7. Proxy Team! efforts. !
8. Community Links!
9. Roadshow !
10. Unconference!
11. App Competition!
12. Story Sharing!
16. 1. Digital Literacy!
2. Social Media Toolkit! The Proxy Team will
3. Online Influencers! represent the project at
networking events throughout
4. Email Content!
the veterans, government,
5. Launch Committee!
design, and technology
6. Advisory Committee! communities and conduct
7. Proxy Team! outreach to veterans and
their families. We will provide
8. Community Links!
them with all the information
9. Roadshow ! and tools they need to
10. Unconference! represent the Portal. !
11. App Competition!
12. Story Sharing!
17. 1. Digital Literacy!
2. Social Media Toolkit! The Community Links
3. Online Influencers! Program will be comprised of
community members,
4. Email Content!
veterans, and family
5. Launch Committee!
members who will help
6. Advisory Committee! distribute packets of
7. Proxy Team! information to “everyday”
8. Community Links! locations across MA, and will
represent the portal at
9. Roadshow ! community events. !
10. Unconference!
11. App Competition!
12. Story Sharing!
18. 1. Digital Literacy!
2. Social Media Toolkit! The Roadshow will be one of
3. Online Influencers! the most cost (if not time)
effective ways of getting the
4. Email Content!
word out. A kit + script will
5. Launch Committee!
need to be developed for the
6. Advisory Committee! MBI community manager to
7. Proxy Team! attend events and
8. Community Links! conferences to talk about the
9. Roadshow ! project. !
10. Unconference!
11. App Competition!
12. Story Sharing!
19. 1. Digital Literacy!
2. Social Media Toolkit! The Finder will belong to a
3. Online Influencers! class of websites that are
changing the way that people
4. Email Content!
access government services.
5. Launch Committee!
Its not just a one-stop-shop
6. Advisory Committee! for information – it is a guided
7. Proxy Team! experience that makes sense
8. Community Links! of complicated information. !
9. Roadshow ! Convening helps build
community and spreads the
10. Unconference*! word.!
11. App Competition! !
* Phase II campaign!
12. Story Sharing!
20. 1. Digital Literacy!
2. Social Media Toolkit! The Open API will be a great
3. Online Influencers! opportunity to engage
veterans and family members
4. Email Content!
who have iOS and Android
5. Launch Committee!
programming experience in
6. Advisory Committee! this work generating income
7. Proxy Team! for the developers and a
8. Community Links! mobile interface for our
9. Roadshow ! users.!
10. Unconference! !
!
11. App Competition*! !
* Phase II campaign!
12. Story Sharing!
21. 1. Digital Literacy!
2. Social Media Toolkit! This concept is to collect
3. Online Influencers! uplifting stories of recovery
from veterans who have
4. Email Content!
returned from service. This
5. Launch Committee!
will highlight the importance
6. Advisory Committee! of accessing benefits and
7. Proxy Team! services, and provide an
8. Community Links! emotional reason to share
9. Roadshow ! the information about the
10. Unconference! portal. !
11. App Competition! !
!
12. Story Sharing*! * Phase II campaign!