This document provides an overview of the methodology for creating taxonomies. It discusses conducting stakeholder interviews and user research to understand business needs and user contexts. Content analysis and audits are performed to analyze existing content. Facets are created and tested based on patterns in content and user terminology. Controlled vocabularies are developed using an iterative process focused on the user experience. The example project is for a new travel planning website called GoToEuropeTravelPlanner.com.
Mapping, Merging, and Multilingual TaxonomiesHeather Hedden
SLA 2012 conference presentation sponsored by the Taxonomy Division at SLA Chicago July 16 and re-presented at the New England Chapter on October 13, 2012.
This case study analyzes the sustainable future of creating an artefact for people. A group of post-graduate students formed the team "Bumblebees" to motivate individuals to contribute to the environment. Camilla Wong was the project manager and UI/UX designer. She created a design system, conducted user interviews, held a rapid ideation workshop to refine their problem statement, and prepared the team for their pitch. The persona developed were a business owner and employee based on the interview findings.
Experience Research Best Practices - UX Meet Up Boston 2013 - Dan BerlinMad*Pow
The document provides guidance on best practices for experience research. It discusses understanding research goals, choosing appropriate research methods, gathering qualitative data through tasks, moderator guides, note taking, and organizing findings. The key points are: understand business goals and user needs to define research goals; use a methods chart to evaluate options based on goals, timeline, budget and other constraints; and properly document studies through moderator guides, notes grids, and findings sheets to facilitate analysis.
The slides from a workshop on developing digital strategy for the museums sector delivered as part of Museum Ideas 2016.
Help your organisation learn how to integrate digital practice into leadership and management across all departments.
Digital strategy for museums workshop 2016 MuseumID
The document outlines a workshop on developing a digital strategy for museums. It discusses what strategy is, the relationship between museums and digital technologies, why museums need a digital strategy, examples of museum digital strategy case studies, a model for components of an organizational digital strategy, and how to develop a digital strategy through research, workshops, and documentation. The goal is to help museum leadership understand the strategic context and formulate a vision and objectives for their digital operations.
The document outlines key challenges in proposal writing and what funders look for in successful proposals. It discusses common proposal writing difficulties like tight deadlines and a lack of monitoring data. The presentation recommends answering ten questions in any proposal: 1) How beneficiaries will benefit 2) Organizational context 3) Project relevance 4) Fit with funding criteria 5) Project aims 6) Activities and timeline 7) Budget details 8) Appropriate budget type 9) Monitoring and evaluation plan 10) Sustainability after funding ends. It also provides tips for writing strong proposals like allowing enough time, following instructions, and ensuring proposals are realistic, accountable and aim for sustainability.
Mapping, Merging, and Multilingual TaxonomiesHeather Hedden
SLA 2012 conference presentation sponsored by the Taxonomy Division at SLA Chicago July 16 and re-presented at the New England Chapter on October 13, 2012.
This case study analyzes the sustainable future of creating an artefact for people. A group of post-graduate students formed the team "Bumblebees" to motivate individuals to contribute to the environment. Camilla Wong was the project manager and UI/UX designer. She created a design system, conducted user interviews, held a rapid ideation workshop to refine their problem statement, and prepared the team for their pitch. The persona developed were a business owner and employee based on the interview findings.
Experience Research Best Practices - UX Meet Up Boston 2013 - Dan BerlinMad*Pow
The document provides guidance on best practices for experience research. It discusses understanding research goals, choosing appropriate research methods, gathering qualitative data through tasks, moderator guides, note taking, and organizing findings. The key points are: understand business goals and user needs to define research goals; use a methods chart to evaluate options based on goals, timeline, budget and other constraints; and properly document studies through moderator guides, notes grids, and findings sheets to facilitate analysis.
The slides from a workshop on developing digital strategy for the museums sector delivered as part of Museum Ideas 2016.
Help your organisation learn how to integrate digital practice into leadership and management across all departments.
Digital strategy for museums workshop 2016 MuseumID
The document outlines a workshop on developing a digital strategy for museums. It discusses what strategy is, the relationship between museums and digital technologies, why museums need a digital strategy, examples of museum digital strategy case studies, a model for components of an organizational digital strategy, and how to develop a digital strategy through research, workshops, and documentation. The goal is to help museum leadership understand the strategic context and formulate a vision and objectives for their digital operations.
The document outlines key challenges in proposal writing and what funders look for in successful proposals. It discusses common proposal writing difficulties like tight deadlines and a lack of monitoring data. The presentation recommends answering ten questions in any proposal: 1) How beneficiaries will benefit 2) Organizational context 3) Project relevance 4) Fit with funding criteria 5) Project aims 6) Activities and timeline 7) Budget details 8) Appropriate budget type 9) Monitoring and evaluation plan 10) Sustainability after funding ends. It also provides tips for writing strong proposals like allowing enough time, following instructions, and ensuring proposals are realistic, accountable and aim for sustainability.
Applying a Quality Framework to the Focus Group MethodRoller Research
A brief overview of the focus group method followed by key considerations when applying the Total Quality Framework that allows researchers to maximize quality outcomes & mitigate error.
This document provides a guide to analyzing your website audience through exploring metrics like demographics, session duration, engagement rates, bounce rates, and geography. It discusses how to use tools from Similarweb to benchmark these metrics against competitors to understand how to optimize audience reach and engagement. Key tips include targeting specific demographics on appropriate social media platforms, combining session duration with other metrics, measuring engagement rates over time and by marketing channel, understanding industry bounce rate benchmarks, and analyzing audience geography to ensure marketing presence in relevant regions.
Assessing the Implementation of Authentic, Client-Facing Student Projects in ...craigmmacdonald
User Experience (UX) is often cited as one of the fastest growing occupations, creating opportunities across nearly every sector for individuals skilled in the application of user-centered design principles and methods. Many Information and Library Schools have responded to this demand by introducing more UX coursework into their curriculum, but the proliferation of agile software development and lean product design has incentivized organizations to look for experienced individuals for UX roles, even those that are considered entry-level. As a result, aspiring information professionals face a paradoxical situation in which they are required to have UX experience before they can gain UX experience. This article provides an assessment of one institution's efforts to overcome this experience gap by offering opportunities for students to participate in three types of authentic client-facing UX projects. Through surveys of students and clients served over four academic years, we provide a set of lessons learned and recommended best practices for incorporating project-based learning opportunities into UX courses.
Learn about the most common questions that every proposal should answer to be successful. Our funding team uses these questions to ensure that every proposal we prepare with our NGO partners maximizes its chances for shortlisting and, ultimately, a funding award. This webinar will also offer an opportunity to discuss your proposal with members of our team.
How to get you know your users deeply and find juicy insights, whether or not you have a rich budget or a deep background in the field - workshop delivered at UX London 2015
WordPress remains the platform of choice for future projects among those surveyed. Overwhelmingly, the reasons cited for this are that WordPress is the CMS people already know, and that the community supporting it is valuable. Professionals and users report similar levels of frustration with updates and Gutenberg. Both groups also love the ease of use they find in WordPress.
The number of professionals who report providing a heavily customized experience to clients has increased substantially, while at the same time the amount of time reported on creating those sites has decreased. Regardless of frustrations felt with various features, this seems to indicate that ease of use has been on the rise.
The 2019 survey included some new questions to better understand why people continue to use WordPress as their preferred CMS, as well as a section directed toward WordPress contributors. For the first time in 2019, this survey was translated into 5 different languages: French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.
The first WordPress Contributor Survey was conducted in 2015, but unfortunately the results were never published. This report includes Contributor Survey results from both 2015 and 2019.
Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to this file or the information. I am sharing this for others to easily find this from the Open Source Community. Thanks
The document provides guidance on how to write an effective project proposal. It outlines that a proposal should define the specific objectives and technical approach of the project, and answer whether the problem is important enough to justify the project. It recommends including components like an introduction, objectives, activities timeline, and evaluation plan. The objectives should be SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound). A strong proposal also includes a logic model and budget that clearly justify the requested resources. The proposal should demonstrate the project's relevance, feasibility, and be based on research rather than overly ambitious or lacking clear ideas.
This document summarizes a presentation on evaluating engagement activities. The presentation aimed to help participants develop evaluation strategies and make strong cases for engagement. It covered why evaluation is important, how to identify what to evaluate using logic models, who evaluations are for, and making the case for engagement through evaluation. The presentation included activities where participants discussed their experiences with evaluation and worked through examples of logic models and evaluation plans.
- Challenges to proposal writing
- What do funders look for?
- 10 questions every proposal should answer
- How to get to submitting successful proposals
The document provides guidance on writing a successful project proposal in 3 steps:
1. Plan the project by collaborating with stakeholders, developing a work plan and timeline, and drafting a concept paper and proposal.
2. Design the project using a conceptual model to identify problems, objectives, and interventions, and develop goals, objectives, activities, and indicators.
3. Write the proposal including an introduction, methodology, budget, monitoring and evaluation plan, sustainability discussion, checklist, and conclusion. Templates are provided for each section.
Running Head: MEMO 1
MEMO 5
Paper 1: FINANCIAL MEMO
June 15, 2017
To: All employees
From: Nelson Mulinya, Senior Manager
Date: June 13th, 2017
Subject: Annual Budget
I would like to request the finance department to present to me the projected cost for the incoming year by 26th June 2017. It has always been a pleasure to receive the budget for the whole year earlier enough and this time I expect nothing less but an excellent presentation. However, due to many hiccups that usually emerge in the course of the year, I would appreciate if this time the budget is broken down on a quarterly basis. I prefer this way as it will help us minimize the risk and ballooning of unexpected cost. The costs must be presented in our normal PowerPoint format, and it should be consistent with general accepted accounting principle (GAAP).
Due to the many projects that the company has this time around, the budget presented should try and minimize the administrative expense to avoid a scenario where the company operates with borrowed cash. The payroll, accounting, and auditing fee must be minimized so that it is used elsewhere. There are also many uncertainties that we expect this time as a result of the real estate market. As a result, this has put us in a position where we cannot make critical decisions at this time. However, this should not prevent us from to speculating and coming up with reasonable figures that can be used as assumed values.
As a way of trying to reduce the recurrent expenditure and increase the investment capital, the company expects something different from the previous budget. The repair and maintenance cost, as well as the utility cost, must be minimized as possible. Capital consideration in budgeting is very imperative as you all know and I expect our business analysts to use two methods of analysis namely qualitative and quantitative method. These are helpful in forecasting the financial projection or growth. For instance, the quantitative methods usually use the expert factor and at some point the human element in budget analysis. The approach is normally based on data and avoids the guesses and perception of people. It will help us in predicting the variables like insurance expenses and contract expenses product, the prices and other things. Some of the quantitative methods include payback, net present value and the average rate of return.
However, from my knowledge and experience, some benefits of capital investment cannot be assessed in monetary values. It is therefore essential for the finance department to also consider qualitative analysis since the use of quantitative analysis can give to misleading information thus making the business to reject a worthy proje ...
This document provides an overview of the grant funding process, including background information, planning, targeting specific funders, writing proposals, review, and management of funded projects. It discusses researching your own work and institution to develop original project ideas and determine what funding is needed. Strong networking and collaboration are emphasized. Reviewing past work and maintaining ongoing readiness are important preparatory steps before targeting appropriate private or government sponsors to approach with detailed proposals.
Collaborative 2 ingrid margarita and sandraSandra Guevara
This document provides guidance on project evaluation. It discusses what project evaluation is, its importance in project design and implementation, additional benefits like project improvement and capacity building. It outlines the planning, data collection, analysis, and reporting process for evaluations. Key steps include examining issues and objectives, establishing a team, identifying the purpose, focusing on improvement, assessing outcomes and impacts, and creating a report to synthesize findings. The goal is to help determine what is and is not working to improve the project.
ICEM 2012 -The Application of Design Thinking Methodology on Research PracticesJoana Cerejo
The difficult task of innovation is a key facet of Research & Development (R&D) institutions. Innovation is also closely related with processes oriented to achieve solutions in design. By addressing this topic, we propose to research new emerging design methods and provide an overview of design thinking tools that can be applied in an early stage of the R&D research process in order to produce meaningful results. This research presents a set of experimental guidelines and an analysis method for the application of these tools.
Cemal Buyukgokcesu provides an introduction to user experience (UX) in 7 steps: 1) defining what UX is; 2) asking questions to understand user needs; 3) listening to users; 4) understanding users; 5) delighting users; 6) engaging users; and 7) knowing the difference between UX and usability. The document discusses defining and measuring UX, gathering user feedback, understanding users with analytics, designing for usability, engaging users on-site and off-site, and the importance of testing. The overall message is that focusing on understanding and delighting the user should be the top priority in UX design.
Presented at Social Media Strategic Planning Process Workshop during the Bahrain International eGovernment Forum 2013 by Mr. Eirc Mills, President - National Institute for Social Media, organized by Social Media Club Bahrain
Global Content Strategy 1/2 Day WorkshopVal Swisher
If you want to deliver the right information to the right people, at the right time, in the right format and language, you must start with a content strategy. Attend this half-day workshop to learn how to get started. We will teach attendees the seven components of global content strategy and share a useful mix of global content strategy best practices.
Easy as Pie: The Complexities of Cookbook IndexingFred Leise
Indexing cookbooks can seem, on its face, to be a simple process. However, there is much more to it than first meets the eye.
This presentation explores some of the theoretical aspects of cookbooks, discusses the importance of faceted classifications in cookbook indexing and then uses numerous examples to highlight some of cookbook indexing best practices.
Applying a Quality Framework to the Focus Group MethodRoller Research
A brief overview of the focus group method followed by key considerations when applying the Total Quality Framework that allows researchers to maximize quality outcomes & mitigate error.
This document provides a guide to analyzing your website audience through exploring metrics like demographics, session duration, engagement rates, bounce rates, and geography. It discusses how to use tools from Similarweb to benchmark these metrics against competitors to understand how to optimize audience reach and engagement. Key tips include targeting specific demographics on appropriate social media platforms, combining session duration with other metrics, measuring engagement rates over time and by marketing channel, understanding industry bounce rate benchmarks, and analyzing audience geography to ensure marketing presence in relevant regions.
Assessing the Implementation of Authentic, Client-Facing Student Projects in ...craigmmacdonald
User Experience (UX) is often cited as one of the fastest growing occupations, creating opportunities across nearly every sector for individuals skilled in the application of user-centered design principles and methods. Many Information and Library Schools have responded to this demand by introducing more UX coursework into their curriculum, but the proliferation of agile software development and lean product design has incentivized organizations to look for experienced individuals for UX roles, even those that are considered entry-level. As a result, aspiring information professionals face a paradoxical situation in which they are required to have UX experience before they can gain UX experience. This article provides an assessment of one institution's efforts to overcome this experience gap by offering opportunities for students to participate in three types of authentic client-facing UX projects. Through surveys of students and clients served over four academic years, we provide a set of lessons learned and recommended best practices for incorporating project-based learning opportunities into UX courses.
Learn about the most common questions that every proposal should answer to be successful. Our funding team uses these questions to ensure that every proposal we prepare with our NGO partners maximizes its chances for shortlisting and, ultimately, a funding award. This webinar will also offer an opportunity to discuss your proposal with members of our team.
How to get you know your users deeply and find juicy insights, whether or not you have a rich budget or a deep background in the field - workshop delivered at UX London 2015
WordPress remains the platform of choice for future projects among those surveyed. Overwhelmingly, the reasons cited for this are that WordPress is the CMS people already know, and that the community supporting it is valuable. Professionals and users report similar levels of frustration with updates and Gutenberg. Both groups also love the ease of use they find in WordPress.
The number of professionals who report providing a heavily customized experience to clients has increased substantially, while at the same time the amount of time reported on creating those sites has decreased. Regardless of frustrations felt with various features, this seems to indicate that ease of use has been on the rise.
The 2019 survey included some new questions to better understand why people continue to use WordPress as their preferred CMS, as well as a section directed toward WordPress contributors. For the first time in 2019, this survey was translated into 5 different languages: French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.
The first WordPress Contributor Survey was conducted in 2015, but unfortunately the results were never published. This report includes Contributor Survey results from both 2015 and 2019.
Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to this file or the information. I am sharing this for others to easily find this from the Open Source Community. Thanks
The document provides guidance on how to write an effective project proposal. It outlines that a proposal should define the specific objectives and technical approach of the project, and answer whether the problem is important enough to justify the project. It recommends including components like an introduction, objectives, activities timeline, and evaluation plan. The objectives should be SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound). A strong proposal also includes a logic model and budget that clearly justify the requested resources. The proposal should demonstrate the project's relevance, feasibility, and be based on research rather than overly ambitious or lacking clear ideas.
This document summarizes a presentation on evaluating engagement activities. The presentation aimed to help participants develop evaluation strategies and make strong cases for engagement. It covered why evaluation is important, how to identify what to evaluate using logic models, who evaluations are for, and making the case for engagement through evaluation. The presentation included activities where participants discussed their experiences with evaluation and worked through examples of logic models and evaluation plans.
- Challenges to proposal writing
- What do funders look for?
- 10 questions every proposal should answer
- How to get to submitting successful proposals
The document provides guidance on writing a successful project proposal in 3 steps:
1. Plan the project by collaborating with stakeholders, developing a work plan and timeline, and drafting a concept paper and proposal.
2. Design the project using a conceptual model to identify problems, objectives, and interventions, and develop goals, objectives, activities, and indicators.
3. Write the proposal including an introduction, methodology, budget, monitoring and evaluation plan, sustainability discussion, checklist, and conclusion. Templates are provided for each section.
Running Head: MEMO 1
MEMO 5
Paper 1: FINANCIAL MEMO
June 15, 2017
To: All employees
From: Nelson Mulinya, Senior Manager
Date: June 13th, 2017
Subject: Annual Budget
I would like to request the finance department to present to me the projected cost for the incoming year by 26th June 2017. It has always been a pleasure to receive the budget for the whole year earlier enough and this time I expect nothing less but an excellent presentation. However, due to many hiccups that usually emerge in the course of the year, I would appreciate if this time the budget is broken down on a quarterly basis. I prefer this way as it will help us minimize the risk and ballooning of unexpected cost. The costs must be presented in our normal PowerPoint format, and it should be consistent with general accepted accounting principle (GAAP).
Due to the many projects that the company has this time around, the budget presented should try and minimize the administrative expense to avoid a scenario where the company operates with borrowed cash. The payroll, accounting, and auditing fee must be minimized so that it is used elsewhere. There are also many uncertainties that we expect this time as a result of the real estate market. As a result, this has put us in a position where we cannot make critical decisions at this time. However, this should not prevent us from to speculating and coming up with reasonable figures that can be used as assumed values.
As a way of trying to reduce the recurrent expenditure and increase the investment capital, the company expects something different from the previous budget. The repair and maintenance cost, as well as the utility cost, must be minimized as possible. Capital consideration in budgeting is very imperative as you all know and I expect our business analysts to use two methods of analysis namely qualitative and quantitative method. These are helpful in forecasting the financial projection or growth. For instance, the quantitative methods usually use the expert factor and at some point the human element in budget analysis. The approach is normally based on data and avoids the guesses and perception of people. It will help us in predicting the variables like insurance expenses and contract expenses product, the prices and other things. Some of the quantitative methods include payback, net present value and the average rate of return.
However, from my knowledge and experience, some benefits of capital investment cannot be assessed in monetary values. It is therefore essential for the finance department to also consider qualitative analysis since the use of quantitative analysis can give to misleading information thus making the business to reject a worthy proje ...
This document provides an overview of the grant funding process, including background information, planning, targeting specific funders, writing proposals, review, and management of funded projects. It discusses researching your own work and institution to develop original project ideas and determine what funding is needed. Strong networking and collaboration are emphasized. Reviewing past work and maintaining ongoing readiness are important preparatory steps before targeting appropriate private or government sponsors to approach with detailed proposals.
Collaborative 2 ingrid margarita and sandraSandra Guevara
This document provides guidance on project evaluation. It discusses what project evaluation is, its importance in project design and implementation, additional benefits like project improvement and capacity building. It outlines the planning, data collection, analysis, and reporting process for evaluations. Key steps include examining issues and objectives, establishing a team, identifying the purpose, focusing on improvement, assessing outcomes and impacts, and creating a report to synthesize findings. The goal is to help determine what is and is not working to improve the project.
ICEM 2012 -The Application of Design Thinking Methodology on Research PracticesJoana Cerejo
The difficult task of innovation is a key facet of Research & Development (R&D) institutions. Innovation is also closely related with processes oriented to achieve solutions in design. By addressing this topic, we propose to research new emerging design methods and provide an overview of design thinking tools that can be applied in an early stage of the R&D research process in order to produce meaningful results. This research presents a set of experimental guidelines and an analysis method for the application of these tools.
Cemal Buyukgokcesu provides an introduction to user experience (UX) in 7 steps: 1) defining what UX is; 2) asking questions to understand user needs; 3) listening to users; 4) understanding users; 5) delighting users; 6) engaging users; and 7) knowing the difference between UX and usability. The document discusses defining and measuring UX, gathering user feedback, understanding users with analytics, designing for usability, engaging users on-site and off-site, and the importance of testing. The overall message is that focusing on understanding and delighting the user should be the top priority in UX design.
Presented at Social Media Strategic Planning Process Workshop during the Bahrain International eGovernment Forum 2013 by Mr. Eirc Mills, President - National Institute for Social Media, organized by Social Media Club Bahrain
Global Content Strategy 1/2 Day WorkshopVal Swisher
If you want to deliver the right information to the right people, at the right time, in the right format and language, you must start with a content strategy. Attend this half-day workshop to learn how to get started. We will teach attendees the seven components of global content strategy and share a useful mix of global content strategy best practices.
Easy as Pie: The Complexities of Cookbook IndexingFred Leise
Indexing cookbooks can seem, on its face, to be a simple process. However, there is much more to it than first meets the eye.
This presentation explores some of the theoretical aspects of cookbooks, discusses the importance of faceted classifications in cookbook indexing and then uses numerous examples to highlight some of cookbook indexing best practices.
Knowing your taxonomy project goals and having a detailed understanding of the process you will be using help ensure that your taxonomy program can be implemented in the smoothest way possible and in the least amount of time.
Last But Not Least - Managing The Indexing ProcessFred Leise
This document summarizes a presentation on managing the indexing process. It provides an overview of the speaker's background and experience indexing scholarly texts and technical manuals. It then outlines the course agenda and goals, which include increasing understanding of indexes, improving skills for managing the indexing process, and feeling comfortable asking questions. The document reviews key topics like index structure, best practices, style and format, and the roles of editors, authors, and indexers. It also includes exercises on topics like identifying metatopics and the treatment of symbols in alphabetical indexes.
A basic introduction to taxonomies/controlled vocabularies, what they are and how they are used. Presented originally at the Society of Indexers conference, July 2008.
ARENA - Young adults in the workplace (Knight Moves).pdfKnight Moves
Presentations of Bavo Raeymaekers (Project lead youth unemployment at the City of Antwerp), Suzan Martens (Service designer at Knight Moves) and Adriaan De Keersmaeker (Community manager at Talk to C)
during the 'Arena • Young adults in the workplace' conference hosted by Knight Moves.
Discovering the Best Indian Architects A Spotlight on Design Forum Internatio...Designforuminternational
India’s architectural landscape is a vibrant tapestry that weaves together the country's rich cultural heritage and its modern aspirations. From majestic historical structures to cutting-edge contemporary designs, the work of Indian architects is celebrated worldwide. Among the many firms shaping this dynamic field, Design Forum International stands out as a leader in innovative and sustainable architecture. This blog explores some of the best Indian architects, highlighting their contributions and showcasing the most famous architects in India.
Explore the essential graphic design tools and software that can elevate your creative projects. Discover industry favorites and innovative solutions for stunning design results.
International Upcycling Research Network advisory board meeting 4Kyungeun Sung
Slides used for the International Upcycling Research Network advisory board 4 (last one). The project is based at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Architectural and constructions management experience since 2003 including 18 years located in UAE.
Coordinate and oversee all technical activities relating to architectural and construction projects,
including directing the design team, reviewing drafts and computer models, and approving design
changes.
Organize and typically develop, and review building plans, ensuring that a project meets all safety and
environmental standards.
Prepare feasibility studies, construction contracts, and tender documents with specifications and
tender analyses.
Consulting with clients, work on formulating equipment and labor cost estimates, ensuring a project
meets environmental, safety, structural, zoning, and aesthetic standards.
Monitoring the progress of a project to assess whether or not it is in compliance with building plans
and project deadlines.
Attention to detail, exceptional time management, and strong problem-solving and communication
skills are required for this role.