Engineering Influence: Talking to Developers about ContentJohn Eckman
Successful digital projects require a host of skills, but critical to the mix is software engineering. The most elegant, thoughtful, and pragmatic content strategy grinds to a halt when the implementation doesn’t live up to the plan.
Even when we get into so-called “maintenance” mode, we often find ourselves entirely dependent on the actions of strange beings speaking in a foreign tongue: developers.
What’s the best way to collaborate with our colleagues who come to web and mobile projects not with a focus on the content per se, but with a focus on the System?
Truly Responsive Design Means Aligning to Business and User GoalsJohn Eckman
Perhaps the greatest sea-change in the industry since the “Web 2.0″ meme, Responsive Design has been the unavoidable theme of the web industry in 2011 and 2012. But too much of the focus in responsive design has been on the mechanics: media queries, responsive images, javascript polyfills, and techniques for progressive enhancement.
Not enough attention has been paid to how responsive sites and applications should be designed to take into account the needs and contexts of users. In short, we’ve been designing sites that respond to the needs (and capabilities) of *browsers* and *devices* rather than the desires and contexts of users.
In this talk I cover strategies and processes you can follow which help ensure your web applications are truly responsive to business goals and user needs, not just device capabilities.
WordPress and the Enterprise DisconnectJohn Eckman
While the WordPress community rightly celebrates powering > 24% of the web, Enterprise customers have a drastically different perspective.
How can we more effectively sell Enterprise clients on the benefits of WordPress, without losing the ease of use and simplicity that has made WordPress great?
A talk members of the Forum One Communications UX team gave at UXCampDC 2013. The focus was on some pain points we hit while trying to wrap our brains around Responsive Design and the tool we've made to help sketch solutions more easily and quickly.
Engineering Influence: Talking to Developers about ContentJohn Eckman
Successful digital projects require a host of skills, but critical to the mix is software engineering. The most elegant, thoughtful, and pragmatic content strategy grinds to a halt when the implementation doesn’t live up to the plan.
Even when we get into so-called “maintenance” mode, we often find ourselves entirely dependent on the actions of strange beings speaking in a foreign tongue: developers.
What’s the best way to collaborate with our colleagues who come to web and mobile projects not with a focus on the content per se, but with a focus on the System?
Truly Responsive Design Means Aligning to Business and User GoalsJohn Eckman
Perhaps the greatest sea-change in the industry since the “Web 2.0″ meme, Responsive Design has been the unavoidable theme of the web industry in 2011 and 2012. But too much of the focus in responsive design has been on the mechanics: media queries, responsive images, javascript polyfills, and techniques for progressive enhancement.
Not enough attention has been paid to how responsive sites and applications should be designed to take into account the needs and contexts of users. In short, we’ve been designing sites that respond to the needs (and capabilities) of *browsers* and *devices* rather than the desires and contexts of users.
In this talk I cover strategies and processes you can follow which help ensure your web applications are truly responsive to business goals and user needs, not just device capabilities.
WordPress and the Enterprise DisconnectJohn Eckman
While the WordPress community rightly celebrates powering > 24% of the web, Enterprise customers have a drastically different perspective.
How can we more effectively sell Enterprise clients on the benefits of WordPress, without losing the ease of use and simplicity that has made WordPress great?
A talk members of the Forum One Communications UX team gave at UXCampDC 2013. The focus was on some pain points we hit while trying to wrap our brains around Responsive Design and the tool we've made to help sketch solutions more easily and quickly.
While the community (rightly) celebrates the tremendous growth of WordPress as a platform, there’s a significant disconnect between what community members know about WordPress and what folks outside the community know.
Getting outside the WordPress bubble – by participating meaningfully in other conferences, conversations, and communities – helps bring new ideas into our community and also helps us bring WordPress into new contexts.
Presentation to:
Madison Web Design & Development Meetup - February 11, 2013.
Web Content Mavens, Washington, DC - January 8, 2013.
NYC Web Design Meetup -January 24, 2013.
UX Design for the Responsive Web - UX London 2014 WorkshopMatt Gibson
Whether they realise it or not, every company is in the user experience business. The best products and services have design at their very core. This workshop will delve into how we as designers, developers and product owners can challenge assumptions and influence business strategy to deliver better, more delightful experiences for our users regardless of screen size. Through a series of hands-on activities we will share techniques for exploring and identifying requirements, painting a picture of our users and quickly creating responsive prototypes that we can test and validate.
Mobile is all the rage these days — and it should be. Many website owners believe creating a separate mobile website is the solution, with browser sniffing to redirect all "mobile" traffic to a separate m.example.com domain. But it turns out that most of the time this is a terrible solution. Come hear Jen Simmons talk about how there's only one web — not a mobile web separate from the desktop web. And learn how you can use HTML5 and responsive web design to create one unified website or web app for your project and Just Have It Work™ on a wide range of devices.
The web is finally coming of age with respect to increasing sophistication of the structure and presentation of visual information, the standardization of technologies to more easily create and display this information, physical devices that make this information easily accessible, and finally growing social connectivity. Presented at Rich Web Experience 2011, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Developer Meet Designer (Andres Galante & Brian Leathem)Red Hat Developers
This presentation will take developers behind the scenes of the Keynote Demo to showcase how designers and a developers work together to achieve outstanding results. In this presentation, we'll identify the gap between designers and developers, and walk you through an actual example of how to build bridges that increase trust in your products. You'll learn about: - UX basics - Design within open source communities - Understanding the problems between developers and designers - The advantages (and disadvantages) of working with a designer - Coping with common pitfalls and false assumptions - Specific CSS and JS techniques used during the Keynote demo visualization You'll leave knowing that UX goes beyond the UI, with a better understanding of why working with a designer is important, and how to work together successfully.
Google Photos, DAMned Photos, and StatisticsMike Henderson
Digital Asset Management can be a challenge for small teams with limited budget and time. Google Photos offers a range of features that might just fit your needs. Attendees will be introduced to the broad feature set of Google Photos and how Adams State University uses the product in their web communications workflow to better organize photos, increase collaboration between users/departments, and increase productivity. Maybe Google Photos can help solve your DAM problems!
Your first web application. From Design to LaunchDavid Brooks
Everyone has an idea for the next big web application, but what does it take to bring that application to life?
David Brooks walks you through the process from planning and design to launch. You'll learn what you need to know to build it, and how to fill the gaps you might have in your skill set.
Deck from David Lecours and Josh Miles' session at SMPS Build Business 2015.
Since Los Angeles is the epicenter of Game Shows, your polyester-clad hosts David Lecours and Josh Miles will quiz and answer the latest trends in A/E/C firm websites, and what they mean for digital marketing for professional services firms. A few years ago, firms could get by with brochure-style websites. Today the prizes are bigger, and the competition is tougher. The modern website should be a business development tool that helps your firm generate leads while standing out from your competition.
WWCMD - What Would the Community Manager Do?Micki Krimmel
What exactly is a Community Manager? A Community Manager can do a lot more than moderate your forum. She can change the entire culture of your company. She can advocate for your community. She can keep you one step ahead of your competitors. She can help you build a sustainable business… if you let her.
Hiring a Community Manager could be a great thing for your company. But imagine if you could turn all of your employees into Community Managers! We’ll work together to learn how employees in every department of your company can benefit from asking the question: What Would the Community Manager Do?
Presented at Do it With Drupal in New Orleans, Dec 10, 2009
Updated from previous talk given at Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco
This is the presentation I gave at Mobile Tech 4 Social Change in Halifax on Saturday, May 23rd. It includes 7 tenets for mobile design and examples of good mobile layouts. I'd appreciate your feedback.
What is the lifespan of a website, and when is it time to redesign? Let's explore the signs your site may be dying, ways to keep it alive, and the difference between a redesign vs realign.
While the community (rightly) celebrates the tremendous growth of WordPress as a platform, there’s a significant disconnect between what community members know about WordPress and what folks outside the community know.
Getting outside the WordPress bubble – by participating meaningfully in other conferences, conversations, and communities – helps bring new ideas into our community and also helps us bring WordPress into new contexts.
Presentation to:
Madison Web Design & Development Meetup - February 11, 2013.
Web Content Mavens, Washington, DC - January 8, 2013.
NYC Web Design Meetup -January 24, 2013.
UX Design for the Responsive Web - UX London 2014 WorkshopMatt Gibson
Whether they realise it or not, every company is in the user experience business. The best products and services have design at their very core. This workshop will delve into how we as designers, developers and product owners can challenge assumptions and influence business strategy to deliver better, more delightful experiences for our users regardless of screen size. Through a series of hands-on activities we will share techniques for exploring and identifying requirements, painting a picture of our users and quickly creating responsive prototypes that we can test and validate.
Mobile is all the rage these days — and it should be. Many website owners believe creating a separate mobile website is the solution, with browser sniffing to redirect all "mobile" traffic to a separate m.example.com domain. But it turns out that most of the time this is a terrible solution. Come hear Jen Simmons talk about how there's only one web — not a mobile web separate from the desktop web. And learn how you can use HTML5 and responsive web design to create one unified website or web app for your project and Just Have It Work™ on a wide range of devices.
The web is finally coming of age with respect to increasing sophistication of the structure and presentation of visual information, the standardization of technologies to more easily create and display this information, physical devices that make this information easily accessible, and finally growing social connectivity. Presented at Rich Web Experience 2011, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Developer Meet Designer (Andres Galante & Brian Leathem)Red Hat Developers
This presentation will take developers behind the scenes of the Keynote Demo to showcase how designers and a developers work together to achieve outstanding results. In this presentation, we'll identify the gap between designers and developers, and walk you through an actual example of how to build bridges that increase trust in your products. You'll learn about: - UX basics - Design within open source communities - Understanding the problems between developers and designers - The advantages (and disadvantages) of working with a designer - Coping with common pitfalls and false assumptions - Specific CSS and JS techniques used during the Keynote demo visualization You'll leave knowing that UX goes beyond the UI, with a better understanding of why working with a designer is important, and how to work together successfully.
Google Photos, DAMned Photos, and StatisticsMike Henderson
Digital Asset Management can be a challenge for small teams with limited budget and time. Google Photos offers a range of features that might just fit your needs. Attendees will be introduced to the broad feature set of Google Photos and how Adams State University uses the product in their web communications workflow to better organize photos, increase collaboration between users/departments, and increase productivity. Maybe Google Photos can help solve your DAM problems!
Your first web application. From Design to LaunchDavid Brooks
Everyone has an idea for the next big web application, but what does it take to bring that application to life?
David Brooks walks you through the process from planning and design to launch. You'll learn what you need to know to build it, and how to fill the gaps you might have in your skill set.
Deck from David Lecours and Josh Miles' session at SMPS Build Business 2015.
Since Los Angeles is the epicenter of Game Shows, your polyester-clad hosts David Lecours and Josh Miles will quiz and answer the latest trends in A/E/C firm websites, and what they mean for digital marketing for professional services firms. A few years ago, firms could get by with brochure-style websites. Today the prizes are bigger, and the competition is tougher. The modern website should be a business development tool that helps your firm generate leads while standing out from your competition.
WWCMD - What Would the Community Manager Do?Micki Krimmel
What exactly is a Community Manager? A Community Manager can do a lot more than moderate your forum. She can change the entire culture of your company. She can advocate for your community. She can keep you one step ahead of your competitors. She can help you build a sustainable business… if you let her.
Hiring a Community Manager could be a great thing for your company. But imagine if you could turn all of your employees into Community Managers! We’ll work together to learn how employees in every department of your company can benefit from asking the question: What Would the Community Manager Do?
Presented at Do it With Drupal in New Orleans, Dec 10, 2009
Updated from previous talk given at Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco
This is the presentation I gave at Mobile Tech 4 Social Change in Halifax on Saturday, May 23rd. It includes 7 tenets for mobile design and examples of good mobile layouts. I'd appreciate your feedback.
What is the lifespan of a website, and when is it time to redesign? Let's explore the signs your site may be dying, ways to keep it alive, and the difference between a redesign vs realign.
Event and meeting planners are currently experimenting with technology – but if we are honest, many are only playing with event tech on the periphery.
The application of digital innovation to the meeting and events world has the opportunity to completely transform how planners create their programs and interact with their attendees.
In this deck, originally presented at IMEX America 2015, learn which innovations are available within the hospitality marketplace that will help planners create more effective and impactful programs for their business, and their attendees.
Learning Outcomes:
- Review the changes our profession has experienced through technology.
- Identify the meeting planning process pyramid and technologies that support it.
- Distinguish the three levels of data your event needs to measure engagement.
This company is IT Company. We do Digital Marketing, Website Development & Designing, App Development &Designing and other IT works. This is the best company. Know we talk about web designing.
IBM Digital Experience 2015 - APPLICATION MODERNIZATION IN THE DIGITAL EXPERI...John Head
Application Modernization is the hottest buzzword in the IT world today. For many, it means the migration and
transformation of an old application to a modern platform and emerging technologies. With Digital Experience solutions, means much more. Application Modernization is about taking what consumers expect from cutting edge mobile experiences, websites and applications – Slick User Experience, Modern Workflow, Mobile Support, Social and Cloud, and applying it to the enterprise space. This session will look at these five areas and apply them to WebSphere Portal and the
IBM Digital Experience solutions. Examples will highlight how and why focusing each of these areas can have a positive impact and upside inside your organization and recommendations on how to apply Application Modernization.
This company is IT Company. We do Digital Marketing, Website Development & Designing, App Development &Designing and other IT works. This is the best company. It was formed to provide IT services to the global market place and is owned and managed by a group of IT and Management Professionals. It was formed to provide IT services to the global market place and is owned and managed by a group of IT and Management Professionals. We develop products to provide the best technologies to develop people their business well and gain the best and competitive advantage with opening new markets. Our company has a team for providing the best services in Software and Web Applications. Our it company for Software Development, Website Development, Web Hosting, Web Designing, Search Engine Optimization, Mobile Solutions and lot many IT and IT Enabled Services.
One of the great joys of social media is that it's truly a city that never sleeps. However, one of the downfalls for brands is that means your customers always expect a quick, responsive user experience. Are you prepared to provide that on social? Are you actively listening to your customers, monitoring and moderating conversations, and providing value where they don't even know they need it? Are you enabling customers to participate in telling your brand's story?
In this webinar, learn from our panel of experts:
-How to integrate monitoring and moderation into your business strategy to accommodate customers and social needs
-Platforms and services that can help you provide a 24/7 customer experience
-Best practices for acting and reacting in a way that enhances continuous customer engagement
There is no doubt that mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are
changing the way that people consume information. The speed at which people are purchasing those items and making them part of their daily routines is happening faster than most marketers are prepared for! In this presentation, John Foley, CEO of interlinkONE and Grow Socially, will provide an overview of what needs to be done to prepare, deliver, and measure content that is tailored for the mobile audience.
What tools and technologies should you be using as a librarian or information professional in 2017? The CILIP special interest group MmIT hosted our first webinar to discuss and shortlist the most relevant tools you can employ as part of your work right now. We are joined by four members of the Multimedia and Information Technology Committee to look at tools and technologies for 2017
InfoTrends' view on customer communications management trendsScriptura Engage
Customer Communications Management (CCM) is subject to changing market conditions driven by digitalization, the Internet, a rich choice of media types, and changing regulations. Under these market conditions, organizations are advised to take a closer look into their customer communications practices.
Nevertheless, in-depth research by InfoTrends revealed that most organizations struggle with getting CCM to work. This document discusses the challenges associated with this and presents a grow path for CCM to help organizations improve their customer communications, reduce the cost associated with these communications, and to deepen their customer relationships.
Don't fear the block: Gutenberg is gettin' goodJohn Eckman
As presented at WordCamp NYC on Sept 14th, 2019.
Now that we’re more than six months past the Gutenlaunch, how is the new WordPress editor faring in the real world?
In short, the answer is brilliantly.
In this talk I go through some of the most exciting and interesting developments on and around Gutenberg, including real production examples from our clients as well as others.
We’ll cover core blocks, block libraries, block-aware-themes, and custom blocks.
If you’ve held back from embracing the block, come see why it’s time to start planning your own gutenswitch.
#NoStalking: Advertising & User PrivacyJohn Eckman
As publishers, have we made a Faustian bargain, exchanging revenue for our readers' security & privacy?
How can we shift online advertising (in particular programmatic) to be more compatible with user privacy in the era of the GDPR and the additional privacy laws undoubtedly coming?
There's a Reason We Call Them Institutions: Working in Higher Education Witho...John Eckman
I’ve consulted with lots of institutions of higher education. Each was convinced that they were a unique snowflake, and that their challenges could not possibly be understood by any outsider. In fact, I’ve found there’s remarkable similarity across many (though of course not all) campus teams as they strategize, design, develop, and maintain their web presence.
Diffuse Authority
Audience Ambiguity
Site Proliferation & Content Accumulation
Team Turnover: The Revolving Door & The Lifers
Training Insufficiency
For each we’ll talk about what the dysfunction is and what strategies you might use to mitigate its impact.
Working the Open: Open Source in an AgencyJohn Eckman
Why should agencies contribute to and participate in open source projects? How can they benefit from their participation?
Examples from 10up's own Open Source Practice
GDPR FTW, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Privacy By DesignJohn Eckman
At the start, the web was purely stateless – every request was the beginning (and every response the end) of a new conversation. Then we got cookies, so that servers could remember clients, and SSL so we could share information with servers that wasn't seen by all the servers it passed through en route. These two technologies enabled e-commerce and are so foundational now it is hard to imagine the web without them. The problem is the way we'e evolved the web has been down a path of increasingly aggressive data collection and reduced transparency for users.
We should have always been doing privacy by design, data portability, data transparency, and the right to be forgotten. We should not have become dependent on invasive ad tech and aggregated third-party data; we should not have handed over ownership of our own social graphs and connections so cheaply to private commercial interests.
While many (particularly in the US) may be uncomfortable with the legalistic and regulatory approach, preferring a more laissez-faire, self-governing model for virtually everything, the GDPR can be seen as an opportunity to start doing things right – applying the core principles of privacy by design not just where mandated by regulation but as a standard business practice.
The Blob, the Chunk, & the Block: Structured Content in the Age of GutenbergJohn Eckman
Content strategists distinguish between storing content in unstructured “blobs” and storing content in structured “chunks.” Where do Gutenberg “blocks” fit in? How is Gutenberg-edited content stored, and how do we get the benefits of blocks without going all blobby?
Taking Back What and From Whom?: Imagined Communities and Role of WordPress i...John Eckman
“Taking Back The Open Web” is a bold theme, but every word in that sentence requires some significant unpacking if we’re to agree on a path forward. From whom is the open web being taken back? Who took it from us in the first place? What do we mean by open, and do we really mean “web” here?
Dries’s version of the open web (to which the CFP linked) is a vaguely defined point in the recent past where “the web felt like a free space that belong to everyone.” Anil Dash’s version, which he calls “The Web We Lost” posits a time when the web was about “letting lots of people build innovative new opportunities for themselves” which has been replaced by a system which “continues to make a small number of wealthy people even more wealthy” via “narrow-minded, web-hostile products.” The call for papers for this conference, with a focus on publishers, points to “stress” caused by “proprietary formats which enforce limits and restraints.” There’s even an Open Web Foundation (founded in 2004) dedicated to “open, non-proprietary specifications for web technologies,” to which primary subscribers are Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
Is the conflict between the open web and the (presumably) closed web which opposes it, really about formats? Is it about access and distribution? Is it about a small number of powerful corporate overlords versus inspired, creative small business entrepreneurs?
In this talk I’ll lay out a couple of different ways of thinking about the “open web” we’re after, what each of those visions postulates as the problem, and what solutions emerge from that set of problems. I’ll conclude with some of my own take on how WordPress as itself an “imagined community” (cf. Benedict Anderson’s 1983 book) can and should contribute to shaping the future of the web. (Hint: It’s about democratizing publishing through open source AND community).
WordPress is the dominant CMS of the web, but still struggles to find acceptance in many Enterprises.
One reason is the lack of clear paths for personalization and content targeting – features which are heavily promoted in platforms like Adobe Experience Manager and (especially) Sitecore’s Experience Platform.
This talk covers what personalization and content targeting are and multiple ways of achieving both using WordPress as the underlying CMS, as well as of the dangers of personalization projects and ways they can go wrong.
The JSON REST API is something developers in the WordPress community have been very excited about for years. But what can your teams and clients actually use it to accomplish? What's it actually for?
Alternate Title: Who is JSON, and Why Do I Care How Much REST He Gets?
What "The Four Agreements" can teach us about avoiding drama in the WordPress community. 1) Be impeccable with your word; 2) Don't take anything personally; 3) Don't make assumptions; 4) Always do your best
Distributed, not Disconnected: Employee Engagement for Remote CompaniesJohn Eckman
Just because your employees don't all come to the same physical location doesn't mean they can be engaged. Distributed teams have needs much like co-located teams, and there are some additional steps you can take to drive employee engagement.
Facebook Instant Articles, Apple News, and Accelerated Mobile Pages all offer new distribution opportunities to address the limitations of today's mobile web experience.
What are these new distribution channels and how can marketers and publishers leverage them?
What’s wrong with the traditional approach to requirements definition and how a more proactive, collaborative, prototype and visualization driven approach generates better results.
Client Diplomacy: From Adversaries to AlliesJohn Eckman
Lightning Talk (10 minus) presented at WordCamp NYC at the UN
Too often in web design and development we treat clients as the enemy - irritating, ill-informed, pointy-haired-boss style business people who don't "get" what we do.
If instead we treated clients as our allies, and aligned our interests to theirs - recognizing that their success is out ultimate goal - we'd achieve better outcomes.
WordPress as a CMS Platform: Gilbane 2015John Eckman
While WordPress powers now 25% of the web, enterprise customers often overlook the platform as a content management system.
WordPress can be used for more than "simple" blogs or news sites: it supports custom content types, meta data, and taxonomies; has a robust API for managing user permissions, content states, and workflow; handles multilingual and multinational use cases easily; supports multisite networks (and networks of networks); offers a JSON REST API in addition to XML-RPC and CLI options; and can be integrated with enterprise class search engines like Elastic Search and SOLR.
Don't allow the deliberate simplicity of the WordPress "out of the box" experience or the focus on usability for content editors to overshadow the incredible power of the core platform and well established APIs.
We’ve all heard that content is king, yet when it comes to designing web experiences we’re still stuck with lorem ipsum and placeholder images, as though the real content didn’t matter.
We’re still designing web experiences from the top down, starting with the desktop view of the homepage, even though they’re more likely to be experienced from the bottom up – starting with a content detail page on a mobile device.
Designing from the content out means starting with atomic elements of content, and building a system of components and layouts based on the real structure of content.
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.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
When stars align: studies in data quality, knowledge graphs, and machine lear...
Delivering the News on WordPress
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Delivering the News
on WordPress
WordCamp Maine 2014
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Matt Fulton
Matt Fulton joined MTM as Director of Digital
Services in October 2013 from local digital
agency, Kemp Goldberg, where he was the
technical lead working on a variety of
development/design projects for clients ranging
from Fortune 500 companies to local Maine
brands.
Matt previously worked at the Boston Globe
where he served as managing of advertising
technology and also as sales development
manager. He also has the experience of
working at a start-up in the e-reader space.
The MTM Digital Services team is responsible
for the development, functionality, and user-
experience for all of our digital products
including our websites, replica editions, mobile
sites, and additional digital products. Matt and
his wife live in Cumberland with their two young
children.
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John Eckman
John Eckman joined 10up as CEO
in March 2014. He previously
served as Managing Director for
ISITE, Boston, Practice Director
for Optaros, and Director of
Development for PixelMEDIA.
He was one of the founding
organizers of WordCamp Boston
in 2010, and has spent the last 15
years focused on designing and
building web and mobile
experiences for clients, the last 8
in the open source CMS space.
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Agenda
• Before
• Project: Redesign, Replatform, & Migrate
• After
• Q&A
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Before
• Design was dated. We had difficulty presenting diverse content in elegant and
coherent packages.
• Current system didn’t allow easy curation of content to homepage and section
fronts, and mix additional media types with stories
• Non-responsive design with separate mobile site led to unpredictable content
management
• Editorial flow from print to web was in a black box - no accessible API to
syndication options
• CMS templating language had no community of knowledgeable developers
behind it
• CMS admin was confusing, difficult to navigate, and inflexible.
• Ongoing costs for proprietary SaaS model web CMS were high relative to
value
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Ingestion
• We used XML-RPC to enable MTM’s print CMS to
“push” content into WordPress
• Enables pushing of multiple assets per article
(images, related articles, article sidebar items)
retaining relationships setup in print CMS
• Intercept author bylines to line up for newswire
stories, different source types
• Also enable syndication of stories between MTM sites
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Migration
• Over 200,000 articles migrated from previous
platform
• Plus over 800 interactive items, 145,000 images,
and 3000 other ‘assets’
• WP-CLI with a very custom set of scripts to handle
properly all the relationships, assets, authors, etc.
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Integrations, Etc.
• MailChimp
• Brightcove
• AccuWeather
• Google Analytics API / AddThis
• Gravity Forms
• Taboola
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Q & A
Thanks To:
• Helen Hou-Sandí
• Chris Marslender
• Dave Kellam
• Dillon McCallum
• Andrew Mowe
• Eric Mann
• Grant Landram
• Ivan Lopez
• Tammy Hart
Thanks To:
• Matt Fulton
• Peter Vachon
• Doug Vanderweide
• Chad Gilley
• Lisa DeSisto