Vireo Research had the pleasure of speaking at the annual QRD conference (qrdconference2014.mria-arim.ca/) in February 2014.
This presentation covers: the benefits of building a research community within your online community, how using research brings your community closer together through co-creation, how community begets community in the social good space, co-creation and the highly engaged advocate, research methods/reporting that facilitate action and engagement, includes recent successful examples from our work.
10 pictures taken from the book "homo competens" that talk about competent people in the network age.
Are you a HoCo? I think you are. A HoCo is not a dirty word. It is short for 'homo competens', and that is not an insult. That is Latin for 'competent person'. If you are a HoCo, or want to be one, this site is for you.
If talented people are indeed our greatest asset, why would we keep treating competence as a black box? If you ask me, competence is far too important to discuss in vague terms or to leave to chance.
Betsy Kent_ Integral Salon_Sag Harbor, NY 12-18-14Be Visible
Love it or hate it, Social Media have transformed the way we communicate. Facebook and platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, have given the average person the ability, for the first time, to publish his or her own ideas and thoughts in a public forum. No longer is news, opinion and advertising the sole domain of giant corporations companies. In this way, media has been democratized.
Most significantly, Social Media provide an environment where one can easily find his or her “tribe” – other people with shared interests, passions, and desires, whether they be political, cultural, religious, etc. The result of this can be of great benefit, or of great danger, to the global community.
Vireo Research had the pleasure of speaking at the annual QRD conference (qrdconference2014.mria-arim.ca/) in February 2014.
This presentation covers: the benefits of building a research community within your online community, how using research brings your community closer together through co-creation, how community begets community in the social good space, co-creation and the highly engaged advocate, research methods/reporting that facilitate action and engagement, includes recent successful examples from our work.
10 pictures taken from the book "homo competens" that talk about competent people in the network age.
Are you a HoCo? I think you are. A HoCo is not a dirty word. It is short for 'homo competens', and that is not an insult. That is Latin for 'competent person'. If you are a HoCo, or want to be one, this site is for you.
If talented people are indeed our greatest asset, why would we keep treating competence as a black box? If you ask me, competence is far too important to discuss in vague terms or to leave to chance.
Betsy Kent_ Integral Salon_Sag Harbor, NY 12-18-14Be Visible
Love it or hate it, Social Media have transformed the way we communicate. Facebook and platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, have given the average person the ability, for the first time, to publish his or her own ideas and thoughts in a public forum. No longer is news, opinion and advertising the sole domain of giant corporations companies. In this way, media has been democratized.
Most significantly, Social Media provide an environment where one can easily find his or her “tribe” – other people with shared interests, passions, and desires, whether they be political, cultural, religious, etc. The result of this can be of great benefit, or of great danger, to the global community.
How Gadgets Help Us Learn - Social Collaborative Technology - Learning Live, ...Julian Stodd
In the Social Age, technology facilitates our learning. The gadgets in our pockets and (increasingly) worn on our bodies enable us to be more effective, to do things we could never do before: but it comes at a cost.
There are challenges of equality, social capital and privacy. For every positive, we must consider the risks.
In this presentation at Learning Live, for the Learning Performance Institute in September 2014, i used a free ranging presentation to explore a range of these issues. I tried to link them into a wider social agenda of using the technology but being aware of the responsibilities that it brings.
Presentation by Nicola Bacon from a debate hosted by John Thompson & Partners as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
For more on the event see:
http://www.social-life.co/news/post/what-can-designers-do-for-cities/
Louis Zacharilla presenta Intelligent Community Forum - New Voices for Eterna...Laura Lovison
As Director of Development for ICF, Louis Zacharilla is a frequent writer and speaker on economic development, business development, information systems and telecommunications for publications including American City & County, Continental (the in-flight magazine), New York Real Estate Journal, Real Estate Weekly and Information Executive. He is an adjunct professor at Fordham University in New York, where he teaches a course on marketing and the media each year, and holds a Masters Degree from the University of Notre Dame.
Creating effective learning in Social Age - presentation for LPI LDN2014 - Ju...Julian Stodd
My presentation from the Learning Performance Institute Learning Directors Network session in July 2014. Exploring the Social Age of learning and it's impacts on learning design for both organisations and individuals.
The Session explores Social Learning and Leadership, the role of Communities, the Social Contract between organisations and individuals and the need for us to protect those who are disenfranchised through technology or culture.
It also includes the early iterations of my latest work around Creativity and Innovation in organisations.
How to meet the next generation of museum visitorsAnne Boysen
We understand the next generation better if we have good sense of the future. Likewise, our sense of the future are improved also improves when we understand the next generation. Many trends change faster than before, and the youngest generations are often the first to make them mainstream. Where can we envision younger generations leading these trends? And what impact will this have on museums?
An overview of Web research areas of interest to social scientists presented at Brunel University 3 March 2010, including an overview of my attempts to understand social influence online for my PhD thesis (http://alekskrotoski.com/tags/phd). includes general findings and an overview of the themes discussed in BBC2's Virtual Revolution series.
How Gadgets Help Us Learn - Social Collaborative Technology - Learning Live, ...Julian Stodd
In the Social Age, technology facilitates our learning. The gadgets in our pockets and (increasingly) worn on our bodies enable us to be more effective, to do things we could never do before: but it comes at a cost.
There are challenges of equality, social capital and privacy. For every positive, we must consider the risks.
In this presentation at Learning Live, for the Learning Performance Institute in September 2014, i used a free ranging presentation to explore a range of these issues. I tried to link them into a wider social agenda of using the technology but being aware of the responsibilities that it brings.
Presentation by Nicola Bacon from a debate hosted by John Thompson & Partners as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
For more on the event see:
http://www.social-life.co/news/post/what-can-designers-do-for-cities/
Louis Zacharilla presenta Intelligent Community Forum - New Voices for Eterna...Laura Lovison
As Director of Development for ICF, Louis Zacharilla is a frequent writer and speaker on economic development, business development, information systems and telecommunications for publications including American City & County, Continental (the in-flight magazine), New York Real Estate Journal, Real Estate Weekly and Information Executive. He is an adjunct professor at Fordham University in New York, where he teaches a course on marketing and the media each year, and holds a Masters Degree from the University of Notre Dame.
Creating effective learning in Social Age - presentation for LPI LDN2014 - Ju...Julian Stodd
My presentation from the Learning Performance Institute Learning Directors Network session in July 2014. Exploring the Social Age of learning and it's impacts on learning design for both organisations and individuals.
The Session explores Social Learning and Leadership, the role of Communities, the Social Contract between organisations and individuals and the need for us to protect those who are disenfranchised through technology or culture.
It also includes the early iterations of my latest work around Creativity and Innovation in organisations.
How to meet the next generation of museum visitorsAnne Boysen
We understand the next generation better if we have good sense of the future. Likewise, our sense of the future are improved also improves when we understand the next generation. Many trends change faster than before, and the youngest generations are often the first to make them mainstream. Where can we envision younger generations leading these trends? And what impact will this have on museums?
An overview of Web research areas of interest to social scientists presented at Brunel University 3 March 2010, including an overview of my attempts to understand social influence online for my PhD thesis (http://alekskrotoski.com/tags/phd). includes general findings and an overview of the themes discussed in BBC2's Virtual Revolution series.
The information network created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 to connect people to knowledge has become an important place to navigate who and what we know, as well as who we think we are. But how much of a revolution is it? This lecture will trace some of the most important developments in social uses of information technologies in order to ultimately argue that the Web does offer unprecedented opportunities to access information and galvanise communities of practice, but that the impact of this new medium will reflect an evolution rather than a revolution of communication practices.
Volunteers are a powerful force for good in the world, giving their time, energy, and skills to those who need them most. Guiding these individuals can be as challenging as it is exciting, as the volunteer process is continually evolving. This breakout session explores the changing nature of volunteering and the ways that Rotary and other service organizations are responding to these developments.
Things may be moving slowly in the world of officialdom. But people are not always waiting for their governments to do everything in their daily lives. Despite bureaucratic service delivery systems, citizens find ways to get things done.
Twaweza works with the five networks to fuel flows of information, stories, and ideas to make it easier for people to get, make, and share information and ideas. Twaweza helps spread information about rights, laws and budgets, as well as information on how citizens compare with their neighbors. All of this has stimulated informed public debate.
Sociology of the Internet and New Media.pptxSandykaFundaa
• Social Construction of Technology,
• Digital inequalities – Digital Divide and Access,
• Economy of New Media - Intellectual value;
• digital media ethics,
• new media and popular culture.
The UK experience of person-centred planning and self-directed supportCitizen Network
Dr Simon Duffy of Citizen Network spoke to Netzwerk Persönliche Zukunftsplanung (the germans speaking community for person-centred planning) at their gathering in Luxembourg 2019. He explored the interaction of person-centred planning with self-directed support and the challenges of implementing social innovations within a time of neoliberal thinking and austerity.
This was a tongue in cheek look at the rise of citizens in social change. In the 21 century, the power of networks may replace the power of organisations in driving social change.
This 40 minute talk at York CVS will showcase organisations and movements which are challenging existing institutions, organisations and hierarchies..
Workshop presentation when with experts in fields of age, gerontology, IT, caring and research we discussed how we'd tackle researching motivations, advantages, obstacles & risks to senior citizens participating in online communities
Scol starting research-2012-09-15 (ss)
Is there a place for online social networking in teaching and learning? Autho...UCD Library
Presentation for CONUL Advisory Committee on Information Literacy - Annual Information Literacy Seminar, May 28th 2009, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 2009-05-28.
from a presentation at the ExPERT Centre at Uni of Portsmouth on 8 May 2008. An* overview of three areas: online social psychology and identity, measruring relationships in SL (my research to date) and online research methods.
from the VBusiness Expo on 26 April 2008. An overview of the different approaches and challenges to researching online identity in social virtual worlds and online games
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/
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.
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.
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.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
2. So people are playing games. So what?
• People are gathering in these spaces
• People are communicating with one another
• People are developing meaningful relationships
• People are creating new understandings
• People are participating
3.
4. But before we get ahead of ourselves…
• The differences between online and offline:
– Anonymity
– Physical appearance
– Physical proximity
– Greater transience (more weak ties)
– Absence of social cues
5. So how can the interactions in
cyberspace be meaningful ?
• In traditional definitions of “community”,
there’d be no such thing in cyberspace
– How can you develop meaningful relationships with
people you’ve never met?
6. It’s been happening for years
• These virtual worlds are the
places which the online
communities are tied to
7. So how does it happen?
• Virtual worlds are designed that way – people
must rely upon one another to survive and
advance
• Anonymity becomes Pseudonymity
• Whatever role trust plays in offline communities,
it plays in online communities because these
interactions are human-bound
8. This is where things get interesting
• Incorporating real-world ritual into the virtual
• Commemorating real-world events
• A non-official policing force in a space where an
official police are absent
• Representational government for the people by
the people
• Judicial systems
• Thriving economies worth tens of millions of
USD
9. So what does this mean for public
diplomacy?
• These spaces integrate the functionality of the
internet, the creativity enabled by digital media
and the collaborative possibilities offered in the
networked age
• They are integrated and immersive media
platforms which encourage active participation,
collaboration and innovation
• They extend traditional information access, and
support new ways of creating exchanges and
experiences for a global population
13. Others have chosen to use them
• Charities • Political Parties
– Global Kids – John Edwards 08
– UNICEF – National Front
– American Cancer Society – UKIP
– Childline
• N/GOs
• Governments
– Centre for Disease
– Sweden Control
– The Netherlands – NOAA
– World Economic Forum
14. So how do you do it?
• It’s very easy. It just takes a bit of planning. The
most important thing to remember is that it all
comes back to the community
– What are their social norms?
– What can you provide which offers value?
– What can you provide which offers the community a
stake in how and where you’ll fit into the social
landscape?
15. In sum
• Virtual environments are thriving worlds
populated by tens of millions around the world
• They simulate and stimulate
• People are motivated to participate
• And if you want to get involved, you must too
16. Thank you
Aleks Krotoski
aleks@toastkid.com
http://www.toastkid.com