Getting Started With User-Centered Content by Emileigh Barnes & Kate Garklavs...Blend Interactive
Writing for the web is messy and complicated. As web content managers, we must weigh user needs against stakeholder demands, tight timelines, budget constraints, and more. We’re often thrown into projects that are already underway or lack a clear strategy. Our work is constrained by organizational pressures.
In this workshop, we’ll talk about aligning content with project goals, creating a strategy that puts users first, and building products that can maintain momentum and success, even after we’re gone.
"Empathy Behind the Algorithms" by Chris Corak - Now What? Conference 2017Blend Interactive
Search engine algorithms are always changing, it can feel impossible to keep up. But the goal behind every Google search result has always stayed the same—to give people exactly what they want and need. If that’s Google’s #1 goal, then why would we cater to search engines instead of working harder to make our audience happy? Great SEO that results in better visibility and higher conversions always maps back to the people behind the keywords. In this talk, Chris will show you practical SEO techniques and approaches you can use to make sure your content is helpful, relevant, and findable, too.
“Why Content Projects Fail” by Deane Barker - Now What? Conference 2017Blend Interactive
The content management implementation failure rate is higher than it should be, and projects seem to fail for the same cluster of reasons: unrealistic requirements, expectations, human factors, etc. In this session, Deane will discuss the major reasons for project failure learned through almost two decades of implementation experience, and discuss strategies and policies to put in place at each stage of the project to prevent them.
Content Measurement and Analytics: Making Positive Change on the Web by Rick ...Blend Interactive
We all want to create useful, usable content—and we want to deliver that content to the right users. But how do we know what works? And how do we use these insights to inform and adapt our content strategy? What does success look like?
Join us as we relate content goals to relevant and meaningful success metrics in order to quantitatively assess the quality of our web content and the efficacy of our content strategy. Say hello to positive change on the web!
Join us and learn to:
Translate strategic business objectives into measurable content goals
Find the right metrics for the right goals (and how to avoid misleading metrics
Measure and adapt your content strategy
Effectively present analytics data to engage content stakeholders and inform their work on the web
Configure Google Analytics to support your measurement plan
Rick Allen has worked on the web his entire career to help shape communications and content strategy. Rick is co-founder of Meet Content, an online resource aiming to empower higher education to create and sustain web content that works. As principal of ePublish Media, Inc., a content strategy consultancy in Boston, Mass., Rick partners with organizations big and small to drive and sustain bold goals.
Webinar - SEO for Beginners: Simple Steps for Nonprofits and Libraries - 2016...TechSoup
SEO – search engine optimization – is the practice of improving, and promoting a website in order to increase the number of visitors the site receives from search engines. The majority of traffic to your organization or library website may come from the three major search engines - Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
In this free webinar with Whole Whale, learn some basic SEO tips for beginners to help your organization's site and content rank higher and be found more consistently, helping you grow your reach and supporters.
There are over 200 factors that translate in the the Google Search algorithm that handles over 1 trillion searches each day. This session gives a simple history of how we got here and the basics of the algorithm. We cover the main topics and key terms you should know, as well as the guiding principles of the system. This overview will help your team start to decode the nice versus necessary elements of SEO your organization can use to increase organic traffic.
Takeaways:
-- Keyword research
-- Link-building basics to increase traffic
-- Understanding the on-page and off-page principles of the algorithm
Getting Started With User-Centered Content by Emileigh Barnes & Kate Garklavs...Blend Interactive
Writing for the web is messy and complicated. As web content managers, we must weigh user needs against stakeholder demands, tight timelines, budget constraints, and more. We’re often thrown into projects that are already underway or lack a clear strategy. Our work is constrained by organizational pressures.
In this workshop, we’ll talk about aligning content with project goals, creating a strategy that puts users first, and building products that can maintain momentum and success, even after we’re gone.
"Empathy Behind the Algorithms" by Chris Corak - Now What? Conference 2017Blend Interactive
Search engine algorithms are always changing, it can feel impossible to keep up. But the goal behind every Google search result has always stayed the same—to give people exactly what they want and need. If that’s Google’s #1 goal, then why would we cater to search engines instead of working harder to make our audience happy? Great SEO that results in better visibility and higher conversions always maps back to the people behind the keywords. In this talk, Chris will show you practical SEO techniques and approaches you can use to make sure your content is helpful, relevant, and findable, too.
“Why Content Projects Fail” by Deane Barker - Now What? Conference 2017Blend Interactive
The content management implementation failure rate is higher than it should be, and projects seem to fail for the same cluster of reasons: unrealistic requirements, expectations, human factors, etc. In this session, Deane will discuss the major reasons for project failure learned through almost two decades of implementation experience, and discuss strategies and policies to put in place at each stage of the project to prevent them.
Content Measurement and Analytics: Making Positive Change on the Web by Rick ...Blend Interactive
We all want to create useful, usable content—and we want to deliver that content to the right users. But how do we know what works? And how do we use these insights to inform and adapt our content strategy? What does success look like?
Join us as we relate content goals to relevant and meaningful success metrics in order to quantitatively assess the quality of our web content and the efficacy of our content strategy. Say hello to positive change on the web!
Join us and learn to:
Translate strategic business objectives into measurable content goals
Find the right metrics for the right goals (and how to avoid misleading metrics
Measure and adapt your content strategy
Effectively present analytics data to engage content stakeholders and inform their work on the web
Configure Google Analytics to support your measurement plan
Rick Allen has worked on the web his entire career to help shape communications and content strategy. Rick is co-founder of Meet Content, an online resource aiming to empower higher education to create and sustain web content that works. As principal of ePublish Media, Inc., a content strategy consultancy in Boston, Mass., Rick partners with organizations big and small to drive and sustain bold goals.
Webinar - SEO for Beginners: Simple Steps for Nonprofits and Libraries - 2016...TechSoup
SEO – search engine optimization – is the practice of improving, and promoting a website in order to increase the number of visitors the site receives from search engines. The majority of traffic to your organization or library website may come from the three major search engines - Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
In this free webinar with Whole Whale, learn some basic SEO tips for beginners to help your organization's site and content rank higher and be found more consistently, helping you grow your reach and supporters.
There are over 200 factors that translate in the the Google Search algorithm that handles over 1 trillion searches each day. This session gives a simple history of how we got here and the basics of the algorithm. We cover the main topics and key terms you should know, as well as the guiding principles of the system. This overview will help your team start to decode the nice versus necessary elements of SEO your organization can use to increase organic traffic.
Takeaways:
-- Keyword research
-- Link-building basics to increase traffic
-- Understanding the on-page and off-page principles of the algorithm
Find out why and how working working your UX process from the content is a strategy that can lead to becoming a strategic design influencer with a seat at the decision table. It can also reduce UX churn in design due to lack of content at the start of design. Maybe most important, it can drive significant improvements in key metrics including end-user satisfaction.
Teaching information: from Google Search to Big DataMartin Patrick
The Internet is the biggest store of information the world has ever known and will be more and more central to eco- nomic activity in the future. All this information and activity comes at a price: surveys routinely show that employers are underwhelmed by young people’s information skills. In this session we will explore web-based resources that can help students better master information technology and skills us- ing resources freely available online. Together we will talk about ideas to use these resources to augment curricula, and
briefly explore the next big thing in information: Big Data.
Turning Data into Infographics: An Interactive Workshop for Problem SolversUNCResearchHub
This workshop was given at the UNC Undergraduate Library on October 4, 2016. It steps through the process of finding data sources, exploring data, and ultimately creating a persuasive infographic using that data. A brief introduction to infographics and best practices are included.
All of us think that we can get all pages with the help of Google, MSN or Yahoo. However, we have large data that is deep, hidden and not visible to us. What is this invisibility. How to make it available to every one: we will see that in this presentation.
Integrating Reading, Math, Writing, Science and Technology has never been more fun. Simple software or office technology can be used to create simple to advanced games. Game testing uses scientific method to determine results, conclusions and recommendations. Students play games on PC, MAC, iPhone, Android or Xbox.
Digital hoarding is driving away users and killing conversionKate Wehner
Digital hoarding is real. When websites are a cluttered, hot mess, users can’t figure out what’s important—and neither can Google. Learn how to diagnose and treat digital hoarding, so that you can focus on your content, optimize your site for search engines, and improve conversion rates.
Understand how digital hoarding affects SEO and conversion rates.
Determine what content belongs on your website, and what can go.
Learn best practices for archiving content on your current website.
PR 313 - Public Relations & the World Wide WebBrett Atwood
This lecture presents an overview of public relations techniques on the Web. Topics include: Writing for the Web, "chunk" design patterns, "user-generated content," crowdsourcing and social networking opportunities.
From Bad to Worse to Nearly Perfect: Making Large Scale IA Changes to a Live ...Kelsey Peters
What happens when you combine two previously separate subsites into one? A little chaos and a lot of broken links. In the fight between decentralization and centralization, issues of duplication and IA standardization are front and center.
In this case study, Zoe Barker Jacobs and Kelsey Peters explain how DePaul University took a live college site's biggest content problem head-on. They will share lessons learned about content auditing, mitigating issues when making large-scale changes in a live site, and how this project helped spread the word on governance at their institution.
Learn how to plan for a large-scale IA change, why duplicate content is not only bad for SEO but can lead to legal trouble and that instituting governance may not be so scary after all.
(Presented at Confab Higher Ed, 11/16/16)
You can read all about ideal governance models that should work, but what does it really take to run a website in higher ed? This study researched staff structures, roles, and skills at colleges and universities so we could share real examples of how day-to-day website management gets done across higher ed.
Ensure Online Relevancy: Integrating Writing for the Web and the Social WebAshley Griffin
Today’s online learning is more then a static website. Engaging with your audience through mainstream social networks is not only a way to promote and drive customers to content but is the way to create true learning communities and ensure relevancy in the online marketplace. Additionally, translating research-based information into web based searchable content can be challenging for the traditionally trained research/extension professional. Explore with us how to standardize the transformation of content to become more effective promoting content discussion on materials with short, concise snippets of information supplemented with pictures, videos, and related websites including links to related social media outlets such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Action items to improve impact include linkages to relevant topics on other websites or social media, keeping items current, search engine optimization strategies, changes in formatting and writing style to increase overall readability, a clear call to action, the incorporation of items that fill a unique need, and the active dialogue with customers around the content provided.
Jed Cawthornes slidedeck from his session at JBoye09 conference in Philadelphia (May 2009) on what makes a good intranet, and whether or not you can build a good intranet using Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007
Content Design: Where IA and content strategy convergeBrain Traffic
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In a digital world that’s flooded with content, it’s important to adopt a grounded approach for content strategy and management. Content design is an essential place to begin your journey to content maturity. In this workshop, Meghan Casey clarifies the role of content design for websites and empowers you with a practical framework and useful tools gleaned from her book, The Content Strategy Toolkit.
Bearish SEO: Defining the User Experience for Google’s Panda Search LandscapeMarianne Sweeny
The search sun shifted in March 2011 when Google started rolling out the beginning of the Panda update. Instead of using the famous PageRank, a link-based relevance calculation, Panda rests on a machine interpretation of user experience to decide which sites are most relevant to a searchers quest for knowledge. This means that IA and UX practitioners need to start thinking about the machine implications of the way they structure information on the web, and think ahead about the human implications for how search engines present their sites in response to searcher queries. Bearish SEO will present real, actionable methods for content providers, information architects and user experience designers to directly influence search engine discoverability. Need is an experience. It is a state of being. The goal for this presentation is to ensure that user experience professionals become an integral part of designing search experience.
Инструменты для подготовки пользовательской документации — Катя КуненкоYandex
В докладе речь пойдет об инструментах документирования в Яндексе. Екатерина рассмотрит этапы подготовки пользовательской документации и расскажет, какие инструменты используются на каждом этапе.
Find out why and how working working your UX process from the content is a strategy that can lead to becoming a strategic design influencer with a seat at the decision table. It can also reduce UX churn in design due to lack of content at the start of design. Maybe most important, it can drive significant improvements in key metrics including end-user satisfaction.
Teaching information: from Google Search to Big DataMartin Patrick
The Internet is the biggest store of information the world has ever known and will be more and more central to eco- nomic activity in the future. All this information and activity comes at a price: surveys routinely show that employers are underwhelmed by young people’s information skills. In this session we will explore web-based resources that can help students better master information technology and skills us- ing resources freely available online. Together we will talk about ideas to use these resources to augment curricula, and
briefly explore the next big thing in information: Big Data.
Turning Data into Infographics: An Interactive Workshop for Problem SolversUNCResearchHub
This workshop was given at the UNC Undergraduate Library on October 4, 2016. It steps through the process of finding data sources, exploring data, and ultimately creating a persuasive infographic using that data. A brief introduction to infographics and best practices are included.
All of us think that we can get all pages with the help of Google, MSN or Yahoo. However, we have large data that is deep, hidden and not visible to us. What is this invisibility. How to make it available to every one: we will see that in this presentation.
Integrating Reading, Math, Writing, Science and Technology has never been more fun. Simple software or office technology can be used to create simple to advanced games. Game testing uses scientific method to determine results, conclusions and recommendations. Students play games on PC, MAC, iPhone, Android or Xbox.
Digital hoarding is driving away users and killing conversionKate Wehner
Digital hoarding is real. When websites are a cluttered, hot mess, users can’t figure out what’s important—and neither can Google. Learn how to diagnose and treat digital hoarding, so that you can focus on your content, optimize your site for search engines, and improve conversion rates.
Understand how digital hoarding affects SEO and conversion rates.
Determine what content belongs on your website, and what can go.
Learn best practices for archiving content on your current website.
PR 313 - Public Relations & the World Wide WebBrett Atwood
This lecture presents an overview of public relations techniques on the Web. Topics include: Writing for the Web, "chunk" design patterns, "user-generated content," crowdsourcing and social networking opportunities.
From Bad to Worse to Nearly Perfect: Making Large Scale IA Changes to a Live ...Kelsey Peters
What happens when you combine two previously separate subsites into one? A little chaos and a lot of broken links. In the fight between decentralization and centralization, issues of duplication and IA standardization are front and center.
In this case study, Zoe Barker Jacobs and Kelsey Peters explain how DePaul University took a live college site's biggest content problem head-on. They will share lessons learned about content auditing, mitigating issues when making large-scale changes in a live site, and how this project helped spread the word on governance at their institution.
Learn how to plan for a large-scale IA change, why duplicate content is not only bad for SEO but can lead to legal trouble and that instituting governance may not be so scary after all.
(Presented at Confab Higher Ed, 11/16/16)
You can read all about ideal governance models that should work, but what does it really take to run a website in higher ed? This study researched staff structures, roles, and skills at colleges and universities so we could share real examples of how day-to-day website management gets done across higher ed.
Ensure Online Relevancy: Integrating Writing for the Web and the Social WebAshley Griffin
Today’s online learning is more then a static website. Engaging with your audience through mainstream social networks is not only a way to promote and drive customers to content but is the way to create true learning communities and ensure relevancy in the online marketplace. Additionally, translating research-based information into web based searchable content can be challenging for the traditionally trained research/extension professional. Explore with us how to standardize the transformation of content to become more effective promoting content discussion on materials with short, concise snippets of information supplemented with pictures, videos, and related websites including links to related social media outlets such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Action items to improve impact include linkages to relevant topics on other websites or social media, keeping items current, search engine optimization strategies, changes in formatting and writing style to increase overall readability, a clear call to action, the incorporation of items that fill a unique need, and the active dialogue with customers around the content provided.
Jed Cawthornes slidedeck from his session at JBoye09 conference in Philadelphia (May 2009) on what makes a good intranet, and whether or not you can build a good intranet using Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007
Content Design: Where IA and content strategy convergeBrain Traffic
Add to Google Calendar
Description
In a digital world that’s flooded with content, it’s important to adopt a grounded approach for content strategy and management. Content design is an essential place to begin your journey to content maturity. In this workshop, Meghan Casey clarifies the role of content design for websites and empowers you with a practical framework and useful tools gleaned from her book, The Content Strategy Toolkit.
Bearish SEO: Defining the User Experience for Google’s Panda Search LandscapeMarianne Sweeny
The search sun shifted in March 2011 when Google started rolling out the beginning of the Panda update. Instead of using the famous PageRank, a link-based relevance calculation, Panda rests on a machine interpretation of user experience to decide which sites are most relevant to a searchers quest for knowledge. This means that IA and UX practitioners need to start thinking about the machine implications of the way they structure information on the web, and think ahead about the human implications for how search engines present their sites in response to searcher queries. Bearish SEO will present real, actionable methods for content providers, information architects and user experience designers to directly influence search engine discoverability. Need is an experience. It is a state of being. The goal for this presentation is to ensure that user experience professionals become an integral part of designing search experience.
Инструменты для подготовки пользовательской документации — Катя КуненкоYandex
В докладе речь пойдет об инструментах документирования в Яндексе. Екатерина рассмотрит этапы подготовки пользовательской документации и расскажет, какие инструменты используются на каждом этапе.
Social buzzclub Get on Page One in Google Search with Google+TROOL Social Media
Get on Page One in Google Search with Google+ If you can't be found on Page one your competition is taking your money!
People don't look past page one when searching for things they need. Make sure you have optimized all you can using Google+ and YouTube to help you rise in the SERPs
This is a May 2012 Yuvee press release announcing the "one-thumb surfing" tagline for Yuvee's WebHub cloud app at www.webhub.mobi that takes all the hard steps out of surfing the Web from touchscreen mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets
The version of the Every Page is Page One presentation given to the Wellington Waterloo Webmakers, Dec 10, 2014 at the Symposium Cafe in Guelph, Ontario.
By James Campbell - Associate Creative Director.
As technology and media evolve, the consumer encounters brands in unpredictable ways. This presentation will cover concepts and strategies for creating evocative branded experiences, across all media, devices or situations. As we look into the future, brands must represent themselves as a whole entity, and exhibit integrity at all touch points…especially those you can't control.
It's Stories All the Way Down: Spectrum 2016Mark Baker
There is a growing appreciation of the importance of story in all forms of communication, but there is still a tendency to think of story as something distinct from fact, a kind of decoration on top of the basic communication of facts. This presentation argues that the distinction is false, that it is really stories all the way down, and that it is when we forget the every phrase and every sentence invokes a story, that we fail to communicate effectively.
... NEW Version Oct 2015 ...
Please download this document for better reading. It's a small brochure, not a presentation.
Find this guide as eBOOK at https://leanpub.com/one-page-storytelling
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immersive storytelling:
how to build the most stunning multi-media story:
a small and concise guide to ONE-PAGE-STORYTELLING.
types – storyline – storyboard – examples.
For use with Shorthand.com and other tools or platforms.
A small guide to plan and produce one-page aka parallax storytelling: with links to examples and resources, copy template for storyline and step-by-step instructions.
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Thanks for great discussions, feedback and additions:
Jeremy Caplan,
Director of Education, Tow-Knight Center Entrepreneurial Journalism, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (http://www.jeremycaplan.com),
Rachel Bartlett,
Editorial planning and training manager for @Shorthand_, former editor of http://Journalism.co.uk (https://twitter.com/rachelabartlett)
Marketing campaigns aimed at women are becoming less reliant on tired stereotypes and increasingly eschewing traditional gender roles. This presentation includes examples that demonstrate how brands are empowering women today.
Technologies such as Diigo make it possible to amass a personal library of any size. Having access to the information you need amplifies your memory giving you an outboard brain. The social aspects of Diigo makes it possible to share content amongst like-minded collectors of information.
A retrospective look at the evolution of web development and a look at modern web development practices. Presentation given to the TEEX communicator group.
User Experience Webinar 1 - Eye-popping Content: Creating a User-friendly Fra...springshare
You’ve got it all – databases, articles, videos, books, recommended links. So how do you package it in a way that not only satisfies your users’ information needs but encourages browsing? Learn practical techniques and ideas for building a user-friendly and contextual framework for the web while using the resources at your fingertips.
With our rapidly increasing and instantaneous access to information, it can be difficult to help people slice through the “data smog” and become fluent with information while critically assessing its value and purpose. This webinar introduces a variety of technical resources and research tools, and provides tips to help make learning more meaningful, engaging, and relevant, with the ultimate goal of providing learners with opportunities to create something new and exciting. The end goal is to help learners enrich their lives by constructing a personal learning environment, online or face-to-face, that is conducive to information discovery, sharing, and lifelong learning.
Masterclass on the integration of service design and content strategy given at the Service Design Global Conference 2016 in Amsterdam.
Learn how to apply content strategy to customer journeys, enriching one of the best-known service design deliverables with critically important new layers.
Ken Chad presented the keynote at the EDS (Ebsco Discovery Services) conference at Regents University, London in July 2016. He reviewed future trends for Google and enterprise search including factors such as voice (‘conversational’) search, the ‘ultimate assistant’, entities (‘things not strings’), visual search and the role of big data, context and intention. He then looked and some trends in library discovery services. There will continue to be a multiplicity of approaches open to users and Ken recommended that libraries do more to focus on the needs of users– the ‘jobs’ they were trying to do– in order to acquire and/or innovate new approaches to library discovery services.
This presentation was provided by Melissa Milazzo and Gina Donato of Elsevier, during the NISO event "Long Form Content: Ebooks, Print Volumes and the Concerns of Those Who Use Both," held on March 20, 2019.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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.
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
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.
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/
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
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: Passkeys at Amazon.pdf
Every page is page one baker
1. Every Page is Page One
Topic-based Writing for Technical Communication and the Web
Mark Baker
Analecta Communications Inc.
@mbakeranalecta #eppo @LavaCon
2. The book
Every Page is Page
One: Topic-based
Writing for
Technical
Communication
and the Web
XML Press
Available in the
bookstore!
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3. Who said…
“Learners … often skip over crucial
material if it does not address their
current task-oriented concern or skip
around among several manuals,
composing their own ersatz
instructional procedure on the fly.”
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4. John Carroll
The Nunrberg
Funnel
1990
Users hopping
around from one
source to another
did not start with
the Web
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5. The sequencing problem
Many sequencing problems reside not
in the material alone but in the
learner’s use of it. When people refer
to instruction opportunistically in
support of their own goal-directed
activities, it becomes difficult or
impossible to predict what sequencing
will be appropriate…
John Carroll, The Nurnberg Funnel, 1990
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6. Eliminate sequence
A radical approach to sequencing problems is to try
to eliminate sequence: materials designed to be
read in any order cannot be read in the wrong
order. … The orderly accumulation of prerequisite
skill and understanding that can be assumed when
material is embedded in a sequenced curriculum
cannot be assumed if learners use the material in
any order they wish. But, of course, this is just
what learners do anyway and is one of the key
reasons that materials that depend on carefully
sequenced prerequisites fail.
John Carroll, The Nurnberg Funnel, 1990
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7. Radical Then; Mainstream Now
The concept of creating unsequenced
material was “radical” in 1990
Today, it is the default
The Web is not sequenced
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8. Why “Every Page is Page One?”
On the Web, readers arrive at content
Via a Google search
Via a recommendation in a social
network
Via a link from another page
There is no continuity from where
they were before.
Every link leads to a new page one
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9. John Carroll anticipated this
“Escaping these problems and
providing for material to be sensibly
read in any order, necessitates a
different approach to organizing
instruction. It requires a high degree
of modularity, a structure of small
self-contained units.”
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10. But …
Not every page
works well as
page one
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11. Jump into the middle
The page is in
the middle of
something
Reader has to
back up to find
start of the
thread
It may be a
“topic,” but it
assumes
sequence
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12. On the Web but Not of the Web
Putting a PDF or a tri-pane help
system on you Website does not
create Web-like content.
Native Web content does not look like
this.
Native Web content is not sequential
Readers don’t stick to one site. They
hop around the whole Web
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13. Writers in denial
Many writers are in denial about the
power of Web search.
“too many false hits”
“too much stuff to wade through”
“takes too long to find things”
“content is unreliable”
“easier to find things in a book with a
well prepared index”
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14. So why do users
prefer to search the Web?
Photo: Steven Straiton/Wikimedia Commons
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15. Scope
Searching the Web is not like
searching the index of one book
It is like searching the index of every
book, letter, article, and conversation
in the world
Index search only begins when you
have found the right book
Finding the right book is expensive
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16. The Long Tail
Many low demand
items account for as
much total demand
as a few high
demand items.
Amazon makes a lot
of money from the
long tail of items
regular stores can’t
stock
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18. Manual doesn’t cover long tail
Manual has only high
demand items
Users often need
specific items from
the low demand set
They don’t know
which items are low
demand
The Web has it all
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20. Information foraging
“Information foraging predicts that the
easier it is to find good patches, the
quicker users will leave a patch. Thus,
the better search engines get at
highlighting quality sites, the less time
users will spend on any one site.”
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox: June 30, 2003
Information Foraging:
Why Google Makes People Leave Your Site Faster
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21. Information snacking
The growth of always-on broadband
connections also encourages this trend toward
shorter visits. With dial-up, connecting to the
Internet is somewhat difficult, and users
mainly do it in big time chunks. In contrast,
always-on connections encourage information
snacking , where users go online briefly,
looking for quick answers.
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox: June 30, 2003
Information Foraging:
Why Google Makes People Leave Your Site Faster
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22. Experience vs. credentials
“Now the technology lets
you find experienced
people as easily as
credentialed ones.”
David Weinberger: To Big to Know
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23. Collegiality
“Links are the visible manifestation of
the author giving up any claim to
completeness or even sufficiency; links
invite the reader to browse the network
in which the work is enmeshed, an
acknowledgement that thinking is
something that we do together.”
David Weinberger: To Big to Know
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24. Include it all. Filter is afterward.
“We seem to be making a cultural
choice---with our new infrastructure's
thumb heavily on the scale---to prefer
to start with abundance rather than
curation. Include it all. Filter it
afterward. Even then, the filters do
not remove anything; they filter
forward, not out.”
David Weinberger: To Big to Know
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25. Filter it afterward
The Web is a filter
We can filter it for ourselves
Google
And with our friends
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter
Etc.
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27. Authority is shifting
“If our social networks are our
new filters, then authority is
shifting from experts in
faraway offices to the network
of people we know, like, and
respect.”
Too Big to Know
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28. Individual journey
Readers make their individual journey
through a Web of information
Our content is one resource they may
visit on that journey
But wherever they enter our content,
it should act as page one
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29. How I got to the conference
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30. Shared vehicles; unique trips
Many different vehicles
Each functions independently
I chose the sequence to create a
unique journey
The airplane design does not depend
on my arriving by taxi
The subway works the same if I take
the stairs, not the escalator
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31. No guided tour
Readers are self directed
We have always known most readers
don’t take the guided tour
They skip and scan and look stuff up
Now they can self direct across the
entire Web
To serve them, provide EPPO topics
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32. The book model
Books provide the guided tour as
primary means
Linear book
Support self-guided as secondary
means
Scanable subheads
Index
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33. The EPPO model
EPPO topics support self-guided as
primary means
Every pages works as page one
Works with search, social curation
Works with external resources
Can still provide a guided tour as a
secondary means
Ordered topic collections
Can include external resources
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34. At the crossroads
Try to reclaim the order and certainty
of the book world, or cooperate in the
linked ecology of the web with its
social approach to authority and its
fuzzy edges?
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43. Self Contained
No linear dependencies
Never assumes you have read X
May assume you know X
May require different types of
information “blocks”
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44. Establish Context
Reader may arrive from anywhere
Search and links may be imprecise
Allow the reader to get their bearings
quickly
Navigable context
If they are a little off, help them get
where they should be
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45. Specific Limited Purpose
Must have a clear idea of the purpose
it fulfills for the reader
Purpose must be specific
Can’t be self contained or establish
context if purpose not specific
Purpose must be limited
One vehicle in a network the reader
navigates for themselves
Do one thing; do it well
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46. Conform to type
Topics on a common subject tend to
have a similar pattern
Recipes
Encyclopedia articles on cities
Car reviews
Ornithology
Product comparisons
Technical articles 1 2 3 4
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47. Stay on one level
Books tend to change levels
Topics support readers choosing their
own path
Readers decide when they want big
picture or gritty detail
Readers change levels by changing
topics
Topics stay on one level
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48. Assume reader is qualified
Books designed as sole source for
diverse audience
Write for the least qualified reader
Often annoying for experienced reader
Topics are one stop in reader’s selfdirected journey
If reader is not qualified, they can
choose other topics to get qualified
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49. Link Richly
Books are designed for linear reading
Links may be considered a distraction
Allow reader to deviate from writer’s
planned course
Topics are for self directed readers
Make context navigable
Enable reader to qualify themselves
Enable switching levels
Enable onward journey
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50. Topics and Topic Sets
Need many topics to cover a large
subject area
Create topic sets, not books
Support random entry
Establish type to ensure completeness
and conformance to purpose
Support reader choice within your set
Make them work on the Web
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51. The book
Every Page is Page
One: Topic-based
Writing for
Technical
Communication
and the Web
XML Press
Available in the
bookstore!
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Communication and the Web
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52. Questions?
Contact information
Mark Baker
Analecta Communications Inc.
mbaker@analecta.com
Twitter: @mbakeranalecta
Company: http://analecta.com
Phone: 1 613 422 9400
Blog: http://everypageispageone.com
Book: http://xmlpress.net/publications/eppo/
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