Co-creating a social digital business with OrbitRuth Harper
How does a large and complex organisation with big commitments to its stakeholders transform itself into a business with digital thinking at its core?
Throughout the early part of this year, we worked closely with Orbit Group co-creating their future around their ambitious 2020 vision.
This digital transformation work – based on co-creation and actionable change – has delivered tangible results for Orbit.
Here's how we did it.
Co-creating a social digital business with OrbitRuth Harper
How does a large and complex organisation with big commitments to its stakeholders transform itself into a business with digital thinking at its core?
Throughout the early part of this year, we worked closely with Orbit Group co-creating their future around their ambitious 2020 vision.
This digital transformation work – based on co-creation and actionable change – has delivered tangible results for Orbit.
Here's how we did it.
Will healthcare be delivered by george jetson in the futureNick van Terheyden
Gartner ranked Dell the #1 worldwide IT services provider in healthcare in 2014. Dell sees global disruptions in healthcare delivery and continues to invest in strategies to address these rapid changes. They are actively enhancing development, implementation and adoption of novel technologies, services, and applications that will revolutionize information-driven care, resulting in improved patient outcomes and overall cost savings worldwide. Dr. Nick is responsible for providing strategic insight and will discuss some Dell’s strategies to achieve an IT environment that is interconnected, efficient and patient-focused.
This provides an overview of both WIH Resource Group\'s Client-Specific Services and a summary of the parameters in developing a successful wastebyrail program.
Defined Benefit Plans Amid Market Volatilitywelshms
For a finance executive confronting volatile market conditions, what's the right balance of risk and return in a defined benefit (DB) pension plan? If you're committed to a DB plan, what strategies can remove excessive risk? Or is it time to refresh your exit strategy?
Towers Perrin and CFO Research Services have completed a study that examines the risk management approaches that finance executives have already taken for their defined benefit pension programs in the United States and Canada. Risk management is clearly "top of mind" for corporate finance executives throughout North America, though risk management solutions may vary widely.
Learn more about the findings and implications of this survey and its relevance to your pension plan as Sylvia Pozezanac, practice leader for Towers Perrin Retirement Risk Solutions, Monica McIntosh, business leader for Towers Perrin Asset Consulting in Canada, and Sam Knox, VP of CFO Research, discuss the findings with a panel.
Reaching More Customers in 2015 With a Responsive Mobile Website DesignRichard Sink
B2B Web Optimization: 140% surge in mobile transactions through responsive design effort. When you're engineering a website design for today's technological terrain, it can't be "one and done." Consumers are browsing across differing devices including smartphones, desktops and tablets, so your website should be optimized for the whole spread.
Slides for a talk given by Jack Thurston, co-founder of farmsubsidy.org at re:publica 2010 in Berlin.
Farmsubsidy.org is described by WorldChanging.com as “demonstrating the power of geek activism done right”. It is a website that publishes the fruits of a transparency campaign by journalists and researchers who succeeded in lifting the veil of one of the EU’s greatest state secrets: who gets what from the €60 billion spent each year on farm subsidies. The project has brought together freedom of information experts, investigative journalists, academic researchers, NGO campaigners, data analysts and computer programmers. From the very beginning it has been a truly cross-border adventure and one of the first pan-European experiments in civic hacking. Last year saw the launch of a sister project fishsubsidy.org. Along the way the projects have encountered political, legislative and bureaucratic challenges, not to mention the technical challenges of accessing, compiling an enormous quantity of complex data and then making it ‘come to life’ for website users. Some of the challenges have been solved, others are still being worked on.
Jack explains how the projects came about, what made them work, what are the lessons learned and mistakes made, and what are some of the new frontiers in open government.
Will healthcare be delivered by george jetson in the futureNick van Terheyden
Gartner ranked Dell the #1 worldwide IT services provider in healthcare in 2014. Dell sees global disruptions in healthcare delivery and continues to invest in strategies to address these rapid changes. They are actively enhancing development, implementation and adoption of novel technologies, services, and applications that will revolutionize information-driven care, resulting in improved patient outcomes and overall cost savings worldwide. Dr. Nick is responsible for providing strategic insight and will discuss some Dell’s strategies to achieve an IT environment that is interconnected, efficient and patient-focused.
This provides an overview of both WIH Resource Group\'s Client-Specific Services and a summary of the parameters in developing a successful wastebyrail program.
Defined Benefit Plans Amid Market Volatilitywelshms
For a finance executive confronting volatile market conditions, what's the right balance of risk and return in a defined benefit (DB) pension plan? If you're committed to a DB plan, what strategies can remove excessive risk? Or is it time to refresh your exit strategy?
Towers Perrin and CFO Research Services have completed a study that examines the risk management approaches that finance executives have already taken for their defined benefit pension programs in the United States and Canada. Risk management is clearly "top of mind" for corporate finance executives throughout North America, though risk management solutions may vary widely.
Learn more about the findings and implications of this survey and its relevance to your pension plan as Sylvia Pozezanac, practice leader for Towers Perrin Retirement Risk Solutions, Monica McIntosh, business leader for Towers Perrin Asset Consulting in Canada, and Sam Knox, VP of CFO Research, discuss the findings with a panel.
Reaching More Customers in 2015 With a Responsive Mobile Website DesignRichard Sink
B2B Web Optimization: 140% surge in mobile transactions through responsive design effort. When you're engineering a website design for today's technological terrain, it can't be "one and done." Consumers are browsing across differing devices including smartphones, desktops and tablets, so your website should be optimized for the whole spread.
Slides for a talk given by Jack Thurston, co-founder of farmsubsidy.org at re:publica 2010 in Berlin.
Farmsubsidy.org is described by WorldChanging.com as “demonstrating the power of geek activism done right”. It is a website that publishes the fruits of a transparency campaign by journalists and researchers who succeeded in lifting the veil of one of the EU’s greatest state secrets: who gets what from the €60 billion spent each year on farm subsidies. The project has brought together freedom of information experts, investigative journalists, academic researchers, NGO campaigners, data analysts and computer programmers. From the very beginning it has been a truly cross-border adventure and one of the first pan-European experiments in civic hacking. Last year saw the launch of a sister project fishsubsidy.org. Along the way the projects have encountered political, legislative and bureaucratic challenges, not to mention the technical challenges of accessing, compiling an enormous quantity of complex data and then making it ‘come to life’ for website users. Some of the challenges have been solved, others are still being worked on.
Jack explains how the projects came about, what made them work, what are the lessons learned and mistakes made, and what are some of the new frontiers in open government.
- What should a digital marketer's response be?
- How do we keep website conversions and leads high?
- And how to do so as quality site sessions are coming at more of a premium?
Let’s Learn About Using Bitcoin for Social Good: Intro slidesSFNetSquared
The intro slide deck with info on SFTech4Good and its sponsors for this event: TechSoup, NTEN, Geekdom by Rackspace and Rolling Out Cafe.
You can find the NTEN links mentioned here too.
#bitcoin4good #sfn2
This webinar will demonstrate how a small charity (a few staff and hundreds of volunteers) are able to be hyper-productive using Salesforce.com and Google Apps.
Presenter: Amanda Grainger-Munday, Manager of Communications/Social Media | Framework Foundation
Watch and learn how The Framework Foundation has been able to increase their productivity through their Cloud Computing Strategy using tools like Salesforce.com and Google Apps. The results include a better focus on mission, collaboration with like-minded organizations, improved fundraising and increased volunteer management capabilities.
Attendees Will Walk Away With:
• Project Management – ideas on how your team can collaborates on social media projects
• Knowledge Management – ideas on how your team can stay on top of technology trends
• Fundraising Management – ideas on how your team can collaborate on Fundraising
• Board Management – ideas on how we organize information for your board
• Volunteer Management – ideas on to track volunteer time and participation
Watch the training:
https://www.wholewhale.com/wwu-live/demystifying-crypto-donations-how-you-can-capitalize-on-crypto-for-good-and-fuel-fundraising-growth/
What are crypto-donations and how can you leverage this rapidly growing technology to expand your donation pool and reach new untapped donors?
Cryptocurrency fundraising is an exciting new avenue for nonprofits to explore not only as a payment method, but as a donor demographic for nonprofits of all sizes.
A study from Investopedia shows that 38% of Millennials hold cryptocurrency as the largest percentage of total investments, even larger than stocks. Any major donor strategy that wants to keep up with the rising generation and shifting financial industry trends must cater to a new, crypto-heavy clientele, but it isn’t as easy as just throwing up a ‘donate crypto’ button.
A robust crypto strategy involves conversations with stakeholders, considerations of environmental impact, and unique campaigns to attract this new cohort of donors.
In this webinar with George Weiner, CEO Whole Whale hosted by Care2 in December 20222, you’ll learn:
Overview of current landscape
How to set up a donation solution
How crypto donors are different from traditional ones
Crypto Conversations to have with stakeholders
Are NFTS a thing?
We spend much of our time collecting and analyzing data. That data is only useful if it can be displayed in a meaningful, understandable way.
Yale professor Edward Tufte presented many ideas on how to effectively present data to an audience or end user.
In this session, I will explain some of Tufte's most important guidelines about data visualization and how you can apply those guidelines to your own data. You will learn what to include, what to remove, and what to avoid in your charts, graphs, maps and other images that represent data.
Analyzing big data is a challenge, requiring lots of processing power and storage.
Cloud Computing is an ideal platform to tackle this problem. HD Insight on Microsoft Azure deploys Hadoop and other open source big data tools to the cloud, making it easier to take advantage of the high scalability of this platform.
In this session, you will learn what tools are available in HD Insight and how to use them to store, process, and analyze large amounts of data.
We spend much of our time collecting and analyzing data. That data is only useful if it can be displayed in a meaningful, understandable way.
Yale professor Edward Tufte presented many ideas on how to effectively present data to an audience or end user.
In this session, I will explain some of Tufte's most important guidelines about data visualization and how you can apply those guidelines to your own data. You will learn what to include, what to remove, and what to avoid in your charts, graphs, maps and other images that represent data.
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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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.
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.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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
2. 2010 Executive Officers President – David Giard Vice-President – John Hopkins Treasurer – Kent Fehribach Secretary – Gerhard Weis
3. How to contact us www.migang.org Board email president@migang.org vp@migang.org secretary@migang.org treasurer@migang.org webmaster@migang.org pr@migang.org
4. Gold Sponsor Cash support for GANG Monthly drawing for Telerik Premium Collection for .NET RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX RadControls for WinForms RadControls for WPF RadControls for Silverlight Telerik Reporting TelerikOpenAccess ORM $1299 Value!
10. 2010 GANG Goals Get members more engaged and involved Increase meeting attendance by 50% Increase supporting membership by 30% Continue to attract high-quality speakers Increase sponsorship by 100% Finish year in the black financially
12. Membership Drive January – June 2010 1 Entry for each meeting attended 1 Entry for each new guest you bring* Grand prize drawing at June meeting Grand Prize: Zune HD * A new guest is someone who has not attended a GANG meeting in the previous 12 months
13. Membership Drive Fine Print At each meeting, be sure the GANG Secretary has recorded your attendance, your e-mail address and the names and e-mail addresses of any new guests you bring. For each meeting you attend (January-June 2010) you will receive an entry into a drawing. For each new guest you bring to a meeting, you will receive an additional entry. A new guest is one who has not attended a meeting in at least 12 months. A new guest may be considered a guest of at most one member. Once a guest has attended a meeting they are no longer considered new; However, they may increase their own odds of winning by attending more meetings and bringing new guests of their own. No circular references allowed (aka, two new people can’t show up together and put that they were each referred by the other). A drawing will be held at the June meeting. The winner will receive a Zune HD, courtesy of Microsoft. You must be present at the June meeting in order to win.
19. Biggby Coffee, 26185 Evergreen Rd.“This is an informal meetup of people interested in learning from one another. Bring your laptop and pair up with someone to work on an open source project, learn a new technique, or even dabble in a new language. There is no agenda or specific topic, just a time set aside for people to pair.” Source: http://mvwood.com/blog/bitslingers-4-6-2009/ Motor City Codeslingers TinyUrl.com/Codeslingers
