Social Media: A Pathway to Make Research Outputs Available and AccessibleSimone Staiger-Rivas
While social media are booming and challenging our organizational cultures, the CGIAR is exploring the tools, and principles that could help making our research outputs more available, accesible and applicable.
Beyond the scientific article making your research social bec-a writing work...Simone Staiger-Rivas
This presentation was given as part of a seminar on the topic at the BecA 'technical/research paper writing' workshop, held in ILRI Addis campus, 15-18 November 2010. We also got the participants to try writing blog posts.
This presentation was used for a session on advocacy at the CIARD-GFAR Regional workshop for the Near East held in Amman, Jordan from October4th-7th 2011
Let's Really Go Online! The Potential of Social Media for Improving Organizat...Simone Staiger-Rivas
Overview of statistics and behavioral trends related to social media. Analysis of the potential of social media for international agricultural research. Examples.
This provides an overview of core principles of Web 2.0/Social Computing systems and how organizations can learn from them through technology deployment, community creation, and application of the social computing principles in development of traditional enterprise systems.
Presentation I gave with Clare Reddington at Unicom's Social Tools event in London, 05/0/08 outlining our work on the blended facilitation approach we used for the Media Sandbox project
Social Media: A Pathway to Make Research Outputs Available and AccessibleSimone Staiger-Rivas
While social media are booming and challenging our organizational cultures, the CGIAR is exploring the tools, and principles that could help making our research outputs more available, accesible and applicable.
Beyond the scientific article making your research social bec-a writing work...Simone Staiger-Rivas
This presentation was given as part of a seminar on the topic at the BecA 'technical/research paper writing' workshop, held in ILRI Addis campus, 15-18 November 2010. We also got the participants to try writing blog posts.
This presentation was used for a session on advocacy at the CIARD-GFAR Regional workshop for the Near East held in Amman, Jordan from October4th-7th 2011
Let's Really Go Online! The Potential of Social Media for Improving Organizat...Simone Staiger-Rivas
Overview of statistics and behavioral trends related to social media. Analysis of the potential of social media for international agricultural research. Examples.
This provides an overview of core principles of Web 2.0/Social Computing systems and how organizations can learn from them through technology deployment, community creation, and application of the social computing principles in development of traditional enterprise systems.
Presentation I gave with Clare Reddington at Unicom's Social Tools event in London, 05/0/08 outlining our work on the blended facilitation approach we used for the Media Sandbox project
Organisational Change Through Social MediaDarren Sharp
This presentation by Darren Sharp, senior consultant at Collabforge (www.colabforge.com) was delivered to the Australian Council for Private Education & Training 2009 National Conference held in Canberra 27 - 30 August. This presentation explores strategies for encouraging organisational change via social media. It examines how social networks allow users to form communities of interest and practice; how organisational change is critical in a world of user-generated content and social-media; using Web 2.0 tools to influence organisational change and how peer-to-peer reviews, search engines and social networks will effect private education.
Slides from a workshop about the Third Sector and Social Media I delivered on the Isle of Wight on 1 December 2009. Not fully annotated - will do that soon
You've heard that social media can be useful to your organization… but how useful? For what? What tangible results are people seeing from it? If you or others at your organization are asking these quest ions, this webinar is for you.
Kami Griffiths of TechSoup will interview Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware. They’ve recently created the Social Media Decision Guide, in partnership with the New Organizing Institute, which walks you through a step-by-step process to decide what social media channels make sense for your organization via a workbook, guide, and the results of more than six months of research.
We will also hear from Tex Dworkin, Social Media Director at Global Exchange. She will share the story of how social media was introduced to he r nonprofit, and the steps and challenges that followed.
This webinar is ideal for nonprofits and libraries who are struggling to understand social media and if it’s worth the time invested in implementing, training and sustaining. Use this webinar to support your case fo r why you should or shouldn’t take the next step with social media.
TWU Using Social Media In Your Communication Strategies June 17 2009Ryan Williams
This was an introduction to social media prepared for the Trinity Western University Alumni luncheon June 17, 2009. Examples, trends and how my small business has benefited.
Organisational Change Through Social MediaDarren Sharp
This presentation by Darren Sharp, senior consultant at Collabforge (www.colabforge.com) was delivered to the Australian Council for Private Education & Training 2009 National Conference held in Canberra 27 - 30 August. This presentation explores strategies for encouraging organisational change via social media. It examines how social networks allow users to form communities of interest and practice; how organisational change is critical in a world of user-generated content and social-media; using Web 2.0 tools to influence organisational change and how peer-to-peer reviews, search engines and social networks will effect private education.
Slides from a workshop about the Third Sector and Social Media I delivered on the Isle of Wight on 1 December 2009. Not fully annotated - will do that soon
You've heard that social media can be useful to your organization… but how useful? For what? What tangible results are people seeing from it? If you or others at your organization are asking these quest ions, this webinar is for you.
Kami Griffiths of TechSoup will interview Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware. They’ve recently created the Social Media Decision Guide, in partnership with the New Organizing Institute, which walks you through a step-by-step process to decide what social media channels make sense for your organization via a workbook, guide, and the results of more than six months of research.
We will also hear from Tex Dworkin, Social Media Director at Global Exchange. She will share the story of how social media was introduced to he r nonprofit, and the steps and challenges that followed.
This webinar is ideal for nonprofits and libraries who are struggling to understand social media and if it’s worth the time invested in implementing, training and sustaining. Use this webinar to support your case fo r why you should or shouldn’t take the next step with social media.
TWU Using Social Media In Your Communication Strategies June 17 2009Ryan Williams
This was an introduction to social media prepared for the Trinity Western University Alumni luncheon June 17, 2009. Examples, trends and how my small business has benefited.
What is Web 2.0 and how can it be of use to those working in international development communications? This e-tutorial gives a basic introduction to Web 2.0 and its potential. It contains examples of how development communicators have used web 2.0, and provides examples of appropriate web 2.0 tools and services.Each slide in this PowerPoint e-tutorial is supported by notes that are intended to be read in conjunction with the slides.
NeuroDevNet NCE in collaboration with York University's KMb Unit reviewed and assessed existing guides for researchers to use social media for dissemination of research finding and engaging with their stakeholders (end users). The guides are ranked from beginner to advanced, and are presented in an annotated bibliography format which also indicates platforms/tools reviewed in each guide.
Presented at the University of Toronto's Research with Pride conference, 2009. Examines how the networked world presents opportunities for researchers to collaborate, promote, and effectively disseminate research findings to relevant audiences.
Social media for researchers: Increase your research competitiveness using We...Xavier Lasauca i Cisa
In this workshop, adressed to P-Sphere project researchers (European Postdoctoral Research Project, Marie S. Curie Actions, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 28th November 2017) I summarised the benefits which can be gained from use of social media (specially blogs, Twitter and other social networks and repositories) to support research activities, and I provided examples of these innovative emerging resources as tools for scientific communication as well as discussed their implications for digital scholarship. Structure of the lecture: Introduction, Altmetrics, It's Europe!, Active listening, Blogging, Microblogging, Networking, Sharing, Health 2.0, Resources, Strategy, The ten commandments, To deepen, Conclusions.
Presentation to the ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science on the evaluation of the digital impact of research. There is a video associated with these slides available at https://vimeo.com/149665866
Social Media @ Jubilee Graduate Centre. Series of sessions on the use of social media in academic practice. Delivered to PhD students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs). Session One: Introduction to Social Media. 18 January 2008. Co-authored with LeRoy Hill.
Gurus platform: collective intelligence at work (Emakina Academy #8 : Enterpr...Emakina
Presentation of the knowledge sharing platform Gurus by Brice Le Blévennec, President of Emakina.
More info about Emakina Academies on:
http://www.emakina.com/academy/events.cfm
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
"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.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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/
Making your research social: using social media as a pathway for sharing research
1. BEYOND THE SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE-MAKING YOUR RESEARCH SOCIAL: SOCIAL MEDIA AS TOOLS FOR SCIENCE COMMUNICATION At: Training of Trainers workshop on CIARD, By Nadia Manning-Thomas (CGIAR Communications and Knowledge team) Wednesday 5 th October 2011, Amman, Jordan)
This seminar is aimed at giving you some food for thought and inspiration about how scientific research can be conducted these days, working in a virtual environment and adopting new web tools that can increase the efficiency of your work, and improve impact of your research outputs. We’ll look at your specific context . We’ll talk about possible ways to collaborate with others, in the research project cycle and we’ll look at information and communication processes at the different stages of the project cycle, to see how they can be supported and improved by the adoption of online collaboration tools and social media.
Papers, articles etc are very important. But should not be the end of the line or the only thing we do!
We have to keep in mind another important element. Related to the overall mission of the CG centers, according to Robinson and Elliott. [Meta-evaluation of External Program and Management Reviews (EPMRs). Washington DC: CGIAR. ww.cgiar.org/pdf/agm07/agm07_epmr_meta_evaluation.pdf] “The comparative advantage of the Centers is seen to be in contributing to poverty reduction in the provision of international public goods (or significant regional public goods).” Research organizations like the CGIAR (and its centers) not only have to produce high quality science. Indeed, it is critical that the research outputs are well communicated and disseminated. Further, they need to be put into use where needed. CGIAR research on IPGs – or PIGs, Public Information Goods - needs to generate outputs that can and will be used by others to provide local, national and regional benefits. This means CGIAR research outputs should be easily accessible to other actors that will adapt, build on and apply this knowledge. This is the objective we should always keep in mind when conducting our research.
We therefore then have to look at how to address the needs and challenges in our work with all the various actors. There are very real, practical needs within our everyday work all the way to achieving our larger goals. We therefore need to think about how to map our knowledge sharing and collaborative tools onto a framework which represents our research processes and practical needs. This seminar is to look at the new opportunities that exist for communicating, sharing, co-creating and developing research. The social media and many new Web2.0 tools as we have seen are useful at all stages of the research cycle. Particularly social media has been used to help us with promoting research (millions fed), social reporting of research meetings (Twitter, blogs etc)
We therefore then have to look at how to address the needs and challenges in our work with all the various actors. There are very real, practical needs within our everyday work all the way to achieving our larger goals. We therefore need to think about how to map our knowledge sharing and collaborative tools onto a framework which represents our research processes and practical needs. This seminar is to look at the new opportunities that exist for communicating, sharing, co-creating and developing research. The social media and many new Web2.0 tools as we have seen are useful at all stages of the research cycle. Particularly social media has been used to help us with promoting research (millions fed), social reporting of research meetings (Twitter, blogs etc)
How can we address these challenges? Start with this: dare to be different What does this imply? Bottom line, it’s about adopting a new paradigm and changing the way we work – with a different toolset and mindset that enables new forms of science sharing, communication, and information
We as ICT=KM Team are working on this and supporting the move towards this new way of collaboration and communication along the research project cycle and making use of social media to enhance your communication, sharing and visibility. Indeed, the ICT-KM Program helps the CGIAR develop and sustain a culture of active information and knowledge sharing. This involves timely yet cost-effective multi-directional communications, the know-how to collaborate, and the tools to support multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams. The Program also supports champions of these changes throughout the System, explores and encourages incentives for change, and sponsors projects that show demonstrable value and impact.
Introduce ways to ‘publish’ posters, presentations and pictures in ways that make other parts of their research more accessible ad visible Triple A framework In this regards, CG committed to the CIARD Manifesto and adopted the Triple A – availability, accessibility, applicability – framework to make the most out of research outputs. The Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) initiative is working to make agricultural research information publicly available and accessible to all. With the Triple A framework, the objective is to make research outputs: Available: Research outputs are stored in appropriate open digital formats and described using public metadata standards so they can be found through structured search and access systems. Availability means assembling and storing content so it will be permanently accessible, and describing it in systems so others know, and can find, what outputs have been produced. Accessible: Research outputs are publicly available online using accepted public formats and appropriate licenses so they can be queried, viewed, and obtained in full. Accessibility means making outputs as easy to find and share and as open as possible, in the sense that others are free to use, reuse, and redistribute them, with appropriate acknowledgement and without restrictive legal, technological or financial barriers. Applicable: Research processes are open and inclusive so that all perspectives and knowledge are taken into account during research design, planning, implementation and communication. Applicability means research and innovation processes that are open to different sources of knowledge, and outputs that are easy to adapt, transform, apply and re-use. Source: Ballantyne, P. 2008. Making CGIAR Research Outputs Available and Accessible as IPGs http://www.sciencecouncil.cgiar.org/fileadmin/user_upload/sciencecouncil/EVENTS/AGM08IPG_WRKSHOP/BallantyneW.ipg4sciencecouncil.pdf
Looking at Pathways
One pathway is social media!
There are a lot of tools and methods out there now but often it is hard to figure out what tools to use for what purpose at what time, where and with whom
Introducing blogs Anyone seen, used, read or has a blog? We will get back to this more at the end of this presentation
Why blogs? The reasons to use blogs in research can be very different: - you can think about blogging to create spaces for discussing issues and having conversations without being filtered by size or editorial limitations; - you can use blogs to expanding your audience; - by blogging on a regular base, you can document the research process as it happens; - you can make your research findings and outputs more open and available for different stakeholders; - you can offer your reader quick informal updates on your domain of interest
Organize research, collaborate, and discover new knowledge Mendeley Desktop organizes your research paper collection and citations. It automatically extracts references from documents, generates bibliographies, and is freely available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Mendeley Web lets you access your research paper library from anywhere, share documents in closed groups, and collaborate on research projects online. It connects you to like-minded academics and puts the latest research trend statistics at your fingertips.
Be the dj Brew your own beer
We can help you to find your way in this new environment and move towards ‘science 2.0’ but ultimately, it’s all about you. You are the one responsible for engaging in conversations with other users, for opening up your data, for exposing your knowledge and find the right pathways for collaboration, information and knowledge sharing. “We have to move towards the next generation of science communication where individuals and groups are empowered to document and communicate their own activities in different channels and social media.”