Slide deck from session at 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Panel session featuring Shari Ilsen of VolunteerMatch, Peter Panepento of Chronicle of Philanthropy, Jenna Sauber of Case Foundation and Emma Pfister of Water for People.
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James Altucher: 40 Alternatives To CollegeJamesAltucher
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Managing and recruiting seasonal volunteers is always a challenge, particularly when volunteer interest can be skewed towards certain times of the year. While holiday volunteers can be a great asset to your organization, how do you recruit volunteers for the rest of the year? We'll discuss some strategies for maintaining a consistent volunteer base, and conveying the importance of year-round volunteers to your seasonal volunteer team. Made possible through funding from the Walmart Foundation.
Nonprofit Insights: LinkedIn Board Connect (and Other Tech Tools for Building...VolunteerMatch
For the December session of Nonprofit Insights, Alice Korngold, CEO of Korngold Consulting, LLC, and Bryan Breckenridge, Nonprofit Success Enabler at LinkedIn, discuss the importance of developing a strong nonprofit board, the challenges many organizations face in doing so, and the technology tools that can help your nonprofit successfully engage board members.
In addition, Breckenridge demonstrates the key features of Linkedin's new Board Connect, a package of powerful social networking tools and training to engage board members from LinkedIn's community of 185 million professionals.
Integrating skilled volunteers into your existing volunteer program is both exciting and scary. If you're thinking about adding skilled volunteers to your program, or if you've just started, this webinar can help you make the experience successful for both the volunteer and the organization. Navigating the introduction of the idea into your organization, developing the art of delegating work to volunteers, and setting achievable outcomes will be covered.
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James Altucher: 40 Alternatives To CollegeJamesAltucher
UPDATE: I'll tell you 10 More Reasons Why Parents Should Not Send Their Kids to College ---> http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/10-more-reasons-why-parents-should-not-send-their-kids-to-college/
Managing and recruiting seasonal volunteers is always a challenge, particularly when volunteer interest can be skewed towards certain times of the year. While holiday volunteers can be a great asset to your organization, how do you recruit volunteers for the rest of the year? We'll discuss some strategies for maintaining a consistent volunteer base, and conveying the importance of year-round volunteers to your seasonal volunteer team. Made possible through funding from the Walmart Foundation.
Nonprofit Insights: LinkedIn Board Connect (and Other Tech Tools for Building...VolunteerMatch
For the December session of Nonprofit Insights, Alice Korngold, CEO of Korngold Consulting, LLC, and Bryan Breckenridge, Nonprofit Success Enabler at LinkedIn, discuss the importance of developing a strong nonprofit board, the challenges many organizations face in doing so, and the technology tools that can help your nonprofit successfully engage board members.
In addition, Breckenridge demonstrates the key features of Linkedin's new Board Connect, a package of powerful social networking tools and training to engage board members from LinkedIn's community of 185 million professionals.
Integrating skilled volunteers into your existing volunteer program is both exciting and scary. If you're thinking about adding skilled volunteers to your program, or if you've just started, this webinar can help you make the experience successful for both the volunteer and the organization. Navigating the introduction of the idea into your organization, developing the art of delegating work to volunteers, and setting achievable outcomes will be covered.
It's Alive! Tools to Piece Together Your Volunteer Engagement FrankensteinVolunteerMatch
Slides from the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference Session "It's Alive! Tools to Piece Together Your Volunteer Engagement Frankenstein."
Includes strategies and resources for figuring out which technology tools are right to help you build a successful volunteer program for your nonprofit.
Speakers included:
Shari Ilsen, Online Communications Manager at VolunteerMatch
Daniel Marlay, Volunteer Manager at Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation
Rachael Caine, Volunteer Coordinator at Kiva.org
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Are you trying to fundraise on a small budget? Get tools and tricks you can use to help make the most of your nonprofit dollars!
Mazarine Treyz, author of The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising, will talk all about fundraising on a shoestring, from:
How to get your printing costs down
Getting volunteer help
Low-cost/no-cost virtual help
Finding grants (for free!) and more!
And we’ll talk about a new fundraising resource!
Learning Service Presentation - RMS DragonsDaniela Papi
This presentation was given by @danielapapi and @maryannby at the Rocky Mountain Seminar for educators hosted by Where There Be Dragons. It is a look at flipping volunteer travel, voluntourism, and service learning into a new light with a "learning service" mindset. This presentation was broken up by a range of interactive activities which the 50+ teachers, study abroad administrators, and other educators participated in over a long-weekend in November 2014.
Secrets of Highly Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns By CrowdFundingPlanning.comwww.securitysystems.best
Discover how to find and build your Crowd investors in order to have a successful CrowdFunding.
We want to help & show you how. Try a FREE training session. - Call Us Now! Click here -->> http://goo.gl/aNvZaO
For the first time in history, there are four generations involved in philanthropy: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y (Millenials). Although each generation is philanthropic, they have individual preferences for how they are engaged by nonprofits. This session will demonstrate how important it is to create lifetime givers by reaching out to the younger generations (under age 40) now. We will define the key characteristics of the four currents generations and their habits for charitable giving. Nonprofit professionals will learn strategic entry points to successfully engage these younger generations in philanthropy, both as donors and in the multigenerational development office. Ultimately, today’s annual donors are tomorrow’s major donors; we need to cultivate them today.
Learning Objectives:
• Find out how and where to find and cultivate young philanthropists
• Identify myths and realities of multigenerational philanthropy
• Learn what your organization needs to be aware of to manage a multi-generational development office.
Storytelling: Science and Strategy - Nonprofit Supply Co. Webinar - Feb 23, 2017Brady Josephson
Storytelling has become a bit of a buzzword in the charity world and has come to mean many things. But there is great strength in stories - how they are created, how they compel, and how they get shared - that can help organizations in their marketing and fundraising. This session will look at some of the underlying science behind story and how they can best be used to drive membership, engagement, and donations.
Staying relevant and impactful in SVP’s unique philanthropic approach includes a focus on recruiting and retaining the next generation of leaders. The current transfer of wealth impacts philanthropy, volunteerism, and how to engage next gen partners. Make sure your affiliate is ready to work side-by-side with multigenerational staff, board, and partners to leverage the gifts needed to support nonprofit organizations. This session will focus on how to effectively work with multiple generations at your SVP organization to better serve your mission. Join Emily Davis, next generation philanthropy’s thought leader and author of Fundraising and the Next Generation to:
• Identify challenges and benefits of having four generations in philanthropy.
• Learn about similarities and differences in multi-generational communications.
• Gain specific strategies to recruit from and with the next generation of donors.
*Presented at the Social Venture Partners Network conference, October 2014
John Coventry from GoFundMe shares his insights and experience of launching and using innovative new platforms to make real world change and take a look at future trends.
While everyone around us is busy running around to turn their dreams and ambitions into a reality; some of the kind-hearted ones, slow down to look around. They can feel the pain of others and want to help them out. Moreover, they inspire others to do the same. A majority of these people are working for NGOs around the world.
More details: https://goo.gl/mk6uPk
Joe Saxton from nfpSynergy delivered the keynote address at AVM 2016, challenging volunteer managers to heed the lessons and good practice examples of other sectors when developing their volunteer engagement practices.
Vegan sausage rolls, spy cops and monkeys: how to apply innovation techniques...CharityComms
Henry Rowling, founder, Flying Cars
Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk
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The Importance Of Charity
Persuasive Essay On Charity
Nonprofit Charity
Philanthropy Reflection
Cost:
Free
Designing meaningful, mission-driven virtual volunteer opportunities, and managing remote volunteers can be challenging. How do you create work than can be done independently, and still supervise, evaluate, or recognize the work of a volunteer you never meet face to face? The good news is that now, with an ever growing set of online tools, building an online community and connecting with someone across miles (or continents) is easier. In this webinar we will discuss best practices for creating those opportunities and developing meaningful relationships with remote volunteers, including building and empowering remote teams, managing projects by letting go but not checking out, and creating a two-way communication plan to share the work of remote volunteers with the organization and share what's happening at the organization with remote volunteers.
Engaging Pro Bono and Skills-Based VolunteersVolunteerMatch
Integrating skills-based volunteers into your existing volunteer program is both exciting and scary. If you're thinking about adding skilled volunteers to your program, or if you've just started, this seminar can help you make the experience successful for both the volunteer and the organization. Navigating the introduction of the idea into your organization, developing the art of delegating work to volunteers, and setting achievable outcomes will be covered.
What You'll Learn:
How to design successful skills-based volunteer projects
Strategies for managing skills-based volunteers
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Slides from the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference Session "It's Alive! Tools to Piece Together Your Volunteer Engagement Frankenstein."
Includes strategies and resources for figuring out which technology tools are right to help you build a successful volunteer program for your nonprofit.
Speakers included:
Shari Ilsen, Online Communications Manager at VolunteerMatch
Daniel Marlay, Volunteer Manager at Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation
Rachael Caine, Volunteer Coordinator at Kiva.org
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Are you trying to fundraise on a small budget? Get tools and tricks you can use to help make the most of your nonprofit dollars!
Mazarine Treyz, author of The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising, will talk all about fundraising on a shoestring, from:
How to get your printing costs down
Getting volunteer help
Low-cost/no-cost virtual help
Finding grants (for free!) and more!
And we’ll talk about a new fundraising resource!
Learning Service Presentation - RMS DragonsDaniela Papi
This presentation was given by @danielapapi and @maryannby at the Rocky Mountain Seminar for educators hosted by Where There Be Dragons. It is a look at flipping volunteer travel, voluntourism, and service learning into a new light with a "learning service" mindset. This presentation was broken up by a range of interactive activities which the 50+ teachers, study abroad administrators, and other educators participated in over a long-weekend in November 2014.
Secrets of Highly Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns By CrowdFundingPlanning.comwww.securitysystems.best
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For the first time in history, there are four generations involved in philanthropy: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y (Millenials). Although each generation is philanthropic, they have individual preferences for how they are engaged by nonprofits. This session will demonstrate how important it is to create lifetime givers by reaching out to the younger generations (under age 40) now. We will define the key characteristics of the four currents generations and their habits for charitable giving. Nonprofit professionals will learn strategic entry points to successfully engage these younger generations in philanthropy, both as donors and in the multigenerational development office. Ultimately, today’s annual donors are tomorrow’s major donors; we need to cultivate them today.
Learning Objectives:
• Find out how and where to find and cultivate young philanthropists
• Identify myths and realities of multigenerational philanthropy
• Learn what your organization needs to be aware of to manage a multi-generational development office.
Storytelling: Science and Strategy - Nonprofit Supply Co. Webinar - Feb 23, 2017Brady Josephson
Storytelling has become a bit of a buzzword in the charity world and has come to mean many things. But there is great strength in stories - how they are created, how they compel, and how they get shared - that can help organizations in their marketing and fundraising. This session will look at some of the underlying science behind story and how they can best be used to drive membership, engagement, and donations.
Staying relevant and impactful in SVP’s unique philanthropic approach includes a focus on recruiting and retaining the next generation of leaders. The current transfer of wealth impacts philanthropy, volunteerism, and how to engage next gen partners. Make sure your affiliate is ready to work side-by-side with multigenerational staff, board, and partners to leverage the gifts needed to support nonprofit organizations. This session will focus on how to effectively work with multiple generations at your SVP organization to better serve your mission. Join Emily Davis, next generation philanthropy’s thought leader and author of Fundraising and the Next Generation to:
• Identify challenges and benefits of having four generations in philanthropy.
• Learn about similarities and differences in multi-generational communications.
• Gain specific strategies to recruit from and with the next generation of donors.
*Presented at the Social Venture Partners Network conference, October 2014
John Coventry from GoFundMe shares his insights and experience of launching and using innovative new platforms to make real world change and take a look at future trends.
While everyone around us is busy running around to turn their dreams and ambitions into a reality; some of the kind-hearted ones, slow down to look around. They can feel the pain of others and want to help them out. Moreover, they inspire others to do the same. A majority of these people are working for NGOs around the world.
More details: https://goo.gl/mk6uPk
Joe Saxton from nfpSynergy delivered the keynote address at AVM 2016, challenging volunteer managers to heed the lessons and good practice examples of other sectors when developing their volunteer engagement practices.
Vegan sausage rolls, spy cops and monkeys: how to apply innovation techniques...CharityComms
Henry Rowling, founder, Flying Cars
Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk
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Nonprofit Charity
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Designing meaningful, mission-driven virtual volunteer opportunities, and managing remote volunteers can be challenging. How do you create work than can be done independently, and still supervise, evaluate, or recognize the work of a volunteer you never meet face to face? The good news is that now, with an ever growing set of online tools, building an online community and connecting with someone across miles (or continents) is easier. In this webinar we will discuss best practices for creating those opportunities and developing meaningful relationships with remote volunteers, including building and empowering remote teams, managing projects by letting go but not checking out, and creating a two-way communication plan to share the work of remote volunteers with the organization and share what's happening at the organization with remote volunteers.
Engaging Pro Bono and Skills-Based VolunteersVolunteerMatch
Integrating skills-based volunteers into your existing volunteer program is both exciting and scary. If you're thinking about adding skilled volunteers to your program, or if you've just started, this seminar can help you make the experience successful for both the volunteer and the organization. Navigating the introduction of the idea into your organization, developing the art of delegating work to volunteers, and setting achievable outcomes will be covered.
What You'll Learn:
How to design successful skills-based volunteer projects
Strategies for managing skills-based volunteers
VolunteerMatch Best Practices for Recruiting OnlineVolunteerMatch
Learn how to make the most of your VolunteerMatch account by creating your volunteer opportunities using best practices. This webinar will cover the eight simple steps to making your opportunities stand out on VolunteerMatch.
Creative and Innovative Recognition Strategies for Today's VolunteersVolunteerMatch
Are you doing the right things to recognize the work volunteers do for your organization? Are your recognition strategies and events stuck in the past? In this webinar we'll discuss what motivates today's volunteers and discuss strategies for matching recognition to motivation. We'll also share examples and ideas to incorporate creative and meaningful recognition into your volunteer engagement strategy
Purpose Driven Corporate Social Responsibility is Not a Myth (+ Proof!)!VolunteerMatch
How do you balance purpose and corporate responsibility? And how do directives from leadership fit into your employee volunteer program goals? Last (but certainly not least), how do you create a program that’s inclusive of employee wants? If this feels like a lot to juggle, you’re not alone.
What’s ethics got to do with this? Ethics and Decision Making in Volunteer En...VolunteerMatch
As leaders of volunteer engagement we’re often asked to make difficult decisions. How do we know if the decisions we’re making are the right ones? When you’re in this type of dilemma how do you intervene or lead? In this highly interactive workshop we’ll explore how ethics guide the work we do leading and engaging volunteers, and we’ll practice using ethical decision making. Attendees will leave with a worksheet to help introduce and use ethical decision making in their organization.
Tap into the Power of Training and Set your Volunteers up to Succeed!VolunteerMatch
Are you preparing your volunteers for success, or leaving them to figure things out on their own? This session will explore best practices for adult education, and the need to develop a curriculum that meets the learning needs for new volunteers as well as supports ongoing learning for existing volunteers. In this engaging session we’ll practice effective and creative training delivery methods. Attendees will leave with a sample curriculum and a plan to evaluate their current volunteer training.
How to boost employee engagement with the volunteer match networkVolunteerMatch
Many companies invest a lot of time in researching nonprofits and curating one-off volunteer opportunities for their employees. Yet research shows that one-third of employees won’t actually give through their workplace because they’re not able to choose the causes that matter to them.
What if there were an easy way to connect employees with high-quality volunteer experiences that are meaningful to them?
There is. The VolunteerMatch Network is a consolidation of vetted, real-time nonprofit volunteer needs, all in one place. It can be easily integrated into your existing corporate giving platform in a way that’s tailored to your company’s goals and preferences.
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-Why it’s important to give your employees choice in your volunteer program
-How to balance employee choice with company-sponsored cause areas
-How the VolunteerMatch Network connects employees with causes that are meaningful to them
-How VolunteerMatch’s custom integrations can serve the interests of both your company and its individual employees, while saving you time and money.
So many volunteer managers depend on groups of volunteers to meet the needs of their programs. Different types of groups can come with their own challenges.
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With new, powerful technology popping up all over the web, managing online volunteer recruitment can be a time-consuming undertaking. But it doesn’t have to be. What if we told you there’s an easier way to maximize your volunteer opportunities’ reach and streamline your online recruitment efforts so you can focus on other parts of your program, like engaging volunteers?
In this best practices webinar, VolunteerMatch and the Association for Leaders in Volunteer Engagement (AL!VE) for shared insights into recruiting great volunteers online and tips for crafting an irresistible volunteer opportunity.
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Join this free webinar, hosted only once a year, to learn more about the CCVA and the process for applying for and receiving your CVA. Credentialing in any profession increases credibility and promotes career development. Learn about this unique performance-based credentialing program, the process for becoming Certified in Volunteer Administration and how it can benefit you and your organization. Recommended for those with at least 3 years of experience in any setting.
Stop Wasting Time! How to ‘Go Big’ with Your Employee Volunteer Program’s ImpactVolunteerMatch
We know the benefits employee volunteer programs have on business: increased employee engagement and satisfaction, better recruitment and retention, publicity, skill development, team-building, and more. But how do you maximize these benefits while also achieving the greatest community impact possible? VolunteerMatch delved into this topic in this webinar.
Aligning your volunteer program with employee interestsVolunteerMatch
Studies show that employees seek out companies that embody socially responsible values and provide an outlet for volunteering. You’ve checked those boxes yet can’t seem to get your employees to participate in your volunteer program.
Where’s the disconnect here?
Balancing it all: The Shifting Role of Volunteer Engagement LeadersVolunteerMatch
Roles and organizational priorities are shifting. It's exciting, but it can also feel like there's too much to do and no one to help you! In this session we'll discuss strategies for evolving and managing your role, being 'all things to all people' and how delegating and developing processes can help.
How to Make Volunteering Work for All Your EmployeesVolunteerMatch
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Nonprofit Insights: Stories & Solutions Shaping the Future of Volunteer Scree...VolunteerMatch
It’s undeniable: vetting volunteers is essential in securing your nonprofit’s work.
The way in which you vet volunteers is equally as important. It could make all the difference as to whether a volunteer is mistakenly screened or not. It’s one reason why we’re sharing positive volunteer screening experiences and other stories of how crises happened or were averted from peers in the field.
You’ve just learned about technology options for your nonprofit, and you think, “Great, I’m so excited to get started! But wait—how can we start implementing within our current resources?” Engaging pro bono volunteers might be the right way to go!
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How to create an effective job description and project timeline geared toward technology volunteers
Best practices in recruiting pro bono volunteers with specialized skill sets
How to market your new volunteer roles
How to scale your program to accommodate companies seeking pro bono opportunities for their employees
How to align your staff or volunteer structure to support pro bono volunteers
Nonprofit Insights: How Design Thinking Helps You Increase Impact And InnovationVolunteerMatch
Nonprofit organizations provide some of the most basic and essential services to those who need them most: clean water, food, shelter, etc. However, despite often Herculean efforts, many organizations lack resources and find themselves understaffed and underfunded. For organizations to survive, thrive, and fulfill their missions, the key is constant innovation.
During this free webinar, we’ll discuss how innovative nonprofits (e.g. American Red Cross, GRID Alternative, buildOn, etc.) utilize Customer Centric Design Thinking — a methodology developed at the Institute of Design at Stanford — to think outside-the-box and find ways to leverage existing resources, volunteers, staff, and social media presence to increase impact. We’ll then discuss methods for using design thinking to increase engagement, awareness, volunteerism, and fundraising at your organization.
This webinar will be lead by Ryall Carroll, Ph.D. Marketing and Co-Founder of raiserve.org.
At VM Summit 16, we heard from members of the Hunger Volunteer Collaborative including VolunteerMatch, the
Alliance to End Hunger, and the Taproot Foundation about how they fight hunger with pro bono programming that leverages logistic and safety expertise. Learn about ways to get involved and reduce food insecurity in the U.S., as well as examples of how companies are joining the effort.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
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Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
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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:
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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
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And...
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Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
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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.
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Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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:
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• 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.
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Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
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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
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Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
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https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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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.
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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.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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.
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nptech FAIL: How to Crash and Burn and Turn It Into a Win
1. nptechFAIL: How to
Crash and Burn and Turn It
into a Win
#13NTCfail
(#npfail)
Shari Ilsen, VolunteerMatch
Peter Panapento, Chronicle of Philanthropy
Jenna Sauber, Case Foundation
Emma Pfister, Water for People
2. Evaluate This Session!
Each entry is a chance to win an NTEN engraved iPad!
or Online using <#13NTCfail> at www.nten.org/ntc/eval
#13NTCfail
3. About the Speakers
Peter Panepento Jenna Sauber
Assistant Managing Editor Digital Mktg & Comm Manager
Chronicle of Philanthropy Case Foundation
Peter.panepento@philanthropy.com jennas@casefoundation.org
@ppanepento @cajunjen
Emma Pfister Shari Ilsen
Mgr, Social Media & Partnerships Sr Online Communications Manager
Water For People VolunteerMatch
epfister@waterforpeople.org silsen@volunteermatch.org
@emmacpfister @silsen
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Volunteer begins.
Where volunteering
4. Agenda
• All About Failure
• VolunteerMatch’s Failures
• Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Failures
• Case Foundation’s Failures
• Water for People’s Failures
• Your Failures
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5. Failure - So Hot Right Now
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6. An Opportunity to Surprise
and Delight
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7. An Opportunity to Step
Outside the Box
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8. An Opportunity to Learn and Teach
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9. Beth Kanter and the Failure Bow
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10. Arianna Huffington
October 7, 2003: Arianna Huffington loses
the California gubernatorial recall election
to Arnold Schwarzenegger.
May 9, 2005: Arianna Huffington launches
The Huffington Post.
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12. Michael Jordan
"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my
career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26
occasions I have been entrusted to take the
game winning shot, and I missed. I have
failed over and over and over again in my life.
And that is why I succeed."
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13. It’s All in Your Head
Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset
Intelligence is a fixed Intelligence is
trait malleable, full of
potential
Goals Looking Smart Learning
Effort Beliefs Effort is Negative Effort is Positive
Strategies After Failure Helpless Resilient
From the research of Dr. Carol S. Dweck
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14. It’s All in Your Prep
• Manage your risk:
– Take little bets
– Fail early and often
– Fail fast and cheap
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15. Don’t Let Failure Be Your “F” Word
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19. Lesson
Don’t build the path
before learning where
people already walk.
Failures are just works
in progress.
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20. And now for something completely different…
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21. #13NTCfail VolunteerMatch
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22. What We Learned:
• Timing Matters
• How to plan and execute a multi-platform
engagement campaign
• You gotta know people (and be willing to
spend money)
• Ice cream is delicious
VolunteerMatch
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Where volunteering
23. Innovation in a Conservative Organization
Evolving past risk-averse culture
Understanding there are no “sure things”
Giving people the confidence to fail
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24. The Chronicle’s Challenge
A Business Model That (Once) Worked
Major Disruption
Changing a Culture: Understanding that
Failure IS an Option
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25. A Traditional Journalist’s Mindset
Mistakes Can Get You Fired
A Quest for the Truth
Distrust of the Sales Side – Preserving
Editorial Integrity
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26. My Challenge: Swing for the Fences
Evangelizing Online First and Social Media
A Move to Online Education
Data
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27. Failure Case Study #1
Causes Pages:
A Failed Assumption or Just Failed Execution?
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38. How to reach me
Twitter: @ppanepento
@philanthropy
Facebook: facebook.com/peter.panepento
E-mail: peter.panepento@philanthropy.com
Compelling Storytelling in an Online #13NTCfail
Age
42. WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA FAILURE?
It is:
• Insensitive or inappropriate commentary, photos, media
• Attacking other brands/orgs and your community
• Deleting “oops” posts with no explanation or retractions
• Crossing the line between brand and personal voice and views
But it is also:
• Ignoring your community completely, in crisis mode or not
• Not having a backup plan if something goes wrong (staff, messaging, etc.)
• Avoiding real time marketing and communications
• Assuming your followers didn’t screenshot/see/RT your original post
• Continuing to try the same tactic that didn’t work, again and again
• Not pivoting or adjusting midway in a strategy
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#13NTCfail
45. FEARLESS RECKLESS
• Opportunistic / joining the • Trying too hard to force your
conversation brand where it doesn’t fit
• Experimenting with new tools / • Not evaluating along the way to
tactics pivot for better results
• Reaching beyond your bubble • Alienating specific demographics
for new audiences or forgetting your current
• Letting urgency conquer fear: community
have a crisis/big moment • Ignoring a big moment, or
gameplan responding without a strategy
• Owning your mistakes & • Ignoring your mistakes and
showing transparency hiding what went wrong
• Setting big goals for your social • Not having goals or metrics at all
media strategy
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46. COME FIND US:
CaseFoundation.org | BeFearless.CaseFoundation.org
@casefoundation
Facebook.com/casefoundation
@cajunjen
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55. breaking
Still Broke things for the better.
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56. Emma C. Pfister
Emma C. Pfister
Manager, Social Media & Partnerships
epfister@waterforpeople.org
@emmacpfister
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57. Your Failures
(Best failure gets an awesome
VolunteerMatch T-shirt!)
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58. About the Speakers
Peter Panepento Jenna Sauber
Assistant Managing Editor Digital Mktg & Comm Manager
Chronicle of Philanthropy Case Foundation
Peter.panepento@philanthropy.com jennas@casefoundation.org
@ppanepento @cajunjen
Emma Pfister Shari Ilsen
Mgr, Social Media & Partnerships Sr Online Communications Manager
Water For People VolunteerMatch
epfister@waterforpeople.org silsen@volunteermatch.org
@emmacpfister @silsen
#13NTCfail VolunteerMatch
Volunteer begins.
Where volunteering
59. Evaluate This Session!
Each entry is a chance to win an NTEN engraved iPad!
or Online using <#13NTCfail> at www.nten.org/ntc/eval
#13NTCfail
VolunteerMatch
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Editor's Notes
My name is Emma Pfister, I sit on the marketing team at Water For People. Previously, I sat on the Resource Development team being the assistant to everything, and working with all of our community fundraising groups, workplace giving and corporate accounts. I am going to tell a little story about our the history of our marketing. It’s a story that's a little chaotic, a little sad, a bit overwhelming and hopefully a little self-a-facing and of course, as in every good story, it has a moment of realization. The moment, the crux, when we began moving away from a stagnate spiral and begin breaking things for the better.
How did our website fail? Well, this isn’t a story about mistakes made, a ‘we rock’d the casbah story’. This is a story about a real actual failure we are still climbing out of. This is a NOW story. How IS our website FAILING?Well, it all started back in 2009. We got a rebrand and new website. It was a step onto the same level of what other organizations and companies were doing at the time. We upgraded our look to ‘cool-ish’, and began the drive of brining people to our website. To be totally honest, this was the first time we actually began even utilizing a website for more then a place holder. Here it is, just with a different banner. [flip to next slide]
Okay, so the hint to my next comment was left in the previous comment. Obviously, this is still our current website. It hasn’t changed since 2009. Banners, yes, sponsors, yes, photos, um, a little. Message, same, look, same, same, same, same. What you don’t see behind the front page. Is the incredible amount of barriers to find information. There are so many pages it is nearly impossible to update them all. People change jobs, old emails get left on the wrong pages, not for lack of trying to update them, but literally there are so many pages deep, you can’t find where all the information sits. And, much of the information is inconsistent, tons of old messaging, and many broken links. Example, our stories page – probably the most important piece to any non-profits website, the place where people go to see impact, relate to an individual, well, it still has stories from 2011 listed above the fold. To dive a little deeper, our messaging, well it drives itself right over everyone’s head. Missing anyone that doesn’t get technical wat/san speak. Or it speaks with metaphors so it completely misses any head to even go over.
And there is one more gem to our website…. It’s Cinderelly step-sister. While they were born just a few years apart and were ment to ‘get along’, function in harmony, they actually work against each other. The tap portal is completely different database to which we post our CEO and staffs blogs, and house downloadable information for our volunteer groups across the US. It was built with the idea of being ‘Facebook-like’ platform and help people communicate with each other, share ideas, etc. Problem is it competes w/ Facebook, which really it isn’t a David and Golith story, we can’t compete against Facebooks tools and functionality. But above all what this step-sister does is drive traffic right out of our website. A big no, no. To make it words, many of the pages on the site require you to register w/ email to access. And, yes, there has never been any coordination of email address between our main email lists and the other platform. What does all this amount too?On top of also being outdated in functionality and look, it’s clunky, much of our audience to this day, despite coaching and the increased usage of the internet, still have trouble figuring this thing out.
Failure. The recent NonProfit.org article talked about nonprofit webpage evolution, and we, currently, ranked back in the early 2000s. So we weren’t even ahead of the game in 2009 when this website was launched. So. The website is a fail. It was a fail of not pushing the fold when we developed it, it is a failure in us not keeping it on the cutting edge, failure in staff management, failure in understanding core values of the organization and prioritizing accordingly, failure in understanding audiences, failure in understanding current technology. Fail.
To many cooks in the kitchen banging pots really loud –and it’s interesting to understand it’s outcomes…. Sometimes consensus isn’t so awesome. Marketing Team know the market, that’s what their hired for. It ultimately should be their decision on the website. Yes, there should be input from other teams, when appropriate, but ultimately you hire marketing to do marketing, let them do marketing. If they do a bad, job fire them. It’s just like any other position.Not thinking ahead – we weren't even ahead of the game when we started in 2009. We went for an average design, an average technology, and didn’t think ahead. And we didn’t keep up, our website isn’t mobile.Assuming we understood our audiences and what they wanted with out asking. Then, continued to not ask them as our audience changed overtime. The end all goal of your website and marketing efforts is to draw a bigger and deeper audience - get more people involved, broaden and deepen the audiences. If you are doing a good, it’s best to drop-in periodically and make sure you know what they are up too and they know you. With the dawn of social media and our interactivity with it, it’s easy for people to be semi-ish in your network. You want them as Engaged Users. The only way to know them is to ask. Not prioritizing the one big marketing too we have – the website. It’s the first place people go to know anything about you. You LIKE a page on Facebook, you are going to ABOUT to click through to their website. You see a Hulu commercial, you click through to their site, you tell someone at a bar, you write down the address on a cocktail napkin or better yet, the name and they go home, Google search and go – to the website. When people go to the website they want to do 1 or all three things – learn, participate, give. That hasn’t changed over time, it has been what people want to know when they first get to your website, since the beginning. So, this should be plain and simple, in one ½ second glance. Selling out or biggest marketing spot to the highest bidders. Places other brands on the homepage. Na, this is your biggest marketing tool. If you are owning your brand, don’t allow another brand on your homepage, unless it has a very specific reason. Like, RED, also launched BLUE and to talk about how safe drinking water and access to sanitation overtime can reduce hospital illnesses by half in the developing world. Tradition! Well, the chic from Fiddler on the Roof who defied her father, broke tradition, to follow the boy of her dream, well she got it right. Tradition can be broken, and many times should – said the girl from a Romanian family, my Mother would kill me! If you find yourself or anyone on your team using that word – tradition - ask them to replace it with “in-bed” – yep you know this one from fortune cookies… Sponsors recognition is in-bed for any nonprofit website.It’s in-bed that we always acknowledge people like this, we do it every year, they expect it. It’s in-bed that get us stuck in funk. it’s fun and will keep, at least you snickering in the corner, fighting the urge to scream about ‘tradition.’Break tradition. Nobody is ever the same. Your audiences isn’t and neither will you and your nonprofit be next year.How does all this go on and nobody recognized it. Well….
When push back started happening on the website from all the different cooks in the kitchen and they started banging pots loudly, it became a game of making people happy, not getting the best website out there for our audiences. This wasn’t a conscience decision, it happened as deadlines loomed, push back continued, until there needed to be a consensus. Having to many people involved and not the right people was an issue. The process of our website development went from a cute little gremlin that when given food grew into not many, but one big gremlin monster. And it happened organically, overtime, without being seen.It was perpetuated by staff being overwhelmed, not prioritizing to meet the overall organizational goals, to it then become a really big Gremlin with such long hair you could find your way out. Why didn’t anyone stand-up and say “yo this is important” or “this isn’t getting done”Feelings. Nonprofits has a culture of being really nice, and calling the kettle black. Stop being nice and be real. Nice is good when everything is truck’n along, when it’s not, stop being nice, be real, and get the job done. You wanted a broken key-board? No way Macklemore. I want a working one that makes me sound like a Rockstar. Say, no. Speak up. Stop being nice and start doing the job. All not speaking up does is make a much bigger problem down the road.So, how did it change?Well failure is failure, but there is good and bad failure. You have to choose which one you are. Bad Failure, well that’s when you ‘fail’ you say it out loud, add it as a stamp of legitamacy, and never say why or use to it propel you forward. Good Failure comes down to one simple thing – COURAGE.
The courage to say we failed, this is why, and this is how it motivates change. In my organization this game down to 1 person saying enough is enough and breaking it so we could move forward. This involved personal issues, people’s feelings got hurt, people were put in uncomfortable situations, management changed, people left, some people just needed to suck it up and some people faired really well. It sucked, but the break HAD to happen if we were EVER going to step out of the stagnate cycle we kept perpetuating within ourselves.
This is the beginning for us. It all JUST happened. We are moving fast on a new website and breaking more things everyday, but it also takes time, especially when you are coming out of the dark ages.It took the courage of 1 to enact the courage of others to say it out-loud what was in everyone’s head, and finally, finally move forward on building a website, that, well for one, is about us, not our sponsors, that’s is clear for anyone to understand, not just engineers, that doesn’t confuse people and send them away, but keep in and involved, coming back to know more, spreading the word, building momentum, creating a tribe of people out to changing the world w/ us. So, next year, when we have done our jobs well and more people are involved and looking at us, we can adjust move, build, write to accommodate these new eyes. The website will change again, it will not be stagnate, ‘cause if it is, we had some serious BAD Failure.