Data overload has come to content strategy. With so many things to measure and tools to measure it with, how do you find a way to use analytics without succumbing to analysis paralysis? And without spending all your time on analytics? This session will walk through the creation of a measurement strategy that supports your existing content strategy. Then we’ll look at the ways you can use those analytics to tell the kinds of stories that persuade your peers and superiors to make smarter content decisions.
In this session, you will:
Learn how to decide what to measure and why
Find out how to create an analytics routine that provides actionable insights without taking up all your time
Learn to present measurements and analytics in ways that influence and persuade others
My recent presentation from the East Midlands Learning Technology Winter 2015 meeting discussing and highlighting the power of Digital Assessment for teachers, students and schools.
Making Your IEP System Work for You: 5 Questions to Ask About Your IEP SystemAccelify
An effective IEP system should accommodate your workflow, not determine it. If you and your staff are bending over backward to make your IEP system work for you, it may not be doing its job. And with limited options on the market, of which many lack sufficient flexibility, it may seem like demanding that your current system do more or migrating from one IEP system to another, may not be worthwhile. But reevaluating your IEP system can be disruptive in a good way too. Demanding more from your IEP system can lead to better tools that help you and your staff more efficiently manage the IEP process and the data needed to manage compliance along the way.
A basic introduction to OneNote for curious staff.
Staff should check this video out first to understand what Microsoft's vision for collaboration looks like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-tFdreZB94&t=65s
8 Content Marketing Tips for L&D ProfessionalsLaura Overton
In this year's report, 'Modernising Learning: Delivering Results' we saw that 58% of L&D leaders say that staff are reluctant to engage with online learning, whilst only 38% of them have an ongoing communications plan in place.
So what can we do about this? Here are 8 tips from the content marketing experts that can help us rethink the way that we engage learners.
My recent presentation from the East Midlands Learning Technology Winter 2015 meeting discussing and highlighting the power of Digital Assessment for teachers, students and schools.
Making Your IEP System Work for You: 5 Questions to Ask About Your IEP SystemAccelify
An effective IEP system should accommodate your workflow, not determine it. If you and your staff are bending over backward to make your IEP system work for you, it may not be doing its job. And with limited options on the market, of which many lack sufficient flexibility, it may seem like demanding that your current system do more or migrating from one IEP system to another, may not be worthwhile. But reevaluating your IEP system can be disruptive in a good way too. Demanding more from your IEP system can lead to better tools that help you and your staff more efficiently manage the IEP process and the data needed to manage compliance along the way.
A basic introduction to OneNote for curious staff.
Staff should check this video out first to understand what Microsoft's vision for collaboration looks like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-tFdreZB94&t=65s
8 Content Marketing Tips for L&D ProfessionalsLaura Overton
In this year's report, 'Modernising Learning: Delivering Results' we saw that 58% of L&D leaders say that staff are reluctant to engage with online learning, whilst only 38% of them have an ongoing communications plan in place.
So what can we do about this? Here are 8 tips from the content marketing experts that can help us rethink the way that we engage learners.
Better Goals for Better Outcomes: Best Practices for Writing Measurable, Effe...Accelify
The importance of writing reasonable but challenging goals for students cannot be underestimated. Evidence has shown that goals serve as the foundation for providing effective supports to students; when reasonable and challenging goals are set and progress toward them is used to drive changes to educational programs, students' outcomes are improved. In this webinar, Dr. Danielle Damico will discuss best practices in writing goals and measuring progress toward goals from both research and policy perspectives. Research-based methods and examples will be presented for various providers, and common pitfalls will be discussed.
Slide show about the use of iPads in the classroom. Created for a 5 day technology integration workshop for ESL mentor teachers in Ipoh, Malaysia, May 1-5, 2014.
What are WebQuests?
What are WebQuests useful for?
What's the WebQuest formula?
What does "Introduction" consists of?
What does "Task" consists of?
What does "Process" consists of?
What does "Resources" consists of?
What does "Evaluation" consists of?
Using personalization to create next generation performance supportXyleme
When training content moves from large courses to semantically rich nuggets of information, you can create a whole host of specialized, next-generation performance support apps that deliver personalized, bite-sized learning to employees at the moment-of-need on the device of their choice. But getting there is not easy.
In the "how-to" part of this session, you will learn how to think about learning as an app-driven experience rather than a course-driven one, how to develop content that drives relevance and flows seamlessly across devices, and how to match user profiles and behavior to content to drive personalized recommendations. In the "here it is" part of this session, you will see how Dunkin' Brands supports more than 7,000 US restaurants through contextual performance support web portals and mobile apps that deliver relevant moment-of-need procedural information as well as enabling real-time operational audits. This is not your grandfather's performance support!
You’ve found the perfect technology solution that meets all of your L&D analytics needs, but there’s one looming challenge—gaining executive approval.
We’ve all been there.
However, it’s easier than you might think. Hear firsthand from someone who’s been there and made it happen. In this webinar, Andy Webb, director of training at Applied Industrial Technologies, shares his experience and helps you:
• Understand leadership’s needs and motivations.
• Recognize financial metrics and KPIs to frame your learning program in a language leadership understands.
• Better engage leadership throughout your LRS or L&D initiative.
Why Most eLearning Fails: How to Create eLearning that Gets ResultsAggregage
Let’s admit it: most eLearning just plain sucks! The sad reality is that most eLearning courses require learners to sit through a disappointing experience, where information is poorly organized, the content isn’t relevant, and the interactions seem contrived and without purpose. This is compounded even more when the slideshow-like presentation is interrupted with several poorly written quiz questions and cheesy animations to make it all seem “fun.”
In this session, we will explore many of the reasons why most eLearning fails and the components that contribute to bad eLearning design. we will also explore how bad eLearning design can negatively affect the learning experience. Finally, this session will walk you through several practical methods you can immediately apply to fix your bad eLearning courses.
In this session, you will learn:
• When to implement a blended learning approach
• Why clicking doesn’t make interactivity meaningful
• Why good eLearning requires more than instructional design
• Why knowledge and behavior aren’t mutually exclusive
Trends in digital learning that improve resultsSprout Labs
Learning technologies have a huge amount of promise for improving learning outcomes. Unfortunately, eLearning has become associated with self-paced linear modules that are often slide-based information dumps with a quiz at the end. The focus of using digital learning is often just on saving money and not on improving business results. During this interactive webinar we will explore trends in digital learning that are re-focusing digital learning on improving performance.
In the interaction session we explored:
- digital learning and the 70-20-10 learning model
- re-thinking compliance training
- new approaches to authoring digital learning
- the application of design thinking to learning
- emerging trends in tracking and recording.
Extending Learning beyond the Classroom: Improving Performance in the WorkflowChristopher King
Are you struggling with how to apply 70-20-10 to your learning architecture? Do you know how to extend the reach of your L&D interventions beyond the classroom? “Informal” does not have to mean “unplanned.” We trainers do knowledge-based learning really, really well. But we’re still grappling with performance-based learning and how that fits into our world. But when you design your learning for all five Moments of Learning Need, suddenly the 70 and 20 starts to make sense.
What are the five Moments of Learning Need? Join us to find out, and how to use them to assess your mix of formal and informal learning. Stay to explore a Performance-focused learning design methodology that blends the benefits of deliberate instructional design with the just-in-time characteristic inherent in informal learning. Find out how to extend the learning beyond the classroom and meet your learners in their workflow. You’ll see real-world performance support tools and get a high-level review of what makes them tick. You will leave with a list of things to do now help kick-start your organization’s Performance Support efforts.
Learn how to combine various apps to get more educational bang for your buck and ensure students access the high levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. We'll share free apps for your iPad that your teachers can use in combination with their lessons. Students will be more engaged and teachers will feel more empowered.
Critical pedagogy: education in the practice of freedomAlan Carbery
Slides from a talk at the Vermont Library Association College & Special Libraries Conference, October 2015. Abstract: Our presentation focuses on the use of primary sources in library instruction to inspire students to think around issues of injustice and oppression. Following remarks on our chapter-in-progress for a book on Critical Library Instruction, the session will be devoted to introducing/discussing Critical Pedagogy and its influence on library instruction. Because Critical Pedagogy is dependent upon decentering the lecturer in favor of a participatory and community-driven style of learning, we hope this session can act as a forum for our colleagues to share ways in which they’ve incorporated facets of Critical Pedagogy into their instructional practice, ask questions about Critical Library Instruction, and offer any critiques they have of Critical Pedagogy/Critical Library Instruction. Delivered with Sean Leahy, Instruction & Learning Assessment Librarian, Champlain College.
My books- Learning to Go https://gum.co/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://routledge.com/books/details/9780415735346/
Resources- http://shellyterrell.com/writing
Better Goals for Better Outcomes: Best Practices for Writing Measurable, Effe...Accelify
The importance of writing reasonable but challenging goals for students cannot be underestimated. Evidence has shown that goals serve as the foundation for providing effective supports to students; when reasonable and challenging goals are set and progress toward them is used to drive changes to educational programs, students' outcomes are improved. In this webinar, Dr. Danielle Damico will discuss best practices in writing goals and measuring progress toward goals from both research and policy perspectives. Research-based methods and examples will be presented for various providers, and common pitfalls will be discussed.
Slide show about the use of iPads in the classroom. Created for a 5 day technology integration workshop for ESL mentor teachers in Ipoh, Malaysia, May 1-5, 2014.
What are WebQuests?
What are WebQuests useful for?
What's the WebQuest formula?
What does "Introduction" consists of?
What does "Task" consists of?
What does "Process" consists of?
What does "Resources" consists of?
What does "Evaluation" consists of?
Using personalization to create next generation performance supportXyleme
When training content moves from large courses to semantically rich nuggets of information, you can create a whole host of specialized, next-generation performance support apps that deliver personalized, bite-sized learning to employees at the moment-of-need on the device of their choice. But getting there is not easy.
In the "how-to" part of this session, you will learn how to think about learning as an app-driven experience rather than a course-driven one, how to develop content that drives relevance and flows seamlessly across devices, and how to match user profiles and behavior to content to drive personalized recommendations. In the "here it is" part of this session, you will see how Dunkin' Brands supports more than 7,000 US restaurants through contextual performance support web portals and mobile apps that deliver relevant moment-of-need procedural information as well as enabling real-time operational audits. This is not your grandfather's performance support!
You’ve found the perfect technology solution that meets all of your L&D analytics needs, but there’s one looming challenge—gaining executive approval.
We’ve all been there.
However, it’s easier than you might think. Hear firsthand from someone who’s been there and made it happen. In this webinar, Andy Webb, director of training at Applied Industrial Technologies, shares his experience and helps you:
• Understand leadership’s needs and motivations.
• Recognize financial metrics and KPIs to frame your learning program in a language leadership understands.
• Better engage leadership throughout your LRS or L&D initiative.
Why Most eLearning Fails: How to Create eLearning that Gets ResultsAggregage
Let’s admit it: most eLearning just plain sucks! The sad reality is that most eLearning courses require learners to sit through a disappointing experience, where information is poorly organized, the content isn’t relevant, and the interactions seem contrived and without purpose. This is compounded even more when the slideshow-like presentation is interrupted with several poorly written quiz questions and cheesy animations to make it all seem “fun.”
In this session, we will explore many of the reasons why most eLearning fails and the components that contribute to bad eLearning design. we will also explore how bad eLearning design can negatively affect the learning experience. Finally, this session will walk you through several practical methods you can immediately apply to fix your bad eLearning courses.
In this session, you will learn:
• When to implement a blended learning approach
• Why clicking doesn’t make interactivity meaningful
• Why good eLearning requires more than instructional design
• Why knowledge and behavior aren’t mutually exclusive
Trends in digital learning that improve resultsSprout Labs
Learning technologies have a huge amount of promise for improving learning outcomes. Unfortunately, eLearning has become associated with self-paced linear modules that are often slide-based information dumps with a quiz at the end. The focus of using digital learning is often just on saving money and not on improving business results. During this interactive webinar we will explore trends in digital learning that are re-focusing digital learning on improving performance.
In the interaction session we explored:
- digital learning and the 70-20-10 learning model
- re-thinking compliance training
- new approaches to authoring digital learning
- the application of design thinking to learning
- emerging trends in tracking and recording.
Extending Learning beyond the Classroom: Improving Performance in the WorkflowChristopher King
Are you struggling with how to apply 70-20-10 to your learning architecture? Do you know how to extend the reach of your L&D interventions beyond the classroom? “Informal” does not have to mean “unplanned.” We trainers do knowledge-based learning really, really well. But we’re still grappling with performance-based learning and how that fits into our world. But when you design your learning for all five Moments of Learning Need, suddenly the 70 and 20 starts to make sense.
What are the five Moments of Learning Need? Join us to find out, and how to use them to assess your mix of formal and informal learning. Stay to explore a Performance-focused learning design methodology that blends the benefits of deliberate instructional design with the just-in-time characteristic inherent in informal learning. Find out how to extend the learning beyond the classroom and meet your learners in their workflow. You’ll see real-world performance support tools and get a high-level review of what makes them tick. You will leave with a list of things to do now help kick-start your organization’s Performance Support efforts.
Learn how to combine various apps to get more educational bang for your buck and ensure students access the high levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. We'll share free apps for your iPad that your teachers can use in combination with their lessons. Students will be more engaged and teachers will feel more empowered.
Critical pedagogy: education in the practice of freedomAlan Carbery
Slides from a talk at the Vermont Library Association College & Special Libraries Conference, October 2015. Abstract: Our presentation focuses on the use of primary sources in library instruction to inspire students to think around issues of injustice and oppression. Following remarks on our chapter-in-progress for a book on Critical Library Instruction, the session will be devoted to introducing/discussing Critical Pedagogy and its influence on library instruction. Because Critical Pedagogy is dependent upon decentering the lecturer in favor of a participatory and community-driven style of learning, we hope this session can act as a forum for our colleagues to share ways in which they’ve incorporated facets of Critical Pedagogy into their instructional practice, ask questions about Critical Library Instruction, and offer any critiques they have of Critical Pedagogy/Critical Library Instruction. Delivered with Sean Leahy, Instruction & Learning Assessment Librarian, Champlain College.
My books- Learning to Go https://gum.co/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://routledge.com/books/details/9780415735346/
Resources- http://shellyterrell.com/writing
Business schools are a zone of messed up things. This infographic gives a survivors guide to business school for all those who think that business schools are hard to handle. Go throw this infographic and make your life easy and meaningful.
Knowing the answers may help kids in school, but knowing how to question will help them in life. Here are 5 ways to make us ALL better questioners. From the author of A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION.
My books- Learning to Go https://gumroad.com/l/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://amazon.com/The-Goals-Challenge-Teachers-Transform/dp/0415735343
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/CLIL
Our ability to continuously learn and adapt will determine the extent to which we thrive in today’s organizations, in our personal lives, and in these disruptive times. This session will provide tips for learning at the pace of change in the university or the workplace using lynda.com. You will walk away with 9 learning strategies that you can put into practice right away!
Learn more: http://www.lynda.com/Business-Skills-training-tutorials/484-0.html
My books- Learning to Go https://gumroad.com/l/learn2go & The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers http://amazon.com/The-Goals-Challenge-Teachers-Transform/dp/0415735343
Resources at http://shellyterrell.com/games
Bill Aulet's keynote speech at 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Conference in Medellin Colombia. Focus on the past, present and future of entrepreneurship educaiton and what needs to be done.
This is my slide deck from my session at the North Carolina Reading Conference last week in Raleigh, NC. I do staff development to schools and districts all over the country about best practices in literacy instruction. This topic is one of my most requested.
An immersive workshop at General Assembly, SF. I typically teach this workshop at General Assembly, San Francisco. To see a list of my upcoming classes, visit https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/seth-familian/4813
I also teach this workshop as a private lunch-and-learn or half-day immersive session for corporate clients. To learn more about pricing and availability, please contact me at http://familian1.com
SxSW 2015 - The Human Brain Vs. Innovation OverloadJay Wilson
This is the presentation that Laura McDaniel and I gave at SxSW on March 13th, 2015. While the slides are great, there is missing voice over, so please consider this a temporary placeholder until we have a new version.
User research often yields large amounts of data that’s difficult to summarize and prioritize. Even with small studies or surveys, reporting information in an engaging and usable format can be a challenge. In this talk, we’ll apply UI and visualization design techniques to analyzing and presenting findings in a way that engages, motivates, and sparks real change.
Patt Lind-Kyle's presentation from her Bay Area Workshop October 22-24th, 2010 at the Sequoia Retreat Center. For more information about Patt's book, Heal Your Mind, Rewire Your Brain, visit http://healrewireyourbrain.com.
Infographics: E-volving Instruction for Visual Literacy
Melanie Parlette-Stewart, Lindsey Robinson - University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
WILU 2014 - London, ON
Infographics involve the bringing together of information, data, and design. There is increasing need to be visually literate, as is highlighted in the ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. This session presents the ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards and the application of these to an introductory infographics instruction session. This session will highlight the active learning approach used to allow students to engage with and create infographics at an introductory level.
Can you measure if the content in your eLearning system provides an enriching and engaging experience for your learners? If you can't answer this important question, you're not alone. Organizations struggle to combine the complex activity of analyzing data to identify opportunities that can improve learner engagement with their content. It's worth it to find out. Courses and related resources that may not be as valuable as intended can result in decreased interest and attendance rates—leading to poor learning outcomes. There are many ways to measure and analyze course engagement data in your LMS. These insights enable managers to identify, prioritize change to learning programs and step up their engagement game.
Presented at the 2014 SLATE conference (www.slategroup.org)
Faculty development is occurring increasingly online through text-based guides, just-in-time video tutorials, and social media, which is convenient for faculty looking for information on teaching or using technology. However, this makes it difficult for faculty development centers, used to traditional forms of assessments, to assess the quality and effectiveness of these programs and resources.
In this session, we will share how the Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center at Northern Illinois University has used web analytics to evaluate the usage of online materials and how the results have impacted our practice.
Stop Wasting Your Analytics Budget - edUi 2016Mitch Daniels
When approached with clear intentions, web analytics can be a game-changing part of any online presence. It can inform massive redesigns, drive additional engagement, and spur continued site improvements.
Despite its potential, the full power of analytics is often neutered by a misappropriation of priorities and resources, leading to a stream of sterile, uninspiring reports and dashboards. Learn to recognize these challenges, identify them within your own organization, and confront them head on.
We’ll explore the distinction between ‘interesting’ and ‘actionable’ data, the downsides of monthly reports, and the importance of the 10/90 rule. Finally, we’ll identify a single word that will immediately push your analytics strategy in the right direction: “Why?”.
MEASURING THE BUSINESS IMPACT OF LEARNING: WHAT WE’VE LEARNEDHuman Capital Media
The ‘Measuring the Business Impact of Learning’ benchmarking survey, conducted by LEO Learning and Watershed (on behalf of Learning Technologies Group) is entering its fourth year. With the survey launching on November 1st and closing on December 13th, LEO Learning and Watershed are holding a webinar to reflect on the results so far, plus discuss how organizations they’re working with have overcome the barriers in measurement planning and implementation. The insights are drawn from their group experience working with a range of clients in this field and should be valuable for anyone who wants to get going in learning analytics and sustainable business impact assessment.
Join your hosts as they cover the state of the world of measurement, and you’ll receive:
An understanding of how well-known organizations have overcome the barriers in measurement planning and implementation.
Real-world examples of how to get management buy-in, designing for data, building data ecosystems, implementing a learning analytics strategy and more.
The opportunity to take this years ‘Measuring the Business Impact of Learning’ survey, and see the results coming in live!
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Presented by:
Dr. Lisa D’Adamo-Weinstein, Director of Academic Support , SUNY Empire State College
Dr. Tacy Holliday, Governance Coordinator, Montgomery College, NCLCA Learning Center Leadership Level
Description: Measuring and evaluating student success is crucial to retention efforts and program development. Join us as we talk about the key elements necessary to measure student success in your tutoring and learning centers. We will assist you in developing an assessment plan for your own center.
Getting your voice of the customer program up and running can be challenging. But, successful implementation will determine whether yours is a high performing program with actionable insights, or a data collection system that drowns in information overload.
Join Kyle Goff, former JetBlue VoC Analyst, and Innes Vanderniepen of Brussels Airlines, as they share their experiences implementing successful VoC programs that increased brand ROI and transformed customer interactions. You’ll learn how to create a high-level VoC implementation plan, and build a powerful program to increase your return on investment.
For seven years, CLO’s LearningElite awards have recognized the organizations that excel at managing the learning function from end to end. How do elite learning organizations align learning with organizational goals, engage their learners, measure success, engage leadership in employee development and use learning to make a measureable impact on the organization? Join Sarah Kimmel, vice president of research at Human Capital Media, as she discusses the practices that make LearningElite organizations effective, and that contribute to their high scores on the LearningElite benchmark.
You’ll learn:
The practices that distinguish LearningElite organizations from the rest.
How elite learning organizations achieve alignment of learning with organizational goals.
How the LearningElite engage leaders at all levels to support employee development and create a culture of learning.
What metrics elite learning organization use to measure impact on the learner and impact on the business.
Tips for maximizing your organization’s scores on the LearningElite application.
Participants will receive early access to the 2018 LearningElite application worksheets.
Measure what matters for your agile projectMunish Malik
While working with Agile projects, we simply can't get away from tracking and showcasing the progress of the project. A typical Agile project would be working with estimates, story points, velocities, burn-up or burn-down charts.
I have witnessed numerous sprint reviews and showcases where the business is only waiting to see those few slides of the presentation where there is the "actual" red worm, running against the "planned" green worm, trying to catch-up. If the red worm is ahead, I have seen a smile on the faces of the stakeholders. If it matches the green one, there is a sigh of relief. And as a development team you should just pray that the poor red guy is not falling behind the green one, lest it might lead to a lot of questions starting with why, how, what etc.
There have also been times where there have been some unfortunate heated discussions that last forever on why did the team end up not claiming a few points that they had committed. What gets lost is what the team accomplished in the sprint that adds good value to the product. There have also been times where the estimates are being questioned by the product owner or account managers. If you are working in a distributed setup where the product owner is working out of a different country, the problem is even bigger.
Let us think about a scenario where the project gets completed on time, budget and scope. Majority (or all) of estimates were correct. However, when the product went live to the market it failed big time. What is the use of building such a product?
Are we focusing too much on numbers and points and overlooking the other important aspects of Agile software development such as producing software that delights the customers and looking for ways on how we can measure that? Are we measuring if we are creating a solid, robust and a scalable platform that is ready for future developments and enhancements? Are we measuring the outcomes of the time we are spending in the shoes of the people who will actually use the software?
The objective of this presentation is to promote the thinking of measuring what matters for your project. To measure the goals that your software development wants to achieve. I don't plan to showcase an exhaustive list of measurements that can solve all your problems, however, I instead want to highlight some samples that I have used in my projects with the help of my team, that helped us to measure things that add value to the business and development v/S simply creating burn down charts.
Majorly, I want to encourage thinking out of the box to identify what measurements will really matter for your projects. Perhaps from the eyes of the users and business and see what things if measured will add a lot more value than simply estimates, and will help in creating a valuable product that will truly delight the business and the users of the product.
Everyone’s got a story, and your organization may have thousands. But too often, we scramble to find good content to fill our social, web, and media channels. In that scramble, we may end up publishing content that doesn’t engage our audiences—or help our organization’s brand—the way we need it to.
In support of a rebranding effort, we set out to solve this challenge. By creating a "story pipeline," we've captured more story leads and better shaped our story output to represent our organization. The lessons we've learned will help anyone seeking to expand storytelling for their own organization.
What you’ll learn:
• What stories are and aren’t and ways to get your team to come together around a definition that works for them.
• Assessing your current story output to make the case for change.
• Introducing your creatives to the ideas of workflow and content ops.
• Creating formulas that make storytelling easier.
• Bringing story content into non-story formats.
Designing an Effective Content Measurement StrategyMichael Powers
You have access to more data than ever before, but is it making your content better? To make measurement work for you, you need an effective measurement strategy. This session will walk you through the creation of an effective measurement strategy that supports your existing content strategy.
“If they would just listen to us...”: Turning Internal Client Relationships i...Michael Powers
You’re smart. (You do work in higher ed, after all.) You know your stuff. You have ideas. New ideas. Good ideas. And yet—your clients (internal or external) don’t want your ideas. Or your style guide. They know what they want: the same thing they’ve been doing for the last ten years. Why won’t they just listen to you?
The answer is finding ways to turn to client relationships into real collaborations. When we move from a conformance mindset to a collaboration mindset, we can find ourselves in the position to do our best work—work our clients will love.
What you’ll learn:
• How to move from a conformance to a collaboration mindset.
• Using workshop techniques (like job stories, pair writing, mad libs, and more) in meeting settings.
• How to uncover the real problems your clients are facing, and solve them—together.
Get Better Content with Analytics and User TestingMichael Powers
So you're going to Confab Higher Ed. You're already pretty excited about content strategy. But your boss and colleagues? Not so much. To outsiders, content strategy is just another buzzword. And as more schools move to become "data-driven" organizations, talking about content can sound hopelessly qualitative.
So don't say "content strategy": do it. This session will look at content strategy practices you can introduce to show even your most quantitatively-oriented colleagues the value of content strategy: content analytics, social media analytics, and user testing techniques. Rack up successes first—then start talking content strategy.
• Introduce content strategy practices into your organization when your organization doesn't care about content strategy.
• Use analytics to identify what needs improvement.
• Learn how user-testing techniques can improve your content.
Social media presents a great opportunity for promoting the arts, but understanding how the tools work and using them effectively can be complicated. This session will explain why social media can be important for your organization, Facebook and Twitter basics, and common strategies for putting them to work.
Fast, Cheap, and Actionable: Creating an Affordable User Research ProgramMichael Powers
Done a usability study? Ready for the next step? Today we have an abundance of fast, affordable website user research methods, many of which can be done remotely with real users. Learn about available user research options and how IUP runs successful research projects that lead to actionable insights.
Fast, Cheap, and Actionable: Creating an Affordable User Research Program (Th...Michael Powers
Done a usability study? Ready for the next step? Today we have an abundance of fast, affordable user research methods, many of which can be done remotely with real users. Learn about available user research options and how one university runs successful research projects that lead to actionable insights.
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.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
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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
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/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
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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:
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- 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.
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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.
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AI for Every Business: Unlocking Your Product's Universal Potential by VP of ...
Number Stories: Win Friends and Influence HiPPOs with an Effective Measurement Strategy
1. Number Stories
Mike Powers
Director of Electronic Communications
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Confab Higher Ed 2015
Win friends and influence HiPPOs
with an effective measurement strategy
24. What’s the story?
1. What are your goals?
2. What is your content?
3. How will this content achieve those goals?
4. What would success look like?
5. What would failure look like?
6. What measures would show success or failure?
7. What are your targets?
27. 1. What are your goals?
1. Bring in enough students over the next four years
to make program viable
2. Acquire a reputation for excellence in CS that
brings in students and helps them find
employment
28. 2. What is your content?
• New microsite about the program
• Press releases about the program, faculty
• Blog posts about CS written by faculty members
• Presentations by faculty and student at CS
conferences
• Online ads
30. 3. How does content achieve your goals?
Ad
Blog
Earned
Media
31. 3. How does content achieve your goals?
Come to
Microsite
Ad
Blog
Earned
Media
32. 3. How does content achieve your goals?
Come to
Microsite
Learn
More
Ad
Blog
Earned
Media
33. 3. How does content achieve your goals?
Come to
Microsite
Learn
More
Ad
Blog
Earned
Media
Request
Info
Request
Visit
Apply
34. 4. What does success look like?
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35. 4. What does success look like?
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• Highly qualified
• Diverse
• Likely to succeed
36. 5. What does failure look like?
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37. 5. What does failure look like?
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• Not qualified
• All the same
• Unable to afford the program
38. 6. What measures would show success
or failure?
Enrollment? Test Scores? Diversity Data?
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39. Interim Goals
A. Do prospects understand content?
B. Does content communicate value
propositions?
C. Does content appeal to/engage prospects?
D. Does content encourage conversions?
53. 7. What are your numeric targets?
• If you want 50 students (donations, etc.)
• How many applications?
• How many inquiries?
• How many web sessions (visits)?
84. Context often means non-analytics
data
• How many applications?
• How many showed up for an event?
• How many students haven’t yet registered for
spring?
• How much did we spend on advertising/promotion?
85. A master spreadsheet gathers
• non-sampled data and
• non-analytics data
in the same place.
145. The structure of the stories we’ll tell
1. Here’s where we were
2. Then we changed x
3. Here’s what happened
4. Here’s what we need to do next
146. Example
• 40% of new students didn’t bring the right materials
to orientation, even though it was on the website
• We rewrote that content and provided a checklist
• This fall, only 20% of students didn’t bring the right
materials to orientation
• Next, we’ll look at the way this content is labeled
147. Example
• We’ve had an increase in students who start an
application but don’t complete it.
• We increased the number of reminder e-mails we
send them.
• But—traffic from e-mail actually dropped afterward.
• Next, we’ll cut back on the number of e-mails and
make the ones we do send more personalized.
149. 1. Plan for measurement
• Understand your goals
• Understand how your content gets you there
• Use that analysis to find a small number of
appropriate measures
• Set numeric targets
150. 2. Collect data effectively
• Collect contextual data
• Organize your measurements centrally
• Have a plan to sustain data collection