Answers a few questions for Public Information Officers:
- What is social media?
- Who’s playing? Why?
-How can new tools can help me in my role in emergency and disaster management?
Answers a few questions for Public Information Officers:
- What is social media?
- Who’s playing? Why?
-How can new tools can help me in my role in emergency and disaster management?
How are you dealing with the volume of new content and data that is flowing at you? This survey, conducted in the spring of 2011 - shows the impact data overload is having on respondents.
Social Media Overview
CLEO’s use of Social Media – CLEONet examples
Other Social Media Examples from the sector
Discussion Questions
For More Information: Suggested articles, sites and tools mentioned
Helping vs. Telling - the press release's next chapterMalcolm Atherton
The obituary of the press release has been written time and time again, and with good reason. The days of lengthy, superlative-filled releases written by a company for the company should be over. Consumers of information - media and B2B/B2C consumers - want information that is useful and helpful to aid them in their journalistic endeavors or guide them towards a more informed purchasing decision.
Join PR Newswire and AZTC to learn about:
Changes in how content is found and consumed online
The major shift towards "content marketing" and the use of thought leadership as a marketing & advertising channel
How is the press release evolving, and how can it be used to support marketing, advertising, and public relations pros?
What are the benefits of syndication?
Five tips for crafting an evolved release or "content advisory"
Who Should Attend
Marketers, advertising, content, public relations, corporate communicators, or anyone responsible for promoting an organization.
How are you dealing with the volume of new content and data that is flowing at you? This survey, conducted in the spring of 2011 - shows the impact data overload is having on respondents.
Social Media Overview
CLEO’s use of Social Media – CLEONet examples
Other Social Media Examples from the sector
Discussion Questions
For More Information: Suggested articles, sites and tools mentioned
Helping vs. Telling - the press release's next chapterMalcolm Atherton
The obituary of the press release has been written time and time again, and with good reason. The days of lengthy, superlative-filled releases written by a company for the company should be over. Consumers of information - media and B2B/B2C consumers - want information that is useful and helpful to aid them in their journalistic endeavors or guide them towards a more informed purchasing decision.
Join PR Newswire and AZTC to learn about:
Changes in how content is found and consumed online
The major shift towards "content marketing" and the use of thought leadership as a marketing & advertising channel
How is the press release evolving, and how can it be used to support marketing, advertising, and public relations pros?
What are the benefits of syndication?
Five tips for crafting an evolved release or "content advisory"
Who Should Attend
Marketers, advertising, content, public relations, corporate communicators, or anyone responsible for promoting an organization.
7.1 Evaluating Information7.2 Neo-Luddite Views of Compute.docxsleeperharwell
7.1 Evaluating Information
7.2 Neo-Luddite Views of Computers, Technology, and Quality of Life
7.3 Digital Divides y
7.4 Control of Our Devices and Data
7.5 Making Decisions About Technology A
Exercises a
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356 Chapter 7 Evaluating and Controlling Technology
In this chapter, we consider such questions as these: Does the openness and
"democracy" of the Web increase distribution of useful information or of inac
curate, foohsh, and biased information? How should we handle the latter? How
can we evaluate complex computer models of physical and social phenomena?
Is computing technology evil? Why do some people think it is? How does access
to digital technology ditfer among dilferent populations? How should we control
technology to ensure positive uses and consequences? How soon will robots and
digital devices be more intelligent than people? What will happen after that?
Whole books focus on these topics. The presentations here are necessarily
brief. They introduce issues, arguments, and many questions.
7.1 Evaluating Information
A little learning is a dang 'rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
—Alexander Pope, 1709'
7.1.1 The Need for Responsible Judgment
What is real? What is fake? Why does it matter?
We can get the wrong answer to a question quicker than our fathers and
mothers could find a pencil.
—Robert McHenry^
There is a daunting amount of information on the Web—^and much of it is wrong.
Quack medical cures abound. Distorted history, errors, outdated information, bad
financial advice—it is all there. Marketers and pubUc relations firms spread unlabeled
advertisements through blogs, social media, and video sites. Search engines have
largely replaced librarians for finding information, but search engines rank informa
tion sources at least partially by popularity and give prominent display to content
providers who pay; librarians do not. Wikipedia, the biggest online encyclopedia, is
immensely popular, but can we rely on its accuracy and objectivity when anyone can
edit any article at any time? On social journalism sites, readers submit and vote on
news stories. Is this a good way to get news? The nature of the Intemet encourages
people to post their immediate thoughts and reactions without taking time for con
templation or for checking facts. How do we know what is worth reading in contexts
where there are no editors selecting well-written and well-researched articles?
Faking photos is not new; photographers have long staged scenes and altered
photos in dark rooms. When we see a video of a currently popular performer sing
ing with Elvis Presley (who died in 1977), we know we are watching creative
7.1 Evaluating Information 357
entertainment—digital magic at work. But the same technologies can deceive, and
circulation of a fake photo on the Internet can start a riot or bring death threats to an
innocent person. Here is a.
CASE 1Pre-Internet Development and Web 1.0Assignment OverviewA.docxPazSilviapm
CASE 1
Pre-Internet Development and Web 1.0
Assignment Overview
As we said earlier, the development of the Internet involved a considerable period of more-or-less parallel evolution of a number of technologies and organizations. But like any process of social evolution, some events were more important than others in terms of influencing where we are today. Your task in this project is to identify some of those key turning points.
There are a lot of tools to help you. One of the most useful is “Hobbes’ Internet Timeline” found at
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
, a compilation of key events in Internet evolution dating back to the 1950s. You should also be prepared to consult some of the readings and other resources suggested in the Background page as useful sources of information. Your aim is to get a picture clear in your mind about how the different threads of the Internet got woven together.
Case Assignment
For this assignment, write a 3- to 4-page paper that addresses the following question:
Identify what you consider to be the five most important and/or significant events contributing to the evolution of the modern Internet that occurred in the period 1800–1991.
Provide a few paragraphs explaining why you consider each event to be one of the most important Internet-related milestones. Be sure to cite any resources that you used. The fifth and last event in your catalog should be the following, from Hobbes’ 1991 listing:
World-Wide Web (WWW) released by
CERN
; Tim Berners-Lee developer (:pb1:). First Web server is nxoc01.cern.ch, launched in Nov 1990 and later renamed info.cern.ch.
Many of the events you choose will be listed in the Hobbes timeline, but it is not the only source you will want to draw on. Be sure to include examples of 1) technological developments and 2) social/organizational events in your listing.
Assignment Expectations
Your paper should be 3–4 pages in length and reflect your personal experiences with the timeline.
The
important part of the project assignments is to carefully assess your own experiences with the topic, and then reflect critically on what you might have learned
about yourself and about situations through this assessment process.
The more you can use the exercise to develop personal implications for your growth as a potential businessperson as well as an Internet-savvy individual, the more value you will get out of the exercise.
SLP 1
Pre-Internet Development and Web 1.0
Your SLP assignment is to consider the great dot-com boom and bust and to understand its influence on the Internet of today. The dot-com bubble was the major watershed in the brief history of the Internet.
There is certainly no shortage of material describing this significant set of events. Probably the best place to begin for an overview is the following video:
CWnEconomy. (2012, February 24). Dot-com bubble documentary. [Video file]. Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2FybpdrlYM
Here are two other good.
A guide for librarians for using Twitter as a means to teach information literacy. Presentation for Easy Bib Summer Professional Development Series. July 10, 2013.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
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.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
5. How can linking be journalism? Link journalism is linking to reporting or sources on the Web to enhance, complement or add more context to original reportin g. Link journalism can also be a topical news curation that helps people find the most interesting, important and credible content from any source on the Web.
7. Plagiarism? Don’t blame the technology “ In response on Wednesday, Posner said he blamed the ‘warp speed of the net’ and his ‘master electronic files’ system. Concluded Posner: ‘In the compressed deadlines of the Beast, it now seems certain that those master files were a recipe for disaster for me. It allowed already published sources to get through to a number of my final [works] and in the quick turnaround I then obviously lost sight of the fact that it belonged to a published source instead of being something I wrote.’ ” – The Miami Herald , Feb. 11, 2010
8. Zachery Kouwe “ If there's a minor news story on a trustworthy wire service, and you think you need it on the blog, then link to it . You add no value by rushing – with ‘essence of speed,’ no less – to get the exact same story yourself. You're a well-paid full-time journalist at the New York Times; there are surely higher and better uses of your valuable time than going back to rewrite a story which already exists elsewhere. The sin that resulted in Kouwe’s departure from the NYT was that he rewrote badly, and left large chunks of other people’s work unchanged in his own copy. But the true underlying sin was that he spent so much time rewriting in the first place: the beauty of blogs, which exist to link elsewhere, is that he should never have needed to do that at all.” Link-phobic bloggers at the NYT and WSJ – Felix Salmon, Reuters
10. The Power of the Link But the superficiality masked considerable depth—greater depth, from one perspective, than the traditional media could offer. The reason was a single technological innovation: the hyperlink. An old-school columnist can write 800 brilliant words analyzing or commenting on, say, a new think-tank report or scientific survey. But in reading it on paper, you have to take the columnist’s presentation of the material on faith, or be convinced by a brief quotation (which can always be misleading out of context) . Online, a hyperlink to the original source transforms the experience . Yes, a few sentences of bloggy spin may not be as satisfying as a full column, but the ability to read the primary material instantly—in as careful or shallow a fashion as you choose—can add much greater context than anything on paper. Even a blogger’s chosen pull quote, unlike a columnist’s, can be effortlessly checked against the original. – Andrew Sullivan, “Why I Blog,” The Atlantic, October 2008
11. Andrew Sullivan and Iran “ He is gradually weaving together a complex narrative of the events taking place half a world away by piecing together a collection of eye-witness accounts, Iranian tweets, cell-phone videos uploaded on YouTube, reader emails from the US and from far away, riveting photos, and links to a multitude of blogs both big and small.” The New, New Journalism: Andrew Sullivan on Iran – Nisha Chittal, Politicoholic
18. The Power of Sending People Away Top News Sites in U.S., May 2008 Sessions per Users Top News Sites in U.S., June 2008 Time per Person
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20. Worrying About a “World of Disinformation” on the Web The web is becoming a cesspool. - Google CEO Eric Schmidt Question: You've been quoted as saying a number of times that there should be a "flight to quality," that there's an awful lot of garbage out on the Internet -- Schmidt: Let me just say precisely: It's a sewer out there.
21. Thinking While Linking “ Link journalism makes context easy in stories online. But the link in itself is not necessarily journalism — it’s what you do to verify its source and accuracy that makes it journalism and, thus, more valuable.”