RYAN SAXBY HILL: Do your technology choices support your organization’s values?NetSquared Vancouver
Do your technology choices support your organization’s values? Working to build a better online Canada with informed technology choice
What does your choice of technology say about your values? How can choices about technology help build community? Sometimes decisions about Internet technologies seem small, but these small choices add up. Building a strong, resilient, and accessible Internet in Canada requires us all to understand how our decisions affect the larger Internet ecosystem and what we can do to ensure that our decisions are in line with our values.
Using data from the .CA Internet Factbook gathered from audits of 400 Canadian non-profit organizations conducted by Framework, and examples from the Internet and domain name industry, this session will address some key decisions about Internet technology and how non-profit executives can make choices that respect their mission, values and the needs of their clients.
@saxby
Ryan Saxby Hill is an expert in communications and digital marketing. He is currently the communications manager with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, operators of the .CA domain name. Previously, Ryan led media relations and online engagement efforts at the Canada Foundation for Innovation and has held positions handling global communications and PR programs for Ciena Corporation and Nortel Networks.
Ryan is a founder of Apartment613, an award winning Ottawa-based digital community media organization and serves on the board of directors for the Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation, one of Canada’s most innovative non-profit housing providers.
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Now in its 3rd year, The Digital Nonprofit Conference is ready to take you to the next level of tech success in your organization. This year's line up of presenters includes experts in the tech, nonprofit and private sectors, delivering deep dive discussions on topics ranging from:
Capacity planning in the digital world
Choosing the right tech tools to suit your organization's values
Cultivating digital talent
Digital fundraising & donor engagement
Building community engagement strategies with corporate partners
The Engagement Pyramid: Keeping supporters engaged for the long haulNetSquared Vancouver
With Reilly Yeo and Vojtech Sedlak of OpenMedia.ca.
Many organizations know how to get supporters in the door. But what do you do in order to keep them engaged, and make sure their actions lead to change? In this peer-learning session, we’ll contribute stories about how OpenMedia has effectively fought online surveillance and Internet censorship by going beyond petitions, bringing in other online and offline tactics to deepen supporters’ engagement. We’ll show you how we track engagement, our work to bridge supporters from one issue to another, and also share some of our ongoing challenges and pitfalls. Bring stories and questions and be prepared to share!
Speaker Bios
Reilly Yeo (@Reillyreads) is the Managing Director of OpenMedia (@openmedia_ca), an award-winning organization that safeguards the possibilities of the open Internet by activating an email list of over 600,000 supporters. Reilly’s experience in the social change sector includes work with Amnesty International, The Walrus magazine, Rights & Democracy, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the SFU Centre for Dialogue. Currently, she also works as a facilitator with Groundswell, a youth-led project to transform the economy.
Reilly Yeo for Net2van
Vojtech Sedlak (@vojtechsedlak) is the Data Intelligence Coordinator at OpenMedia.ca. Originally from the Czech Republic and now settling on the West Coast, Vojtech has pursued educational, as well as professional experiences in the areas of digital anthropology, political economy of new media and data management.
Non-profits, governments, and civil society groups are not immune from the disruption digital networks have wrought in every other aspect of society. Jason and his team recently studied 40 campaigns, companies, and organizations that have recently won substantial social change efforts, and analyzed the common principles underlying their success. The results lined up with a career spent studying (and living) digital networks and movements.
Jason will be sharing the results of this research in Vancouver for the first time – a month before its official international launch. These principles of 21st Century campaigns will be combined with stories that bring them to live, and approaches to make them practical for organizations of all sizes and stripes.
Jason Mogus
Twitter: @MogusMoves
Jason is the principal strategist at Communicopia, a strategy consultancy that helps social change institutions become more like movements. With more than twenty years of digital transformation and campaign experience, he has led projects for some of the world’s most recognized social change brands including Human Rights Watch, the Tar Sands Solutions Network, NRDC, Consumer Reports, the UN Foundation, and the David Suzuki Foundation. Jason is the founder of the 15 year old Web of Change conference and he created the world’s first research report on the state of digital teams in non-profits. A recognized thought leader in the fields of network campaigns, digital teams, and organizational change catalyzed by technology, in 2014 Jason was named a Leadership Fellow at the Broadbent Institute.
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Now in its 3rd year, The Digital Nonprofit Conference is ready to take you to the next level of tech success in your organization. This year's line up of presenters includes experts in the tech, nonprofit and private sectors, delivering deep dive discussions on topics ranging from:
Capacity planning in the digital world
Choosing the right tech tools to suit your organization's values
Cultivating digital talent
Digital fundraising & donor engagement
Building community engagement strategies with corporate partners
Digital Teams in 2018: The New Landscape of Digital Engagement – Jason MogusNetSquared Vancouver
The state of digital teams inside our nonprofits often reflects deeper issues of culture and structure and how well adapted our institutions are to today's communications landscape. So what's going on with digital teams today? What team structures, roles, and behaviours are producing the best outcomes? Are we getting better at cross-silo and cross-channel communications? Are we set up to really deliver on the promise of digital engagement?
Jason Mogus - Digital Teams in 2018: The new landscape of digital engagement
Principal Strategist at NetChange Consulting
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmogus/
Bio
advocacy campaign and organizational change consultant
been doing digital transformation for 22 years, his firm celebrates 25 years this summer
helped shape some of today's most successful campaigns including tar sands / pipeline work, australia's biggest campaign, $10 a day childcare in BC
What's interesting: lives on an island, is an obsessive walker; if you call him you'll likely hear the leaves crunching under feet
Secret skill: weird sound effects and made up songs for his 8 year old
RYAN SAXBY HILL: Do your technology choices support your organization’s values?NetSquared Vancouver
Do your technology choices support your organization’s values? Working to build a better online Canada with informed technology choice
What does your choice of technology say about your values? How can choices about technology help build community? Sometimes decisions about Internet technologies seem small, but these small choices add up. Building a strong, resilient, and accessible Internet in Canada requires us all to understand how our decisions affect the larger Internet ecosystem and what we can do to ensure that our decisions are in line with our values.
Using data from the .CA Internet Factbook gathered from audits of 400 Canadian non-profit organizations conducted by Framework, and examples from the Internet and domain name industry, this session will address some key decisions about Internet technology and how non-profit executives can make choices that respect their mission, values and the needs of their clients.
@saxby
Ryan Saxby Hill is an expert in communications and digital marketing. He is currently the communications manager with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, operators of the .CA domain name. Previously, Ryan led media relations and online engagement efforts at the Canada Foundation for Innovation and has held positions handling global communications and PR programs for Ciena Corporation and Nortel Networks.
Ryan is a founder of Apartment613, an award winning Ottawa-based digital community media organization and serves on the board of directors for the Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation, one of Canada’s most innovative non-profit housing providers.
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Now in its 3rd year, The Digital Nonprofit Conference is ready to take you to the next level of tech success in your organization. This year's line up of presenters includes experts in the tech, nonprofit and private sectors, delivering deep dive discussions on topics ranging from:
Capacity planning in the digital world
Choosing the right tech tools to suit your organization's values
Cultivating digital talent
Digital fundraising & donor engagement
Building community engagement strategies with corporate partners
The Engagement Pyramid: Keeping supporters engaged for the long haulNetSquared Vancouver
With Reilly Yeo and Vojtech Sedlak of OpenMedia.ca.
Many organizations know how to get supporters in the door. But what do you do in order to keep them engaged, and make sure their actions lead to change? In this peer-learning session, we’ll contribute stories about how OpenMedia has effectively fought online surveillance and Internet censorship by going beyond petitions, bringing in other online and offline tactics to deepen supporters’ engagement. We’ll show you how we track engagement, our work to bridge supporters from one issue to another, and also share some of our ongoing challenges and pitfalls. Bring stories and questions and be prepared to share!
Speaker Bios
Reilly Yeo (@Reillyreads) is the Managing Director of OpenMedia (@openmedia_ca), an award-winning organization that safeguards the possibilities of the open Internet by activating an email list of over 600,000 supporters. Reilly’s experience in the social change sector includes work with Amnesty International, The Walrus magazine, Rights & Democracy, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the SFU Centre for Dialogue. Currently, she also works as a facilitator with Groundswell, a youth-led project to transform the economy.
Reilly Yeo for Net2van
Vojtech Sedlak (@vojtechsedlak) is the Data Intelligence Coordinator at OpenMedia.ca. Originally from the Czech Republic and now settling on the West Coast, Vojtech has pursued educational, as well as professional experiences in the areas of digital anthropology, political economy of new media and data management.
Non-profits, governments, and civil society groups are not immune from the disruption digital networks have wrought in every other aspect of society. Jason and his team recently studied 40 campaigns, companies, and organizations that have recently won substantial social change efforts, and analyzed the common principles underlying their success. The results lined up with a career spent studying (and living) digital networks and movements.
Jason will be sharing the results of this research in Vancouver for the first time – a month before its official international launch. These principles of 21st Century campaigns will be combined with stories that bring them to live, and approaches to make them practical for organizations of all sizes and stripes.
Jason Mogus
Twitter: @MogusMoves
Jason is the principal strategist at Communicopia, a strategy consultancy that helps social change institutions become more like movements. With more than twenty years of digital transformation and campaign experience, he has led projects for some of the world’s most recognized social change brands including Human Rights Watch, the Tar Sands Solutions Network, NRDC, Consumer Reports, the UN Foundation, and the David Suzuki Foundation. Jason is the founder of the 15 year old Web of Change conference and he created the world’s first research report on the state of digital teams in non-profits. A recognized thought leader in the fields of network campaigns, digital teams, and organizational change catalyzed by technology, in 2014 Jason was named a Leadership Fellow at the Broadbent Institute.
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Now in its 3rd year, The Digital Nonprofit Conference is ready to take you to the next level of tech success in your organization. This year's line up of presenters includes experts in the tech, nonprofit and private sectors, delivering deep dive discussions on topics ranging from:
Capacity planning in the digital world
Choosing the right tech tools to suit your organization's values
Cultivating digital talent
Digital fundraising & donor engagement
Building community engagement strategies with corporate partners
Digital Teams in 2018: The New Landscape of Digital Engagement – Jason MogusNetSquared Vancouver
The state of digital teams inside our nonprofits often reflects deeper issues of culture and structure and how well adapted our institutions are to today's communications landscape. So what's going on with digital teams today? What team structures, roles, and behaviours are producing the best outcomes? Are we getting better at cross-silo and cross-channel communications? Are we set up to really deliver on the promise of digital engagement?
Jason Mogus - Digital Teams in 2018: The new landscape of digital engagement
Principal Strategist at NetChange Consulting
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmogus/
Bio
advocacy campaign and organizational change consultant
been doing digital transformation for 22 years, his firm celebrates 25 years this summer
helped shape some of today's most successful campaigns including tar sands / pipeline work, australia's biggest campaign, $10 a day childcare in BC
What's interesting: lives on an island, is an obsessive walker; if you call him you'll likely hear the leaves crunching under feet
Secret skill: weird sound effects and made up songs for his 8 year old
How Your Online Fundraising Stacks Up With 152 Canadian Charities – Brady Jos...NetSquared Vancouver
We wanted to see what the current ‘best practices’ were in Canada when it came to online fundraising so we signed up for email and gave to 152 charities tracking the user experience and communications along the way.
The results will shine a light on where organizations are at today, the gap between best practices and what is actually happening, and the areas of opportunity when it comes to digital marketing with a focus on four key areas:
1. Email Signup
2. Email Communication
3. Online Donation Experience
4. Gift Acknowledgement
In this session, you will learn what other organizations from across the country are doing — well and not so well — and what you can be doing to accelerate your online fundraising. From email communications, to landing page design, to donation page gift arrays, you’ll get tons of research backed tips and insights in this jam packed presentation.
Vice President of Innovation and Optimization at NextAfter
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradyjosephson/
Brady is a charity nerd, entrepreneur, digital marketer, professor, and writer. He’s the Vice President of Innovation and Optimization at NextAfter — a fundraising research lab and consultancy on a mission to unleash the most generous generation in the history of the world.
Brady works with nonprofits, thought leaders, and philanthropic partners to develop research and create content that can help organizations reach more people, acquire more donors, and generate more dollars to fund their world-changing work.
Brady lives just outside Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with his wife Liz, dog Melly, and cat Thor.
Corporate Community Investment: How Technology is Improving Social ImpactNetSquared Vancouver
Corporate Community Investment: How Technology is Improving Social Impact
With Meriko Kubota.
Corporations have a vital role to play in society as contributors to the economy and to the social well-being of their team members and communities they serve. Non-profit organizations with constrained organizational capacity lag in adoption of new technologies and may miss opportunities in utilizing technology as part of community-based programs and projects. Increasing societal expectations of corporations have supported an evolution from Corporate Social Responsibility to triple bottom lines and corporate community investment. Now, with greater movement towards the practice of shared value, there are social innovation examples globally and across Canada. This presentation will further explore opportunities to develop new models for corporate community investment to directly utilize technology for greater social impact.
Speaker Bio
Meriko Kubota (@MerikoK) works with Telus (@telus) in the Community Affairs department.
Experienced professional in managing projects, establishing strategic partnerships and business opportunities, and conducting community engagement in Vancouver and internationally. Skilled at facilitation and building relationships of value and respect with leaders and stakeholders. Innovative thinker who excels at providing solutions and delivering on metrics and targets to demonstrate ROI. Collaborative leader who encourages diversity of thought and thrives on building supportive team members.
Limitless Findraising: Is E-Philanthropy a Tool for Reaching a World-Wide Ran...lazarall
Presentation given at the Western Museums Association (WMA) 2008 in Anchorage, featuring an overview of e-philanthropy, trends in its usage in the museum field, benefits, barriers to entry and success and resources.
Group Fundraising 101: From Benchmarks to Success Stories (revised)peterdeitz
Slides from my NTEN webinar on October 11, 2007:
In this repeat webinar, non-profit consultant Peter Deitz will present his original benchmark figures for group fundraising as well as new research on the effective use of Facebook applications for distributed fundraising campaigns. Published in June on TechSoup, the benchmark figures were derived from the internal statistics of five leading services (ChipIn, Firstgiving, GiveMeaning, SixDegrees, and JustGive.org).
This webinar explains how nonprofits can use the benchmark figures to integrate group fundraising into larger annual or capital campaigns. The webinar will also feature current success stories of non-profits using group fundraising and Facebook to reach new donors while deepening their relationships with existing supporters. The Facebook applications discussed in this webinar include: Causes, ChipIn, Fundraising, and Change.org.
Philanthropy by the Numbers: The story behind the statsBlackbaud
In our latest edition of npEXPERTS, top thought leaders from across the industry share their perspective on the latest trends and what's next for the social good industry.
The Digital Advancement Office of the Future: Williams College & EverTrueEverTrue
How the advancement team at Williams College, led by Mike Reopell, is moving from the "all-in-one" to "best-in-class" model for donor relationship management.
How Your Online Fundraising Stacks Up With 152 Canadian Charities – Brady Jos...NetSquared Vancouver
We wanted to see what the current ‘best practices’ were in Canada when it came to online fundraising so we signed up for email and gave to 152 charities tracking the user experience and communications along the way.
The results will shine a light on where organizations are at today, the gap between best practices and what is actually happening, and the areas of opportunity when it comes to digital marketing with a focus on four key areas:
1. Email Signup
2. Email Communication
3. Online Donation Experience
4. Gift Acknowledgement
In this session, you will learn what other organizations from across the country are doing — well and not so well — and what you can be doing to accelerate your online fundraising. From email communications, to landing page design, to donation page gift arrays, you’ll get tons of research backed tips and insights in this jam packed presentation.
Vice President of Innovation and Optimization at NextAfter
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradyjosephson/
Brady is a charity nerd, entrepreneur, digital marketer, professor, and writer. He’s the Vice President of Innovation and Optimization at NextAfter — a fundraising research lab and consultancy on a mission to unleash the most generous generation in the history of the world.
Brady works with nonprofits, thought leaders, and philanthropic partners to develop research and create content that can help organizations reach more people, acquire more donors, and generate more dollars to fund their world-changing work.
Brady lives just outside Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with his wife Liz, dog Melly, and cat Thor.
Corporate Community Investment: How Technology is Improving Social ImpactNetSquared Vancouver
Corporate Community Investment: How Technology is Improving Social Impact
With Meriko Kubota.
Corporations have a vital role to play in society as contributors to the economy and to the social well-being of their team members and communities they serve. Non-profit organizations with constrained organizational capacity lag in adoption of new technologies and may miss opportunities in utilizing technology as part of community-based programs and projects. Increasing societal expectations of corporations have supported an evolution from Corporate Social Responsibility to triple bottom lines and corporate community investment. Now, with greater movement towards the practice of shared value, there are social innovation examples globally and across Canada. This presentation will further explore opportunities to develop new models for corporate community investment to directly utilize technology for greater social impact.
Speaker Bio
Meriko Kubota (@MerikoK) works with Telus (@telus) in the Community Affairs department.
Experienced professional in managing projects, establishing strategic partnerships and business opportunities, and conducting community engagement in Vancouver and internationally. Skilled at facilitation and building relationships of value and respect with leaders and stakeholders. Innovative thinker who excels at providing solutions and delivering on metrics and targets to demonstrate ROI. Collaborative leader who encourages diversity of thought and thrives on building supportive team members.
Limitless Findraising: Is E-Philanthropy a Tool for Reaching a World-Wide Ran...lazarall
Presentation given at the Western Museums Association (WMA) 2008 in Anchorage, featuring an overview of e-philanthropy, trends in its usage in the museum field, benefits, barriers to entry and success and resources.
Group Fundraising 101: From Benchmarks to Success Stories (revised)peterdeitz
Slides from my NTEN webinar on October 11, 2007:
In this repeat webinar, non-profit consultant Peter Deitz will present his original benchmark figures for group fundraising as well as new research on the effective use of Facebook applications for distributed fundraising campaigns. Published in June on TechSoup, the benchmark figures were derived from the internal statistics of five leading services (ChipIn, Firstgiving, GiveMeaning, SixDegrees, and JustGive.org).
This webinar explains how nonprofits can use the benchmark figures to integrate group fundraising into larger annual or capital campaigns. The webinar will also feature current success stories of non-profits using group fundraising and Facebook to reach new donors while deepening their relationships with existing supporters. The Facebook applications discussed in this webinar include: Causes, ChipIn, Fundraising, and Change.org.
Philanthropy by the Numbers: The story behind the statsBlackbaud
In our latest edition of npEXPERTS, top thought leaders from across the industry share their perspective on the latest trends and what's next for the social good industry.
The Digital Advancement Office of the Future: Williams College & EverTrueEverTrue
How the advancement team at Williams College, led by Mike Reopell, is moving from the "all-in-one" to "best-in-class" model for donor relationship management.
I gave this presentation at the 2010 Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) conference in Pittsburgh, PA, as part of a panel entitled "How Social Media Enable Grassroots Power Shifts."
A 2006 presentation at the National Black Programming Consortium's Black Technology NOW! Summit in Boston, MA.
This presentation focused on how we can use technology and the Internet to solve problems in the analog world. I used examples of: The SuperSpade, a political blog, and DetroitIntern.com, an internship website.
Peter Kawalek - Talk Innovation and TransformationTALKWiki
Presentation from Professor Peter Kawalek of Manchester Business School at the TALK Innovation and Transformation event in London on October 14th, 2008.
Taking Leadership Online - What\'s Hype and What Works in Online FundraisingAliamc
Fundraising Day New York
Speakers: Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies, Nancy Haitch, The International Rescue Committee, and Jono Smith, Network for Good
Fundraising Day New York
Taking Leadership Online
Friday, June 12, 2009
Alia McKee of Sea Change Strategies, Nancy Haitch of the International Rescue Committee and Jono Smith of Network for Good explored what’s hype and what works in online fundraising. Here is their presentation slideshow.
This is a presentation by Justin Perkins, Director of Nonprofit Services at Care2.com featuring research on Social Network Fundraising and use of new media for nonprofit marketing.
Enterprise Online Fundraising Plan and ResearchRebecca Higman
Enterprise Community Partners (a nonprofit national leader in investment capital and development services for affordable housing and community revitalization) spent some time wondering how to up their online fundraising results, and a whole lot more time acting.
The deck includes research topics, creating donor profiles and personas and six strategies to online outreach.
This presentation was first shared at the Network for Good and Maryland Nonprofits "ePhilanthropy 101: Effective & Inexpensive Fundraising in a Downturn" program on March 27, 2009.
Strategic Social Networking for Fundraising4Good.org
Learn how to improve the return on investment from your social media campaign after incorporating a complete communications plan.
Takeaways:
- Understand the background of social media in fundraising.
- Discover whether a strategic social media campaign is right for your organization.
- Answer the seven most important questions before starting your plan.
- Learn which initiatives to focus resources on as well as which to avoid.
- Find out whether email is still a viable communication and how to use it.
- Identify when is the time to upgrade to a new online platform.
You’ve probably heard about Open Data and Open Government. But have you ever considered the radical idea of Open Philanthropy? What would happen if you applied the principles of open data to philanthropic institutions such as foundations, funders and grant-makers?
In this session you’ll be introduced to three open data initiatives that are doing just that.
Join Jake Hirsch-Allen (Partner, Functional Imperative & Lighthouse Labs) Michael Lenczner (CEO, Ajah and Director, Powered By Data) and Gena Rotstein (CEO and Advisor in Philanthropy - Dexterity Ventures Inc./Place2Give) for an interactive showcase that will answer this question and unpack the benefits of Open Philanthropy for grantmakers, community organizations and donors.
Using charity sector data, can we build more sustainable communities and use market forces to drive social change?
This presentation was given as part of a panel at CKX.org Nov. 2014. Also on the panel - AJAH and FLUXX
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
2. Organizing As We *Knew* It
Paper and pen
Phones and spreadsheets
Reliance on press to generate energy and attention
Lost files, MIA volunteers, drive-by data collection
“Internet team” was stuck in a basement fixing printers
3. Big Changes in 2004
Political campaigns (i.e. Dean and
Kerry) and large nonprofits (i.e.
MoveOn, Greenpeace, etc.) made
better use of the web
General public more aware of the
internet (online shopping, online
banking, etc.)
4. Even Bigger Changes in 2008
Millions of dollars from
small-dollar donors
Creativity in fundraising,
mobile outreach, and
communications
Integration of online
organizing into every
corner of a campaign
5. What Does it Cost to
Not Participate?
Who could you be
engaging?
Who are you
currently missing?
6. Online Organizing...Now
Integrated into all corners
Complements and improves:
☐ Fundraising
☐ Communications
☐ Voter contact
☐ Field plans
☐ Volunteer programs/capacity
Must still have an offline connection
Organizing Fundraising
Web Presence
Communications
8. Message
or Video
• Email supporters
• Blog outreach
• Live-blogging
• Online Google ads
• Social networking
Credit: Larry Huynh, Blackrock Associates
New Media Ecosystem
9. Message
or Video
• Email supporters
• Blog outreach
• Live-blogging
• Online Google ads
• Social networking
Viral
Allies email
their own
supporters
Blogs build
more buzz &
deepen story
Media
increases
coverage
Credit: Larry Huynh, Blackrock Associates
Results of New Media Ecosystem
10. Why do people respond to the web?
Story
Timeliness
Sense of urgency
Connect with others
Meaningful action
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12. Website Basics
Clean and clear design
Guide users
Up-to-date, dynamic content
Highlight stories on site
Emphasize user experience
Put organization’s emphasis front and center
Test, test, test
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14. Your Campaign site MUST have:
Email signup form
Big red donate button
Contact form
Bio
News & Events
Issue/policy statements
Press page
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18. Email Basics
Make sure you have something to say
Keep an email calendar
Invest in a blast email tool
Create an inviting landing page for email visitors
Peer-to-peer viral tools
Focus on organic email list growth
Test, test, test
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20. Online Fundraising Basics
Same principles as offline fundraising
Be creative
Make it simple
Be consistent with messaging
Be ready
Be secure
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22. Organizational Culture
New media ecosystem means a new
organizational ecosystem
New organizing needs collaboration
IT staff are not online organizing staff
Be ready to show results – quantitative and
qualitative
23. So Where Do You Start?
Map out your current online presence
Take stock of your goals
What can you do, vs. what should you do?
What tools do you need vs. what tools do
you want?
24. Think about existing connections – national arm
of your org or local networking opportunities
Train staff vs. hire consultant?
If you hired someone, where would that
person fit into your organization?
Scour job banks for “norms” in salary and
responsibilities
Next Steps
25. o You are not Barack Obama.
o Most campaigns stop before starting
o Campaigns “go viral”
0.01% of the time
o Be OK with failing
o Find parallels between
traditional organizing and
new organizing
o Success is a slow slog –
there is no silver bullet
Keep in mind before
starting: