This was a university presentation for my second year strategy module. I needed to devise a campaign which would help to encourage more student's to undertake voluntary work within the university's radio station 107 Spark FM.
This is the jeopardy game I promised. I had trouble uploading it initially and did not have access to my computer, so I hope it functions as a game for you to review facts and concepts.
Boomer Solution: Skilled Talent to Meet Nonprofit Needsazgrantmakers
1. The nonprofit recognizes older adults represent an untapped resource that can help achieve its mission through volunteer assistance.
2. The organization develops a menu of flexible volunteer opportunities from professional roles to direct service that match both organizational needs and individual interests and skills.
3. Tracking the impact of skilled older adult volunteers over one year for 10 nonprofits, their work was valued at $1.3 million while the total investment was $218,000, showing over a 500% return on investment.
This document provides definitions for key terms used to analyze and describe visual artworks, including elements of design like line, shape, color, and texture as well as principles of design such as balance, gradation, repetition, contrast, harmony, dominance, and unity. It encourages analyzing Vincent Van Gogh's 1889 painting "Starry Night" using these terms and concepts to better understand and speak about the artwork. Students are asked to describe the painting applying their new understanding of these fundamental elements and principles.
"Volunteerism 2.0: Involving Highly Skilled Volunteers in Your Organization" presented by Stacy Baker from the Institute of Conservation Leadership.
Additional volunteerism report available at https://www.icl.org/resources/publications/volunteerism-20-skilled-volunteers-bring-new-talent-organizations
Volunteer management 101 presentation engage seriesChelsea J Martin
This document discusses moving from volunteer management to volunteer engagement. It highlights how allocating resources like staff time, training, space, and technology can help engage volunteers. Leaders are encouraged to build organizational commitment, capacity, and competency for engagement. Effective engagement involves recognizing contributions, measuring value, matching skills to opportunities, training volunteers and staff, and strong leadership. Tracking systems and improved communication can help retain volunteers by developing strategic plans, clear expectations, and empowering volunteers. Leveraging online tools and external partnerships can further support engagement.
Engaging older adults as untapped resources 04-2011 - chazgrantmakers
This document discusses engaging older adults as untapped resources for nonprofits. It notes that the aging population is growing healthier and more educated. Successful models are presented that leverage older adult skills through flexible volunteer roles like consulting, internships and short-term projects. Data shows significant returns on investment for nonprofits that adopt these models. The document proposes a countywide initiative to connect experienced people to social purpose opportunities through programs like workshops, fellowships and intergenerational mentoring.
To find out what makes a management team effective, we studied more than 500 members of 72 management groups in both business and government. The teams were surveyed using the Team Effectiveness Assessment for Management (TEAM), an instrument developed specifically to assess management groups. Teams rated in the top 25% on these effectiveness measures were compared with those in the bottom 25% to determine which characteristics differentiated successful from unsuccessful teams.
This is the jeopardy game I promised. I had trouble uploading it initially and did not have access to my computer, so I hope it functions as a game for you to review facts and concepts.
Boomer Solution: Skilled Talent to Meet Nonprofit Needsazgrantmakers
1. The nonprofit recognizes older adults represent an untapped resource that can help achieve its mission through volunteer assistance.
2. The organization develops a menu of flexible volunteer opportunities from professional roles to direct service that match both organizational needs and individual interests and skills.
3. Tracking the impact of skilled older adult volunteers over one year for 10 nonprofits, their work was valued at $1.3 million while the total investment was $218,000, showing over a 500% return on investment.
This document provides definitions for key terms used to analyze and describe visual artworks, including elements of design like line, shape, color, and texture as well as principles of design such as balance, gradation, repetition, contrast, harmony, dominance, and unity. It encourages analyzing Vincent Van Gogh's 1889 painting "Starry Night" using these terms and concepts to better understand and speak about the artwork. Students are asked to describe the painting applying their new understanding of these fundamental elements and principles.
"Volunteerism 2.0: Involving Highly Skilled Volunteers in Your Organization" presented by Stacy Baker from the Institute of Conservation Leadership.
Additional volunteerism report available at https://www.icl.org/resources/publications/volunteerism-20-skilled-volunteers-bring-new-talent-organizations
Volunteer management 101 presentation engage seriesChelsea J Martin
This document discusses moving from volunteer management to volunteer engagement. It highlights how allocating resources like staff time, training, space, and technology can help engage volunteers. Leaders are encouraged to build organizational commitment, capacity, and competency for engagement. Effective engagement involves recognizing contributions, measuring value, matching skills to opportunities, training volunteers and staff, and strong leadership. Tracking systems and improved communication can help retain volunteers by developing strategic plans, clear expectations, and empowering volunteers. Leveraging online tools and external partnerships can further support engagement.
Engaging older adults as untapped resources 04-2011 - chazgrantmakers
This document discusses engaging older adults as untapped resources for nonprofits. It notes that the aging population is growing healthier and more educated. Successful models are presented that leverage older adult skills through flexible volunteer roles like consulting, internships and short-term projects. Data shows significant returns on investment for nonprofits that adopt these models. The document proposes a countywide initiative to connect experienced people to social purpose opportunities through programs like workshops, fellowships and intergenerational mentoring.
To find out what makes a management team effective, we studied more than 500 members of 72 management groups in both business and government. The teams were surveyed using the Team Effectiveness Assessment for Management (TEAM), an instrument developed specifically to assess management groups. Teams rated in the top 25% on these effectiveness measures were compared with those in the bottom 25% to determine which characteristics differentiated successful from unsuccessful teams.
The proposed lower school radio and TV advertisements would feature a Year 7 student from Ringwood School discussing their experiences. For the TV ad, the student would talk about the school's subjects, opportunities, and student support over footage showing a bright, sunny school environment. The radio ad would also include the student using more advanced vocabulary to discuss opportunities, portraying the school's focus on preparing students. Both ads aim to provide an authentic student perspective to appeal to parents and demonstrate the school's focus on learning, development and future success.
The document discusses a YouTuber named Sammi's plan to create an advertisement for her YouTube channel. Sammi's channel focuses on lifestyle activities like concerts and meetups around the world. To plan her ad, Sammi conducted primary research through an online questionnaire and focus group to understand her target audience. She also did secondary research by evaluating another YouTuber's channel trailer. Based on her research findings, Sammi plans to aim her fun and visual ad at her target audience of girls aged 12-17 to attract them to her channel.
The document discusses the marketing plan and situation of clothing retailer Marks & Spencer. It aims to help Marks & Spencer regain lost market share in its clothing line. A marketing report is also proposed to analyze external macro factors using PEST analysis. The plan discusses target audiences, products/services, and competition. It suggests focusing on ethical production and younger customers to improve brand image and spread.
Group responsibilities are divided as follows: Section A - Ben Gadsby, Section B - Jess lane, Section C – Madeleine parker, Section D – All three.
The campaign aims to advertise Ringwood 6th Form as prestigious with a varied education and Ringwood school as a safe, fun environment. It aims to attract Year 7s and 12s to the open day. The company will achieve these aims by including key information like statistics, awards, grades and student opinions.
The target audiences are male and female parents aged 30-50s and Year 11 students aged 15-16. Advertisements will launch in summer/early fall in various local publications and radio stations. They will air in
The group is responsible for different sections of the Ringwood school advertising campaign. Section A involves the proposal, Section B is the schedule, Section C covers codes of conduct, and Section D is for the print and audio visual plan. Jess lane is responsible for Section B (the schedule). The aims of the campaign are to advertise Ringwood 6th form and lower school. Target audiences include parents of students in years 7, 12 as well as students themselves. The campaign will promote key facts about academic performance and appeal to parents and students.
Did you know modern statistics state that you have 60 seconds or less to capture your audience’s attention?
You’ve might have heard it before, but maybe not in terms of presentations. It’s crucial to understand the importance of grasping an audience’s attention in the first moments of a talk. Your opening lines set the tone for your overall performance, so a great opener will prepare and intrigue the audience and ensure that your message is effectively received.
So, how do you enchant an audience right off the bat?
Here are 5 methods that we have found work the best for beginning a presentation.
The document provides tips and information for using social media effectively as a public relations professional or student. It emphasizes maintaining a positive presence on social media platforms and using them to display writing skills and relevant, professional information to potential employers. One should start a blog focused on their interests or field and use Twitter to share news, tips from professionals, and creative ideas rather than just jokes. Social media allows one to showcase a variety of skills to virtually endless opportunities.
The document summarizes a mentoring program called "Film's Cool" that gives students the opportunity to build academic skills related to film with support from industry professionals. The program is based at the La Swap Consortium and covers four schools in Camden. It uses mentors and education facilities to promote film education and help students start careers in the film industry. Videos and reports from sessions will be posted online to keep people updated on the program.
This evaluation summarizes the work of the radio production group "Bearfaced" in creating a 5-minute local news bulletin for a media studies course. The group was made up of 4 students who took on roles as researchers, producers, and presenters. They researched conventions of real radio news broadcasts and targeted their content at a young adult audience. Through completing questionnaires, the group learned that their audience preferred informal language, upbeat jingles, and stories relevant to them. In producing the broadcast, the students gained skills using recording equipment, editing software, and collaborating in a group. They applied feedback to improve for future projects by enhancing research, planning, and including more conventions.
Evaluation 4: HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE COMBINATION OF YOUR MAIN PRODUCT AND ANCIL...Yahye Saed
The document discusses ancillary texts created to promote a documentary film for a target student audience. It describes researching the Channel 4 show "Educating Yorkshire" for inspiration on poster and trailer conventions. A radio trailer was made using sounds of a student's morning to illustrate the film's day-in-the-life structure. Posters with the large number "4" will be placed in student magazines, libraries, and near schools and bus stops to maximize exposure for the target audience. Feedback ensured the film and promotion materials focus more on the main protagonist, a working-class student named Yahya, both in and out of classroom settings.
The document recommends that the improv group The Plastic Shatners invest in marketing items like buttons, stickers, and wristbands to promote the group and increase attendance at their shows. Currently, attendance has stagnated with the same audience members attending each week. Marketing items would help spread awareness of the group on campus and attract new students. This would help the group's budget, allowing them to travel more and bring in professional improvisers. The summary outlines costs for various marketing items and estimates they could earn $21 in profit to help fund future activities.
The document discusses using audience feedback to improve film productions. It explains that filmmakers conduct test screenings and market research to get feedback from audiences on how to strengthen their films and target their marketing. The feedback helps filmmakers identify their target audience, determine if a film will succeed, and learn what audiences like. The document also provides examples of how a film production team gathered feedback during their project pitch, rough cut screening, and final screening. They used the feedback to improve areas like their script, sound design, trailer structure, and marketing materials. The final feedback suggested they successfully achieved their goals for a teen drama marketing campaign.
This document outlines a campaign for Mind, a mental health charity, targeting 15-25 year olds. Research was conducted through surveys to understand the target audience. The campaign includes a TV advertisement showing a day in the life of a teenager dealing with stresses and coping mechanisms. A podcast was also proposed where the creator discusses struggles and coping strategies with another person. The goal is to make listeners feel less alone and encourage healthy coping. The campaign aims to appeal to the interests and needs of the target demographic based on the survey research.
Presentation - Activating Students Online July 2015.Suki Ferguson
This document provides tips for student unions on how to run effective digital campaigns to engage students online. It discusses tactics used by successful organizations like Buzzfeed to promote social lift. Some key tactics recommended are gathering social proof from students, making campaigns feel urgent, providing rapid feedback, and leaving campaigns open-ended. The document then gives suggestions for implementing these tactics at student unions, such as finding allies, creating long-term plans, tweaking email designs, and managing expectations. The goals are to get more student participation in campaigns, empower students, and increase engagement for the student union.
Walid ali has been assigned to create a short radio program for a local station discussing extracurricular activities for primary and secondary school students. He conducted research on a popular radio show hosted by Nick Grimshaw to understand conventions like broadcast times, target audiences, and production process. The program will begin with an upbeat jingle in a popular style like hip hop or R&B to appeal to the target audience. It will include interviews with a student and teacher from Haverstock School about the extracurricular activities offered and their benefits, asking questions like what clubs are available and how many students participate. Walid believes following his research and plan will result in a successful radio program that appeals to its intended audience.
The document provides tips for effective public speaking and presentation skills. It discusses the importance of being well-prepared, giving personal examples, staying relaxed, using natural humor, planning body positions, and paying attention to details. Audience analysis is also emphasized as critical for understanding the audience's needs and tailoring the presentation appropriately. Key elements of audience analysis include understanding demographics, interests, expectations, and customizing the message. Effective persuasive communication requires knowing the audience, grabbing their attention, establishing credibility, tailoring the message to the medium, conveying benefits, and using body language to connect with the audience.
NHS Leadership Academy Nye Bevan Programme - Social MediaJoe McCrea
We are proud to deliver the Social Media component of the NHS Leadership Academy's Nye Bevan Programme. The programme is described by the Academy as "specifically designed to help CEOs & top leaders of the future gain the skills needed for tomorrow’s NHS."
With grateful thanks to the NHS Leadership Academy for their permission for this presentation to be shared publicly via social media.
For more information, contact socialmedia@jbmccrea.com
This document outlines a marketing campaign for Ringwood School, including a proposal, schedule, and codes of conduct. The proposal defines the aims of advertising Ringwood's 6th form and lower school, targeting parents and students through radio ads, print media, and an open day. The schedule sets launch dates in June-September to reach audiences during summer activities and back-to-school season, and considers local events that could boost exposure.
The document provides examples of effective promotional campaigns and brainstorms promotional elements and ideas for a school Christmas production. It examines campaigns for breast cancer awareness, The REFRESH Project, and Old Spice that were successful due to instantly recognizable logos and messaging that promoted positive social impact. For the school production, it suggests digital banners, emails, posters around school, announcements, a website, and social media posts to spread word to the school and parent community.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
The proposed lower school radio and TV advertisements would feature a Year 7 student from Ringwood School discussing their experiences. For the TV ad, the student would talk about the school's subjects, opportunities, and student support over footage showing a bright, sunny school environment. The radio ad would also include the student using more advanced vocabulary to discuss opportunities, portraying the school's focus on preparing students. Both ads aim to provide an authentic student perspective to appeal to parents and demonstrate the school's focus on learning, development and future success.
The document discusses a YouTuber named Sammi's plan to create an advertisement for her YouTube channel. Sammi's channel focuses on lifestyle activities like concerts and meetups around the world. To plan her ad, Sammi conducted primary research through an online questionnaire and focus group to understand her target audience. She also did secondary research by evaluating another YouTuber's channel trailer. Based on her research findings, Sammi plans to aim her fun and visual ad at her target audience of girls aged 12-17 to attract them to her channel.
The document discusses the marketing plan and situation of clothing retailer Marks & Spencer. It aims to help Marks & Spencer regain lost market share in its clothing line. A marketing report is also proposed to analyze external macro factors using PEST analysis. The plan discusses target audiences, products/services, and competition. It suggests focusing on ethical production and younger customers to improve brand image and spread.
Group responsibilities are divided as follows: Section A - Ben Gadsby, Section B - Jess lane, Section C – Madeleine parker, Section D – All three.
The campaign aims to advertise Ringwood 6th Form as prestigious with a varied education and Ringwood school as a safe, fun environment. It aims to attract Year 7s and 12s to the open day. The company will achieve these aims by including key information like statistics, awards, grades and student opinions.
The target audiences are male and female parents aged 30-50s and Year 11 students aged 15-16. Advertisements will launch in summer/early fall in various local publications and radio stations. They will air in
The group is responsible for different sections of the Ringwood school advertising campaign. Section A involves the proposal, Section B is the schedule, Section C covers codes of conduct, and Section D is for the print and audio visual plan. Jess lane is responsible for Section B (the schedule). The aims of the campaign are to advertise Ringwood 6th form and lower school. Target audiences include parents of students in years 7, 12 as well as students themselves. The campaign will promote key facts about academic performance and appeal to parents and students.
Did you know modern statistics state that you have 60 seconds or less to capture your audience’s attention?
You’ve might have heard it before, but maybe not in terms of presentations. It’s crucial to understand the importance of grasping an audience’s attention in the first moments of a talk. Your opening lines set the tone for your overall performance, so a great opener will prepare and intrigue the audience and ensure that your message is effectively received.
So, how do you enchant an audience right off the bat?
Here are 5 methods that we have found work the best for beginning a presentation.
The document provides tips and information for using social media effectively as a public relations professional or student. It emphasizes maintaining a positive presence on social media platforms and using them to display writing skills and relevant, professional information to potential employers. One should start a blog focused on their interests or field and use Twitter to share news, tips from professionals, and creative ideas rather than just jokes. Social media allows one to showcase a variety of skills to virtually endless opportunities.
The document summarizes a mentoring program called "Film's Cool" that gives students the opportunity to build academic skills related to film with support from industry professionals. The program is based at the La Swap Consortium and covers four schools in Camden. It uses mentors and education facilities to promote film education and help students start careers in the film industry. Videos and reports from sessions will be posted online to keep people updated on the program.
This evaluation summarizes the work of the radio production group "Bearfaced" in creating a 5-minute local news bulletin for a media studies course. The group was made up of 4 students who took on roles as researchers, producers, and presenters. They researched conventions of real radio news broadcasts and targeted their content at a young adult audience. Through completing questionnaires, the group learned that their audience preferred informal language, upbeat jingles, and stories relevant to them. In producing the broadcast, the students gained skills using recording equipment, editing software, and collaborating in a group. They applied feedback to improve for future projects by enhancing research, planning, and including more conventions.
Evaluation 4: HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE COMBINATION OF YOUR MAIN PRODUCT AND ANCIL...Yahye Saed
The document discusses ancillary texts created to promote a documentary film for a target student audience. It describes researching the Channel 4 show "Educating Yorkshire" for inspiration on poster and trailer conventions. A radio trailer was made using sounds of a student's morning to illustrate the film's day-in-the-life structure. Posters with the large number "4" will be placed in student magazines, libraries, and near schools and bus stops to maximize exposure for the target audience. Feedback ensured the film and promotion materials focus more on the main protagonist, a working-class student named Yahya, both in and out of classroom settings.
The document recommends that the improv group The Plastic Shatners invest in marketing items like buttons, stickers, and wristbands to promote the group and increase attendance at their shows. Currently, attendance has stagnated with the same audience members attending each week. Marketing items would help spread awareness of the group on campus and attract new students. This would help the group's budget, allowing them to travel more and bring in professional improvisers. The summary outlines costs for various marketing items and estimates they could earn $21 in profit to help fund future activities.
The document discusses using audience feedback to improve film productions. It explains that filmmakers conduct test screenings and market research to get feedback from audiences on how to strengthen their films and target their marketing. The feedback helps filmmakers identify their target audience, determine if a film will succeed, and learn what audiences like. The document also provides examples of how a film production team gathered feedback during their project pitch, rough cut screening, and final screening. They used the feedback to improve areas like their script, sound design, trailer structure, and marketing materials. The final feedback suggested they successfully achieved their goals for a teen drama marketing campaign.
This document outlines a campaign for Mind, a mental health charity, targeting 15-25 year olds. Research was conducted through surveys to understand the target audience. The campaign includes a TV advertisement showing a day in the life of a teenager dealing with stresses and coping mechanisms. A podcast was also proposed where the creator discusses struggles and coping strategies with another person. The goal is to make listeners feel less alone and encourage healthy coping. The campaign aims to appeal to the interests and needs of the target demographic based on the survey research.
Presentation - Activating Students Online July 2015.Suki Ferguson
This document provides tips for student unions on how to run effective digital campaigns to engage students online. It discusses tactics used by successful organizations like Buzzfeed to promote social lift. Some key tactics recommended are gathering social proof from students, making campaigns feel urgent, providing rapid feedback, and leaving campaigns open-ended. The document then gives suggestions for implementing these tactics at student unions, such as finding allies, creating long-term plans, tweaking email designs, and managing expectations. The goals are to get more student participation in campaigns, empower students, and increase engagement for the student union.
Walid ali has been assigned to create a short radio program for a local station discussing extracurricular activities for primary and secondary school students. He conducted research on a popular radio show hosted by Nick Grimshaw to understand conventions like broadcast times, target audiences, and production process. The program will begin with an upbeat jingle in a popular style like hip hop or R&B to appeal to the target audience. It will include interviews with a student and teacher from Haverstock School about the extracurricular activities offered and their benefits, asking questions like what clubs are available and how many students participate. Walid believes following his research and plan will result in a successful radio program that appeals to its intended audience.
The document provides tips for effective public speaking and presentation skills. It discusses the importance of being well-prepared, giving personal examples, staying relaxed, using natural humor, planning body positions, and paying attention to details. Audience analysis is also emphasized as critical for understanding the audience's needs and tailoring the presentation appropriately. Key elements of audience analysis include understanding demographics, interests, expectations, and customizing the message. Effective persuasive communication requires knowing the audience, grabbing their attention, establishing credibility, tailoring the message to the medium, conveying benefits, and using body language to connect with the audience.
NHS Leadership Academy Nye Bevan Programme - Social MediaJoe McCrea
We are proud to deliver the Social Media component of the NHS Leadership Academy's Nye Bevan Programme. The programme is described by the Academy as "specifically designed to help CEOs & top leaders of the future gain the skills needed for tomorrow’s NHS."
With grateful thanks to the NHS Leadership Academy for their permission for this presentation to be shared publicly via social media.
For more information, contact socialmedia@jbmccrea.com
This document outlines a marketing campaign for Ringwood School, including a proposal, schedule, and codes of conduct. The proposal defines the aims of advertising Ringwood's 6th form and lower school, targeting parents and students through radio ads, print media, and an open day. The schedule sets launch dates in June-September to reach audiences during summer activities and back-to-school season, and considers local events that could boost exposure.
The document provides examples of effective promotional campaigns and brainstorms promotional elements and ideas for a school Christmas production. It examines campaigns for breast cancer awareness, The REFRESH Project, and Old Spice that were successful due to instantly recognizable logos and messaging that promoted positive social impact. For the school production, it suggests digital banners, emails, posters around school, announcements, a website, and social media posts to spread word to the school and parent community.
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"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
In our second session, we shall learn all about the main features and fundamentals of UiPath Studio that enable us to use the building blocks for any automation project.
📕 Detailed agenda:
Variables and Datatypes
Workflow Layouts
Arguments
Control Flows and Loops
Conditional Statements
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Variables, Constants, and Arguments in Studio
Control Flow in Studio
QA or the Highway - Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend appl...zjhamm304
These are the slides for the presentation, "Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend applications" that was presented at QA or the Highway 2024 in Columbus, OH by Zachary Hamm.
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
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-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
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[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
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Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
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zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
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"What does it really mean for your system to be available, or how to define w...Fwdays
We will talk about system monitoring from a few different angles. We will start by covering the basics, then discuss SLOs, how to define them, and why understanding the business well is crucial for success in this exercise.
"What does it really mean for your system to be available, or how to define w...
Recruiting volunteers for Spark FM
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2. To help 107 Spark FM to recruit more volunteers from each student year group and from every module type to work within their radio station.
3. To build relationships with the teaching staff on a variety of different arts, design and media courses to encourage them to encourage their classes .
4. To have a minimum of 15 new volunteers within six months of the campaign starting in September 2010
5. To change the current perception of 107 Spark FM – From being something that is a waste of time; to something that can be beneficial to your career and fun to do.
6. Quantitative Research We surveyed a random sample of students to evaluate the awareness of job opportunities within 107 Spark FM
8. Qualitative research Thomas Scott, 27, Sunderland (biomedical sciences) “ I like the idea of working with Spark but don’t think there are any benefits.”
9. Qualitative research Dan Cook, 22, Sunderland (Media and Radio) “ I have heard about it before but I am not really that interested.”
10. Qualitative research Kayley Laybourne, 23, Sunderland University (Primary Education) “ Why would I want to when I wouldn’t get paid.”
11. Research summarised People have heard of 107 but they don’t want to work there because they don’t see the benefits. People don’t care about 107. When they hear about it they switch off.
12. Key Messages Working with107 Spark FM is a rare opportunity which is hugely beneficial to your future career. 107 Spark FM is not only beneficial to your future but is fun as well. It is not beneficial to be like Spencer. (You haven't met him yet!)
13. Target Audience First, second and third year students on all modules at Sunderland University. Teaching staff on each and every module.
16. “ My name is Spencer, I’m very slow to do anything”
17. The Sloth Spencer the Sloth is a resident of the rainforest in South America. He is nickanmed “Bicho-preguica,” Spanish for lazy animal, because of his slow movements to do anything. Spencer
18. Strategy To create awareness of the benefits to be gained by working with 107 Spark FM to encourage volunteers. To create and use a fictional character (Spencer) to use as a tool to generate conversation, motivate and persuade people to commit to voluntary work within 107 Spark FM.
19. Offline Tactics New and more visual posters showing personal accounts of the current volunteers explaining why it is fun and beneficial to work with107. Posters of Spencer explaining why it is best not to be lazy and highlighting potential opportunities that could be missed out if you act like him. A link to a Spencer Facebook group and Spencer’s blog and youtube channel on the poster.
20. Offline Tactics 2 Use selected members who for 107 Spark FM to give talks in classes and show videos from their Spencer Youtube channel to show how it can be a fun and beneficial environment to work within. Use a 107 Spark FM stand to be used at fresher fairs and occasionally in the media building throughout the year. Bring a friend to work day
23. Set up a Spencer the Sloth Facebook group to reach, inform and communicate with potential volunteers as well as developing a story and history of Spencer’s life. To showcase reasons as to why it isn’t beneficial to be like Spencer Generate conversations online and build relationships with potential volunteers.
24. Spencer the Sloth blog -To emphasize small personal achievements that happen within 107 This gives people who see the posters a link to find out more information about what it would be like to work within 107 Generate conversations online and build relationships with potential volunteers.
25. Use a Spencer themed You Tube channel to provide self created content of people working at 107 to show the more glamorous side of working in 107. Generate conversations online and build relationships with potential volunteers. Use Youtube videos in offline tactic meetings
26. Time Period Set up and put content on to social media channels Put posters up around University then respond to facebook/Youtube/blogs We propose you start in the beginning of next semester .
27. Evaluation Qualitative surveys: A survey sent out now and again in six months challenging current perceptions of what it would be like to work with 107. We will directly evaluate how we have met our objectives judged upon whether we manage to recruit 15 volunteers within six months of the campaign starting.
28. Evaluation will be directly evaluated based on how many fans the group attracts. Evaluated based on comments on the blog and number of hits the blog gets. Number of hits on the video; number of subscribers to the channel and comments on the video and channel
29. Costs www.Alocalprinter.com will produce 200 A4 posters for £54 Our Fees are free as we are completing this campaign voluntarily Social media costs in resources but otherwise is free
30. Bibliography All of the pictures from this slide show were taken from Google images. www.volunteergenie.org.uk This includes Spencer, unfortunately we did not find and photograph him personally although he is perceived to still be living in the South American rainforest now.
Editor's Notes
With staff
Facebook page – Spencer the Sloth , his laziness and what he is missing out on. Also, interaction, promote job vacanceys, benefits of 107. Youtube – upload videos of people at work showing that it can be fun
Facebook page – Spencer the Sloth , his laziness and what he is missing out on. Also, interaction, promote job vacanceys, benefits of 107. Youtube – upload videos of people at work showing that it can be fun
Facebook page – Spencer the Sloth , his laziness and what he is missing out on. Also, interaction, promote job vacanceys, benefits of 107. Youtube – upload videos of people at work showing that it can be fun
Facebook page – Spencer the Sloth , his laziness and what he is missing out on. Also, interaction, promote job vacanceys, benefits of 107. Youtube – upload videos of people at work showing that it can be fun