What can I do with RSS? Why should I bother? Intended for the not-very-techie and the somewhat-techie, this session will give a quick overview of some of the many uses of RSS, from vastly expanding and speeding up your information scan to quickly re-purposing online information. We'll focus on Google Reader and its many uses, but will touch on a variety of other tools as well.
This is my SlideDeck on how I got Pwned by Google, and how I recovered my site using Content Marketing - Something I previously hated.
Read the Full Post Here -
http://godofseo.co/video/how-to-get-pwned-by-google/
aBeansTalkSocial.com share how often to schedule your posts on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and Instagram. Tips are included as you learn.
It's hard to ignore the buzz about social media that's been happening over the last few years. We know that social networking is a great tool for engaging with current and potential customers and giving your business a personality. But did you know that interacting on social networks can also help you be seen in search engines? Google, Yahoo, and Bing also couldn't ignore the fact that these networks were providing as-it's-happening news and social recommendations, so they started incorporating this type of information into their search results to meet the growing demand.
This presentation covers the evolution of traditional search engines with the integration of social signals and real-time results. It also covers how you can optimize the following platforms to help gain some of that much coveted real estate on the SERPs (search engine results pages):
· blogs
· YouTube
· Facebook
· LinkedIn
· Twitter
This is my SlideDeck on how I got Pwned by Google, and how I recovered my site using Content Marketing - Something I previously hated.
Read the Full Post Here -
http://godofseo.co/video/how-to-get-pwned-by-google/
aBeansTalkSocial.com share how often to schedule your posts on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and Instagram. Tips are included as you learn.
It's hard to ignore the buzz about social media that's been happening over the last few years. We know that social networking is a great tool for engaging with current and potential customers and giving your business a personality. But did you know that interacting on social networks can also help you be seen in search engines? Google, Yahoo, and Bing also couldn't ignore the fact that these networks were providing as-it's-happening news and social recommendations, so they started incorporating this type of information into their search results to meet the growing demand.
This presentation covers the evolution of traditional search engines with the integration of social signals and real-time results. It also covers how you can optimize the following platforms to help gain some of that much coveted real estate on the SERPs (search engine results pages):
· blogs
· YouTube
· Facebook
· LinkedIn
· Twitter
How journalists can use social bookmarking and other social networks to monitor their beat. Journalists and the semantic web. This is part two of my keynote presentation to the 'Journalists and Social Web' seminar held in Oslo on Oct 25th, 2008. This seminar was organised by journalisten.no, www.journalism.co.uk and Norwegian journalist Kristine Low.
[Note: updating during summer 2010] Yes! This is for the academic researcher who wants to step into the tools of social networking for primary research results.
Hummingbird unleashed. Understanding the new Google Search AlgorithmGianluca Fiorelli
How does Hummingbird work? We cannot tell it and very few has been explicitly told about it by Amit Singhal and others Google spokespersons.
But we can reasonably try to figure out the basis of its functioning and, therefore, understand how SEO is definitively changed.
Presentation on free tools you can use in building your web site, prepared for and presented at MagNet 2010, Canada's premiere conference for magazine professionals.
How your website becomes your information hub by blogging and increases search engine visibility. Online word-of-mouth marketing needs your site to be ready...
Introduction to Google+ and how Google Search become Social Search with increase relevance for searchers. Power Features like Circles, shareable Circles, Google+ Hangout and Google+ Ripples make Google+ the power house among social networks.
Read also:
"Google+ becomes the world's social platform...with Community."
http://rel.bz/LH
AAF Central Texas - Building a Solid Foundation in the Social WebDeltinaU
Author and developer Deltina Hay presents on how to build a solid foundation in the Social Web at the American Advertising Federation-Central Texas Summer Seminar. From an overview of the tools, to choosing the tools, to optimizing/integrating the tools, to creating a strategy and plan, Deltina covers a lot of ground in this presentation...
As presented to the 2009 GNLC in Dallas by Deltina Hay. Hay talks about how a nonprofit can use social media, and how to create and integrate an optimized Social Web presence.
How journalists can use social bookmarking and other social networks to monitor their beat. Journalists and the semantic web. This is part two of my keynote presentation to the 'Journalists and Social Web' seminar held in Oslo on Oct 25th, 2008. This seminar was organised by journalisten.no, www.journalism.co.uk and Norwegian journalist Kristine Low.
[Note: updating during summer 2010] Yes! This is for the academic researcher who wants to step into the tools of social networking for primary research results.
Hummingbird unleashed. Understanding the new Google Search AlgorithmGianluca Fiorelli
How does Hummingbird work? We cannot tell it and very few has been explicitly told about it by Amit Singhal and others Google spokespersons.
But we can reasonably try to figure out the basis of its functioning and, therefore, understand how SEO is definitively changed.
Presentation on free tools you can use in building your web site, prepared for and presented at MagNet 2010, Canada's premiere conference for magazine professionals.
How your website becomes your information hub by blogging and increases search engine visibility. Online word-of-mouth marketing needs your site to be ready...
Introduction to Google+ and how Google Search become Social Search with increase relevance for searchers. Power Features like Circles, shareable Circles, Google+ Hangout and Google+ Ripples make Google+ the power house among social networks.
Read also:
"Google+ becomes the world's social platform...with Community."
http://rel.bz/LH
AAF Central Texas - Building a Solid Foundation in the Social WebDeltinaU
Author and developer Deltina Hay presents on how to build a solid foundation in the Social Web at the American Advertising Federation-Central Texas Summer Seminar. From an overview of the tools, to choosing the tools, to optimizing/integrating the tools, to creating a strategy and plan, Deltina covers a lot of ground in this presentation...
As presented to the 2009 GNLC in Dallas by Deltina Hay. Hay talks about how a nonprofit can use social media, and how to create and integrate an optimized Social Web presence.
SEO and Social Search on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter by Scott WilderEdelman Digital
Powerpoint presentation from a webinar Scott K. Wilder from Edelman Digital and WilderVoices did with Gary Angel from Semphonic. The topic was how to optimize search on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. And to be honest, we learned by doing and from others out there on the web.
Presentation by Scott Wilder
SEO and Social Search on Facebook, LinkedIn, and TwitterScott K. Wilder
Powerpoint presentation from a webinar Scott K. Wilder from Edelman Digital and WilderVoices did with Gary Angel from Semphonic. The topic was how to optimize search on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. And to be honest, we learned by doing and from others out there on the web.
My presentation from Content Management World in Melbourne - May, 2011.
I spoke to the brief below:
Developing a strategy to drive traffic to your site and improve conversions
• How to get your site found through optimised web design
• Leveraging online and search marketing, SEO and social recommendations to maximise traffic
• Practical ideas for attracting and converting audiences
Demystifying Web 2.0 Tools for VolCom Groups:Beth Kanter
You may have heard the words, but what do they really mean for nonprofit organizations? This session introduces the concepts and tools behind the next generation of internet technologies or what has been dubbed "Web.20" or "Social Media." We�ll do some live demos of these tools, discuss their potential to enhance our work, along with some of the concerns they raise.
You�ll come away with a basic understanding of and context for the words that are buzzing around us, along with references for continued exploration.
Beth Kanter and David Wilcox
An Introduction to Growth Hacking. Goes over what product / market fit is and how to achieve it. Explains each piece of the Growth Hacker Funnel: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue. And gives numerous examples and tools that growth hackers use for each step in the funnel.
The new literacy: strategies, tools and techniques for incorporating new media Marco Campana
Every day you get too much information. Learn about free tools you can use to make your day easier. Learn how to easily share what matters with the people who need it. You will leave this workshop knowing how to better manage your daily information.
STC 2010 Strategies for the Social Web for DocumentationAnne Gentle
The social web can be perceived as intimidating, live-saving, risky, or a black hole of productivity loss. Learn how to take a strategic approach to integrating social media to accomplish your overall documentation goals.
In response to COVID-19, Together Project's staff and volunteers had to quickly adapt and pivot their programs in order to continue providing social support to newcomers in Canada. While their new model is only a few months in the making, Together Project has learned a great deal about how to set up an online volunteering program.
In this presentation, Anna Hill and Andrew Lusztyk (from Together Project) share with us their insights, including:
- How to get started setting up an online volunteering program;
- Tips and tools to develop a greater capacity to onboard and train volunteers remotely;
- Benefits and challenges of online volunteering;
- How online volunteering can help vulnerable demographics––from equipping volunteers to tackle new challenges
View the webinar recording here: https://youtu.be/NEm0Vu-IhpA
NOTE: This presentation was for new users of Power BI and/or those interested in brushing up on the basic functions and features of the program. View webinar recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ybfzGdHlumc
Microsoft's Power BI allows you to monitor key metrics, spot real-time trends and create personalized dashboards without being a data expert. Our expert, Alyssa Ford from Tech Impact, walks us through why Power BI is a powerful, low-cost tool that allows you to take your data from virtually any source (Excel files, Salesforce, SurveyMonkey, SQL server, SharePoint, etc.) and how to turn it into meaningful visualizations.
In this presentation, Alyssa covers:
– the basics of Power BI,
– what it can do,
– how licensing works,
– and some use-case examples.
Google Ads 101: Increase Your Nonprofit’s Presence With $10,000 a month Of AdsTechSoup Canada
This slidedeck is from a webinar hosted by TechSoup Canada featuring Simon and Lily of ConnectAd. They will help you understand how to register, access & use your Google Ads account to grow your nonprofit’s online presence. They'll show you how Google Ads can help your nonprofit connect to and engage with donors, volunteers, and supporters.
You will learn:
- How the Google Ads Grant can be useful to nonprofits
- How to apply for your Google Ads Grant account
- Step by step how to create your first campaign inside your Google Ads Grant account
The webinar is for beginners looking to learn how to access & use the main features of Google Ads. To see the webinar recording and other resources please visit http://bit.ly/GoogleAdsWebinar
Note that you must be a registered nonprofit in Canada to be eligible for Google Ad Grants. To apply for Google Suite for Nonprofits please visit http://bit.ly/2UGtfbw
Growth Strategies To Scale Up Your Small NonprofitTechSoup Canada
There are lots of small business growth strategies that you can apply to the nonprofit sector: from new products and services, to territory expansion and the elusive social enterprise development. Carla Langhorst of SmallBusinessSolver.com will explain how you can apply growth principles in financial and marketing planning to your nonprofit. Carla will show the you the business strategies and tools you can use so that your nonprofit can assess risk and scale up sustainably.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- About the emerging revenue generation trends that nonprofits are doing,
- How to strategically grow from your core operations while mitigating risk,
- The types of online resources you can access and use to continue evolving your strategic plans.
Ten Years of TechSoup Canada: Insights, ideas, and tips from a decade of #nptechTechSoup Canada
In 2019, TechSoup Canada turns 10! The past decade has taught us a lot about using technology as a tool for social impact, and we are eager to share that knowledge with you.
In our team's special 10 Year Anniversary webinar we explore the lessons of the past decade, trends shaping nonprofit technology today, and tips and tricks for making the most of your TechSoup Canada membership.
What you will learn:
-Key lessons from a decade of helping Canadian nonprofits use tech more effectively
-Tech trends to embrace and which ones to approach more cautiously
-Tips and tricks for maximizing your TechSoup Canada membership
How to be CASL & GDPR Compliant for the New Year 2019TechSoup Canada
In this webinar, Antoine Bonicalzi, Marketing Director* for Cyberimpact, will talk about how you can comply with CASL &GDPR by taking a few simple steps. All in simple plain English, no legal jargon guaranteed! Antoine will cover exactly what CASL & GDPR are, and how they apply to your nonprofit so that you’ll be ready to make 2019 your best data privacy & consent driven year yet.
In this webinar you will learn:
- How to handle your contacts’ personal data
- How to obtain & handle meaningful consent
- The types of software to help you stay compliant
- The channels of communication (e-mail & other digital communication) you can use to promote your work while remaining compliant
* Please note that Antoine is not a lawyer, the content of this webinar does not constitute legal advice. For legal advice, please consult legal experts.
Phil Downe - Avoiding Shady IT Vendors (final version)TechSoup Canada
In this webinar, IT contract specialist Phil Downe of Relations Management Group explains how to do cloud-based software negotiations with confidence.
The webinar answers the following questions:
How can you avoid vendor captivity and software traps?
How can you prepare for a negotiation, including leveraging and timing the deal?
How can you draft a contract and prevent contract ambiguity?
In this webinar, IT contract specialist Phil Downe of Relations Management Group explains how to do cloud-based software negotiations with confidence.
The webinar answers the following questions:
How can you avoid vendor captivity and software traps?
How can you prepare for a negotiation, including leveraging and timing the deal?
How can you draft a contract and prevent contract ambiguity?
Digital Storytelling: Understanding Social Media and Visual Storytelling Tool...TechSoup Canada
This presentation will explore how digital storytelling, through visuals, videos, and live stories can amplify and better communicate your nonprofit story. This presentation will also show how some nonprofits are using social media platforms for digital storytelling, with examples of successful campaigns on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.
In this presentation you will learn:
- How to tailor content and visuals to your organization’s social media platforms;
- Tools you can use to create images, infographics, and fonts to build your visual storytelling elements;
- Tangible ways to employ ethical practices into sharing digital stories.
nonprofits to find effective and creative ways of sharing their stories.
With so much communication happening between family, friends, businesses, and organizations – we can’t rely on the same old year-end fundraising practices to grow our year-end revenue.
In this webinar, Brady Josephson will walk you everything we’ve learned about year-end fundraising, and share key fundraising techniques that will help you cut through the clutter and grow your year-end revenue.
In this webinar you’ll learn:
- Some of the best days and times to send their emails to stand out in the overcrowded inboxes.
- How to send highly relevant emails that will get opened and help raise more money in December
- How to create high converting, year-end donation pages to make the most of this high traffic season.
Creating a Content Strategy for your Nonprofit WebsiteTechSoup Canada
Planning a new website for your nonprofit organization? A website content strategy will serve as a guide for many of the decisions you’ll make. You'll know what content you need to develop, what you can reuse or re-purpose, and what content is most important. Because it creates clarity about your site's purpose, audience and the outcomes you’re seeking, a content strategy will also guide specific decisions about website design and development.
What you'll learn:
- During this webinar, we’ll explore the benefits (which go far beyond content planning) of creating a clearly defined and documented website content strategy.
We will look at:
- Why you need to develop your content strategy before you start any website design or development work.
- The elements to include in a website content strategy – along with the steps involved in building one.
- Specific and productive ways to include internal stakeholders in the planning process.
Avoiding "Shady" IT Vendors: Doing Cloud-based Software Deals with ConfidenceTechSoup Canada
In this webinar, IT contract specialist Phil Downe of Relations Management Group explains how to do cloud-based software negotiations with confidence.
The webinar answers the following questions:
How can you avoid vendor captivity and software traps?
How can you prepare for a negotiation, including leveraging and timing the deal?
How can you draft a contract and prevent contract ambiguity?
Strategies for Donor Retention Using Your CRM SoftwareTechSoup Canada
CRM software can be a great tool to help you report and communicate effectively in your fundraising efforts. Philip Manzano of Keela.co will teach you how to show donor impact and retain donors by creating reliable reports and data. This webinar is for nonprofit professionals with essential fundraising skills who are looking to improve their craft with the use of CRM software.
In this webinar you will learn:
· Meaningful ways to connect with your donors and promote relationship building in your fundraising activities;
· To create reliable reports and ways to share information, case studies or stories with donors;
· To leverage your data with reports for donor retention, including how to create and customize reports.
How Your Nonprofit Can Avoid Data Breaches and Ensure Privacy Part 2TechSoup Canada
Part 1 of this webinar series provided an overview of cybersecurity and explained the cyber risks and legislation affecting nonprofits. In part 2 of the series, Imran Ahmad of Miller Thomson, LLP returns to answer your questions on cybersecurity and to delve deeper into cybersecurity maintenance and best practices to avoid data breaches. This includes the implementation of measures to prevent data breaches in the pre-attack phase, to the implementation of security best practices in the event of a cyber attack or breach.
What you will learn:
· How to develop key cybersecurity-related documents;
· How to maintain an internal matrix of when to notify affected individuals;
· How to review contracts from a cybersecurity compliance perspective.
How your nonprofit can avoid data breaches and ensure privacyTechSoup Canada
Increasingly, nonprofits hold large quantities of digital assets (such as donor information, grant application details, financial records, etc.). Organizations of all sizes and industries are being targeted by cyber criminals. Cyber-attacks will often devastate an organization’s operations and have significant financial, legal and reputational consequences.
In this webinar, Imran Ahmad of Miller Thomson, LLP will explain how implementing best practices from a pre-breach standpoint can go a long way to mitigate the negative consequences of a cyber-attack.
What you will learn:
- what the cyber threat landscape looks like
- how to ensure privacy of your digital assets
- steps to take in the aftermath of a cyber-attack
#nptech 2018: Trends, Insights, and PossibilitiesTechSoup Canada
What does the coming year hold for nonprofit technology? We asked a handful of subject matter experts to share their thoughts on the tech trends and opportunities the nonprofit sector should embrace in the coming year. With Alexander Dirksen of First Nations Technology Council, Marlene Oliveira of moflow, Yaa Otchere of Not An Elephant, Maryam Sahebol-Amri of TechSoup Canada, and Carolyn Tackett and Rogelio Lopez of Access Now.
There are many accounting platforms aimed at helping nonprofits achieve compliance, and QuickBooks is one of the most popular. In this presentation, Jean Elwell and Bob Wang of Legacy Advantage discuss using QuickBooks to ensure that your nonprofit is audit-proof. Join us!
Finding Meaning in the Numbers: Making Data-Informed Decisions Across Your Or...TechSoup Canada
Does your nonprofit track vital data -- but lack the time and resources to make sense of it? Don't worry! TechSoup Canada is here to help make your data work for you.
Join us to learn how to create a reasonable and manageable data strategy, and how to foster a culture of data-informed decision making across your entire organization.
In this webinar, you will learn how to:
-harness the potential of business intelligence and Big Data
-create and implement an integrated data strategy
-overcome institutional resistance and foster a culture of data-informed decision making
-use dashboards to gain insight into a variety of data sources
In this webinar, we get an overview of the comprehensive set of cloud services (Office 365, Azure, and Dynamics) that Microsoft donates to eligible nonprofits through TechSoup Canada. We also hear from local nonprofit Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre about how migrating to Office 365 transformed their operations.
Update on Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation for Nonprofits and CharitiesTechSoup Canada
Back by popular demand, Maanit Zemel from Zemel van Kampen LLP (http://www.canadatechlaw.com), will walk nonprofits through Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) for nonprofits and charities, and what's involved in the next deadline for CASL that will come into effect on July 1st, 2017.
What you will learn in this webinar:
- How CASL applies to nonprofits and charities
- What's changing in the next deadline, July 1st, 2017*: transition period for implied consent ends
- How to be compliant with the legislation
*Update as of June 7th 2017: CASL Private Right of Action indefinitely suspended and will not take effect on July 1st, 2017. Read more: https://www.the-cma.org/resource/newsroom/2017/casl-pra-suspension
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.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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.
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.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Can’t recommend RSS highly enough to anyone who monitors research developments, media, public reaction, or any other sort of information. It saves A LOT of time. It’s not just for blogs -- these days any site that updates regularly tends to have an RSS feed, and we’ll look at a number of different things you can monitor using an RSS reader.