The Connected Nonprofit: Less Paperwork. More Care. - Salesforce1 World Tour ...Salesforce.org
Too many organizations waste countless hours and resources on inefficient manual systems rather than delivering the much-needed services. Hear how nonprofits are using Salesforce case management solutions to simplify and streamline case and workflow management so they spend more time serving their clients and communities. This session will include a live demo of Salesforce case management technology.
Derek Bennett, Chief of Staff, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Elizabeth Hoagland, Assistant Director of College and Academic Services, University Settlement
Kevin Harris, Director, Human Services Practice, Exponent Partners (moderator)
Mobile Money for Health Case Study: D-Tree TanzaniaHFG Project
Resource Type: Case Studies
Authors: Health Finance and Governance (HFG)
Published: 10/31/2015
Resource Description:dtree
This case study is one of 14 case studies profiled in the Mobile Money for Health Case Study Compendium.
D-tree International is a non-profit organization committed to improving the quality of healthcare with the use of innovative technology. D-tree established a program in Zanzibar, Tanzania to help frontline community health workers provide high quality maternal health care and adequately refer women with high-risk conditions and obstetric emergencies to health facilities. The program currently has 208 trained traditional birth attendants (TBAs) and community health workers (CHWs) who serve a network of 4,500 women who have enrolled in the program. In November 2011, D-tree was awarded a grant through Grand Challenges Round 1 and launched a program in Zanzibar that offers mobile-enabled clinical guides to TBAs to help them treat women and identify women who should be referred to health facilities. D-tree also forged a partnership with Zantel, the largest mobile phone operator in Zanzibar, and Etisalat to incorporate an SMS-mobile money payment system into the program. Phase II started with a Round II grant in late 2012. The mobile money payment system used by D-tree incentivizes timely and appropriate referrals.
Nursecoin is a smart contract based disease management platform utilizing nurses and an AI recommendation engine for managing populations with chronic Illnesses. As populations age around the globe, the demand for disease managment will rise. The platform is a hybrid and scalable machine-human solution.
The Connected Nonprofit: Less Paperwork. More Care. - Salesforce1 World Tour ...Salesforce.org
Too many organizations waste countless hours and resources on inefficient manual systems rather than delivering the much-needed services. Hear how nonprofits are using Salesforce case management solutions to simplify and streamline case and workflow management so they spend more time serving their clients and communities. This session will include a live demo of Salesforce case management technology.
Derek Bennett, Chief of Staff, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Elizabeth Hoagland, Assistant Director of College and Academic Services, University Settlement
Kevin Harris, Director, Human Services Practice, Exponent Partners (moderator)
Mobile Money for Health Case Study: D-Tree TanzaniaHFG Project
Resource Type: Case Studies
Authors: Health Finance and Governance (HFG)
Published: 10/31/2015
Resource Description:dtree
This case study is one of 14 case studies profiled in the Mobile Money for Health Case Study Compendium.
D-tree International is a non-profit organization committed to improving the quality of healthcare with the use of innovative technology. D-tree established a program in Zanzibar, Tanzania to help frontline community health workers provide high quality maternal health care and adequately refer women with high-risk conditions and obstetric emergencies to health facilities. The program currently has 208 trained traditional birth attendants (TBAs) and community health workers (CHWs) who serve a network of 4,500 women who have enrolled in the program. In November 2011, D-tree was awarded a grant through Grand Challenges Round 1 and launched a program in Zanzibar that offers mobile-enabled clinical guides to TBAs to help them treat women and identify women who should be referred to health facilities. D-tree also forged a partnership with Zantel, the largest mobile phone operator in Zanzibar, and Etisalat to incorporate an SMS-mobile money payment system into the program. Phase II started with a Round II grant in late 2012. The mobile money payment system used by D-tree incentivizes timely and appropriate referrals.
Nursecoin is a smart contract based disease management platform utilizing nurses and an AI recommendation engine for managing populations with chronic Illnesses. As populations age around the globe, the demand for disease managment will rise. The platform is a hybrid and scalable machine-human solution.
The Reimagine: Opportunity Challenge invited participants to respond to challenges in the anti-trafficking field. Namely, in areas of sustainable housing, economic empowerment and additional social services.
Our response tackles the issue of emergency shelter.
Wendy Schneider Live Data Creates Electronic ATCDavid Covington
Behavioral Health Link operates the Georgia Crisis & Access Line in partnership with Beacon Health Options and the Georgia Collaborative ASO, which is a contract of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities.
Assessment 10
Project 2
Needs Assessment
Community Name
Saint Helena Island
Description of the community needs
Saint Helena Island found within the county of Beaufort, South Carolina. The city is scenically and has a string reservation of the culture of antebellum. There is a reconstruction monument that symbolizes the after civil war reconstruction. There are military establishments that are located in Beaufort, such as the US Naval Hospital, Paris Island, and the Marine Air Station. Two thousand eighteen census statistics indicate the population of the area as being 188,715 within the city boundaries. The racial distribution stands at Asians being 1.4 %, African Americans 18.2 %, and whites 77.9%. The possible needs for this population are providing affordable facilities, proper care to help those in the community that is suffering from substance abuse. Another need is eliminating the ongoing violence in the community.
Community Needs that are Currently Being Met
The community needs that are currently being met are the mayor and police department working together to try to cut down the crime rate for a safer community. Beaufort County Sheriff Department is working with the community and taking the necessary steps to provide more safety checks, holding town hall meetings to educate the community, and providing safety tips on how to stay safe. Youth and adult males ages 18- 50 would benefit from seeking assistance from Human Services. Substance abuse is one of the biggest problems in the community, and seeking help from human services professionals would be beneficial. Services available to the population is a program provided through the Department of Social Services. The program provides referrals to the local outpatient treatment center, which allows people to return home, and send those that are willing to Morris Village located in Columbia, SC, which is a temporary live-in facility. The program provides referrals to the local outpatient treatment center, which allows people to return home, and send those that are willing to Morris Village located in Columbia, SC, which is a temporary live-in facility. The program provides referrals to the local outpatient treatment center which allows people to return home, and send those that are willing to Morris Village located in Columbia, SC which is a temporary live in facility.
Community that were identified as not being met or population not being served
Thecommunity is not being served as it should be because of the lack of facility treatment centers in the community. Crimes are something else that needs to be addressed in the community. The police are slow in the process of stopping and solving crimes in a timely matter. The community is afraid to come forward because of the lack of protection. Funding and facilities are needed to help the people in the community overcome their addiction, which needs to be affordable for people without insurance. There is only one facility in the ...
SCENARIO Banita Jacks and he daughters fell through many cracks i.docxkaylee7wsfdubill
SCENARIO
Banita Jacks and he daughters fell through many cracks in the maze of government-funded human services in the District of Columbia. Jacks sought help at least 23 times from 11 different agencies, but their separate information systems made it difficult for any of them to obtain a complete understanding of the family's desperate plight. Federal marshals finally visited their row house, where the mother had been living with her dead daughters' bodies for more than 7 months. At her trail, Jacks claimed the children were possessed by demons, and she is now serving a 120 year prision sentence.
The poorly intergrated systems ledt gaint information gaps that hampered agencies trying to help. For example, Child and Family Services received an anonymous hotline tip that the mother must be neglecting the girls, but since the agency didnt have any home address, no caseworker followed up. Other agencies had an address but their systems didnt track the complaint. Teachers at the girls' school attempted unsuccessfuly to contact the family when they were absent, but they knew nothing about the neglect charge. Information wasn't shared and service workers who hanled the family's requests rarely followed up.
Althought this tragic case led to investigations and a round of firings, the real problem was in the information systems. Agency directors want to transform the way these systems work by implementing an intergrated information system to share data. The agencies need the dame kind of customer-centic system that private industries have when thet install customer relationship management (CRM) software. In a financial institution, for example, employees in ifferent departments might see individual events that could be warning signs pointing to a dissatisfied customer. The broker might know that the customer sold stocks and moved funds to a cash account, or the retirement counselor might receive a call from the same customer, inquiring how to roll over an IRA. With an intergrated system, these individual events will paint a picture so that companyresp can follow up.
Nevertheless, CRM efforts in human services agencies face different kids of challenges comparesd to corporate CRM intiatives. First lawmakers must approve the project and provide funding. A project of this magnitude could run $ 10 million or more, and city officials are reluctant to spend such a huge sun on IT when budgets for shelters are being cut, despite overcrowding.
Another concern involves privacy. The Child and Family Services worker, for example, would need access to data on a family's food stamps, disabilities, homelessness, health records and schooling. Privacy advocated objects to legislation that allows widespread access to so much personal information about chilrenat risk and homeless families because it impinges on cofidentiality. Striking a balance between privacy concerns and the desire to help these families is not easy.
Medical records are l.
1. Executive Summarya. Brief, informative, using bold-faced.docxambersalomon88660
1. Executive Summary:
a. Brief, informative, using bold-faced keywords, 1-page, summary of all major recommendations in the campaign plan, the message you’re conveying, objectives that are set, reach and frequency goals, etc.
Michigan State University students have been affected by sexual assault, however these students have little knowledge of the available resources (see survey results). MSU SAP stands behind survivors and social injustices by promoting individual human healing and building an empowered inclusive community. (EndRapeMSU). They provide counseling, advocacy, and support groups to MSU students with over 100 volunteers, educating the public on sexual violence and helping those through a crisis.
MSU SAP’s Crisis Chat offers anonymous support to sexual assault victims, from 10am-10pm, 7 days a week. Funded primarily by grants and donations, MSU SAP has limited access to develop a larger awareness of the program. In this campaign using simple, advertising, public relations, and media recommendations will increase awareness by 15%.
2. Situation Analysis:
no first person, refer to clients as victims, consumer, etc.
a. Intro Paragraph: Frames the scope of analysis, recap of client’s basic request/asking’s, helps limit the scope of analysis and frame the discussion that follows, don’t cover material issues that aren’t relevant to current needs.
The Michigan State University Sexual Assault Program (SAP) has assisted thousands of people impacted by violence by providing resources and support to affected victims. SAP provides resources such as immediate crisis intervention, therapy, and advocacy services to victims that have been affected by sexual violence, assault, rape, misconduct, or stalking. Programs offered by SAP include counseling, individual or group therapy sessions, support groups, a 24-hour hotline, advocacy, and crisis-chat to Michigan State students and individuals in the greater Lansing community who have been impacted by rape or sexual violence. SAP is dedicated to standing with survivors against all forms of social injustice by promoting individual healing and building an empowered, inclusive community to bring strength and resilience to all people impacted by sexual violence.
SAP recently introduced a new resource, Crisis Chat option via their website. This function allows users to virtually speak with a Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention (SACI) advocate. The overall aim of this is to create a more private, secure and safe space for survivors to be able to communicate about past traumas. With limited funding for promotional efforts, reaching the masses to promote this new feature has been difficult for MSU SAP. The goal of this campaign is to increase awareness of the Crisis Chat for potential users and to alleviate some of the stigmas for survivors and supporters regarding speaking out.
b. Company/Brand History and Evaluation: Keep relevant and brief, don’t make client read a lot of facts they .
In January, 2014, SafeNight made it to the finals of the Reimagine: Opportunity Challenge. This deck was prep work for our 3 minute pitch on SafeNight.
Managing the End of Private Pay ResourcesMark Sanfacon
Mark Sanfacon, CEO of National Datacare Corporation, has worked with nursing homes to manage resident financial affairs for more than 24 years. Through National Datacare, Mark Sanfacon assists nursing homes with setting up bank accounts for patients' personal funds.
Jail Advertising Network - Process and rewards for local and county jails.David Liperote
How we leverage revenue from advertising services sold to bail agents and lawyers. How we help offset the future losses of shared telephone revenue. How we assure that ad revenue is compliant with state law governing insurance industry advertising. How our current jail partners are enjoying their revenue shares.
Descartaê é um aplicativo de celular que te ajuda encontrar o lugar adequado para o seu lixo. O aplicativo te coneta a informações sobre onde estão todos os pontos de reciclagem e descarte na sua cidade. Mas precisamos da sua ajuda para preencher todas as informações! Leia à apresentação e deixe-nos saber se precisar de mais informações! Feitonabiblioteca@caravanstudios.org
The Reimagine: Opportunity Challenge invited participants to respond to challenges in the anti-trafficking field. Namely, in areas of sustainable housing, economic empowerment and additional social services.
Our response tackles the issue of emergency shelter.
Wendy Schneider Live Data Creates Electronic ATCDavid Covington
Behavioral Health Link operates the Georgia Crisis & Access Line in partnership with Beacon Health Options and the Georgia Collaborative ASO, which is a contract of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities.
Assessment 10
Project 2
Needs Assessment
Community Name
Saint Helena Island
Description of the community needs
Saint Helena Island found within the county of Beaufort, South Carolina. The city is scenically and has a string reservation of the culture of antebellum. There is a reconstruction monument that symbolizes the after civil war reconstruction. There are military establishments that are located in Beaufort, such as the US Naval Hospital, Paris Island, and the Marine Air Station. Two thousand eighteen census statistics indicate the population of the area as being 188,715 within the city boundaries. The racial distribution stands at Asians being 1.4 %, African Americans 18.2 %, and whites 77.9%. The possible needs for this population are providing affordable facilities, proper care to help those in the community that is suffering from substance abuse. Another need is eliminating the ongoing violence in the community.
Community Needs that are Currently Being Met
The community needs that are currently being met are the mayor and police department working together to try to cut down the crime rate for a safer community. Beaufort County Sheriff Department is working with the community and taking the necessary steps to provide more safety checks, holding town hall meetings to educate the community, and providing safety tips on how to stay safe. Youth and adult males ages 18- 50 would benefit from seeking assistance from Human Services. Substance abuse is one of the biggest problems in the community, and seeking help from human services professionals would be beneficial. Services available to the population is a program provided through the Department of Social Services. The program provides referrals to the local outpatient treatment center, which allows people to return home, and send those that are willing to Morris Village located in Columbia, SC, which is a temporary live-in facility. The program provides referrals to the local outpatient treatment center, which allows people to return home, and send those that are willing to Morris Village located in Columbia, SC, which is a temporary live-in facility. The program provides referrals to the local outpatient treatment center which allows people to return home, and send those that are willing to Morris Village located in Columbia, SC which is a temporary live in facility.
Community that were identified as not being met or population not being served
Thecommunity is not being served as it should be because of the lack of facility treatment centers in the community. Crimes are something else that needs to be addressed in the community. The police are slow in the process of stopping and solving crimes in a timely matter. The community is afraid to come forward because of the lack of protection. Funding and facilities are needed to help the people in the community overcome their addiction, which needs to be affordable for people without insurance. There is only one facility in the ...
SCENARIO Banita Jacks and he daughters fell through many cracks i.docxkaylee7wsfdubill
SCENARIO
Banita Jacks and he daughters fell through many cracks in the maze of government-funded human services in the District of Columbia. Jacks sought help at least 23 times from 11 different agencies, but their separate information systems made it difficult for any of them to obtain a complete understanding of the family's desperate plight. Federal marshals finally visited their row house, where the mother had been living with her dead daughters' bodies for more than 7 months. At her trail, Jacks claimed the children were possessed by demons, and she is now serving a 120 year prision sentence.
The poorly intergrated systems ledt gaint information gaps that hampered agencies trying to help. For example, Child and Family Services received an anonymous hotline tip that the mother must be neglecting the girls, but since the agency didnt have any home address, no caseworker followed up. Other agencies had an address but their systems didnt track the complaint. Teachers at the girls' school attempted unsuccessfuly to contact the family when they were absent, but they knew nothing about the neglect charge. Information wasn't shared and service workers who hanled the family's requests rarely followed up.
Althought this tragic case led to investigations and a round of firings, the real problem was in the information systems. Agency directors want to transform the way these systems work by implementing an intergrated information system to share data. The agencies need the dame kind of customer-centic system that private industries have when thet install customer relationship management (CRM) software. In a financial institution, for example, employees in ifferent departments might see individual events that could be warning signs pointing to a dissatisfied customer. The broker might know that the customer sold stocks and moved funds to a cash account, or the retirement counselor might receive a call from the same customer, inquiring how to roll over an IRA. With an intergrated system, these individual events will paint a picture so that companyresp can follow up.
Nevertheless, CRM efforts in human services agencies face different kids of challenges comparesd to corporate CRM intiatives. First lawmakers must approve the project and provide funding. A project of this magnitude could run $ 10 million or more, and city officials are reluctant to spend such a huge sun on IT when budgets for shelters are being cut, despite overcrowding.
Another concern involves privacy. The Child and Family Services worker, for example, would need access to data on a family's food stamps, disabilities, homelessness, health records and schooling. Privacy advocated objects to legislation that allows widespread access to so much personal information about chilrenat risk and homeless families because it impinges on cofidentiality. Striking a balance between privacy concerns and the desire to help these families is not easy.
Medical records are l.
1. Executive Summarya. Brief, informative, using bold-faced.docxambersalomon88660
1. Executive Summary:
a. Brief, informative, using bold-faced keywords, 1-page, summary of all major recommendations in the campaign plan, the message you’re conveying, objectives that are set, reach and frequency goals, etc.
Michigan State University students have been affected by sexual assault, however these students have little knowledge of the available resources (see survey results). MSU SAP stands behind survivors and social injustices by promoting individual human healing and building an empowered inclusive community. (EndRapeMSU). They provide counseling, advocacy, and support groups to MSU students with over 100 volunteers, educating the public on sexual violence and helping those through a crisis.
MSU SAP’s Crisis Chat offers anonymous support to sexual assault victims, from 10am-10pm, 7 days a week. Funded primarily by grants and donations, MSU SAP has limited access to develop a larger awareness of the program. In this campaign using simple, advertising, public relations, and media recommendations will increase awareness by 15%.
2. Situation Analysis:
no first person, refer to clients as victims, consumer, etc.
a. Intro Paragraph: Frames the scope of analysis, recap of client’s basic request/asking’s, helps limit the scope of analysis and frame the discussion that follows, don’t cover material issues that aren’t relevant to current needs.
The Michigan State University Sexual Assault Program (SAP) has assisted thousands of people impacted by violence by providing resources and support to affected victims. SAP provides resources such as immediate crisis intervention, therapy, and advocacy services to victims that have been affected by sexual violence, assault, rape, misconduct, or stalking. Programs offered by SAP include counseling, individual or group therapy sessions, support groups, a 24-hour hotline, advocacy, and crisis-chat to Michigan State students and individuals in the greater Lansing community who have been impacted by rape or sexual violence. SAP is dedicated to standing with survivors against all forms of social injustice by promoting individual healing and building an empowered, inclusive community to bring strength and resilience to all people impacted by sexual violence.
SAP recently introduced a new resource, Crisis Chat option via their website. This function allows users to virtually speak with a Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention (SACI) advocate. The overall aim of this is to create a more private, secure and safe space for survivors to be able to communicate about past traumas. With limited funding for promotional efforts, reaching the masses to promote this new feature has been difficult for MSU SAP. The goal of this campaign is to increase awareness of the Crisis Chat for potential users and to alleviate some of the stigmas for survivors and supporters regarding speaking out.
b. Company/Brand History and Evaluation: Keep relevant and brief, don’t make client read a lot of facts they .
In January, 2014, SafeNight made it to the finals of the Reimagine: Opportunity Challenge. This deck was prep work for our 3 minute pitch on SafeNight.
Managing the End of Private Pay ResourcesMark Sanfacon
Mark Sanfacon, CEO of National Datacare Corporation, has worked with nursing homes to manage resident financial affairs for more than 24 years. Through National Datacare, Mark Sanfacon assists nursing homes with setting up bank accounts for patients' personal funds.
Jail Advertising Network - Process and rewards for local and county jails.David Liperote
How we leverage revenue from advertising services sold to bail agents and lawyers. How we help offset the future losses of shared telephone revenue. How we assure that ad revenue is compliant with state law governing insurance industry advertising. How our current jail partners are enjoying their revenue shares.
Descartaê é um aplicativo de celular que te ajuda encontrar o lugar adequado para o seu lixo. O aplicativo te coneta a informações sobre onde estão todos os pontos de reciclagem e descarte na sua cidade. Mas precisamos da sua ajuda para preencher todas as informações! Leia à apresentação e deixe-nos saber se precisar de mais informações! Feitonabiblioteca@caravanstudios.org
These slides were part of the presentation by Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum and Marnie Webb of Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup Global at #18NTC in New Orleans. These include a basic definition of blockchain, some use cases, and a list of resources.
In Feito Na Biblioteca, a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, we will build mobile apps to connect the constituents of the library with open government data, resources, and services. The project uses the Caravan Studios participatory development methodology. This allows the community to frame critical design questions, posit responses, select from among the responses, and then choose the best path to supporting a sustainable technology solution.
This update was provided for a meeting organized by TASCHA at the University of Washington called "Libraries as a Platform for Civic Engagement."
This presentation is in English
This presentation outlines Caravan Studios' participatory design methodology. The video was made available via Facebook Live and can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=caravan%20studios (The orientation on the video is fixed at about 5 minutes in)
Delivered at the beginning of a School Library Journal week long Maker Workshop, this presentation discusses the whys and hows of developing a prototype.
The Safe Shelter Collaborative is a project dedicated to finding more shelter faster for a greater diversity of human trafficking and domestic violence survivors. This deck provides overview information, a hold for a live demo, and appendices that include results from the pilot, the research we've done on where to launch next, and what it takes to participate in the project in general.
Feito Na Biblioteca is a project, funded by the Gates Foundation, to work with libraries in two Brazilian cities. This deck provides a very brief overview of the project and an update on some of the work to date. It was developed to support a report a recent meeting of TechSoup staff.
Our big goal with the Safe Shelter Collaborative? We want to reduce the time it takes a survivor of human trafficking or domestic violence to get shelter. We had a chance to share a project update recently. And this is what we said.
The Safe Shelter Collaborative is a funded by the Parnership for Freedom and is a collaboration between Caravan Studios and Polaris. The explicit goals of the project are to increase the amount of urgently needed shelter for human trafficking survivors and to decrease the time needed to find and access that shelter.
Presented at the School Library Journal Summit 2015 in Seattle, WA. This presentation focuses on one part of design thinking: Listening deeply and with intent.
This description of the Safe Shelter Collaborative was shared as a UN NGO CSW Parallel Session workshop. The workshop was called "Combining Government, Civil Society, and the Tech Industry to Fight the Hidden Epidemic of Human Trafficking in San Francisco and Beyond” and was held on Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at the CCUN Chapel.
More from Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup (20)
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.
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.
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
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdf
Safe Night Concept Paper
1. SafeNight:
A mobile web hotel-finder and crowd-fundingservice for domestic violence agencies
Domestic violence (DV) agencies and their supporters have a responsibility to protect and serve women and
children who are being abused. One of their primary areas of support is the provision of shelter for clients
in crisis. Clearly, the women and children they serve need a safe place to stay, away from violence. But DV
agencies in the state of California are also required by law1to provide shelter in order to receive state
funding.
When a woman calls a shelter, she is often in the middle of avolatile situation—she must be discreet, and
she has very little time to speak to the agency, describe her needs, and find out if the shelter can locate a
safe place for her to stay.At the same time, DV agencies typically have very low cash reserves, and when
there is no available room for shelter, they often have no way to pay for emergency hotel rooms. All too
frequently, they are left with no choice but to turn clients away in their most dire moment of need.
While common, this scenario illustrates challenging shortcomings in the current system of support for those
experiencing domestic violence in California:
The shelter does not have resources to provide safe shelter when their own space is full, leaving
clients vulnerable to significant potential risk.
Individual philanthropic donors may well be moved to target their support to meet this specific
demand; however, there is no quick and seamless way to alert them of the neednor to process
their just-in-time gift.
Further, both clients that are turned away and supporters that are not asked for funding represent huge
lost opportunities to capture data that would strengthen California’s desperately under-resourced safety
net. This data would not only help DV agencies to identify the needs of abused women and shape their
services to meet demonstrated needs, it would also allow them to better advocate for private funding to
underwrite these services.
TechSoup Global, an organization dedicated to building the capacity of social benefit organizations, has
been working closely with DV agencies in California over the past 12 years: understanding their operational
challenges, assessing their technology needs, and providing trainings and donated technology products to
meet those needs. One outcome of this work is the identification of the need for a technology solution or
service that will allow DV agencies to better serve their clients and remedy the problems described
above.In collaboration with AidMatrix and through the generoussupport of Microsoft, Caravan Studios (a
division of TechSoup Global) is now designing and developing a technology service, SafeNight, to meet that
need. SafeNightwill be piloted in San Diego County, with the plan to roll out to three additional counties in
California over the course of the next 12 months and then to additional states.
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The Domestic Violence Center Act (1997) provides state funding to DV agencies as long as they “provide shelter; remain open 24
hours a day, seven days a week; provide access to temporary housing and food facilities,” among other provisions. According to the
Nonprofit Finance Fund, state funding remains the primary source of funding (on average 85% of revenue) for the majority of DV
agencies in California.
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2. SafeNight: Reducing Incidents of Domestic Violence
SafeNight is a secure service (both mobile and web-based)that will enable authorized staff at registered
DVagencies to find discounted hotel rooms and crowdsource funds to pay for them when shelter space is
unavailable. SafeNight will provide DV agencies with a mechanism to quickly connect to supporters who
have downloaded a mobile app and have requested to be notified if a client is in need of a bed and no
space is available in any local shelter. The supporter would then make a payment to cover the cost of a
hotel room.
Users can download the app to their smart phones. Through a registration process, the user associates
themselves with their chosen DV agency or geography, and indicates the level at which they will be able to
provide support and the frequency with which they wish to be asked for support (e.g., once a month, once
every six months). The user provides their credit card information, so the financial transaction is seamless.
Through partnerships with third-party online hotel-finding services,SafeNight will negotiate discounted
rates, and will have real-time access to available space that meets the clients’ needs.
Furthermore, every query to the system is logged. Whether the DV staff member was able to find shelter
for the client or not, the request and the result are captured. This is important because it allows DV
agencies and their supporters to gain a clearer view of which services are most requested and when, when
they are able to meet their clients’ needs and not, and how they can alter their services to improve their
success rate.
Capturing Data to Better Serve Women and Children in Need
In the near term, the SafeNight mobile web service will improve the ability of DV agencies to meet their
clients’ most pressing need—the need for shelter. Because of the taboo surrounding domestic violence and
the severe risk of retaliation by the abuser, the implications are extremely serious—sometimes even fatal—
when a potential client is turned away from a DV agency. Aside from the very real threat of violence, DV
survivors who cannot find shelter may become reluctant to seek assistance again and they may miss out on
other needed supported services offered in conjunction with the shelter, such as legal assistance, mental
health counseling, substance abuse treatment, trauma assessment for children, or vocational services.
In the longer term, the SafeNightbenefits the DV sector as a whole, as well as the broader state social safety
net. By incorporating the ability to take donations from self-identified supporters, we are enabling real-
time, micro-philanthropy that is critical to meeting clients’ needs at a time when public funds are dwindling
and demand for services is on the rise. And by capturing this data, we are deepening and broadening the
scope of our knowledge of the needs of abused women and children. We will be able to use this knowledge
to analyze and improve the services that agencies provide, making sure that clients’ needs are met, and the
agencies’ resources are used efficiently and effectively.
Ultimately, SafeNight gives visibility into the data of the women DV agencies serve. Without this data to
illuminate their needs, we, as a community, are making policy and bestowing funding in the dark.
Contact
For more information about SafeNight, contact:
Marnie Webb CEO, Caravan Studios mwebb@caravanstudios.org
Learn more about Caravan Studios: http://caravanstudios.tumblr.com
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