A presentation for the CPD25 event "Engaging Students: Obtaining And Using Feedback In Libraries And Universities" [http://bit.ly/YZnwJg].
The presentation looks at some of the background to the current environment, the importance of communication with students/users and the role social media can play in building relationships and encouraging commitment.
Using twitter to collect feedback from usersIan Clark
Presentation on using Twitter as an 'innovative feedback method' for the 2013 M25 Customer Service Group Conference, "Professionalism and Engagement in Customer Service".
Social media is now the place where people are gathering en masse to discuss the news with their friends, neighbors and complete strangers. This change in news consumers’ behavior is proving to be a challenge for local news, but it is also an opportunity. Users and system generated data from social media can also be a boon for content creators. This presentation will feature a case study showing how publishers can use social media analytics to gain insights into their audience and how to use this information to foster a stronger sense of community around their brand of journalism. The case study will focus on how to use Netlytic, a cloud-based social media analytics tool, to mine the public Facebook interactions of the readers of BlogTO, a regional, Canadian-based media outlet, to find out what their readers are interested in and what engages them.
A presentation for the CPD25 event "Engaging Students: Obtaining And Using Feedback In Libraries And Universities" [http://bit.ly/YZnwJg].
The presentation looks at some of the background to the current environment, the importance of communication with students/users and the role social media can play in building relationships and encouraging commitment.
Using twitter to collect feedback from usersIan Clark
Presentation on using Twitter as an 'innovative feedback method' for the 2013 M25 Customer Service Group Conference, "Professionalism and Engagement in Customer Service".
Social media is now the place where people are gathering en masse to discuss the news with their friends, neighbors and complete strangers. This change in news consumers’ behavior is proving to be a challenge for local news, but it is also an opportunity. Users and system generated data from social media can also be a boon for content creators. This presentation will feature a case study showing how publishers can use social media analytics to gain insights into their audience and how to use this information to foster a stronger sense of community around their brand of journalism. The case study will focus on how to use Netlytic, a cloud-based social media analytics tool, to mine the public Facebook interactions of the readers of BlogTO, a regional, Canadian-based media outlet, to find out what their readers are interested in and what engages them.
Anatoliy Gruzd and Philip Mai
Workshop presented at the TTRA Annual International Conference in Quebec City (June 20, 2017)
https://2017ttraannualinternationalconfe.sched.com/event/9yCg/social-listening-how-to-do-it-and-how-to-use-it-veille-sociale-comment-faire-et-comment-lutiliser?iframe=no&w=100%&sidebar=no&bg=no
UK universities social media benchmarking report 2016Lance Concannon
This report examines how the top 10 UK universities are using social media channels to communicate and build engagement with students and other stakeholders.
The report was jointly produced by Interactive Software and Sysomos.
Social Media in Australia: A ‘Big Data’ Perspective on TwitterAxel Bruns
Invited presentation at the University of Melbourne, 4 April 2017.
Twitter research to date has focussed mainly on the study of isolated events, as described for example by specific hashtags or keywords relating to elections, natural disasters, public events, and other moments of heightened activity in the network. This limited focus is determined in part by the limitations placed on large-scale access to Twitter data by Twitter, Inc. itself. This research presents the first ever comprehensive study of a national Twittersphere as an entity in its own right. It examines the structure of the follower network amongst some 4 million Australian Twitter accounts and the dynamics of their day-to-day activities, and explores the Australian Twittersphere’s engagement with specific recent events.
Social Media, Nonprofits, and the Role of IndividualsAmy Sample Ward
This is the presentation I made on Thursday, October 15, 2009 for the SANGONeT conference in South Africa (presentation made remotely) that includes highlights from reports in the US and the UK about social media use by nonprofit organizations.
Lee Rainie, director of Internet, Science and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, presented the Center’s latest findings about the use of digital technology and its future at the Federal Reserve Board’s Editors and Designers conference in Philadelphia on October 6, 2016. During the keynote he discussed the impact of social media, collaboration, and future trends in technology with a special focus on the issues tied to security and reputational risk that face the Federal Reserve System. He described how the Center’s research can help communicators:
-Disseminate their messages across multiple digital and traditional media channels
-Engage their audience and encourage amateur evangelism
-Assess the impact of their outreach and observe challenges to their material
-Think like long a long-tail organization that also has real-time immediacy
Twitter analytics: some thoughts on sampling, tools, data, ethics and user re...Farida Vis
Keynote delivered at the SRA Social Media in Social Research conference, London, 24 June, 2013. The presentation highlights some thoughts on sampling, tools, data, ethics and user requirements for Twitter analytics, including an overview of a series of recent tools.
A method to evaluate the reliability of social media data for social network ...Derek Weber
In order to study the effects of Online Social Network (OSN) activity on real-world offline events, researchers need access to OSN data, the reliability of which has particular implications for social network analysis. This relates not only to the completeness of any collected dataset, but also to constructing meaningful social and information networks from them. In this multidisciplinary study, we consider the question of constructing traditional social networks from OSN data and then present a measurement case study showing how the reliability of OSN data affects social network analyses. To this end we developed a systematic comparison methodology, which we applied to two parallel datasets we collected from Twitter. We found considerable differences in datasets collected with different tools and that these variations significantly alter the results of subsequent analyses. Our results lead to a set of guidelines for researchers planning to collect online data streams to infer social networks.
Presented at ASONAM'20 (2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining)
Co-authors: Mehwish Nasim (Data61 / CSIRO), Lewis Mitchell (University of Adelaide), Lucia Falzon (University of Melbourne / DST Group)
Information Contagion through Social Media: Towards a Realistic Model of the ...Axel Bruns
Paper by Axel Bruns, Patrik Wikström, Peta Mitchell, Brenda Moon, Felix Münch, Lucia Falzon, and Lucy Resnyansky presented at the ACSPRI 2016 conference, Sydney, 19-22 July 2016/
Keynote address by Anatoliy Gruzd at the 2017 Altmetrics Conference in Toronto, Canada (Sep 27, 2017)
Abstract
Arguably, even the most innovative ideas take time to catch on. Ideas that seem obvious today, at one point were obscure oddities known only to a select few. Washing your hands, airbags in cars, the internet - none of these ideas were accepted immediately. New ideas need time to incubate, the process of switching from old ideas to new is not seamless nor is it linear. In today’s social media-connected world, even though ideas can spread quickly and more efficiently than ever before, they are now competing for attention with a multitude of other ideas, memes, tweets, snaps, YouTube videos and news (fake and real). Conceptually, if social media is a network of highways on which ideas and people travel, altmetrics are the billboard or traffic signs on these highways that can help interested parties to discover new ideas or re-discover ideas left on the side of the road. While often neglected, the above metaphor is meant to illuminate the important role of altmetrics for researchers, innovators and funders seeking to track the impacts of new ideas, as well as for the many idea consumers looking for emerging and novel insights.
This talk will outline the current state of altmetrics research and how altmetrics are being commonly calculated and used by different stakeholders. It will also explore the social network properties of ideas and how these properties might be used to customize altmetrics for different audiences and uses. The keynote will conclude by calling for the development of training strategies to provide learning opportunities for researchers and administrators from various fields to acquire necessary digital literacy skills so that they better understand how altmetrics are measured and how they can be interpreted for decision making. The keynote will also call on altmetrics developers and researchers to create algorithms and data collection strategies that are less prone to manipulation by the rapid rise of social bots.
Revealing social bot communities through coordinated behaviourDerek Weber
Presented at the 5th Australian Social Network Analysis Conference (ASNAC) on 26 November 2020. Co-authored with Mehwish Nasim (Data61, CSIRO), Lucia Falzon (DST Group, Uni Melbourne) and Lewis Mitchell (Uni Melbourne, DST Group).
Efforts to influence public opinion online, especially during times of political relevance, such as election campaigns, have grown since first observed in 2010, and are feared to be a particular threat to the upcoming US Presidential election. A significant component of such efforts has consisted of the use of social bots to quickly disseminate vast amounts of polarizing information, propaganda and biased opinion. As social bots are intended to mimic humans on social media, it is often difficult for other humans to identify them easily, but as there are also legitimate uses for online automation, the social media platforms also struggle to contain them, especially with the vast number of users they manage. Previous research has developed methods to detect influence campaigns in general, as well as specifically focusing on identifying social bots, including examining how they interact with other accounts and influence the broader political discussion.
In this talk, we discuss preliminary results from analysis of Twitter activity over the recent 2020 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, at which the parties formally nominated their candidates for President and Vice President. Each convention ran for four days, during which we collected 3m tweets. In particular, we apply techniques for discovering highly coordinating communities based on potentially coordinated behaviours: co-retweeting, co-mentioning of hashtags, and URL sharing. In doing so, we reveal groups of accounts engaging in potentially inauthentic behaviour, and identify classes of participating accounts, including social bots, campaign accounts, news accounts, and regular Twitter users. A variety of analyses of content and temporal patterns exhibited by the communities provide qualitative and quantitative validation, along with discussion of different behaviour patterns observed between the conventions. The ultimate aim is to distinguish between legitimate use of online influence activities (e.g., by political parties and grass roots campaigns) from covert malicious ones.
Not-so-obvious Online Data Sources for Demographic ResearchIngmar Weber
Slides from ICWSM'17 workshop on Social Media for Demographic Research (https://sites.google.com/site/smdrworkshop/program). Data sets include Facebook's ad audience estimates, Google Correlate, online genealogy and much more. Contact Ingmar directly to learn more.
The heterogeneity of social media metrics and its effects on statisticsStefanie Haustein
Rodrigo Costas, Stefanie Haustein & Vincent Larivière (2014). The heterogeneity of social media metrics and its effects on statistics.
Presentation at 19th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy, Reykjavik, 25. September 2014
http://www.rannis.is/bibliometrics/workshop-programme/
The subject of mobile phone book reading is one of growing importance to trade publishers. Yet, despite the common availability of research into general e-reading, there was, up to this point, a severe lack of data providing insights into consumers’ attitudes towards reading on their handsets in the US and UK.
Bridging the Divide - A Social Media Workshop Ian Clark
This was for a workshop on social media at the 2014 National Acquisitions Group conference in York (3rd-4th September). The presentation is comprised of a short section on using social media and the internet in general, followed by some group work on particular social media tools.
The slides containing lists of interesting examples of social media use in libraries were used to prompt groups to look at the content posted on each of the accounts focusing particularly on style and content. The intention was then to prompt ideas as to how people can use social media within their own workplaces.
Escaping the Echo Chamber: Advocacy outside our own circle. Ian Clark
A presentation delivered at Lighting the Future - a joint SLG, SLA & YLG week-end course in June 2012.
The presentation covers the how, why and what of the national library advocacy organisation, Voices for the Library.
Anatoliy Gruzd and Philip Mai
Workshop presented at the TTRA Annual International Conference in Quebec City (June 20, 2017)
https://2017ttraannualinternationalconfe.sched.com/event/9yCg/social-listening-how-to-do-it-and-how-to-use-it-veille-sociale-comment-faire-et-comment-lutiliser?iframe=no&w=100%&sidebar=no&bg=no
UK universities social media benchmarking report 2016Lance Concannon
This report examines how the top 10 UK universities are using social media channels to communicate and build engagement with students and other stakeholders.
The report was jointly produced by Interactive Software and Sysomos.
Social Media in Australia: A ‘Big Data’ Perspective on TwitterAxel Bruns
Invited presentation at the University of Melbourne, 4 April 2017.
Twitter research to date has focussed mainly on the study of isolated events, as described for example by specific hashtags or keywords relating to elections, natural disasters, public events, and other moments of heightened activity in the network. This limited focus is determined in part by the limitations placed on large-scale access to Twitter data by Twitter, Inc. itself. This research presents the first ever comprehensive study of a national Twittersphere as an entity in its own right. It examines the structure of the follower network amongst some 4 million Australian Twitter accounts and the dynamics of their day-to-day activities, and explores the Australian Twittersphere’s engagement with specific recent events.
Social Media, Nonprofits, and the Role of IndividualsAmy Sample Ward
This is the presentation I made on Thursday, October 15, 2009 for the SANGONeT conference in South Africa (presentation made remotely) that includes highlights from reports in the US and the UK about social media use by nonprofit organizations.
Lee Rainie, director of Internet, Science and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, presented the Center’s latest findings about the use of digital technology and its future at the Federal Reserve Board’s Editors and Designers conference in Philadelphia on October 6, 2016. During the keynote he discussed the impact of social media, collaboration, and future trends in technology with a special focus on the issues tied to security and reputational risk that face the Federal Reserve System. He described how the Center’s research can help communicators:
-Disseminate their messages across multiple digital and traditional media channels
-Engage their audience and encourage amateur evangelism
-Assess the impact of their outreach and observe challenges to their material
-Think like long a long-tail organization that also has real-time immediacy
Twitter analytics: some thoughts on sampling, tools, data, ethics and user re...Farida Vis
Keynote delivered at the SRA Social Media in Social Research conference, London, 24 June, 2013. The presentation highlights some thoughts on sampling, tools, data, ethics and user requirements for Twitter analytics, including an overview of a series of recent tools.
A method to evaluate the reliability of social media data for social network ...Derek Weber
In order to study the effects of Online Social Network (OSN) activity on real-world offline events, researchers need access to OSN data, the reliability of which has particular implications for social network analysis. This relates not only to the completeness of any collected dataset, but also to constructing meaningful social and information networks from them. In this multidisciplinary study, we consider the question of constructing traditional social networks from OSN data and then present a measurement case study showing how the reliability of OSN data affects social network analyses. To this end we developed a systematic comparison methodology, which we applied to two parallel datasets we collected from Twitter. We found considerable differences in datasets collected with different tools and that these variations significantly alter the results of subsequent analyses. Our results lead to a set of guidelines for researchers planning to collect online data streams to infer social networks.
Presented at ASONAM'20 (2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining)
Co-authors: Mehwish Nasim (Data61 / CSIRO), Lewis Mitchell (University of Adelaide), Lucia Falzon (University of Melbourne / DST Group)
Information Contagion through Social Media: Towards a Realistic Model of the ...Axel Bruns
Paper by Axel Bruns, Patrik Wikström, Peta Mitchell, Brenda Moon, Felix Münch, Lucia Falzon, and Lucy Resnyansky presented at the ACSPRI 2016 conference, Sydney, 19-22 July 2016/
Keynote address by Anatoliy Gruzd at the 2017 Altmetrics Conference in Toronto, Canada (Sep 27, 2017)
Abstract
Arguably, even the most innovative ideas take time to catch on. Ideas that seem obvious today, at one point were obscure oddities known only to a select few. Washing your hands, airbags in cars, the internet - none of these ideas were accepted immediately. New ideas need time to incubate, the process of switching from old ideas to new is not seamless nor is it linear. In today’s social media-connected world, even though ideas can spread quickly and more efficiently than ever before, they are now competing for attention with a multitude of other ideas, memes, tweets, snaps, YouTube videos and news (fake and real). Conceptually, if social media is a network of highways on which ideas and people travel, altmetrics are the billboard or traffic signs on these highways that can help interested parties to discover new ideas or re-discover ideas left on the side of the road. While often neglected, the above metaphor is meant to illuminate the important role of altmetrics for researchers, innovators and funders seeking to track the impacts of new ideas, as well as for the many idea consumers looking for emerging and novel insights.
This talk will outline the current state of altmetrics research and how altmetrics are being commonly calculated and used by different stakeholders. It will also explore the social network properties of ideas and how these properties might be used to customize altmetrics for different audiences and uses. The keynote will conclude by calling for the development of training strategies to provide learning opportunities for researchers and administrators from various fields to acquire necessary digital literacy skills so that they better understand how altmetrics are measured and how they can be interpreted for decision making. The keynote will also call on altmetrics developers and researchers to create algorithms and data collection strategies that are less prone to manipulation by the rapid rise of social bots.
Revealing social bot communities through coordinated behaviourDerek Weber
Presented at the 5th Australian Social Network Analysis Conference (ASNAC) on 26 November 2020. Co-authored with Mehwish Nasim (Data61, CSIRO), Lucia Falzon (DST Group, Uni Melbourne) and Lewis Mitchell (Uni Melbourne, DST Group).
Efforts to influence public opinion online, especially during times of political relevance, such as election campaigns, have grown since first observed in 2010, and are feared to be a particular threat to the upcoming US Presidential election. A significant component of such efforts has consisted of the use of social bots to quickly disseminate vast amounts of polarizing information, propaganda and biased opinion. As social bots are intended to mimic humans on social media, it is often difficult for other humans to identify them easily, but as there are also legitimate uses for online automation, the social media platforms also struggle to contain them, especially with the vast number of users they manage. Previous research has developed methods to detect influence campaigns in general, as well as specifically focusing on identifying social bots, including examining how they interact with other accounts and influence the broader political discussion.
In this talk, we discuss preliminary results from analysis of Twitter activity over the recent 2020 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, at which the parties formally nominated their candidates for President and Vice President. Each convention ran for four days, during which we collected 3m tweets. In particular, we apply techniques for discovering highly coordinating communities based on potentially coordinated behaviours: co-retweeting, co-mentioning of hashtags, and URL sharing. In doing so, we reveal groups of accounts engaging in potentially inauthentic behaviour, and identify classes of participating accounts, including social bots, campaign accounts, news accounts, and regular Twitter users. A variety of analyses of content and temporal patterns exhibited by the communities provide qualitative and quantitative validation, along with discussion of different behaviour patterns observed between the conventions. The ultimate aim is to distinguish between legitimate use of online influence activities (e.g., by political parties and grass roots campaigns) from covert malicious ones.
Not-so-obvious Online Data Sources for Demographic ResearchIngmar Weber
Slides from ICWSM'17 workshop on Social Media for Demographic Research (https://sites.google.com/site/smdrworkshop/program). Data sets include Facebook's ad audience estimates, Google Correlate, online genealogy and much more. Contact Ingmar directly to learn more.
The heterogeneity of social media metrics and its effects on statisticsStefanie Haustein
Rodrigo Costas, Stefanie Haustein & Vincent Larivière (2014). The heterogeneity of social media metrics and its effects on statistics.
Presentation at 19th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy, Reykjavik, 25. September 2014
http://www.rannis.is/bibliometrics/workshop-programme/
The subject of mobile phone book reading is one of growing importance to trade publishers. Yet, despite the common availability of research into general e-reading, there was, up to this point, a severe lack of data providing insights into consumers’ attitudes towards reading on their handsets in the US and UK.
Bridging the Divide - A Social Media Workshop Ian Clark
This was for a workshop on social media at the 2014 National Acquisitions Group conference in York (3rd-4th September). The presentation is comprised of a short section on using social media and the internet in general, followed by some group work on particular social media tools.
The slides containing lists of interesting examples of social media use in libraries were used to prompt groups to look at the content posted on each of the accounts focusing particularly on style and content. The intention was then to prompt ideas as to how people can use social media within their own workplaces.
Escaping the Echo Chamber: Advocacy outside our own circle. Ian Clark
A presentation delivered at Lighting the Future - a joint SLG, SLA & YLG week-end course in June 2012.
The presentation covers the how, why and what of the national library advocacy organisation, Voices for the Library.
An introduction to Voices for the LibraryIan Clark
This presentation was delivered at a CPD25 event on the impact of the Browne report on academic libraries.
The script for the presentation is available here:
http://www.slideshare.net/iclark/script-for-the-introduction-to-voices-for-the-library-presentation
Breaking down the barriers - visitors, residents and user-orientated communi...Ian Clark
A workshop presentation delivered for the CILIP Kent branch on 5.11.15. Session covered how people use the internet and how social media use can be orientated around this.
Presentation delivered at "Is There An App For That?" - a CPD25 event held in London on 25th July 2014. The presentation looks at how people interact with the internet, the popularity of certain tools and how I am currently exploring their suitability and potential as tools for a subject library in Higher Education.
http://www.cpd25.ac.uk/events/social-media-event-event-ref-tg3soc/
The digital divide in the post-Snowden eraIan Clark
This presentation seeks to explore the digital divide in the light of the revelations by Edward Snowden in 2013. It looks at state and corporate surveillance, the impact of these upon individual citizens with respect to the democratic process, the tools with which individuals can protect themselves, the impact of the digital divide upon the ability of the individual to ensure their intellectual privacy and what libraries and librarians are doing to bridge this particular aspect of the digital divide.
As the volume of free internet resources continue to grow exponentially there are opportunities for stakeholders in education – parents, teachers, administrators and policy makers - to facilitate community access to this e-content. This presentation focuses on free social media tools, mobile apps and other innovative technologies which have been adopted by educators in 21st century global communities. Attendees will learn about the latest trends in cloud storage, crowdfunding, ebooks, makerspaces, MOOCs, news aggregation, photo/video sharing, self-publishing, social networking, bookmarking, video conferencing, visualization services and augmented reality. The goal – to promote ‘Tech Tools’ which can be easily integrated into the home and working environment.
Teaching with Technology: Social Media Tools and Mobile Apps for Secondary S...Cheryl Peltier-Davis
There is significant value in using Social Media and Mobile Apps in education. Within this area, social media tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and WordPress share a common usage in supporting communication, collaboration, news aggregation, teaching, learning and knowledge sharing. This workshop highlights some of the core competencies (professional and personal) required for teachers to function effectively in a technologically driven environment and introduces social media tools and mobile apps that can be easily adopted and adapted (‘mashed up’) in the classroom. The goal is to share a toolkit of free online resources with secondary school teachers who are willing to use emerging technologies to engage their students in the classroom.
Teaching with Technology: Social Media Tools and Mobile Apps for Primary Sch...Cheryl Peltier-Davis
There is significant value in using Social Media and Mobile Apps in education. Within this area, social media tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and WordPress share a common usage in supporting communication, collaboration, news aggregation, teaching, learning and knowledge sharing. This workshop highlights some of the core competencies (professional and personal) required for teachers to function effectively in a technologically driven environment and introduces social media tools and mobile apps that can be easily adopted and adapted (‘mashed up’) in the classroom. The goal is to share a toolkit of free online resources with primary school teachers who are willing to use emerging technologies to engage their students in the classroom.
Week 6 slides from the class "Social Web 2.0" I taught at the University of Washington's Masters in Communication program in 2007. Most of the content is still very relevant today. Topics: Lightweight authoring, blogs, and wikis
Implications of a Mobile Computing World for Academic Libraries and Their UsersRobin M. Ashford, MSLIS
2013 Snezek Library Leadership Institute - Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, USA - July 19, 2013 - Co-presented with GFU Dean of Libraries, Merrill Johnson.
The presentation aims to emphasize the need for more applications and prototypes in the area of the Semantic Web that will showcase the various research findings and technologies.
Twist is an Open World Information Sharing Network which provides a platform to the users searching information on the same project that directly publishes the new updates for a desired category or group of categories to the people who had enrolled as that category for their Personal interest.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
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.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
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.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
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.
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4. “Social networking could
enable librarians and
patrons not only to interact,
but to share and change
resources dynamically in an
electronic medium.”
– Dr Myungdae Cho (SungKyunKwan University)
5. “If libraries are not the first place
our prospective users go to do
research, they will likely miss any
marketing we do on our own
websites. This is why we must
start looking beyond these sites
and toward putting our content
where our users actually are.”
Meredith Farkas – author of Social Software in Libraries
9. When surveyed,
43% of students
said they would
be receptive to
receiving
information from
a library
Facebook Page.
10. Businesses use Twitter to
quickly share information with
people interested in their
products and services, gather
real-time market intelligence
and feedback, and build
relationships with customers,
partners and influential people.
- Twitter, About.
22. At the beginning of 2011, sales of smartphones
were up 88% yr on yr and were outselling PCs
(101m units to 80m units).
23. Over 15 billions apps have been downloaded from
iTunes since the App Store launched in 2008.
24. Around 45% of
internet users
connect via their
mobile, up from
31% in 2010.
71% of 16-24 year
olds use mobiles
to access the
internet.
(Figures from the ONS)
25. Canada Institute for Scientific
and Technical Information
(CISTI) mobile website.
Features:
•Allows searching of CISTI's local
catalogue and information sources, as
well as many science and technology
publications around the world.
•Retrieves full text to the device
(Android, iPhone and Blackberry).
•Provides maps and directions to NRC-
CISTI locations.
•Contact CISTI via a form, or by placing a
call directly to your local branch.
•Follow CISTI on Twitter or Facebook.
•Access the full CISTI website.
•Bilingual
26. Canada Institute for Scientific
and Technical Information
mobile website
•Makes extensive use of JQuery Mobile.
•Metalib X-server API provides federated
searching capabilities in format suitable
for mobile devices.
•SFX link resolver provides links to full text,
ordering, and other citation services.
Presents results in a manner suitable for
mobile devices.
•EZProxy http proxy server is used to
provide NRC Staff with improved access to
licensed content.
•Login is presented in a format more
suited to mobile devices.
•QR codes have been generated to link
direct to the mobile website. These codes
are employed on the website and
information desks across the country.
33. Photo credits
(all images taken from Flickr’s Creative Commons
Slide 1 – Image by Jorge Quinteros http://flic.kr/p/8ddk4Z
Slide 2 – Image by woodleywonderworks http://flic.kr/p/wuidP
Slide 3 – Image by MJ/TR http://flic.kr/p/79ZLeJ
Slide 4 – Image by Stefan http://flic.kr/p/77wGQG
Slide 6 – Images by imjustcreative http://flic.kr/p/9EfSjJ & http://flic.kr/p/9Duf6R
Slide 7 – Image by LucasSevilla http://flic.kr/p/9tWRBa
Slide 8 – Image by ideagirlmedia http://flic.kr/p/98Spxp
Slide 9 – Image by thomashawk http://flic.kr/p/555jFQ
Slide 11 – Image by afagen http://flic.kr/p/8PAk4V
Slide 16 – Image by stefan http://flic.kr/p/7z4Gnu
Slide 22 – Image by Johan Larsson http://flic.kr/p/7YHZRg
Slide 23 – Image by Brian Wilkins http://flic.kr/p/8dp2Hq
Slide 24 – Image by open-arms http://flic.kr/p/9dqGK3
Slides 24-29 Background image by Matt Hamm http://flic.kr/p/66D4Cg
Slide 30 – Image by Ev0luti0nary http://flic.kr/p/9EK3Zd
Slide 31 – Image by Dunechaser http://flic.kr/p/SaTg9
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Slide 33 – Image by Bethan http://flic.kr/p/85uKQh
Editor's Notes
This is a popular mis-quote from the film Field of Dreams. The quote is now generally used to describe a situation whereby you should have faith that what you build will be enthusiastically received and utilised by the intended target audience. Whilst blind faith is admirable, we all know the reality of the situation is that users will only utilise a service if they find it a productive or enjoyable experience (or preferably both). Search and discovery services within libraries are no exception and as such there will always be a percentage of users who will resist using the system for one reason or another.Our jobs as library systems administrators, developers, and managers is to reduce this percentage by making library services as accessible, intuitive, and productive as possible.
There are more opportunities that ever to widen accessibility to library resources. The growth of new technology has meant that users no longer need to visit the library building to take advantage of a wide range of materials. The library is no longer simply on campus, it’s in their pockets, their handbags, their bedroom, on the train...the library is wherever the user is.It is vital for users to be able to discover and access library resources from where they are, rather than forcing them to come to our interface.One of the ways of increasing accessibility and usage of library services that we (CCCU) are currently looking at is to increase library integration with other services.Two interfaces that both users and non-users regularly utilise are social networks and mobile devices.This presentation is an introduction into utilising Metalib and SFX in those interfaces.
Social networking provides fantastic opportunities for libraries to connect with their users. Not only through sharing resources, as Dr Cho points out, but they also provide the potential for dynamically changing resources.
It is important for libraries to take advantage of this new medium. As Farkas observes, if we do not place our content where our users actually are, we run the risk of being overlooked and ignored when prospective users embark on their own research. Farkas also comments that a Facebook Page can act as a portal to the library and a reminder of the resources available at an academic library.Essentially, Facebook Pages can provide a useful marketing tool for the services available at their academic library.
Two of the most popular social networking tools are, of course, Twitter and Facebook.
For good or ill, the online world is increasingly becoming Facebook’s world – even more so considering some of the planned changes announced at Facebook’s recent f8 conference.
From the point of view of the library, the sheer size of Facebook presents a great opportunity to connect with students. And students appear to be receptive to the idea of connecting to the library through a dedicated library Facebook Page. Recent research in the US demonstrated that, despite concerns from staff that they may be seen as invading the student’s space, 43% of students said that they would be open to the idea of receiving information from the library via Facebook. Only 12% were overtly negative about this kind of connection.
One of the ways in which we can take advantage of these new tools is through bookmarking resources and flagging them up to other users. Many e-resources now enable users to bookmark or share content with their connections via various social media, including Facebook and Twitter.
Another way users can connect with their library service is through embedded searching. Embedded searching enables users to search the libraries’ e-resources without having to visit the library webpage and directly from Facebook. Again, this is a good example of bringing the library to the user’s space. They do not even have to visit the library webpage, let alone the library building, to search subscribed content.
Mobile interfaces are also a crucial tool in making the library, and its resources, more accessible for library users.
Demo Sharing a resource on FB via a bookmarkAdding a search box to FBSearching MetaLib via a smartphone
Libraries increasingly need to engage with users in their own space. We can no longer rely on users to come to the library in order to conduct their research or to make use of our resources. Libraries need to reach out into the environments in which their users exist. It is no longer about them coming to us it is about us going to them. Mobile technologies and social networks enable libraries to create new relationships with users, relationships that should ensure they continue to see the library service as integral to their progress at university.Of course, accessing full text journal articles on your mobile phone is not necessarily how many people would wish to conduct their research, but with the growth in tablets this problem may no longer be applicable. With such developments in technology, it is wise for libraries to be prepared to meet the changing needs of their users. Utilising the tools at our disposal in new and innovative ways is key to the future of the university library and its central position in the student experience.
