BarcampSWFL Culture: We're a group of independent professionals who organize to support Southwest Florida technology professionals for community, partnerships, and friendships that create opportunities for ourselves, our companies, and our region. We support our community by hosting monthly socials and by organizing BarcampSWFL - an annual technology unconference that provides a forum for professional development and skill-building. We share our collective resources freely and strive to support all efforts that advance local citizens, business, economic development, and innovation.
Social Media: Inspiration and Resources for Public Media StationsAmanda Hirsch
Case studies and info to inspire local PBS and NPR stations to use social media in meaningful ways...plus recommended resources for continued learning.
In this presentation, Orange County Library System staff will learn about our current social media accounts, strategic plan, as well as how they can help be ambassadors for the library in the current social media landscape.
BarcampSWFL Culture: We're a group of independent professionals who organize to support Southwest Florida technology professionals for community, partnerships, and friendships that create opportunities for ourselves, our companies, and our region. We support our community by hosting monthly socials and by organizing BarcampSWFL - an annual technology unconference that provides a forum for professional development and skill-building. We share our collective resources freely and strive to support all efforts that advance local citizens, business, economic development, and innovation.
Social Media: Inspiration and Resources for Public Media StationsAmanda Hirsch
Case studies and info to inspire local PBS and NPR stations to use social media in meaningful ways...plus recommended resources for continued learning.
In this presentation, Orange County Library System staff will learn about our current social media accounts, strategic plan, as well as how they can help be ambassadors for the library in the current social media landscape.
Ghosts are scary; raising money online is notFirstGiving
Whether your offline fundraising events have been successful in the past or not, bringing them online can be a rather frightening prospect. If the thought of transitioning to an online fundraising system seems daunting, find out what should really scare you: missing out on what you could be reaping from raising money online.
Jim Zimmerman of EverTrue and John Templeman of Case Western Reserve University explore ways your organization can successfully adapt to generational philanthropic preferences.
StartupBus is a competition. 6 buses of strangers traveling at 60 miles per hour have 48 hours to conceive, build and launch a startup and compete for venture capital funding. We are Miami. We are Buspreneurs. We are StartupBus Miami.
Engaging Donors in an Online Age for the JCC's of North America Professional ...Bridget Brandt
This presentation was a part of the 2011 JCC's of North America Professional Conference and provides ideas and tips for successful online fundraising and increasing donor engagement.
Engaging Donors Online presented for the JCC's of North AmericaAbila
Presenter Bridget Brandt, shared this presentation at the JCC's of North America conference in 2011. We hope that by sharing it here, other organizations will have the chance to learn from the industry best practices presented.
Our July event included a brief overview of the Social Media Club’s objectives and philosophy presented by steering committee member Dean Piccirillo. The evening’s events also included a 45 minute presentation lead by Jason Breed from Neighborhood America. Jason talked about emerging trends in the social media marketplace. Our event that evening closed with a panel discussion with panelists from The Naples Tomato, The City of Fort Myers and Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida.
Nonprofits get 30% or more of their individual donations in December, so how can you be sure to get your piece of the pie? In this webinar, I explored ten steps you can take to plan a year-end campaign that celebrates your donor's support, catches her eye, pulls on her heartstrings, and seals the deal with a generous gift.
Through examples from various nonprofits and a year-end case study, I shared tips on building a stronger year-end campaign that takes inspiration from your brand, leverages the most recent best practices, and carries your story strategically across multiple channels.
Online giving surged by over 35% last year, with gifts over $1,000 becoming increasingly commonplace. What are the keys to successful nonprofit fundraising online, especially through social media? Join us for this webinar and learn how to raise big bucks for your cause online.
Go Fund Yourself: How crowdfunding & peer to peer is dangerously changing fun...Farra Trompeter, Big Duck
Slides from presentation by Big Duck and NTEN at DMA Nonprofit Federation Nonprofit Conference in August 2015.
For nonprofits, the fundraising landscape has evolved. Moving beyond the “donate now” button and writing a check, donors want to be actively involved in your cause and help create change together. Harvesting the passion of your community is key to successful fundraising and long-term engagement. In this session, participants learned the differences in crowdfunding vs. peer to peer and how these new tactics can be balanced in your fundraising arsenal. Our discussion included specific examples of successful nonprofit fundraising strategies using crowdfunding and other creative community-led campaigns and tips for how to get started.
If you try to build community, will they come?Daniel Lee
This is a culmination of a week long research project on community i did for Porch. I used multiple sources, frameworks, and examples to find commonalities of growth and engagement. Case studies include online communities (Product Hunt, Reddit, NextDoor, and Houzz) and offline (AA). I also looked at Christianity as a community but it is not included in this presentation.
Developing a Donor Focused Communication StrategyBrian Barela
Pragmatic tactics within a donor-focused framework to help grassroots fundraisers raise more money, communicate results more effectively, and meaningfully engage donors on the channels they prefer.
Ghosts are scary; raising money online is notFirstGiving
Whether your offline fundraising events have been successful in the past or not, bringing them online can be a rather frightening prospect. If the thought of transitioning to an online fundraising system seems daunting, find out what should really scare you: missing out on what you could be reaping from raising money online.
Jim Zimmerman of EverTrue and John Templeman of Case Western Reserve University explore ways your organization can successfully adapt to generational philanthropic preferences.
StartupBus is a competition. 6 buses of strangers traveling at 60 miles per hour have 48 hours to conceive, build and launch a startup and compete for venture capital funding. We are Miami. We are Buspreneurs. We are StartupBus Miami.
Engaging Donors in an Online Age for the JCC's of North America Professional ...Bridget Brandt
This presentation was a part of the 2011 JCC's of North America Professional Conference and provides ideas and tips for successful online fundraising and increasing donor engagement.
Engaging Donors Online presented for the JCC's of North AmericaAbila
Presenter Bridget Brandt, shared this presentation at the JCC's of North America conference in 2011. We hope that by sharing it here, other organizations will have the chance to learn from the industry best practices presented.
Our July event included a brief overview of the Social Media Club’s objectives and philosophy presented by steering committee member Dean Piccirillo. The evening’s events also included a 45 minute presentation lead by Jason Breed from Neighborhood America. Jason talked about emerging trends in the social media marketplace. Our event that evening closed with a panel discussion with panelists from The Naples Tomato, The City of Fort Myers and Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida.
Nonprofits get 30% or more of their individual donations in December, so how can you be sure to get your piece of the pie? In this webinar, I explored ten steps you can take to plan a year-end campaign that celebrates your donor's support, catches her eye, pulls on her heartstrings, and seals the deal with a generous gift.
Through examples from various nonprofits and a year-end case study, I shared tips on building a stronger year-end campaign that takes inspiration from your brand, leverages the most recent best practices, and carries your story strategically across multiple channels.
Online giving surged by over 35% last year, with gifts over $1,000 becoming increasingly commonplace. What are the keys to successful nonprofit fundraising online, especially through social media? Join us for this webinar and learn how to raise big bucks for your cause online.
Go Fund Yourself: How crowdfunding & peer to peer is dangerously changing fun...Farra Trompeter, Big Duck
Slides from presentation by Big Duck and NTEN at DMA Nonprofit Federation Nonprofit Conference in August 2015.
For nonprofits, the fundraising landscape has evolved. Moving beyond the “donate now” button and writing a check, donors want to be actively involved in your cause and help create change together. Harvesting the passion of your community is key to successful fundraising and long-term engagement. In this session, participants learned the differences in crowdfunding vs. peer to peer and how these new tactics can be balanced in your fundraising arsenal. Our discussion included specific examples of successful nonprofit fundraising strategies using crowdfunding and other creative community-led campaigns and tips for how to get started.
If you try to build community, will they come?Daniel Lee
This is a culmination of a week long research project on community i did for Porch. I used multiple sources, frameworks, and examples to find commonalities of growth and engagement. Case studies include online communities (Product Hunt, Reddit, NextDoor, and Houzz) and offline (AA). I also looked at Christianity as a community but it is not included in this presentation.
Developing a Donor Focused Communication StrategyBrian Barela
Pragmatic tactics within a donor-focused framework to help grassroots fundraisers raise more money, communicate results more effectively, and meaningfully engage donors on the channels they prefer.
Presentation on trends and best practices for use of social media by arts organizations, specifically symphony orchestras. Delivered july 2014 to the Association of California Symphony Orchestras conference. See accompanying pdf for additional notes and links.
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
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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.
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
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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/
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
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
2. About TechSoup Canada
We help nonprofits use
technology to achieve
their full potential.
Register your organization today, to be eligible to request over 300 products from 25 donor partners!
www.TechSoupCanada.ca/getting_started
3. Technology Donations Program
Is my org eligible?
a) Does your business number end in
RR0001?
b) Do you have a Letters Patent from Industry
Canada?
c) Are you incorporated as a not-for-profit
corporation with your province?
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8. Why is Social Media important?
increased interest to
attend an arts event
through posts on social
media
attended an arts or
cultural event due to
posts on social media
Social Media Plays a Major Role in Exposing New Audiences to Canadian Arts Organizations
of Canadians (interested
in arts & culture) use
social media to connect
with art organizations
http://corporate.askingcanadians.com/social-media-plays-a-major-role-in-exposing-new-audiences-to-canadian-arts-organizations/
9. Is it really worth it?
Common stages of social media adoption:
Peer pressure. “Everyone’s doing it, let’s do it too!”
Underestimating work. “Social media is easy. My nephew can do it. Set
up a Facebook account and start tweeting!”
Overestimating results. “We have some fans and followers, but we
haven’t gained new donors, members, volunteers, etc.– what gives?”
Disappointment. “This social media thing is a bust. It takes too much
time and the return isn’t worth it.”
Credit: Fenton
http://www.fenton.com/resources/see-say-feel-do/
11. Be authentic
It’s not all about you – keep your own
content and services to a minimum
Participate in discussions and dialogues
Be timely and authentic with your
responses
Focus on stories and engaging your
supporters
Connect with influencers – let others
promote you
YOUR CAUSE
IS NOT
YOUR STORY.
12. Understand Your Channels & Tools
Decide what channels to use and set goals
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn, etc.
More channels = more time & resources
Plan for 2 hours / week / channel
14. If you were a fan of your
own organization, what
would it take to engage
you?
Something fun?
Denny’s Diner Tumblr
Something
inspiring?
charity:water Facebook
Something useful?
TechSoup Canada,
Facebook
23. Resources
Social Media and the Performing Arts: Engagement First, Ticket Sales Second
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/10/social-media-and-the-performing-arts-engagement-first-ticket-sales-
second-2.html
Today’s not-so-quiet social media revolution puts the performing artist center stage
http://technorati.com/todays-not-so-quiet-social-media-revolution-puts-the-performing-artist-center-stage/
Vancouver arts groups harness the power of social media
http://www.straight.com/arts/593931/vancouver-arts-groups-harness-power-social-media
24. Resources
Tips for succeeding on Facebook
http://blog.bufferapp.com/facebook-reach-strategies
Ideas for social media engagement
http://www.bethkanter.org/squirrel-kiss
Idealware’s Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide
http://idealware.org/reports/nonprofit-social-media-decision-guide
Idealware’s Nonprofit Social Media Policy Workbook
http://www.idealware.org/reports/nonprofit-social-media-policy-workbook
*** add speaking notes for this section for Joyce ***
People who like the arts like it all the time, not just a couple of times a year when they attend a performance! This is a way for them to stay connected to that side of themselves on an ongoing basis.
Social media complements other channels like your website and email, but doesn’t replace them.
Not just about promoting your shows! View this as a tool for building relationships. People will be more exposed to you over time and then more likely to buy tickets (though they may not see themselves as having done so *because* of social media)
Promote others – e.g. Nicole promoting other businesses and festivals in Almonte. Idea of **reciprocity**
Add more to this bit
Each channel is its own culture – it takes time to learn the language/ettiquette, meet the locals, etc. Don’t expect to barge in and find instant success
Group brainstorm
As an arts org you have a lot of great content at your fingertips. E.g. behind the scenes.
Behind the scenes, audience interaction
Big focus on sharing audience comments. Also have behind the scenes, creative content (eg grilled shakespeare). Highlight artists.
Connecting with local businesses & organizations. Targeted Facebook ads by geography.
“Giving people more insight into what’s going on behind the scenes actually makes people more excited [to come to shows],” the elegant Ko explains in conversation with theStraight at a downtown café, her iPod and laptop computer always a finger’s reach away. “When I joined [in July 2013], the first thing I knew I needed to do was get on Instagram. Ballet is visual, dance is visual—this is where people are going to see what Ballet B.C.’s all about. Especially because Facebook is on the decline, and not everyone’s on Twitter.…I’ve actually recruited quite a few people from Instagram to come to our shows.”
Just seven months into her position, Ko has single-handedly boosted the company’s combined followers across all social-media platforms from 4,000 to 10,000 (sample tweets: “Chiffon tops & more. First look at the #costumes for #GraceSymmetry #dancefashion”; “So we’re kinda excited for OPENING NIGHT this Thursday… Who’s coming?…#vancouver #yvrarts”). That’s a 150-percent boost in potential audience members actively seeking to engage with the company—one that, only four years ago, was on thebrink of bankruptcy, before it re-emerged with a new artistic director and a fresh mandate to commission and present contemporary ballet alongside visiting productions of classics.
Branislav Henselmann, the company’s executive director since July 2012, says he realized the impact the social-media strategy was having when the company performed at the prestigious Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts last July.
“I remember one of the people who works with the admin said, ‘Oh, my God! Your social media is amazing!’ ” he recalls in a phone call with the Straight. “It made me smile because she was exactly of the age that we would expect social media to hit. She was so excited that we were at the festival, having seen already 20 companies by then, because she was able to get all the information about the company [from our social media].” He credits the increased online visibility with helping to boost audience numbers as well. Subscriptions increased by 13 percent from 2011-12 to 2012-13, he reports, and this year they’ve already seen an additional 24-percent increase for 2013-14. Single-ticket sales also went up 18 percent from 2011-12 to 2012-13.
Facebook Group – completely online, strong community participation