This document summarizes a webinar on using Google Forms presented by LIASA on November 12, 2015. It provides an introduction to the webinar, details on LIASA's strategic directions, and instructions on setting up and customizing forms in Google Forms. The webinar demonstrates how to create forms, choose appropriate question types, distribute forms, and analyze response data. Attendees are encouraged to provide feedback on the webinar.
This document summarizes a webinar on using Google Forms presented by LIASA on November 12, 2015. It provides an introduction to the webinar, details on LIASA's strategic directions, and instructions on setting up and customizing forms in Google Forms. The webinar demonstrates how to create forms, choose appropriate question types, distribute forms, and analyze response data. Attendees are encouraged to provide feedback on the webinar.
Advancing access to information - togetherIna Smith
This document discusses advancing open access to scholarly information. It defines open access as research articles being freely available online with full rights to use in the digital environment. The benefits of open access are discussed, such as minimizing costs and avoiding duplication of research. Challenges to open access include the divide between rich and poor institutions in accessing information. Several solutions to advance open access are proposed, including open scholarly repositories, journals, monographs, and educational resources. Libraries and organizations like ASSAf and SPARC Africa are important stakeholders in collaborating to implement open access policies and build capacity.
Cassandra is a distributed database designed to handle large amounts of data across commodity servers. It aims for high availability with no single points of failure. Data is distributed across nodes and replicated for redundancy. Cassandra uses a decentralized design with peer-to-peer communication and an eventually consistent model. It requires denormalized data models and queries to be defined prior to data structure.
Gerald Tan discusses social casino games and the gaming industry. He notes that social casino games have 173 million monthly users, generate 43% of Facebook game revenue, and the top social casino apps have millions of monthly users. Social casino games are a viable business model with low user acquisition costs, large user bases, and focus on user retention, engagement, and monetization through microtransactions and high spending users. However, social casino games exist in a gray area between entertainment and gambling, and regulation could pose real costs as the industry grows.
Business Model of Social Games - Gerald Tan (2011-Jan-25)Gerald Tan
Gerald Tan discussed the business model of social games. He explained that the key metrics are reach, acquisition and liquidity, retention, spenders, and revenue. Different genres have different benchmarks for these metrics. The most effective business model is freemium with microtransactions, which allows free play but charges for virtual items. User retention, conversion to spenders, and average revenue per paying user are important factors that impact revenue.
The On-going Convergence of Interactive Gambling and Social Gaming Gerald Tan
The document discusses the convergence of social gaming and gambling, and examines where to draw the line between the two. It introduces Plumbee, an independent startup creating social casino games on Facebook that use virtual currencies instead of real money. The presentation argues these types of games can provide entertainment without the risks of real gambling as long as they are responsibly designed to not target minors and ensure all players have equal odds regardless of spending.
Game Mechanics to Improve User Engagement - Gerald Tan (2012-Nov-16)Gerald Tan
Gerald Tan discusses how game mechanics like levels, challenges, badges, points, leaderboards, and social elements can be layered into digital products and applications to improve user engagement if implemented correctly. He emphasizes that these mechanics work best when integrated as a coherent system with the objectives of guiding new users, providing a sense of purpose and achievement for all users, and recognizing veteran users. Metrics should be used to fine-tune the experience. Done right, game mechanics can make tedious tasks less so and keep users engaged.
Social Gaming is not a blip but the start of something, a potential disruptive but positive force in the gaming market. It is a viable business model with key differences in product characteristics when compared to traditional online gaming.
Business Model of Social Games (Detailed) - Gerald Tan (2012-Mar-01)Gerald Tan
Gerald Tan presented on the business model of social games. He discussed how social games have evolved since 2008 with the rise of platforms like Facebook and iOS. The freemium model with microtransactions has become the most effective business model. Key metrics for social games include reach, acquisition/liquidity, retention, spenders, and revenue. Games use a "game as a service" approach where they are constantly updated and optimized based on user behavior data.
Never before-disclosed oracle planning techniques by Jeff WalkerBen Lamorte
Jeff Walker, former Oracle CFO, presnted "Never-before-disclosed Oracle planning techniques" These slides were presented at the Alight/IE Group FP&A High Tech Summit in Palo Alto June 15, 2011. Jeff discussed key planning and reporting practices that supported Oracle’s rapid growth as it more than doubled annually from $20M to $1.2B while he was CFO.
Application Requirements For Rolling ForecastsBen Lamorte
Overview of application requirements for implementing a rolling forecast in a software package. Includes an excellent analysis differentiating "budgeting" from "planning" as well as some recent survey results that show budgets becoming obsolete very quickly in the current economic climate. In this analysis, you learn why "budgeting software" just does not work all that well for implementing rolling forecasts in general.
Learn a best practice methodology where financial plans incorporate assumptions about business activities which are modeled to drive financial data such as revenue projections, headcount, spending and capital requirements.
Open Access Policy driving Access to Research - Ina SmithIna Smith
This document discusses open access policies and their importance. It provides an overview of the Berlin Declaration which established two main conditions for open access. It defines what a policy is and explains why open access policies are implemented, including to provide access to publicly funded research. It outlines the status of open access policies globally and in Africa/South Africa. Key policies from organizations like the NRF, DHET, and ASSAf are summarized. Guidelines for developing effective open access policies from groups like UNESCO and Harvard are also referenced.
Advancing access to information - togetherIna Smith
This document discusses advancing open access to scholarly information. It defines open access as research articles being freely available online with full rights to use in the digital environment. The benefits of open access are discussed, such as minimizing costs and avoiding duplication of research. Challenges to open access include the divide between rich and poor institutions in accessing information. Several solutions to advance open access are proposed, including open scholarly repositories, journals, monographs, and educational resources. Libraries and organizations like ASSAf and SPARC Africa are important stakeholders in collaborating to implement open access policies and build capacity.
Cassandra is a distributed database designed to handle large amounts of data across commodity servers. It aims for high availability with no single points of failure. Data is distributed across nodes and replicated for redundancy. Cassandra uses a decentralized design with peer-to-peer communication and an eventually consistent model. It requires denormalized data models and queries to be defined prior to data structure.
Gerald Tan discusses social casino games and the gaming industry. He notes that social casino games have 173 million monthly users, generate 43% of Facebook game revenue, and the top social casino apps have millions of monthly users. Social casino games are a viable business model with low user acquisition costs, large user bases, and focus on user retention, engagement, and monetization through microtransactions and high spending users. However, social casino games exist in a gray area between entertainment and gambling, and regulation could pose real costs as the industry grows.
Business Model of Social Games - Gerald Tan (2011-Jan-25)Gerald Tan
Gerald Tan discussed the business model of social games. He explained that the key metrics are reach, acquisition and liquidity, retention, spenders, and revenue. Different genres have different benchmarks for these metrics. The most effective business model is freemium with microtransactions, which allows free play but charges for virtual items. User retention, conversion to spenders, and average revenue per paying user are important factors that impact revenue.
The On-going Convergence of Interactive Gambling and Social Gaming Gerald Tan
The document discusses the convergence of social gaming and gambling, and examines where to draw the line between the two. It introduces Plumbee, an independent startup creating social casino games on Facebook that use virtual currencies instead of real money. The presentation argues these types of games can provide entertainment without the risks of real gambling as long as they are responsibly designed to not target minors and ensure all players have equal odds regardless of spending.
Game Mechanics to Improve User Engagement - Gerald Tan (2012-Nov-16)Gerald Tan
Gerald Tan discusses how game mechanics like levels, challenges, badges, points, leaderboards, and social elements can be layered into digital products and applications to improve user engagement if implemented correctly. He emphasizes that these mechanics work best when integrated as a coherent system with the objectives of guiding new users, providing a sense of purpose and achievement for all users, and recognizing veteran users. Metrics should be used to fine-tune the experience. Done right, game mechanics can make tedious tasks less so and keep users engaged.
Social Gaming is not a blip but the start of something, a potential disruptive but positive force in the gaming market. It is a viable business model with key differences in product characteristics when compared to traditional online gaming.
Business Model of Social Games (Detailed) - Gerald Tan (2012-Mar-01)Gerald Tan
Gerald Tan presented on the business model of social games. He discussed how social games have evolved since 2008 with the rise of platforms like Facebook and iOS. The freemium model with microtransactions has become the most effective business model. Key metrics for social games include reach, acquisition/liquidity, retention, spenders, and revenue. Games use a "game as a service" approach where they are constantly updated and optimized based on user behavior data.
Never before-disclosed oracle planning techniques by Jeff WalkerBen Lamorte
Jeff Walker, former Oracle CFO, presnted "Never-before-disclosed Oracle planning techniques" These slides were presented at the Alight/IE Group FP&A High Tech Summit in Palo Alto June 15, 2011. Jeff discussed key planning and reporting practices that supported Oracle’s rapid growth as it more than doubled annually from $20M to $1.2B while he was CFO.
Application Requirements For Rolling ForecastsBen Lamorte
Overview of application requirements for implementing a rolling forecast in a software package. Includes an excellent analysis differentiating "budgeting" from "planning" as well as some recent survey results that show budgets becoming obsolete very quickly in the current economic climate. In this analysis, you learn why "budgeting software" just does not work all that well for implementing rolling forecasts in general.
Learn a best practice methodology where financial plans incorporate assumptions about business activities which are modeled to drive financial data such as revenue projections, headcount, spending and capital requirements.
Open Access Policy driving Access to Research - Ina SmithIna Smith
This document discusses open access policies and their importance. It provides an overview of the Berlin Declaration which established two main conditions for open access. It defines what a policy is and explains why open access policies are implemented, including to provide access to publicly funded research. It outlines the status of open access policies globally and in Africa/South Africa. Key policies from organizations like the NRF, DHET, and ASSAf are summarized. Guidelines for developing effective open access policies from groups like UNESCO and Harvard are also referenced.
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