Blogging and Social Media in Your BusinessChris Cree
An introduction to blogging and social media and how they can positively impact the bottom line of your business.
Presentation was part of the Entrepreneur Food For Thought Series sponsored by ATDC Savannah and the Creative Coast Alliance.
The author uses an average of 92.84 liters of water per day and 33,887 liters annually, while their household averages 464 liters daily and 3,249 liters weekly. To save water, the author plans to use collected rainwater from a rainwater drum instead of mains water.
Kelly Waters uses around 158 liters of water per day and the entire household uses around 475 liters daily. On a yearly basis, Kelly uses around 58,000 liters and the household uses 173,000 liters. To save water, Kelly plans to use less water when washing their face and washing their hair less frequently.
Drive Business in a Connected World for Internet MotorsCris Nulli
The document discusses how Facebook can help drive business for car dealers. It notes that in Italy, Facebook accounts for 25% of total time spent online and reaches 80% of internet users each month. The presentation promotes Facebook targeting options that can help get more customers to visit car dealers. As a case study, it outlines a Facebook advertising campaign run by Volvo Car Group to launch its new V40 model, which reached over 23 million people across the UK, Netherlands and Sweden. The analysis found Facebook provided a significant 17% increase in the audience over TV advertising alone and was more efficient at reaching interested customers. Combining Facebook and TV advertising resulted in a 13% increase in consideration of the Volvo V40 model.
This document provides instructions for installing Open Ecosystem Cron on Windows. It involves downloading a zip file, extracting it to a folder, running an installation bat script by double clicking it, and confirming or entering URLs during a series of prompts to complete the cron installation process.
The document provides instructions for installing VMWare Player by copying the contents of the VMWare CD to the hard drive, running the VMWare installation executable, and clicking through the installation wizard by selecting "Next" until reaching the "Install" button. It further details clicking "Finish" once installation is complete and verifying the VMWare Player icon is on the desktop, thus completing the installation process.
This document provides instructions for installing Winzip. It instructs the user to copy the contents of the Winzip CD to their hard drive, open the installation directory, and then double click the SETUP.exe file to start the installation process. It then guides the user through the installation wizard, having them click "Next" several times and "Finish" to complete the installation.
Blogging and Social Media in Your BusinessChris Cree
An introduction to blogging and social media and how they can positively impact the bottom line of your business.
Presentation was part of the Entrepreneur Food For Thought Series sponsored by ATDC Savannah and the Creative Coast Alliance.
The author uses an average of 92.84 liters of water per day and 33,887 liters annually, while their household averages 464 liters daily and 3,249 liters weekly. To save water, the author plans to use collected rainwater from a rainwater drum instead of mains water.
Kelly Waters uses around 158 liters of water per day and the entire household uses around 475 liters daily. On a yearly basis, Kelly uses around 58,000 liters and the household uses 173,000 liters. To save water, Kelly plans to use less water when washing their face and washing their hair less frequently.
Drive Business in a Connected World for Internet MotorsCris Nulli
The document discusses how Facebook can help drive business for car dealers. It notes that in Italy, Facebook accounts for 25% of total time spent online and reaches 80% of internet users each month. The presentation promotes Facebook targeting options that can help get more customers to visit car dealers. As a case study, it outlines a Facebook advertising campaign run by Volvo Car Group to launch its new V40 model, which reached over 23 million people across the UK, Netherlands and Sweden. The analysis found Facebook provided a significant 17% increase in the audience over TV advertising alone and was more efficient at reaching interested customers. Combining Facebook and TV advertising resulted in a 13% increase in consideration of the Volvo V40 model.
This document provides instructions for installing Open Ecosystem Cron on Windows. It involves downloading a zip file, extracting it to a folder, running an installation bat script by double clicking it, and confirming or entering URLs during a series of prompts to complete the cron installation process.
The document provides instructions for installing VMWare Player by copying the contents of the VMWare CD to the hard drive, running the VMWare installation executable, and clicking through the installation wizard by selecting "Next" until reaching the "Install" button. It further details clicking "Finish" once installation is complete and verifying the VMWare Player icon is on the desktop, thus completing the installation process.
This document provides instructions for installing Winzip. It instructs the user to copy the contents of the Winzip CD to their hard drive, open the installation directory, and then double click the SETUP.exe file to start the installation process. It then guides the user through the installation wizard, having them click "Next" several times and "Finish" to complete the installation.
The document provides instructions for installing the Live PC Engine virtual machine on a computer. It instructs the user to copy the contents of the CD to their hard drive, open the directory "3. Install Live PC Engine", and double click on the "livepcengine-setup-xxx.exe" file to begin the installation process. It then guides the user through clicking "Next", "Install", and "Finish" buttons to complete the installation.
The document summarizes a meeting of the NYC Sakai User Group. The group started by making connections at a conference in Amsterdam and wanted to share experiences and collaborate around using Sakai across schools in the NYC area. They met at NYU, provided food and access, and attendees included representatives from NYU, Columbia, Rutgers, St. Georges, and JA-SIG. The meeting allowed participants to connect with others using Sakai and realize they are not alone in their implementations. Organizers found the meeting easier than expected and want to expand participation going forward.
SGI has experience designing technical computing hardware and software solutions since 1998. They provide optimized Hadoop solutions using their Rackable and ICE Cube servers and storage systems. SGI's Hadoop solutions offer complete turn-key hardware and software configurations to help customers quickly deploy and architect Apache Hadoop clusters. Their reference architectures are optimized for performance, utilization, power efficiency and lower costs.
This short document discusses winter weather and encourages the reader not to complain about winter by stating they haven't seen real winter until experiencing something very cold. The document emphasizes how cold it is with multiple periods and exclamation points at the end.
Presented to the Chatham County Emergency Management 2011 Hurricane Conference. Topics include Why Social Media?, Thinking Mobile and Useful Social Media Tools.
NYC Java Meetup - Profiling and PerformanceJason Shao
A brief overview of some of the tools that ship with the Java platform that can be used to troubleshoot performance issues, and common production/performance problems
This document provides tips for tuning Hadoop clusters and jobs. It recommends:
1) Choosing optimal numbers of mappers and reducers per node and oversubscribing CPUs slightly.
2) Adjusting memory allocations for tasks and ensuring they do not exceed total memory available.
3) Increasing buffers for sorting and shuffling, compressing intermediate data, and using combiners to reduce data sent to reducers.
The document discusses lessons learned from Chris Cree's first 90 days of being alone and unafraid. Some key lessons include finding good advisors to bounce ideas off of and get different perspectives, realizing that plans will take longer than expected and may need to change course, holding on to your dreams when facing discouragement, and maintaining a sense of humor. The overall message is that starting your own business presents many challenges but it is important to learn from mistakes and not get discouraged.
NYC Hadoop Meetup - MapR, Architecture, Philosophy and ApplicationsJason Shao
Slides from: http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-NYC/events/34411232/
There are a number of assumptions that come with using standard Hadoop that are based on Hadoop's initial architecture. Many of these assumptions can be relaxed with more advanced architectures such as those provided by MapR. These changes in assumptions have ripple effects throughout the system architecture. This is significant because many systems like Mahout provide multiple implementations of various algorithms with very different performance and scaling implications.
I will describe several case studies and use these examples to show how these changes can simplify systems or, in some cases, make certain classes of programs run an order of magnitude faster.
About the speaker: Ted Dunning - Chief Application Architect (MapR)
Ted has held Chief Scientist positions at Veoh Networks, ID Analytics and at MusicMatch, (now Yahoo Music). Ted is responsible for building the most advanced identity theft detection system on the planet, as well as one of the largest peer-assisted video distribution systems and ground-breaking music and video recommendations systems. Ted has 15 issued and 15 pending patents and contributes to several Apache open source projects including Hadoop, Zookeeper and Hbase. He is also a committer for Apache Mahout. Ted earned a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado; a MS degree in computer science from New Mexico State University; and a Ph.D. in computing science from Sheffield University in the United Kingdom. Ted also bought the drinks at one of the very first Hadoop User Group meetings.
Pig is a platform for analyzing large datasets that uses a high-level language to express data analysis programs. It compiles programs into MapReduce jobs that can run in parallel on a Hadoop cluster. Pig provides built-in functions for common tasks and allows users to define their own custom functions (UDFs). Programs can be run locally or on a Hadoop cluster by placing commands in a script or Grunt shell.
The document provides instructions for installing the Live PC Engine virtual machine on a computer. It instructs the user to copy the contents of the CD to their hard drive, open the directory "3. Install Live PC Engine", and double click on the "livepcengine-setup-xxx.exe" file to begin the installation process. It then guides the user through clicking "Next", "Install", and "Finish" buttons to complete the installation.
The document summarizes a meeting of the NYC Sakai User Group. The group started by making connections at a conference in Amsterdam and wanted to share experiences and collaborate around using Sakai across schools in the NYC area. They met at NYU, provided food and access, and attendees included representatives from NYU, Columbia, Rutgers, St. Georges, and JA-SIG. The meeting allowed participants to connect with others using Sakai and realize they are not alone in their implementations. Organizers found the meeting easier than expected and want to expand participation going forward.
SGI has experience designing technical computing hardware and software solutions since 1998. They provide optimized Hadoop solutions using their Rackable and ICE Cube servers and storage systems. SGI's Hadoop solutions offer complete turn-key hardware and software configurations to help customers quickly deploy and architect Apache Hadoop clusters. Their reference architectures are optimized for performance, utilization, power efficiency and lower costs.
This short document discusses winter weather and encourages the reader not to complain about winter by stating they haven't seen real winter until experiencing something very cold. The document emphasizes how cold it is with multiple periods and exclamation points at the end.
Presented to the Chatham County Emergency Management 2011 Hurricane Conference. Topics include Why Social Media?, Thinking Mobile and Useful Social Media Tools.
NYC Java Meetup - Profiling and PerformanceJason Shao
A brief overview of some of the tools that ship with the Java platform that can be used to troubleshoot performance issues, and common production/performance problems
This document provides tips for tuning Hadoop clusters and jobs. It recommends:
1) Choosing optimal numbers of mappers and reducers per node and oversubscribing CPUs slightly.
2) Adjusting memory allocations for tasks and ensuring they do not exceed total memory available.
3) Increasing buffers for sorting and shuffling, compressing intermediate data, and using combiners to reduce data sent to reducers.
The document discusses lessons learned from Chris Cree's first 90 days of being alone and unafraid. Some key lessons include finding good advisors to bounce ideas off of and get different perspectives, realizing that plans will take longer than expected and may need to change course, holding on to your dreams when facing discouragement, and maintaining a sense of humor. The overall message is that starting your own business presents many challenges but it is important to learn from mistakes and not get discouraged.
NYC Hadoop Meetup - MapR, Architecture, Philosophy and ApplicationsJason Shao
Slides from: http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-NYC/events/34411232/
There are a number of assumptions that come with using standard Hadoop that are based on Hadoop's initial architecture. Many of these assumptions can be relaxed with more advanced architectures such as those provided by MapR. These changes in assumptions have ripple effects throughout the system architecture. This is significant because many systems like Mahout provide multiple implementations of various algorithms with very different performance and scaling implications.
I will describe several case studies and use these examples to show how these changes can simplify systems or, in some cases, make certain classes of programs run an order of magnitude faster.
About the speaker: Ted Dunning - Chief Application Architect (MapR)
Ted has held Chief Scientist positions at Veoh Networks, ID Analytics and at MusicMatch, (now Yahoo Music). Ted is responsible for building the most advanced identity theft detection system on the planet, as well as one of the largest peer-assisted video distribution systems and ground-breaking music and video recommendations systems. Ted has 15 issued and 15 pending patents and contributes to several Apache open source projects including Hadoop, Zookeeper and Hbase. He is also a committer for Apache Mahout. Ted earned a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado; a MS degree in computer science from New Mexico State University; and a Ph.D. in computing science from Sheffield University in the United Kingdom. Ted also bought the drinks at one of the very first Hadoop User Group meetings.
Pig is a platform for analyzing large datasets that uses a high-level language to express data analysis programs. It compiles programs into MapReduce jobs that can run in parallel on a Hadoop cluster. Pig provides built-in functions for common tasks and allows users to define their own custom functions (UDFs). Programs can be run locally or on a Hadoop cluster by placing commands in a script or Grunt shell.