How do we get beyond "blah blah blah?" How can non-profits use the web to get more done -- instead of drowning in chatter, overload, and distraction? How do we empower our supporters to participate and engage in depth, instead of just talking at them? How do we use the web as a smart collaboration engine, instead of just another communications medium?
In this keynote presentation and discussion, Matt Thompson, Chief Storyteller for the Mozilla Foundation, will share what he's learned from successes and failures in the space. His new mantra -- "think small, do less, work open" -- is a six-word manifesto for organizations seeking smarter collaboration, greater focus and agility, and reduced mental clutter and transaction cost.
In a world of overflowing inboxes and shrinking attention spans, content is no longer king -- meaningful engagement and participation is. So what can we learn from how leading organizations are using open web tools and thinking to let their audiences in, tap greater human potential, and unlock hidden superpowers? Join us for a lively exploration into where the web is headed.
Michael Edson: Prototyping the Smithsonian CommonsMichael Edson
Update 7/8/2010: we've posted the Smithsonian Commons Prototype http://www.si.edu/commons/prototype
First presented at Computers in Libraries (CIL) 2010, this presentation gives an overview of Smithsonian strategies and the inception of the Smithsonian Commons.
Culture eats strategy for lunch? Hah—not this time! Ancestry.com has undergone a significant and rapid transformation to continuous delivery and business agility in less than three years—and they are not done yet. Today, Ancestry has a culture significantly different from what it used to, made possible by the adoption of new practices, tools, organizational changes, management involvement, and dramatic shifts in mindset. Adopting Agile development was the catalyst, but much more had to be mixed in to create their own flavor of DevOps and continuous delivery. This talk will focus on the specific challenges, phases, and actions taken during Ancestry’s cultural metamorphosis. Come listen to how Ancestry has beaten the culture monster so you can too!
Are museums a dial that only goes to 5? Michael Edson
For Social Media Week, Washington, D.C., "Defining and measuring social media success in museums and arts organizations." http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/event/are-you-remarkable-defining-and-measuring-social-media-success-in-museums-and-arts-organizations/#.US4XyOtARCQ
Presentation to the i20 event hosted by The White House and The Department of State on the 13th January 2011. Presentation of the OpenIDEO i20 challenge, featuring 6 grand challenges contributed by a range of people. More details here: http://bit.ly/bvAjkt
Michael Edson: Prototyping the Smithsonian CommonsMichael Edson
Update 7/8/2010: we've posted the Smithsonian Commons Prototype http://www.si.edu/commons/prototype
First presented at Computers in Libraries (CIL) 2010, this presentation gives an overview of Smithsonian strategies and the inception of the Smithsonian Commons.
Culture eats strategy for lunch? Hah—not this time! Ancestry.com has undergone a significant and rapid transformation to continuous delivery and business agility in less than three years—and they are not done yet. Today, Ancestry has a culture significantly different from what it used to, made possible by the adoption of new practices, tools, organizational changes, management involvement, and dramatic shifts in mindset. Adopting Agile development was the catalyst, but much more had to be mixed in to create their own flavor of DevOps and continuous delivery. This talk will focus on the specific challenges, phases, and actions taken during Ancestry’s cultural metamorphosis. Come listen to how Ancestry has beaten the culture monster so you can too!
Are museums a dial that only goes to 5? Michael Edson
For Social Media Week, Washington, D.C., "Defining and measuring social media success in museums and arts organizations." http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/event/are-you-remarkable-defining-and-measuring-social-media-success-in-museums-and-arts-organizations/#.US4XyOtARCQ
Presentation to the i20 event hosted by The White House and The Department of State on the 13th January 2011. Presentation of the OpenIDEO i20 challenge, featuring 6 grand challenges contributed by a range of people. More details here: http://bit.ly/bvAjkt
5 Ways to Upgrade your Office using SCIENCE!Floown
Every team needs a great office. A beautiful place to work together, learn together, and have fun together. We spend so much time in an office... Why not put a little effort in making it a quality environment? We investigated a few easy fixes anyone can implement right away. No budget, effort or big changes necessary.
This keynote delivered in Arkansas at the TNT conference is a motivational approach of looking at change and technology from a classroom teacher who is collaborating globally and using many leading (and older) technology tools.
Haven’t heard of Liberating structures before? It’s alright, the majority of us haven’t.
But then, have you ever been to long meetings where you had to stay silent throughout? Although meetings are an inevitable part of getting the best ideas and your teams together, they can also be toxic killing productive hours if not properly structured.
What if there were methods for you to optimize your meetings into idea-machines with total engagement and shorter durations? That’s something that all of us who attend meetings should know in the first place - that’s exactly what Liberating Structures does.
Liberating Structures is an innovative concept that could disrupt the way companies hold meetings today. These are simple structures designed to facilitate meetings based on the participants focussed on results.
Get immersive at the hands-on workshop on the essentials of Liberating Structures at the 75th Palladium edition of FAYA:80. Learn how you can transform your team meetings into idea generation camps and a platform for engaged discussions from Mr. Cipson Thomas, an experienced Agile coach and Liberating Structures evangelist.
Join in for the discussion if you strongly believe that meetings could be made better. The session will be immensely beneficial for all enthusiasts, programmers, managers and all others who have attended meetings before and would like to get introduced to transform their meetings into better-engaged discussions.
Fallon Brainfood x VCU Brandcenter: The Engagement OpportunityAki Spicer
Aki Spicer, Fallon's Director of Digital Strategy conducted a workshop at VCU Brandcenter's Executive Training Program for account planners.
"The Engagement Opportunity" outlines the evolving role and function of strategic planning in this age of digital and social technologies and proposes a methodology for integrated creative ideation.
Rapid growth | 10 Challenges and OpportunitiesNick Caldwell
10 Challenges and Opportunities for rapidly growing product / engineering organizations. Topics include roles and responsibilities, reorganization, people, culture, diversity, execution at scale, ambition, and more. By Nick Caldwell, VP of Engineering at Reddit
Microsoft's annual inspirational global hackathon, oneweek invites all employees to tinker. There are new product expos, a speaker series and parties. CEO, Satya Nadella wraps it all up with a rousing talk.
Exactly the kind of All Hands you’d expect from a company laser focused on reinventing culture.
Here you can see some of the work we did with Microsoft around changes at play there, especially culture. We created this as an internal e-book to spread the word about change, it's now available for public viewing!
Eight steps to leading a successful SharePoint project. Based on the article 'Leading Change' by John P Kotter with examples based on experiences with SharePoint projects over the past decade. Focused on business value, not technical fe
Digital Marketing trends from SXSW Interactive 2013. BBDO New York focused in on 5 themes most relevant to Brands and Agencies by launching www.DigitalLabLive.com.
Working Open: 7 principles for agile collaborationMattThompson
Collaboration and teamwork are the master skill of the 21st century. Open source and the "open everything" movement have been experimenting with more collaborative ways to work, make decisions and get sh*t done. What are their secrets? What can the rest of us learn from them?
This presentation summarizes some of the early thinking and research behind my book in progress, "Working Open." It's pretty raw, much too long, and only about 25% baked. Updates and more coming here: https://workopen.org
135 individuals attended the third Hudson Valley Tech Festival Conference and Hackathon in 2021.In partnership with Google Developers Community, supported by Google, this event was the major tech event for the region.
The 3-day Conference was live-streamed and transcribed by the New York Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC NY) with all sessions archived online,
Day one of the Conference was a hybrid in-person/virtual session, days two and three featured virtual workshops with technical papers being presented and discussed,
81 individuals participated in the Hackathon, using Zoom, Discord, Padlet and other tools provided. Participants List
3 separate social/civic problems were addressed.
Here is our inaugural issue of Innovation Excellence Weekly. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
How the web changes the organisation of business and the business of organisa...david cushman
Final version of the slides I presented in a keynote for Webciety at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany on March 8, 2012.
You can see the video of me presenting it here: http://webciety.c.nmdn.net/playlist/list.php#entryId=0_yxkxvl4w or go to my blog FasterFuture.blogspot.com and search for CeBIT
Can we design organizations for beauty?Joyce Hostyn
The future is ours to imagine, design and create. And if we’re dreaming the future into being, why not dream of a future where business is beautiful. Where business delivers the promise of happiness. Where business is an incredible force for positive change in the world.
Roundup of GWC15 - Brighton Gamification MeetupJoshua Wong
My personal aggregation of pertinent points made at the Gamification World Congress 2015 as well as my first ever professional presentation/slideshare upload. Comments regarding content and presentation design are most welcomed.
Fallon Brainfood x Planning-ness 2010: How To Plan AppsAki Spicer
Aki Spicer, Fallon's Director of Digital Strategy will reveal some learnings and tips for account planners trying to operationalize the process of concepting, selling and building applications and digital tools.
Learn some pitfalls to avoid, shortcuts for bridging the gap between "start-up" culture and agency culture, guidance for selling apps to clients who are "bottom-line" or "ad message" minded, and shifting your teams from campaign thinking to service mentality.
http://planningness.com
September 30th – October 1st at Denver’s, Space Gallery.
Many organisations put controls in place that inhibit the ability of their employees to make the most of the tools available to them. ThoughtWorks is different - we aim to encourage and support "Shadow IT". But when it comes to tools that support collaboration, there is a tricky balance to achieve - and we don't always get it right. In this presentation - first given at the "Death to the Workplace Superman" event held in conjunction with Morgan Lovell - I share a couple of stories that exemplify our approach to getting this balance right, and some of the mistakes made along the way. This version includes the speaker notes in the slides.
http://www.morganlovell.co.uk/knowledge/events/death-to-the-workplace-superman/
http://www.morganlovell.co.uk/knowledge/blogs/death-to-the-workplace-superman/
http://www.thoughtworks.com/
A presentation Brian Kardell in OpenUI appealing to the possibility of the group taking up efforts toward defining how we can use real world usage data in the process of standardization, and why we should.
Last year, I uploaded this deck, Simplify Your Life, and was incredibly humbled by the thousands of views, downloads, wonderful comments, being featured on SlideShare, and even having people list it as a favorite.
Since I was recently asked to speak on this deck, I went through and redesigned it, updated it, and updated its look, feel and content.
I hope you all enjoy it as much as you liked the first one! Cheers!
Is your life too loud? Is your daily routine busy and chaotic? Is your mind constantly jam-packed with hundreds of details and to-do lists? Or does your mind keep making noise even when you are trying to relax? If you answered “YES” to any of these questions, this seminar is for you. Join motivational speaker Michelle Neujahr for an inspiring session designed to help you your simplify life, quite the noise in your mind and begin to discover your life purpose. Throughout this session you’ll be challenged to acknowledge the need to simplify, accept responsibility for contentment, face life authentically and learn to appreciate the simple things discovered in the absence of noise. A must attend for people who are serious about simplifying their life right now!
5 Ways to Upgrade your Office using SCIENCE!Floown
Every team needs a great office. A beautiful place to work together, learn together, and have fun together. We spend so much time in an office... Why not put a little effort in making it a quality environment? We investigated a few easy fixes anyone can implement right away. No budget, effort or big changes necessary.
This keynote delivered in Arkansas at the TNT conference is a motivational approach of looking at change and technology from a classroom teacher who is collaborating globally and using many leading (and older) technology tools.
Haven’t heard of Liberating structures before? It’s alright, the majority of us haven’t.
But then, have you ever been to long meetings where you had to stay silent throughout? Although meetings are an inevitable part of getting the best ideas and your teams together, they can also be toxic killing productive hours if not properly structured.
What if there were methods for you to optimize your meetings into idea-machines with total engagement and shorter durations? That’s something that all of us who attend meetings should know in the first place - that’s exactly what Liberating Structures does.
Liberating Structures is an innovative concept that could disrupt the way companies hold meetings today. These are simple structures designed to facilitate meetings based on the participants focussed on results.
Get immersive at the hands-on workshop on the essentials of Liberating Structures at the 75th Palladium edition of FAYA:80. Learn how you can transform your team meetings into idea generation camps and a platform for engaged discussions from Mr. Cipson Thomas, an experienced Agile coach and Liberating Structures evangelist.
Join in for the discussion if you strongly believe that meetings could be made better. The session will be immensely beneficial for all enthusiasts, programmers, managers and all others who have attended meetings before and would like to get introduced to transform their meetings into better-engaged discussions.
Fallon Brainfood x VCU Brandcenter: The Engagement OpportunityAki Spicer
Aki Spicer, Fallon's Director of Digital Strategy conducted a workshop at VCU Brandcenter's Executive Training Program for account planners.
"The Engagement Opportunity" outlines the evolving role and function of strategic planning in this age of digital and social technologies and proposes a methodology for integrated creative ideation.
Rapid growth | 10 Challenges and OpportunitiesNick Caldwell
10 Challenges and Opportunities for rapidly growing product / engineering organizations. Topics include roles and responsibilities, reorganization, people, culture, diversity, execution at scale, ambition, and more. By Nick Caldwell, VP of Engineering at Reddit
Microsoft's annual inspirational global hackathon, oneweek invites all employees to tinker. There are new product expos, a speaker series and parties. CEO, Satya Nadella wraps it all up with a rousing talk.
Exactly the kind of All Hands you’d expect from a company laser focused on reinventing culture.
Here you can see some of the work we did with Microsoft around changes at play there, especially culture. We created this as an internal e-book to spread the word about change, it's now available for public viewing!
Eight steps to leading a successful SharePoint project. Based on the article 'Leading Change' by John P Kotter with examples based on experiences with SharePoint projects over the past decade. Focused on business value, not technical fe
Digital Marketing trends from SXSW Interactive 2013. BBDO New York focused in on 5 themes most relevant to Brands and Agencies by launching www.DigitalLabLive.com.
Working Open: 7 principles for agile collaborationMattThompson
Collaboration and teamwork are the master skill of the 21st century. Open source and the "open everything" movement have been experimenting with more collaborative ways to work, make decisions and get sh*t done. What are their secrets? What can the rest of us learn from them?
This presentation summarizes some of the early thinking and research behind my book in progress, "Working Open." It's pretty raw, much too long, and only about 25% baked. Updates and more coming here: https://workopen.org
135 individuals attended the third Hudson Valley Tech Festival Conference and Hackathon in 2021.In partnership with Google Developers Community, supported by Google, this event was the major tech event for the region.
The 3-day Conference was live-streamed and transcribed by the New York Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC NY) with all sessions archived online,
Day one of the Conference was a hybrid in-person/virtual session, days two and three featured virtual workshops with technical papers being presented and discussed,
81 individuals participated in the Hackathon, using Zoom, Discord, Padlet and other tools provided. Participants List
3 separate social/civic problems were addressed.
Here is our inaugural issue of Innovation Excellence Weekly. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to nearly 5,000 innovation-related articles.
How the web changes the organisation of business and the business of organisa...david cushman
Final version of the slides I presented in a keynote for Webciety at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany on March 8, 2012.
You can see the video of me presenting it here: http://webciety.c.nmdn.net/playlist/list.php#entryId=0_yxkxvl4w or go to my blog FasterFuture.blogspot.com and search for CeBIT
Can we design organizations for beauty?Joyce Hostyn
The future is ours to imagine, design and create. And if we’re dreaming the future into being, why not dream of a future where business is beautiful. Where business delivers the promise of happiness. Where business is an incredible force for positive change in the world.
Roundup of GWC15 - Brighton Gamification MeetupJoshua Wong
My personal aggregation of pertinent points made at the Gamification World Congress 2015 as well as my first ever professional presentation/slideshare upload. Comments regarding content and presentation design are most welcomed.
Fallon Brainfood x Planning-ness 2010: How To Plan AppsAki Spicer
Aki Spicer, Fallon's Director of Digital Strategy will reveal some learnings and tips for account planners trying to operationalize the process of concepting, selling and building applications and digital tools.
Learn some pitfalls to avoid, shortcuts for bridging the gap between "start-up" culture and agency culture, guidance for selling apps to clients who are "bottom-line" or "ad message" minded, and shifting your teams from campaign thinking to service mentality.
http://planningness.com
September 30th – October 1st at Denver’s, Space Gallery.
Many organisations put controls in place that inhibit the ability of their employees to make the most of the tools available to them. ThoughtWorks is different - we aim to encourage and support "Shadow IT". But when it comes to tools that support collaboration, there is a tricky balance to achieve - and we don't always get it right. In this presentation - first given at the "Death to the Workplace Superman" event held in conjunction with Morgan Lovell - I share a couple of stories that exemplify our approach to getting this balance right, and some of the mistakes made along the way. This version includes the speaker notes in the slides.
http://www.morganlovell.co.uk/knowledge/events/death-to-the-workplace-superman/
http://www.morganlovell.co.uk/knowledge/blogs/death-to-the-workplace-superman/
http://www.thoughtworks.com/
A presentation Brian Kardell in OpenUI appealing to the possibility of the group taking up efforts toward defining how we can use real world usage data in the process of standardization, and why we should.
Last year, I uploaded this deck, Simplify Your Life, and was incredibly humbled by the thousands of views, downloads, wonderful comments, being featured on SlideShare, and even having people list it as a favorite.
Since I was recently asked to speak on this deck, I went through and redesigned it, updated it, and updated its look, feel and content.
I hope you all enjoy it as much as you liked the first one! Cheers!
Is your life too loud? Is your daily routine busy and chaotic? Is your mind constantly jam-packed with hundreds of details and to-do lists? Or does your mind keep making noise even when you are trying to relax? If you answered “YES” to any of these questions, this seminar is for you. Join motivational speaker Michelle Neujahr for an inspiring session designed to help you your simplify life, quite the noise in your mind and begin to discover your life purpose. Throughout this session you’ll be challenged to acknowledge the need to simplify, accept responsibility for contentment, face life authentically and learn to appreciate the simple things discovered in the absence of noise. A must attend for people who are serious about simplifying their life right now!
Evernote & Beyond! Tools to Save Time and Make Your Life EasierCrystal Paradis
Broad overview of some cool productivity tools.
More info: http://www.laughtercrystal.com/2014/01/evernote-beyond-productivity-tools-to.html
By Crystal Paradis
vital. | vtldesign.com
Discipline weighs ounces, but regret weighs tons.
The key word is "sacrifice".
It is the ability for you to sacrifice inmediate pleasure or gratification in the present so that you can enjoy greater rewards down the road.
AN ADAPTATION OF BRIAN TRACY\'S TIME MANAGEMENT BEST SELLER "EAT THAT FROG". I HAVE ADDED SOME CAPTIVATING VISUALS TO DRIVE HOME THE POINTS MADE.
Self-confidence is a belief or feeling in your own abilities and talents. The way you feel or believe in yourself will impact your reactions i.e. make you either confident or not confident. Do you want to learn the simple secrets to help you improve your self-confidence? Here is presentation that highlights on the simple tips to build self-confidence easily.
How to build self confidence - here is a slide show which takes you through 10 steps to grow and improve your self confidence and embrace the challenges in life
We all are pretty smart people, and we do know that like everything else even confidence wavers in our lives. The crude definition of self confidence is the belief in oneself that we can really do something. And this belief is put to test when things around us go completely wrong and we are still supposed to believe in ourselves, esp when no one else around us does.
No wonder it is tough and no wonder we seek assistance although we know that we have everything we need within ourselves to solve every simple problem. Today we are going to fixate on that problem which is bugging you from a while and develop the necessary confidence to get over it.
Here is a step by step procedure on how to build self confidence
A Culture Of Innovation In Practice - How To Tame The Culture BeastProduktbezogen.de
A Culture Of Innovation In Practice - How To Tame The Culture Beast. Präsentiert beim Reeperbahnfestival 2014 in Hamburg durch unseren Autor Daniel Neuberger.
Startups and Smalltak - Presented at Smalltalks2014 Córdoba, Argentinasebastian sastre
Here are the slides of the talk I gave at Smalltalks2014 in November 2014, in Córdoba, Argentina.
It covers the basics of why startups matter and what they actually are. Then show some opportunities and challenges about them and for Smalltalk in particular. It closes with some questions and suggestions on how to raise the value of the community, hopefully resulting in increasing the chances to see more profitable portfolios.
Revolt Breakfast Club is a monthly presentation for our clients and special guests, which aim to inspire, educate and encourage discussion about the ever-changing digital landscape. The presentations focus on specific topics relevant for those who want to be better at navigating the various tools, technologies, platforms and consumer preferences faced by brands today.
The topic of this month was viral marketing with Jesper Åström focusing on the mechanics behind, what makes content go viral.
This month's speaker:
Jesper Åström is a digital tactician specialized in problem solving, as he explains it himself. He is founder of the Viral Hack project, which aims to use the network economy to explain the networked world. He’s an expert on the mechanics behind viral marketing and has, i.a., created a course, which consists of 54 videos on the theory of why something goes viral.
In this session, we will examine the notion of 'innovation' with the goal of enabling new ideas within your team. This starts by challenging the concept of what innovation means and where new ideas originate. Techniques will be offered for building a culture of innovation which include: how to curate ideas, inspire teams, build innovative mindsets, create better processes and deal with change.
By the end of the session, attendees will gain new strategies that foster an environment of empowerment, creativity and collaboration.
Here's a deck I put together for a client to help their internal team understand the benefits of embracing technology.
The document notes indicate where I've cribbed ideas and/or images from.
I'm sure it has typos, and some of the ideas could be refined further, but hey… who has time for perfection?
In the spirit of the internet, feel free to use what I've created as you please. A shout-out would be nice.
Personal summary of the World Creativity Forum about creativity and innovation at the 16th and 17th November 2011 in Hasselt, Flanders.
Keynotes: Malcolm Gladwell, Alexander Osterwalder, Scott Belski, Peter Hinssen, Garr Reynolds, Keith Sawyer, Jamie Anderson, Patti Maes
creativityworldforum.be
Texts in Dutch and English.
Is your nonprofit looking to incorporate more design thinking in its projects? Are you confused about what a design thinking approach entails? This recording will help you learn the ins and outs of design thinking.
A brief deck (it's a lot of slides, but can be run through in 30 mins or so) to provide a basic overview of how markets and marketing has changed and why that should drive in social media. Special thanks to Lee White for some of the slides that define social media, to gaipingvoid.com for the cartoons and Flickr users for the pictures.
This is my presentation from the IIM National Conference on 15 August 2007. I'm hoping to cause a little bit of a stir and push a few people out of their comfort zones.
There are three embedded videos that don't work on SlideShare. Use the URLs on the relevant pages to view the videos at YouTube.
There are a lot of slides, but the whole thing runs about 40 minutes in real life.
JiveWorld brings together top thought leaders, customer experts, and developers for three days of knowledge sharing and networking. Here are the top 10 takeaways from this year's event.
Users are People Too Adobe Max PresentationMeagan Fisher
Too often we create brands, experiences, and content that sacrifice humanity on the altar of conversion optimization. Join this session as we explore how to make our web and mobile experiences feel less like a business transaction and more like a conversation through human-oriented brand, marketing, and experience design.
Creative director, user advocate, and designer Meagan Fisher will share techniques that will help you honor the humanity of users through empathy-driven design and content.
Being Digital: 5 key tactics towards modernizing your organization and ideas
Fallon co-sponsored presentation event with MN AMA (American Marketing Association)
With so many rapid-fire changes in the digital landscape, how are agencies and marketers adapting their strategies and creativity to engage and connect with people?
Join Aki Spicer, Director of Digital Strategy at Fallon, as he shares insights on driving creativity in the age of digital and social media. Learn how his team is broadening its bench strength and skill sets; embracing the user over the viewer mindset; evolving measurement and ROI; building a process for experimentation; and planning for social content strategy. As a marketer, discover new ways to encourage investment in small experiments that can lead to bigger results.
As technologists, we love to build things. And we sometimes forget that our customers (or potential customers) don’t care about what we’re building. They care about what they’re building, doing, or feeling. In this talk, we’ll explore methodologies that help us continually focus on our customers’ needs, building just enough to learn and iterate towards their desired outcomes. Coming away from this, you’ll have a few more tools in the toolbox for your lean startup.
Social Media for Nonprofits: What the CSuite Should KnowBryann Alexandros
Nonprofit leaders of the round table: before engaging on social media, plan smarter and strategically first. Myths and blasphemies, as well as sacred realizations before considering social media in your campaigns.
Similar to The Open Manifesto: how to work smarter, supercharge collaboration and (maybe) change the world | Matt Thompson, Mozilla Drumbeat (20)
Increasingly, small and medium sized charities are growing their fundraising programs by running team-based events like runs, walks, and other "-thons".
In this webinar, speakers Paul Nazareth and Shannon Craig from CanadaHelps will share concrete examples of successful small charity peer-to-peer campaigns and provide key insights on how to choose your event type, "right-size" your event, as well as share eight guide posts for maximizing your results.
Monthly giving is an incredibly powerful way for you to kick-start your fundraising program’s earning potential. Cultivating relationships with donors who are already connected to your cause by asking them to make smaller, ongoing gifts means more money for your organization today, and a strong list of prospects for upgraded and larger gifts in the future.
Donations of securities are currently one of the most tax-smart ways to make charitable donations in Canada – but is your charity set up to accept them? CanadaHelps has you covered! Since 2007 we have been successfully helping our charities to accept donations of publicly traded securities and mutual funds. This webinar will outline how the donation works for the charity and the donor, how CanadaHelps processes gifts for your charity and how to market, promote and speak to donors about this type of donation.
Our speaker Paul Nazareth, VP of Community Engagement at CanadaHelps is a 15 year planned giving professional who is a national instructor with the Canadian Association of Gift Planners, has worked with securities donations in charities of all sizes and with the advisors who make these gifts happen. Get your program set up to get more gifts this year!
How many times have you heard that the last few months of the year are critical to online fundraising? Simren Deogun from Stephen Thomas shares 30 online fundraising tips to help make your end of year appeal a success. December alone can bring your charity 30% of your online donations for the year, so this is one session you don’t want to miss!
Topics discussed:
How many emails should you be sending?
Is there a time and place for multiple asks?
Do donors really care about the tax deadline?
And much more!
Douglas Brodhead from Innoweave will share his knowledge about innovative tools and approaches that your charity can use to generate greater impact at a lower cost.
Topics to be discussed:
Learn about Innoweave
New social innovations that are helping organizations generate greater impact
The Innoweave process and how your organization can benefit
Opportunities to apply for implementation funding
The role of the board in fundraising is often a touchy topic. Discover the source of the tension - from both sides of the coin. Learn how you can engage your organization's board of directors and strengthen their role as part of a highly functioning development team. Cynthia Armour (author of Charity Village's Fundraising Q & A for four years) will provide practical tips and tools for building board confidence and raising more money.
Learning Objectives:
Identify the challenges and benefits of board
engagement
Summarize best practices in board’s fundraising
role and how staff can foster engagement
Provide practical tips and tools for successful
board involvement
Join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #BoardStrategy and be sure to follow us @CharityLifeCA!
Lori and Sean from The Connected Brand share their expertise on how strong brands are built, why this matters to charitable organizations of all sizes, and the common misconceptions about what brands are. They will also be sharing a donor journey tool that attendees can take away and put into action.
Learn some of the key ways to increase donations and be discovered by new donors and media this GivingTuesday and holiday season! We'll discuss the new CanadaHelps Gift Guide, tax-time, holiday campaigns and more.
Download these slides and then watch the webinar recording! http://bit.ly/GTCgh7yt
Join Paul Nazareth of CanadaHelps and the Canadian Association of Gift Planners to pick up strategies to engage your leadership and major donors as part of Canada’s biggest new philanthropic movement!
Explore ways your nonprofit can get involved in #GivingTuesdayCA this year. This presentation shares many ideas - from the simple to more complex - for engaging your supporters, raising awareness, and supporting philanthropy this December 2nd, 2014. GivingTuesday is a global movement that creates a new day on the calendar focused on giving back.
Learn more about Innoweave, an initiative of the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and Social Innovation Generation, that provides community sector leaders with new tools and processes to affect large-scale change. Learn about the webinars, workshops, coaching and grants that Innoweave offers to help you implement approaches such as developmental evaluation, social enterprise, social finance, impact and strategic clarity, collective impact, outcomes finance and cloud computing.
Many organizations are struggling with the decision to start a plan giving program. Many are actively engaged in various forms of fund raising and plan giving never seems to get on top of the "pile" of things to do. This interactive session will present an overview of various forms of planned giving programs that can be run with volunteers, part-time staff, and/or full-time staff. Things you need to know, structures you need to build, donated property you can readily accept, timelines to be expected, and controls you need to put in place will all be discussed. Most importantly, your questions will be answered. So bring them on May 14!
About DeWayne Osborn:
Lawton Partners’ General Manager, Chief Compliance Officer and in-house expert on charitable and planned giving, DeWayne is one of Canada’s leading authorities on planned giving. DeWayne's professional knowledge as a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Certified General Accountant (CGA), has made DeWayne a highly sought-after public speaker and consultant on the financial complexities and philanthropic benefits that can be achieved by applying tax-effective strategies for gifting real property, cash, securities and life insurance products.
Reference materials for The Evolution of a Planned Giving Program webinar including:
-Gifts and Income Tax 2013 from CRA
-Planned Gifts Program Policies and Guidelines draft
-Suggested Timelines for Planned Giving worksheet
Technology trends are continuously changing and improving the way we work and communicate with each other. Staying on top of these trends is essential in developing new strategies for attracting, engaging, and retaining volunteers. Join the founders of Kindness Connect, Jonathan Burns and Kevan Osmond, as they explore these changes and how you can best utilize new and affordable technology to maintain an effective and engaged volunteer program.
Now that your charity has signed up with CanadaHelps, please join us for this webinar about how to make the most of your MyCharity account.
Learn how to:
- Navigate your MyCharity account
- Find information about your donors and donations
- Update your Charity Profile
- Add the "Donate Now" button to your website
- Customize your Donate Page
- And much more!
Learning Outcomes
-Making a case for donor relations in the quest to renew first-time supporters
-Introducing key terms you need to know
-Defining the value of relationship building
-Identifying steps to a strong donor relations program
-Providing names and sources for more information
An introduction to CanadaHelps and its benefits to Canadian registered charities.
Topics we'll cover:
- How can my charity use CanadaHelps to raise funds online?
- What are the features of CanadaHelps?
- How does my charity sign up?
GivingTuesday is coming to Canada on December 3, 2013! It's a new Canadian day of giving and volunteering, taking place each year after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The movement encourages individuals and organizations to join together and find innovative ways to give back to the charities and causes they support throughout the holiday season.
Join us for this webinar for tips and tricks on how to build an execute a successful online campaign for #GivingTuesday! Simren Deogun, Senior Account Manager, Digital and Marketing Services at Stephen Thomas, will provide attendees with:
- practical online fundraising tips for charities ... with real charity examples
- key elements of a well-conceived online fundraising campaign
- expert advice and insights
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@GivingTuesdayCa
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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.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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
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.
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.
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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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
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together.
• Empowerment and self-service.
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• The tools are dead simple
• Automate or eliminate transaction cost
150. Key Takeaways:
• The tools are dead simple
• Automate or eliminate transaction cost
• Design for self-service & empowerment
151. Key Takeaways:
• The tools are dead simple
• Automate or eliminate transaction cost
• Design for self-service & empowerment
• Test early and often
152. Key Takeaways:
• The tools are dead simple
• Automate or eliminate transaction cost
• Design for self-service & empowerment
• Test early and often
• Start with the stuff that’s easy
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“What would happen if this
information fell into the right hands?”
155. Key Takeaways:
• The tools are dead simple
• Automate or eliminate transaction cost
• Design for self-service & empowerment
• Test early and often
• Start with the stuff that’s easy
• The biggest benefits are internal
158. Key Takeaways:
• The tools are dead simple
• Automate or eliminate transaction cost
• Design for self-service & empowerment
• Test early and often
• Start with the stuff that’s easy
• The biggest benefits are internal
• Start today. Don’t ask permission.