Save time and your sanity: Increase your efficiency with Microsoft Word (long...Rhonda Bracey
Do you use Microsoft Word every day? Do you want to work more effectively and efficiently? This presentation give lots of tips for changing your Word workspace and work practices, and automating some repetitive tasks.
Examples are from Word 2010 and 2013 for Windows; most should also apply to Word for Mac, although the paths and screens may be different.
Joint presentation at STC Conference 2004 (Baltimore) by Rhonda Bracey and Char James-Tanny; other supporting material available from here: http://www.cybertext.com.au/9453.htm
Clear, Concise, Consistent: Reducing User ConfusionRhonda Bracey
In this session, Rhonda identifies common writing problems and offer practical strategies for fixing them. She emphasizes how achieving the ‘three Cs’—clarity, conciseness, and consistency—can reduce user confusion and result in user success, and, as a bonus, reduce word count and thus reading time, translation costs, and the cost of consumables, if printed.
Save time and your sanity: Increase your efficiency with Microsoft Word (shor...Rhonda Bracey
Many of us use Microsoft Word regularly, either personally or for our clients. But are we using it efficiently? In this 45-minute session, Rhonda will give you lots of practical tips and tricks to help you become more efficient with Word. Some of the areas she will cover include:
• Show everything – formatting marks, fields, bookmarks, track changes, styles etc.
• Automate tasks – autocorrect, keyboard shortcuts, TOCs, preformatted tables/text etc.
• Use the power of find and replace (including wildcards) to zip through changes
Save time and your sanity: Increase your efficiency with Microsoft WordRhonda Bracey
Many of us use Word regularly. But are we using it efficiently? Learn practical tips to help you become more efficient with Microsoft Word for Windows, including:
* Show everything – formatting marks, fields, bookmarks, track changes, styles etc.
* Set up an efficient workspace – Quick Access Toolbar, custom ribbon
* Automate tasks – autocorrect, keyboard shortcuts, TOCs, preformatted tables/text etc.
* Use the power of find and replace (including wildcards) to zip through changes.
NOTE: This session focuses on Word for Windows. Mac users should be able to do similar things, but there are no guarantees. It is a repeat of the ACES2016 and ACES2017 session.
Save time and your sanity: Increase your efficiency with Microsoft Word (long...Rhonda Bracey
Do you use Microsoft Word every day? Do you want to work more effectively and efficiently? This presentation give lots of tips for changing your Word workspace and work practices, and automating some repetitive tasks.
Examples are from Word 2010 and 2013 for Windows; most should also apply to Word for Mac, although the paths and screens may be different.
Joint presentation at STC Conference 2004 (Baltimore) by Rhonda Bracey and Char James-Tanny; other supporting material available from here: http://www.cybertext.com.au/9453.htm
Clear, Concise, Consistent: Reducing User ConfusionRhonda Bracey
In this session, Rhonda identifies common writing problems and offer practical strategies for fixing them. She emphasizes how achieving the ‘three Cs’—clarity, conciseness, and consistency—can reduce user confusion and result in user success, and, as a bonus, reduce word count and thus reading time, translation costs, and the cost of consumables, if printed.
Save time and your sanity: Increase your efficiency with Microsoft Word (shor...Rhonda Bracey
Many of us use Microsoft Word regularly, either personally or for our clients. But are we using it efficiently? In this 45-minute session, Rhonda will give you lots of practical tips and tricks to help you become more efficient with Word. Some of the areas she will cover include:
• Show everything – formatting marks, fields, bookmarks, track changes, styles etc.
• Automate tasks – autocorrect, keyboard shortcuts, TOCs, preformatted tables/text etc.
• Use the power of find and replace (including wildcards) to zip through changes
Save time and your sanity: Increase your efficiency with Microsoft WordRhonda Bracey
Many of us use Word regularly. But are we using it efficiently? Learn practical tips to help you become more efficient with Microsoft Word for Windows, including:
* Show everything – formatting marks, fields, bookmarks, track changes, styles etc.
* Set up an efficient workspace – Quick Access Toolbar, custom ribbon
* Automate tasks – autocorrect, keyboard shortcuts, TOCs, preformatted tables/text etc.
* Use the power of find and replace (including wildcards) to zip through changes.
NOTE: This session focuses on Word for Windows. Mac users should be able to do similar things, but there are no guarantees. It is a repeat of the ACES2016 and ACES2017 session.
Presented at the ASTC(NSW) 2012 annual conference. Editing for technical communicators, focusing on text, user interface text, etc. and some add-ins for Microsoft Word that make the process easier.
Job search at a dead end? Building Accessible Online Recruiting & Hiring Syst...Denis Boudreau
Why accessible eRecruiting tools make sense and the simple steps that web developers and designers can take to ensure that job seekers with disabilities are not excluded from employment opportunities.
Quick tips to get started - Everbody has a role to play in digital accessibil...Denis Boudreau
“Accessibility is complicated, and I don’t know where to begin!” If the many requirements, success criteria and guidelines included in the practice of Web accessibility make your head spin, then you’re in for a treat. Accessibility is a team sport and if we all have a role to play, we need a playbook to be sure we are working together for common goals. Based on the newly developed Quick Tips for Getting Started in web accessibility from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, this slide deck explores the Tips for Writers, Designers, and Developers, and ask for your input about what should come next and what additional tips would be most useful for you and your own teams. If you’re a developer, a designer, or a content strategist looking for a smooth entry into the vast world of accessibility, this is it.
I had the privilege of being a guest speaker at Plymouth State University's Database Management class. The focus of the lecture was regarding Web Application Design and how it relates to database integration. The discussion centered around my experiences thus far with development with databases and tips I could give.
The importance to be Driven
There are many buzzwords and acronyms to describe how the software should be designed. TDD (Test Driven), BDD (Behaviour Driven), DDD (Domain Driven) are the most well known. In this speech we'll run thought all these techniques comparing each one of those with TDD and finding what are the common concepts. An exercise will show to the students how different the code will be using different design methodologies as driver.
Companies often have a problem in capturing the experience of their technical or field personnel if the that person falls back to using email or a favorite word processor on a whim to record their knowledge.
Particularly in the support arena, special tools have been devised to try to capture and correlate the knowledge that is often created in the course of handling support calls. Lately, and across wider domains of knowledge or disciplines, wikis have been used with varying success for capturing at least some of that otherwise misplaced knowledge. But even on a centralized resource like a wiki, there is still the problem of how to retrieve and reuse that content as a more strategically-tagged corporate asset.
The DITA Content Collaboration project seeks to make DITA authoring commonplace for scenarios in which content creators can benefit from the structuring disciplines of this tool.
This presentation demonstrates a structured approach to collaborative writing that benefits the preservation and curation of valued, yet too-often marginalized content of knowledge workers in an organization or company.
Still trying to get your head around responsive design? This presentation of basic terms, concepts, and examples can help. Useful for introducing responsive design thinking to UX professionals and departments.
PROPS: to Ethan Marcotte for his book, "Responsive Web Design" (available for sale on Amazon) from which this presentation drew heavily.
Web UI Design Patterns and best-practices guide from http://www.uxpin.com -- the best online wireframing, UX & product management suite available anywhere.
Presented at the ASTC(NSW) 2012 annual conference. Editing for technical communicators, focusing on text, user interface text, etc. and some add-ins for Microsoft Word that make the process easier.
Job search at a dead end? Building Accessible Online Recruiting & Hiring Syst...Denis Boudreau
Why accessible eRecruiting tools make sense and the simple steps that web developers and designers can take to ensure that job seekers with disabilities are not excluded from employment opportunities.
Quick tips to get started - Everbody has a role to play in digital accessibil...Denis Boudreau
“Accessibility is complicated, and I don’t know where to begin!” If the many requirements, success criteria and guidelines included in the practice of Web accessibility make your head spin, then you’re in for a treat. Accessibility is a team sport and if we all have a role to play, we need a playbook to be sure we are working together for common goals. Based on the newly developed Quick Tips for Getting Started in web accessibility from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, this slide deck explores the Tips for Writers, Designers, and Developers, and ask for your input about what should come next and what additional tips would be most useful for you and your own teams. If you’re a developer, a designer, or a content strategist looking for a smooth entry into the vast world of accessibility, this is it.
I had the privilege of being a guest speaker at Plymouth State University's Database Management class. The focus of the lecture was regarding Web Application Design and how it relates to database integration. The discussion centered around my experiences thus far with development with databases and tips I could give.
The importance to be Driven
There are many buzzwords and acronyms to describe how the software should be designed. TDD (Test Driven), BDD (Behaviour Driven), DDD (Domain Driven) are the most well known. In this speech we'll run thought all these techniques comparing each one of those with TDD and finding what are the common concepts. An exercise will show to the students how different the code will be using different design methodologies as driver.
Companies often have a problem in capturing the experience of their technical or field personnel if the that person falls back to using email or a favorite word processor on a whim to record their knowledge.
Particularly in the support arena, special tools have been devised to try to capture and correlate the knowledge that is often created in the course of handling support calls. Lately, and across wider domains of knowledge or disciplines, wikis have been used with varying success for capturing at least some of that otherwise misplaced knowledge. But even on a centralized resource like a wiki, there is still the problem of how to retrieve and reuse that content as a more strategically-tagged corporate asset.
The DITA Content Collaboration project seeks to make DITA authoring commonplace for scenarios in which content creators can benefit from the structuring disciplines of this tool.
This presentation demonstrates a structured approach to collaborative writing that benefits the preservation and curation of valued, yet too-often marginalized content of knowledge workers in an organization or company.
Still trying to get your head around responsive design? This presentation of basic terms, concepts, and examples can help. Useful for introducing responsive design thinking to UX professionals and departments.
PROPS: to Ethan Marcotte for his book, "Responsive Web Design" (available for sale on Amazon) from which this presentation drew heavily.
Web UI Design Patterns and best-practices guide from http://www.uxpin.com -- the best online wireframing, UX & product management suite available anywhere.
Address the following- Discuss the pros and cons of various data excha.docxlauracallander
Address the following:
Discuss the pros and cons of various data exchange design options.
What best practices do you feel are the most important with regard to data exchange design options? Explain in detail.
What significant challenges have you encountered?
How did you overcome these challenges?
Solution
Pros and cons of different data design options:
XML: Pros:
Readable and editable by developer. Error checking by means of Schema and DTDs. Can represent complex hierarchies of data
CONS:
Bulky text with low payload/formatting ratio. Both creation and client side parsing are CPU intensive. Some common word processing characters are illegal
Json:
PROS: Readable and editable by developers. Plenty of JavaScript developers. Highly developed browser toolkits such as Dojo and jQuery
CONS: Bulky text with low payload/formatting ratio, but not as bad as XML. Client CPU time required to parse. Not as flexible as XML for some data structures and binary data
Plain text:
PROS: Readable and editable by developers. Fairly compact representation for simple types.
CONS: Possible confusion introduced by punctuation in values. Limited to very simple structures
2. The most important best practices to data exchange design options are:
- The basic challenges that are encountered during data design exchange are:
IP confidentiality, Diverse application land scape, Business process differences, Role in partnership.
To overcome these challenges what we have to do is:
Although many OEM\'s are entering into partnership to take advantages of technologies or innovations devoleped by other partners. OEM;s dont want to loose the compititive advantages of new innovations with data sharing outside the organization or department, demand for confidentiality of respective intellectual property is at highest level.
- Manufacturing organizations have evolved diverse and complex product devolepment methodologies which are unique to each organization different set of authoring tools among partners add to the complexity data exchange this stress needs for standerdization data exchange processes key for effective collaberation.
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John Slatin AccessU presentation: UX-Driven & Inclusive Data Visualizations, May 18, 2017 by Michelle Michael
Contact Michelle for a transcript: https://www.linkedin.com/in/MichelleRMichael
IBM Messaging and Collaboration Roadmap - Notes and Domino update - December ...Ed Brill
An update on IBM's Messaging and Collaboration software solutions, including IBM Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition and other updates and innovations.
Collaboration 2.0: Interacting Profitably in a Connected WorldScott Abel
Presented by David Coleman at the CM Pros Fall 2007 Summit on Web Content Management, November 26, 2007.
This slide deck takes a holistic view of collaboration and examines people, process and technology. It includes best practices for groups and teams that work at a distance as well as online communities and social networks.
We will track trends in collaboration to see how today's environment came about as well as looking at scenarios for future technologies and their adoption. Virtual worlds, the semantic web and other topics will be discussed.
A variety of exercises to determine collaborative alignment, team alignment, and strategies for getting around some common roadblocks, as well as the 10 rules for online communities are discussed.
Creating or editing content for mobile devices requires rethinking everything from word count and sentence length to how often we use tables or nested lists. Maxwell Hoffmann, Product Evangelist for Adobe, shares some creative exercises that will help you see and think through your content differently before single-source publishing to mobile devices.
The point of the exercises is to help break the subconscious habit of viewing authored content through a "page-shaped" lens.
This presentation was made for the San Francisco chapter of STC on June 20th, 2012.
Plain language writing: Tips for delivering complex messages to a general aud...Rhonda Bracey
Take a look at your latest insurance policy—you should easily be able to find and understand what you can and can’t claim. No longer are these documents full of gobbledygook, tiny print, and lists of exclusions that you need a legal degree to understand.
And it’s not just insurance companies. Pharmaceutical companies (check the leaflet inside a recent prescription medicine), some government departments, utility companies, and others (even lawyers) are changing the language they use when communicating with their customers to ‘plain language’.
In this session, I’ll cover the main guidelines for writing in plain language, the benefits to your organisation and your customers, and share lots of examples and tips for making your messages clear.
Reviewing Screen Based Content: Demo ExamplesRhonda Bracey
Reviewing Screen Based Content: Demo Examples.
Supplementary examples to go with Rhonda Bracey's presentation at the AODC Conference 2006 (Cairns, Queensland), and ASTC (NSW) 2006 Conference (Sydney)
More supporting materials available from here: http://www.cybertext.com.au/10353.htm
Rhonda Bracey's presentation from WritersUA 2005 Conference (Las Vegas, NV)
Supplementary material available from: http://www.cybertext.com.au/9453.htm
Techniques for Reviewing a User InterfaceRhonda Bracey
Rhonda Bracey's presentation from the WritersUA 2008 Conference (Portland, OR)
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"Can you just look over these new screens for us? Oh, and can you check the error messages too? It won't take long!" If you've been asked to review a web or standalone application's user interface but don't know what to look for other than checking the text, then this session is for you. As technical communicators, we are often in a position to identify usability problems related to the logical flow, layout, and structure of the interface; inconsistencies in the design; non-compliance with standards and guidelines; ambiguous wording on labels, error messages, dialogs, and onscreen user assistance; performance issues; functional errors; and the like. Rhonda shares practical checklists of things to look for when reviewing an interface, as well as various tools that can assist you.
— YOU WILL LEARN —
* What to look for when checking an application's user interface, including overall design, textual and visual elements, user actions and interactions, navigational links, and the '-ilities': accessibility, readability, usability.
* About some tools that can help automate parts of the review process.
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Other supporting material available from here: http://www.cybertext.com.au/10353.htm
Customizing HTML Outputs From Author-ItRhonda Bracey
Rhonda Bracey's presentation at the WritersUA 2006 Conference (Palm Springs, CA); other supporting material available from here: http://www.cybertext.com.au/9453.htm
Rhonda Bracey's presentation to the AODC 2006 Conference (Cairns, Queensland), and ASTC (NSW) 2006 Conference (Sydney). More supporting materials available from here: http://www.cybertext.com.au/10353.htm
Rhonda Bracey's presentation slides for a paper presented at the 49th Annual STC Conference in Nashville, May 2002, entitled "Training 101: Learn how to train". The audience for the paper was for those who know their subject matter well; the scenario was that they have suddenly been asked to present a computer training course in another city because the regular trainer has been taken ill and they've never trained before. Supporting materials available from: http://www.cybertext.com.au/tips_training.htm
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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.
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/
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.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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/
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.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.