Are you in charge of a college or university website? Has your website outgrown itself, is the creative inconsistent /outdated and static HTML pages a bear to maintain? If so, you will want to view my presentation, WordPress as a Higher-Ed Content Management Solution.
This presentation will show yout how an *Army of One* brought together Marketing, IT and a skeptical community college using WordPress as a CMS (the College’s first), for their first major public redesign in over 6 years. Learn about how WordPress allows a team of three to maintain control of presentation and functionality while empowering individual departments to directly manage their own content.
Community Organizing Tools from the Experts WebinarNTEN
In honor of NTEN's August 2014 theme of "Tools," we’ve invited several of our beloved Tech Club and Community of Practice organizers to give short presentations about their favorite community organizing tools. Tools and processes covered will include:
* Post-call communications to build community and extend discussions: Attendees will takeaway an easy post-call process that extends conversations, deepens impact, and broadens community.
* Microsoft Office workflow for mass mail: Learn a workflow for sending personalized mass emails that will not be filtered into promotions tabs or deleted as junk, but rather drive event sign-ups.
*Text expansion utilities to make your fingers fly: We spend much of our days typing the same thing over and over, but a text expander app can remove the drudgery from your life and make you appear to be the fastest typist ever!
* Screencasting with Jing: Learn how to record presentations using the free tool Jing to share images and short videos of your computer screen.
* Engagement with Twitter and Storify: Twitter chats present a great way to engage your supporters and volunteers in an accessible, consistent, and fun format. Storify lets you represent those conversations in a visual and dynamic format.
* Collaborate from afar with Google Docs: Learn how to use Google Docs to create, share, and collaborate on event planning documents and more.
Advice for school administrators on how to use social media and other digital tools to build community and increase communication with parents. Originally presented at the Iowa 1:1 Conference in April 2015.
Basic skills for LinkedIn - one of the leading social media platforms for professional networking. To create a strong and active presence, follow these basic tips.
Every year these fast paced Ignite presentations offer teaching tips and projects that bring new ideas to the Media classroom. Presentations from BEA Ignite, April 2018 in Las Vegas.
Mobilism 2011: How to put the mobile in the mobile webJenifer Hanen
Media queries, server-side or client-side sniffers, how do we determine if the user is a mobile or desktop device? This tech talk will discuss which is the right solution(s) and how to implement it taking into consideration the various mobile user's browser capacity, bandwidth restrictions, as well as user choice.
Jenifer Hanen
@msjen
http://blackphoebe.com/msjen
Presented at Web Directions Code, Melbourne
If you have a website—particularly one that generates revenue for your organization—you need a Progressive Web App. So where do you begin? How do you decide which features of a Progressive Web App make sense for your users? What tools can make the process easier (or harder)? In this practical session, Jason will guide you through the key design decisions you’ll need to make about your Progressive Web App and how those decisions impact the scope of your project. He'll also teach you how to avoid common pitfalls and help you take full advantage of Progressive Web App technology.
Are you in charge of a college or university website? Has your website outgrown itself, is the creative inconsistent /outdated and static HTML pages a bear to maintain? If so, you will want to view my presentation, WordPress as a Higher-Ed Content Management Solution.
This presentation will show yout how an *Army of One* brought together Marketing, IT and a skeptical community college using WordPress as a CMS (the College’s first), for their first major public redesign in over 6 years. Learn about how WordPress allows a team of three to maintain control of presentation and functionality while empowering individual departments to directly manage their own content.
Community Organizing Tools from the Experts WebinarNTEN
In honor of NTEN's August 2014 theme of "Tools," we’ve invited several of our beloved Tech Club and Community of Practice organizers to give short presentations about their favorite community organizing tools. Tools and processes covered will include:
* Post-call communications to build community and extend discussions: Attendees will takeaway an easy post-call process that extends conversations, deepens impact, and broadens community.
* Microsoft Office workflow for mass mail: Learn a workflow for sending personalized mass emails that will not be filtered into promotions tabs or deleted as junk, but rather drive event sign-ups.
*Text expansion utilities to make your fingers fly: We spend much of our days typing the same thing over and over, but a text expander app can remove the drudgery from your life and make you appear to be the fastest typist ever!
* Screencasting with Jing: Learn how to record presentations using the free tool Jing to share images and short videos of your computer screen.
* Engagement with Twitter and Storify: Twitter chats present a great way to engage your supporters and volunteers in an accessible, consistent, and fun format. Storify lets you represent those conversations in a visual and dynamic format.
* Collaborate from afar with Google Docs: Learn how to use Google Docs to create, share, and collaborate on event planning documents and more.
Advice for school administrators on how to use social media and other digital tools to build community and increase communication with parents. Originally presented at the Iowa 1:1 Conference in April 2015.
Basic skills for LinkedIn - one of the leading social media platforms for professional networking. To create a strong and active presence, follow these basic tips.
Every year these fast paced Ignite presentations offer teaching tips and projects that bring new ideas to the Media classroom. Presentations from BEA Ignite, April 2018 in Las Vegas.
Mobilism 2011: How to put the mobile in the mobile webJenifer Hanen
Media queries, server-side or client-side sniffers, how do we determine if the user is a mobile or desktop device? This tech talk will discuss which is the right solution(s) and how to implement it taking into consideration the various mobile user's browser capacity, bandwidth restrictions, as well as user choice.
Jenifer Hanen
@msjen
http://blackphoebe.com/msjen
Presented at Web Directions Code, Melbourne
If you have a website—particularly one that generates revenue for your organization—you need a Progressive Web App. So where do you begin? How do you decide which features of a Progressive Web App make sense for your users? What tools can make the process easier (or harder)? In this practical session, Jason will guide you through the key design decisions you’ll need to make about your Progressive Web App and how those decisions impact the scope of your project. He'll also teach you how to avoid common pitfalls and help you take full advantage of Progressive Web App technology.
OW2con'14 - The CompatibleOne Story: from collaboration to industryOW2
During this talk, we would like to propose an update of the OW2 project CompatibleOne and how it transforms from a pure R&D effort into an innovative cloud service offering. We will expose the diverse issues we have been through those last years since the inception of the project til the creation of a start-up with commercial opportunities. We expect this session to deliver a pragmatic and valuable message to the OW2 project leads.
CHOReVOLUTION project to facilitate cross-organization service integrationOW2
From Code to Product, the CHOReVOLUTION Studio is addressing scalable IoT/IoS applications based on choreography modelling, synthesis, adaptation, service bus, security, and cloud. It aims at integrating as much as possible existing web services to create new innovative solutions. The first applications being developed are in the Intelligent Transportation Systems and Smart Tourism domains, with benefits in terms of time-to-market, agility, dynamism and cross-organization coordination. The CHOReVOLUTION software are published under an open source licence and made publicly available through the OW2 community.
Le Référentiel général d'accessibilité pour les administrations (RGAA) est destiné à définir, en France, les modalités techniques d'accessibilité des services en ligne de l'État, des collectivités territoriales et des établissements publics qui en dépendent, pour les trois canaux du Web, de la télévision et de la téléphonie.
A preview of OW2 Market Place. OW2con'15, November 17, Paris. OW2
This presentation introduces the Market Place developped in the framework of the AppHub European collaborative project. This Market Place is today made available to all OW2 projects. What are the incentives for an OW2 project to join this Market Place? How can they be part of it? The AppHub Store and Factory are explained during the talk.
nuage, deployment strategy of a distributed cloud infrastructure, OW2con'15, ...OW2
The nuage R&D project to create a strongly secured, resilient, distributed cloud based on opensource standard end in summer 2014. Two components have been released by the partners of the consortium. September 2014, Celeste present the StarDC, a mini datacenter ready to use in 4 month for 150 K€. April 2015, Non Stop Systems, the consortium leader, present CloudStar, a private cloud controller full open source (Debian-Openstack-Ceph-Zabbix...) ready to use in 5 weeks for 30 K€. Those two components bring full automation and remote administration to allow the deployment of distributed clouds toward large areas. French local public administration and SME's start experimentation of the first nuage components.
OSCAR & AppHub, fostering market readiness at OW2, OW2con'16, Paris. OW2
AppHub is the European Open Source marketplace. Open source software is a powerful enabler for collaborative innovation. However, making the source available does not automatically attract contributors or grant immediate market access. AppHub's mission is to help users find and implement the software outcomes of your open source projects more easily. AppHub is designed to make it easier for open source projects to connect with their potential markets.
This presentation will provide an overview of AppHub since its launch early last year. We will review the services offered to open source projects for exposing their outcome to the market, using a template factory for packaging their software, and also for assessing their market readiness, using the Oscar platform provided by OW2. We will also show how end users can use AppHub for deploying pre-configured open source projects to the virtual or cloud format of their choice, and how AppHub will evolve to a marketplace for the OW2 projects beyond the end of the EU project itself.
erocci - a scalable model-driven API framework, OW2con'16, Paris.OW2
REST APIs are becoming the most common technology for distributed applications. When it comes to designing and implementing such APIs, the heterogeneity of technologies for designing and describing them can make integration and even development a nightmare.
erocci provides developers a simple and standard way to describe these APIs, letting best-of-breed model-driven engineering technology doing all boilerplate work for you.
erocci easily integrates with existing APIs as it follows the following standards:
* HTTP / REST
* Swagger/OpenAPI for API description
* Open Cloud Computing Interface for data model
In the presentation, we will explain the use of erocci and its extension mechanisms.
AcceDe Web, a Guide for Accessibility Web Projects, OW2con'16, Paris. OW2
The AcceDe Web set of guides is offering best practices to all the key project stakeholders, including web developers and graphic designers. These documents are based on the experience of a range of seasoned professionals representing web agencies, corporate companies, public agencies and associations. They provide project teams with practical step by step instructions, and project managers with useful project management tools.
In these times of a bankrupt General Motors, failing newspapers and old media, colleges can be seen as similar institutions that have not responded to changing technologies and economic shifts. My own list of terms that we deal with in our classrooms that are being redefined - whether we agree with these new definitions or we resist changes to the definitions includes: Writing, Reading, Literacy, Publishing, Ownership/IP/Copyright, Research, Privacy, and Class hours.
Social Media Training Workshop for Small BusinessWeb.com
Social Media Training Workshop for Network Solutions customers to train them in the basics of social media and relevant tools for small business.
Http://www.blog.networksolutions.com
http://www.growsmartbusiness.com
http://www.womengrowbusiness.com
How to manage web projects without setting your hair on fireKathy Gill
It seems like everyone in the organization believes they know what makes a website "work" despite having no design training. Managers insist that "their" pages look or act in ways directly contrary to the rest of the website. Or the web.
What are the unique characteristics of the web that make managing design a challenge? How can we empower stakeholders while also creating a seamless user experience? And how would an iterative, collaborative design process facilitate a responsive web, one where sites work well on phones, tablets and desktops?
Challenges and Opportunities for Mainstream Enterprise Social Computing Lee Bryant
This is the talk I gave to the Unicom 2008 Social Tools Conference "Beyond Web 2.0" in London, February 2008.
The first minute of audio is missing, so you are spared my introductions ;-)
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2. Workshop outline
▶ Web 2.0 - some general characteristics
▶ Some technologies and possible careers uses
▶ What you are doing and what you’d like to do
▶ Short ‘open mic’ for demoing current projects
▶ Wrapping up
Implications for IAG?
Addressing worries (lots!)
Tips for successful technology projects
A peek into the future
3. Characteristics of “Web 2.0”
(Incessant!!)
interaction/communication Collective intelligence
between users
Content
mashups
Decentralisation
of authority
Participation
Openness Read/write
Community
Built upon trust Information
The wisdom of
crowds sharing
4. Blogs
▶ How are they different from website
content?
Blog Website
Relevant now Longer shelf life
Informal/personal More formal/standardised
Specific/targeted More general
▶ General blogs, themed or audience-specific
blogs, student-led blogs
6. Social Networking
Facebook
LinkedIn
Twitter
Ning
MySpace
Club Penguin
(average user
age ~8!)
7. LinkedIn
▶ Professional networking site – no pokes or
drunken party pics
▶ Over 43 million members in 200 countries
▶ Recruiters headhunt and jobseekers network
▶ Students can connect with recruiters and alumni
and research…
▶ You could start your own alumni-careers group or
post to the general alumni group for your
institution
▶ www.linkedin.com/in/helenpownall
8. LinkedIn – useful links
▶ Careers Services group, link to
http://careerservices.linkedin.com
▶ LinkedIn webinars for careers professionals:
http://careerservices.linkedin.com/webinar
15th and 17th September 2009 (9-10pm!)
▶ If you don’t have time, the slides are at:
http://careerservices.linkedin.com/slides.pdf
▶ Refer students and graduates to:
http://grads.linkedin.com (guide and video)
9. Twitter
▶ A ‘micro-blogging site’ – communicate your
thoughts and what you’re doing in ‘tweets’ of
140 characters or less
▶ Join in a massive online conversation!
▶ Used more professionally than Facebook
▶ People form loose connections around common
interests
Follow people who interest you
Follow topics that interest you and join in the
conversation, e.g. #agcas09 #vitae09
▶ People find jobs and headhunt through Twitter
10. Twitter
▶ Use Twitter individually to:
Keep up to date with latest developments
Make connections across your areas of interest
“Poll” your contacts or get advice/info
(For students) Find out about jobs
▶ Tip:
Try using Tweetdeck to organise your
tweets
11. Careers services on Twitter
▶ Set up a careers service Twitter account to
communicate up-to-the-minute news,
events, jobs, top tips etc:
http://twitter.com/WarwickCareers
http://twitter.com/londongradfair
▶ List of careers services on Twitter:
http://helencurry.wordpress.com/2009/05/0
6/careers-services-on-twitter-uk-he
(18 so far)
13. Online Discussion Forums
▶ Internal careers forums
Tapping into the wealth of knowledge in the student body
Accessible way to venture into ‘careers stuff’
‘Safe place’ to ask stupid questions?
Doomed to failure because targeted group fragmented?
▶ 3rd party careers forums, e.g.
www.wikijob.co.uk/forum, www.prospects.ac.uk
www.thestudentroom.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=201
Many are actively used
How reliable is the information? Health warning…
14. Social Bookmarking
▶ Example: www.delicious.com, www.diigo.com
▶ Possible careers use: Means of organising and
sharing useful web resources across your service,
e.g. www.delicious.com/manchestercareers,
www.careerstagged.co.uk (Careers Group, London)
www.diigo.com/list/sussexcdec (Sussex)
15. One-to-One Live Chat – IM, video etc
Examples:
Skype for video chat (webcams
required)
LivePerson for
instant messaging (text) chat
▶ Possible careers use:
Off campus students/grads
Busy timetables
Reluctant to use face-to-face services
▶ www.manchester.ac.uk/careers/liveguidance
▶ Better than e-guidance? Immediacy and opportunity to
quickly overcome misunderstandings?
16. Group web chats
▶ Web chats – usually refers to live group
chat with expert(s) answering questions
Examples:
Prospects Careers Chat Live
KPMG - www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/Graduates
In-house web chat systems
17. ‘Virtual fairs’
▶ ‘Virtual
fairs’ – can include online
employer profiles, scheduled group chats or
webinars, individual contact by instant
messaging or email
Examples:
BBC careers fair
http://events.unisfair.com/index.jsp?eid=417&s
eid=29
KPMG careers fair in Second Life recently
attracted several thousand people
18. Individually, think about…
▶ What your service is already doing with web
technologies – write on orange post-its
▶ What you would like to do with web
technologies – write on yellow post-its
▶ Add a large * if you are happy to help others
▶ Circle the * if you have sth you could briefly
demo
19. In groups of 5 or 6…
▶ Share your “doings” and “would like to dos”
▶ Pick 1 “doing” and “1 would like to do”
share with the wider group
▶ Discuss
Challenges and how you’ve overcome
them/might overcome them
Opportunities - “what problems does it solve?”
20. Will technology change IAG?
▶ Better sharing of information
▶ With so much info readily available, key role
for careers adviser is SENSE MAKING
▶ We should not ignore the “wisdom of
crowds”…
▶ …but help students to become better at
judging reliability and quality of information
▶ Encouraging students to network online and
manage their own ‘digital identities’ carefully
21. Worries!
▶ “I’m not a techie. I don’t understand all this
newfangled technology and social media.”
▶ “There’s so much out there – I don’t know
where to start!”
▶ “I’m worried about my privacy!”
▶ “Gen Y-ers don’t want us in ‘their space’”
▶ “If we offer online services, it’ll make
students (even more) lazy and they won’t
bother coming in to see us.”
22. Worries – Part 2!
▶ “I just don’t have time for this!”
▶ “We could invest a lot of time in [Twitter]
and then in a few months the world will
have moved on to something else.”
▶ “Will we be surplus to requirements in the
brave new world of the web? Why do
students need a careers advisor when they
can just get on wikijob or tweet a recruiter
direct?”
23. You’re more likely to be successful if…
▶ You know what you’re problem you’re trying to
solve and…
▶ …You don’t start with the technology
▶ You do it because you want to, not because you
feel like you have to
▶ An enthusiast drives the project
▶ You’re adaptable and willing to change your
approach
▶ You get the support of techie people (either in
careers or in the central IT support service)
24. The next thing…?
▶ Linking GPS and social networking
(geo-location social networking applications)
Times article from May 2008:
http://tinyurl.com/ls7gl4
▶ A couple of possible uses:
Meet new people at a party who may be ‘friends of
friends’
For headhunters at a business networking event – could
do a keyword search of CVs of people in the room
▶ Buddy Beacon, iPhone compatible, tracks your
friends’ locations
▶ Blip, for Blackberry
25. Reach me on…
▶ Email: helen.pownall@manchester.ac.uk
▶ Phone: 0161 275 0832
▶ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/helenpownall
▶ Twitter: @helenpownall
Helen Pownall
Careers Consultant
(with special responsibility for web and
interactive technology projects)
University of Manchester
MLP, Careers & Employability Division