This document provides information about Apparo IT Volunteer Coaching program. The program matches IT volunteers from local corporations with nonprofit agencies for one-on-one coaching sessions at the nonprofit to help them improve their technology skills and use of systems. Volunteers commit to 4 months of monthly coaching sessions. The process involves agencies requesting coaching needs, volunteers selecting partner agencies, and guidelines for the partnership including responding promptly and focusing on the agency's current projects and systems.
Engaged employees are highly motivated to help their workplace succeed. Having engaged employees in your senior living community means lower turnover, less absenteeism, more productivity, and a happier, more cohesive team.
This free 30-minute webinar will show you how to get there using Dr. Jack Wiley’s RESPECT model for engaging employees in the workplace, with specific examples from the senior living industry.
Engaged employees are highly motivated to help their workplace succeed. Having engaged employees in your senior living community means lower turnover, less absenteeism, more productivity, and a happier, more cohesive team.
This free 30-minute webinar will show you how to get there using Dr. Jack Wiley’s RESPECT model for engaging employees in the workplace, with specific examples from the senior living industry.
National Able Network's Veterans Forward program is one of the nation's most successful for transitioning veterans and service members into civilian employment. Veterans Forward, lead by former and active military, fosters assimilation into meaningful employment with wraparound support and a mix of one-on-one career counseling, vocational and job skills training, direct linkages to employers and exclusive job opportunities, as well as long-term job retention and career advancement support.
Join Head of HR at BSI, Phyllis Chen, for this exclusive, one-time-only webinar on Saturday, 2nd June. You'll discover what employers are really looking for when hiring new graduates, and what you need to do to get an edge on your competition in the graduate job market.
Training Millennials At SpotHero Using BloomfireBloomfire
SpotHero needed a training and onboarding software modern enough for its mostly Millenial customer support department. Terrance Chatman describes how Bloomfire's intuitive design and support of gifs helps him train and engage his employees who grew up with technology.
Best Practices in Converting Instructor Led Training to Virtual Classroom ConentSaba Software
Many organizations are looking to leverage virtual classes as part of their blended learning offerings. While the key instructional design skills are the same, the tools and processes for developing virtual classes may be unfamiliar to content developers accustomed to developing ILTs and e-learning.
This presentation will cover the key differences in the design approach between the face-to-face classroom and virtual classroom. It will also provide insight into the virtual training development process, and highlight the key best practices we've observed across our customers.
Join this session to learn:
•What are the trade-offs between different modes of training
•How to effectively convert ILT content for virtual use
•How to leverage virtual tools to maximize engagement
•How to extend training through mobile and social learning
If you are new to virtual training and e-learning development, this session will give you a head start.
Building an Ambassador Program to Increase User Adoption & Expand your Bigges...Tony Cappaert
When we sell to enterprise customers, driving adoption and long-term user engagement is always a major focus. However, we found it was really hard to drive that adoption via webinars, email marketing, or phone calls alone.
In this session, we'll walk through how we've built our our Ambassador Program: an effort to equip power users to help nurture and grow our biggest accounts. By identifying and training a handful of Ambassadors in each enterprise, we increased adoption and revenue growth by over 10% in the first 60 days.
If you're looking for specific tactics on how to grow your top accounts in the next few months, this is the session for you!
(Originally presented at the Totango Customer Success Summit in March 2016)
This is the Keynote I delivered at the EXIN global conference on October 16th, 2014. The keynote addresses the 'lessons learned' of implementing the E-Competence Framework into the Pink Elephant organisation. As one of the pioneering companies that implements the E-CF into daily HR practice, we hope to provide other organisations with guidance and implementation advice.
National Able Network's Veterans Forward program is one of the nation's most successful for transitioning veterans and service members into civilian employment. Veterans Forward, lead by former and active military, fosters assimilation into meaningful employment with wraparound support and a mix of one-on-one career counseling, vocational and job skills training, direct linkages to employers and exclusive job opportunities, as well as long-term job retention and career advancement support.
Join Head of HR at BSI, Phyllis Chen, for this exclusive, one-time-only webinar on Saturday, 2nd June. You'll discover what employers are really looking for when hiring new graduates, and what you need to do to get an edge on your competition in the graduate job market.
Training Millennials At SpotHero Using BloomfireBloomfire
SpotHero needed a training and onboarding software modern enough for its mostly Millenial customer support department. Terrance Chatman describes how Bloomfire's intuitive design and support of gifs helps him train and engage his employees who grew up with technology.
Best Practices in Converting Instructor Led Training to Virtual Classroom ConentSaba Software
Many organizations are looking to leverage virtual classes as part of their blended learning offerings. While the key instructional design skills are the same, the tools and processes for developing virtual classes may be unfamiliar to content developers accustomed to developing ILTs and e-learning.
This presentation will cover the key differences in the design approach between the face-to-face classroom and virtual classroom. It will also provide insight into the virtual training development process, and highlight the key best practices we've observed across our customers.
Join this session to learn:
•What are the trade-offs between different modes of training
•How to effectively convert ILT content for virtual use
•How to leverage virtual tools to maximize engagement
•How to extend training through mobile and social learning
If you are new to virtual training and e-learning development, this session will give you a head start.
Building an Ambassador Program to Increase User Adoption & Expand your Bigges...Tony Cappaert
When we sell to enterprise customers, driving adoption and long-term user engagement is always a major focus. However, we found it was really hard to drive that adoption via webinars, email marketing, or phone calls alone.
In this session, we'll walk through how we've built our our Ambassador Program: an effort to equip power users to help nurture and grow our biggest accounts. By identifying and training a handful of Ambassadors in each enterprise, we increased adoption and revenue growth by over 10% in the first 60 days.
If you're looking for specific tactics on how to grow your top accounts in the next few months, this is the session for you!
(Originally presented at the Totango Customer Success Summit in March 2016)
This is the Keynote I delivered at the EXIN global conference on October 16th, 2014. The keynote addresses the 'lessons learned' of implementing the E-Competence Framework into the Pink Elephant organisation. As one of the pioneering companies that implements the E-CF into daily HR practice, we hope to provide other organisations with guidance and implementation advice.
Taking a ‘Trickle Up’ Approach to Chapter Engagement ProgramsBillhighway
Every organization wants to provide its chapters with the tools and programs it needs to create meaningful membership experiences. But each chapter is different and what sounds like a great idea from a national perspective might not always be a good fit at the local level.
Instead of taking a ‘trickle down’ approach to new programs, why not do the exact opposite and take a ‘trickle up’ approach: identify a program that has been successful at a local level and then expand it nationally. In this webinar, we’ll
· Look at ways to identify the best programs for consideration
· Discuss different approaches to driving programs at a national level
· Highlight best practices when expanding a chapter-level program
Ideas of non-conventional Agile HR practices that positively impact employee retention The creation and implementation of a safe and engaging work culture for Gen Y/Millennials Lessons learned from this transformational journey – what worked and what didn’t
Onboarding - Make It More Effective Through MentoringStephen Grindrod
In this presentation, our goal is to help further build your business case for mentoring to support onboarding and help you start planning a mentoring program for your new hires.
In this slide deck, we cover:
- Common obstacles that stand in the way of tracking ROI
- How others in the association space are tackling these challenges
- What drives ROI
- How to start tracking individual component performance
You can view the recording here: https://youtu.be/SuKQnBA3wzs
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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.
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.
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/
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
2. Apparo – Who We Are
• Helps nonprofit agencies embrace the power of technology to transform how
they operate and deliver their missions
• Serves as the CIO resource behind more than 180 local nonprofits
• Creates a bridge between the nonprofit and corporate technology sectors
• Delivers solutions that multiply nonprofit effectiveness throughout the region
2
Corporate
Leaders
Apparo
Staff
Technology
Providers
Technology
Solutions
800 Charlotte Region Nonprofits
3. Program Design
Format:
One-on-one - On-site coaching AT the nonprofit
agency
Volunteers schedule coaching session(s) each month (1
hr. minimum) at mutually convenient times
Time commitment:
4 month Semesters – Fall and Spring
Partnership for 4 months
Can adjust partnership monthly
Process:
Agency staff enter their coaching needs at start of the
semester via Volunteer Link
Volunteer coaches select partner from list of
opportunities on Volunteer Link
4. Important Guidelines
RESPOND
Respond to volunteer
emails and phone calls –
this is our single biggest volunteer
complaint and one that is not tolerated
in this partnership
ENGAGE
Treat your volunteer
with interest /appreciation
They are a potential donor
and volunteer for YOU!
Give the volunteer a tour
REMEMBER
IT Coaches are not
“go-to-IT-guys” & are not
Apparo employees
FOCUS
Do not conduct business
while volunteer is there
Discourage volunteer from
suggesting other tools not
currently on your system
5. Process elements to Highlight
Semester
will last for
4 months –
No
guarantee
of a coach
Make
scheduling
your
sessions a
priority –
not an “if I
can fit it in”
One-on-one
and in person
(No phone call
sessions)
Your Role –
have a
business
problem/
question, som
ething you
are working
on currently
to work on
with your
coach
6. Coaching Requirements & Next Steps
Participate in orientation
Complete skills assessment survey on
Volunteer Link
Enter Coaching request for the semester
on Volunteer Link
RESPOND to your coach when contacted
Provide timely feedback about volunteer
experience at end of semester
8. If you have any questions or feedback you can contact
your agency coordinator or email Apparo at
Volunteers@Apparo.org
Thank you for working with area IT
volunteers to improve your computer
and IT skills so that we can all serve the
Charlotte community even better!
