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Ukraine Crisis: Geopolitical Risk Management in IT OutsourcingIntetics
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Consensus but not action: the debate around skillsIpsos UK
From the old giants like Shell and IBM to the upstarts whose companies were inconceivable ten years ago, the key will be bridging the gap between the skills we have now and the skills we will need in the future. But do MPs and candidates grasp the issue?
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For More, please visit http://www.tcelab.com
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I am an experienced sales & marketing professional with knowledge of all sales & marketing processes, demonstrating solid analytical and team management skills with proven track-record of generating new business through strategic negotiation while cultivating new relationships with key decision makers. I Develop new accounts through effective marketing and networking initiatives, leading to business goal achievement year after year. Currently seeking a Sales & Marketing position that allows advancement by bringing 10+ years of sales & marketing experience in various market segments.
visit manishkjha.com to know more about me.
State Advocacy Strategies for Challenging Times, webinar, COABE and the National Coalition for Literacy, Tuesday, April 24, 4:00-5:30 pm ET
In this Webinar, hear from organizers of various advocacy networks to see how they run successful campaigns that increase adult education funding or protect adult education from cuts. Learn from panelists’ experiences; gain practical ideas for organizing or strengthening your own advocacy network in the face of challenging economic times. Leave with resources and ideas to implement afterwards.
Presenters:
• Sean Abajian, Campaign Organizer and Online Strategist, SaveAdultEd.org Campaign
• Ben Merrion, Advocacy and Policy Chair, DC LEARNs Board of Directors
• Eric Nesheim, Executive Director, Minnesota Literacy Council
• JoAnn Weinberger, Chair, Public Policy Committee, Pennsylvania Association for Adult Continuing Education (PAACE) and President/Executive Director, Center for Literacy
Facilitator: Jackie Taylor, COABE President Elect and National Coalition for Literacy Public Policy Chair
Mozaik: managing a political party with Odooacsone
Presentation of the Mozaik suite of Odoo module, dedicated to the management of political parties. Also suitable for large associative organisations.
Slides of Odoo Experience by Ecolo and Acsone.
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Amy Mignogna, senior manager of government affairs, Ohio Society of CPAs
Paul Williams, CAE, senior director of government relations, Assisted Living Federation of America
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Sanitised version of a client presentation in the context of a structural transformation initiative.
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In the face of current conflict in Eastern Ukraine, global business leaders are returning to discussions about managing global operations during geopolitical crises. Speaking at the IAOP (International Association of Outsourcing Professionals) Chicago Chapter meeting on July 17th 2014 at DePaul University, Boris Kontsevoi, president and founder of Intetics, a global IT outsourcing and software development company in USA, Germany and Eastern Europe, discussed the impacts geopolitical conflicts have on global business. He analyzed the risks and opportunities the current conflict in Ukraine may bring to providers and outsourcing buyers worldwide. Despite the crisis in Ukraine, the IT sector in industry is staying strong, and is likely to bounce back if the hostilities stop soon. The presentation further describes the relationship between business and geopolitical issues, reviews risks of political instability and suggests several geopolitical risk management strategies. Relying on previous lessons learned from geopolitical issues in places such as India, it becomes clear that the best strategy is to choose a trustworthy company as an outsourcing partner to prevent interference of politics and global business. For more information contact Boris or Intetics at www.intetics.com.
Consensus but not action: the debate around skillsIpsos UK
From the old giants like Shell and IBM to the upstarts whose companies were inconceivable ten years ago, the key will be bridging the gap between the skills we have now and the skills we will need in the future. But do MPs and candidates grasp the issue?
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This presentation covers the application of Big Data principles in Customer Experience Management. I present data models to help companies integrate, organize and analyze their disparate data sources (e.g., operational, financial, constituency and customer feedback) to improve the customer experience and customer loyalty.
For More, please visit http://www.tcelab.com
Manish K Jha - Digital Marketer | Consultant | Business DevelopmentManish K. Jha
I am an experienced sales & marketing professional with knowledge of all sales & marketing processes, demonstrating solid analytical and team management skills with proven track-record of generating new business through strategic negotiation while cultivating new relationships with key decision makers. I Develop new accounts through effective marketing and networking initiatives, leading to business goal achievement year after year. Currently seeking a Sales & Marketing position that allows advancement by bringing 10+ years of sales & marketing experience in various market segments.
visit manishkjha.com to know more about me.
State Advocacy Strategies for Challenging Times, webinar, COABE and the National Coalition for Literacy, Tuesday, April 24, 4:00-5:30 pm ET
In this Webinar, hear from organizers of various advocacy networks to see how they run successful campaigns that increase adult education funding or protect adult education from cuts. Learn from panelists’ experiences; gain practical ideas for organizing or strengthening your own advocacy network in the face of challenging economic times. Leave with resources and ideas to implement afterwards.
Presenters:
• Sean Abajian, Campaign Organizer and Online Strategist, SaveAdultEd.org Campaign
• Ben Merrion, Advocacy and Policy Chair, DC LEARNs Board of Directors
• Eric Nesheim, Executive Director, Minnesota Literacy Council
• JoAnn Weinberger, Chair, Public Policy Committee, Pennsylvania Association for Adult Continuing Education (PAACE) and President/Executive Director, Center for Literacy
Facilitator: Jackie Taylor, COABE President Elect and National Coalition for Literacy Public Policy Chair
Mozaik: managing a political party with Odooacsone
Presentation of the Mozaik suite of Odoo module, dedicated to the management of political parties. Also suitable for large associative organisations.
Slides of Odoo Experience by Ecolo and Acsone.
Online Political Campaign Management - Where now and where next?Martin Tod
Presentation made to the Politica 2.0 Conference in Bucharest about the work the Lib Dems' online strategy at the time, and where I thought it ought to go.
Re-Energizing Your PAC and Grassroots ProgramMegan Denhardt
Examine the key components for successful political action committees (PACs) and grassroots programs and how synergies from both can be utilized to maximize results. Discuss how these synergies will advance your government relations program. Examine proven approaches when facing PAC fatigue, how to get your organization out of a PAC rut, how to deal with competing PACs, and how to make your PAC and grassroot programs standout from the competition.
Amy Mignogna, senior manager of government affairs, Ohio Society of CPAs
Paul Williams, CAE, senior director of government relations, Assisted Living Federation of America
Change Management as a POLITICAL Process - Steven Kelman Procurement Reform d...Andreas Wettstein
Sanitised version of a client presentation in the context of a structural transformation initiative.
The presentation presents the idea of Change as a political process, and in based on the book by Steven Kelman "Unleashing Change - A Study of Organisational Renewal in Government."
Increasing Voter Knowledge with Pre-Election Interventions on FacebookMIT GOV/LAB
As part of our Data Science to Solve Social Problems series, Facebook Data Scientist Winter Mason presented on efforts to increase online civic engagement.
Using twitter as a source of voice of customer data to understand the experience and needs of the Election Leaflets audience. A project for the Open Australia Foundation.
Presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have not yet staked a claim to the online supporters of their felled opponents according to a new Public Echoes Of Rhetoric In America (PEORIA) Project report.
Electioneering in Pandemic Times: The 2022 Australian Federal Election on Fac...Axel Bruns
Paper by Axel Bruns, Daniel Angus, Timothy Graham, Ehsan Dehghan, Nadia Jude, and Phoebe Matich, presented at the AoIR 2022 conference, Dublin, 3 Nov. 2022.
Lets talk #2: Social Media and Its Impact on PoliticsNabila As'ad
We’ll take one example: Barrack Obama’s Breakthrough with his Digital Campaign Communications in 2012.
His Objectives
The Statistic
The Data
The Facts
The Findings of Audit Processes (of this campaign)
This year in the month of May, the tenure of the 15th Lok Sabha was to end and the elections to the 543 parliamentary seats were to be held. With 813 million registered voters, out of which a 100 million were first time voters, we are the world's largest democracy. A whooping $5 billion were spent on these elections, which made us stand second only to the US Presidential elections ($7 billion) in terms of money spent. The different phases of elections were held on 9 days spanning over the months of April and May, making it the most elaborate exercise to choose the Prime Minister of India. Swelling number of Internet users and Online Social Media (OSM) users turned these unconventional media platforms into key medium in these elections; that could effect 3-4% of urban population votes as per a report of IAMAI (Internet & Mobile Association of India). Political parties making use of Google+ Hangout to interact with people and party workers, posting campaigning photos on Instagram and videos on YouTube, debating on Twitter and Facebook were strong indicators of the impact of the OSM on the India General Elections 2014. With hardly any political leader or party not having his account on the micro blogging site Twitter and the surge in the political conversations on Twitter, inspired us to take the opportunity to study and analyze this huge ocean of elections data. Our count of tweets related to elections from September 2013 to May 2014, collected with the help of Twitter's Streaming API was close to 17.07 million.
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PEP-TF: Social Media Monitoring of the Campaigns for the 2013 German Bundesta...GESIS
As more and more people use social media to communicate their view and perception of elections, researchers have increasingly been collecting and analyzing data from social media platforms. Our research focuses on social media communication related to the 2013 election of the German parlia-ment [translation: Bundestagswahl 2013]. We constructed several social media datasets using data from Facebook and Twitter. First, we identified the most relevant candidates (n=2,346) and checked whether they maintained social media accounts. The Facebook data was collected in November 2013 for the period of January 2009 to October 2013. On Facebook we identified 1,408 Facebook walls containing approximately 469,000 posts. Twitter data was collected between June and December 2013 finishing with the constitution of the government. On Twitter we identified 1,009 candidates and 76 other agents, for example, journalists. We estimated the number of relevant tweets to exceed eight million for the period from July 27 to September 27 alone. In this document we summarize past research in the literature, discuss possibilities for research with our data set, explain the data collection procedures, and provide a description of the data and a discussion of issues for archiving and dissemination of social media data.
Australian Political Parties and social media: uses and attitudesStephen Dann
Australian Political Parties and social media talks about how the Twitter accounts of political candidates from the W.A. senate re-election fared under analysis from the Twitter Content Classification framework (Plus a brief overview of Day 1 of the #cmpm2014 conference)
Mapping Movements: Social movement research and big data: critiques and alter...Tim Highfield
Paper presented by Sky Croeser and Tim Highfield at Compromised Data? colloquium, Toronto, Canada, 29 October 2013. http://www.infoscapelab.ca/news/oct-28-29-colloquium-compromised-data-new-paradigms-social-media-theory-and-methods
[Tim's additional note: This presentation is focused specifically on doing research around social movements and producing findings and contributing new knowledge about how activists use social media and online technologies – there is some very important and detailed quantitative analysis of Twitter discussions around social movements and uprisings which provide critical information about communication online and responses to international events, and my intent is not to discount this work just because it is quant-only – these studies do different things and have different aims, and so the scope of their findings is not the same by extension (I’m not sure that I made this point clearly in the presentation, though).]
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Paper by Sky Croeser and Tim Highfield, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Salford, UK, October 2012. These are anonymised versions of the slides presented, with additional notes to clarify points previously illustrated by selected tweets.
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Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
ys jagan mohan reddy political career, Biography.pdfVoterMood
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Welcome to the new Mizzima Weekly !
Mizzima Media Group is pleased to announce the relaunch of Mizzima Weekly. Mizzima is dedicated to helping our readers and viewers keep up to date on the latest developments in Myanmar and related to Myanmar by offering analysis and insight into the subjects that matter. Our websites and our social media channels provide readers and viewers with up-to-the-minute and up-to-date news, which we don’t necessarily need to replicate in our Mizzima Weekly magazine. But where we see a gap is in providing more analysis, insight and in-depth coverage of Myanmar, that is of particular interest to a range of readers.
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हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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Future Of Fintech In India | Evolution Of Fintech In IndiaTheUnitedIndian
Navigating the Future of Fintech in India: Insights into how AI, blockchain, and digital payments are driving unprecedented growth in India's fintech industry, redefining financial services and accessibility.
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#wavotes: Tracking candidates' use of social media in the 2013 Western Australian state election
1. #wavotes:
Tracking candidates’ use of
social media in the 2013
Western Australian state
election
Tim Highfield and Axel Bruns
ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Australia
t.highfield | a.bruns @ qut.edu.au
@timhighfield | @snurb_dot_info
http://mappingonlinepublics.net/
2. TWITTER AND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS
• Social media now established components of political
campaigning, commentary, reporting
• Part of Australian political landscape for several years:
– 2010: ALP leadership spill covered via Twitter; Federal
election accompanied by #ausvotes tweets
– Subsequent state elections followed this approach (2012
Queensland state election and #qldvotes)
– MPs, candidates, parties, journalists, voters tweet news,
opinions, links (as part of wider online activity and
campaign strategy)
3. PREVIOUS (AND FUTURE) STUDIES
• Bruns & Burgess (2011) - #ausvotes (2010)
• Bruns & Highfield (2013) - #qldvotes (2012)
• Bruns, Highfield, & Sauter (upcoming) - #ausvotes II
(2013)
• These later studies (and this paper) also act as pilot
studies and first cases for international collaborative
research into social media and election campaigns
4. STATE AND FEDERAL POLITICS AND
TWITTER
• Australian (federal) politics a prominent topic of
discussion on Twitter
– In 2012, #auspol regularly attracted thousands of tweets
per day; live tweeting of panel shows such as Q & A
• State politics has a smaller audience on Twitter, though
– #wapol averaged 61 tweets per day in 2012 – a year’s
worth of #wapol tweets is equivalent to less than four days
of #auspol
– State politicians and journalists somewhat active on Twitter
– Expected heightened activity for election campaigns
5. TWITTER AND WESTERN AUSTRALIAN
POLITICS
Mr M. McGOWAN: […] It is a bit like Twitter; the Premier has
forbidden all his ministers from using Twitter, yet I see a Twitter
account with the Premier’s name on it. […]
Mr C.J. Barnett: It is another untruth.
Mr P. Papalia: You know you told ministers not to use Twitter;
that is true.
Mr C.J. Barnett: People can use Twitter. That is not true. People
have not been banned.
Mr M. McGOWAN: I do not think the Premier knows what Twitter
is.
Legislative Assembly Hansard, 20 September 2012, pp. 6344-5
6. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
• How was Twitter utilised during the election campaign?
– Which parties and candidates used Twitter (extensively)
during the campaign?
– How active were these candidates’ Twitter accounts?
– To what extent did these accounts interact, along both
intra- and lines?
• How do these approaches support – or differ from –
findings in similar studies of election campaigns and
social media?
7. METHODS
• Tracking tweets containing specified hashtags, keywords, and
user names (including tweets from these users)
• Data collected between January and March 2013
– #wapol, #wavotes, #wa2013vote
– barnett; mcgowan; buswell; metronet
– @MarkMcGowanMP [initial list of 83 MP, party, candidate
accounts, expanded to 119 accounts by election day]
• Methods
– yourTwapperkeeper captures tweets with specified hashtags
from Twitter API
– Gawk scripts for processing large datasets (Bruns & Burgess,
2011), Gephi for network visualisation
8. THE 2013 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN
ELECTION
• First state election with a fixed date: 9 March 2013
• Parliament adjourned December 2012, but writs not issued for
election until February 2013
– A ‘phoney’ campaign in December and January, and for declared
candidates even before then
• Main players:
– Liberal Party (in government) – led by Premier Colin Barnett [15
accounts tracked here]
– Australian Labor Party (ALP) – led by Mark McGowan [47]
– National Party (in coalition with Liberal Party [17]
– Australian Greens [24]
– Independents and minor parties [16]
9. THE CAMPAIGN ON TWITTER
• ALP and Greens candidates generated the greatest
numbers of tweets during the election campaign
– Established ALP MP Twitter accounts maintained regular
rates of tweeting, supported by new candidate accounts
• New candidates – with accounts set up for the election
campaign – saw election period tweets forming the
highest percentage of their total tweets
– Independents, Greens, ALP candidates
– Some (pre-existing) Liberal Party accounts suddenly
increased tweeting rate once election called
10. CANDIDATES’ TWEETING
Account Party Status # Tweets (Feb-Mar 2013) % of total tweets (to March 2013)
KenTraversMLC ALP MP 740 11.84
CameronPoustie Greens Candidate 483 13.56
TheGreensWA Greens Party 456 53.52
DrGCrisp Greens Candidate 399 17.72
GregWRoss Independent Candidate 397 53.36
papsMLA ALP MP 284 14.77
JohnHydeMLA ALP MP 272 7.05
JandakotJoe Liberal MP 179 41.82
LiberalsWA Liberal Party 159 36.89
darlingrange ALP Candidate 131 37.54
walabor ALP Party 127 35.67
lisabakercom ALP MP 123 13.16
KlaraAndric ALP Candidate 113 50.90
JSheltonALP ALP Candidate 109 39.78
Sullivan4Freo Greens Candidate 108 38.03
ian_radisich ALP Candidate 93 17.65
QuirkyMLA ALP MP 72 16.22
lynnmaclaren Greens MP 63 14.13
MiaDaviesMLC Nationals MP 62 4.16
RogerCookMLA ALP MP 60 4.89
11. CANDIDATES’ TWEETING
Account Party Status # Tweets (Feb-Mar 2013) % of total tweets (to March 2013)
KMCottesloe Independent Candidate 33 64.71
TheGreensWA Greens Party 456 53.52
GregWRoss Independent Candidate 397 53.36
KlaraAndric ALP Candidate 113 50.90
GreensWanneroo Greens Candidate 31 42.47
JandakotJoe Liberal MP 179 41.82
JSheltonALP ALP Candidate 109 39.78
Sullivan4Freo Greens Candidate 108 38.03
darlingrange ALP Candidate 131 37.54
LiberalsWA Liberal Party 159 36.89
walabor ALP Party 127 35.67
JillSounnessRfR Nationals Candidate 28 35.00
MichelleMidland ALP MP 50 30.30
maxhipkins Independent Candidate 35 29.91
LizBehjatMLC Liberal MP 23 27.06
nollamaramp ALP MP 19 24.05
FredRiebeling ALP Candidate 45 23.81
TonyOGorman3 ALP MP 10 20.00
12. CAMPAIGN TWEETING
• Initial 83 accounts tweeted 10,118 times between 9
January and 10 March 2013
• Tweeting about election in general increased as election
day approached, peaking on election day (spike for
leaders’ debate – not shown here)
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#wavotes
#wapol
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13. CANDIDATES’ INTERACTIONS
• Size: degree
• Colour: affiliation
– Red: ALP
– Blue: Liberal
– Green: Greens
– Orange: Nationals
– Pink: Independents
(11 Feb – 10 March)
14. PRESENCE AND ABSENCE
• Greens, Nationals on Twitter form partisan clusters in
their interactions – strategy of linking to focal party
accounts, who interact more (or are mentioned by
others) across party lines?
• ALP follows similar approach, but sheer volume of
accounts in comparison means this appears as the main
component rather than a separate cluster, of the
@mention network
• The absence of many Liberal MPs and candidates on
Twitter means that the few Liberals who were active are
less of a cluster, more of a bridge between different
groups
15. PRESENCE AND ABSENCE
• Twitter users still sought out the ‘absent’ accounts,
though
– Unofficial Barnett accounts continued to attract followers at
higher rates than other candidates during election period,
despite being branded as unofficial and/or not tweeting at
all during campaign:
Account New followers (Jan-Mar 2013)
LiberalsWA 647
MarkMcGowanMP 541
walabor 403
TheGreensWA 395
premierbarnett 365
16. TWITTER AND THE WA ELECTION
• WA case study demonstrates patterns similar to those
found in 2012 Queensland election, such as partisan
clustering
– Conspicuous absence of Liberal accounts from Twitter,
though, means that interactions take different shape
– Electorate-specific ‘battles’ through @mentions less
apparent, again as candidates not on Twitter
– Strategy (or result) of a few prominent accounts
@mentioned by other party members and bridging
partisan lines – tweeting strategies of leaders? Reflective
of election issues?
17. TWITTER AND THE WA ELECTION
• Election results reflect (or exceed) the predicted
outcome – overwhelming victory for Liberal Party,
several seemingly-safe ALP seats lost, no independents
in Legislative Assembly
• Absence of Liberal Party candidates from Twitter as
campaign strategy minimised gaffes and spreadable
errors, especially when predicted results meant
engagement online not necessarily important for
obtaining support
• Election night: Liberal Party account most active,
tweeting results and congratulating candidates (other
accounts silent)
18. LIMITATIONS AND FURTHER OUTLOOK
• Twitter users are not representative of the electorate at
large; datasets here do not contain all tweets concerning
election or related issues; Twitter is just one platform
used during the campaign
• Preliminary analysis of tweeting patterns featured here
– Further examination required, such as the content of
tweets (including rationale for @mentions, hashtag use)
– Additional analysis to draw on further datasets (keywords,
hashtags), from a wider group of users, to provide more
rounded view of election from Twitter
• Application of methods, comparison of (extended)
findings with upcoming elections