The document discusses strategies for developing a website strategy for nonprofits. It notes that online giving has grown for nonprofits of all sizes in recent years. It recommends conducting stakeholder and user interviews, developing personas, and performing heuristic evaluations to understand user needs. The document provides examples of questions for interviews and templates for developing personas and conducting heuristic evaluations. It also defines some additional information architecture terminology.
Team of Rivals: UX, SEO, Content & Dev UXDC 2015Marianne Sweeny
The search engine landscape has changed dramatically and now relies heavily on user experience signals to influence rank in search results. In this presentation, I explore search engine methods for evaluating UX in a machine readable fashion and present a framework for successful cross-discipline collaboration.
Delivered at Enterprise Search and Discovery 2015, this presentation takes a look at the search landscape users enjoy outside the firewall and the expectations it fosters inside. It presents contemporary user research on enterprise search behavior and uses these findings to make recommendations to enhance enterprise search effectiveness.
Cross discipline collaboration benefits from group think, a consolidation of soft system methodology and user focused design that all starts with design thinking that sees clients, designers, developers and information architects working together to address user problems and needs. As with any great adventure, design thinking starts with exploration and discovery.This presentation examines the high level tenants of system thinking, expands the scope of user thinking to include tools and devices that users employ to find out designs and delve into the specifics of design thinking, its methods and outcomes.
What is Information Architecture and How Can It Help My Website?Jimmy Smith
This presentation discusses how Information Architecture (IA) is basically a blueprint for your website. We discuss how to develop an IA and how IA can help your website perform better by helping your users find content more easily and be more user friendly in general.
Information Architecture - Tasks & Tools for Web DesignersDennis Deacon
We may not realize we're doing it, but Information Architecture is being performed transparently as part of our web projects.This presentation highlights the key aspects of this trade and provides some best practices.
A Brief (and Practical) Introduction to Information ArchitectureLouis Rosenfeld
Keynote presentation by Louis Rosenfeld at the Usability and Accessibility for the Web International Seminar; 26 July 2007, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Team of Rivals: UX, SEO, Content & Dev UXDC 2015Marianne Sweeny
The search engine landscape has changed dramatically and now relies heavily on user experience signals to influence rank in search results. In this presentation, I explore search engine methods for evaluating UX in a machine readable fashion and present a framework for successful cross-discipline collaboration.
Delivered at Enterprise Search and Discovery 2015, this presentation takes a look at the search landscape users enjoy outside the firewall and the expectations it fosters inside. It presents contemporary user research on enterprise search behavior and uses these findings to make recommendations to enhance enterprise search effectiveness.
Cross discipline collaboration benefits from group think, a consolidation of soft system methodology and user focused design that all starts with design thinking that sees clients, designers, developers and information architects working together to address user problems and needs. As with any great adventure, design thinking starts with exploration and discovery.This presentation examines the high level tenants of system thinking, expands the scope of user thinking to include tools and devices that users employ to find out designs and delve into the specifics of design thinking, its methods and outcomes.
What is Information Architecture and How Can It Help My Website?Jimmy Smith
This presentation discusses how Information Architecture (IA) is basically a blueprint for your website. We discuss how to develop an IA and how IA can help your website perform better by helping your users find content more easily and be more user friendly in general.
Information Architecture - Tasks & Tools for Web DesignersDennis Deacon
We may not realize we're doing it, but Information Architecture is being performed transparently as part of our web projects.This presentation highlights the key aspects of this trade and provides some best practices.
A Brief (and Practical) Introduction to Information ArchitectureLouis Rosenfeld
Keynote presentation by Louis Rosenfeld at the Usability and Accessibility for the Web International Seminar; 26 July 2007, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Our vision is to create an easy and convenient tool that would help young adults develop long-lasting, meaningful relationships with peace of mind.
http://www.froffr.com
Turning Data into Infographics: An Interactive Workshop for Problem SolversUNCResearchHub
This workshop was given at the UNC Undergraduate Library on October 4, 2016. It steps through the process of finding data sources, exploring data, and ultimately creating a persuasive infographic using that data. A brief introduction to infographics and best practices are included.
Less is More: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Amount o...UXPA International
Does more information elicit users’ compliance and engagement, or the other way around?
This paper explores the relationship between content strategy and user experience (UX). Specifically, we examine how the amount of information provided on marketing web pages, often called “landing pages,” impact users’ willingness to provide their e-mail address (a behavior called “conversion” in marketing terms). We describe the results of two large-scale online experiments (n= 535 and n= 27,900) conducted in real-world commercial settings. The observed results indicate a negative correlation between the amount of information on a web page and users’ decision-making and engagement.
Presented by Nim Dvir
While we have been busy trying to "define the damn thing" IA or answering the age old question of who rules, UX, IxDA or IA, the search engines have been busily transitioning to a machine mediated experience model for ranking. This means that SEO is now the responsibility of UX/IA whether we like it or not. This presentation lays out how search engines evaluate user experience and how we can influence this evaluation with an optimized design.
These are the slides of my invited talk at the REVEAL workshop at RecSys 2019. The workshop focuses on the offline evaluation for recommender systems, and this year’s focus was on Reinforcement Learning. Although not directly related to reinforcement learning, it is clear that there are connections to what research in reinforcement learning is attempting to achieve (defining the rewards) and metrics that are optimized by recommender systems. I presented various works and personal thoughts on how to develop metrics of user engagement, which recommender systems can optimize for. An important message was that, for recommender systems to work both in the short and the long-term, it is important to consider the heterogeneity of both user and content to formalise the notion of engagement, and in turn design the appropriate metrics to capture these and optimize for. One way to achieve this is to follow these four steps: 1) Understanding intents; 2) Optimizing for the right metric; 3) Acting on segmentation; and 4) Thinking about diversity.
An previous version of this talk was given to UMAP 2019. See https://www.slideshare.net/mounialalmas/metrics-engagement-personalization
Social Intranet Design Strategies presented by Intranet Connections CEO Carolyn Douglas at the 19th Annual Intranets for Internal Communications, Vancouver, BC
Deck I created for IEM 628: Product and Process Design and Development, Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management at Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
Topic assigned: Comprehensive Guide to Product Concept and Design
I used JUUL to illustrate the basic concepts of product design.
Last slide includes references used for this deck. Some text in slide 17 are not visible due to animation, sorry about that.
An Engaging Click ... or how can user engagement measurement inform web searc...Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke
A good search engine is one when users come very regularly, type their queries, get their results, and leave quickly. With user engagement metrics from web analytics, these translate to a low dwell time, often low CTR, but a very high return rate. But user engagement is not just about this. User engagement is a complex phenomenon that requires a number of approaches for its measurement: we can ask the user about their experience though questionnaires, we can observe where they look or move the mouse, and we can calculate various web analytic metrics. The aim of this talk is to discuss how current work on user engagement, not necessary specific to web search, can provide insights into putting search into more broader perspectives.
This presentation is part of Search Solutions 2013, 27 November 2013, at the BCS HQ. A first version of this talk was given at the SIGIR 2013 Industry Day by Ricardo Baeza-Yates.
Our vision is to create an easy and convenient tool that would help young adults develop long-lasting, meaningful relationships with peace of mind.
http://www.froffr.com
Turning Data into Infographics: An Interactive Workshop for Problem SolversUNCResearchHub
This workshop was given at the UNC Undergraduate Library on October 4, 2016. It steps through the process of finding data sources, exploring data, and ultimately creating a persuasive infographic using that data. A brief introduction to infographics and best practices are included.
Less is More: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Amount o...UXPA International
Does more information elicit users’ compliance and engagement, or the other way around?
This paper explores the relationship between content strategy and user experience (UX). Specifically, we examine how the amount of information provided on marketing web pages, often called “landing pages,” impact users’ willingness to provide their e-mail address (a behavior called “conversion” in marketing terms). We describe the results of two large-scale online experiments (n= 535 and n= 27,900) conducted in real-world commercial settings. The observed results indicate a negative correlation between the amount of information on a web page and users’ decision-making and engagement.
Presented by Nim Dvir
While we have been busy trying to "define the damn thing" IA or answering the age old question of who rules, UX, IxDA or IA, the search engines have been busily transitioning to a machine mediated experience model for ranking. This means that SEO is now the responsibility of UX/IA whether we like it or not. This presentation lays out how search engines evaluate user experience and how we can influence this evaluation with an optimized design.
These are the slides of my invited talk at the REVEAL workshop at RecSys 2019. The workshop focuses on the offline evaluation for recommender systems, and this year’s focus was on Reinforcement Learning. Although not directly related to reinforcement learning, it is clear that there are connections to what research in reinforcement learning is attempting to achieve (defining the rewards) and metrics that are optimized by recommender systems. I presented various works and personal thoughts on how to develop metrics of user engagement, which recommender systems can optimize for. An important message was that, for recommender systems to work both in the short and the long-term, it is important to consider the heterogeneity of both user and content to formalise the notion of engagement, and in turn design the appropriate metrics to capture these and optimize for. One way to achieve this is to follow these four steps: 1) Understanding intents; 2) Optimizing for the right metric; 3) Acting on segmentation; and 4) Thinking about diversity.
An previous version of this talk was given to UMAP 2019. See https://www.slideshare.net/mounialalmas/metrics-engagement-personalization
Social Intranet Design Strategies presented by Intranet Connections CEO Carolyn Douglas at the 19th Annual Intranets for Internal Communications, Vancouver, BC
Deck I created for IEM 628: Product and Process Design and Development, Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management at Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
Topic assigned: Comprehensive Guide to Product Concept and Design
I used JUUL to illustrate the basic concepts of product design.
Last slide includes references used for this deck. Some text in slide 17 are not visible due to animation, sorry about that.
An Engaging Click ... or how can user engagement measurement inform web searc...Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke
A good search engine is one when users come very regularly, type their queries, get their results, and leave quickly. With user engagement metrics from web analytics, these translate to a low dwell time, often low CTR, but a very high return rate. But user engagement is not just about this. User engagement is a complex phenomenon that requires a number of approaches for its measurement: we can ask the user about their experience though questionnaires, we can observe where they look or move the mouse, and we can calculate various web analytic metrics. The aim of this talk is to discuss how current work on user engagement, not necessary specific to web search, can provide insights into putting search into more broader perspectives.
This presentation is part of Search Solutions 2013, 27 November 2013, at the BCS HQ. A first version of this talk was given at the SIGIR 2013 Industry Day by Ricardo Baeza-Yates.
This is the persona presentation I gave at the 2012 UPA/UxPA conference in Las Vegas. There's a very similar version of the talk that I gave to the Boston UPA in 2011, which you can also find on slideshare, here:
http://www.slideshare.net/UPABoston/persona-development
8 Streaks is a Professionally managed company Deals in Modular Kitchens, Wardrobes, Crockery units, T.V units, and Interior Products like Wallpapers, Chimneys, Flooring, Ceiling, Painting etc.One Stop solution for all your Interior Needs.The name Eight Streaks is derived from David Garvin(s)Eight dimensions of Quality where we are planning to knot each streak (Lines) of quality as a bundle to come with the cost effective and high quality product or service.
An effective intranet design is one that is perceived as being of value by both employees and stakeholders. There is a significant amount of planning involved when designing an intranet experience no matter if it is a new build, redesign or new feature. It typically requires cross-department collaboration, management of a multidisciplinary team and implementation, marketing/communication and training plan.
Introduce the concepts and value of the content inventory and audit and get practical,
tactical tools and experience in conducting an audit, extracting insights, and
presenting the findings.
2 hours training on Mobile UX with Farah Nuraini, Interaction Designer at Traveloka, Indonesia
45 min theory: Research, Analysis, Design solutions and Testing
+ 1h15 min of hands-on exercises with the 5 facilitators from Traveloka.
Julie Grundy gives an overview of user experience Design, why it's important, guiding principles, UX research overview, and tactics used by UX professionals. November 2015.
Behavioral Responsiveness in web development
- Past, Present & Future
Video available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VKNDh7VXbw&list=PLSwFVRVZ3joRlHSiJ8JxKsvI9uWlr1tik&index=51
Project Management for Nonprofits- 501 Commons Tech Talk501 Commons
Every organization needs strong project management practices to help drive their missions forward. This training will cover free or low-cost easy-to-use technology tools that can help you collaborate better as a team. You will also learn what makes a successful project manager, as well as the "big picture" of project management.
This training is suitable for those interested in pursuing project managment, as well as experienced project managers who are seeking avenues for making improvements.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is critical for every organization, as it will help increase your visibility on the web by making it more likely for people to discover you. If you aren't considering ways you can strengthen your website's SEO, you could be missing out on meeting new clients, volunteers, partners, or donors.
More than 90% of people begin their research process by using a search engine. This includes looking up what to buy, where to eat, and where to donate. The proliferation of mobile devices (and now voice-activated personal assistants) is changing how people use search engines. Competition is increasing and learning how SEO works is more critical than ever.
These slides provide a beginner-level discussion about how to approach your SEO strategy and research process. We will talk about essential terminology, process steps, and tools.
We will learn about:
- How search ranks get developed
- How recent algorithm changes affect search results
- How to organize keyword research
- How to come up with SEO-friendly blog ideas
- The tools and capabilities you'll need on your team
Meet the Presenter
Brian Childs is a Training Program Manager at Moz. Moz is a leading developer of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) software and is based in Seattle. Prior to Moz, Brian was the co-founder of a digital marketing agency, led corporate strategy for GE, and was a product manager on big data solutions. Prior to his work in marketing roles, Brian worked in International Development for the United Nations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.
Social Network Analysis: Mapping Your Nonprofit's Connections501 Commons
Your nonprofit’s network is much larger than you might realize. When you consider the people your staff, volunteers, donors, partners, and board members all have connections with, think about the beneficial relationships you might be missing out on!
Your new collaborator, major gift prospect, high level volunteer, dynamic board member, or like-minded policymaker could be only a few degrees of separation away. But how would you know that unless you had a way of seeing this untapped relational network clearly mapped out?
This fast-paced, two-hour 501 Talks Tech session will explore “Social Network Analysis,” a process of visually diagramming your interpersonal network, direct and indirect connections, and opportunities that can come about from being aware of this data. Creating your very own network map can inform you about how you can better leverage your relationships toward improving your programs, operations, fundraising, recruiting, and marketing.
The technology focus will be on NodeXL, an open-source Microsoft Excel plugin that can help you improve your knowledge of the connections that are sitting right under your nose.
At this workshop, we will:
- Explore why Social Network Analysis matters to nonprofits
- Understand what a Network Map is, and how to decode one
- Follow a step-by-step tutorial to source, load, visualize, and analyze network data
- Allow adequate time for questions and practice
- Show pathways for additional learning and development
What You Should Do For Your Website in the Next 6 to 9 Months501 Commons
Websites are crucial for a nonprofit's work. Unfortunately, we live in a time when a harmful security breach can be right around the corner. Do you have a plan for recovering from such a breach? How can you speed up your site and help make it more secure at the same time? How do you make your site work well, no matter what device it is viewed on?
Your website is essential for engaging supporters, volunteers, and—in many cases—the people you serve. Adaptability is key for making sure these people can access your website at all times, and there are so many nonprofit website experts out there telling you what you must do.
In this free 501 Talks Tech training, we’ll cover three top areas we believe you need to give attention to soon that will have the greatest positive impact on your organization in the near future:
- Website security and backup
- Website performance improvement
- Responsive website design
Some of the specific topics you will learn about in this training include:
- Simple ways to protect your website from a security breach
- What to do when a security breach happens
- Backing up your website and data
- Content delivery networks and other methods for improving website performance
- Responsive website design
This training is intended for those with a basic understanding of website design and security.
From fundraising to programs, from advocacy to evaluation, Tableau Foundation helps nonprofits make a bigger impact with their data. Thanks to the new Tableau for Non-profits program, most small nonprofits qualify for free copies of Tableau Desktop.
All organizations – even small ones! – have a vast amount of data at their disposal. But this data doesn't have to be confusing or useless. It can help you make informed decisions on program development, fundraising campaigns, reporting, and strategic planning. Tableau helps nonprofits use their data to change communities.
This “Getting Started” session will introduce nonprofit staff and leadership to Tableau’s powerful, easy-to-use business intelligence software. Through the session, attendees will learn how to:
- Understand the importance of data visualization for evaluation and storytelling purposes
- Connect to their organization's data on a PC, a server, in the cloud, or on the web
- Build compelling visualizations, dashboards, and storypoints
- Use quick filters to explore the intricacies of their data
- Share their data both inside and outside their organization
This is designed to be a beginner’s workshop, but if you’d like to get a head start on finding out why understanding data can be the key to building a stronger organization, check out Tableau's training videos at tableau.com/learn/training.
Meet the Presenter
Jason Schumacher is the Tableau Foundation’s program manager. He runs the Tableau Service Corps, the Foundation’s skilled volunteering initiative, as well as licensing programs for nonprofits. Previously, Jason ran Tableau’s academic programs, acting as a PM, trainer, and marketer. Before joining Tableau in 2012, Jason worked with data at a healthcare marketing agency, while asking himself the question “why am I not using Tableau for this?”
Agile Project Management for Nonprofits501 Commons
Are you looking for ways to remove dysfunctions, waste, and inefficiencies in your non-profit organization? Whether it is a technology or a non-technology project for non-profits, this quick introduction to “Agile” – a modern project management approach can help you get more done more efficiently with full engagement of your team and stakeholders.
In this workshop you will learn how Agile has caused tremendous disruption and innovation in today’s networked global economy and what are the future possibilities. You will specifically learn how to adopt Agile practices to do twice more in less than half the time at your non-profit organization. Agile practices are aimed at responding to changing organizational demands by reducing waste, incorporating program improvements more quickly, and working collaboratively.
Agile is a mindset and it requires a mind shift from individual performance to team progress. It emphasizes the ability to adapt to changes and provide organizations the framework to adapt in a predictable way with a minimal amount of waste, such as from over planning. In Agile, teams incorporate frequent feedback, from both internal and external stakeholders, and work in short iterations, with the goal always to get something viable in front of an individual for feedback. Everyone works as one team to get work done.
Specifically, participants will learn the benefits of Agile, how to become Agile, the role of a team in a scrum environment, and an overview of scrum roles.
Your organization has a facebook page, and you've got a few dozen or maybe a few hundred "fans". You see the notices to "boost" your posts, but every time you have tried it, it didn't work, or you haven't even tried. This Workshop will help you understand and use facebook strategically for your non-profit.
We will walk you through how to look at your "insights"
Offer helpful tips on when to post, how to schedule posts,
Show you where to find what kind of posts get the greatest engagement,
And we'll talk about how and when to boost your site or your posts for maximum value for minimum dollars.
This is a beginners workshop, but will assume that you have managed facebook for a non-profit organization, and are familiar with the interfaces.
About the presenter:
Katherine Cleland owns and operates Cleland Marketing, a small business that develops customized marketing for profit and growth strategies for Small Businesses. She has been creating successful campaigns in Facebook for 12 years for her many clients, and now runs facebook pages for more than a dozen small and medium businesses, including several nonprofits. Cleland Marketing focuses on technology, cleantech, and high tech businesses. She is also an advisor to the University of Washington Comotion CGF program, helping PI's define their marketing strategies.
Ms. Cleland has presented seminars on marketing at the Shoreline Lunch and Learn, Oregon State Austin Family Business Conference, Linn Benton Community College, Corvallis Chamber of Commerce, and The WNHS Micro-business program and the BEC Business Boot camp. She is a relatively recent transplant to Seattle.
501 Talks Tech: WordPress + Social Media = Engagement501 Commons
Connecting with your audience through social media is no longer just a "maybe" activity. But who has time to constantly create content for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or whatever the next hot site is? Let experts Mike Brogan and Mark Root-Wiley show you how to make your WordPress-based website be the hub of your online activity, and automate your social efforts. Save time and energy, and deepen your engagement.
Sharepoint for Nonprofits: Introduction501 Commons
A Walkthrough of Real World Deployment
Now that you are up and running on Office365, are you wondering if SharePoint can help your organization better collaborate? Is email your org's primary means of sharing files? Not quite sure what SharePoint is? Wondering what it takes to build a useful SharePoint site? Hoping to decommission your local file server or Dropbox shared accounts? This presentation will walk through the business and technical steps taken at Habitat for Humanity SKC to deploy SharePoint in a mid-sized nonprofit.
Topics to be covered:
SharePoint functional overview. What is it and what can it do for me? Brief comparison with similar products.
Structuring sites and subsites.
Security considerations. Internal and external sharing. How do I control and monitor access?
Document libraries. Custom views. Using folders vs. search.
Data preservation.
Syncing files locally. Limits and tradeoffs.
Reaching nirvana – any document on any device, anywhere in a secure environment?
How to involve your team in design and deployment. How to manage a deployment.
Project overview at Habitat for Humanity. What worked? What didn't work?
Hidden costs? Training? Internet upgrade? Storage fees? Local PC upgrades?
Benefit from the experience of a recent deployment, and make a more informed decision about whether SharePoint is a good fit for your organizational needs.
About the presenter:
Kevin Phaup is an independent software consultant who has advised dozens of local non-profits in Seattle and Portland over the years primarily as a volunteer. He works closely with Social Venture Partners. He enjoys providing targeted technical and business advice, and hands-on work building successful IT solutions.
Nonprofits are undergoing a trend of increased transparency, accountability, and information-sharing. Institutional funders require data demonstrating need and impact, policy-makers rely on data to guide their course and decision-making processes, and media and donors demand more transparency. This workshop will show you how you can use this trend to your advantage.
In this training session you will learn to find data that can help promote your cause and turn it into meaningful communication. What you create can be used to guide internal efforts, inform policy-makers and media, and/or support fund seeking from institutional funders and donors.
The workshop will take you from data to story in 90 minutes including.
1. Where to find data that supports your cause
2. How to prepare your data using Excel (Including shortcuts and tips)
3. How to find meaningful insights in your data
4. Publishing engaging stories based on your data using LiveStories and Haiku Deck
About the presenter: Anders Maul has a background in marketing and international business. Anders worked for 5 years in business controlling for a large pharmaceutical company where he managed and analyzed $100M+ budgets and spent "a lot of time" looking at Excel spreadsheets. Anders Maul currently works for LiveStories, a technology startup that helps nonprofits, foundations, and governments to become more data-driven.
Project Scheduling for Successful Outcomes501 Commons
Project management touches every part of your organization. While each project is different, they all share common strategies to achieve successful outcomes. Poor project management can lead to wasted resources and unnecessary stress on your organizational staff that is already working at 110%. In this workshop you will:
Understand common project management terms regarding creating a project schedule
Learn how to create a work breakdown structure to reflect the scope of project work
Practice developing a project schedule using a project scheduling template based on Excel.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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.
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/
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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.
1. Presented by Barbara Pritchard
Coordinated by Alex Green
Website Strategy
Planning for Nonprofits
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Did you know?
Online giving grew 10.7% in 2012 compared to 2011
• Large nonprofits up 7.2%
• Medium sized nonprofits up 14.3%
• Small nonprofits up 11.8%
Source: Blackbaud 2012 Charitable Giving Report
Source: Dunham+Company, Direct Mail Study
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But where to start?
Always remember….
You are not designing for yourself.
Strategies to help develop your digital plan for your audience:
• Stakeholder & User Interviews
• Personas
• Heuristic Analysis
• User Experience Design Overview
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Information Architecture
IA is a….
“On the internet, information architecture means how a
website's content is organized and presented to
its users to facilitate navigation and search
functions.”
Source: BusinessDictionary.com
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Stakeholder Interviews
A stakeholder is anybody who is part of an organization and can affect or is
affected by its web content, branding and/or the information provided through the
organization’s digital offerings.
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Stakeholder Interviews
1. Identify primary the stakeholders.
Examples: Executive Director, Board Members, Fundraisers, Accounting, Content
Mangers, Marketing Managers, Volunteer Coordinators, IT.
2. Prep your questions
Examples:
• From your perspective, what are some of the critical audiences for the website?
• What are the most important things people can do, or actions they can take on the
website?
• How can the website support our organizations mission?
• How do you personally use the website?
• What kind of information, features or functionality needs to be there that isn’t now?
• What new initiatives do you have planned for the next 1-3 years?
• Who would you consider competitors of the organization?
3. Listen & Take notes
Your opinion matters, but should not during these interviews. Verbalize your
understanding (“If I understood you…”), Use neutral phrases to encourage the
interviewee (“I see”), Listen actively for meaning and emotion as well as for the facts.
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User Interviews & Usability testing
Get to know the End Users of your organizations
digital offerings – the people that visit your site. Who
are they and what do they need from your website?
Examples: Beneficiaries, Donors, Volunteers.
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User Interviews & Usability testing
1. Surveys – Find out what’s most important to your users
Rule of thumb – Keep it simple, write questions at 7th grade reading level.
Examples using a 5 point scale:
• How often do you <topic>?…Never, Rarely, Occasionally, Frequently, Often
• How important is <topic>?...Not at all, A little, Somewhat, Very much, Extremely.
• How much do you agree or disagree with <statement>? Strongly
disagree, Disagree, Neutral, Agree, Strongly Agree.
Examples of open ended questions:
• What is the purpose of your visit to our website?
• Were you able to complete your task today?
• If you were not able to complete the task, please explain why.
2. User Testing
Define a specific task or tasks and ask the user to walk you through achieving the
task. Do not lead the test subject.
• Were they able to achieve the task?
• How long did it take them?
• Were there points of frustration?
• Did you uncover what the user was expecting to happen?
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Personas
User Experience definition of Personas:
“Personas are fictional characters created to
represent the different user types within a targeted
demographic, attitude and/or behavior set that
might use a site, brand or product in a similar way.”
Source: Wikipedia, Persona (User Experience)
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Persona Examples
Profile
Gender
Age
Occupation
Character
Description
Site Usage
Web Confidence & Context
Brand Association
Environmental Attitude
Source: Boagworld, “An experience with User Personas”
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Persona Examples
Age
Location
Salary
Online Activies
Offline Activities
Bio
Technical Comfort
Social Comfort (online)
Mobile Usage
Key entre trigger puts
Motivation to use
client, brand or project
Goals
Brands
Source: Dylaunx.com, “Corporate site redesign, A process Case Study”
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Persona Examples
Source: Advertising Communication Technology, “Target”
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Personas
As you map out your site keep asking questions….
Examples:
• Does feature X benefit a persona?
• What do I need to explain to support this persona?
• What sort of language should I use to make sure this persona understands
the message?
• What tone should be used to communicate to this persona?
• Will this persona be able to achieve their goal quickly and easily?
• Does my homepage speak to each persona? Can they get to where they
need to go easily?
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Heuristic Evaluation
“Heuristic evaluation (Nielsen and Molich, 1990; Nielsen 1994) is a
usability engineering method for finding the usability problems
in a user interface design so that they can be attended to as
part of an iterative design process.”
Source: Nielsen Norman Group, “How to conduct a Heuristic Evaluation”
Can be performed on…
• Your existing website.
• Competitor websites
• Wireframes or design comps
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Heuristic Evaluation
First, define use cases (ideally of personas)
Examples:
• Joe is researching volunteer opportunities and found our website via a
Google Search. He doesn’t know anything about us yet, and is trying
to determine if we’re a fit.
• Betty, a potential client, heard about our services and is seeking our
support. She’s heard good things, but hasn’t reached out for help
before.
• Jane is deciding on her holiday contributions. She’s donated to us
annually, and is familiar with our mission. She’s also been considering
setting up monthly automatic donations, but hasn’t done that before.
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Heuristic Evaluation
Template provided by Jason Levine, UX Director at Ramp, UX & Usability Instructor at the University of Washington
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Heuristic Evaluation
Template provided by Jason Levine, UX Director at Ramp, UX & Usability Instructor at the University of Washington
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Heuristic Evaluation
Template provided by Jason Levine, UX Director at Ramp, UX & Usability Instructor at the University of Washington
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Additional IA Terminology
User Experience Design includes:
• Content Analysis – What content do you have? What do you need?
Start with an inventory. This is usually done in Excel or some sort of
Matrix.
• Site Mapping – Defining pages, subpages, and overall hierarchy of
content.
• User Interaction flows – The movement of your user trough a task. For
example, what steps need to be taken to send a donation, sign up to
volunteer, login to the site….
• Wireframes – Defining the content to include per page and the overall
structure of the individual pages.
• Functional Specification – Annotating the wireframe to explain user
interaction (rollover states, where things should link to, how things
should function) as well as defining system requirements (what
browsers it must work on, what framework should it be build in, etc).
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Q & A
Thank You!
Barbara Pritchard
barbaraYpritchard@gmail.com
Alex Green
alex@501commons.org
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Resources
We can help you further!
• For info on:
o Future workshops on technological applications, social
media methods, and other topics
o Participating in a free tech assessment of your nonprofit
• Contact us: vistatech@501Commons.org
Editor's Notes
Intro – about me and about the session.
When kicking off a new website or planning a redesign of an existing site, one of the toughest areas you’ll face is just where to begin. Today we’ll go over a few things you can do that will help you develop your strategy and be able to effectively work with designers and developers to achieve your digital goals. The topics covered will help you design for your audience, not for yourself.
All the topics we’ll discuss lead to the overarching goal of developing your sites information architecture so I want to make sure everyone knows this term. Some people equate it to Site Maps, but it’s so much more. Everything we’ll touch on today is part of IA planning.
Stakeholders offer expertise and insight into what their specific digital needs are. These are casual conversations with a single individual or a small group. If possible have someone with you that can take notes allowing you to focus on the conversation.
Stakeholders offer expertise and insight into what their specific digital needs are. These are casual conversations with a single individual or a small group. If possible have someone with you that can take notes allowing you to focus on the conversation.
Survey’s are a great way to gauge the priorities of your website users. There are free tools out there, such as Surveymonkey.com that allow you easily gather this data. User testing can be done on your site, but also consider seeing how user interact with competitor sites during your planning phase.
Personas give you a “real” person that keeps you focused and helps when you are making design decisions.
A Heuristic Evaluation can be done on your existing site, but I also recommend that you do it on competitor sites. You may discover that a feature or design you admired, isn’t achieving the goals. This exercise can help you determine what does and doesn’t work based on the scenarios you created for your personas.
There are a number of templates online for Heuristic evaluation. With a simple google search you can find a few. This is one of my favorites that I originally received from Jason Levine (UX Director at Ramp & MCDM Instructor at the University of Washington). With each one take specific notes on why you ranked it the way you did. Specific call outs…Clear indication – Breadcrumbs, highlighted state on navigation
Examples of metaphors:Tabs as navigation Icons: Shopping cart button, “Help” question mark, Calendar icons, Map iconDropbox iconTasks are in terms familiar to the user – make sure language is simple, and terms will make sense to Joe, Jane & Betty.
Based on the use cases, are goals being supported?
What we’ve discussed are tools and tips on how to wrap your head around your site planning. I’m not going to dive into these topics, but I wanted to provide you with a few terms you’ll hear in reference to web design. I’m then curious to hear from you if you’d like any of these topics to offered in a separate presentation.