Ellen de Vries provides tips for maintaining a website. She outlines common issues with websites such as lack of focus, poor content, and no clear responsibility. Her advice includes establishing objectives, auditing competitors, defining branding and messaging, creating an information architecture and ongoing workflow for editing and keeping content fresh.
10 User Testing Tips to Help You Design Stuff BetterKane Simms
User testing helps you generate insights from real users on the effectiveness of your design. You can then use those insights to improve the user experience of your products. Here's 10 tips on how to make the most of your user testing sessions.
Be Amazing: 5 Rules for Great Presentationsjcasimir
We all need to communicate ideas and, for business purposes, the ability to run a successful presentation is essential. In this session we discuss five rules to help guide your planning and delivery.
Shut up and eat your french fries: Asking Effective QuestionsEd Kless
This session is dedicated to the possibility that professionals can greatly increase the value they provide to their customers if they hone their skills at asking better, more effective questions. Developing an enhancing this skill is not easy because it requires us to rethink the paradigms and prejudices of the past. If you would like to contribute to a conversation about this topic, please join Ed Kless, Sage senior director of partner development and strategy.
How to (and why) kickstart your career as a young fresh designer?Mike van den IJssel
So, you’re about to start an amazing new journey as a Designer.
First of all, welcome to this amazing digital world full of innovation, pixels and creativity. Your journey is about to start, and I would love to help you with some advice and tips on growing as a designer.
Even small organizations can create and execute meaningful strategic plans. Creating a well-defined strategy is hard work and not for everyone, as it requires us to begin to say "no" to stuff we usually say "yes" to. You are hereby invited by facilitator Ed Kless, to open a dialogue about how best to go about creating a strategy for your small business organization.
10 User Testing Tips to Help You Design Stuff BetterKane Simms
User testing helps you generate insights from real users on the effectiveness of your design. You can then use those insights to improve the user experience of your products. Here's 10 tips on how to make the most of your user testing sessions.
Be Amazing: 5 Rules for Great Presentationsjcasimir
We all need to communicate ideas and, for business purposes, the ability to run a successful presentation is essential. In this session we discuss five rules to help guide your planning and delivery.
Shut up and eat your french fries: Asking Effective QuestionsEd Kless
This session is dedicated to the possibility that professionals can greatly increase the value they provide to their customers if they hone their skills at asking better, more effective questions. Developing an enhancing this skill is not easy because it requires us to rethink the paradigms and prejudices of the past. If you would like to contribute to a conversation about this topic, please join Ed Kless, Sage senior director of partner development and strategy.
How to (and why) kickstart your career as a young fresh designer?Mike van den IJssel
So, you’re about to start an amazing new journey as a Designer.
First of all, welcome to this amazing digital world full of innovation, pixels and creativity. Your journey is about to start, and I would love to help you with some advice and tips on growing as a designer.
Even small organizations can create and execute meaningful strategic plans. Creating a well-defined strategy is hard work and not for everyone, as it requires us to begin to say "no" to stuff we usually say "yes" to. You are hereby invited by facilitator Ed Kless, to open a dialogue about how best to go about creating a strategy for your small business organization.
Content Curation: An Essential Ingredient for Online Business SuccessJerod Morris
Successful content curation -- the kind that actually drives business results -- requires commitment, strategic thinking, and that most precious of resources: time.
So why go to the trouble? Because when you do it right, and do it right consistently, content curation is a foundational building block of your authority. And authority is how you build and maintain the audience that builds your business.
In this presentation, originally given to the Dallas Social Media Club in July of 2014, I break down the art and science of content curation, explaining not only the why, but more importantly: the how.
o Why you should be curating content
o The essentials (who, what, when, where, and why) of link curation.
o How to curate ideas like successful writers do
o Why knowledge curation is key to the wisdom on which your authority is built
And much more.
Seeking funding for your research project and don't know where to start? Here is a good place. Get introduced to the several funding sources available on campus at UNM and learn helpful strategies to getting your research project funded. This is a presentation developed through the Graduate Resource Center at the University of New Mexico.
Why you need to consider internal and external career opportunities linked in...Vivien Edwards nee Mensah
We spend too long at work for you not to consider where you want your career to go. Looking to move your career to the next level should be exciting. You do not necessary need to look at external opportunities to find career satisfaction or progression. Do not be afraid to look for opportunities outside your comfort zone, including different industries.
Why you should look for internal opportunities and how to instigate opportunities
What you need to consider before you start external job hunting
Why you should set career expectations
Designing and Delivering an Effective Social Media Strategy.
• Elements of building a strategy – things to think about before getting social
• Digital Personas – who are we talking to and how?
• Some tools to Measure Success – how do we know we’re doing a good job?
• Create more powerful posts – top tips and tools to get a better response
• Over to you – what 'next steps' will you take tomorrow?
5 Strategies to Turn an Internship into a Career in Search Marketing | Kent L...pdx MindShare
pdx MindShare's guest speaker Kent Lewis utilizes his insight and experience to give professional advice on how to turn an internship into a career, specifically in Search Marketing.
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Kent Lewis is the President and Founder of Anvil Media, a Portland-based digital marketing agency.
5 Strategies to Turn an Internship into a Career in Search Marketing | Kent L...pdxMindShare Admin
pdx MindShare's guest speaker Kent Lewis utilizes his insight and experience to give professional advice on how to turn an internship into a career, specifically in Search Marketing.
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Kent Lewis is the President and Founder of Anvil Media, a Portland-based digital marketing agency.
Ringling College of Art & Design: Content and Social MediaAutumn Sullivan
Had a wonderful conversation with students from Ringling College of Art & Design. What is, and what isn't, content, tips on strategy and creation, and how social media marketing works (and how it doesn't).
In-House Content Strategy - MinneWebCon April 2013m3ggiesue
Your organization's content needs help, and it's your job to fix it. But where do you begin? Change from within can be daunting. It may seem like the problems are too big for one person, or one team, to fix. Luckily, you can start to make a meaningful impact with just a few small changes.
This session will offer tips and tools for creating a content strategy from within your organization. You'll get a handful of easy-to-implement, start-today tactics, as well as insight into effecting meaningful longterm change.
Most professionals take a reactive rather than proactive approach with their careers. They wait for a pay rise, promotion or recruiter to contact them before they think about doing something. But what if that call never happens? This often leads to a stagnated career where people are unhappy with what they do leading to a lack of skills progression, reduced motivation and engagement.
In this workshop, Mohammed Kasujee explains the importance of planning a career and help the participants create a defined career strategy. How to do it, what to look for and why - enabling them to feel excited and purposeful about their careers leading to greater job satisfaction and motivation.
Speaker
Mohammed is a Career Coach who helps his clients thrive in the world of work and business. His company, MK Career Solutions supports individuals in every step of the career journey from creating stand out CV’s, preparing clients for interviews and coaching them to find purpose and meaning in work.
In addition to managing his business he is also a Non-Executive Director for a Non-for-Profit organisation and provides mentorship to start-up businesses through the government’s ‘Help to Grow’ scheme.
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.
Content Curation: An Essential Ingredient for Online Business SuccessJerod Morris
Successful content curation -- the kind that actually drives business results -- requires commitment, strategic thinking, and that most precious of resources: time.
So why go to the trouble? Because when you do it right, and do it right consistently, content curation is a foundational building block of your authority. And authority is how you build and maintain the audience that builds your business.
In this presentation, originally given to the Dallas Social Media Club in July of 2014, I break down the art and science of content curation, explaining not only the why, but more importantly: the how.
o Why you should be curating content
o The essentials (who, what, when, where, and why) of link curation.
o How to curate ideas like successful writers do
o Why knowledge curation is key to the wisdom on which your authority is built
And much more.
Seeking funding for your research project and don't know where to start? Here is a good place. Get introduced to the several funding sources available on campus at UNM and learn helpful strategies to getting your research project funded. This is a presentation developed through the Graduate Resource Center at the University of New Mexico.
Why you need to consider internal and external career opportunities linked in...Vivien Edwards nee Mensah
We spend too long at work for you not to consider where you want your career to go. Looking to move your career to the next level should be exciting. You do not necessary need to look at external opportunities to find career satisfaction or progression. Do not be afraid to look for opportunities outside your comfort zone, including different industries.
Why you should look for internal opportunities and how to instigate opportunities
What you need to consider before you start external job hunting
Why you should set career expectations
Designing and Delivering an Effective Social Media Strategy.
• Elements of building a strategy – things to think about before getting social
• Digital Personas – who are we talking to and how?
• Some tools to Measure Success – how do we know we’re doing a good job?
• Create more powerful posts – top tips and tools to get a better response
• Over to you – what 'next steps' will you take tomorrow?
5 Strategies to Turn an Internship into a Career in Search Marketing | Kent L...pdx MindShare
pdx MindShare's guest speaker Kent Lewis utilizes his insight and experience to give professional advice on how to turn an internship into a career, specifically in Search Marketing.
--
Kent Lewis is the President and Founder of Anvil Media, a Portland-based digital marketing agency.
5 Strategies to Turn an Internship into a Career in Search Marketing | Kent L...pdxMindShare Admin
pdx MindShare's guest speaker Kent Lewis utilizes his insight and experience to give professional advice on how to turn an internship into a career, specifically in Search Marketing.
--
Kent Lewis is the President and Founder of Anvil Media, a Portland-based digital marketing agency.
Ringling College of Art & Design: Content and Social MediaAutumn Sullivan
Had a wonderful conversation with students from Ringling College of Art & Design. What is, and what isn't, content, tips on strategy and creation, and how social media marketing works (and how it doesn't).
In-House Content Strategy - MinneWebCon April 2013m3ggiesue
Your organization's content needs help, and it's your job to fix it. But where do you begin? Change from within can be daunting. It may seem like the problems are too big for one person, or one team, to fix. Luckily, you can start to make a meaningful impact with just a few small changes.
This session will offer tips and tools for creating a content strategy from within your organization. You'll get a handful of easy-to-implement, start-today tactics, as well as insight into effecting meaningful longterm change.
Most professionals take a reactive rather than proactive approach with their careers. They wait for a pay rise, promotion or recruiter to contact them before they think about doing something. But what if that call never happens? This often leads to a stagnated career where people are unhappy with what they do leading to a lack of skills progression, reduced motivation and engagement.
In this workshop, Mohammed Kasujee explains the importance of planning a career and help the participants create a defined career strategy. How to do it, what to look for and why - enabling them to feel excited and purposeful about their careers leading to greater job satisfaction and motivation.
Speaker
Mohammed is a Career Coach who helps his clients thrive in the world of work and business. His company, MK Career Solutions supports individuals in every step of the career journey from creating stand out CV’s, preparing clients for interviews and coaching them to find purpose and meaning in work.
In addition to managing his business he is also a Non-Executive Director for a Non-for-Profit organisation and provides mentorship to start-up businesses through the government’s ‘Help to Grow’ scheme.
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.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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
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.
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/
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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.
6. Dog / website ailments:
• It eats £1000s of your money and demands lots
of your time
• It’s untrained and badly groomed
• It sits lifelessly and ignored in the back garden
• No-one wants to take responsibility for looking
after it
7. What is good content?
• Relevant to audience and context
• It supports your brand and tone of voice
• Well curated
8. 1. Who is responsible?
• Anchor (wo)man
• Curator
• Editor
9. 2. Establish objectives
• What do you want to the site to achieve?
• Importance versus feasibility
• Keep the ‘wouldn’t it be cool if…’ stuff for
later
11. 3. Audit and research
• Research competitors
• Work out what’s changing and what stays
• If you’re into Search Engine Optimisation
do research now
12. 4. Branding
• Who are you? In a nutshell.
• What makes you different?
• What do you believe in? Don’t be boring.
• Establish a tone of voice.
13. 5 . Messaging
• Who are your audiences?
• What problems do they need solving?
• How do you make things all better?
• What do you want your reader to do next?
14. 6. Create
• Create an information architecture (and
site map)
• Create a schedule for content makers and
writers
• Don’t forget tagging and metadata
15. 7. Ongoing workflow
• Edit edit edit edit edit
• Keep track of expiring content
• A schedule for keeping content fresh
• Think about your distribution channels
• Keep a spreadsheet for your QA
