This document provides an overview of social media and why companies should engage with it. In 3 sentences: It discusses how social media has become a major online activity and force, outlines key stats on popular platforms to illustrate its scale and growth, and argues that companies need to define a social media strategy focused on conversations not just marketing in order to harness its power for public relations, customer service, and building loyalty.
Unleashing The Tribe: small passionate communitiesEwan McIntosh
25 minutes on the moves in the 'real world' and how they have an impact on learning.
Made at the Tipperary Institute's Education futures event.
May 2008
More on my blog: http://edu.blogs.com
and contact details on my website: http://www.ewanmcintosh.com
Unleashing The Tribe: small passionate communitiesEwan McIntosh
25 minutes on the moves in the 'real world' and how they have an impact on learning.
Made at the Tipperary Institute's Education futures event.
May 2008
More on my blog: http://edu.blogs.com
and contact details on my website: http://www.ewanmcintosh.com
This presentation looks at the growth in smartphone adoption, the different categories of visual social networks and then has some recommended next steps for anyone working in brand marketing
@dirktherabbit originally gave this talk at the Social Media 2013 conference in Athens (http://socialmediaconference.boussiasconferences.gr/).
Marta Kagan's What the Fk is Social MediaDavid Wei
Condensed version of Marta Kagan's presentation. References specific to American audience removed as this version is targeted to Australian readers. Full credit goes to Marta Kagan.
http://www.slideshare.net/mzkagan/what-the-fk-is-social-media-one-year-later
This is a Social Media presentation I gave to coworkers at the Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN). It was heavily borrowed from a presentation by Marta Kagan.
This presentation looks at the growth in smartphone adoption, the different categories of visual social networks and then has some recommended next steps for anyone working in brand marketing
@dirktherabbit originally gave this talk at the Social Media 2013 conference in Athens (http://socialmediaconference.boussiasconferences.gr/).
Marta Kagan's What the Fk is Social MediaDavid Wei
Condensed version of Marta Kagan's presentation. References specific to American audience removed as this version is targeted to Australian readers. Full credit goes to Marta Kagan.
http://www.slideshare.net/mzkagan/what-the-fk-is-social-media-one-year-later
This is a Social Media presentation I gave to coworkers at the Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN). It was heavily borrowed from a presentation by Marta Kagan.
A Presentation About Community, By The CommunityNeil Perkin
A crowdsourced presentation about how online communities work with contributions from 30 planners, strategists, digital specialists and some of the most reknowned thinkers in social media strategy.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
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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.
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
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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.
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.
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?
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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;
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2. “
Social media is like teen sex.
Everyone wants to do it. Nobody knows how.
When it’s finally done there is surprise it’s not better.”
Avinash Kaushik, Analytics Evangelist, Google
photo by Zellaby on flickr.com
4. Officially, social media is “an umbrella term
that defines the various activities that integrate
technology, social interaction, and the construction
of words, pictures, videos, and audio.”
http://www.wikipedia.org
5. IT’S ALSO
A FANCY WAY
TO DESCRIBE
THE ZILLIONS
OF CONVERSATIONS
PEOPLE
ARE HAVING
ONLINE
24/7.
photo by Kris Hoet on flickr.com
7. REASON #1
BECAUSE 3 OUT OF 4 AMERICANS USE SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY.
Forrester, The Growth Of Social Technology Adoption, 2008
8. REASON #2
BECAUSE 2/3 OF THE GLOBAL INTERNET POPULATION
VISIT SOCIAL NETWORKS.
Nielsen, Global Faces & Networked Places, 2009
9. REASON #3
BECAUSE VISITING SOCIAL SITES IS NOW THE 4TH MOST
POPULAR ONLINE ACTIVITY—AHEAD OF PERSONAL EMAIL.
Nielsen, Global Faces & Networked Places, 2009
photo by Bruno Girinon flickr.com
10. REASON #4
BECAUSE TIME SPENT ON SOCIAL NETWORKS
IS GROWING AT 3X THE OVERALL INTERNET
RATE, ACCOUNTING FOR ~10% OF ALL
INTERNET TIME.
Nielsen, Global Faces & Networked Places, 2009
11. REASON #5
BECAUSE SOCIAL MEDIA IS DEMOCRATIZING
COMMUNICATIONS. BIG TIME.
“
Technology is shifting the power away
from the editors, the publishers,
the establishment, the media elite.
Now it’s the people who are in control.”
Rupert Murdoch, Global Media Entrepreneur
32. 1,000,000,000
The amount of content
(web links,
news stories,
blog posts,
notes,
photos,
etc.)
shared each week
on Facebook.
33. “ The word blog is irrelevant.
What's important is that it is now common,
and will soon be expected,
that every intelligent person
(and quite a few unintelligent ones)
will have a media platform
where they share what they care about
with the world.”
Seth Godin, Author
37. 14,200,000
The number of views Obama’s
famous “Yes We Can” video got
on YouTube.
photo by EricaJoy on flickr.com
38. 14,200,000
The number of views Obama’s
famous “Yes We Can” video got
on YouTube.
An additional 15 of the 1,800 official
and 139,000 unofficial Obama
videos received over 1 Million
views.
photo by EricaJoy on flickr.com
44. 93% OF SOCIAL MEDIA USERS BELIEVE A COMPANY
SHOULD HAVE A PRESENCE IN SOCIAL MEDIA.
Cone, Business in Social Media Study, September 2008
45. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THAT DOESN’T MEAN THAT 93% OF SOCIAL MEDIA
USERS THINK COMPANIES SHOULD TREAT SOCIAL MEDIA AS YET
ANOTHER CHANNEL FOR BROADCASTING BULLSH*T.
46. YOU SEE, IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE A DIALOGUE,
NOT A MONOLOGUE.
47. “Marketers don't understand channels
where you have to talk
and listen at the same time...
The marketing industry's idea
of a two-way communication
is to put an 800 number
or a web address in an ad
and take orders.”
Josh Bernoff, Why marketers have trouble with full-duplex social technology, June 30, 2009
48. This couldn't be more obvious
than with email. Your company
has a chance to turn its email list
into a two-way communication.
Except that most mass emails
from companies are "do not
reply".
"We want to talk to you,"
they say. "But we don't want
to hear back from you. Unless
you want to place an order,
and if so click here."
Josh Bernoff, Why marketers have trouble with full-duplex social technology, June 30, 2009
49. “ The people in charge of talking
are in the marketing department.
The people in charge of listening
are in the research or service
or sales department.
They hardly ever talk to each other,
let alone have full-duplex conversations
with customers.”
Josh Bernoff, Why marketers have trouble with full-duplex social technology, June 30, 2009
photo by Jamie Mellor on flickr.com
50. “ This won't fly in social technology
because the minute you talk,
people expect you to listen.
And if you start to listen,
you'll be tempted to talk.
It's a full-duplex channel
that befuddles one-way-marketers.”
Josh Bernoff, Why marketers have trouble with full-duplex social technology, June 30, 2009
51. FACT:
SOCIAL MEDIA
PLAYTIME
*
IS OVER.
*See http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,47665,00.html for more on that topic.
53. SO, PLEASE.
*
STOP F**KING AROUND
& GET SERIOUS
ABOUT HARNESSING
THE POWER OF THIS THING.
54. SO, PLEASE.
*
STOP F**KING AROUND
& GET SERIOUS
ABOUT HARNESSING
THE POWER OF THIS THING.
*C’mon, I said please.
55. 85% of social media users believe that a company
should go further than just having a presence
on social sites and should also interact
with its customers.
Cone, Business in Social Media Study, September 2008
56. “ For companies,
resistance to social
media is futile.
Millions of people are
creating content for
the social Web.
Your competitors
are already there.
Your customers have
been there for a long
time.
If your business isn't
putting itself out there,
it ought to be.”
BusinessWeek, February 19, 2009
photo by Archie McPhee Seattle on flickr.com
83. F**K Espresso
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YOU BOSTON
e: marta@brandinfiltration.com
t: @mzkagan
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