This document discusses strategies for increasing user engagement and participation on websites and online platforms. It suggests reducing the cost or effort of participation compared to free options. Design should focus on the user, not the designer, and leverage reputation systems, recognition, popularity rankings, and relevant metrics. Social pressures like herd mentality, reciprocity, and publicly-made commitments can also encourage participation. Discovery of new content and information drives engagement.
This document discusses strategies for increasing user engagement and participation on websites and online platforms. It suggests reducing the cost or effort of participation compared to free options. Design should focus on the user, not the designer, and leverage reputation systems, recognition, popularity rankings, and relevant metrics. Social pressures like herd mentality, reciprocity, and publicly-made commitments can also encourage participation. Discovery of new content and information drives engagement.
Typetec Ltd is an Irish company founded in 1982 that provides IT services and graphic arts solutions through two divisions. They have over 40 staff with 28 years of experience in IT support and services. They offer managed services, virtualization, storage, security, and project management solutions and are partners with Microsoft, HP, Citrix, VMware, DataCore, Apple, and Trend Micro. Their customers include the Royal College of Surgeons, Independent News & Media, and Folens Publishing.
This document discusses unified communications (UC) and the features and benefits of Microsoft's UC solution, Office Communications Server (OCS). It defines UC as the integration of real-time communication services like instant messaging, presence, and telephony with non-real-time services like email and voicemail. It outlines several key features of OCS including IM, group chat, presence, notes, and audio/video conferencing. It then describes seven main benefits of OCS including improved productivity, reduced travel expenses, reduced telephony costs, reduced hardware costs, improved time management with calendar access, improved voicemail management, and listening to emails from any device. It lists some customers currently using OCS in Ireland and promotes the
The document discusses the City of Toronto's open data initiative and journey from 2008 to present. It describes how the city has progressed from initially releasing low-hanging fruit data to developing processes, policies, and licensing around open data. It also outlines the city's plan to remain agile and opportunistic in its open data approach. A key part of the plan is the use of Open311, an open standard for civic issue tracking that allows citizens to report non-emergency issues using mobile apps connected to the city's backend systems.
So What is Open Government Anyway? City of Toronto: Practicing the philosophy...Trish Garner
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Province of Ontario Access and Privacy Day Session
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The City of Toronto outlines some of its initiatives to be more open and transparent, including the use of open data.
The document discusses participating in EU-funded innovation projects. It outlines some key dynamics of innovation including reduced budgets, increased competition, and the need for collaboration. It provides an overview of the EU funding process, from various funding programs and calls to the project lifecycle of submitting proposals, undergoing reviews and evaluations, and reporting on outcomes if funded. It also offers tips for developing competitive project ideas and strong proposals to navigate the application and review process.
The document describes creating a database in SQL to store sales data. It includes creating multiple tables to define dimensions like color, size, outlet, and time. It also creates fact tables to store sales and promotion facts and links the dimensions. The document then inserts sample data into the dimension tables and uses a join to populate the fact tables with data from all dimensions.
ShockWatch provides tamperproof impact indicator labels that turn red to indicate if fragile products have been mishandled during transit or storage. The labels have different impact sensitivities and are designed to detect damage from all angles. They help companies identify problems in the supply chain and determine accountability for damaged products.
The document provides a list of free online educational technology tools that can be used for assessment, summarizing, illustrating, self-reflection, collaboration, presentations, photo sharing and editing, video creation, digital storytelling, and telecommunication. Many of the tools require registration but do not require downloading or installing software. Some of the tools listed include Wordle, Bubbl.us, Wallwisher, Prezi, Flickr, Blabberize, Animoto, 際際滷share, VoiceThread, Kerpoof, Empressr, and Skype.
Making a website easy for your visitors to navigate and use is essential for improving engagement. Understanding usability principles can inform your design and content decisions to make websites more user friendly and successful. Based on a review of publicly available usability research, we discuss what we know about users in terms of both big-picture concepts and nitty-gritty details. By Melissa Eggleston