A Social Take On Social Selling
Forrester IT
APRIL 11, 2018
Social selling is one of my B2B Marketing and Sales team’s top inquiry topics. We’ve also helped numerous clients plan and execute effective social selling programs.
Ready Your Brand For Social Justice.
Forrester IT
AUGUST 24, 2020
For some, like Ben & Jerry’s and Microsoft, this came naturally; they had long-standing programs to advance social justice. Neutrality Is No Longer An Option In the summer of 2020, brands did something they had never done before. They spoke up about race.
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Social Learning Inspires Better Outcomes
Forrester IT
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
An effective learning program can drive business results and power your transformation efforts. But only 26% of information workers report that current training offerings help them perform better. There’s a clear gap between what employees need and what employers deliver.
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How to defend your organization against social engineering attacks
Tech Republic Security
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
A security awareness program backed by multi-factor authentication can help protect your critical assets, says NordVPN Teams.
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Improve Onboarding with User-Centered Design
Speaker: Dr. Kate Wolin, Founder, Circea
In the age of social distancing, digital onboarding is becoming essential to any program. This is especially true for medical practices, where the threat of the pandemic is the most real. As consultations are being digitized, so are the process in which new patients are processed and appointments are being scheduled.
CIOs Have To Treat Social Media With Care
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 9, 2023
Hackers can learn a lot from a CIO’s social media Image Credit: Blogtrepreneur Every person with the CIO job knows what social media is. In fact, we all probably have Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media accounts. However, it turns out that there is a downside to social media that we may not be aware of.
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Microsoft targets AI skills gap with new training program and grant challenge
GeekWire
JUNE 28, 2023
Microsoft says its related Generative AI Skills Grant Challenge will support nonprofit, social enterprise, and academic or research institutions that use generative AI for social and economic good. The company declined to disclose the expected size of the grants or the amount of its investment in the programs.
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8 Real Ways CIOs Can Drive Sustainability, Fight Climate Change
Information Week
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Chief information offers, chief data officers and other IT leaders can play a major part in helping organizations build out Environmental, Social and Governance programs.
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Can ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ and other tabletop games help youth build social skills?
GeekWire
MARCH 25, 2023
(Game to Grow Image) A new whitepaper from two Seattle organizations exhibits research into how tabletop roleplaying games, such as Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons , can be used to help children and teenagers develop their social skills.
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X (Twitter) Launches Global Program to Incentivize Content Creation on the Platform
IT Toolbox
JULY 31, 2023
Here’s how to check if you can apply for X’s new Ads Revenue Sharing program. The post X (Twitter) Launches Global Program to Incentivize Content Creation on the Platform appeared first on Spiceworks.
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Social impact software platform Submittable acquires WizeHive, lays off staff
GeekWire
AUGUST 8, 2024
Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good, announced the acquisition of WizeHive , which sells software to manage grants, scholarships, fellowships, giving, and more. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Social services provider uses artificial intelligence to provide genuine help
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
For Colsubsidio , a non-profit provider of a wide array of social services in Colombia, the recent pandemic underscored the need to respond quickly to a major crisis to diminish the harm felt by communities with limited resources.
Planning Digital Transformation Initiatives When There are Too Many Priorities
Social, Agile and Transformation
AUGUST 10, 2020
We went into the year with high aspirations around our digital transformation programs and all the places we wanted our organizations to succeed with experiences, analytics, and technology. Let's recap 2020 without losing our minds. window.dojoRequire(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) { L.start({"baseUrl":"mc.us14.list-manage.com",".
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No More Email! Atlassian Demos How to Transform to a Collaborative Future of Work
Social, Agile and Transformation
APRIL 24, 2023
Just over ten years ago, the CEO of Atos proclaimed an end to internal emails and began shifting collaboration to new social networking tools they were developing internally. Even before then, when I was CIO at Businessweek, I heard about a similar program at TCS from their CTO, Ananth Krishnan, and wrote about how CIOs must put Enterprise 2.0
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How to Innovate by Introducing Product Management in SMB and Non-Tech Companies
Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 12, 2022
During the Coffee with Digital Trailblazers, a LinkedIn audio event that I host most Fridays at 11 am ET, Jay Cohen shared that January was a good time of the year to focus on learning programs and driving department and team-level realignments. It makes sense because people return to work from the holidays refreshed and ready to learn.
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Agile Co-Creation: Changing the Mindset from Outsourcing to Winning Partnerships
Social, Agile and Transformation
MARCH 20, 2023
I’ve led many successful application development, cloud migration, and data/analytics programs over the years, and I staffed most of them with a mix of employees, freelancers, and service providers.
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Washington state drivers snap up EV rebates so fast that half of funds are gone 60 days into program
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
With support from the Washington EV Instant Rebate Program, Krista Cortese of Seattle was able to replace her 2003 Mazda hatchback that cost $230 on average per month for gas and maintenance with a new Nissan Leaf SV Plus that uses about $10 worth of electricity per month to stay charged. Photo courtesy of the Cortese family).
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Seattle school cuts a bold new STEM program, showing challenges of reimagining education
GeekWire
JUNE 1, 2023
This spring, Seattle Public Schools announced that due to budget cuts, it can no longer afford the program. TAF Photo) TAF offers an equity-driven STEM program focused on critical thinking and project-based learning. TAF has a less-intensive model called the STEMbyTAF School Transformation program.
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DevOps at SMBs: Three Important Considerations that Differ from Large Enterprises
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
I recently started a new program called Coffee with Digital Trailblazers on LinkedIn. We typically meet on Fridays at 11am ET and discuss a selected topic on leading digital transformation. Two weeks ago, we chatted about how to become a Digital Trailblazer, and this past week we discussed DevOps in SMBs and nontech companies.
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How to Expand Data Governance with Successful Citizen Data Science
Social, Agile and Transformation
JULY 26, 2021
How do you get business leaders to participate in data governance programs? Many business leaders still believe that it's IT's issue to fix all the problems when there are data issues.
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How Can CIOs Prepare Their Workers For Tomorrow?
The Accidental Successful CIO
MAY 5, 2021
One reason might be that traditional higher-education curricula and programs are still based on traditional approaches to learning, rather than transitioning and promoting digital literacy across the entire curriculum. So how are CIOs going to fix this problem? This means to work with companies and individuals as stakeholder representatives.
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What are Seven Types of Big Data Debt
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 21, 2020
As more organizations have embarked on agile software development over the last five years as part of digital transformation programs, the term technical debt is more widely understood. Teams that develop code leave artifacts behind that require improvements, reengineering, refactoring, or wholesale rewriting.
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A new EV car-sharing program in Seattle aims to reach underserved communities with co-op model
GeekWire
AUGUST 19, 2024
The social justice organization is based in Seattle’s Central District and supports a diverse local population, including many lower-income residents. This month, the Department of Commerce launched a program providing instant rebates to low-income drivers, enabling some people to lease an EV for roughly $100 a month.
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How to Persuade CEO to Sponsor Proactive Data Governance
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
But what do you say to the CEO, the Board, or other business executives on data governance, why it’s important, where investments are needed, and how they must get involved in sponsoring these programs. So in this week’s episode of 5 Minutes.
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Insights on the Present and Future of Intelligent Search
Social, Agile and Transformation
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
The intelligence will progress from today’s automatic relevance tuning machine learning algorithms onto tomorrow’s pre-trained models and program. We’re going from the early days of keyword search boxes to today’s natural language query interfaces.
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How More Teams can be Successful with Effective Microservices
Social, Agile and Transformation
MAY 10, 2021
We chased object-oriented programing, generic methods, and service-oriented architectures, leaving a trail of. I have to admit that I'm skeptical whether non-technical companies will successfully execute a software development strategy routed in microservices.
How to Rescue an In-flight Digital Transformation Initiative
Social, Agile and Transformation
MARCH 13, 2023
It’s fairly common for CIOs and Digital Trailblazers to be handed an inflight program that’s stalled or completely derailed. Is the DevOps program for modernizing apps and transitioning them to the cloud taking too long? Has a business-led SaaS integration gone awry?
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5 Driving Digital Predictions for 2019
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
While some technologies and transformation programs will see increases in 2019, there will be strong culture and financial headwinds that will challenge CIO, CDO, CEO, Boards and. With Thanksgiving behind us and the new year approaching, it's time to take stock on where we collectively are in our various transformational journeys.
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Digital Transformation is not a 9-5 Job
Social, Agile and Transformation
AUGUST 31, 2020
Because before diving into the end of year budgeting, planning, and moving transformation programs forward, I. Has your team come up for air after adjusting to COVID, remote working, and realigning digital transformation priorities? .
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How Experts in Change Management Lead a Successful Digital Transformation
Social, Agile and Transformation
MARCH 11, 2024
A couple of years ago, I led an agile transformation program for a major hospital system. Their vision statement was to pilot process changes and new technologies to improve patient experiences while simplifying work for doctors, nurses, and administrators.
Energize a Center of Excellence that Empowers Citizen Data Scientists
Social, Agile and Transformation
MARCH 15, 2021
Lots of organizations have seen the benefits of citizen data science and self-service BI programs. Instead of waiting for a centralized IT or data science team to produce analysis, dashboards, and reports, citizen data scientists are given tools like Tableau and Microsoft Power BI to develop, support, and enhance these capabilities.
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Start-ups display innovative solutions to telco business problems at DTW
TM Forum
AUGUST 19, 2022
Next20 startup program. The Next20 program provides a forum to start-ups that are developing new technologies to solve some of the most pressing issues facing the telecoms industry. 20-22 September | Digital Transformation World 2022.
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Meta Pixel Fiasco Underscores Why Marketing And Risk Must Work Together
Forrester IT
AUGUST 5, 2022
This includes the federal student financial aid program FAFSA sending […]. Rather, companies are unintentionally yet inappropriately sharing users’ data with Meta and other third parties, such as data brokers and mobile attribution vendors.
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Measure Creator Marketing Partnerships With A Composite Set Of Metrics
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Best-in-class creator marketing programs are multi-dimensional, with many different types of creators, content, and activations. Of course, adequately measuring creator programs is easier said than done given creator relationships are often dispersed throughout the enterprise – […]
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Introducing the inaugural Now Go Build CTO Fellows
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
A program designed to empower leaders from nonprofits and social impact organizations solving hard human problems. Earlier this year, I announced the Now Go Build CTO Fellowship. Today, I'm excited to introduce the first two cohorts, focusing on Disaster Management and Climate Resilience.
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PCI compliance: The best defense is a great defense
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Researchers for the 2023 DBIR identified system intrusion, social engineering and basic web application attacks as the most common attack patterns that led to breaches and data theft. This begins with having the right goal for a PCI DSS compliance program, Philipsen notes. Compliance with PCI DSS v4.0
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UW initiative ‘Society + Technology’ aims to foster broad collaboration at critical intersection
GeekWire
JANUARY 15, 2025
(Matthew Weinstein Photo via UW) A new initiative at the University of Washington called Society + Technology , born out of a task force first assembled in 2021, is working to foster cross-campus collaboration and boost the UW’s public profile as it relates to technologys social, societal, and justice aspects.
T-Mobile investigating hack that affected 37 million customer accounts
GeekWire
JANUARY 19, 2023
(GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) T-Mobile disclosed in a regulatory filing Thursday that a hacker obtained data from about 37 million customer accounts using an API, or application programming interface. The Bellevue, Wash.-based The hack started on or around Nov. 25, and T-Mobile identified the bad actor Jan.
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How To Know Your Organization is Committed to Digital Transformation
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 25, 2021
Early in this process and throughout the program, leaders must engage a growing number of people in their organization on the goals of the transformation, current status, and near term objectives. Over the last four years, I've helped dozens of business leaders kickoff, plan, and execute digital transformations.
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Can this new community hub provide a spark for Seattle’s startup ecosystem?
GeekWire
MAY 17, 2024
Seattle Foundations Photo) An entrepreneur and investor with roots in the defunct Techstars Seattle program plans to launch a new invite-only organization and shared workspace that supports tech founders by surrounding them with fellow entrepreneurs and experienced startup mentors.
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ChatGPT: What are the Implications for Infosec?
SecureWorld News
DECEMBER 20, 2022
The script I saw it writes is very entry level, no complex programming logic and I think anyone who took the first two years of a computer science program can do it. I’m not a pro by any means but it’s been very helpful in helping me debug programs. It has some great tips and saves time googling and brainstorming.".
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CISA Warns of Phone Scammers Impersonating Agency Employees
SecureWorld News
JUNE 17, 2024
Ezra Graziano, Director of Federal Accounts at Zimperium, emphasized the urgency for defense against such evolving social engineering tactics. Organizations can strengthen their defenses by incorporating CISA's guidelines into their cybersecurity policies and training programs," Graziano said.
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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
So NCDIT officials took action, creating an internship program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students, a move that would open up for the organization a new pipeline for talent traditionally underrepresented in the IT industry. The HBCU internship program launched in 2023.
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INE Security Alert: The Steep Cost of Neglecting Cybersecurity Training
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 20, 2024
Well-trained employees are less likely to fall prey to phishing attacks or other forms of social engineering, significantly reducing the potential for breaches. These certifications are recognized across the industry and signify a professional’s ability to design, implement, and manage a best-in-class cybersecurity program.
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