Despite the explosive growth of smartphones and growing popularity of mobile web browsing, the energy consumed by a phone browser while surfing the web is poorly understood. While web pages are often optimized for speed and beauty, little attention is given to the amount of energy needed to download and render the page.

In this webcast presentation, we present an infrastructure for measuring the precise energy used by a mobile browser to render web pages. We then measure the energy needed to render financial, e-commerce, email, blogging, news and social networking sites. Our tools are sufficiently precise to measure the energy needed to render individual web elements, such as cascade style sheets (CSS), Javascript, images, and plug-in objects. Our results show that for popular sites, downloading and parsing cascade style sheets and Javascript consumes a significant fraction of the total energy needed to render the page. Using the data we collected we make concrete recommendations on how to design web pages so as to minimize the energy needed to render the page. We conclude by estimating the point at which offloading browser computations to a remote proxy can save energy on the phone. Our approach gives another dimension for evaluating mobile web sites and helps web developers build more energy efficient sites and improve user experience.

Dr. Angela Nicoara is a Senior Research Scientist at Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Silicon Valley Innovation Center, USA since 2008. She received a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 2007, where she was the leader, designer and builder of the PROSE open source system. After two years building search engine and information logistics systems at the German software company Caatoosee, Dr. Nicoara joined ETH Zurich, working on adaptive software architectures. Dr. Nicoara joined Google Inc in Mountain View, California for the summer of 2004. Her research interests are in the areas of services and mobile platforms, adaptive software architectures, virtual machines, middleware for mobile and distributed computing, and distributed systems. Her current research activities include the development of open and programmable mobile platforms (e.g., Android) and novel information technology services to shape the emerging trends in fixed and mobile infrastructure and services sectors. Dr. Nicoara’s work has been published in numerous leading scientific conferences, workshops and symposia proceedings, and is a regular speaker and panelist at major international scientific and industry conferences. Dr. Nicoara received several prestigious awards and honors for her research and technical contributions, the most recent ones include the Best Paper Award from IEEE RTAS 2012 and Best Student Paper Award from ACM WWW 2012 . Her work has been quoted by the press and media, as well as she chaired and served as a technical program committee (TPC) member of multiple industry and academic conferences. Dr. Nicoara is a member of ACM and IEEE societies.

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Do you have the right strategies and processes in place to achieve your social engagement goals?

Brands in every industry have started to look beyond establishing a social presence and growing their audience. Now the name of the game is to drive meaningful engagement across an ever-expanding number of social properties. As a company’s social footprint expands, most social teams grapple with increased complexity and the realization that they need more sophisticated planning, process and execution than ever before.

Join Jim Rudden, CMO of Spredfast, Ricky Cadden, Social Media Manager, Radio Shack and Michael Bepko, Global Online Community Manager, Whole Foods as they discuss winning strategies and tactics to define and expand quality engagement for your business.

Ricky has been the Social Media Manager at RadioShack for over 2 years, after previously working in ad sales at Time Warner Cable and running his own tech blog. He manages RadioShack’s official social presence across various platforms and oversees their internal social training program, which is being launched to RadioShack’s 4,500+ corporate-owned stores in the U.S. later this summer.

Better known in social spheres as @Bepkoboy, Michael Bepko is the global online community manger for Whole Foods for over 2 years and is the person who lives behind the logo that resides among a social community of over 3.5 million friends, followers and fans. When @Bepkoboy isn’t busy managing Whole Foods Market’s growing social communities, he enjoys: #Food #Wine #Beer #RollerCoasters #Dogs and #Oversharing and has a tendency to communicate thoughts and ideas in 140 characters or less.

Jim Rudden is responsible for all aspects of Spredfast’s marketing efforts as well as overall customer success. Prior to Spredfast, Jim was VP of Global Marketing at Lombardi Software (acquired by IBM) where he was responsible for brand and product marketing and all demand generation. He has more than 20 years experience in software marketing and implementation in the areas of enterprise software – including business process management (BPM), business rules management (BRM) and enterprise middleware technologies. He has held positions in Product Management, Marketing, Consulting, and Sales at Lombardi Software (acquired by IBM), BetweenMarkets Software (acquired by Innovis) and Trilogy Software. Jim holds a B.A. in American Studies from Stanford University.

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If you’ve ever watched a football game on television, you’ve seen the yellow line that appears on the screen, showing the placement of the next down. We can see it, but those on the field cannot. It’s invisible to the players. The same is true in many board and staff relationships. There is a yellow line that defines who does what, but it is invisible. This fast paced webinar will share some of the basic on both sides of the yellow line and suggest ways to make it less ‘invisible’ to the players in a nonprofit.

Takeaways:
-Clarification of basic board and staff roles in governance, financial management, human resources, resource development and more.
-Suggestions for effective ways to define roles of board and staff.

Jean Block has more than 45 years of experience in the nonprofit sector as both board and staff leader. She is now a nationally recognized consultant and trainer on nonprofit management, fundraising, social enterprise and board development. She has written two nonprofit resource books: Fast FUNdraising Facts for Fame & Fortune and The ABCs of Building Better Boards. Three more nonprofit resource books will be released in 2013.
Jean Block consulting, Inc. was formed in 1996 to allow Jean to share her considerable expertise in the nonprofit sector. Social Enterprise Ventures, LLC was formed in 2006 to focus on guiding nonprofits through the process to launch a social enterprise venture. The company now has nine senior consultant/trainers across the US.

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In working with top tier app partners, the Windows Ecosystem Team has seen developers produce an app in a little as two weeks, whereas others meander around for months with little to show. Why this discrepancy? What are the factors that make the difference between struggle and success? In this webcast, Kraig Brockschmidt will share the experiences that he and his team has gained from working with these partners to help you get your productivity in high gear for your own app-building efforts.

Kraig Brockschmidt has worked with Microsoft since 1988, focusing primarily on helping developers through writing, education, public speaking, and direct engagement. Kraig is currently a Senior Program Manager in the Windows Ecosystem team working directly with key partners on building Windows Store apps and bringing knowledge gained in that experience to the wider developer community. His most recent book is Programming Windows 8 Apps in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (a free ebook from Microsoft Press); his blog is kraigbrockschmidt.com/blog.

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This course will provide attendees with an overview of Web 2.0 tools available in FEL resources and how to utilize those tools to increase database usage and promote their home libraries. An overview of popular Web 2.0 websites will be provided as well. Discussion will include how to utilize these resources to increase library exposure and increase FEL usage.

We’ll also take a look at using www.galesites.com to create a new way to access FEL/Gale resources!

Julie Pepera, Customer Education Specialist, received her Bachelor in History from Albion College and her Masters in Information Science from the University of Michigan’s School of Information. She staffed the reference desks of several university libraries around the state of Michigan. Julie has also worked in the online community with organizations such as JSTOR and Google.

Julie has a passion for building the information literacy skills of patrons and students. In learning to use databases and eResources, people develop important skill sets that help them discern the value of information and make informed decisions. In a world where there is an overload of information, these skills are the key to being informed and judicious.

Julie hopes that all educators develop a proactive philosophy with their eResources rather than reacting to projects as they come and seeing the databases as a pile of information. Her lessons focus on helping participants understand the pieces of eResources so that librarians and teachers can direct people to the materials that are right for them. Below are just a few things that our customers are saying about Julie and her workshops:

•“Julie is a fantastic trainer, and her background in academic libraries helps her offer very practical suggestions on how and why to use the Gale databases.”
•“Julie was great! I am going to talk to my administration about what I learned and ways to implement it tomorrow.”
•“Julie was fabulous! She certainly has real-life examples of how to use this resource and why, since she was a librarian. I will definitely make sure that every teacher and the upper-grade students (elementary) in my building will know how to use this.”
For additional training tips check out Julie’s Twitter account at: Julietraingale.

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