 Hello, everyone. My name is Jerome Scriptunis. I am the chapter leader for TechSoup Connect for time banking and community organizations. I recently met Mr. Robert Kobaya through TechSoup Connect and I have over the past couple of weeks become acquainted with his work and some of the people in Uganda and it is a wonderful experience for me. I've never traveled to Africa. I have never worked directly with people in Africa. So this experience is extraordinary for me. I am honored to have this opportunity to speak with you. I want to share with you some information on how I've been using LinkedIn and to give you some resources and to discuss perhaps towards the end of the session how we might collaborate and help each other additionally with using LinkedIn. I'm going to share with you some resources I've used to prepare and some tools and examples within LinkedIn to use LinkedIn actually as an example for what I want to share with you. Helping me today are some people who work with me in the United States and in Jamaica with my organization called Youth Time Banking. Youth Time Banking is an organization that helps youth primarily from the middle school to early 20s to build strengths and make social connections in their community as they work towards transitioning to adulthood. It's based on a model called time banking which uses time as the currency. Valerie Gehran is the Youth Time Banking Coordinator in Southbury, Connecticut and she is working with me and making some comments and monitoring any questions that come in through the chat. So thank you, Valerie. And if possible, Tafaris Gray, who is one of the youth leaders from YTB Jamaica will be joining us as well. So as we get started, I want to use one of the tools we frequently use in our meetings with Youth Time Banking and I also use when I'm working with TechSoup Connect, it's this tool called Poll Everywhere. So I'm going to ask, since we have several people, it's a nice way to get a sense for who's joining us and who's participating with us. So I'm going to bring over another, let's see, and slide this over here. So these are the instructions. I put some of the instructions into the chat and Valerie, I'll ask your help. What seems to work is if you choose to participate, to go to the website poll.ev.com forward slash YTB Youth 147. That will give you access to using this poll and you can enter an A, B, C, or D to indicate how long you've been working with LinkedIn. So if someone would please try that and see if that's an effective way to have some interaction during our session. And Valerie, if you would also respond on here, I don't know if the text messaging would work internationally. It may, this is an international service, but I do not have any experience working with it outside of the United States. If you would put in maybe something in the chat, is it, is anyone able to try this with us? We'll use it a little bit if it works. If not, we could try the chat. Jerome, I tried the link from here and it's waiting to sign in. I'm getting a different message. It says, waiting for YTB Youth 147's presentation to begin. Okay. All right. I think it was not activated. That was, so that, that might not, try it. Thank you. Thank you, Valerie. So this, this tool is particularly good with a large group. It's a way to get a sense for who wants to take a break or should we change the topic. And we could see some, that there are some responses coming in. And I trust that this is being displayed on the, on the screen share. So what I wanted to get a sense for, is there anybody who is completely new to LinkedIn? And it looks like so far, everyone who's been responding has been working with LinkedIn for a while. Some people for several years. So as I go through some of the materials, when we get to the discussion part, I would ask you to share your experiences and information on what you feel works for you. One example that came up yesterday for me with the work that I'm doing with youth time banking, is that we had a question for one of the trainers I worked with. I think it was 25 years ago. And I am connected with that trainer on LinkedIn. And I sent a question to him. And he responded. So this is incredible after over 20 years. He's remembered who I was. I explained, and that's one of the guidelines with LinkedIn that when you're choosing to connect with someone, you explain why you're making that request. And that was very effective. Another example that came up recently in LinkedIn, as I was reviewing the materials, I observed a training that Microsoft gives in their workshop. Microsoft, of course, is the company that acquired LinkedIn. And I looked at the profile for the trainer. And the trainer studied sport management when they were in the university. And I thought that was interesting. The person was actively involved with sports and coaching in his community, and also had a professional job working with LinkedIn. And that was interesting to me because my son is studying sport management. And his mother asks me all the time, what kind of job will he get? So I have this as an example to show that through using LinkedIn, we can learn about other people and find out, of course, what their industry is, what their education is. And obviously, in our mind, we make these connections and then can make a recommendation to someone to observe another individual, perhaps as a role model. So for me recently, LinkedIn has been very helpful. And of course, in communicating with Robert and others that I've met in Uganda, some of the way that we're communicating is on LinkedIn. Okay, so I'm going to pause this now and put it to the side. Anyone who wishes can still participate in this. I'll change the question. Or actually, maybe I'll change the question. Yeah. And the next one, yes, I'll go to the next question here. And then we'll go more into the materials. So the next question is, what is your interest? And I'm going to activate this one. So I know that one person indicated they had an interest in climate change. And another person, I think Edna in IT and social media. So if you like to participate, you can enter that on this screen. And I'm just going to put some examples. Some of the people that I've recently met in, so I put in technology, climate change. And if a few others, if you would be willing to put in the area that you work with, is it teaching? Is it community development, construction, agriculture, science, art, farming, tourism, sports, instruction, so we can get an idea of who's represented in the meeting today. Okay, so I'll leave this one up and maybe we'll come back. We're getting some more conservation. I'm working with, or I'm acquainted with some people in Jamaica who are working in sustainable development. And one of the professors at my university is a specialist in sustainable development. Okay, interesting. We'll come back to this. It will save. And we can talk a little bit more about it towards the end. All right, so I want to go into some of the materials here. I explained to you that youth time banking helps youth build strengths and community connections. We use this model called Community Com for service to others, design technology work, making things with our hands, and through learning literacy, workshops, virtual tours, and so forth. Now, so that leads to this question. What does time banking, tech, soup, connect, and LinkedIn have in common? I'm going to, you could put any thoughts that you have in the chat, but let me just suggest all of them have an interest in social connection interacting with other people. The purpose of youth time banking is to build community. The purpose of tech, soup, connect is to help people like Robert Kibaya and Jerome script Tunis and Valerie Gehran to become acquainted with each other to share ideas and their knowledge and perhaps even to collaborate like I'm beginning to do with tech, soup, Uganda, with youth and technology and development, and with YTB Uganda. This is tremendous. This is extraordinary. I feel incredibly fortunate to have this opportunity to live and to work this way. And of course, LinkedIn is to create a platform for professionals to build their professional networks. And you can see a link at the bottom there to a reference that discusses the work of the anthropologist and psychologist Robin Dunbar, who studied this phenomena of how people interrelate from the beginning of time. I think this aspect of our human existence is fundamentally the same here on this next slide. This is from the work of Dr. Dunbar. And he explains that there are limits to our capacity. I think this is not surprising to us. So my point in sharing this information is that the emphasis on LinkedIn is to have more and to build and to get more connections and to write and to comment. However, we all recognize there's only 24 hours in a day, we can only do so much. So my recommendation on LinkedIn that I have come to experience myself and perhaps you as well, is that we have to be selective. And it may be exciting for a person who is just getting started with LinkedIn to gather connections. But after a while, we don't have time to pay attention to them. And so one of the objectives for our session is to position yourself within LinkedIn. And so my interpretation of doing that for my own use of LinkedIn is I'm finding that now I am actually de-selecting and unfollowing some people that I may have or connected with before. We'll talk a little bit about the distinction between following and connecting in a bit. So about LinkedIn here, I found this very interesting. I didn't know about the history until I checked. Six people developed it about 10 years ago and there's their names. As of last year, 740 million people, I imagine it's more now in 2022. Perhaps we'll see an article sometime this year or next year to say that LinkedIn has reached 1 billion members. Now for mathematics, the network effect, this is not linear. And just our experience is not linear. The network effect makes it's like a multiplier, if not exponential, how the growth occurs in that is similar in biological systems as well. So most countries of the world participate. And I just want to make emphasis. We won't have too much time for this. But of course, you can access LinkedIn from a computer, from a mobile device, LinkedIn, iOS, Windows and so forth. I find myself that I'm using my behaviors, I'm using LinkedIn a little bit more on my mobile device than I had. I think all of us perhaps are doing a lot more with mobile computing. And you can create groups, write articles, post photos, videos, join events on LinkedIn. So what I want to share with you in the rest of the time is I organized the ideas in four parts. There are resources. We'll talk a little bit about profile, strategy and supporting each other to, if individuals are, might be on the one hand networking and collaborating. On the other hand, there might be a time when any one of us is looking for a different work position, creating a resume, doing informational interviewing, so we could support ourselves in that regard. And that's perhaps one of the most important pieces of advice is that I'm getting from my researchers, don't try to do everything alone, have a support group, especially for when situations are difficult. Okay, so Valerie, I'm going to ask if you would please put in the chat tinyurl.com ytblinks. And I'm going to bring that page over to share so that you can look at some of these references if you like. So on this page here for today's is this, maybe I have to refresh. Okay, the resources used for TechSoup Connect Uganda, it will take you to this Google Drive and there are 12 items in here, including the presentation slides. It's fairly large file because I embedded videos in it. There's a LinkedIn profile. There's an article on the privacy settings. There's a listing of other workshops. There's an example of the profile of the trainer for the training I took. There's a LinkedIn checklist, and there's a LinkedIn slide deck that I studied from one of the trainers. So please feel free to look at that as we're having our session or afterwards you may find some of the information. The ones that might be most useful for someone who wants to fine tune their LinkedIn would be the LinkedIn sample profile we'll take a look at in a moment and the LinkedIn checklist. Okay, so those are short documents, easy to work with. Okay, so let's take a look at some things over here. I will not go through everything on this page. I'm using it both as a reference and as a to guide some of our conversation. I'm going to show you a couple of LinkedIn pages for trainers. So these are professionals who earn their living working with LinkedIn, training with LinkedIn, or being a consultant or coach. So this individual is someone in my area, so I'm going to bring up his LinkedIn and just show you something I found interesting here. Now it's possible that if I click on the link it will work for me. Let's see. Yes, okay, excellent. Excellent. Let me bring that over here. Okay, so just a few things to notice. You may be very experienced with this, maybe it's not new. One of the things that I found interesting that I didn't realize is that you can put an audio greeting. Hi, this is Kenneth Lang, your LinkedIn introvert. Have a great day. Bye. Did the audio come through okay on that? Because I'm going to show some videos. Okay, thank you. Okay, that's great. Okay, so this is a professional who counsels and coaches people, so this could be an excellent example to learn from. This example here, Rick Schroeder, this was a training that I participated in on LinkedIn and this is the individual who studied as I went through his bio and scrolled down and I realized he studied sport management. So all of us have these interests that we may not be fully consciously focusing on, but then we might see something and our eyes light up and say, oh, I might ask this person if he would give some advice to my son who's going to be looking for a job in a year or two in sport management. So that's interesting. Okay, and this individual here, I don't want to take too much time. We can come back to them. This individual works with the LinkedIn company. This individual here is a consultant in the area where I live and I took one of the resources from her work. She does a tremendous amount of work. Let me get my other browser here with LinkedIn workshops and it's this. Let's see if it and you can see there's three or four pages on different subtopics on how to either work with LinkedIn or job network or write a resume or how to create a brand on LinkedIn. So we don't have time in this training to go into, I'm not an expert on any one of those, but these people are experts and if you are curious about any of those topics, you can find it in that reference. So for my sake, these resources are quite valuable and this individual here I believe is in in Britain, Northern Ireland and Scotland is where she works and one of the resources I found that might be useful is the LinkedIn checklist. So you can see the copy here and she gives her advice on how to get started and she has many trainings and videos. So let me get my link back here. Okay, now let's take a look at maybe we'll have a little bit of fun here. We're going to go to my my LinkedIn. Now I'm an average user. I'm learning through preparation for this. Here's some things I learned in preparation for our session today. I learned how to put a better banner up. This one's a tiny bit blurry so Valerie will help me later and I learned how to this is very simple but I never noticed it. You can edit your URL here. The URL has a default of your name probably with five or six numbers. You can change that. You can make it something simple. You could make it refer to your project so it doesn't literally have to be your name. So I changed mine excuse me to YTB community com YTBCC. All right and the other thing I created was very recently this month was a company page and on the company page I'm going to that's my the administrative view here if you have a company page and then view as a member. So this is the the organization that I run youth time banking and this gives the ability to have individuals a little bit more selectively participate who want to discuss more details but probably not of general interest to all of the connections that you have on LinkedIn. Now for what we're doing today I created a page like a fictitious page to go through let's see is that I don't know if that worked properly let's try it again. Yes so I made a page for my dog Lucy is my dog so I put her picture there. I'm going to take a drink of water here excuse me and I selected this banner page here and you can select something either from LinkedIn when you're doing the construction of your page or you can use another tool like Canva I'll put that up next okay and I also created a group here called world of support team I just made this up for the session today and if you would like to use this or participate I'll put it in the chat okay so this is just practice it's temporary it's to use LinkedIn as an example but if you find this useful and by the end of our session if enough people wish to participate we have my son participating Robert some participants from youth time banking Valerie so if this is useful we can use it to share information on using LinkedIn if we want to use it for a little while or just for the purpose for today that's okay also all right and so if you do visit that page I will get a notification to to accept I did nothing came in yet so if someone puts in a request that will come in actually I'm on the wrong page I think here we go I'm going to log into LinkedIn here and I'm going to log into the practice account I was actually on my own account so this is the the practice account where I will get the messages okay and I see someone requested and I will approve that okay and accept all right so thank you so you can see how nicely that works I'll check all right so if anyone else either now during our session or later I will accept and then if I have other resources actually what I'll do is I will individually put these resources from the Google Drive I can add them to this this work group okay and and we could have some fun with that if you are looking for work this is the area where you would indicate what your interests are okay let me go back to the presentation here all right so that's some of the resources here I'm going to go a little bit faster to make sure I get through the materials there's more here than of course we will discuss during the session so I leave this for you to have as a resource one of the things I want to recommend if you are not familiar with it is the Microsoft virtual workshops and training so of course LinkedIn is part of Microsoft Microsoft Word of course is a Microsoft product and so Microsoft is very good at integrating their applications in an ecosystem or platform that in which the applications are many times interoperable okay so what I'm going to do here is try a search on LinkedIn and see what happens and these trainings here are free so I see there are two here yesterday there were three building your personal brand and an overview of LinkedIn and some other tools now let me get my my page back let's see I think it was okay I just yeah I want to go back one of the Microsoft trainers let's see I just misplaced where my other page was or is it behind me okay is that you can let's see I'll bring it up here the Microsoft you can search the trainings by time zone Microsoft training workshops yeah and here's where we were okay there should be a spot in here where you can search by language by topic by date and I think if you get into the search a little more deeply you can search by time zone and another one is Microsoft events I'm not sure where the which browser it's launching let's see if I could just copy the link and then I'll paste it in and I think this so on the Microsoft events yes it has a time slider here not necessarily the UTC time but you can get it to work to bring it into your time zone or some time during the day when you can participate if you like okay Jerome do they have recordings if you cannot attend no this is something interesting that's a good question so I'll let me give you a tip on what worked for me so I'm going to search on LinkedIn and I participate or I joined I registered for this workshop or this training it's 60 minutes in the Microsoft workshops Microsoft presenters use Microsoft teams Microsoft teams works in a mode it's like a webinar mode it's called live mode so what I did was I started the workshop on a different computer or on a different browser and I let it run and I did not end it I did not exit and the next day I was able to watch it which is exactly what I did actually I watched it over two days a little bit at a time so it's not a recording I couldn't save it but I could preserve it and go back to the beginning of the training and play it and that's one of the features with Microsoft live it's part of Microsoft teams sometimes if you need to pause during the training you can continue from that point you won't lose anything that had happened does that make sense I hope so I want to share two thank you I want to share two things on this slide here the LinkedIn profile checklist so I think if you double click if you downloaded the slides it will allow you to scroll through that's a little bit smaller so I'm going to bring back the the google slide so it's available both in word if you wanted to edit it or look at it in PDF format Jerome can you share the slide a bit better there yeah yep I can I have it tell me if this is is this better it is yes okay yes yes okay I'm just going to go at a very high level the recommendation or the learning I've been getting from studying what the experts say and what I'm tips I'm picking up from trainers is it goes back to how preciously time is and how we have to manage our time so I would say use LinkedIn as a tool but if it's not useful for you you can let it go for a while come back to it I don't spend a long time during the day I check things and I like this author in Canada Malcolm Gladwell he wrote a book I think called thin slicing and there's other psychologists as well as writers who talk about this that as you get more and more experience you can make judgments on very selective information and that's the way I'm using LinkedIn I don't try to be perfect as they suggest in the photo that's a very nice photo of this young man and the photo that I have I actually went to a couple of years ago when Microsoft had the physical retail outlets and there was a special place where they had a professional photographer lighting light shields and they would give you recommendation to take your picture those pictures were not better than the one that I have I went back to what a friend took of me at my work where I was in front of a poster or an event board for a project we were working on and that looked comfortable and natural for me and so that's it wasn't posed or and so I and that's what the recommendation is on many of the materials I reviewed is to tell people who you are and what you're interested in and one of the things that I like very much that was a very simple advice for how to the words on your profile is to understand the difference between a buzzword and a keyword and so the definition that they gave that's easy to remember is a buzzword is very general it's not specific it's something like I'm passionate about this or I love to work with animals or I really enjoy technology or but that's not telling me anything what when you use a keyword is that I like to use Python as a language for programming then I know that's specific that's a specific keyword or my our dogs are beagles so if that's a keyword that I would put in what my interests are I'm a little bit more specifically I don't just like pets or dogs I like beagles and here this person is talking about microeconomics wants to work in finance financial industry did an internship with the venture capital firm so those are very specific keywords so that's excellent that's excellent and put what you would like to do and if you like to do something then you might even volunteer in the workplace you can also volunteer so you could volunteer in your community but there will be projects when the director or manager or department head asks who can help with this short project and that's something that you can get credit for and add it to your resume so this I like this particular checklist because it's short it's two pages it's specific and it points you to the exact areas on the LinkedIn profile one of the questions I would like to ask someone if I was getting to know them is what new things are they learning or what things do they want to learn what journals do they read or magazines because I think that tells you if you could go on a plane trip or train or bus and you could sit if someone else is the pilot or driver what would you wish to read you might read a novel you might read a trade journal or industry magazine and I found I like to read about psychology and I was studying engineering so that gave me a message that maybe I could combine them in some way all right so this I think is very good that and I'll come back I'll come back to that a little bit Jerome can I yeah yeah a couple things that came up in the chat that are very interesting yes well everything's interesting what I have to say from being on multiple zooms with you this is one of the nicest chats that come across and someone made a comment about how here in Africa many people don't consider LinkedIn as a tool for connectivity but as it is just at any social media for socializing which is interesting because I introduced LinkedIn to a friend the other day and I said I feel like it's more mature than Facebook yes that's I thought that was a very interesting concept there and the other is someone's asking if we're going to have time for questions at the end so I wanted to bring you know that because this is bringing up great thoughts thank you Valerie it's invaluable to have your help I'm very grateful for you bringing that to my attention I I try to glance at the chat as I'm talking but I'm not picking up those so what I want to do is quickly go through some things here I'm going to recommend if you want a tool for creating a banner page you can go to LinkedIn okay I'm going to advance through where's my mouse there we go I'm going I'm not going to play all of the videos because I think we'll run out of time I want to show you a demonstration okay on using resume assistant I put the example file in the google drive I'm going to just spend two minutes maybe on this so I want to go to a template select modern chronological resume create and I just want you to notice that resume assistant which is a tool with LinkedIn is integrated with Microsoft Word and it can give you guidance if I write I'll write software see I start to write software and it will say industry I'll say accounting and then it will give examples so that you can get ideas to help you if you wish to use that okay so that's I was not aware until I started researching and for our session today that tool existed okay all right this is very short it's one minute I'd like to this gives advice on creating a resume so that it works with applicant tracking system if you want your resume to pass through the applicant tracking system remember that keywords are key take a look at the job description again identify the terms that are routinely popping up and if you possess those skills and experience use that exact terminology and incorporate it throughout your resume when it comes to your resume's design less is truly more I know that charts fancy font types unusual bullets they all seem like a great idea but once your resume passes through the applicant tracking system chances are all the information they contained will be lost to the system when you're considering what file type to use beware check the system and make sure it accepts PDFs before you submit your application and if you're not sure play it safe and use a word document instead okay that's very good okay I'm going to skip over workable and recruiter system connect if we have time we'll come back to them there is reference information here those are tools that organizations use when they have a volume of resumes to to filter this chart here I've put some links to some of the online workshops that did have a recording that I reviewed to select materials for what we're talking about now I put some points in here some suggestions from my experience that you might want to consider when completing your profile I'll draw your attention to this article here I think this is important and I'm going to let's see copy the link this is something that I plan to do that I just recently learned about for our session is to go through read this short article and go through the privacy settings I had no idea there was so much it's actually too much for most human beings because there are default settings it's like reading the fine print on every website you simply I simply don't have time for it and that but here this one I think it's worth paying attention to and being very selective on the privacy settings for LinkedIn okay one other thing that I discovered in the past year is the importance of digital certificates and badges to be used to demonstrate competence and there the world of education has changed significantly I think over the past 10 years with the online trainings like edX.org and Udemy and Coursera and so many others and I've recently learned about new world of work so I'm going to recommend that you look at that I want to show one more short video and then we'll go into some questions learning today happens anywhere and everywhere it happens in the classroom on the job in the community and online we can no longer think of learning in one way today's social and economic challenges require learning that engages students keeps pace with technological change teaches 21st century skills and provides meaningful assessments of our learning how do we recognize and value the way we learn today what if we used badges what is a badge a badge is an online representation of a skill or achievement you've earned they've been used in gaming and online spaces to motivate behavior recognize achievement and establish credibility what if we used badges for learning badges could be created and issued by anyone schools online spaces cultural and civic institutions community and professional organizations to represent a limitless set of skills achievements and knowledge badges could be earned by anyone completing programs or projects or demonstrating specific knowledge skills and abilities badges could be shared on websites or blogs social media profiles online portfolios and resumes leading to real opportunities like connecting with potential collaborators earning school credit or getting a job but in order to give badges wide credibility and acceptance a robust badge ecosystem needs to be developed much work has already been done in critical areas mozola's open badges infrastructure provides the software and open technical standard for everyone to earn issue and display badges across various contexts a growing community of badge experts has developed various models of badge systems for anyone to use and adapt significant research has been done to provide a base of evidence about the potential of badges a campaign is underway and listing employers colleges and universities urban school districts and after school programs to expand demand for and supply of badging opportunities the promise is to ensure that badges give everyone recognition for the learning that happens anywhere and lets them share it in the places that matter so what do badges mean for learning badges recognize learning as a lifelong pursuit for youth badges let us see that learning goes beyond classrooms skills like creativity and collaboration and passionate interests become as visible as subjects like math and science badges show our learning is more than a collection of test scores and grades but has learning pathways rich with detail and information this empowers students to guide their own learning teachers to better engage students and colleges to expand their admissions process badges continue into adulthood recognizing the learning that happens in various jobs and in personal and professional development opportunities badges capture knowledge skills and accomplishments not found on resumes this helps workers transfer learning across different industries and employers find the unique talents and skill sets in demand badges cultivate critical values needed in learning today they make learning more open democratic and transparent they cultivate deeper and connected learning where learning happens through sharing they make learning more adaptable to change and open to innovation openness sharing innovation these are the values needed in learning today okay so i'd like to uh ask ballery to bring me up to to date on the there were perhaps some questions we someone asks if we there be time for questions and answers so would you be able to open the mic or ask people to unmute to ask some questions sure let's see i'm going to stop here let me bring the bring okay so would anyone like to tell us what their opinion is on the usefulness of linkedin or one of the comments that valerie explained to me was that that some people feel that linkedin is similar to facebook is that is that correct that was one comment and there's also a henry's by initiative for rachel is that it i got your name thanks yes rachel good morning good morning yes so thank you very much for the opportunity i'm a development professional empowering persons with disability through education technology and assistive technology in africa and my question let's have two questions one question is around content like someone rightly mentioned these days we see a lot of linkedin members share content around personal activities in your lives for example i just got married there's a wedding anniversary or my dad's birthday my mom's birthday my dog's birthday yes it's yeah sometimes weaving the stories to tell a message is what matters but someone rightly said it's more like people are trying to convert linkedin into a facebook ground for socializing and it's now becoming a personal level rather than professional and my question is what could you advise us to do as linkedin users to have an impressive engagement yet impactful and less personal like i had mentioned earlier yes my second question is around user friendliness accessibility for linkedin users with disability i work with the community of people with disability who complain that many times users of personal users of linkedin do not take into cognizance alternate tests to enable advanced usage for persons with disability to thrive in their community of linkedin so for example people who have visual impairment cannot be able to view an image if it's not well captioned or it's not test friendly so my question to you is are there suggestions that you could provide to linkedin users around this aspect also in contribution to this question is this is something that we advocate for in my organization and now we're willing to share more information resource or now to enable like a user friendly or accessible experience for linkedin users with disability thank you yeah yes i listen very closely rachel too i'm going to give two quick responses i agree with you on how linkedin in sometimes is becoming too social and less professional my my strategy for that is if someone is sharing too many things personally i don't feel the need to connect or follow them and i would deselect them and i there's a an option when the message comes in in the upper right hand corner you can select to mute or unfollow but stay connected i've been doing that more and more so that i don't have that personal news coming through number two i see that the use of groups can be valuable for that so for this i created a world of support team it's just this imaginary practice for now but if it's useful we could have like code of conduct or rules of participation keep it short just tell us something to help for the greater good not social information in regard to disability rights inclusion accessibility if you please send me your email or i'll write to robert so i'll communicate with you i the person i gave as the example is dr al condolucci he spent his entire career he's a psychologist in working with disability youth individuals with disability the organization was called clas s he was a professor at the university of pittsburgh and also that microsoft has a training to teach people who have a disability of visual impairment or a hearing impairment or some other challenge in using technology how they can make modifications those are things that individual can do and then it tells other people who do not have that challenge or impairment how to make their materials compatible and friendly for an individual who is differently able and i know that of at least one software that can remind you if you wish to do those things that you forgot to do something if there are better ideas i i welcome them but if you would give robert or send me i'll put my email here i'd be happy to maybe brainstorm things and of course if it's in a group you could make that request i am have an interest to do what you're wishing to accomplish churom if i may interrupt you have two other hands raised and one common thread i'm finding in the chat is about premium why do we need to pay for premium yeah so yeah just get a comment in there are we using the unprofessional version or do we need to pay and get the standard version to unlock some features we're not getting in the initial page yeah yeah okay so a quick response on that i you can use a trial of a premium i would use a different word it's maybe the standard version or the premium version it's the standard version i i just don't want to misunderstand it's not unprofessional you have more capability to let's say i wanted to communicate with an author of a book that i read and i found that author on linkedin but because it's not a first or second or third connection linkedin might tell me i have to have a premium account in order to send a message to that person so that if that was very important to you then maybe you would upgrade i tried it for a while i could see that there are some nice things with it i don't use it heavily enough that i after the free trial expired i i just discontinued i did not pay the monthly subscription does that answer the question and then john has a hand raised as well yeah john yes my first of all i thank you so much because this has been a very interesting very good training my question or my comment is that we the training as always training on online and the time has been limited then how can i can we remain in touch that's why i requested for the email so that we can remain touch and then interact then last but not least i would like to see how i can perfect any the use of the the the link and something sure i think we could use the group that i set up as a practice for i'm going to put the link in i i didn't mean to say it that way i'm going to find the link to the group which i did and i have it and i'm going to paste it in so if you would request to join that would be a place that we could continue the conversation put in some questions i believe i know through my network i know some experts i i make a joke to my family so please don't take this sentence seriously that i'm going to say i would tell my son or my wife i know almost anything and they would say no no one knows everything i said however i can read books i can do research i can talk to valerie i can talk to robert i can ask questions on the on linkedin i have my work network so if enough people whatever question comes up you could probably find someone to give you advice so that's one of the reasons i enjoy so much working with with robert with valerie i see paul is on we'll meet him more and steven joined us from from jamaica tevories do you have a good enough connection to to give us a comment on the perspective of using linkedin by individuals in jamaica tevories sent me a message privately that her connection was not great so maybe that sorry oh okay yeah that would be great or tevories if you could put something into the chat she wrote earlier linkedin is definitely the facebook for networking my opinion it aids with professional development especially for me as a college student it is for professional development she said sorry she said i have to go back to it sorry that she's using it as a tool for professional development as a college student and then you go ahead see you have thelma and you have john i don't know john did you have another question and then you have thelma as well yeah hello thelma if you would go next hello john can you hear me yes hello hello thelma okay good good to talk with you yes i've been silent but listening to everything you've been saying and i've found the session very informative i've been a passive linkedin member for about two years but no i and but now i need the push for connectivity connections with groups i realize i have to go back and spend a bit more time and delve into all of these new functions that you expose so i'm grateful for this session and why i raised my hand really is you were trying to meet somebody in jamaica and since i'm in jamaica i just wanted to say yes it is well used here it's very clear and there really is no need for me as a professional to be spending more time on facebook i should really be spending time on linkedin so thanks for exposing all of these new features that i have not been aware of oh it's you're welcome thelma i'm happy you spoke and are are you in which part of jamaica is it san an parish or another area i see the area i'm in manchester in mandible we consider it one of the more beautiful places it's 2000 odd feet above sea level very nice and cool so it's my preference for being in jamaica is in the cooler areas please send me your email and i communicate sometimes with people from westmoreland's bluefield at queen heith and happy uh to meet you robert what do you think are we if there are enough interest we can continue to share information in this group i set up but the most important thing is that the people who are joining the call that it's useful it's for your time it's worthwhile and if in your work if some question comes up robert and i and valerie have a good connection through tech soup connect we know people from our various work and if there's some way we can share ideas or be of assistance i'm happy to to do that sorry jerome can i interrupt again yes we have another question from iran and i also wanted to comment that some people have been asking for this particular recording of this meeting so it was that possible to share people have been asking for the slides and the recording of the meeting now i believe you have this entire chat and copy being emailed yes i think we will be able to get a copy robert we'll get that we recorded everything and and then the slides developed by jeremy would also be spent yes and i'm able to save the chat one person asked about i've been following a number of people on linkedin i realize most people post about successes and the likes are high is that the way to go i give you my opinion is that the the use of social media whether it's linkedin or facebook has an effect on us psychologically and there's research done about how some different social media affects the mood or causes depression in certain people i'm mostly interested in sharing ideas it's nice to hear of a success or something but if all we hear is good news it sounds strange that can be psychologically upsetting to people because my life is not good news 24 hours a day there's difficulty there's struggle there's disappointment there's losses there's grief a close friend died earlier in the week i try to keep the perspective that if someone is just telling me about every good thing that happened to them i don't really need to hear that i don't begrudge them that but that is not meaningful to me it doesn't help me be a better person and that's why i would go back to dunbar's number there's a handful of people that you are close to that you really care deeply about and you want to know are they okay did they have a setback do they need encouragement maybe a hug but i don't feel as though that's possible with hundreds of people it's just not enough time in the day and i've noticed i watched the role models like one of my role models is dr john lions who is the head professor of the department of innovation and population health at the university of the university of kentucky he doesn't do that stuff i look at dr al condolucci who is the expert on working with individuals with disabilities he doesn't do that and and so my opinion it's an opinion and of course sample other people for their opinion i don't care to praise every or hear i'm not against it i'm not negative on it it's just you have to be selective on what you do and what i find now is that i'm paying attention to the things that matter to me so the things that matter to me are valerie and robert and paul and steven and man i work with ken and so the people i'm working most closely with like maybe 10 people but everyone else it's like so much goes through and then someone will say did you see it on i don't if i turned it on and it was on the screen at that time maybe i saw it but the only ones that i really look for is a message from robert valerie paul steven ken dr condolucci dr lions dr roce perry ricky bird those are the ones that i that's how i behave but of course this is my opinion so i qualify it by saying that yeah there's someone is asking about using linkedin for business i don't have a specific experience on that but the two things i noticed is that there's the open to link on the profile for freelance work and one of the resources again they're all links to videos and workshops from that's in i'll tell you specifically which one it is on let's see it's the linkedin job the virtual job search workshop i'll do let's see i will put that in the chat and tell me if that comes through i think it's it's so if you click on that link that i just shared i think that will take you to the resource and if you go down the list of recorded workshops there's one in there about managing a business on linkedin yeah i'm skimming through the chat if there's uh okay is there any anything else i'm uh not catching valerie well a lot of interest in the recording so that's great sure some hands had to go yes i understand but i but i believe that sharing this video and using the linkedin i don't believe everyone's on linkedin because i believe it was i can't find the name again but someone shared their email and i went directly linkedin to find them and they're not there so i believe some friends here hannah for example don't have a linkedin address account yeah i could be wrong because i looked through linkedin via her email um i'm wondering if anyone here doesn't have an account at all that could use assistance in setting one up is the uh screen share working so that's a fun i learned how to do some things with uh powerpoint that i had not tried before so this is one of them and i learned how to embed the videos i'm going to bring up the and i know it will be time to let's see did i am i doing the screen share oh here we are okay okay is the screen share coming through okay yeah it does okay what i want to do is double check here as we close out the meeting where i'll go back in here we have one notification and okay oh okay great okay so approve oh several people sorry i could find one more question okay sorry go ahead valerie thank you for the session i'm a business coach and mentor mostly offering consultancy services how can i sell on linkedin and you gotta thank you for the copy in advance yes that is the question that i was responding to with that link and the link goes to this resource the i think there's something in here if if the person who's interested would scroll through something about how to work as a business on linkedin so that's and then the other suggestion uh i would have is let's see let me find uh linkedin again okay are the people who is to look on the websites of these two people christine i'll make that highlight in green louise these are and this these three people so please understand i am a person who is a chapter leader as is robert through tech soup connect i have some experience with working with linkedin one of my board members on my ngo or non-profit organization is employed at microsoft so that's an advantage to me i could draw on that network and get advice and guidance but i am not a trainer in linkedin i'm not a consultant i'm not a coach for linkedin i am benefiting from the guidance and information instruction materials articles and recording from these individuals louise brogan christine dykeman kineth lang and there are many more across the world of course we all are constrained by the limitations of the hours in the day and so it's fortunate that there are experts across the world and we can certainly learn about those outside of our area and and take advantage of them but of course to be selective and these three individuals are the ones that when i have questions about linkedin i would refer to their materials and they have newsletters they run workshops you could probably send them perhaps a direct question and they perhaps would answer it or point you to an article that they wrote that addresses that and i found when i do that i as i did yesterday with dr al condolucci so allow me to to share that link and valerie if you would put this i think it's al condolusi with al condolusi dot com so this is the individual i think rachel you were asking uh all the other things to tell you jerome sorry rachel brought up an important point yeah the link that i thought it might have just been me but you need to share the google doc to public because it's asking for thank you thank you let me see if i can thank you thank you thank you let me see if i can do that immediately yes yes where is the share okay let's see i want to change this anyone no any i want it to be anybody how do anyone in this group click here anyone with the link okay okay please try it again i'm going to put this link in thank you very much for that feedback and i'm going to put the google drive in could someone please click on the google drive link and tell me is it responding where you have access robert does it yeah it works okay i have access now okay all right fantastic excellent thank you thank you very much and then this a link i put up this is the individual who is an expert he's written several books on working with people with disabilities that not directly related to rachel's question but might be of interest what i want to show you here is this is a course that i took on accessibility this was very good whereas it am i spelling it correctly let's see i'll try it one more time it could be it's in a different category and search okay here this so microsoft accessibility solutions so this is useful now this is not every single technology this is how to work with microsoft technology and understand the accessibility options or settings controls that can be adjusted for visual or hearing or perhaps tactile challenges i this i would recommend for myself to take this once a year it was one of the best microsoft workshops in my opinion that i participated in the last year here's a selection for time zone so it's plus three is that correct and i go and so this would be yeah see it's very it's midnight right so what you can do robert maybe if you were up at this time you can start the session and then you can go to sleep believe your computer on when you wake up you can go back and play it in other words it's not recorded but because it uses microsoft live you will be able to pause it replay it up until you close the session or turn the computer off okay so i do that sometimes when it's at an unusual time or that doesn't work for me okay anything else valerie i'm happy to continue for a few more minutes i know that with everyone's schedule people will need to leave yes you thank you for that you have another question directed to you from rachel okay okay is the screen share on i'm trying to turn it off let's see oh here it is okay is this only for microsoft products or is a universal approach to internet accessibility persons with disabilities yes thank you again rachel for your question it's for microsoft products there is another one again i'm not aware of a universal one but web there is one for web accessibility so i'm going to do a screen share again and valerie i'll ask you to maybe put some let's see am i like i'm just is the screen share on i can't tell yeah it is on it is on okay so do you see the search i'm doing yeah we do okay yeah so there's web there's i'm going to put one let's see digital accessibility so i guess there are let me see if there's a general one oh this is what i think this is it so this is for web websites and where's my what i would like to have robert is a monitor that is three feet wide and three feet high because i'm still learning on these zoom sessions things go in different places and i can't find them okay there is also a tool when i come across it i will share it with everyone i'll make one attempt here it's called website yeah accessibility checker okay so this might be it i thought it had okay so i'm going now i'm going to admit that my website is probably not going to pass the test so let's see what happens okay i'll do this later i don't want to go through that right now but i'll put this so there are tools that you can and there are some websites that have there's like a mark or a logo that indicates if the web platform itself has been recognized as being meeting the accessibility standards let's see is it logo there's some governing body okay here and i think these are the logos and i guess there's this section 508 so maybe on here it i thought there was a free i don't know if it's a tool or a guideline this one there's something that involves pricing a large business i guess maybe like microsoft would have a budget but i think the important thing as dr kondalusi would advise is that it's important to advocate rachel i would like to share something with you are you still with us absolutely i am rachel you can share the chat yeah if this is of interest to you and if there's a way for me to get it to you i would be happy to get this to you one of the people i know through my work that i have the very good fortune of knowing is dr rose perry she is a neuroscientist with mount sinai healthcare system in new york city she is the founder and executive director of a beautiful organization oh and also oh rachel this is tremendous for people with disability to know about this technology and this is putrino lab this man is extraordinary i met him he is like like leonardo davinci or michael angelo i am astonished at what he does for people with disabilities and this is a person i know this is for children oh this is also unlinked in let's see if i go here it's called prestons march yes like prestons march for energy i just saw it in here this is also beautiful work with people with disabilities with children mostly prestons march for energy here follow yes okay so i'm going to put this in the chat those who are interested can follow that but this i would recommend did i put this in here let me put this link in this is just uh extraordinary i don't know how else to say the work that this organization does with people who have all kinds of disabilities loss of limb how they have special projects and online activities is this coming through in this share so this is just tremendous work and okay so i'll leave that in there but rachel the last one i want this is a puzzle this is about disability rights also beautiful work let's see this one it's of course this is based in the experience of the united states of a moment in history of disability rights called the 504 sit-in so i'm not very familiar with that which is great for me to learn more okay and i want to thank valerie for her time in helping us i know that she has the schedule with her children's education so i'm just gonna this for those who work in disability rights of course this is about the history in the united states and so one of the projects of the social creatures is to create a puzzle to help educate people about the experiences and challenges and pain that people with disabilities have faced and for to educate others to be more compassionate and inclusive and to meet people and to understand that we all can collaborate all of us have abilities and feelings and we're all worthy and have a right to participate in life so i expect that within two months this is very new my organization use time banking helped to have a successful funding for this kickstarter campaign which is like startup funding for the manufacture of these games and this other one i mentioned i think to you robert we didn't have a chance to talk about it i think it's called nabu it's i did i guess the right yes so this is i don't know if it's it's not specific to a disability but it's to make literacy and reading available in any language and it's a tool it's like a an app i think and handheld device so if this is useful for africa i know the people who are who work with this it's a pleasure for me to have this opportunity to continue to do work with robber kabaya and with valerie gear and thank you valerie and to meet another person from jamaica to have the help of a youth leader in ytb jamaica taff gray join us is what what do you recommend robert is there is there anything any open item that we can address now or i'm going to go back to okay so i'm going to approve great so this is i put a i think a survey okay great some people are working on the survey everyone is is getting to meet my dog or the dog of my family elusi and so that's wonderful thank you someone put in a comment here so in this if people participate in in this group we'll keep it focused on important things to help people with their work life or does someone know a resource or have an idea on how something of something how to do something so robert i feel like maybe my dog deserves the credit for the success of because the the most popular part of yeah i'm going to do stuff the screen here is is her group and i like to have fun when i work with people and i think if people can make jokes and be kind to each other they can do a lot and work in good faith and to encourage my wish for my life is that someone could say that they saw that it was important to me to lift a person's spirit that is what i would take most pride in that i wish to help someone to go to the where they want to go to develop and accomplish what they want to and i would say to someone the only advice i have to anyone is do not hold yourself back and do not hold other people back and with going back to linkedin and hiring i like the philosophy of richard branson i think he is the founder of the virgin airlines he says he works with people and tells them i want you to leave but i want to make the work here so meaningful and good that you do not want to leave so he smiles and makes a joke about that but anyone who has worked with me i tell them if there's a better place to go there i don't want to tie your hand to the table here go to the better place and someone else will come and i think when we treat each other that way enough people don't want to go they want to stay and work with you on the projects and the work and then if someone finds an interesting possibility somewhere else a great to celebrate that go do good things i believe in that yeah thank you robert i will tell you now so robert sent me a message maybe i don't know three weeks ago about this meeting and i was so excited to do something to work with people in africa i said yes and then later on i thought oh my goodness wow what did he ask me to do i tell my wife he says you're crazy you're crazy i said but this is so important so exciting and and i in my work i try to use myself as an example i when someone is an intern or i'm the supervisor i say here's a suggestion try this or do something better and don't ever think i have the best idea we together have the best idea and i think paul or someone in their email signature says we stand on the shoulders of giants or we stand on each other's shoulders we help each other and that's i think that's just great and i certainly i i could say i probably don't have any original idea it's all of the ideas that i'm taking that come from the things that i read the people i talk to the impressions i get the things that i see i'm going to leave you one last thing and then we stop and and we'll do a an activity that we do in youth time banking we're going to do our countdown so i'm going to do one last screen share and is the screen share working okay maybe okay how is am i in the right spot or or not let's see i'm gonna bring this over here i'm going to do okay here share okay i think this is correct now do you see the blank screen yes okay all right so robert this is a surprise for you you will know exactly what it is when i type it so this is a game we play to have fun at home maybe you know this and valerie if you're still there you or i could put this in the chat we play this game called wordle okay is that easy to grab and put in the chat power language or i have it actually right here yeah i'm going to put it in so maybe you'll enjoy it i'll put it also in our group and robert and i played a game i think last week or the week before and we had some fun with it so the instructions are there the game is very simple anyone can play it's one time per day one word and it's fun to do as like an icebreaker or with a family or friend and yeah okay so in uh youth time banking we give a countdown is this good to close the meeting out now robert or do you want to make any announcement or final final comment or final question yes maybe my final comment to be actually to thank you jerem for this time and to thank valerie for the time for responding to chat comments is very very good thank you so much valerie and i also thank core members from web 2 twice c m platform yeah thank you so much and jerem and doris call you to offer training stress or wherever we have a gap so please don't get tired of us yeah i'm writing a thank you to everyone it's to teach us to learn to be on these sessions i get so much from them i hope this time has been worth your while i am grateful i bow to you and thank you for sharing as one of my coaches my mentor who died this week for sharing the slice of eternity dr edgar kahn may he rest in peace and in youth time banking we have a countdown valerie you'll help me please so everyone could turn on is this okay robert we will bring to closure yeah maybe one last word is to thank maybe take soup text test school test so connect for the platform yeah we're using their platform and for the support the technical support the offer to us whatever we are so we are so grateful for that yeah thank you so much and i agree and that's yeah you can't go on yeah elivander geisen is the one who introduced us so i thank him yes now fine too okay so if you turn on your microphones okay we're gonna clap a little bit you could turn on your microphones valerie is going to help me and we are going to count down from 10 to 1 and then robert you can close and end the session okay everyone ready 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 thank you thank you thank you we'll see you