 to give a talk about how it came to be and how I came involved in this. So before we move on to the rest of this, essentially at a conference myself and Julie started talking about the environment of English for academic purposes and kind of the network available for those involved in EAP. And while we have ELT Ireland, there wasn't anything quite specific to EAP. So we decided to kind of create that organization and that took place about six months ago and we started the organization three months ago and it's taken off. So I'm going to focus kind of on what we've done and how technology has actually helped us build the organization. Alright, so essentially we came to come up with a couple of aims first of all. So we wanted to create a community for those involved in academic English or academic skills in Ireland in any capacity and also to bridge the gap between research and practice, give space for the platform to share perspectives and experiences and to share best practices and research. So we took a grassroots approach and we held meetings in different areas. We went to Cork, then we were at Galway, Dublin and we had about 40 to 50 EAP professionals come, so researchers, teachers, Dosses, etc. all came together and we did mind mapping to kind of guess the perspectives of everyone and that was how we decided to take the direction of the organization rather than us kind of saying this is what we're going to do and take it that way. We wanted it to come from those who were involved and then we had a volunteer committee and we actually had our first committee meeting yesterday in Cork and it was amazing and Chris skyped in which was great so we used technology there to kind of bring everyone together even if you couldn't physically travel and we're actually going to take the ELC Ireland approach from now on and do committee meetings in different cities and then combine kind of the notes in the minutes. So the mind mapping results we went and we said what are you satisfied with in terms of EAP in Ireland? This was the most difficult question as most people said nothing and we forced them to come up with good things about EAP in Ireland and what needs to be changed and develops and then how could it be developed so instead of just sitting there and complaining essentially, actually coming up with stats that we could take to develop. So for question one everyone was saying both potential, the caliber of the professionals. So again as ELC Ireland does recognizing just the expertise of the professionals. So the initial meetings, the committee meeting and then we've also started a shared resource database on Google Drive so if you have permission to upload materials or lesson plans you pop it on to the Google Drive and it's shared with everyone who's teaching EAP or academic English in Ireland. So we have various institutions, so higher education, private institutions, other organizations and individuals. So we have a lovely picture here, if you recognize this guy here. So this is just some of our images from the mind mapping and the initial meetings. This shows a variety of people. And this is our shared resource drive so if anyone is interested you can shoot us an email and we can add you to the drive. And so this ability, so we have Facebook, Twitter, websites and then through Twitter we actually got picked up by Bolly in the UK who asked us to write a newsletter and we've been speaking at different places and discussed sponsorship and funding in different places as well. So this is our lovely newsletter in Bolly. So focusing on the technology aspect this is what really surprised us and neither Julie nor myself had really experience with how quickly things on social media get picked up. In less than one month we have 686 plus views on websites. About 100 users on the Facebook group which is what our initial platform was. And then on Twitter we have 93, well we currently have 93 followers. And again this is all basically the last of the month which once we got into Twitter that's where people started picking up. And so all of you guys tweeting. It was something that's really useful I think for schools and professionals and something that I've never had it. So this is our website where we place news, events, postings, etc. Just a little where people are looking from. And our Twitter there. And then our long term aims. So these were actually refined yesterday plus basically annual conferences, regular CPP and training around Ireland for EAP specific. Creating local EAP reading groups and initiatives, setting up a journal for EAP and creating a framework. Promoting EAP action research which I know that CES does a lot of. And there's groups for action research throughout Ireland. And I'm creating a predation body for EAP. And then collaborating with institutions. Not just higher education but also all of the private institutions that are aimed to bring their students into higher education. So that would be general English schools that are looking towards IELTS or EAP. That would be pathway programs, pre-masters programs, higher education, etc. So that's basically all I have.