Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Hello Corinna, this is our fourth Vlog and we are on air later than we thought we would.
However; in spite of being a short working week last week; there has been quite a bit
of stir on the 4N Forum about Google Hangouts and how they can be used etc so it has all
been good. As always it is nice to hang out with you.
We seem to be settling into the structure that we created last week so let us get started.
Viewers on YouTube can turn on the Annotations and see a brief note about the structure we
would be following today and also various other bits throughout the video.
Let me start off with "Just a Minute" by asking you - Corinna, please tell our viewers what
you do? Hello Vivek, it is good to hang out with you
too. I am Corinna. I believe everyone has great
potential but they need help to think more clearly, confidently and creatively, so they
can live the life they really want. I can unlock your potential through creative and
interactive learning. I believe learning needs to be fun and creative to be more effective
and engaging. I am a mindmapping coach, IT and Business
English trainer and dyslexia specialist. I work with people in business, students and
children. The details about how to get in touch with
me are in the description below of this Vlog on YouTube
So that's a snapshot of me and my work, now tell us a bit about you.
Namaste, Good Day everyone, my name is Vivek and Wake Technology Integrators is my company.
I believe in living a simple life, I believe in thinking differently. I am proud to share
my beliefs with Steve Jobs and Leonardo Da Vinci who said "Simplicity is the Ultimate
in Sophistication". Are you feeling stuck with traditional office
bound IT systems and agonising over your inability to effectively use your mobile devices for
your business? Are you finding that you are losing business because you were unable to
respond to inquiries in an effective and timely way because you were away from your traditional
office IT System? Well, here is a suggestion from someone who has worked and lived in the
technology world for a long long time - avoid the cowboys, let the Indian handle the technology
and you live a simple life. If you want to simplify your life, get in touch with me.
Contact details as ever; are in the description below this Vlog on YouTube.
That was "Just a Minute". Now we come to "The week gone by".
Corinna, tell us how was your week? Lots of exciting things have been happening
for Dancing Kites. I had a very useful meeting with you - reviewing
our vlog presentation, looking at YT features, putting a menu and submenu for it onto my
website. I have set up a series of courses with an
associate in PR. The first one is on 26/9 "Facing the future with redundancy or retirement",
using mindmapping and vision boards. I have some IT courses scheduled too, MS Office with
the creative learning twist! I am in the process of adding them to Eventbrite
and have added a button to my DK website, so people can click through and read the course
description and book tickets. Thanks to you for explaining about Toggle Editor in Joomla
I managed it. I have been asked to talk about my children's
books to dyslexic teacherslater this month and have confirmed a 2nd talk in Southend
in November. I have progressed the ebooks. I've now registered
the 4 new ones and am in the process of adding them to my webshop. They should be available
very soon! I have been working with a PR associate. He
has written an article about my books to go to newspapers and educational mags nationally.
Very exciting! That's enough about me for now. How's your
week been? On Tuesday I went to Windsor 4N meeting. We
had a slightly delayed start as the person who runs the pub seems to be running the whole
thing single handed and then Carole was running the meeting single handed as well with her
OPS and MA were both on holiday and thankfully Tony the Area Leader was present. Holiday
season meant that most people were away and we were only 9 people in the room. Steve Bishop
showed us an amazing floating 20 pounds note trick as a demo of Power of his mind during
his 40 seconds. He is a hypnotherapist you know - so I am not quite sure if we were simply
hypnotised into thinking about the trick! It is amazing what you can do in 40 seconds!
Wednesday, I think we had a productive day. You were celebrating your Birthday that day,
Corinna. Hope rest of the celebrations went well for you. We did manage to do quite a
bit of changes to your website didn't we? Modified an existing menu and added two sub
menus below that and added a few articles to make Video Logs easily accessible to visitors.
I think we had quite a success there. I also gave you an image file to be used as a new
banner for use in your Hangouts which you are using now.
I have already uploaded a recording of my 4Sight presentation to YouTube and we are
planning on meeting next week to modify the content on my website
aren't we, Corinna? Thursday turned out to be an uneventful day
- the meeting that was scheduled was postponed for next week and I hope to have it soon.
Friday was a nice day. I went to the Ascot 4N meeting. Jan Jack gave her 4Sight where
she talked about the importance of humor in presentations. She told us a few anecdotes
which were quite funny. One of the anecdotes was about a very talkative child who used
to comment loudly about anyone and everyone. The mother told the child to remain quiet
in the bus and was told he could talk about it at home to Mummy. The mother and son encountered
a very pregnant woman in the bus and the child kept staring at the lady for a long time and
kept his mouth shut until they were to get off the bus. But just as they were getting
off the bus, the child went and told the pregnant lady that he and his mum would be talking
about her when they got home! The point was honesty is not always the best policy!
The much hyped Hangout with other 4N members did not really happen. The only other person
who said she would join; apparently completely forgot about it. Michael Mertens the other
person who was suspicious of the quality of his broadband quality was unable to connect.
As this Michael is an out and out Apple man, I even tried the Apple's own FaceTime to connect
my iPad to his iPad and even that failed to connect. Apparently he has a terrible broadband
connection. He says it is a reputed business ISP but he is not getting any service at all!
Corinna, that leads me onto "The Road Ahead". How does your road ahead look for you?
Next week Usual mix of training, meetings, networking,
admin. I have some follow up admin/writing for events
mentioned ie courses and talks. I want to get my ebooks uploaded and available.
I am helping you with your website content on Wed. It always helps to have another pair
of eyes on what you do. So what are your challenges for next week?
Today which is already Monday I have a session scheduled with Baz. This one is to see what
I can help him with in his website and eBook selling etc
Tuesday I have a meeting with another like minded person and we would be exploring how
we can help each other. Wednesday is again going to be a busy day
- you would be helping me make the content on my website consistent and clearer with
what I am trying to achieve. As you often say, when one is close to what we are doing,
it is easy to loose sight of the bigger picture and objectivity. That is where perspective
from a different person would be of tremendous help.
We have now come to the most interesting part of the Vlog - "Trick or Treat of the week".
This week let me show you how to use the amazing name banners that you see when I talk. Viewers
might have noticed that a little window with a message pops.
In the next episode; I shall show you how to create the image file called as an Overlay
file in the Google Hangout terminology. I am going to show you a small video that
is already in my YouTube Channe which shows how to use different Overlay files to get
the effect. I am into my Google Hangout screen. I have
already started the Hangout On Air. I am selecting the Hangout Toolbox app on the left hand side
of my screen. Now a ToolBox window appears on the right hand side of my webcam captured
image - I scroll down to reach the section which is called Custom Overlay.
I now select the PNG file I want to use as a banner created and turn ON the Custom Overlay
by sliding the switch to the ON position as you can see there.
Now you can see the overlay file that had I created earlier showing up as a beautiful
banner with my name, logo and everything. Once I do this, I can save this banner or
overlay set up as a preset - this gets stored in your Google account so this would be available
for you whenever you log in to a Hangout session using any PC - but you will have to apply
the preset every time. Now let me show you neat trick - I have several
presets stored and I switch between them to show you different banners which give the
effect of pop up window with a message. This whole trick goes in as part of this Vlog
and you would be able to rewind, stop and understand the whole thing later on at your
own time. In the next episode I shall show you how to
create the Overlay file itself. That brings me to the end of my Trick for
this week. Hope that has been useful. It is now your turn Corinna.
My turn for Trick or Treat. Water, water everywhere..
Over 50% of our body is water. By the time you feel thirsty, your mental and physical
performance is already affected. Drink
plenty of water to help your brain think more clearly and lift your mood, as well as for countless
health benefits. And it is time to conclude for today.
It's been great to chat again using Google Hangout. It's such an easy way to keep in touch - and produce videos
for our YouTube channels too! "Dancing Kites Creative Learning. Unlocking
your potential through creative and interactive learning"
See you all in the next episode - remember: Integrated we live.