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Would you like access to our advanced agency training for FREE? https://www.agencymastery360.com/training How do you turn a $99 course, launched before it was even fully built, into a 7-figure coaching business? Today's guest did just that. And he's here to share why scrappier beats slick every time. If you've ever second-guessed launching messy, this episode will feel like validation. Brent Weaver is on the show talking about his start with UGURUS, the valuable learning that can come from starting before everything's in place, and why what came after selling his business wasn't exactly what he had expected. Today we kick off a two-parter with Brent Weaver, the founder of UGURUS, who went from building websites in high school to launching one of the most successful coaching programs for digital agency owners. If you've ever second-guessed your “build it as you go” approach — or wondered whether selling $99 courses online could ever turn into something real—this episode will feel like a shot of validation. In this episode, we'll discuss: Launching and selling without a net. The real reason Brent Weaver sold UGURUS. The unexpected, gut-punch part of selling.  Subscribe Apple | Spotify | iHeart Radio Sponsors and Resources Wix: Today's episode of the Smart Agency Masterclass is sponsored by Wix Studio, the all-in-one platform designed to help agencies scale without the headaches. With intuitive tools, robust native business solutions, and low maintenance, Wix Studio lets your team focus on what matters most—delivering exceptional value to your clients. Ready to take your agency to the next level? Visit wix.com/studio and discover how Wix Studio can transform your workflow, boost profits, and strengthen client relationships. Building Something Before It's Built In 2012, Brent's agency was building on a tool called Business Catalyst, which led to a side project called BC Gurus, a blog for Business Catalyst users that eventually turned into a full-fledged business. That little blog became a membership site where his team posted business content on how to grow a Business Catalyst agency and, after selling his agency, was the seed for what eventually became UGURUS, a platform offering training and coaching to help agency owners close more deals and scale their businesses. Just as they were preparing to move forward with the site without the Business Catalyst element, as this tool had been discontinued, Brent found the name UGURUS had just gone up for auction. It all seemed serendipitous as they easily won this auction and the new stage of the business began. Lessons in Launching (and Selling) Without a Net Throughout their journey, Brent and his team learned something that every agency owner needs to hear: you don't need everything figured out before you start. And in fact, if you try to, you'll likely never launch at all. The early success of their $200 self-paced course helped them build an audience. But it wasn't until they started offering deeper, high-ticket coaching that things clicked into place. Selling a few $2,000 seats was way more scalable than chasing thousands of low-ticket customers. They did all of this without the luxury of a huge marketing budget or slick automation. Just hustle, relationships, partnerships, and a whole lot of belief in what they were doing. This is something Brent and Jason have both experienced. They agree it's better to go out, execute with what you have, and get feedback, rather than waiting for the perfect moment. Brent Weaver on Building, Selling, and What Came Next Brent and his team didn't start with a fully polished product. In fact, when they first launched their flagship 10K Bootcamp, they spent all their time selling it before creating it. In their view, if they couldn't sell it, they wouldn't build it. But they sold it. About 30 seats at $2,000 a pop. Of course, it did help that they weren't starting from scratch. They had a list of about 10,000 emails from their time running BC Gurus, which helped immensely. And then they had one week to create the first session. What followed was a whirlwind of late nights and Adobe Connect calls (for those who remember what that was) as Brent stayed one step ahead of each week's live session. It was clunky. It was imperfect. But it worked. Why? Because Brent was committed. He responded immediately to the slightest client dissatisfaction. He personally handled delivery. And he overdelivered wherever possible. That scrappy MVP became the foundation for a business that helped thousands of agencies get out of the feast-and-famine cycle. This kind of growth doesn't happen when you wait for the stars to align. It happens when you ship early, listen hard, and iterate fast. The $22,850 Lead Magnet That Took 6 Minutes to Create Let's talk about lead magnets that actually convert. The first product Brent ever sold was a gloriously titled “the $22,850 Website Proposal.” That wasn't a gimmick. It was a real client proposal that closed a big deal—with cross-sells, recurring revenue, and multi-location projects all baked in. Instead of building something fancy, he stripped out client details, dropped it into a Google Doc, and gave it away. Six minutes of work. Hundreds of thousands of downloads. The lesson? Your most valuable assets are often sitting in a dusty folder, not in your imagination. Proof beats polish every time. The Real Reason Brent Sold UGURUS So why sell a successful business? For Brent, it wasn't burnout—it was the pull toward a bigger vision. After buying out his co-founder and riding the COVID rollercoaster, things just weren't lighting him up anymore. Then came Cloudways—and more importantly, a series of conversations with their CMO, Santi. In a way, he was no longer getting what he wanted from the business, and the more he spoke with Santi, and saw what they were doing with their platform, the more he dreamed about turning that into an agency growth community. Hence, what started as co-branded webinars and strategy calls evolved into shared vision sessions. Eventually, Cloudways pitched an acquisition. The appeal? A chance to bring agency coaching to a massive platform with 13,000+ agency users. Brent saw an opportunity to merge purpose with scale and went all in. When the Buyer Gets Bought Here's the plot twist: just ten months after the acquisition, Cloudways got acquired by DigitalOcean, and suddenly UGURUS was a small fish in a billion-dollar pond. DigitalOcean was focused on AI, GPUs, and hardcore infrastructure—not coaching communities. So eventually, Brent's team and vision were sidelined. He stayed on. He fought for his team. But like he says—when you sell, it's no longer yours. And if the buyer shifts priorities, you've got to live with it. That's the tradeoff. Don't Sell Unless You Know What's Next The hard truth here is don't sell unless you know what you're waking up to the next day. Brent thought he had his next chapter lined up. He had a six-month transition plan. A roadmap. But then came the cultural disconnect. Engineering talk at happy hours. Roadmaps that had nothing to do with agency growth. The adventure he signed up for didn't look like what it became. That's the gut-punch part of selling. You can have a clean exit and still feel like you lost something. That's why clarity before the exit is non-negotiable. Next Time on Part Two: What really happens after the exit? Brent pulls back the curtain on post-sale culture shock, why some big opportunities fizzled, and how his next move with E2M caught even him by surprise. You won't want to miss this. Want to Build an Exclusive, Scalable Agency That Clients Line Up For? Our Agency Blueprint helps you identify growth bottlenecks, build community-driven strategies, and position your agency as a category of one.

Episode Summary In this episode of Sunny Side Up, Corrine Kasman interviews Daniella Latham on the evolving landscape of product marketing. Daniella emphasises the importance of voicing customer needs from the outset of product development, advocating for oneself, and crafting compelling, data-backed narratives. Her approach to building strong, genuine relationships across departments, particularly between product marketing and sales, underscores the necessity of understanding and aligning with sales goals for mutual success. She also shares insights into the role of AI in product marketing and how marketers can utilise AI as a tool to augment human capabilities to focus on solving customer problems. About the Guest Daniella Latham is a curious product marketer with experience leading marketing and growth strategies at some of the fastest-growing and innovative SaaS companies in the world She is passionate about product marketing craft, product-led growth, crafting rich narratives, and AI for business. Daniella has twice been named a top 100 product marketing influencer by the Product Marketing Alliance. Daniella is currently working at Atlassian on AI features across their product portfolio. Connect with Daniella Latham Key Takeaways - Voice customer needs and opinions from the beginning of the product development process. - You need to advocate for yourself. Promote your work and achievements, ensuring visibility and recognition within your organisation. - Develop the ability to craft compelling narratives backed by data to communicate with target audiences effectively. - Proactively contact sales teams to offer feedback and insights, fostering solid interdepartmental relationships. - Recognise the sales team's objectives, such as closing deals and customer satisfaction, to align marketing strategies accordingly. - Build genuine relationships rather than viewing interactions as mere transactions. - AI should be used to augment, not replace, human capabilities. - Focus on how AI solves customer problems rather than just listing features. - Listen to sales calls to identify knowledge gaps and customer concerns. - Embrace AI for automating tasks and mining insights from various data sources. - Shift towards more targeted, specific marketing that addresses core customer segments. - Recognise the growing importance of community in establishing brand trust and authenticity. - Prioritise genuine, human-centric approaches in an increasingly AI-driven world. Quote "Understand what the sales team's goals are and then frame how you build relationships around that." Recommended Resource Wes Kao's Newsletter Lenny's Newsletter  Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career with Lenny Rachitsky Product Marketing Alliance Shout-Outs Matt Hodges – Head of Product Marketing at Equals Andrew Capland – Founder of Delivering Value Mary Sheehan – Head of Lightroom Product Marketing at Adobe ⁠Connect with Daniella Latham⁠  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠| ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠

The Mogollon culture was an indigenous culture in the Western United States and Mexico that ranged from New Mexico and Arizona to Sonora, Mexico and out to Texas. They flourished from around 200 CE until the Spanish showed up and claimed their lands. The cultures that pre-existed them date back thousands more years, although archaeology has yet to pinpoint exactly how those evolved. Like many early cultures, they farmed and foraged. As they farmed more, their homes become more permanent and around 800 CE they began to create more durable homes that helped protect them from wild swings in the climate. We call those homes adobes today and the people who lived in those peublos and irrigated water, often moving higher into mountains, we call the Peubloans - or Pueblo Peoples. Adobe homes are similar to those found in ancient cultures in what we call Turkey today. It's an independent evolution. Adobe Creek was once called Arroyo de las Yeguas by the monks from Mission Santa Clara and then renamed to San Antonio Creek by a soldier Juan Prado Mesa when the land around it was given to him by the governor of Alto California at the time, Juan Bautista Alvarado. That's the same Alvarado as the street if you live in the area. The creek runs for over 14 miles north from the Black Mountain and through Palo Alto, California. The ranchers built their adobes close to the creeks. American settlers led the Bear Flag Revolt in 1846, and took over the garrison of Sonoma, establishing the California Republic - which covered much of the lands of the Peubloans. There were only 33 of them at first, but after John Fremont (yes, he of whom that street is named after as well) encouraged the Americans, they raised an army of over 100 men and Fremont helped them march on Sutter's fort, now with the flag of the United States, thanks to Joseph Revere of the US Navy (yes, another street in San Francisco bears his name).  James Polk had pushed to expand the United States. Manfiest Destiny. Remember The Alamo. Etc. The fort at Monterey fell, the army marched south. Admiral Sloat got involved. They named a street after him. General Castro surrendered - he got a district named after him. Commodore Stockton announced the US had taken all of Calfironia soon after that. Manifest destiny was nearly complete. He's now basically the patron saint of a city, even if few there know who he was. The forts along the El Camino Real that linked the 21 Spanish Missions, a 600-mile road once walked by their proverbial father, Junípero Serra following the Portolá expedition of 1769, fell. Stockton took each, moving into Los Angeles, then San Diego. Practically all of Alto California fell with few shots. This was nothing like the battles for the independence of Texas, like when Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission.  Meanwhile, the waters of Adobe Creek continued to flow. The creek was renamed in the 1850s after Mesa built an adobe on the site. Adobe Creek it was. Over the next 100 years, the area evolved into a paradise with groves of trees and then groves of technology companies. The story of one begins a little beyond the borders of California.  Utah was initialy explored by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in 1540 and settled by Europeans in search of furs and others who colonized the desert, including those who established the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the Mormons - who settled there in 1847, just after the Bear Flag Revolt. The United States officially settled for the territory in 1848 and Utah became a territory and after a number of map changes wher ethe territory got smaller, was finally made a state in 1896. The University of Utah had been founded all the way back in 1850, though - and re-established in the 1860s.  100 years later, the University of Utah was a hotbed of engineers who pioneered a number of graphical advancements in computing. John Warnock went to grad school there and then went on to co-found Adobe and help bring us PostScript. Historically, PS, or Postscript was a message to be placed at the end of a letter, following the signature of the author. The PostScript language was a language to describe a page of text computationally. It was created by Adobe when Warnock, Doug Brotz, Charles Geschke, Bill Paxton (who worked on the Mother of All Demos with Doug Englebart during the development of Online System, or NLS in the late 70s and then at Xerox PARC), and Ed Taft. Warnock invented the Warnock algorithm while working on his PhD and went to work at Evans & Sutherland with Ivan Sutherland who effectively created the field of computer graphics. Geschke got his PhD at Carnegie Melon in the early 1970s and then went of to Xerox PARC. They worked with Paxton at PARC and before long, these PhDs and mathematicians had worked out the algorithms and then the languages to display images on computers while working on InterPress graphics at Xerox and Gerschke left Xerox and started Adobe. Warnock joined them and they went to market with Interpress as PostScript, which became a foundation for the Apple LaswerWriter to print graphics.  Not only that, PostScript could be used to define typefaces programmatically and later to display any old image.    Those technologies became the foundation for the desktop publishing industry. Apple released the 1984 Mac and other vendors brought in PostScript to describe graphics in their proprietary fashion and by 1991 they released PostScript Level 2 and then PostScript 3 in 1997. Other vendors made their own or furthered standards in their own ways and Adobe could have faded off into the history books of computing. But Adobe didn't create one product, they created an industry and the company they created to support that young industry created more products in that mission.  Steve Jobs tried to buy Adobe before that first Mac as released, for $5,000,000. But Warnock and Geschke had a vision for an industry in mind. They had a lot of ideas but development was fairly capital intensive, as were go to market strategies. So they went public on the NASDAQ in 1986. They expanded their PostScript distribution and sold it to companies like Texas Instruments for their laser printer, and other companies who made IBM-compatible companies. They got up to $16 million in sales that year. Warnock's wife was a graphic designer. This is where we see a diversity of ideas help us think about more than math. He saw how she worked and could see a world where Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad was much more given how far CPUs had come since the TX-0 days at MIT. So Adobe built and released Illustrator in 1987. By 1988 they broke even on sales and it raked in $19 million in revenue. Sales were strong in the universities but PostScript was still the hot product, selling to printer companies, typesetters, and other places were Adobe signed license agreements.  At this point, we see where the math, cartesian coordinates, drawn by geometric algorithms put pixels where they should be. But while this was far more efficient than just drawing a dot in a coordinate for larger images, drawing a dot in a pixel location was still the easier technology to understand.  They created Adobe Screenline in 1989 and Collectors Edition to create patterns. They listened to graphic designers and built what they heard humans wanted. Photoshop Nearly every graphic designer raves about Adobe Photoshop. That's because Photoshop is the best selling graphics editorial tool that has matured far beyond most other traditional solutions and now has thousands of features that allow users to manipulate images in practically any way they want.  Adobe Illustrator was created in 1987 and quickly became the de facto standard in vector-based graphics. Photoshop began life in 1987 as well, when Thomas and John Knoll, wanted to build a simpler tool to create graphics on a computer. Rather than vector graphics they created a raster graphical editor.  They made a deal with Barneyscan, a well-known scanner company that managed to distribute over two hundred copies of Photoshop with their scanners and Photoshop became a hit as it was the first editing software people heard about. Vector images are typically generated with Cartesian coordinates based on geometric formulas and so scale out more easily. Raster images are comprised of a grid of dots, or pixels, and can be more realistic.  Great products are rewarded with competitions. CorelDRAW was created in 1989 when Michael Bouillon and Pat Beirne built a tool to create vector illustrations. The sales got slim after other competitors entered the market and the Knoll brothers got in touch with Adobe and licensed the product through them. The software was then launched as Adobe Photoshop 1 in 1990. They released Photoshop 2 in 1991. By now they had support for paths, and given that Adobe also made Illustrator, EPS and CMYK rasterization, still a feature in Photoshop.  They launched Adobe Photoshop 2.5 in 1993, the first version that could be installed on Windows. This version came with a toolbar for filters and 16-bit channel support. Photoshop 3 came in 1994 and Thomas Knoll created what was probably one of the most important features added, and one that's become a standard in graphical applications since, layers. Now a designer could create a few layers that each had their own elements and hide layers or make layers more transparent. These could separate the subject from the background and led to entire new capabilities, like an almost faux 3 dimensional appearance of graphics..  Then version four in 1996 and this was one of the more widely distributed versions and very stable. They added automation and this was later considered part of becoming a platform - open up a scripting language or subset of a language so others built tools that integrated with or sat on top of those of a product, thus locking people into using products once they automated tasks to increase human efficiency.  Adobe Photoshop 5.0 added editable type, or rasterized text. Keep in mind that Adobe owned technology like PostScript and so could bring technology from Illustrator to Photoshop or vice versa, and integrate with other products - like export to PDF by then. They also added a number of undo options, a magnetic lasso, improved color management and it was now a great tool for more advanced designers. Then in 5.5 they added a save for web feature in a sign of the times. They could created vector shapes and continued to improve the user interface. Adobe 5 was also a big jump in complexity. Layers were easy enough to understand, but Photoshop was meant to be a subset of Illustrator features and had become far more than that. So in 2001 they released Photoshop Elements. By now they had a large portfolio of products and Elements was meant to appeal to the original customer base - the ones who were beginners and maybe not professional designers. By now, some people spent 40 or more hours a day in tools like Photoshop and Illustrator.  Adobe Today Adobe had released PostScript, Illustrator, and Photoshop. But they have one of the most substantial portfolios of products of any company. They also released Premiere in 1991 to get into video editing. They acquired Aldus Corporation to get into more publishing workflows with PageMaker. They used that acquisition to get into motion graphics with After Effects. They acquired dozens of companies and released their products as well. Adobe also released the PDF format do describe full pages of information (or files that spread across multiple pages) in 1993 and Adobe Acrobat to use those. Acrobat became the de facto standard for page distribution so people didn't have to download fonts to render pages properly. They dabbled in audio editing when they acquired Cool Edit Pro from Syntrillium Software and so now sell Adobe Audition.  Adobe's biggest acquisition was Macromedia in 2005. Here, they added a dozen new products to the portfolio, which included Flash, Fireworks, WYSYWIG web editor Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, Flex, and Breeze, which is now called Adobe Connect. By now, they'd also created what we call Creative Suite, which are packages of applications that could be used for given tasks. Creative Suite also signaled a transition into a software as a service, or SaaS mindset. Now customers could pay a monthly fee for a user license rather than buy large software packages each time a new version was released. Adobe had always been a company who made products to create graphics. They expanded into online marketing and web analytics when they bought Omniture in 2009 for $1.8 billion. These products are now normalized into the naming convention used for the rest as Adobe Marketing Cloud. Flash fell by the wayside and so the next wave of acquisitions were for more mobile-oriented products. This began with Day Software and then Nitobi in 2011. And they furthered their Marketing Cloud support with an acquisition of one of the larger competitors when they acquired Marketo in 2018 and acquiring Workfront in 2020.  Given how many people started working from home, they also extended their offerings into pure-cloud video tooling with an acquisition of Frame.io in 2021. And here we see a company started by a bunch of true computer sciencists from academia in the early days of the personal computer that has become far more. They could have been rolled into Apple but had a vision of a creative suite of products that could be used to make the world a prettier place. Creative Suite then Creative Cloud shows a move of the same tools into a more online delivery model. Other companies come along to do similar tasks, like infinite digital whiteboard Miro - so they have to innovate to stay marketable. They have to continue to increase sales so they expand into other markets like the most adjacent Marketing Cloud.  At 22,500+ employees and with well over $12 billion in revenues, they have a lot of families dependent on maintaining that growth rate. And so the company becomes more than the culmination of their software. They become more than graphic design, web design, video editing, animation, and visual effects. Because in software, if revenues don't grow at a rate greater than 10 percent per year, the company simply isn't outgrowing the size of the market and likely won't be able to justify stock prices at an inflated earnings to price ratio that shows explosive growth. And yet once a company saturates sales in a given market they have shareholders to justify their existence to. Adobe has survived many an economic downturn and boom time with smart, measured growth and is likely to continue doing so for a long time to come.

Creating your first video can be a daunting experience, and this week's guest has to do it in front of the entire The Visual Lounge audience! In this week's episode, we're joined by return guest Kassy LaBorie, Founder and Principal Consultant at Kassy LaBorie Consulting, LLC., as she navigates the ins and outs of creating her own video. Matt takes her through some editing basics, such as cutting, adding all sorts of media to her finished video, and even how to pick some accompanying music. Kassy is the Original Virtual Training Hero, and she's on a mission to transform the virtual learning space into a more interactive, interesting, and engaging one. She specializes in developing trainers to be engaging and effective when facilitating programs in platforms such as Zoom, WebEx, Adobe Connect, and others. Learning points from the episode include: 00:00 – 03:26 Intro 03:27 – 10:47 Preparing and scripting your video 10:48 – 12:06 Matt and Kassy discuss editing issues 12:07 – 18:40 Adding your assets to Camtasia 18:41 – 19:53 What's the right size for your video 19:54 – 29:02 Cutting your video 29:03 – 34:10 Cutting your audio with Audiate 34:11 – 43:49 Adding assets to your video 43:50 – 46:27 Adding themes and your brand colors 46:28 – 47:46 Matt explains Z-order 47:47 – 53:30 Using Screen recordings in your video 53:31 – 55:00 Fine-tuning the B-roll 55:01 – 59:43 Adding music to your video 59:44 – 01:02:59 Adding animations 01:03:00 – 01:05:05 Tweaking final details and exporting the video file 01:05:06 – 01:11:30 Matt's final pieces of advice   01:11:31 – 01:15:19 Outro Important links and mentions: Kassy LaBorie Consulting: https://kassyconsulting.com/ (https://kassyconsulting.com/) Connect with Kassy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kassylaborie/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kassylaborie/) Learn more about Content 10x: https://www.content10x.com/ (https://www.content10x.com/) Learn more about the https://academy.techsmith.com/ (TechSmith Academy). To watch the full video, go to our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/kpA2WuWoeRM

Jean Dengler is a Senior Trainer with Service Corporation International. In her role she delivers a variety of training programs to a diverse group of associates using a virtual platform designed in Adobe Connect. While her primary role is to facilitate training, she considers herself fortunate to have the support of a fantastic team who offers her opportunities to develop learning content, design virtual classrooms and brainstorm innovative ways in which to enhance both training content and delivery. She is a 2021 graduate of UMASS, Boston, having received her MEd in Instructional Design and has found endless opportunities to apply instructional design practices in her work and in her life. She joins us today from Buffalo NY.Support the show

Meg Bertapelle has true global influence as a Principal Learning Experience and Instructional Designer. She is an instructor and training developer, visual communication and graphic designer and has enhanced the communication effectiveness of training and course materials for many years. A regular conference speaker, Meg is acknowledged by some of the biggest names in learning as an expert in Instructional Design. I'm delighted to get Meg on the podcast because we've known each other for a decade online and had never met until the podcast recording. Kassy Laborie is the founder and principal consultant at Kassy LaBorie Consulting, She is a virtual classroom master trainer,and specialises in developing trainers to be engaging and effective when facilitating programs in platforms such as Zoom, WebEx, Adobe Connect, etc. She has in a wide range of industries and sectors, including hospitality, pharma, energy, government, NGOs, non-profits, and more. As well as working with people as a coach, she has written two books on virtual training. Interact & Engage! 50+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars, recipes for your immediate use! Producing Virtual Training, Meetings, and Webinars, the first book focused exclusively on virtual producers! ========================================================= Show links The Non-Designer's Design Book (Non Designer's Design Book)  Color Psychology: Does It Affect How You Feel? The Meaning of Colors in Cultures Around the World Has Pink Always Been a “Girly” Color? A Guide to the Color Corporate Blue Will T-Mobile pink or Sprint yellow dominate the telecom merger? How to Write Your Best Microcopy The power of white space 7 ways to avoid bullet points (try these simple design alternatives) 10 ways to avoid death by bullet points Presentation and eLearning resources 10 Tips On Typography in Web Design Text v. Display Serif vs. Sans Serif Fonts: Is One Really Better Than the Other? Century Gothic Betty Dannewitz Camera use online – the dos and don'ts ========================================================= You can contact Women Talking About Learning through our website, womentalkingaboutlearning.com We're on Twitter @WTAL_Podcast You can buy us a coffee to support Women Talking About Learning via Ko-Fi. Or you can email us via hello@llarn.com

Links: How to Make Your Next Third-Party Risk Conversation Less Awkward: https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/how-to-make-your-next-third-party-risk-conversation-less-awkward 5 Vexing Cloud Security Issues: https://www.itprotoday.com/hybrid-cloud/5-vexing-cloud-security-issues Attackers Increasingly Target Linux in the Cloud: https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/attackers-increasingly-target-linux-in-the-cloud Top 5 Best Practices for Cloud Security: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/magazine-features/top-5-best-practices-for-cloud/ Zix Releases 2021 Mid-Year Global Threat Report: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/zix-releases-2021-mid-year-global-threat-report The big three innovations transforming cloud security: https://siliconangle.com/2021/08/21/big-three-innovations-transforming-cloud-security/ The Benefits of a Cloud Security Posture Assessment: https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2021/08/benefits-cloud-security-posture-assessment How to Maintain Accountability in a Hybrid Environment: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/how-to-maintain-accountability-in-a-hybrid-environment 6 Cloud Security Must-Haves–with Help from CSPM, CWPP or CNAPP: https://www.eweek.com/security/6-cloud-security-must-haves-with-help-from-cspm-cwpp-or-cnapp/ The hybrid-cloud security road map: https://www.techradar.com/news/the-hybrid-cloud-security-road-map How Biden's Cloud Security Executive Order Stacks Up to Industry Expectations: https://securityintelligence.com/articles/biden-executive-order-industry-expectations/ Cloud Security: Adopting a Structured Approach: https://customerthink.com/cloud-security-adopting-a-structured-approach/ The Overlooked Security Risks of the Cloud: https://threatpost.com/security-risks-cloud/168754/ TranscriptJesse: Welcome to Meanwhile in Security where I, your host Jesse Trucks, guides you to better security in the cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Thinkst Canary. This might take a little bit to explain, so bear with me. I linked against an early version of their tool, canarytokens.org, in the very early days of my newsletter, and what it does is relatively simple and straightforward. It winds up embedding credentials, files, or anything else like that that you can generate in various parts of your environment, wherever you want them to live; it gives you fake AWS API credentials, for example. And the only thing that these things do is alert you whenever someone attempts to use them. It's an awesome approach to detecting breaches. I've used something similar for years myself before I found them. Check them out. But wait, there's more because they also have an enterprise option that you should be very much aware of: canary.tools. You can take a look at this, but what it does is it provides an enterprise approach to drive these things throughout your entire environment and manage them centrally. You can get a physical device that hangs out on your network and impersonates whatever you want to. When it gets Nmap scanned, or someone attempts to log into it, or access files that it presents on a fake file store, you get instant alerts. It's awesome. If you don't do something like this, instead you're likely to find out that you've gotten breached the very hard way. So, check it out. It's one of those few things that I look at and say, “Wow, that is an amazing idea. I am so glad I found them. I love it.” Again, those URLs are canarytokens.org and canary.tools. And the first one is free because of course it is. The second one is enterprise-y. You'll know which one of those you fall into. Take a look. I'm a big fan. More to come from Thinkst Canary weeks ahead.Jesse: It is 2021. Conference calls and remote meetings have the same decade-old problems. Connection drops, asking if anyone can hear us, asking if anyone can see our screen, even though we can clearly see the platform is in sharing mode with our window front and center. Why is this so hard? We live in the golden age of the cloud.Shouldn't we be easily connecting and sharing like we're in the same room rather than across the planet? Yes we should. Sure, there have been improvements, and now we can do high-quality video, connect dozens or hundreds of people from everywhere on a webinar, and usually most of us can manage a video meeting with some screen sharing. I don't understand how we can have Amazon Chime, WebEx, Teams, Zoom, Google Meet—or whatever it's called this month—GoToMeeting, Adobe Connect, FaceTime, and other options, and still not have a decent way for multiple people to see and hear one another and share a document, or an application, or screen without routine problems. All of these are cloud-based solutions.Why do they all suck? When I have to use some of these platforms, I dread the coming meeting. The worst I've seen is Amazon Chime—yes, that's you, Amazon—Microsoft Teams—as always—and Adobe Connect. Oof. The rest are largely similar with more or less the same features and quality, except FaceTime, which is still only a personal use platform and not so great for conferences for work. I just want one of these to not suck so much.Meanwhile in the news. How to Make Your Next Third-Party Risk Conversation Less Awkward. You know that moment. Someone asks a question at the networking event. The deafening silence while you stare at the floor trying to find a way to get out of embarrassing yourself. Do your future self a favor and do some work before this happens again. You'll feel better and you'll have better visibility while improving your security posture.5 Vexing Cloud Security Issues. Unlike the tips and best practices list, this one is a ‘don't be stupid' type list. Some of these are foundational basic security steps. Watch out for the zombies.Attackers Increasingly Target Linux in the Cloud. Linux is the most common cloud-hosted OS. It shouldn't be surprising that it's the most common platform to attack, as well. Secure and monitor your cloud hosts closely. This is also a good reason to consider pushing toward a dynamic services model without traditional operating system footprints.Top 5 Best Practices for Cloud Security. Oh, yay. Another top number list for newbs. We all need reminding of the basics of best practices, especially as they evolve. Are you doing these five things? Why not?Announcer: Have you implemented industry best practices for securely accessing SSH servers, databases, or Kubernetes? It takes time and expertise to set up. Teleport makes it easy. It is an identity-aware access proxy that brings automatically expiring credentials for everything you need, including role-based access controls, access requests, and the audit log. It helps prevent data exfiltration and helps implement PCI and FedRAMP compliance. And best of all, teleport is open-source and a pleasure to use. Download teleport at goteleport.com. That's goteleport.com.Jesse: Zix Releases 2021 Mid-Year Global Threat Report. I suggest looking at the whole report, however, know attackers are using email, SMS and text messages, and customizing phishing more than ever before. Your people are going to see more social engineering attacks, so be sure everyone understands the basics of what types of things not to say on the phone and the usual about not following URLs in messages and emails.The big three innovations transforming cloud security. CASB, SASE, and CSPM—pronounced ‘cazzbee' ‘sassy' and, well, nothing fancy for CSPM that rolls off the tongue, so just use the letters—are your new friends. With the three of these used for your cloud environment, you'll have better visibility and control of your risk profile and security posture.The Benefits of a Cloud Security Posture Assessment. Okay, so we've covered CSPM some, but you need a CSPA before you implement your CSPM. I tried to use more acronyms but I ran out of energy. Seriously, an assessment of your risks and security posture are invaluable. Without it, you may be missing vital areas that leave you exposed.How to Maintain Accountability in a Hybrid Environment. If you support delivery of services to mobile apps, you should consider the security of the client end as relates to your application. You could get caught by some nasty surprises, no matter how secure your server environment appears to be.6 Cloud Security Must-Haves–with Help from CSPM, CWPP or CNAPP. Gartner loves making up—I mean defining, new markets so they can invent new acronyms and sell us yet another Magic Quadrant subscription. Sadly, it's the lens through which we must view the industry because media and vendors rely too much on Gartner Magic Quadrants.The hybrid-cloud security road map. Migrating some or all of our services to the cloud can feel like scaling an inverted cliff with butter on our hands, but it's easier than you think. Sometimes we just need some gentle guidance on an approach that might work for us.How Biden's Cloud Security Executive Order Stacks Up to Industry Expectations. US President Biden's Executive Order number 14028, “Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity” is surprisingly relevant to the real problems we face in cybersecurity every day. If you don't have time or energy to read the entirety of the 24-page document, you should understand the impact of it. Hint: it's a good thing for security.Cloud Security: Adopting a Structured Approach. Sure, the basics are largely the same as security in non-cloud environments. However, there are new ways to implement much of these security measures, and if you aren't careful, you will miss all the new ways you must protect your resources and services that either change or are wholly new in the cloud.The Overlooked Security Risks of the Cloud. It's easy to think moving things to the cloud offloads work and lowers our risk profiles. Don't forget there are tradeoffs. We have to do more and different security things to ensure our services, data, and users are protected.And now for the Tip of the Week. Lock down your AMIs. If you have Amazon Machine Images—or AMIs—be sure they aren't available to other people. Even if these don't have your proprietary information in them, they do disclose your foundational EC2 image, so attackers can more easily tailor their approach to get into your real infrastructure. Ensure your AMI permissions are restrictive so the public can't touch them.Go to your AWS Console, EC2, and then AMIs. Select your AMIs, and then Actions, Modify Image Permissions, and then add your accounts. And that it for the week, folks. Securely yours, Jesse Trucks.Jesse: Thanks for listening. Please subscribe and rate us on Apple and Google Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

By now, you’ve heard of or likely used Zoom or Microsoft Teams, but many other virtual platforms may be better suited for what you’re trying to do. Becky compares 14 different platforms and rates them on factors such as difficulty to learn, fitting the group size, breakout rooms, chat, file share and more. Pro tip: try the free trial version first! Platforms compared include Adobe Connect, WebEx, Go To Webinar, Zoom, Google Classroom, Google Meet, Blackboard Collaborate ULTRA, Demio, Webinr Jam, Webinar Ninja, Click Meeting, Any Meeting, Get Response, and of course, Microsoft Teams. Purchase Becky's new book here: http://store.bobpikegroup.com/bk-creative-training-a-train-the-trainer-field-guide/ Podcast available on iTunes here:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/creative-training-techniques/id862555469?mt=2 And on the web here: http://www.bobpikegroup.com/Resources/podcasts-and-videos

Eric and Marty discuss how to enhance you remote teaching platforms (Zoom, Teams, and Adobe Connect) with supplemental apps and plug-ins

This week, we are talking all about how to balance hybrid learning. It's been such a challenging year so far to engage both cohorts of students, both face-to-face and online, at the same time.  So we will go over some suggestions for  how to structure large learning blocks, flipped learning, and differentiation for your students.If you like what you hear, we would love it if you could share this episode with a colleague or friend. And make sure you subscribe so that you don't miss out on any new content!We would love to hear from you – leave a comment on our website OR check out our FLIPGRID!**NOTE: We'll be taking a one-week break from our podcast**News and UpdatesTweet from Matt Miller - 3 Free Halloween Digital Escape RoomsCanadian Legion Poppy StoreFeatured ContentLarge learning blocks of time (2 - 3 hour learning blocks) - Structure suggestions:Challenges: engaging for the whole time, group work, physical limitationsGoing back and forth between whole group and small group sessions to break things upUse breakout rooms - tools like Zoom, Adobe Connect, or Google Meet can be usedIf using Google Meet - hack breakout rooms by having them all open with closed captions on and use the Mute Tab chrome extension (listen to E024 for more info!)If you're lucky enough to have an Enterprise account, check out the new breakout rooms feature in Google Meet!Digital citizenship discussions need to continue ALL year - See E021 for more detailsStudent autonomy requires scaffolding!Continuously work on community building/building peer-to-peer relationships - it will help with conversation in breakout roomsNo conversation? Check in with them! Make sure they understand the instructions/task that they are working onWellness checks are so important! Try a poll!If you're hybrid, try doing grouping with your face-to-face students, and have your online students in breakout roomsCreate Google Chat rooms for breakouts instead of using Meet - use it to create community between cohortsConsider having students join the class synchronously for the whole time (include breaks)Flipped LearningVideo/Written content for knowledge building and in class time is used for collaborative practiceCould be done by engaging all of the class together or stagger content so that those at home would be working asynchronously on flipped contentConsider whole class connection at beginning/end of class for wellness check-insStart small!Tech Tool Tip: Keep it simple. Use the tools you are already familiar with and save learning the other ones for quads where you have the time.DifferentiationUse appointment slots (Google Calendar) to meet 1:1 with studentsCulture shift: It's okay to ask questions and seek helpGoogle Chat (individual chats or rooms) - opens up conversation, social connections, and helping each other outSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/edugals)

In this episode we had guest Craig Sybert, an Adobe Connect and Adobe Captivate Prime expert over at Envolvemedia. We wanted to get some real talk from Craig, and hear what he liked and didn't like about Adobe Captivate Prime. It was a great conversation that covered why Prime may or may not be right for you. What stood out most to me was the integrative capabilities of the LMS, especially with Connect and Captivate. But give it a listen. It's well worth hearing some honest conversation about this LMS and how it might fit in to your L&D plans. Enjoy the episode!

This month on Episode 15 of the Discover CircRes podcast, host Cindy St. Hilaire highlights three featured articles from the July 31 and August 14 issues of Circulation Research. This episode features an in-depth conversation with Drs Venu Venna and Juneyoung Lee from the Department of Neurology at the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston regarding their study Gut Microbiota-Derived Short-Chain Fatty Acids Promote Post-Stroke Recovery in Aged Mice. This episode also includes a brief discussion with BCVS Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award competition finalists, Drs Shyam Bansal from Ohio State University, Emmanouil Tampakakis from Johns Hopkins University, and Yang Zhou from the University of Alabama, Birmingham.   Article highlights:   Veys, et al. GLUT1 in Angiogenesis and BBB Integrity   Zhang, et al. Self-Renewal of Local Macrophages Attenuates DiCM   Lerchenmüller, et al.  CITED4 in Cardiac Remodeling     Dr Cindy St. Hilaire:        Hi. Welcome to Discover CircRes, the podcast of the American Heart Association's journal, Circulation Research. I'm your host, Dr Cindy St. Hilaire from the Vascular Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. Today I'm going to share with you three articles selected from the late July and early August issues of Circulation Research. I'm also excited to share with you my discussions with Drs Venugopal Venna and Juneyoung Lee, who are from the group of Louise McCullough at the University of Texas Health Science Center, regarding their study Gut Microbiota-Derived Short-Chain Fatty Acids Promote Post-Stroke Recovery in Aged Mice. I also speak with the finalists of the BCVS Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award, Shyam Bansal from Ohio State University, Emmanouil Tampakakis from Johns Hopkins University, and Yang Zhou from the University of Alabama, Birmingham. So first the highlights. The first article I'm sharing with you is titled Role of the GLUT1 Glucose Transporter in Postnatal CNS Angiogenesis and Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity. The first author is Koen Veys and the corresponding author is Katrin De Bock from ETH Zurich. The primary energy source for the brain is glucose and the blood vessel endothelial cells which from the blood-brain barrier supplied glucose to the brain via the glucose transporter protein GLUT1. Patients with genetic mutations in GLUT1 have neurological problems, including seizures, movement disorders, and delayed neurological development. Low GLUT1 levels in the blood-brain barrier have also been linked to Alzheimer's disease in humans and have been known to exacerbate the disease in a mouse model. In this study, the group examined the role of GLUT1 in blood-brain barrier endothelial cells in more detail. They found that while structural integrity of the blood-brain barrier remained intact, inhibiting the activity of GLUT1 in newborn mice impaired aspects of normal blood vessel growth in the brain, and inhibiting GLUT1 in adult mice led to progressive neuron loss, behavioral abnormalities, reduced movement, seizures, and signs of inflammation. The results highlight GLUT1's importance in the brain endothelial cells, and the role of GLUT1 in glucose utilization in overall brain function. The second article I want to share with you is titled Self-Maintenance of Cardiac Resident Reparative Macrophages Attenuates Doxorubicin-induced Cardiomyopathy Through the SR-A1-c-Myc Axis. The first authors are Hanwen Zhang, Andi Xu, Xuan Sun, and the corresponding author is Qi Chen and the work was completed at Nanjing Medical University in China. Doxorubicin and it's analogues are commonly used chemotherapeutic agents. However, the use of these drugs is limited by dose-dependent cardiotoxicity. Doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy presents with dilated and poorly functioning left ventricle in the absence of abnormal loading conditions. This may induce cardiac systolic dysfunction. Accumulating clinical evidence suggests that inflammation contributes to doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy pathogenesis. Several studies suggest that the inhibition of cardiac inflammation can improve cardiac function; however, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. This group wanted to explore the role of cardiac resident macrophages during doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy progression. They found that cardiac resident macrophages were vulnerable to doxorubicin insult but that monocyte-derived macrophages survived. Further, these surviving monocyte-derived macrophages exhibited a proinflammatory phenotype which contributed to impaired cardiac function. Scavenger receptors are expressed on macrophages and help to modulate their inflammatory response. Global, or myeloid-specific deletion of class A1 scavenger receptor, also called SR-A1, inhibited proliferation of resident reparative macrophages and this inhibition exacerbated cardiomyopathy. At the mechanistic level, this group identified that the transcription factor c-Myc mediated the effect of SR-A1 in reparative macrophage proliferation in doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy. The last article I want to share with you before we switch to our interviews is titled CITED4 Protects Against Adverse Remodeling in Response to Physiological and Pathological Stress. The first author is Carolin Lerchenmüller and the corresponding author is Anthony Rosenzweig, and they're from Massachusetts General Hospital. Exercise is good for the heart. It increases cardiac mass which is called physiological hypertrophy, which appears to induce cardiac benefits. However, pathological stimuli, such as hypertension and aortic stenosis, can lead to pathological hypertrophy which is associated with adverse outcomes and can lead to heart failure. Cardiac CITED4 is a protein that is induced by exercise and is sufficient to cause physiological hypertrophy and mitigate adverse ventricular remodeling after ischemic injury. However, the role of endogenous CITED4 in response to physiological or pathological stress is unknown. To understand the role of endogenous cardiomyocyte CITED4, this groups generated cardiomyocyte specific knockouts of CITED4. These mice were analyzed at baseline. They were subjected to a swimming protocol which provided physiological stimuli or they underwent transverse aortic constriction, also called TAC, which causes pressure overload and served as the pathological stimulus for heart remodeling. CITED4 knockout mice developed modest cardiac dysfunction and dilation in response to exercise. After TAC, these knockouts developed severe heart failure with left ventricular dilation and impaired cardiomyocyte growth. The study goes on to show that CITED4 protects against pathological cardiac remodeling by regulating mTOR activity and also a network of microRNAs which control cardiomyocyte to fibroblast crosstalk. So for our interview of this episode, I have with me Drs Venugopal Venna and Juneyoung Lee from the Department of Neurology at the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Today we're going to be discussing their manuscript titled Gut Microbiota-Derived Short-Chain Fatty Acids Promote Post-Stroke Recovery in Aged Mice. Thank you both very much for joining me today. Dr Venu Venna: Thank you Cindy for having us. It's a pleasure. Dr Juneyoung Lee: Yeah, thank you for the opportunity. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: It's a wonderful paper. Actually I really enjoyed the nice graphical abstract, that really made a good visual of what this papers about, so I encourage everyone to go take a peek at that. Could you introduce yourselves and tell us a little bit about your lab group? Dr Venu Venna: Yeah, sure, I'm Venu Venna, it's my third year at McGovern Medical School UT Health, and we are a part of a large research group in the Department of Neurology here. This is headed by Dr Louise McCullough. She's also a co-corresponding author on this paper. Unfortunately she's not here today, but it's basically her idea and her initiative that led us to drive this huge project. We are very excited to share with you more details today. Dr Juneyoung Lee: Hi, my name is Juneyoung Lee. I'm postdoctoral fellow here and I'm working with Dr McCullough and Dr Venna. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: So this manuscript is testing the general hypothesis that the gut microbiome can influence stroke recovery but before we dig into the details of your study, can you give us a little bit of background about what the microbiota gut brain axis is? Dr Venu Venna: That's a great question. Thank you for asking that. So recent advances in 16S sequencing, metagenomics, and metabolic analysis lead us to specifically identify the role of gut microbiota. We have... Everybody consists of large number of microbiota in the gut, so particularly the microbiota's role is largely remains unknown, as of now. The recent advances helped us to understand whether it's for communication of the microbiome, how it actually influences our health, and how the metabolites that are released by the microbiota can actually influence the brain-gut. So this is where the concept of microbiota gut-brain axis continues to evolve and we rely on 16S metagenomics, as well as metabolomics to understand if the microbiome itself has a specific role in the stroke recovery and stroke in this paper. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: Great, so I know that previous research by you specifically, and also you mentioned your fellow corresponding author, Dr Louise McCullough, your prior work has shown that stroke can cause aberrant changes in the gut regarding things like motility, permeability, activation of gut-immune cells. So this to me suggested that aberrant signaling can come from the brain and affect the gut, but your study is kind of now flipping that. You want to ask the question is changing the gut microbiome after the stroke also beneficial? So there's kind of a chicken and egg type conundrum going on. Is there a preceding event, is it the stroke that alters the gut microbiome primarily, or is the gut microbiome maybe deficient in different people and therefore their stroke outcomes are different? Dr Venu Venna: Yeah, I mean this is a very new emerging field and what's very interesting about this is the brain gut microbiota axis, it's a bi-directional axis. In this case, what we think is if we have a stroke, it may actually directly influence the gut. There is a brain-gut axis. At the same time, the changes in the microbiome can actually trigger an inflammatory state where it can actually contribute to the worst stroke outcomes. It's a chicken and egg relationship as you rightly mentioned, but at the same time what is not known is whether if we can simply manipulate the microbiota, can you actually improve the stroke outcomes or can you improve the age associated outcomes? Because what we found in previous studies is age itself causes changes in the microbiome. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: Interesting, so just being young or old, if you were to compare those microbiomes of old individuals and young individuals, you see differences that are I guess negatively impactful on things like stroke and disease? Dr Venu Venna: That's exactly right, so the more imaging data coming out from the literature, not just our group, but all other groups, on humans and animal studies, do suggest that age itself is associated with changes in the gut microbiome. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: So the overall goal of this specific study was to determine if replacing the gut microbiota of an older mouse with the microbiota from a younger mouse would help in the recovery after an ischemic stroke. Can you talk about the design of that study and the different aspects that you had to consider when designing these experiments? Dr Venu Venna: Yeah, absolutely. This was a great question. The initial experiments, like what we were trying to do before, was whether we can actually even manipulate the microbiome in an aged animal. In our previous study, what we did is we took a young animal and we transplanted the biome from an aged animal. We used a combination of antibiotics to actually deplete the existing biome and that's what gave us susceptibility to transplant. Once you transplant the biome into a donor from a host, so the biome can actually sustain for quite a bit of time. This gave us an opportunity to study the direct role of microbiome. Later, what we did was we subjected these animals to the stroke and then what we found is when we induced this stroke in an animal that received aged biome, despite being young, the animal that received aged biome, can itself contribute to the worst stroke outcomes and increased mortality. In this follow-up study, what we decided to do was can we even manipulate the microbiome after stroke? So this is particularly important because most of the clinical patients don't come into medical attention until after stroke. Transplanting the microbiome or even manipulating the microbiome after stroke can have a broader clinical relevance. In this particular study we decided to see if we can actually manipulate the microbiome after several days or several hours after the stroke happens. We decided to test if we can wait for three days. This is a particular time where we can actually see the infarcts get mature and all the injury in all groups of animals are same, and then we transplanted the aged animals with the young microbiome. So this gives us an opportunity to actually study the role of microbiome, independent of infarct. Meaning, all animals have a similar degree of injury, so now whatever the beneficial affects you are seeing because of the microbiome transplant, are potentially due to, not because of the size of the injury, because they have a smaller injury they have better recovery, but it's basically because their infarcts are the same and whatever you're seeing is because of the manipulation of the microbiome. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: Interesting. Juneyoung, would you like to tell me a little bit about what you found then? Using these interesting fecal transplant models, what are the key results that you found in this study? Dr Juneyoung Lee: Great question. As Dr Venna explained, we treated young biome to aged stroke mice, after stroke. We found that young biome contributes to better behavior outcomes and they regulate the immune system in the brain and the gut and increase the short term brain-gut axis in the aged stroke recipient mice. One interesting finding is that we found dominant T-cells, which are very small number of T-cells in the host, but they secrete proinflammatory cytokines which is IL-17. Cytokines exacerbate new inflammation in the brain so if we treat the young biome, we found that the level of proinflammatory cytokine IL-17 decrease cytokines compared to aged biome. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: You also focused on short-chain fatty acids, SCFA producing bacteria. What is it about these short-chain fatty acids that are beneficial and what are the signaling pathways that you found to be activated or things that were present that helped to promote better stroke recovery? Dr Juneyoung Lee: Short-chain fatty acids are key metabolites produced by bacterial fermentation of dietary fiber in the gut. These are suspected to play an important role in microbiota gut-brain crosstalk. Also, in our previous study we found that young fecal biome has higher levels of short-chain fatty acid compared to aged biome so we think that the short-chain fatty acid has a beneficial role in our mild level stroke. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: So are you focusing more on identifying the metabolites or trying to move into humans? What do you think the next step of this vein of research is? Dr Venu Venna: So what we think is right now, this is a very interesting and fascinating finding, even for us. We're trying to understanding what other metabolites could be involved and what other ways as you previously asked, what other pathways these bacteria itself are triggering or contributing to actually enhance this recovery, that's what we are seeing from the young microbiome. As a future direction, we are also seeing if this transplant of biome can have a broader therapeutic relevance, meaning is it only specific to the stroke related outcomes or can it be beneficial in large settings of other age relate diseases like what we are seeing, again as I mentioned before like age related diseases such as... Many age related diseases like cognitive dementia, or Parkinson's disease, any neurodegenerative disease. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: Well thank you, Drs Venu Venna and Juneyoung Lee for joining me today. I really appreciate it and congratulations again on this wonderful story. Dr Venu Venna: Thank you very much for having us, Cindy, and for this work I would like to acknowledge the funding agency. This work is funded by NIH and also the American Heart Association, both for my Scientist Development Grant and also as well as for Juneyoung Lee's postdoctoral fellowship. This funding helped us to perform these highly innovative studies in gut microbiome axis. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: Wonderful. Yes, well, we love seeing AHA funded research published in AHA journals, so thank you. Right so now we're going to have our interview with the BCVS Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award competition finalists. I have with me today, Shyam Bansal from Ohio State University, Emmanouil Tampakakis from Johns Hopkins University, and Yang Zhou from the University of Alabama, Birmingham. So congratulations to all of you for being recognized for your outstanding science. These topics are great. The timing of T-cells activity in chronic heart failure, sympathetic neuron signaling, circadian genes and cardiomyocyte proliferation, and the identification of a transcription factor that helps promote maturation of reprogrammed cardiomyocytes. So, Dr Bansal, your abstract that's recognized, is titled Novel Inhibitors For Temporal Modulation Of T-lymphocytes During Chronic Heart Failure. Where was this study conducted and where are you now? Dr Shyam Bansal: Right now I'm at Ohio State University. I joined here in July 2019 and I've been setting up my lab. While doing that, we conducted all this work. This work, most of it is done here, and we have been looking to identify certain inhibitors that can be used for T-cell modulation. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: Excellent so why should I care about T-cells in the heart? And what did you all find in this paper? Dr Shyam Bansal: The right question is why shouldn't you? T-cells are coming out to be involved in almost every chronic disease. We have heard about CAR T-cell therapy. Recently it revolutionized the whole cancer research field. The heart failure and cardiovascular diseases has also been realizing the importance of T-cells. They're important in a way because they are kind of a two-edged blade. They are protective because we need them to initiate those wound healing cascades so the tissue can regain its original function. But then, too much activation of T-cells can be injurious and lead to autoimmune reactions. In 2017 I published a paper during my postdoc with Dr Sumanth Prabhu at UAB where we showed that these T-cells get activated during chronic heart failure. It's a double-sided activation to get activated immediately after injury but then they go down and they come back again, during chronic heart failure. That's where the two-edged blade comes into picture. If you alter these T-cells during this acute phase, during the cardiac infarction, the animals always do worse, right? They are protective because they are needed for wound healing pathways. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: We can't just stop them at the start, we need to fine tune. Dr Shyam Bansal: Yes. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: So what's this temporal aspect you looked at? Dr Shyam Bansal: So that's what we found in my postdoc in 2017 paper. If you inhibit these during the chronic phase, in mouse, in rodents, it was whole weeks after infarction, then you can actually stop maladaptive remodeling. You can complete shut it down, it doesn't get better but you at least shut it down completely. We did those studies by using some antibodies, again CD4+ T-cells, and using genetic mouse models. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: So do you think anything that you found can quickly or soon translate to humans? Dr Shyam Bansal: That's exactly what we did after we came here, right? So we compared what happens during this chronic heart failure, what happens to these T-cells. We identified one molecular pathway that's associated with receptor signaling, being activated in these T-cells. The interesting thing is, these T-cells came from male mice, not from females. Still, they had strong activation of the surge in receptor signaling. We found a drug molecule that can activate another pathway that inhibits this pathway, so indirectly we're able to inhibit this pathway. We did those studies and found that we can actually stop T-cells from getting activated during chronic heart failure and when we do that, this drug can actually, again, inhibit left ventricular remodeling significantly. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: Wow. Dr Shyam Bansal: And if you give this drug early in myocardial infarction, again, animals died. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: It's going to be very important to fine tune when that drug could potentially be administered to humans. Dr Shyam Bansal: Yes, and that's the first drug in our knowledge that can actually target specific antigen activated T-cells. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: Super exciting, well congratulations again. Well done and well earned. Dr Tampakakis, your study is titled Sympathetic Innervation Negatively Regulates Postnatal Cardiomyocyte Proliferation Through Circadian Genes. So where was this conducted and what position are you in now? Dr Emmanouil Tampakakis: This research was conducted at Johns Hopkins University and I'm currently part of the... I'm Assistant Professor within the Division of Cardiology in the School of Medicine. Pretty much for my curiosity and the fact that we know a lot about the role of neurons for adult heart disease but we really don't know what much about neurons are doing at the neonatal stages in heart development. We know at least in preterm babies where the innervation is really affected, some of them do develop changes in their heart geometry, and there might be a role there, plus there is some data to suggest that the autonomic nervous system does manipulate or does affect the neonatal heart regeneration. The role of neurons to me was really intriguing. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: So this is linking together sympathetic nervous signaling, circadian genes, and postnatal cardiomyocyte proliferation. Why do I care about all these things fitting together? Dr Emmanouil Tampakakis: Yes, so apart from the fact that it's fascinating knowing that each individual organ has in their body its own circadian genes that regulate actually, several functions. Without being affected by the central nervous system and what's happening in the hypothalamus, which to me is really fascinating, is we really don't know much about what actually regulates and synchronizes the circadian cycle of the heart. We, in this study, showing that actually the innervation that happens in neonatal stages, already aaffects how certain genes are circulating within the heart. That appears to be through one of the adrenergic pseudoephedrine way that the sympathetic nerves are secreted. Again, by affecting this, we are showing that there is more proliferation of neonatal cardiomyocytes which can be important for disease at later time points, and we're also showing that if you mess up two specific circadian genes, Period 1 and Period 2, that are transcription regulators, and are some of the masterminds of this phenomenon, you can actually still affect neonatal cardiomyocyte proliferation which can be important for diseases like heart degeneration and whether we're thinking about manipulating other pathways to induce more regeneration and induce healing in the heart. The novelty of our work is we see that there's a link between that cell cycle and the circadian genes, at least at neonatal time points when myocytes proliferate a little more. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: So neat. Congratulations again, it's a wonderful story and I'm really happy it's being recognized. And Dr Zhou, you're being recognized for your work that's titled TBX20 Activates Cardiac Maturation Gene Programs Promoting Direct Human Cardiac Reprogramming. So where was this study started and where are you now? Dr Yang Zhou: So I started as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at UAB in January 2019. Before I moved to Birmingham, I did my postdoc training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Dr Li Qian's lab. I basically studied direct cardiac programming which directly convert non-myocyte cell type to the functional cardiomyocytes. I did a lot of work and found the epigenetic barriers and I find that the features of these direct programming cells and almost in the mouse cells, but we know that we have to move that to the human cells, so then when I moved to Birmingham and then I studied the cardio programming from the cells. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: Excellent, so your study is looking for ways to really kind of push the direct conversion of cardiomyocytes into a more fully differentiated state. Why is that an important question and what did you find in this study? Dr Yang Zhou: Yeah, it is still challenging to gather a functional beating cardiomyocytes from human fibroblast by the direct reprogramming method. We want to get the functional cardiomyocytes to do the cell therapy. Also this method has promise to do the in situ heart regeneration because we use the transcription factors we can inject these factors to the injured heart then directly convert those cardiac fibroblasts into the cardiomyocytes. So we have to study, we have to know how to get the functional work that cardiomyocytes. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: That is so neat. So really you're hoping to harness those fibroblasts in the heart that everyone kind of ignores because they're not contractile and you're hoping to really take them and transition them to these fully functioning beating cardiomyocytes. Dr Yang Zhou: Right, so we know that the stuff we are coding are very important for the contractility, the myocyte contractility, so we find that a lot of missing protein expression in the current direct programming cells, so my hypothesis is they might be missing key regulators and can promote expression of those coding in the genes. My computational analysis of the transcription data, I find that this T-box, transcription factor Tbx20, that can highly promote those unexpressed genes in the reprogrammed human cardiomyocyte. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: That's wonderful. Well congratulations again on some excellent work. So I want to ask you all, early career question, you're all within I think the first couple years of starting up your lab, and we're in the midst of a pandemic which means none of us are in the labs. Maybe staff is at reduced numbers, but first, how's it going? And second is, you're kind of still fresh in terms of transitioning. So I'm wondering if there's any one piece of advice that you'd like to share with maybe someone who's in the middle of transitioning or just about to. Or if there's something you wish you knew ahead of time that you'd love to tell your pre-faculty self? Dr Emmanouil Tampakakis: Yeah, I don't know if I can give advice, already I think I'm too junior to do this. I would say that- Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: What, too traumatized? Dr Emmanouil Tampakakis: Maybe. Probably, or will be traumatized, but I would say for me at least, the things that kept me sane during this is my son, who's three and a half years old and lives in a complete different world, so that helps me balance what's happening out there. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: That's so important. Dr Emmanouil Tampakakis: Probably some good alcohol at the end of the day but both those two things combined actually helped me maintain my sanity. In terms of advice, I would say to try to enjoy science. Try to stay focused and productive and at the end of the day, enjoy what you do. I think that if you are creative and if you like what you do, find the right people to collaborate and work with and you can hope that you will do well. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: I agree. Excellent advice. Dr Shyam Bansal: I also have two kids, three years and eight years old, so we were at home for two and a half months or so. I think those kids were really helpful in keeping my sanity because the weather was getting better so we had to put in a swing set for them, get some play items and stuff, so they kept me busy. That was good that way. The advice that I will have for junior investigators is be collaborative. Try to see how you can help others because when you help others, others are ready to help you as well. Remember science is a collaborative field, the more you collaborate with people, the more you get to know many more stuff. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: I think that's so important. Dr Shyam Bansal: I was able to get done a lot of whatever work we presented. I was able to set up my lab, get some work done, and be at a position that I was able to summit my first abstract to BCVS for my independent own work, just because I had good collaborations here. I had good people who helped me stand on my feet and obviously I was working and helping them also. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: Yeah, and it also sounds like you have good colleagues so that's another key to it. Dr Shyam Bansal: Yeah, I'm really lucky that way. Our whole department is really great. We have several senior faculty who are always ready to help us out in whatever issues we have, personal, professional, scientific, they're always here for us. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: That's great. Yang, how about you? Dr Yang Zhou: I think the pandemic is very challenging for our junior faculty and for research and career developments but we have to balance between the work and the family, like kids. You might have an issue because we have two PIs in our lab. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: Oh gosh. Dr Yang Zhou: Yeah, but I learned a lot these two years before this position. I think the most important thing I feel like is you have to talk to people. You always can find people that can help you to find answers. You need a mentor because they are more senior, they have more experience, even in this pandemic, if you find someone to share even just your feelings, that's very helpful. Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: We're almost lucky that this happened now where we can have platforms like Zoom, and Adobe Connect, where we can have these virtual conferences because at least on all the different committees I'm on, ATVB and BCVS, we can have these discussions and break-out sessions, so I think it's really... We're lucky it's happening now and not 1997 when there's no video. Dr Yang Zhou: Concerns... We all feel that the University and the Department, they all responded very quickly and they have much more support here than before. Dr Emmanouil Tampakakis: As a more senior, what advice can you give us as a more senior person? Dr Cindy St. Hilaire: Oh gosh, more senior? Well thank you. My advice? I definitely agree on the collaboration, I think that's key. Finding sponsors is equally important, someone who's going to go to bat for you. Finding a safety net where you can send someone a half-baked game page and have them tell you just how bad it is and be honest and be willing to give you that kind of critical feedback is really important. Building your network is key, and getting involved in societies and getting people to know you independently from your former mentor, I think is really critical. Yes, you want to collaborate but you also got to make sure that you have your own path in the sand, to make sure you can move forward independently, and have fun while you're doing it, like you said. Great, well I wish you all the best of luck. Congratulations again on being recognized and I'll see you on the BCVS webinar. That's it for our highlights from the late July and early August issues from Circulation Research. Thank you for listening. Please check out the Circulation Research Facebook page and follow us on Twitter and on Instagram with the handle @CircRes and #discoverCircRes. Thank you to our guests, Drs Venu Venna and Juneyoung Lee, and to the BCVS Outstanding Early Career Investigator Finalists, Shyam Bansal, Emmanouil Tampakakis, and Yang Zhou. This podcast is produced by Rebecca McTavish and Ishara Ratnayake, edited by Melissa Stoner, and supported by the editorial team at Circulation Research. Some of the copy text for the highlighted articles is provided by Ruth Williams. I'm your host, Dr Cindy St. Hilaire and this is Discover CircRes, your on-the-go source for the most exciting discoveries in basic cardiovascular research.  

My name is Kassy LaBorie, I'm the founder and principal consultant at Kassy LaBorie Consulting, LLC. I am a virtual classroom master trainer, that is, I specialize in developing trainers to be engaging and effective when facilitating programs in platforms such as Zoom, WebEx, Adobe Connect, and more. I have worked with many Fortune 500 firms in a wide range of industries and sectors, including hospitality, pharma, energy, government, NGOs, non-profits, and more. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kassylaborie/

One of the things I've had to do in the last 10 weeks is embrace the online course. Whether it's been Facebook LIVE, Adobe Connect, or ZOOM, it has been a change to have to deliver content in this different fashion. It has been, using a nice buzzword, quite a PIVOT in my business. So as I am pivoting during this time, it causes me to wonder how that pivot will hold up once things are back to whatever the new “normal” will be ORRR, will some of this stick in my new pivoted model.

Online group chats have become so common in the recent few months. And is it any surprise? With so many people staying at home, and travel paralyzed, the only way to do any group work or meetings of any kind is by using online platforms(1). People I know have told me about Zoom, but there are many others: Google Hangouts, Adobe Connect, EZ Talks, Gotomeeting, and the grandfather of these platforms, Skype. And of course we can also use Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp on our phones. We have never been so connected. I have a friend who is very 'techy' which means that she is proficient in her use of computers and their software. She happens to be a teacher, and for many years has incorporated online work into her lessons. Now that students are at home, and school is online, she has transitioned effortlessly into teaching from home. Other teachers have not found the change comfortable at all. I suppose it depends on what you teach as well. Imagine being a woodwork and metalwork teacher. How would you convert your very physical classes, to online ones? I suppose, you could supply lots of links to fabulous sites that teach techniques, tools, and perhaps even the history of those art forms. I suspect that if teachers use the internet in their online lessons now, the teaching could become global in its perspective, and they could tap into sites of experts in their fields. My teacher friend, Jody, encouraged me to join one of these groups last week, to chat in French. I was delighted. The platform we used was Google Meet. There were only four of us, but one gentleman joined us from Normandy, in the north of France. I had no idea that he would be part of the group; it was a lovely surprise. Our session didn't have any glitches(2), thankfully. Everyone was able to get the link for the meeting. The cameras and sound were all working well. And after we had finished our introductions, we quickly, and naturally got right into conversation. I loved it. I felt connected in a meaningful way. We hope to continue these meetings once a week, and I hope to take a leaf out of(3) Jody's book, and become comfortable and proficient as a techy. 1. 'Platform' is a word that has multiple meanings. The first that springs to mind is a platform of a train station, which is where you wait and line up for the train. Platform is also used figuratively to describe a place or space that gives you an ability to work or perform. a. Skype is one of the oldest platforms for video chatting. b. Miss World has a great platform (of influence) which she can use to talk about girls' education. c. A large, rectangular platform was raised up to the church ceiling so the painters could repaint it. d. The Conservatives decided on their platform, hoping that it would appeal to the general public. 2. 'Glitch' is a noun that means a technical hitch or problem that stops proper functioning. a. A computer glitch made us lose all the sound. I think it was a software problem. b. The delayed plane was just a glitch in our plans. We eventually did fly. 3. 'To take a leaf out of someone's book' is a wonderful idiom. 'Leaf' here means a leaf of paper, or one of the pages. So, if you take a page from someone's book, you are wanting to use the information that they use, or imitate them in some way. a. I took a leaf out of my violin teacher's book, and started practicing for 30 minutes daily. b. Why don't you take a leaf out of your brother's book and get your homework done as soon as you get it?

In this episode Jo chats with Alistair from Adobe Connect about….   Steps from webinar to virtual classroom The need to plan for interaction Challenges of designing activities Mike and Jo discuss customising your virtual classroom and using 3rd party tools   More information   www.Lightbulbmoment.online www.Lightbulbmoment.info www.Lightbulbmoment.community   @MomentLightbulb @LightbulbJo @MikeLightbulb

Host: Michael Bernstein Episode Notes: In this episode of “Beyond the Expected,” Interim President Michael Bernstein delves into what it takes to turn a college campus with 26,000 students and 2,700 faculty members into a virtual learning center the size and scale of which has been neither attempted nor experienced before. Like college campuses across the country, Stony Brook is rising to the unprecedented challenge of massive-scale remote learning. In fact, virtual classes began here two days ago, on Monday, March 30, following an extended Spring Break. Tune in as “The Coronavirus Effect: Remote Learning Response,” looks at the issues Stony Brook Divisions of Undergraduate Education and Information Technology are addressing to smooth the way for faculty and students in this strange new world. Guests Patricia Aceves, Assistant VP, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) Patricia's collegiate career began 20+ years ago, building quality online programs for adult learners. As Assistant Vice President for the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), she now leads a team of professionals in the expansion of online undergraduate education, developing policies and procedures around curriculum delivery, educational and multimedia technologies, learning space innovations and student evaluations of teaching. Dr. Charles Robbins, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Student Success and Dean of the Undergraduate Colleges Charlie Robbins is the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Student Success and Dean of the Undergraduate Colleges at Stony Brook University. He is the Executive Director of the University's Center for Changing Systems of Power. Charlie has led Stony Brook's efforts to improve graduation rates and quality of the undergraduate academic experience. With his strong passion and experience around students' physical and psychological well-being; equity, diversity and equality; and public health issues, he has an in-depth perspective to share around the transition to remote learning, all that entails on so many different levels. Diana Voss, Director of Academic Technology Services, CELT As Director of Academic Technologies for Stony Brook University's Center for Excellence in Learning (CELT) and Teaching, Diana and her team (including Undergraduate Student employees) support numerous technology platforms including Blackboard. Adobe Connect, VoiceThread, Digication, Clickers, Echo360 and Qualtrics. They are responsible for the function of applications and simulations developed in the Teaching & Learning Lab, and student technology workshops. She also works on internal DoIT teams to improve service management, bolster information security through awareness programs, and increase student employee career competencies. Production Credits Thanks to our guests, Patricia Avedes, Charles Robbins, Diana Voss Guest Host: Michael Bernstein Executive Producer: Nicholas Scibetta Producer: Lauren Sheprow Art Director: Karen Leibowitz Assistant producer: Ellen Cooke Assistant producer: Emily Cappiello Facebook Live and Social Media: Meryl Altuch, Casey Borchick, Veronica Brown Production assistant: Joan Behan-Duncan YouTube Technician: Dennis Murray Podcast Director: Jan Diskin-Zimmerman Engineer/Technical Director: Phil Altiere Production Manager: Tony Fabrizio Camera/Lighting Director: Jim Oderwald Camera: Brian DiLeo Editor: Tony Fabrizio Original score: “Mutti Bug” provided by Professor Tom Manuel Special thanks to the Stony Brook University School of Journalism for use of its podcast studio.

Andi Roberts I help people, teams and organisations transform and raise their performance through coaching, facilitation and visual consulting. I draw on an extensive and varied background to do this: BUSINESS: In business I have had a range of roles, including director of a 150+ staff family business in the health care sector, manager in the consulting arm of a Fortune 100 defence contractor, owner and partner of several learning and events companies including a virtual learning organisation. This has given me senior leadership experience and a clear understanding of how to support leaders at all levels get the best out of themselves and others. ACADEMIA: I currently work in two Business Schools in Europe. Firstly the OU Business School, where I am an Associate Lecturer in 21st century leadership, marketing & finance. Secondly as part of the Exec Education faculty at Limak (Austria). I hold a Professional Diploma in Management and three Master’s degrees, one of which is an MBA. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: I am trained as a business coach and hold the Professional Certified Coach designation of the International Coach Federation. I am also trained in a range of facilitation tools & techniques. I hold the Certified Professional Designation of the International Association of Facilitators. Globally I am the only person to hold both of these designations. I have delivered a significant volume of training around leadership, transformation, innovation and B2B sales. INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE: I work in English and fluently in Spanish, having spent 16 years working and living in Spain. I have delivered projects personally in over 35 countries & regularly travel across Europe and beyond.A significant part of my work is delivered through virtual conferencing platforms such as Adobe Connect. If you think I can add value, reach out! Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andiroberts/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/doodles4leaders https://twitter.com/Andi_Roberts http://masterfacilitator.com/blog/  

TRACS Annual Meeting Learnings | Changing Higher Ed 028 Episode Summary The Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS), an accreditation body for Christian institutions of higher education, works with approximately 100 institutions. Founded in 1979, the organization is a voluntary non-profit self-governing body that promotes the welfare, interests and development of higher education institutions who have a distinctly Christian purpose. The TRACS Annual Meeting provides opportunities for networking and learning about best and emerging practices among the members. This podcast features the following individuals who attended the recent TRACS Conference: Ann Rill, Chief Academic Officer at Veritas Baptist College. Bryan McCabe, Academic Dean at Bakke Graduate University Steve Hase, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Southern Evangelical Seminary Key Learnings from Dr. Ann Rill Veritas Baptist College started as a Bible institute in the 1980s. In the 1990s, the institution became a full-fledged college and received accreditation in 2011. In 2004, Veritas started implementing distance education through video-conferencing while also having some physical sites where classes could be held. The institution’s work expanded to the point where 17 churches along the East Coast offered Veritas’ courses on-site. During that time, institutional leaders realized that additional flexibility was needed in delivering the courses so each course was videotaped and sent out to students. Eventually, Veritas changed its model to utilize Adobe Connect and eventually Zoom. Over time, all of students were drawn to on-line courses through asynchronous lectures so the university ended on-site classes. Veritas now professionally records most faculty lectures. As Veritas moved into online education, faculty were concerned about how they would mentor students and prepare young people with ministry. Faculty now believe online education actually offers more opportunity to mentor because the lectures are prerecorded, thus freeing up their time throughout the week to meet with students either face-to-face or via online meetings. Rill said she appreciated the feeling of community available through attending TRACS events and tries to use these meetings to network and develop relationships with other institutions and their leaders. She believes that these relationships have been very beneficial to Veritas over the years. In discussing the most recent conference, Rill highlighted sessions focused on mentoring, which is a real challenge for online institutions like Veritas. Noting that 51 percent of Veritas’ student body is made up of transfer students, she cited one session that focused specifically on mentoring transfer students. Rill noted that this type of approach is important because only approximately 40 percent of all transfer students attending non-profit schools complete their academic program. Rill said that Veritas representatives who attended the TRACS conference have started using what they learned to develop new mentoring outreach efforts. For example, Veritas CFO is part of a group that will mentor students on financial planning and how to avoid taking out student loans. Rill also pointed to the need to remove barriers, such as discounting the quality of academic courses taken at other institutions, which hamper students from transferring. Although most institutions want to maintain a high academic standard (and often think that their own academic standard is the gold standard), the fact is that many students will be transferring throughout their academic careers. This makes sense – Millennials and Gen Z’ers are projected to have an average of nine different careers during their lifetime; thus, it is not surprising that they would follow this pattern of regular change in their academic studies. Wise institutional leaders will find ways to help these students transfer their previously earned credit hours, which increasingly will be important as the population of potential students nationally continues and even accelerates its decline. Rill did note that Veritas’ transfer policies are slightly different in relation to undergraduate and graduate programs. Veritas is more open to receiving undergraduate credit from schools that may not be accredited but that have appropriately degreed faculty members and are offering a valid program. She pointed out that accreditation is relatively new in Christian colleges and institutional leaders have been slow to embrace accreditation because they want to make sure that the accreditor’s worldview is in line with the Christian institution. Therefore, students who started their degrees many years ago may not have undergraduate degrees or credits from accredited colleges, so Veritas tries to do its best to accommodate these students without losing any integrity. At the graduate level, Veritas does accept qualified students, even if their degrees do not come from an institution that is accredited. However, as part of their admissions review, Veritas officials may identify academic deficiencies in the student’s background that would affect their graduate studies. The institution may ask the student to take some additional undergraduate courses to close these gaps. Rill also noted that Veritas does hold a high standard when considering requests to transfer graduate courses. In addition, Veritas has a policy that graduate students need to complete at least 25 percent of their program at Veritas to earn their graduate degree. Key Learnings from Dr. Bryan McCabe Bakke Graduate University’s main headquarters are in Dallas, but the university’s students live across the word with 30 percent residing in North America. The university offers an Executive MBA program and a Master’s degree in Transformational Leadership as well as doctoral degrees in Transformational Leadership and Ministry. The university serves business leaders, political leaders, Christian pastors and missionaries. These individuals take classes together, which brings diverse viewpoints to the classroom. In addition, BGU’s faculty are located around the world. Most classes are offered on-line. However, BGU also has an innovative program in which students can attend week-long immersive on-site classes that look at Christian work and issues in a specific city. The institution also has a Board of Regents (which is different that its Board of Trustees) comprised of individuals located across the world that serves as a resource network for coaching and mentoring BGU’s students. McCabe said he appreciated the opportunity to network with the conference’s diverse participants. His biggest takeaway from the TRACS Conference was the need for each of the university’s initiatives to be tied to a visioning and strategic planning process that is aligned with all of the stakeholders within the university. The TRACS conference showcased the need to continually assess progress while also communicating to and involving individuals.   The university just went through the 10-year accreditation process with TRACS and received commendations for their work. However, there is room for fine-tuning and McCabe noted that attunement to a shared vision is a big challenge. Key Learnings from Dr. Steve Hase Southern Evangelical Seminary, which is 26 years old, offers educational programs through integrating classical philosophy and evangelical theology with apologetics. The Seminary is known for a full integration that helps Christians be prepared for a contemplative faith and have influence in their professional and community spheres. Hase experienced three takeaways from the TRACS Conference: The conference improved his own mindset through offering the opportunity to meet peers and learn about everyone’s challenges and successes. He realized that he’s not alone when undertaking these efforts. TRACS regularly pulls together numerous subject-area experts on topics, including strategic planning, building institutional leadership, a data-driven approach to admissions, reporting and measuring, and donor-centric fundraising. Fellowship is a critical part of the TRACS Conference because it allows participants to interact with others who are mission-minded. These individuals are always willing to impart their experiences and wisdom. TRACS leadership coaches individuals to help them become better leaders. In addition, the association creates workshops to help campus leaders do an accreditation self-study and to show ways that the institution can demonstrate it is meeting the accreditation requirements. These resources offer clarity and create templates that help institutions succeed. The conference also offered ideas to help the Board of Trustees understand their roles and be successful. The seminary is considering beginning a capital campaign, but after attending TRACS, Hase realizes that institutional leaders need to figure out how to cultivate a culture of stewardship as well as sustainable donors. The TRACS conference also made him reevaluate whether the institution is ready for this campaign and whether the need exists to sharpen the strategic plan. He now believes he needs to make sure that the Board and the senior leadership are on the same page before reaching out to raise external capital. Bullet Points TRACS conferences offer opportunities to network and develop relationships with leaders from other institutions. These events also provide opportunities to learn from others, both informally and formally. TRACS offers support to members who are going through the accreditation process. In addition, the association’s conferences and meetings create a network that helps members remain on the cutting edge of higher education. Mentoring students – especially those who are transferring into the institution -- is important, especially since the available student population will decline soon. Look for innovative ways to involve leaders and faculty, such as creating mentoring opportunities around personal finance. Additionally, institutions need to look at removing barriers in relation to transferring. This includes finding appropriate ways to accept course credits. Strategic planning and visioning should be at the heart of the institution’s efforts. This process needs to be continually refined and involve regular participation by the institution’s diverse stakeholders. Institutions can take an out-of-the-box approach through creating a network of key individuals around the world who can mentor students. Think through capital campaigns carefully before starting these efforts. These campaigns need to be tied to the strategic plan and continually involve and update all stakeholders. Links to Articles, Apps, or websites mentioned during the interview: TRACS Veritas International University Bakke Graduate University Southern Evangelical Seminary Guests Social Media Links: Ann Rill Bryan McCabe Steve Hase The Change Leader’s Social Media Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdrumm/ Twitter: @thechangeldr Email: podcast@changinghighered.com

In this lesson, I give you my 2 amazing hacks to help you ace your online interview. If you're having the interview on Skype, Zoom, WebEx, Adobe Connect or some other online interview software, you'll be able to use my tricks here to help you ace your video call and get hired for the job you want!

In this episode Jo and Mike chat about: Adobe Connect customer summit 10.5 updates Our reflections on the update and the event  Find out more information: Lightbulbmoment.online Lightbulbmoment.info Lightbulbmoment.community   @MomentLightbulb @LightbulbJo @MikeLightbulb

Les séminaires interactifs en ligne, les webinars gratuits ou payants, les outils pour les réaliser et y participer, on en parle ensemble ? Liens des articles cités lors de la diffusion : - Définition selon Wikipedia https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webinaire - Les différents types de Webinars https://pro.webikeo.fr/blog/webinar-marketing-les-differentes-categories-de-webinars/ - 13 étapes pour organiser un webinar et 8 logiciels pour le réussir https://www.appvizer.fr/magazine/marketing/webinar-marketing/13-etapes-pour-organiser-un-webinar-et-8-logiciels-pour-le-reussir - Adobe Connect https://www.adobe.com/fr/products/adobeconnect.html - Cisco Webex https://www.cisco.com/c/fr_fr/products/conferencing/webex-meetings/index.html - Livestorm https://livestorm.co/fr/ - Zoom https://www.zoom.us - BlueJeans https://store.bluejeans.com/fr - Kokoroe https://www.kokoroe.fr - Avis sur OpenClassRooms https://digitiz.fr/blog/openclassrooms/ - Les Webinars de FrenchWeb https://www.frenchweb.fr/webinars - Marketing d’influence en B2B : Pertinence, tactiques, KPIs et ROI https://www.brandwatch.com/fr/webinars/marketing-influence-b2b/ Abonnez-vous sur : * Apple : applepodcasts.com/bonjourppc * Google : https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy83MjFmODcwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz * Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/0HE6b6ZfN3zeU4QikK7XFd Episode réalisé en direct audio sur Twitter à 7h35 le 24/05/2019 Pour proposer un sujet et commenter en direct chaque matin de la semaine à 7h35 rendez-vous ici twitter.com/ppc

In this episode Jo chats with her guest about: Adobe’s thoughts on engagement Use cases Potential future updates Jo and Mike wrap up with a summary of the conversation Find out more information: Lightbulbmoment.online Lightbulbmoment.info Lightbulbmoment.community @MomentLightbulb @LightbulbJo @MikeLightbulb

In this episode we explore the assertion, “The best way to start developing your Customer Education program is to leverage Virtual Instructor-Led training.” Why would you want to use Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT). What are the options for delivering it? What kinds of pitfalls and tips would you suggest? Oh ... and most importantly Adam sings for us, making this another can't miss episode! Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) lets you prototype faster As Customer Educators, we know that content development is no small feat. It takes a long time to product and develop content. Self-paced, online, and interactive content take the longest. In this episode, we reference the content development estimates from the ATD (Association for Talent Development) 2017 survey. This survey shows that even an hour of passive e-learning takes 42 hours to create, and that balloons as development becomes more complex. When we're developing for customers, passive won't always cut it. When we create content, we often need it to have more interactivity to promote real learning goals. That's why it's important to know where you're going when you create self-service content. While e-learning will provide more scale, vILT allows you to prototype content more quickly. By putting together a virtual instructor-led version of your course, you will quickly test material. Based on what you learn, you can quickly iterate and then train again. We recommend running these virtual trainings as "beta" sessions with trusted customers to get input from them. These sessions can be free, even if the content you develop later will be paid. Tools for Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) You don't need fancy tools to get started with vILT, so there is a low barrier to entry. Any virtual meeting or webinar technology can be a starting point. For example, Zoom has become very popular, but companies like Citrix and Webex also offer common solutions. Once you have budget secured, you can use more sophisticated technology meant for virtual training or webinars, like GoToTraining, Adobe Connect, BigMarker, Demio, and more. Dave also suggests one of his favorite platforms, Twitch, is great for more than just video game streaming and US Army recruiting: it can also be a great way to do B2C software education. In fact, he wrote a whole article about it on Medium. A few points Dave makes about using Twitch for Customer Education, vs. traditional vILT or Webinar platforms: The interactivity is “turned up to eleven”The “friction” associated with conventional platforms is stripped away (Marketers love this!)You can follow or “subscribe” to channels that interest you — which notify you when they’re live Tips to run great vILT We've assembled some tips to use vILT to run your Customer Education program. First of all, scheduling and communication are critical. You need to work far in advance of your training to make sure everyone has the links, has downloaded the software, and shows up. vILT is usually "point-in-time" training, but it can be scheduled on a recurri

Collaboration is a buzzword in business today. Everyone talks about it. But how do you do it?  Well, today’s guest, Eddie Turner, thinks he has the secret sauce to collaboration: “It should be facilitated – facilitated collaboration is what accelerates performance and drives impact.” Eddie is known as “the leadership accelerator” because he works with leaders to accelerate performance and drive impact. He is a C-Suite network adviser, international certified coach, certified trainer, and professional speaker. Staying Ready (So You Don’t Have to Get Ready) As professionals, we need to ask ourselves, when is the last time our industry innovated? That question needs to be asked because if we aren't ready, we have to get ready – only then can we stay ready – because the change is coming! Look at the taxicab market (Uber), the hotel market (Airbnb), and now even grocery stores (Amazon & Whole Foods). Disruption is happening and the old guard can’t keep up. Are we next? Because Watson is already here. Watson is working, right now, with the big four and the audit practice. We saw the H+R Block commercials last year – Watson IS the machine learning that is going to disrupt our industry. Things have changed, and accountants and finance professionals don't have to crunch the numbers – we have to communicate information to the end user, listen to what they are saying, and learn to have a dialog again. We have to be continuous learners and continue to develop ourselves. Because if we're not continuing to educate ourselves, we're leaving ourselves vulnerable to the disruption that technology will introduce. And the easiest way for us to learn is through facilitated collaboration, particularly with facilitators as talented as Eddie. “What speakers are finding is no longer do audiences show up to listen to the sage on the stage. They show up to have a conversation, to have a dialogue, even with a keynote speaker.” Resources: Learn more at eddieturnerllc.comConnect with Eddie: LinkedIn | Facebook | TwitterCheck out Adobe Connect --  Change Your Mindset is produced by Podcast Masters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'll hear from Julie Young, CEO of ASU Prep Digital, a new College prep option that started in August of 2017 and supports districts in Arizona and students worldwide. Julie founded and led Florida Virtual in the 90s and has been a leader in online and blended learning for 30 years. Her new gig, ASU Digital Prep, combines online high school and university classes to provide a really unique learning opportunity for students. The ASU Digital Prep students have the chance to explore College majors and careers with ASU centers and staff. Qualified high school students will be concurrently enrolled at ASU, giving them a real leg up on enrollment at ASU, or acceptance at leading universities worldwide.    In this episode, Tom talks with Julie about Florida Virtual and ASU Prep Digital and gets her predictions on the future of online learning. They discuss in-depth about what made FLVS and ASU both huge successes and the future implementations for ASU, as well as her reflections on FLVS.    Key Takeaways:  [1:27] Tom talks with Julie to learn more about her background with Florida Virtual, her current work with ASU Prep Digital, and her predictions for the future of online learning.  [6:19] The goals and differences between Florida Virtual School and other online charter schools.  [8:39] Julie's pioneering of the performance-based funding model.  [11:47] The keys to success in scaling and academics during Julie's time at Florida Virtual School.  [14:45] Why Julie thinks iNACOL is an important organization in kids education.  [17:39] Julie on leading ASU Prep Digital and the success she's had with her team.  [20:15] The value of the concurrent ASU online credit vs. the dual enrollment college credit.  [21:19] Personalized pathways and the unlimited possibilities for students.  [22:47] Serving part-time, full-time, and international students and the goal to connect students to other students around the world.  [24:46] Connected collaborative and project-based learning online.  [26:33] Concurrent enrollment and how they know when a student is ready to take a college class.  [28:15] ASU's business model for Arizona students and international students.  [30:23] The future of online learning and Julie's take on game-based learning and engaging students through the latest technology.  [32:21] Data-driven student supports and A.I. technology.  [33:16] Julie closes with some reflections from her first year at ASU.    Mentioned in This Episode:  ASU Arizona State University  ASU Prep Digital  Florida Virtual School  Miami Dade College  Adobe Connect  iNACOL    Suggested Listening:  If you enjoyed this conversation, check out:  S3: E1 “The Getting Smart Team on the Future of Learning”    Get Involved:  Check out the blog on GettingSmart.com.  Find the GettingSmart podcast on iTunes, leave a review and subscribe.    Twitter-Specific Quotes:    “[The performance-based funding model] really changed how we viewed our roles in our industry.” — Julie Young    “[ASU Prep Digital will have] a mastery-based model, so students do not move on until they've mastered the material.” — Julie Young    “I think we have finally gotten to the point where … online learning is just part of learning.”[Text Wrapping Break]— Julie Young    “I think the instructional methodology was totally our secret sauce [for the success of FLVS].”   — Julie Young    “My belief at this point is that every classroom should be a blended learning classroom.”[Text Wrapping Break]— Julie Young    “Blended learning is not new — it shouldn't be new. But it requires a … highly-trained teacher.”  — Julie Young    “ASU actually launched the network of charter schools back in 2008.” — Julie Young    “We're changing the conversation and creating a new category of school.” — Julie Young    “We're combining high school and college in … a ... way that really gives kids the flexibility to work at their own pace.” — Julie Young    “If we teach it and students don't learn it, we haven't taught it; we haven't done our job.” [Text Wrapping Break]— Julie Young    Quotes:    “Students take the courses for all kinds of reasons. Wonderful opportunity for kids who are accelerating, kids who are strugglings, kids who are pursuing their dreams … We've had athletes, we've had kids on The Voice, we've had kids who are pro golfers, kids who have been in the Olympics...” — Julie Young    “[Florida Virtual School was] just a wonderful opportunity to meet the students where they are and provide a learning environment that is all about them.” — Julie Young    “ASU's new online high school program … allows students to actually take university-level courses and earn credit towards both a diploma and a university degree at the same time.” — Julie Young 

​With over 15 years of Customer Success experience, Customer Success truly runs through Marc Sason’s veins. A San Francisco Bay Area Native, Marc’s professional background includes 15 years of Client Services and Engagement in many different industries, including corporate training/consulting, audio and web conferencing, and targeted marketing (both digital and direct-mail). He is currently a Customer Success Manager at CoSo Cloud (formerly ConnectSolutions), a managed service provider and strategic partner for Adobe Connect, where he works with large US Federal Government accounts on their training and virtual meeting initiatives.

Meet Patti Shank, author of “Write and Organize for Deeper Learning: 28 evidence-based and easy-to-apply tactics that will make your instruction better for learning (Make It Learnable)”. With Special Guest Host Karen Hyder. Patti Shank, PhD is writing the Make It Learnable series to help anyone who builds adult instructional materials (content experts, instructors, instructional designers, trainers, and so on) apply critical learning, writing, information design, and usability principles. These principles make it easier for people to learn, remember, and apply what they are learning. The great news is that applying these principles is not hard! Write and Organize for Deeper Learning tackles four strategies and 28 specific tactics. For each strategy, Patti offers specific actionable tactics that you can implement this very moment, with examples, checklists, and job aids. The four strategies are: Strategy 1: Understand your audience’s needs. Strategy 2: Write for clarity. Strategy 3: Make text readable and legible. Strategy 4: Organize for memory and use. We are honored to have Karen Hyder hosting this broadcast with Patti. Karen Hyder has been teaching about technology using technology since 1991 when she began delivering applications-software courses for Logical Operations/Ziff-Davis Education in the middle of the Windows and Microsoft Office explosion. In 1995, she was promoted to Director of Trainer Development, teaching classes to help trainers improve skills and earn Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+) certification. In 1998, Karen spearheaded a trainer-development program in the United Kingdom through Corporate Learning Ltd., providing the only Microsoft and CompTIA approved trainer certification courses in the UK at that time. Upon her return to the United States, Karen founded Kaleidoscope Training and Consulting, which offers courses for technical trainers and subject-matter experts to improve online and in-person delivery. She also consults with organizations as they implement virtual classrooms, ensuring they make a good impression from the very first session. Karen helped launch and currently produces and hosts The eLearning Guild Online Forums, a series of online conference sessions for eLearning development professionals. She also supports Thought Leader Webinars, and Best of webinars such as Best of DemoFest, a multi-presenter, multi-demonstration event that showcases the winning DemoFest submissions (Free Login required). To date, Karen has coached hundreds of speakers to prepare for Online Forum sessions using Adobe Connect. Karen has served as a member of CompTIA’s Advisory Committee for the Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+) certification exams since the program’s inception in 2001. Karen was a driving force behind the development of CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+) for online trainer certification. Link to video recording: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/062017?rfsn=530134.af795 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This is the episode for exhibit managers, marketers and trade show industry insiders who want to differentiate yourselves, get promoted and be viewed as an industry expert.  Randy Acker, President and COO of Exhibitor Media Group shares an insider look at ExhibitorLive, the certification and speaking programs available and he gives real life examples about people whose lives were forever changed by Exhibitor Magazine and Exhibitor Media Group programs.  Here is what you will learn in this episode: 6 Ways to Differentiate Yourself and Your Trade Show Program Why You Should Invest In Continuing Education: Find out why the Exhibitor CTSM programs help you internally and with your trade show program results. How You Can Get Promoted: Attending ExhibitorLive and going to the programs there has helped marketers be viewed as industry experts. What Exceptional Event Programming Delivers: Unique 100% money back guarantee helps employers know they are getting value from ExhibitorLive, FastTrak and eTrak. Why Trust is So Important: Buyers don’t purchase an expensive piece of equipment over the internet.  Face-to-Face marketing is based on Trust and that can be established in a variety of in-person meetings including on the trade show floor. How Attendees Experience Value: ExhibitorLive requires all speakers to go through their speaker training. Industry Trends: Face-to-Face relationships, personal interactions is still a key component of all buying decisions.   Show Notes Introduction: Randy Acker is the President and COO of Exhibitor Media Group-Exhibitor Magazine, ExhibitorLive, FastTrak, eTrak and industry specific programs.  Exhibitor Online is the gold standard where marketers can gather information about what is happening in trade show events and meeting planning and apply the strategies shared to their jobs. 1:18 Welcome Randy Acker to the show. 1:37 How ExhibitorLive is so impactful and why is it beneficial to marketers We are an $80 billion dollar industry and higher education doesn’t offer much in the way of education. 2:12 Too many people learn by way of the “school of hard knocks” and that is a really hard way to learn. 2:20 Back in 1982 Lee Knight, Owner and Founder of Exhibitor Media Group, created a vehicle for people to learn about our industry. 2:38 There are so many stories to share and Randy’s favorite takes place a number of years ago.  A woman came up and said:  “You are Lee Knight” and he replied, “Why yes I the next thing she said was “You Saved My Life”.  She was able to figure out her job requirements from reading Exhibitor Magazine. 3:06 So many people share how Exhibitor Magazine helped them learn about the industry and their jobs from the content in their publication and programs. 3:28 Randy shares how there is nothing more rewarding as an educator than knowing that he has made a difference in people’s lives.   3:27 About 75% of the audience that goes to Exhibitor are women.  Natalie asks Randy: What are some of the challenges trade show marketers face and how does the certification program Exhibitor offers help them?  Randy confirms the majority of people doing events are women 35-40 years old. One of the biggest challenges since the recession of 2009 is that more and more people who manage a trade show program, are marketing generalists 4:30 Almost 90% of readers of Exhibitor Magazine are responsible for both trade shows and events.  Add in a downsized department and other responsibilities, dual roles and they are finding there is no one else helping them do what they do.  Supply side folks become a partner to help them. 5:06 The certification program started in 1993 through Northern Illinois University.  There are 600 candidates currently and about 4,000 people in the program. 5:23 Randy asks the question many marketers early in their career ask: “How do I elevate myself from an admin. to a creating a profession for myself?” 5:49 Students in the CTSM program build confidence, get promotions, learn self-discipline are viewed as an expert, know how to leverage best practices. And they bring this to their trade show programs. 6:21 For years people used to attend trade shows because competitors were there.  When marketers go through this program, they find that getting measureable results and more sales are the reason for being at a trade show. 6:40 The certification program includes 23 required courses and 5 electives.  The program gives a broad perspective for people in trade show marketing to leverage every aspect of their roles as marketers. 7:03 Continuing education is so important and the CTSM program has ROI to tie back to their role.  7:36 No matter what the experience level-senior people come away with something they didn’t know they didn’t know. 7:51 Articles for Exhibitor Magazine and programs are really focused on providing the best content. 8:27 Randy shares why it is so important to offer great content.  People in a downsized department who have dual roles of a marketing generalist and trade show manager have very limited time.  If they are making the commitment and if they take the time out of the office they make sure they get what they came for at the show. 8:32 Exhibitor Media Group has had a content strategists since 1987 to help formulate the educational sessions for the organization.  This person was a trade show manager and teacher, so creating a curriculum and quality control is something she does well.  This year for ExhibitorLive there are 169 educational sessions for 9:08 If you are selected to be a speaker for ExhibitorLive, you have to go through the speaker training.  Even if you are CEO who delivers over 100 presentations a year, you have to go through the speaker training program.  9:34 Randy shares why having high quality programs is so important. If people are using budget money, then the sessions need to meet the standard.  If the session doesn’t get high evaluation results, one of two things happen: 1. You are sent back for remedial training or you are not asked to come back. 10:01 Because of the Northern Illinois University (NIU) affiliation, they evaluate the programs for what are the learning components of a session. 10:28 What is the certification process like? In order to be certified, you have to take 23 classes, 5 electives and then prepare and take a 3 hour exam where you are locked in a room.  The experience is similar to the CPA exam. 10:41 The last item to do is you have to submit a portfolio of how you applied what you learned.  10:59 Whether you come to be certified or come for the education, Randy shares how their programs adhere to a high standard. 11:05 In fact, the standard is so high, there is a 100% money back guarantee, no questions asked. 11:22 The money back guarantee has a close connection to the heavily veted speaker process. 11:44 Founder Lee Knight in 1989 had a speaker who wasn’t able to attend.  Because Lee had been writing articles about the trade show industry since 1982 he thought he could teach the courses. 12:01 After the program was completed, Lee decided his delivery of the content didn’t meet the standards he expected for his attendees and he offered everyone who attended his two sessions their money back for those sessions. 12:14 This experience caused Lee Knight to make a commitment that it would never happen to attendees going forward 12:30 Each year, ExhibitorLive has over 1,200 attendees for the courses and they give less than 10 refunds. 12:40 The reason for the low refund rate is that it is all rooted back to heavily vetted speaker training and a commitment to quality. 12:55 The benefit of a refund policy: It makes a difference for some attendees to get their boss sign off because of the money back guarantee. 13:25 The takeaway for speakers and attendees at the program: “When you hear from your peers and get advice that is tangible to what you are doing it is very helpful to people who attend and give the sessions.” Randy said. 13:55 More and more of the people on the supplier side are being asked to be extensions of their clients marketing.  Supply side people are taking the courses as well. 14:46 There are exhibit managers who lose head count, sometimes have trouble landing a new position. Randy is asked what advice he has for people in transition. 15:14 The first thing to look at is how do you differentiate yourself for people. 15:25 There are 3rd generation graduates for the program and the benefit to them is that Fortune 100 job postings are requiring a CTSM certification as part of their job experience. 16:11 As you are in your role, one thing you have to do is to continually make your Results visible to your organization. 16:25 As part of creating your own personal brand, you need to set goals and ultimately measure your results so that you are viewed as an indispensable expert 16:51 You need to have engagement with people who do what you do. 17:03 Having a network is also so very important.  Surround yourself with people that do what you do, they understand what you do. 17:22 Attendees who experience ExhibitorLive, Fastrak, eTrak have been helped to be seen differently within their companies. 18:03 Natalie and Randy discuss why having a network, mentor and sponsor is so important for your career. 18:22 Randy shares that there are 4,000 candidates within the certification program and the 600 graduates are very connected getting together around the country. 18:43 Any candidate that comes into the certification program is assigned a mentor. 18:54 At ExhibitorLive there is peer-to-peer round table groups with beer and wine and snacks so attendees can get out of the formal classroom environment and network.  There are 50 topics to discuss and this creates the ability to create relationships at an intimate level. 19:30 There are a lot of life-long relationships created at the networking events. At ExhibitorLive, first time attendees are rounded up geographical so you can meet someone who might only be 20 minutes down the road.  Knowing someone close by allows the attendees to get together several times a year in person. 20:16  ExhibitorLive  also helps associations meet like the Healthcare Exhibitor Association (HCEA) who has a mini reception as well as industry associations like the Exhibit Designers and Producers Association (EDPA) get together. 21:07 Randy shares why he travels every month to meet with all layers of the industry. 21:24 Randy feels the best way to understand your customer, is to travel around and talk to all the different stake holders.  Randy visits 6-8 companies every month including both client side to suppliers. 22:07 Randy’s mentor told him that direct face-to-face contact is so important.  Randy reaches out to talk about their roles in the industry. 22:45 Since the recession of 2009, the industry changed.  Randy wants to make sure he gets out there to create a forum for conversations. 23:17 There are too many conversations happening in a vacuum and strategic players are sometimes left out of a dialogue. 23:58 Randy follows his passion to pay it forward.  He is adjunct Faculty at Bemidji State for the exhibit design program.  Exhibitus hired one of the graduates from Bemidji State. 24:49 One of Randy’s missions is to get more and more guest speakers for the design program to help students understand what the industry is all about. 25:25 The placement rate out of Bemidji State is almost 100% for students to land a position. 26:00 Randy shares face-to-face marketing trends coming in the next 2 years.  Technology plays a role including Virtual Reality (VR) or Augmented Reality (AR) creates an experience. 26:31 In the end, it all comes down to Trust.  Someone buying a new MRI machine- they aren’t do this virtually.  You are establishing relationships face-to-face.  It is about building relationships. 27:06 Face-to-face is the quickest route to trust. 27:20 It isn’t just about face-to-face show floor any longer.  Marketers are using their trade show expertise to create user group conferences.  They leverage all the tools and techniques from their own trade shows and create one that is proprietary to them. 28:48 Want to learn more? You can find Randy and the programs discussed in the program at Exhitoronline.com if you want to go to learn via the magazine, ExhibitorLive, one of the four regional events at Exhibitor FastTrak and if you can’t ever leave your desk they have that covered also with eTrak via Adobe Connect the same sessions from ExhibitorLive. 29:51 If you are going to the Exhibitor show, I would love to meet you!  Visit the Exhibitus booth 1261 and say hello! Find out more about Rock Your Trade Show podcasts at www.rockyourtradeshow.com   Randy Acker’s Background:  In addition to his leadership role at EXHIBITOR Media Group, Randy is an Adjunct Faculty in the exhibit design program at Bemidji State University.  A twenty year veteran of EXHIBITOR, Acker’s experience spans all aspects of EXHIBITOR Media Group’s sales and marketing programs, magazine and trade show promotion, operations, finance, strategic business development and industry relations. He is also active in numerous segments of the exhibition industry contributing the unique perspective he has on the industry by serving corporate marketers, exhibit builders, agencies, suppliers to the industry, venues, as well as show organizers.   The leader in trade show and corporate event marketing education, EXHIBITOR Media Group publishes the award-winning EXHIBITOR magazine - best practices in trade show marketing, and produces EXHIBITORLIVE, the trade show and corporate event industry's top-rated educational conference; EXHIBITORFastTrak regional accelerated learning conferences; EXHIBITOR eTrak live online educational sessions; and GRAVITY FREE, the world's only multidisciplinary design conference. EXHIBITOR is the founder and sponsor of CTSM (Certified Trade Show Marketer), the industry's only university-affiliated professional certification program. EXHIBITOR Online  is the trade show and event community's most comprehensive online resource.

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Seminar Date: March 29, 2016 Seminar Time: 1:00pm Location: Streamed Online from LIB 161B AbstractThe ability to communicate in real time (synchronous) through media such as text, audio, and video, can enhance the online learning experience by providing dynamic opportunities for social connection, collaborative problem solving, and collective reflection. However, issues related to synchronous communication include scheduling conflicts, technical support, and the perception that it is extra or busy work. In this session, we will share strategies to incorporate synchronous elements that enhance engagement and learning within online courses for instructors and students. Concrete examples of applying these synchronous strategies will be shared by an instructor.PresentersBernardo Ramirez MDAssociate Professor Department of Health Management and Informatics College of Health and Public Affairs University of Central Florida Bernardo Ramirez is an Associate Professor as well as the director of the Executive Health Services Administration and Global Health Initiatives programs for the Department of Health Management and Informatics at UCF. He teaches classes on the U.S. health system, international health systems, issues and trends in health professions, and quality improvement. He has incorporated synchronous elements in his online and blended courses for three years.Tina Calandrino MEdInstructional Designer Center for Distributed Learning University of Central Florida Tina Calandrino is an Instructional Designer for the Center for Distributed Learning at UCF, assisting faculty in the design, development, and delivery of online courses. She has over twenty years of experience in the educational field and has taught online, blended, and face-to-face courses in the United States, Canada, and Italy. Her research focuses on developing tools and strategies for effective synchronous teaching in the online learning environment.Session Recordings and Supporting MaterialsRecording: Streamed Podcast Session:http://media.blubrry.com/faculty_seminars_in_online/p/cdl.ucf.edu/staticfiles/faculty_seminars/seminar13.mp3Podcast (faculty-seminars-in-online-teaching): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | About Faculty SeminarsPresentation MaterialsPresentation Resources PowerPoint Presentation [PDF; 5.7MB] Rubric for Online Synchronous Participation [PDF; 180KB] Tools and Resources Guidelines for Synchronous Assignments: This resource provided by Webcourses@UCF describes best practices currently in use by some online faculty at UCF. Skype for Business: This page on UCF’s Teach site describes Skype for Business and shares best practices for holding successful online meetings using the tool. Specific examples provided. Adobe Connect: This is the official page for learning more about Adobe Connect meeting feature. Free trial is offered. Zoom: This is the official page for Zoom. Google Hangouts: Hangouts bring conversations to life with photos, emoji, and group video calls for free. Connect with friends across computers, Android, and Apple devices. Educreations: Teachers can record voice and screen to create video lessons in which students can interact instantly. Available on the web or as an iPad app. Nearpod: Create presentations in which students can interact via Web and/or mobile devices. Articles and Artifacts Small Group Work and Whole Group Discussion Mediated through Webconferencing Software: This article, published in the International Journal for the Scholarship of Technology Enhanced Learning, reports on a case study that explored the benefits and challenges of facilitating group activities in a synchronous environment in an undergraduate course. Benefits of Synchronous and Asynchronous e-Learning: The purpose of this article, published by the eLearning Industry site, is to discuss the advantages of using both synchronous and asynchrono...

TGIF: Teaching & Learning Paradigms, FridayLive!You can also view the newsletter here. Thirty-eight issue issue, Volume Eight TLT Group TGIF 05.20/15  From TLT Group WorldHeadquartersTwo great sessions this week.  WEDNESDAY for members: Susan Bearden returns to answer your questions about Twitter. She will also introduce an app she created call Tweechme. Register Here FRIDAYLIVE!  for all. Teaching & Learning Paradigms and more. Register HereNEXT BOOK DISCUSSION: We are beginning to design the next book discussion, please give us your feedbackBy becoming a member or donating to the TLT Group you will help us continue this work.DONATE,  JOIN USYou can also support us indirectly by purchasing books from Amazon via links in our recommended reading list or shop using this AmazonSmile link. Amazon will then make a donation to the TLT Group. More from the TLT-SWG Bloghttp://tlt-swg.blogspot.com/Brain Rules Exploration Activity in Adobe Connect Members ExchangeTwitter - Part 3Date: May 20, 2015TIME: 3:00 PM ETPresenters: Susan Bearden, Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy, Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, TLT Group and othersRegister HereSusan Beardon returns! this time to help us explore how to utilize Twitter (searching for hashtags, setting up a profile, using it for the book discussions, etc.)Susan will also introduce us to the various features of an app she developed called TweechMe. The app is  available for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows mobile.  Susan will walk us through the various features of the app so if you download the app before the session you can follow along. She developed the app to teach educators how to leverage twitter to create and enhance their PLN. Learn more about the app here.Interesting Resource:  How to Turn a One-Hour Twitter Chat into One-Week’s worth of Tweets! Upcoming Member Exchange eventsMay 20, 2015 Twitter Part 3May 27, 2015  IFTTT - Designated Learner SessionJune 3, 2015 Webinar Exploration Learning CommunityJune 10, 2015 PLANNING MEETING - 4th Spring 2015 Discussion - FICTION, An Unnecessary WomenJune 17, 2015 Evernote Learning Community June 24, 2015 TBD   FridayLive! Free to all!Teaching & Learning Paradigms and moreDate: May 22, 2015Time: 2:00 PM ETPresenters: Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, TLT GroupRegister HereWhat teaching/learning paradigms are implied by these 3 documents? How do they overlap, dovetail and conflict?1. 'What’s the Point of a Professor?By MARK BAUERLEIN NYT MAY 9, 2015'  approx 4 pp. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/opinion/sunday/whats-the-point-of-a-professor.html?_r=02. "I Will Not Be Lectured To. I’m Too Busy Teaching.Posted on May 9, 2015 by Kevin"   5-7 pp. http://www.thetattooedprof.com/archives/3563. “Technology-Enhanced Learning: Best Practices and Data Sharing in Higher Education” (pdf), From "Global Learning Council (GLC), a consortium of leaders in the field of education from academia, industry and nonprofits, released a first draft of a white paper that includes proposed recommendations regarding technology-enhanced learning (TEL) and the sharing of learning data."6 pp paper ​http://globallearningcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/GLC_DRAFT_White_Paper_April_2015.pdf​For the "and more" part of the session, we will be talking together about summer events.  On our agenda to address are:1. Book Discussions2. Teaching Online for Beginners (TOL4B)3. Low Threshold Applications (LTAs)This is your opportunity to influence our programming, plus we always have fun learning together. ______________________________________________Up-coming FridayLive! eventsMay 22, 2015 Teaching & Learning Paradigms and more May 29, 2015 Real-time student engagement: leveraging tablets for faculty and future faculty developmentJune 5, 2015 “Saving Our Stuff?” - A Follow-up SessionJune 12, 2015 Spring 2015 “Book” Discussion Series - An Unnecessary Women  https://tackk.com/tltgbook-discussion 2015 Spring Book Discussion SeriesJune 12, 2015FICTIONAlameddine, Rabih (2014) An Unnecessary Woman Nov 11, 2014,  Grove PressRegister HereNEXT BOOK DISCUSSION: We are beginning to design the next book discussion, please give us your feedback. @TLTGroup Encourage. Enable. Engage.

The language classroom is a most fruitful place for intercultural, global learning. Digital technologies allow us to make intercultural connections like never before and in the process language learning benefits from real communication about real issues. With new cloud based technologies and a sharp increase in hybrid teaching models, innovative, technology-enhanced teaching and learning projects within a global connections context have become more readily realizable. Specifically, in the language and culture classroom, such video conferencing platforms as Google+ Hangouts, Adobe Connect, and Zoom with their multifunctional interaction tools (screen sharing, chatting, etc.) have made online hybrid learning uniquely intuitive, inexpensive, inviting and “human” for both students and teachers. Concrete examples show how both linguistic and cultural proficiencies as well as digital competencies - applicable in any teaching and learning context - are enhanced in the globally connected classroom. In addition to the technology itself, students also learn digital and dialogue etiquette, how to be effective team players and members of a learning community, and develop group and leadership competencies within a digital context.

Using Adobe Connect

Using Adobe Connect

A Semana Integrada Impacta, atualmente em sua 6ª edição, é um evento anual promovido pela Faculdade Impacta Tecnologia, com foco na integração entre alunos e todas as esferas acadêmicas. Na ocasião, que este ano ocorreu de 30 de Setembro a 4 de Outubro, dois assuntos diferentes foram abordados a cada dia da semana por profissionais de referência no mercado, por meio de palestras, debates e workshops. Alunos de todos os cursos podem participar, as palestras são transmitidas nas próprias salas de aula, via Adobe Connect, software que possibilita interação entre o aluno e o palestrante via chat. Entre os temas abordados nas palestras estão varejo digital, mobile, Big Data, segurança da informação, administração, design, BI e fotografia.

Pequeño seminario sobre Adobe Connect, una de las herramientas que el Centro de Enseñanzas Virtuales ofrece a la comunidad universitaria

There were issues recording the Adobe Connect session so please watch this video and the ones listed under #3 on this page http://www.plaidavenger.com/lecture/intro/ to get all of the material covered.

Uso del Adobe Connect como AnfitrionComo acceder a las grabacionesCEVUG - 2012

Breve uso de la herramienta Adobe ConnectCevug - 2012

Markus Schmidt und Joachim Wedekind aus dem e-teaching.org-Redaktionsteam zeigten die Durchführung eines Online-Events mit dem webbasierten Online-Kommunikations-Tool Adobe Connect aus Sicht der Veranstalter und Referenten und gaben Hinweise, was neben der eigentlichen Ausrichtung des Events alles zu beachten ist.

2008/01/31. Demonstration of Adobe Connect and its use in a university classroom. SPU 2007 Technology Grant awarded to the Engineering Program and School of Business and Economics.

2008/01/31. Demonstration of Adobe Connect and its use in a university classroom. SPU 2007 Technology Grant awarded to the Engineering Program and School of Business and Economics.

2008/01/31. Demonstration of Adobe Connect and its use in a university classroom. SPU 2007 Technology Grant awarded to the Engineering Program and School of Business and Economics.