City Guide: Navigation Guide for New Visitors to Your Platform

A developer once said that apps navigation is ‘Turn by Turn’, with new visitors being navigated intuitively through an unfamiliar process step-by-step. This is how we would get to know a new destination, a holiday resort, city or town. Think how familiar the surroundings are where you currently live. You know everything that a first-time visitor doesn’t. You know the name of the street you live…

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Do Advances in Hearing Aid Technology Meet Needs of the Customer?

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Quotes from Coronavirus Vaccine Designers and Researchers since SARS-COV1

Coronavirus Vaccine History Back in 2004, SARS vaccine trial spotlights continued peril by Helen Pearson was published in the science press. But public-health experts remain concerned that a second wave of infections could erupt, either from human contact with infected animals or by the virus escaping from laboratory samples.Pearson, Helen SARS vaccine trial spotlights continued peril. Nature…

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Working on videos using visual slide decks

I’ve reached the point of having gathered a toolbox and got past some barriers such as which browser works with Loom and allowing pop-ups in Canva. I could call that a toolbox, but there are still more tools to explore. I haven’t yet investigated or tested membervault as I still think I’m too far away from defining the problem I am solving and my solution. The issue of too many interests is…

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I learned something new today about Search Enging Optomisation (SEO)

Today someone introduced me to the ultra-long-tail keyword and I could not understand or picture what it was about. It shows that verbal communication and teaching is accepted, whereas it is quite a struggle to convey that these types of phrases don’t compute for someone who processes visually. No amount of explanation will beat either giving me an example to recognise or an infographic. A long…

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Diversifying my video making skills - Screensharing

Breakthrough in versatility for video editing and recording slide deck from Canva template over Loom from a Zoom call

I cheekily presented a slide deck I’d made in Canva from a template and uploaded my own images and found it on Lucy Griffith’s archives. Loom allows you to share links to videos in Loom, which is really useful for quickly showing someone how to do something. That is something I have an interest in doing. Screensharing is something I’ve been trying to do since 2020 when I signed up to Test.io to…

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Assembling a toolbox for online course creation

The process of creating online courses to sell from a learning management system, for me, has been about finding tools, learning how to use them and adding them to my digital toolbox. At the beginning I didn’t know what I was going to use or need. I had a go on Canva by myself and created a banner with an animated egg. Canva is great if you want to create an image or other media in a specific…

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Caught up and ready to charge

Yes, this might give various people a different message. Today I’m exploring words, pictures, voice and understanding. As I was born with hearing loss, I still hear a lot of voice in what people write. When people speak, I also hear non-verbal communication. A few experiences recently – as well as drinking cacao – have shown me how differently people understand things I say when I’m socialising…

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A breakthrough Day - I can see the summit

I’m beginning to have lucid dreams about this course creation journey and waking up with ideas. That’s an ongoing process though as I learn the tools and select which ones to pay for and use. Taking advantage of that, I have noted the route I have taken so far: I went onto Canva and customised some Youtube thumbnails. I went to my Youtube Channel (if not got: create a gmail address, then set up…

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Creating an Inclusive Empowering Online Course To Share Your Expertise

From my earliest school memory, I have got through tasks by finding my own processes to do things. I remember getting stuck on primary school projects and classmates helping me through. it left me to feel like an outsider, which I am so glad of today. However, I do face barriers, forseen and buried deep. For instance, on Reddit, some groups have quite tricky formats to follow in order to post…

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Learning the Tech Toolbox: Step-by-step route to create an online course

Honing, honing, honing. The choice of tools and processes is overwhelming. I know what my objective is, but have to keep intense focus to determine a path that works for me. Platforms to perform various functions keep popping up like mushrooms and as I explore through them, barriers pop-up too, such as: You can only record a presentation in Chrome Canva studio Today, I have explored how to…

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Designing a Process to Share to Start From Scratch

After much thought and soundboarding my ideas with a friend, I have devised a route to share a step-by-step process for a particular audience – of which I am part – to Earn While We Learn. This is step 3 of my experience journal written in November 2023. Please subscribe or keep following my blog for where I go next, which will be shared on 26th January 2024. This means starting from scratch,…

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Working Out A Plan of Action

As I realised during previous aborted attempts at gathering the wherewithall to sell online courses, there is a fair bit of technology involved and each platform is in its own world and has its own pricing system, geared up to onboard as many subscribers as possible. This is my second post, written in early November 2023. I will be posting one each day until hopefully I have caught up with where…

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Could Algorithms Censor Voices of the Neurodiverse?

Hi there, here are thoughts on social media proudly saying I've reachd 0.01% of my followers, communication minefields and forced conformity online

When we look at the wording of automated messages we get from our computers: “disabled” as in ‘taken out of action’, “invalid” as in ‘wrong’ or other words used to describe a disability such as ‘impaired’ as in damaged, it is easy to imagine the use of these words comes from people without first hand experience with any disability in today’s world. An image from this article on computer…

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Creating content for online courses

I’m continuing through the modules, but not sure what tasks I ought to be performing. I think this means I need to find a way to start outlining my course idea: Comedy for Confidence. I need to create a task step-by-step, starting from the beginning, from A, making my way through B, C and onwards. A blossoming tree emerges of many platforms – Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay My aim is to…

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Seeing Over the Hill - Exciting Stage of My Journey

Up to now, I have been wondering if I am ever going to reap the rewards of this work, learning the tools, identifying the platforms and testing some slide decks in Canva with voiceover recordings. What topic ought I to start with? There are so many to choose from. Thanks to a monthly co-working programme called TVR led by Mel Larsen – here is a “day pass” to try a 10am to 5pm Zoom session for…

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Clinching First Time Visitors as Paying Customers

The difference between a new visitor to your website becoming a paying customer or going straight to your competition could be just a few well placed words. One of my favourite things is to find those words and suggest where they could go to prevent your advertising leads bouncing off your website because your UX didn’t navigate them through. By simply removing a misleading message in red…

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