I started a recurring weekly ‘Google Hangout Meets’ on a Friday lunchtime, 1–2pm. The title is LinkedIn Lunch. It’s for my connections on LinkedIn.
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- Working from home, need to have a chat with like-minded individuals.
- Working on your own and worried about your cash flow?
- Interested in ideas and solutions how others are overcoming this crisis in their businesses?
Not suggesting that we will have any solutions, but crowd sourcing ideas is better than worrying it about your own.
You can join the hangouts meet via mobile or desktop but you will need a Google account. I will invite you to a calendar appointment once you have registered via this LinkedIn Event.
You can learn more about Google Hangouts Meet via:
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Google ‘Hangouts Meet’ is a free app you can download from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store, alternatively you can join it via a Google Chrome browser on your laptop/desktop computer.
I did one on 20 March and another one today 2 April. On each occasion only one person attended, which is fine. I’m happy to have a chat with small business owners, even if it is just to compare notes on the state of our businesses, qualification for business support or not (in my case) and some moral support. There will be no speakers or so called business experts, who have wise ideas on how to get out of this downturn in business fortunes and no marketing or selling, just a normal chat.
The next one will be on 17 April, as of course it’s Good Friday on 10 April.
The rest of my day today was mainly spent looking at my Taiko Teacher’s website and getting it ready with tutorial videos for students to practice to at home. It all worked great but I needed to either find a way that they can only access the tutorial pages with a password, quite risky I think, or a dedicated login. After going down the rabbit hole for several hours I did eventually discover some awesome advice, but not until Saturday morning, i.e. the day after. I am including the video, which is an old one but still is 100% correct and it worked! I am really over the moon about having found this. It is an invaluable tutorial on how to create a membership site, without spending a fortune on membership plugins, there are many around that do indeed charge a small fortune.
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And even better as after I asked Terry, who made the video, how I could redirect folks back to the login screen after they logged out, I found the solution inside the plugin, Peters Login Redirect and it works perfectly. Really I’m so happy about this.
Ps. The U.K. government data sets: