One of the biggest benefits of taking part in my courses is the community of students, particularly those who are actively participating in the course.It probably would be interesting for you to get together with them perhaps or at least just to see who they are and see if you wanna reach out, and maybe there's some kindred spirits.Maybe you want to get together and do some work for for the, for the course or just to to have, you know, virtual tea and coffee to get to know each other a bit better.So in I'm showing you right now on screen a sample lesson from one of my courses.So when you're in one of my courses, scroll down past the video, past whatever writing, if there's any writing to the comments area, and you will notice and I'm gonna just zoom in a little bit so you feel more obvious.
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You'll notice that, obviously, next above each comment is the person's name and profile picture if they have one.Please upload your profile picture if you haven't already done so.And you can basically move your mouse over, over them and but don't you can only see a few things.Like, when was the last time they were active in on on the on the course site?Badges of honor, if if any.
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Not not much, but you can basically click on their name or click on their photo.Same same thing.Click on their name or photo.And this brings you hello, Donna.Hope you don't mind that I'm showing folks this.
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I assume it's okay because you wrote your intro already, so thank you for doing that.You see their their profile, and then let me just zoom out here.Okay.So I I just zoomed out.So this is actually what you see when you go to Donna's profile.
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For example, you see information about her on the right hand side, whatever she's written.You can click on read more to read more of what she wrote.And I wanna show you just on the right hand side.Below what she wrote, you will see a couple icons.Now I am hoping Sinclair updates these icons over time to allow more more icons, but right now, they allow only a few.
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Like, they allow things like only a few, like Facebook and maybe Twitter or something like that.They haven't.They will eventually add other icons, other things.But you can see you can go to Donna's Facebook page.The globe icon is for Donna's, home page and then Donna's company page, which is really strange that Simpler has these distinctions.
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Most of us are solopreneurs, so it doesn't really same thing for us.But you can basically have up to 2 links, for you know, as the icons, but you can you can certainly put links in your about section.Anyway, you go to that lesson where I talk about updating your profile.And then, you can see that the time zone as well.This is not always accurate, but mostly so.
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And then on the left hand side of someone's profile, you can see their recent comments and posts.Okay?You cannot and you could select on the left upper left.You wanna see everything that they posted or you wanna exclude the groups and only see the comments from their courses.Right?
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Comments from their courses.Yeah.Or you wanna see comments from particular groups that they're part of, you can select that here, or you can select everything, like I said, to see to see everything that you have access to.Obviously, if you're not part of one of their groups that they're part of, you probably won't even see that in the drop down menu, and you certainly won't see the comments from there.So, anyway, this is why it's important to update your profile.
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I will put try to remember to put the link below to that lesson about how to update the profile.So enjoy exploring each other's profiles and reaching out to one another because, like I said, that that some of the richest experiences and most helpful and insightful moments in my courses are when you connect with a fellow student and share insights and, you know, possibly eventually collaborate if that's appropriate.So enjoy connecting with one another, and thanks for being part of my courses.
@Roxanne Koh (Therapy Without Boxes) our course platform Simplero is actively working on a member directory but it might still be 6 months out before we switch to it. Until then, you can use the search function (top right, click the magnifying glass) and type in any interest and it will pull up any members with those interests. For example I tried typing in "Therapy Without Boxes" and indeed, your profile came up!
@George Kao I'm trying to search for members using the term mindfulness. I found quite a few in the search, but they seem to come up without a name and not clickable.
@George Kao What you can't see in the screenshot is that when I put the cursor over the "no title" instead of the cursor arrow changing into a clickable pointing hand, it turns into a an input cursor like this.
Thank you George. I found it very difficult to upload a good picture and kept having to resize it....and in the end, chose a mini image! The lovely photo of Helen on your guide there, looks totally different in orientation that Simplero (my end) seems to allow. Her photo is large whereas in general, the profile pics are mini! But at least we can have an idea of someones smile!
Is there a directory of members? What about filters? Filtering interests and location, for example.
Anyhow, I would love to connect with individuals in themmental health field who are interested in non-pathologising healthcare.
Can you help?
@Margo Helman interesting... can you show me a screenshot? 🙏🏼
@Margo Helman interesting! I've sent the bug onto Simplero and we'll see what they say :)
Here's a special URL to search members ... you can change out the word that's bolded:
https://learn.georgekao.com/search?q=mindful&content_type=site_member
or add a + and another word, e.g.
https://learn.georgekao.com/search?q=mindful+therapy&content_type=site_member
Looking forward to connecting! Nice to meet you all ;>
I can't wait to connect with many of the amazing people that you have gathers in your programs@George Kao
What a blessing!
Thank you George. I found it very difficult to upload a good picture and kept having to resize it....and in the end, chose a mini image!
The lovely photo of Helen on your guide there, looks totally different in orientation that Simplero (my end) seems to allow. Her photo is large whereas in general, the profile pics are mini! But at least we can have an idea of someones smile!