Rhaid i chi. Si'n meddwl, Simon Nelson is now almost a year since I was summoned over the road from where I was normally doing business, which was in the MTV building in Holy Crescent in Camden, to meet Martin Bean in the Open University, vice-chancellor of the Open University, in the Open University building on Holy Crescent. ac ydych chi'n gweld i'r acronym Ym Mwg yn ymdegwyd. Rydych chi'n gwybod i'ch gweithio ar gyfer hynny. Rydych chi'n gwybod i'ch gweithio ar gyfer y ffugyr maen nhw yn ymryd deisio a'r angen. Dyma'r gweithio sy'n gwybod i'ch gweithio, Ond mae'n ystod am ystod i'r ymddir i gyd yn y cael ei ddeilid. Ei'r gwrth ag ymddir i'r gwaith ymddir i'r gweithio'r panthau. A'r gweithio'r panthau yn y rŷn, mae ei fod yn y ddau. Ond mae'n mynd i ddod oherwydd a'r Gymru, ond mae'n amddir i'r gwaith ymddir i'r gwaith ymddir i'r gwaith ymddir i'r gwaith?  I hope in it I'm not going to teach a room of world class learning technologists to suck eggs but I probably will from time to time please forgive me if you have to give me a few minutes to so that I am going to do well. I hope in it, I'm not going to teach a room of world class learning technologist to suck eggs, but I probably will from time to time. Please forgive me if I do and remind you of some of the basics, like the fact that future learns a platform for online learning, and we sort of put MOOCs within that. I don't say we're exclusively a MOOC platform because I think MOOCs is such an early and emergent market that I think this thing could go in a number of different directions. But it's definitely an exciting start point for us. I suspect that this room knows what a MOOC is, but our own interpretation, large numbers of students open to work. Two to six hours study a week, six to ten weeks duration, and a high degree of social interaction involved. We have, I hope, a pretty simple and clear vision of what we're trying to do. Inspiring learning for life through, telling stories, provoking conversation, and celebrating progress. Of those three points, the most controversial whenever I've spoken to academics or partners is always the first one, telling stories, but I therefore leave it in very deliberately because I think it provokes exactly the kind of conversation we should be having about how to use the platform of the web to deliver new forms of learning. And it's also a bias to my previous 15 years at the BBC, where I was certainly not, I wouldn't take all the credit that Hughes has given me for the development of the iPlayer, but I was certainly heavily involved in that and the interactive web services for radio and TV. So we delivered through, hopefully, an expertise in distance and online learning, drawn from our founder, our owner, the Open University. But also that area of broadcast storytelling, a lot of my team have got that BBC background. But also I'm bringing in digital start-up people, very grounded in the new social tools and technologies that we believe can really bring this thing to life. And the marriage of those three areas is always the easiest thing, but that, for me, is what future learn is about, and that's what the beauty of our ownership structure and our relationship with the Open University potentially gives us. So I'm able to draw on world-class talent from the academic side of the Open University. Mike Sharples, my academic lead, drawing on world-class experts like Simon Buckingham-Shum in the area of learning analytics. And as I say, my background, media, Martin Bean, my chairman, vice-chancellor of the OU, education technology. So if we can get those sort of things working well together, and I think we have done so far, then I think we're onto something, particularly if we can exploit these amazing relationships that we've been able to build up so far. So 26 partners, 23 UK, three international, and the latest to come on board, University of Auckland, Newcastle and Liverpool, but an extremely powerful group of universities, in my view, and I think increasingly starting to see some of the collaborative potential of this grouping. I'm very clear that with FutureLearn we're nothing without our partners, and actually we have to be really, really good at building a product and a platform for online learning, but also at working with these partnerships, because if we do that then I do think there's very exciting innovations that are going to come out from the collective partnership. There are a whole range of different motivations, I think, that bring those partners within the FutureLearn family, but I think the potential for global reach is a key common driver, but also that opportunity to experiment in a new MOOC landscape and experiment in terms of online learning, online delivery of their existing expertise. I sort of class these five broad motivations as some combination of each, I think powers most of our university partners. It's not only academic partners. We have three high class content partners who we're working with, and our vision for these is to use them toward men, the content, the courses that are coming out of the universities, but also potentially to co-create some of those courses and to place the actual online learning at the heart of a broader online knowledge offer, drawing in the digital archives of, for example, the museum, the library, etc. Behind these there's a whole range of other potential partners, cultural content commercial, who are interested in working with the university sector to bring these new forms of learning to life. I don't have the BBC up there, but it won't surprise you to know I've been working quite hard on them over the last year. Two weeks ago they announced the first collaboration with FutureLearn and its universities as part of its centenary of World War I commemorations. So we're working on the first potential courses to come out of there. So not only cultural corporate bodies, so first commercial corporate partner, British Telecom, and I'd say that my approach to British Telecom, as with those first three content partners, is about piloting different ways of working with the universities and then using what we learn from them to open up to a wider range of potential partners. So watch this space there. So we're up and running. Our first courses are out there at the moment. Course four launched this week. The mind is flat from the University of Warwick. And we'll be running eight in total by the back end of this year. And as I say, Web Science starts on Monday. And I'm very much enjoying the experience of working through some of these courses. So we're not in here just to copy this emerging MOOC landscape. We do think we can bring something new. We think we can bring something fresh, something different to this area. If we really exploit those partnerships with our universities and bring that open university and social web development together. So we're particularly excited about the idea of transforming the convenience and accessibility of learning and making it available at times of the day. And on devices and in locations where traditionally people wouldn't have had the opportunity to learn. So we really prioritise mobile learning. We've made sure that we've developed the whole future learning platform in a responsive way so that it renders appropriately on small mobile phone devices of tablet, as well as on the desktop or laptop. And surprisingly, I think that already puts us a little ahead of the game of some of the existing providers out there, although I'm sure they're catching up very quickly. There's a lot further to go in here. I want to be providing offline access in some way, not least for myself. A metro system of London, of course, is the perfect environment to get through some of those six-minute videos. So watch this space on there. And we're also intrigued by some of the other potential that native app environments could provide us. I want to emphasise we've launched in beta. We've done that very deliberately. I would say that I'm incredibly proud of the beta product we put out there, but I'd say at the moment it's the foundations of what future learning is going to become. It's not the end product. And in some ways, I sort of think we maybe should always stay in beta because I'm never getting rid of my development team. There's always going to be the next innovation to come. We're always going to be learning from what happened in the last month and hopefully iterating rapidly that product in order to get it better. I'll talk a bit more about that in a bit. But, as I say, you can now go to future learning. I'm hoping many of you will also have a second experience. So learners can just go on and join that course. As I say, I think we've got... The thing I asked my team to prioritise was the foundations, the core architecture. I remember at the BBC, I'm very proud of a huge amount of stuff that we built and developed and the audiences we reached, the innovations we reached and so on. But there are a few things that I just could never do well. One of them was mobile and another one was social. And that's because I was building on a legacy system, a sort of Frankenstein technology platform that had started in 1997 with the BBC News site. In fact, the original architect of that site was my lead technologist at the start of this project because the thing has managed to grow to however many tens of millions of pages or whatever based on that same architecture that was designed at the beginning. But to then actually turn that oil tanker to do social simply and well was almost impossible. So the priority for the team has been fewer bells and whistles, but get that functionality, get that architecture in place so that we can grow, we can build on it, et cetera. I think they've done that superbly. So the sort of core architecture is once-to-do list with hopefully a clear representation of the course structure, how many weeks are where you are in that cycle at the moment, you've got your steps underneath, you can watch an individual bit of video, read an article, join in a discussion, and once you've done that, you're self-complete by marking something as complete and that then tracks back to your to-do list. You can see what you've done, what you've still got to do, what's coming up next, et cetera. Again, a huge amount we're learning about this area from our first experiments with it really. How does it feel if you've only ticked off three quarters of week one and week two has already begun? How do we communicate to the learner that that's sort of okay? Is it okay for the course structure? And then what counts as complete? So these are very interesting questions for us. We've heavily prioritised, as I say, these aspects of social learning. We think that learning together is one of the key opportunities that the web offers to develop on where we're coming from. I've been absolutely blown away by the first real learner reaction to these features.  There are basically long discussions. It's very hard to filter at the moment. We haven't got the opportunity for small group discussion. I promise you all of this is coming. We have all sorts of ways that we're going to be able to manage large amounts of social activity. We decided we're in beta, we want to get this out there. The reaction's been amazing. The volume of take-up, the quantity and quality of discussion in these environments, again vindicating I think some of the early decisions we took to place the discussion at the heart of the content rather than send people off into different environments to discuss a chat, et cetera. But if you go through one of our courses, then I think you really do find, and there's something about anyone who's been involved with the MOOC development, and I'm sure there's Amy from Edinburgh at the back there who's been one of the UK pioneers in this area. I'm sure you'll agree. There is a moment where you actually see real people in there talking, and it brings it to life in a way that's quite inspiring, really thrilling, and particularly on something so global. I mean you get people introducing themselves. I'm from Peru, I'm from Korea, I'm from Nigeria, I'm from China. I want to learn this, I'm here for this. I work part-time doing this and have time in the evening. I'm trying to navigate around my two-year-old toddler helping me do this. It's brilliant the way you see this come to life and the communities that build around it. As I say, we're scratching the surface of what's possible here at the moment. Our first basic filtering techniques are in there. We're drawing on the principles from social media that we believe the core audience is very familiar with, so the ability to follow people who you're particularly interested in and be able to then filter your discussions by filtering the social activity you view by the people you follow. I'll show you a couple of things that are coming soon as well in that area. Our first assessment tools are in place and the key here is to try and use these as formative experiences, so try and develop learning, not just test it. It's interesting working with bringing together those different cultures in my team. There have been times when the web development side has come at an issue like assessment and multiple-choice quizzes and gone, how hard can that be? Then we've brought in the pedagogic experts from the OU and we've got a bit to learn about this. Again, that fusion of those skills is challenging because we're trying to do this in a MOOC environment, in a free environment, so finding the right area to pitch this at is key, but we're also there. We know that we've got the brands of the Open University and all our partners behind us, so we want to make damn sure that what we're putting out there is quality. I think in just something as basic as multiple-choice quizzes at the moment, we have put a lot of thinking into it, into the ability, how many tries people get for an individual question, what happens when they get one right or wrong, making sure that we provide hints from the educator, send people back to the areas where they might be able to go over their learning again in order to get that right, track their progress through and score appropriately. Again, these are our first weeks of this. We're still learning what works, what's appropriate, etc. But again, in all of these areas, we're just looking to pick them off and do them well, but appropriately for a MOOC space. So coming soon, and you can imagine my day job is tied up with a roadmap of things we could do, and making sure we prioritise those appropriately. But one of the things that's starting to come in now is little innovative test assess in those kind of areas, and we've got other demands for, for example, audio inquisits and audio testing and comparison and video, etc. And also, there's innovative HTML5 apps, etc. that we want to embed into some of our courses to enable us to really exploit the interactive potential of the medium, so to do some, you know, whizzy, funkier stuff around content coming soon. Peer review and assessment. So peer review, we're going to be starting with, that's a heavy priority for us, because again, we think that that hits several sweet spots of where we believe the MOOC space has to be and not least our social aspects of utilising the crowd. So these are, you know, early designs for what's coming. And actually it's going to be tested quite shortly. We are hoping, maybe with Southampton. So then some of those aspects of, you know, actually utilising these crowds in slightly more sophisticated ways. So group discussions, again, that's an early priority. And then there are much more ambitious, sophisticated ways that we could do this. Forms of jigsaw learning argue, graph some of you will be familiar with those concepts. And we definitely, you know, I have people like Mike Sharples just ready to unleash themselves on the tools we give them in order to try and innovate in these kind of areas. Filtering those discussions. So one of the things that we found in our alpha test was that there was a person going around all the comments and replying to lots of them going, just saying like. And he just dotted all around and kept saying like, like, like, like. We thought, oh, okay, maybe we need a like button.  Just want to, you know, hit like.  And critically, you know, one of the things I'm really, it's really coming home to me. We already was there, you know, celebrating progress is a key part of our vision. But, you know, trying to understand what a learner's targets are, what success means for them, moving beyond the sort of crude, you know, retention completion rates that are sort of, you know, that the media is obsessed by potentially correctly, but there's something more sophisticated going on in here. And if we design these courses in the right way, then, you know, some people are going to come in and get, you know, chunks of learning that actually we should celebrate, we should maybe reward them for. And we're trying to find interesting ways to sort of visualise and use a learner's data, play it back to them so that they can, to improve their own experience and set their own targets. Data, let's say, is the lifeblood of the future learn-offer. Go back to the BBC again. You know, 15-year-old platform, basically powering BBC, getting sophisticated data and analytics. Never mind then reacting rapidly to it. Again, really, really difficult for a legacy business. Future learn doesn't have that excuse and has all of that opportunity. So we're putting heavy emphasis on what we can do here and we just see the benefits for learners, for the educator themselves, partners as a whole, and for future learner products and the company as manifold and actually critical to our success. So helping learners to track progress, set targets, understand how they're doing. Educators, you know, if we get the right kind of dashboards in front of them, provide them with dynamic and powerful data, then they will help to improve the courses we are making. For partners, no doubt that this is an opportunity to reach new students and to reach out into parts of the world where the traditional physical university has not been able to. But also all of them are interested in the research potential of this big learning data, and we're trying as a partnership to find the right ways to collaborate and to make those opportunities available. And then, of course, for future learn, we have to be a learning operation. We have our first learners on the platform. What are they telling us? What questions are they asking? So I'll give you a few that are exercising me at the moment. I will say, I don't think there's any... What one of the things about this area is, I don't believe there's a one-size-fits-all solution to what a MOOC is, but I do think there's stuff we can learn from everything we're doing. In the first few weeks, we have had a 10-week course start. We've had a two-week course start and finish. We've had a six-week and eight-week course. I'm very interested to see what we can learn about the different rates of progress through there. I spoke about that number of steps that people are doing per week. What's appropriate? How do you structure a course in case the majority of people are getting three-quarters of the way through an individual weaker step?  Video characteristics and length. I was going through a course the other day and watched an incredibly stimulating seven-minute piece of video that then was confronted with an 11-minute piece of video. And just in my own head, a trigger went, I just can't justify that time now. There's just something about understanding ideal durations, ideal scheduling of a course, understanding the rhythms and pattern of the learner. Again, no one-size-fits-all solution, but you can imagine the depth and quality of data that's going to be coming back course by course and across the whole piece. Marketing and scheduling courses. Scheduling is a word I've used a lot bringing it in from TV. I remember when I moved from BBC Radio to BBC TV, I was blown away by this engine they had of planning and scheduling, planning, commissioning and scheduling courses.  Then they commissioned and went over everything with a fine tooth comb through a very long production process, etc. And then, in terms of knowing exactly who would be there at what time, what they would be interested in, what else they might be doing, this was down to an art. Some would say they've actually replaced some of the art with science in doing that, but if you can get the right balance, it's amazingly effective. We're nowhere near that yet. Again, as a partnership as an operation, I want to get into much more of a dialogue with all of our partners about understanding what works here, what learner appetite is, what learners we're after. And then, all of us learning how to market to them. Because there's a web science course starting on Monday. Does everyone who would be interested in that know that the early stages here were in beta? But you know what, that is a key discipline we all need to learn. And actually, it's not something that is traditionally, I think, in our maker. Titling.  You'll see others that may be done or a bit more confusing, et cetera. We cannot just translate the traditional university course titles, et cetera, into this environment. To be fair, I don't think anyone really is, but we need to get good at this. How open should we be? So this is one of the things that's in my lifeblood and the rest of the team is actually making things open, discoverable, shareable. But it's sort of like a paywall argument with a newspaper. How much should you open up pre-registration so that you can really take the benefits of that discoverability that the web can offer? But then we encourage people or even force them to register in order to take part of the whole experience. I'm running out of time. Use of email, key marketing tool, we need to get really good at it. Learner expectations and targets, that's progression I've spoken about. From all of that, what are the right metrics to measure success or failure for this? Because I think it's a lot more sophisticated than some of the traditional ones out there in the market. First demographics, so pretty balanced, pretty typical. I think Helen is going to give a bit more insight into some of the learners that she's had on the power of brands. So I'll just leave that for a second while you take your photo. And then I'll move on and end with the only stats I'm sort of putting out there publicly at the moment. So we actually got 20,000 people in the first 24 hours, but I've just adapted it to say 25,000 people in the first day or so after launch because it juxtaposes beautifully with something that my chairman said to me, which is that in its first year after foundation, the Open University had 25,000 students. And so I think in just over a day, future learn registered 25,000 people from over 150 countries. I find that dead exciting as I do the whole future learn proposition. Thank you for your time and I'm happy to take some questions.


Welcome back to Why In The Morning, and if you're a follower of Why In The Morning, and entrepreneurship Tuesday in particular, you know that we try to give you tips on how to make some back, and forex trading is not an exception. We have had discussions on forex trading here before, but today we take it a notch higher. We have the one familiar face and his teacher on set, Mr. Kadengelenin, and David all the way from Dallas. Karibu Nisana. Pleasure. I hope umum pundisha yata Karibu. Yes, he knows Karibu. Jambo. Jambo. Alright, so since you're done, you can introduce yourself. Your camera is number four. Alright, good morning. So my name is David Hoyt. Most people know me as Mr. G.J., because I'm known for trading one particular currency pair, Great Britain Pound versus the Japanese Yen. I'm originally from Freeport, Gran Bahama. I reside in Dallas, Texas, for the past 17 years. Recently, this year, I've been full time in trading in the foreign exchange market, and I'm just grateful to be here in Kenya for the first time to just share my knowledge that I've been able to accumulate from the market. Alright, what do you love so far about Kenya so much? Ah, the food. The food? Which one in particular? It was some meat and beef where I had to eat it with my hand.  Was Ugalida as well? I hope there was some Ugalida. Yes, yes. Ugalida was that. Welcome to Kenya, and enjoy your stay. Lenin, wana kujwa wengine, lakini wengine, maybe wana kuna for the first time, so your camera is number three there. You can introduce yourself. Okay, I'm Lenin Kadenge, and I'm a forex trader. Since the beginning of this year, I've been doing it full time, and it's a pleasure again to be with you once again. Alright, Mr. Lenin, is this your first time meeting your teacher in person? Yes, this is my first time meeting him in person. Unlike the other times we have been interacting and meeting online, but now this is my first time and I'm very happy to have him around. You're very happy to have him around? I'm very happy to have him around as well. Yes. How does it feel like to meet people you've interacted with online and you've impacted some knowledge in them and they've used it to propel their lives forward? Now you can see it in living color. How does it feel? It's a priceless feeling because day in, day out, with technology nowadays, we do meetings that's called Zoom, where everybody around the world just logs on and you can actually interact with each other, show them what you're teaching them, they can show you what they're trying to learn through the screens. It's kind of like you know them in person, so when the first time I walked out of the airport, it was so much love like I met them for the longest. So you know it's just a priceless feeling that you know, you're able to impact so many lives all over the world and now to come here and see, you know yesterday we were just trading in one room and people, everybody was making money and the smiles and the excitement that everybody have from learning this skillset that a few months or maybe a year ago nobody had a clue on how to do it. So it's a priceless feeling. All right, so what was your journey? How did you get into Fox Trading yourself before we get to you were teaching out of it? So you know I'm 31 years old, I've been around money from the age of 20 from the insurance industry. So I was not shy on basically investing. I was scared to invest and take a risk. So when this opportunity came to me about trading, I was eager to learn how to do it because everybody told me that you can make money from your cell phone and on your laptop and 90% of the day my cell phone is in my hand. So I was able to capitalize on learning how to trade off of my cell phone and make a lot of money for my cell phone instead of helping other people make money from avenues that you use on your phone. So it was pretty decent. Like that whole topic on Instagram and comment. Absolutely. I didn't want to call it out. All right, I said it for you. I said it for you. All right, so how long did it take you to learn before you felt like, okay, I think I can help other people. So when I started the platform was basically we would learn from IAM Academy where we had a mentor, her name is Dr. Cathy Kirkland and she would jump on early morning sessions where she actually trained you how to trade and help you get into the market. So basically I did that for three months before I even understood what the market looked like. Kind of look like an EKG machine at the hospital and after three months basically.  Yeah, it is at the beginning and it's normal but because it's something foreign that you don't have no clue about. So I did it for about three months and I just got a wake up call where I needed to learn how to trade by myself and not depend on anybody else to help me make money. So I was able to dive into the market. I have a buddy in the Bahamas Jamal Green that basically he dissected the information in the academy and then a few other mentors that I was able to come up with my own strategy where now there's thousands of people that's following that strategy. So to be able to do that within two years for me that's more of accomplishment because I had no clue how to trade. Now I don't brag too much of myself but I'm probably one of the best scout traders out there right now. All right, I like that. I like the confidence as well. And Lenin has shared with me before that anybody can learn how to trade as long as you have the basic arithmetic knowledge. Can you reinforce that? Absolutely, now here's the thing. Nothing in life we're having comes easy. So you have to put in the work. So the work is actually education.  Well in this you're basically learning the skill set. Once you learn the skill set nobody can take it away from you. It's kinda like riding a bike. Once you learn how to ride a bike as a child no matter how old you are you can always jump on that bike and ride. Even if you have the same thing as well. All right, I like. So Mr. Lenin, when I look at forex traders you guys move as a unit. You guys have the love so much. You share a lot of information. What is the importance of networking when it comes to this business? Cause you guys move as a group most of the time when I interact with you. I think the importance of us moving as a group and the networking aspect of it is what I normally call the third eye cause the market is so huge. There is something in the market I might have noticed that maybe someone else can have a different view of it. So having that different view on how to go about the market and then putting that together cause at the end of the day there is a phrase he likes using that in the market always the house will always win but if you put your synergy together as a team you are definitely going to say this is the guy we are targeting and so if all we come together and then we are able to come and win together as a team. So together you are stronger together you have more information together you have different perspectives together you are wiser That is what you see. Cause there is a strategy he knows there is a strategy, a weekly of knowledge there is a strategy I know so you will really want to look at it when you want to make a fair decision either to buy or sell or to enter into this market if there is a confirmation of both your strategy that now this is the direction to take then you go into that market with a lot of confidence. Wonderful, which leads to my next question and now we have the imagines of artificial intelligence and some people are claiming that I can sit and computer software can do the trading for me. Is this true? So you have systems where you could actually put a strategy in a system where the system actually helps you make that decision. I don't recommend just having a robot to call the trades for you it's just because you don't want to be dumbfounded about the market because the market repeats itself and you have to analyze the market yourself to make the decision whether you're going to buy that currency or you're going to sell a currency. So I always look at it as it helps you out but it doesn't make the decision for you so I wouldn't basically just focus on letting the system it's supposed to support. There you go. All right, it's not meant to do the trading for you. Do you have anything to add on this? I think it's key because you look at again the aspect I'll ask the aspect of learning you have invested in education so you would really want to make use of that education in terms of what is it that I can help or what is it that I can do towards really utilizing the knowledge I have acquired. Again, if you go to the robot way you're just becoming lazy and it is like he has said it is there just to help is like for example right now we're in the digital world we just can't sit back and say now we are in the digital world let everything be handled by machines and robots. It's hard. It's hard, we can never do that for sure. All right, why 254 Shandlon Twitter why 254 underscore Shandlon Instagram and why 254 Facebook is the way to interact with us if you have any questions bring them our way and remember we have a question on Facebook are you preparing for your retirement that is a question on Facebook so we are looking forward to your feedback we'll be sampling them towards the end of the show so back to you my people it is said that in when there's tension when there's that this market thrives on tension absolutely is it's true so the market, the way the market works you have certain different currency pairs that's volatile that has high volume in some currency pairs that don't for example Great Britain and the US dollar kind of fluctuates a lot in the market depending on the economy politics if you have information or news that came out that can make the market volatile and basically when the market is volatile some people can capitalize and make a ton of money when the market moves so is a good thing when you do have the tension and you have news that makes that happen because if you're in the right direction and you analyze the market right you can make a lot of money Alright then where are the ethics then so so what I usually recommend is regardless of what's going on in the countries I recommend following your strategy so when you follow a strategy it doesn't matter what's going on in the world so for example right now we're dealing with Brexit so Brexit it fluctuates the market a lot if we have a no Brexit deal then the Great Britain pound would basically drop to the ground but if you're analyzing the market with your strategy even if it drops you can capitalize on making money in either direction so it doesn't matter what direction the market is going you just have to know what direction you need to be in is either going to go in a buy or go in a sell and you make money in any direction so a lot of people they get confused with the stock market with the stock market they teach you to buy low and sell high with the foreign exchange market you just have to make money in whatever direction it's going you just have to be in that direction so that is the main difference between forex trading and the stock trading so in forex trading you make money either way buying or selling and the stock market your thoughts out to buy at low and sell at high the major difference thank you very much for that information right there alright so recently I'd like to get your opinions on this we had since your currency professionals we have the west African the eco us talking about having a single currency and doing away with the with the old currencies and having one currency called the eco and some people are hopeful about this some people are not really hopeful about this some people feel like the french colonies are going to be transferring the part to Nigeria since it's the biggest economy there and what not do you think it's the right step towards economic freedom for west africa I think again it all depends with the economic block of each and every region having in mind that in the west african region they thrive so much on oil and we have gold and cocoa if you find out that these commodities are part of the larger market in the world then when they come together it's a plus they are basically putting their resources together and coming on the table and saying we are coming into this market we also have a say when it comes to issues of oil or it comes to issues of gold or cocoa because they are thinking that they are the third largest in the world so when they come out that and like I said in the beginning unity definitely gives you a voice and so to me as they continue to pursue that they are pursuing that with the fact in mind that they have what it takes to move for their voice to be heard so unity is always the way unity is always the way for you I won't put you on the spot so much maybe these are african issues you don't understand them but maybe you can give us what you think so with that he can't answer that it's kind of the same thing with any country when you decide to put your foot down and take responsibility for your country you have a say and most of the time when you have a say the people have a say so with different things you said cocoa and gold by you guys having that here if they decide to go with one currency I would strongly recommend it that's just my take on that make some stronger for sure it's time for the moment of truth ever since we started this conversation people have people have complained a little bit that we never show them how to do this thing for sure so we'd be having a demonstration led by the teacher himself and yes we have the first slide on screen so today you learned how to retreat on why and the morning and Mr.Lenin you had a disclaimer before we we start this I think the disclaimer is basically what we are showing you is out of the strategy because again as you go into the market you need to have a strategy that you need to follow so my strategy will work for me until the time whereby I'm saying it doesn't work but again if you just hook on it quickly and maybe along the way it seems it doesn't work for you and you are kind of I think Lenin gave me a wrong strategy and then that is the disclaimer this is someone else strategy until you come to a point whereby you have your own like we normally say marry your own that is when you can say now this is working for me but whatever we are going to show is basically a strategy that again is subject to someone again having a different opinion on it so we have the disclaimer right there without much further ado let's get it so what platform is this first so right now what we are looking at is basically a free platform that is called trading view most traders they basically use this to analyze the trade analyze the market maybe mark up their charts from here the platforms that we usually use is called MT4 which is MetaTrader 4 and this is simply done on your cell phone where you can actually enter and exit a trade or if you decide to do it on your laptop you can download the MT4 MetaTrader 4 on your laptop so trading view is basically where we usually go and just analyze the market mark it up and make our decisions there alright thistradingview.com yes yep so what are you looking at right now is basically if you look to the top left it basically says GBPUSD that stands for Great Britain Pound versus the Japanese I mean the US dollar so right now you have to the bottom of the screen is the RSI stands for Relative Strength Index what this do is this measures the market on the volatility so for example when I'm teaching my students with this particular indicator any time the market is over 70 on the RSI that means it is overbought and if something is overbought what is it going to do go into a buy so this is just a small indication that could help you make a decision either to buy or sell also we have on the screen where you have a cloud it's called Ichimoku Kinko Haigo and basically this indicator basically is a one glance equilibrium where it measures the market on the RSI and we make our decisions in the market from that indicator and there's a few other things in there on the screen basically on the there you go we're back so there's a few other things that we look with the indicator you have something called a TK cross which is the Tkinsen and the Kinjinsen and what that is and also if you're going to jump in a buy or sell Tkinsen and Kinjinsen we call it the Tk cross basically it's a red and blue line and basically it tells you if the red line is just simple if the red line is above the blue line you look to buy if the red line is below the blue line you look to sell and this is just another form of indications that can help you so I usually tell everyone to make sure that the indicators that you go with because the stronger your confirmation the stronger the chances you're going to come out and profit in the market what is the maximum number of indicators I can go with I always recommend maybe 3 to 4 or 3 to 4 but ideally what is the maximum number as much as you want to learn so indicator is just basically something that would help you follow a strategy you can have as much indicators as you want but you would be confused because there's so much information behind each indicator alright so the Tk what do you call it? the Tk cross the Tk cross basically stands for the Tkinsen which is the red line and the Kinjinsen which is the blue line so the Tkinsen is basically the signal line it tells you the direction of the candles so you have candle sticks that's basically you have buyers and the market fighting that's really what it is and basically the Tkinsen which is the red line tells you the direction of the candles alright so maybe in brief the 4 indicators some 4 indicators that you go with so basically so the Ikimoku kinkohayo which is the cloud that's basically indicated that we use the relative strength index which is the RSI that's another indicator we use that goes with the cloud I use the Tk cross which is the red and blue line so for example like I said if it goes if the red cross above that's a buy if the red cross below that's a sell and then also dealing with the cloud every time you have a dip in the cloud it considers it like a magnet so a magnet does what pull towards so it pulls the candles towards the cloud wonderful out of this what we are seeing on screen some trade has been absolutely so for example the market here this is GBPUSD so most we have probably thousands of people that basically as in this trade right now we went in it for a sell this morning so everybody will be sitting now waiting for it to hit our take profit and when you hit a take profit it's kind of like a payday for you it's a payday this can happen multiple times throughout the day alright so how long do you have to it just depends on the market sometimes this thing can hit in seconds sometimes it can hit in minutes sometimes it can take days but you know in seconds it can definitely happen especially when we talked about volatility in the market so if you have news that comes out basically that would help to trade hit faster another thing I learned from Lenin if you are patient in this business absolutely if you are not patient you will learn patience alright what do we have on screen right now so basically this is off of your cell phone this is what you call MetaTrader 4 so if you see the logo to the top left that's what you can actually go to your app store and download now here's the thing we can show you and give you this information but you have to learn it because if you just go in and try to figure this out you'll be completely lost and this is where the education part comes in but what you have on the left is the quotes and that's basically the currency pairs that is one country versus the next country and like I told you in the beginning the economy politics those things affect that particular country so what it's telling you is for example to the top you have AUD CHF you have AUD CAD that's the Australian dollar versus the Canadian dollar so that means ok for example in Australia if something positive comes out news wise it would strengthen the Australian dollar and it would weaken the Canadian dollar it's like a fight you against somebody else and basically that's all it's doing so like the next one is AUD JPY which is the Australian dollar same thing if something comes out that weakens the Australian dollar then the Australian dollar would drop against the Japanese yen and the Japanese yen would go up against it so in that example you would want to be in a sell and that's how you basically jump in trades I like that so it's basically me watching a fight analyzing the fight who's winning who's strong so this would be step number 2 so the first step would be you choose the pair that you're going to trade the second step would be basically entering your margin so if you talk on the market execution you have 0.05 now this is the key thing that when I'm training I tell people to focus on that is called a lot size and that number fluctuates depending on your account balance so one of the biggest questions that people always have is how much money do you make from doing it your lot size is going to determine the amount of money you make from it and we train everyone to use 1-3% of their account balance to actually enter and exit the market so all the lot size is is the currency unit you're going to buy or sell so you encourage people to use what percentage absolutely 1-3% is proper risk management because if you don't you could have a bad day so 1-3% make sure it gives the market time to move everybody is a perfect trader for example what goes up must do what and what goes down absolutely you're a great trader now I love it what do you always do right now so right here is basically after you get into a trade you have the trades this is the third step this is great news if the trade is done you basically made money so for example you see to the top GBP versus JPY that's the Greg Britton pound versus the Japanese yen so basically he went in that trade at 5 cents 0.05 and if you look to the far right he made $3.72 from that trade so the 0.05 is what we said the lot size is so that determines the amount of money you make from that that number is the more you would make on the far right this is like the end result so when we look at the end result of this what I do is I tell everyone you have to trade and think like the banks because the banks do this every day every day you're asleep they're in the market trading making money on your money while you're asleep they take the profit keep the profit and put your money back in the bike that's a fact so that is what the banks do every country that's how the banks make their money and I can do that with my own money you can do it with your own money in the bank I can do it with my own money in the bank no they do it for you but say I want to trade and I want to put some money in it so you have a broker that you would basically have it's a platform that you would use each country I know you guys have a few brokers over here that you use but you would deposit into a broker and the broker it's like a bank in a sense so you deposit your money into a broker the broker syncs with this app that's called MetaTraderForce so they're communicating with each other you go in the market, you trade you make money if you're ready to withdraw you would draw back through the broker back into your bank account when I'm investing my money in the bank we have KDIC they insure the deposits when I deposit money it's insured by a body so that when the bank messes up I can still get my money if it's over a period of time so is my money safe when I put it under this broker so would the broker he could explain more about the brokers you guys have with the broker for example the two brokers we have in the country is very safe guaranteed because again they are capital market authority regulated and so CMA having a forex an online forex department basically oversees that to see to it that whatever monies we deposit with the broker is very safe when I look at my balance in C1000 shillings and 83 cents the 83 cents doesn't really matter to me as much but the 83 cents matters so much when it comes to this treaty absolutely I tell everybody every penny counts because you have something called compound interest so like I was explaining with the banks for example if you were to get a mortgage on a house you would get a 20-30 year mortgage and within that time frame with the compound interest you're going to pay almost 2-3 times with the house's work when you have pennies that you could compound into larger amounts any amount any profit is a good profit that's what I tell all my students because here's the thing that's money you didn't have so for example let's just say you was to put 1000 Kenyan shillings in the bank if you just put it in the bank and you left it in the bank for a month at the end of the month how much would you have there depends on the type of account if it's just a regular checking account that you may have a fee I don't know if you guys have fees over here bank fees but if you just leave the money in the bank it's not going to grow in a current account obviously so I always tell all the students think like if you have that money in a bank where it's not growing anything even if you was to make $5 or basically a 5% growth in that in the market that's still a plus so the 83 cents I love every penny I can get from it every penny counts when it comes to trading so how can people get to this level you guys are at with the trading from scratch somebody who has never traded before is watching us right now and would like to be like you guys so what I would recommend for somebody that haven't traded before is you have to put your mind to it that hey this is not it's nothing easy you have to put in the work to learn it's education so the education part of it is where we basically promote a company that's called IM Academy so that's what we actually do and through that academy it teaches you how to trade from not knowing anything about the market to being an advanced trader and like you put a disclaimer today and 2-3 months later you can be a better trader than me it doesn't matter who you are as long as you put in the work and you actually go and analyze the market from the knowledge and information you was able to get then basically the sky is the limit there's no cap on your money there's no cap on the knowledge you can receive from the market or from different academies basically that's what you shoot for so where we started was from IM Academy then depending on your growth for me basically I was able to build a brand where basically I have a huge fallen base that I train and that's MrGjPipWalking.com so if you wanted to go on MrGjPipWalking.com you could actually go and kind of see my journey from when I started to train and see what we do see the record right now the record from me and my system so that means 98% of the time we're profiting in the market 2% we're having a bad day and that's pretty strong in any anybody that's trading usually they tell you a good trader is 60% 40% that means you're winning 60% of the time and you're losing 40% of the time now I'm proud to say confident that we're 98% and you know just the experience of being in a different country you could do this anywhere in the world as long as you have Wi-Fi they picked me up from the airport a few days ago and from the airport to my hotel room when I was checked in I was wondering why he was sitting so close to me every trade I jumped in he jumped in the same trade he was making money with me on the way to the airport wow that's why we have him on set that's why we have him on set how can they get to the website again? to see your journey and your classes so the website is called MrGJ just look them straight into their eyes MrGJPipWalkin.com so M-R-G-J-P-I-P-W-A-L-K-I-N-G dot com and PipWalkin is something the terminology we use in the market Pip is basically you making money in the market PipWalkin P-I-V we are about to be PipWalkin before you go since you understand this country better than him during the elections one year to the elections and after the elections we always have problems in this country we are looking at history and it affects a lot of businesses affected by this kind of situation the geopolitical especially Kenya will not affect this market because we are dealing with an international market it's an international market platform whereby the only effects to this market are like he mentioned the super powers that is real, that is a fact because there are the guys who call shots in this market but whatever happens in this country as long as you are doing forex trading you are not touched at all so we can still trade trade trade the only day we can trade is on Christmas day on Christmas day but the rest of the days when it is a week day you are able to trade is that official actually no trading on Christmas day it's only on Christmas day wonderful thank you very much guys we are coming through looking forward to having you again Lenin looking forward to having you again as well but I should be back here next month on the 21st also if they miss you this time they can catch you next time thank you very much guys for coming we appreciate you forex trading is another way you can make so many cut a see of my friends Lenin and David on entrepreneurship Tuesday and the morning my name is Bymosis or it's bymosocial media we still have a question on our Facebook are you preparing for your retirement and how could I forget that I am 31 years old and right now the trip here was a last minute they told me to go ahead and come over I scheduled it today I was able to leave everything and just come and that's the thing financial freedom so right now I consider myself retired just sold to my studio right now I consider myself a 31 year old retired young man because like I told you when I got the call and they said we have an event set up for you within 2 days I was basically on a plane heading to Kenya and that is a part of financial freedom right there oh absolutely so what I am getting from you when we talk retirement they should not be looking at 65 or 70 years you can retire 31 years old this is what everybody it could be Kenya it could be the United States but what they teach you in school is the 40-40 plan basically you live 40 years of your life you go to work for 40 years to retire on 40% of your income and right now and I didn't want to forget there was a guy that I was introduced from Lenny and it was Dr. Sam and his whole vision of us trading me being able to train him was to impact 5000 Kenyan yukes and that vision and I just met Lenny for the first time met Dr. Sam for the first time and it's like you share that same passion where you want to change where you're from you want to change lives that was huge where he wants to change 5000 Kenyan yukes man and ladies by learning how to trade in the market because I think when we were having a conversation the average person here makes maybe $200-300 a month there is so much easy ways where you can basically make I made a statement with my friend over there yesterday while I was training a group and we were in a group I made $300 maybe a few hours and somebody has to wait for a whole month after a whole month and we were sitting down in a restaurant talking laughing, having fun amongst ourselves and trading making money on our cell phones and our computers and I was able to make that basically in a few hours and somebody worked a whole month and that was a small day because I was complaining she asked me if I had a good day trading and she was one of my slowest days ever and she made a statement she said no you should be grateful because somebody has to work a whole month the waitress here is not going to make that all month that's how you looked about that that's the passion that Dr. Sam, Lenny Helen everybody they want to change the kids lives people that are struggling in the economy that's working 40 years they don't have nothing to retire on you said that's the question are you going to get ready for your retirement most people aren't they can't and that's why you see after they retire at 60 they still have to go back and work again stats show that 96% of Kenyans pay that fee are forced to pay it only 4% pay it voluntarily which is worrying by the way thank you very much for the knowledge because you can retire at 31 you can retire at 35 you can retire at 40 you can define your own life you can define your own destiny when we talk retirement we are not talking about 65 or 70 years anymore I can't see your table Lenny here so be sure to head to our Facebook and answer that question we'll be sharing your opinion towards the end of the show don't cut that out


Hey everybody, it's Christian with another MVP Buzz Chat interview. I'm talking with Amy. Hello. Hey, how are you, Christian? It's great to see you.  Sure. Hey, I'm Amy Dolzene. I'm a office applications and services MVP going on, I think it's seven years. I can't remember. Six years, seven years, something like that. Six years, I think. Six years. I know time is folding in on itself. I am based in the Cleveland, Ohio area, and I work for Ernst & Young, or EY. I actually currently am the Americas Relationship Director for the alliance we have with Microsoft. So I'm in a completely new, completely new role. For those keeping score, that's essentially the exact same job as me. So there's two of us, we were just talking beforehand. Like if there's any of the else that are MVPs that are out there that are the alliance people for Microsoft Alliance, we want to start a support group. Yes, please. I spent the past three years in client serving, so I was helping our clients roll out Microsoft 365 and three years before that at EY, helping our EY internal people like help us roll out SharePoint and Yammer and our collaborative technologies. And prior to that, I was at a company called Lubrizol and rolling out Yammer to them and all kinds of other things. My background is certainly not in technology, but I have always had a huge passion for it. I often say practicality is my superpower because I love technology, but I love helping people find that really practical way to apply it to their everyday lives that will improve their work life in some small way. Rather than trying to see this big giant vision, like let's break it down to the practical thing you can do right now to improve your work life. It's always like the best content that's out there. I'd say a lot of the community that's been built, it's not about like Microsoft will come out and do the marketing spiel and talk about here's this gargantuan thing that we're releasing, but it's the industry folks, the MVPs, the customers that are out there, the people using it day in and day out sharing. Here's how I did this one thing, I solved this problem. That's like the best content out there. Yeah. I have this presentation that I give around how to really use that SharePoint site behind your team because people forget it's there and it's nothing that is like earth shattering. I'm not sharing like amazing technical tips. It's just if you've got this thing going, if you're working, if you're managing a project, you might benefit from this feature. If you need to record all your meetings, you might benefit from this kind of page. Just if you use Power BI or if you've got a dashboard and you need to show it to people, put it on your SharePoint site. There's like practical ways you can break down this enormously amazing vision that Microsoft has into your everyday life. One of the reasons why I love doing the productivity tips and Tom Duff and I, back when we used to do the webinars and I know we need to do some stuff again. It's been a while since I took the new job. It's me, Tom, not you. But one of the things that I love about giving those kinds of presentations, which really kind of goes back to a decade ago when I started doing a session SharePoint session called like the 10 features and 10 SharePoint features you're not using and then parentheses, but probably should. I see people's faces in this session and be like, you know, I heard of that. I heard of that. And the third thing I show, they're like, whoa, that's cool. I've never seen that before. Yeah. That's what I love about the productivity tips is that we might share 10 or 20 tips and somebody would be like, you know, I was like, I know that when I know that one, then there's that one that was like, that could change my, my productivity focus. It's fantastic. I love that. Yeah, me too. Because that's what it's, that's all about Amy. It's, it's changing people's lives for the better. Well, I like to think that, you know, we, we work hard, right? We work really hard. Someone say we save lives. I would never, I would not say that. I would say that I just try to bring a little bit of joy to my work life every day. And I like to share that joy with people. And even if it's the simplest little productivity tip, like, I don't know, when I learned, I don't know the control K tip. Like that. Oh my God. And I love sharing that. Or when I went, you know, just those kinds of things, I just like, I, I know I'm a bit of a geek. I guess that's why I'm an MVP.  But I nerd out on the little fun features that I find that really improve my work life. And I can't help but share them with other people so that other people could possibly benefit. I don't feel like I'm saving lives. I'm just trying to improve their day just a little bit. It's because we work really long hours. Not all of it is delightful. Let's find little ways that we can surprise and delight ourselves in these products every day that we're using cumulative effect where lives are saved. That's what I think that iterative steps. No, it's, but it's, but again, I mean, that's the important content to people have those conversations going back to like, you feeling like you're not able to connect with, with customers so much in the, in the new role. It's one of the things that I love about the community is exactly that sitting and talking with somebody like, well, what do you do? What do you do? It's like, what are your frustrations? Oh, have you, did you know about this feature or did you know about this? And people just again, your eyes go big and it's like, no, I'd never heard about that. Or, or, you know, I was just talking with somebody a couple of weeks ago who had that very same problem. Let me get you connected to them because they had a really interesting solution that we talked about and you guys probably connect. People love that. They're like, oh my God, how do you know so many people? I don't, I don't know. I just, they're my friends. They're people that we talk about Microsoft products with and we solve problems together and we geek out on it and we like it and you should really meet them. Once again, cumulative effect, saving lives. It's just, it's happening. One of the things which I find myself saying all the time, because I don't think there's a week that goes by that I am not pointing somebody to somebody else within the community. Somebody asked a question somewhere, but like, you should talk to this person or I might reach out to that person and say, go take a look at that post. This is what you, this is like your space, your world. That is something where what I find myself saying all the time is don't be shy to reach out, especially the MVPs. That should be the easiest connection to go and make. If you see Amy or I talking on a topic that you're interested in and we're not connected, connect with us. Absolutely. Let us know. That's what you just saw. Like, Amy, I just read your blog post on this or I saw that video. You were talking about this thing. Yeah, I know that video is five years old, but you were talking about that. What else can you tell me about that? Like, do it. Reach out. Do it. Absolutely. And that's, I think what people don't realize is we also didn't get here yesterday. Like, we took a long time to build those relationships, that cumulative effect that you just mentioned. It is about the very same things that we both did to the people that we were learning from at the time, reaching out and saying, Hey, I just read your blog post. Hey, I just read that on LinkedIn, you changed to this role. It's those little bits of outreach that build up this network of people that we've been able to collect as not just for networking, which I hate. It's about building relationships, it's about building community. And that is a thing that has taken years to get here. And we are happy, anybody out there, happy to help you along. Like, we will help you get connected to that other node that we haven't spoken to in five years, but we'll absolutely take our call because we helped each other five years ago, or we responded to something or we, you know, that kind of stuff. It's, it's meaningful. Yeah.  Because again, this social collaboration technology, these are people are hyper connected already. And so there's a certain, I don't know, mentality of people that were passionate about that group of, of tools and technology, even within the collaboration space, the SharePoint community, the Microsoft 365 community, you know, pretty, pretty tight net. So like that was a lot of your activity was around the Yammer side of things. So what's the latest in your Yammer journey? What's the latest that you have to share around? Oh my gosh, I am so excited about the official communities feature that just launched. I mean, I'm so happy about it. I'm so happy that we finally have that because while I love Yammer and I love, I actually embrace the chaos that can be Yammer because it's so creative and like anybody can create a group and anybody can do anything and you can make it whatever you want it can do so many things. There are times and places when you work at organizations, maybe say the size of mine, it's pretty big, where you need the opportunity to organize that chaos and make people feel safe because not everyone is as comfortable in a chaotic Yammer environment that many of us might be or in, you know, Twitter or LinkedIn, like people are not as comfortable in social, not like social media, they're not as comfortable with it. And even within their own organization, they're especially not comfortable with it. So finding those ways to help make people feel like I'm safe here. This is the official place I can get this answer. This is officially supported by my organization. I think is just, I'm so happy about that one. That's my favorite one that's coming out. Yeah. Well, it's a, it's one of those, my experience has been that, you know, people that are even just kind of like, yeah, I kind of don't get it or stuff until they do, until they need it. And then they suddenly find out it's like, wow.  And then a year or two later, somebody will ask a question and be like, you know, you got to search and see this and see all of that discussion and add to it and modify and update that. I will get, occasionally we'll get a question about something that I set out in Yammer six months ago, 12 months ago, and be like, well, let me update you. Somebody will ask a question, just like jump into that thread. And it really, for a lot of people, it was the first time where they really started to understand, like the knowledge management side of it wasn't just the documents that you were capturing, was all the contextual conversation, the conversations and things around that. I know that we have that in teams now. And there was again, some confusion around, well, does Teams has these pieces? Well, we're kind of doing that, you know, in Yammer. And I think what helped there is, are the integrations with outlook with teams. And that's proven out the fact that, you know, Yammer is back again, doing one of the most the fastest growing segments, products within Microsoft 365, which is great to see. People are starting to finally, I still like the inner loop, outer loop description. I still do. I don't. I still use it. Me too. Yeah. But yeah, Daryl Webster and I, we're just talking about this. And I was like, is that, we're talking about the, you know, the in the flow of work, like I get it. And I understand that with Microsoft loop and that discussion, I said, but I still am a fan of the inner loop outer loop and describing where each of these things are. Cause I think it just fits. But that, I think people, more and more people are starting to really understand where the pieces fit together. We, my organization, AdPoint has, we have our SharePoint Internet. We have the communities out on Yammer and the daily work is all within Teams. Every day I'm in all three environments. I've already been in and out and working in those today, every single day. And it's not a question of where do I go to get the work done? I, you know, different work activities are happening in different places, depending on what's needed. That's where you go and do that. Yep. And the fact that they're all better connected now than they've ever been. Everything surfaces everywhere. I mean, that's just amazing. The thing that we've been asking for and begging for for so long. And that's the problem. That's likely the reason why Yammer is growing so fast because it's finally getting connected. Like everything is all better connected to each other. You know, and I, that, that is really great. How walk down is your current organization with like the provisioning process? Is there like a review? Is there like, you know, governance body that looks that stuff to create a new community, to create a new team? Or do you have a certain amount of flexibility in what you can create? Well, we have all kinds of controls on things. So within teams itself as a platform, I, with my security levels, I'm only allowed to create an internal, an internal team that is private. So I can't create any public or org wide teams, you know, my, my security level. So how big is, how many employees you guys have globally? Like 310,000? A little bit different than a lot of other. So we're about 2000, you know, but we even have some of those, those controls in place and they very tightly manage those that can be externally accessible. They watch that very closely. Yes, we do that. Absolutely. Like only a certain like rank in the organization is able to create an external externally facing group, like certainly facing team, you know. So for Yammer, we've, we've never opened that up to guests or anything either. It's always, always just been internal. So we still can only create internal Yammer communities. However, my Yammer communities can be public, public to EY, not public to the searchable and findable, searchable, findable. Yeah. However, in both teams and Yammer, which we now have Yammer in native mode, as I'm sure most people do now, it creates that Microsoft 365 group on the backside, you know, just like a team does create that group. We have a attestation process. So every six months you have to, as a manager or as a manager, as an owner of that community or that team, you have to attest to the fact that that team or community still is a going concern. So that you try to cut down on the sprawl. And yeah, so, so those two things are in place and they're, they're really, well, several things in place, they're really helping. The one thing that we have not yet done, which I really hope we will soon is the new, the new ability to lock down the all company group, you know, you can lock it like you like rename it and you can lock it down and you know, only certain people can post like, I'm not involved with the team that, that manages Yammer anymore at EY, but I think that's something they're considering doing and I just think that will really help as well to make this, like, finally an official group that's moderated and branded and like all that stuff. So that will help too. But our, yeah, we've got a lot of policies and procedures in place. And we, in fact, the one thing that we cannot do in our Yammer network that you were talking about, like going back several years, we only have two years of data in our Yammer communities, right? So anything beyond, anything beyond that gets deleted for retention period, retention policies and our teams network, their teams are also, we have certain retention periods on, on how long chats exist and how long conversations are. What do you call them? Posts. Yeah, posts and. Well, that's how it should work, unless it should be any of the extensions should be the exception and that attestation period that, that regular review would be part of where you go in and, and validate that that needs to be the case or not. That should be the way that it works. So should, you know, so I, as we were talking about earlier, like, I'm always concerned about governance when you put too many policies, too many constraints in place that then restrict or prohibit collaboration. You don't want to do that, but it's reasonable to put a strong governance in place once those pieces are put in place. So like our, our, like I put in an IT request to create an externally facing team. There's a little more rigor around that. Like I created one, I run our AppPoint Community Champions program. I created one that's external, so I can invite those external people into it. But it will, it's tightly controlled, tightly watched.  They closely watch what content is shared within those, like all of those different things. But in a, my request was fulfilled within two hours. And I was live and able to start adding people into it and working with it. And so they've realized that I don't know what the SLA is. I think that was faster than what our internal SLA was in place. But that's the way that you, it's not, people are not against having rules, be transparent about what those things are, and then be responsive on the request. And if the answers no, explain why, be quick to respond why. Yes. Maybe they just need to modify something about their request to make it fit within this. Right. You didn't have enough people listed as your owners, or you didn't have enough of a description about how this team is different from the other team that we have already in the organization, whatever it is. But have those processes in place and make them accessible, make them available, make them, make people understand why they exist. Also helps for sure. Yeah. It's funny that I always sound like a broken record around adoption and engagement around it. And so much about what, you know, adoption, there's the training side and education part of getting people on board. But so much about adoption is just don't screw up the governance aspect of it, you know. Yep. It's, they are absolutely tied. Adoption and governance have to be tied because I think, well, both of us are parents. You realize that guard rails make kids feel safe. They can still do things. They can still do the things within your rules of your family, but there's one thing that they're out about. They know when they do something wrong. The better that, the better that you communicate that, the better your family functions. Like the popular belief that's out there, pop culture, there is, there, there are right and wrongs out that are absolutely true that are out there, but especially within, you know, your own family. Yes. So within your, within your organization, there are things you need to know your organization, what matters to them, what they need to protect, what they need to keep safe, honor those things, build your processes around them and make people understand that we didn't just put this in place to make your life hard. We did this because like in our case, we're protecting the information of the most valuable companies in the world. So we have to be careful about that. And we want to be careful about that. We want to make people feel safe in this environment too. Like your information will not leak out. We are not going to let that happen. That kind of stuff is important. I just thought, I just came up with a great idea for a smaller scale social experiment where we do make it intentionally more difficult to do all those things and, and then, you know, monitor people. So it's, it's kind of like a collaboration version of the, what is it? The escape room. That would work. That would totally work, Christian. People would love that. I'm sure I, if I'm a good, if I can read people well, then people would love that. Yes. Well, good times. Well, very cool. So thanks so much when we talked about this for a while. I know there's this belief out there that I only interview as part of MVP, BuzzChats, all the brand new MVPs, but no occasionally people that have been in the program for many years. So yeah, great to connect. And of course we need to, again, we're serious about that support group. Seriously. Yep. If you are the Microsoft Alliance manager for your company and are in a fellow MVP, even if you're not an MVP, like which, we could, it'd be great to, to sit in stories. Yeah, that's right. So it's okay that for people to cry together, I know. Well, this has been delightful. Thank you so much. Well, so Amy, people that want to get in touch with you, find out more about you. What are the best ways to find you, follow you and reach you? Sure. Well, my name's pretty unique. There aren't very many Dolzines out there. So you can find me on LinkedIn. I'll probably be the only one you find this Amy Dolzine. Amy Dolz is my Twitter handle and happy to connect anytime and either of those places. My email address, you know, is available on LinkedIn too. So reach out. Excellent. Well, thanks so much and we'll connect soon. All right. Thank you, Christian.


Have you been crushing on someone, but wondering if it's becoming something more? Emotions can be messy and hard to decipher when all we hear is our loud heartbeats or feel giant butterflies in our stomach. The upside is that as we grow older and gain more relationship experience, the answer becomes more clear. Here are five differences between crushing on and falling in love with someone. 1. A crush develops fast while love grows over time. When you first develop a crush on someone, it can feel fun, flirty, and exciting. It's a lot like dancing with a flame, but it doesn't last forever. Love, on the other hand, takes time to grow. It demands patience, understanding, and hard work. When we crush on someone, it's the loud adrenaline rush that pounds on our chest. Love, however, allows us to find inner peace within ourselves. It's a lot quieter, subtle even, and can sneak up on us when we least expect it. 2. A crush forms from the basics while love thrives from deep connections. Have you ever liked someone because they share the same interests as you? A crush forms from basic information like that. Maybe the two of you have the same favorite color, or you can quote an entire movie together from beginning to end. But that's not necessarily love. Love isn't afraid to dive in the deep.  It's sharing secrets, and sometimes, it means confronting the past and mending together. 3. A crush might feel insecure while love stems from trust. Crushing on someone can leave you feeling insecure when you compare yourself to others, but love is built on the foundation of trust. When you love someone, you feel at ease with them. You are neither possessive nor jealous. Love teaches us to let go of our fears, whereas crushing on someone allows them to linger. 4. A crush feels new while love feels familiar. When you crush on someone, it often feels fresh and young, but as you get to know someone better, love forms, making you enter rooms that feel familiar. It's like being with your best friend, someone who knows you inside and out, perhaps better than you may know yourself. When you're crushing on someone, you're too shy to even make it past the welcome mat. 5. A crush is reckless while love is mature.  Crushes can be confusing, reckless, and inconsistent. Love isn't so easily discarded though. When love begins, so does maturity. You learn how to be vulnerable, how to compromise, and how to grow with someone. It's more than just a feeling, but a life-changing experience. Do you think you're crushing or falling in love with someone? Please share your thoughts with us below. Also, don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more helpful tips and share this video with others. With your help, we can reach more people and provide our support. Thanks for watching!


Hi, I'm Jack Manix from Walker Farm in Dumberston, Vermont. We raise about 30 acres of vegetables organically, 10 to 12 acres of that is in sweet corn production. Through the season, we plant corn about seven or eight times, three or four varieties each planting, and it's all sold retail through our farm stand. The corn earworm has been a difficult pest for us to control organically in sweet corn. We set up traps to monitor corn earworm populations that usually come from the west or from down south. And as soon as we start picking up two to three moths per week, we'll start using the zeolator. That contains a mixture of BT and corn oil, and that's applied about four days after silk when the silk starts turning slightly brown. It's applied to the world of the silk and bleeds down the silk, and has been an effective method of killing the corn earworm. My daughter, Kristen, is going to demonstrate the zeolator. It consists of the canister, which holds two quarts of BT mixture, and the zeolator is preset to emit half a milliliter of the mixture into each ear, and that's enough generally for us to do one-eighth to one-quarter acre at a fill. The reason that we mix the corn oil with the BT is because the corn oil suffocates the larvae as it works its way down the silk, and the BT also helps to kill the larvae if it eats anything on the way. It's important to use a BT product that's labeled for sweet corn. The university has advised us that it's legal to use corn oil on a food crop. Right now, we send out one person at a time who walks down the aisles and does one row at a time, comes back and does the row on the other side. If we get more guns, we'd like to send out more people, get the job done faster. On a block about 600 feet long by 100 feet wide, it's taken us six to eight hours to go through. It's important for us to have clean corn at our stand, even though we grow it organically.  Realistically, with the zeolator and through our monitoring, we're getting anywhere from 90% to 95% control, even in a bad, earworm ear. In order to make this whole thing work, we have to get a fair price. It has to be fair for us and fair for the customers. We have to be able to afford to do it. We start off with a price that is pretty high in the beginning of the year, but we keep it there. Our customers seem to be willing to pay it if the quality is good and the flavor is there.