Dropshipping software, tools and services are a great way to help us escalate and skyrocket our dropshipping businesses. That's why in this video, I'm going to be going over the top 11 dropshipping software and tools for you guys to use that will help you with many things like product research, product importing, automatic orders, price and stock monitoring, knowing how to handle your finances and expenses, optimizing your product pages and getting videos for your products and so much more. So if you want to scale your dropshipping business, this is not a video that you want to miss. Quick intro and let's go. Hello everyone, I'm Rihwan from AutoDS and in this video we're going to go over the top 11 dropshipping software and tools for you to use to escalate and scale your dropshipping business. We cannot handle all of the workload on ourselves, on our own, because we are just one person. Even if we have virtual assistants that help us run and automate some of our daily tasks, we still need the help of dropshipping tools and software to really help us scale our dropshipping businesses and reach new heights and new profits month by month and year by year. By the end of this video, you will see exactly how all of these dropshipping software and tools can help you escalate your dropshipping business. So without further ado, let's jump straight into the action. But one second before that, if you are new to our channel, subscribe to our YouTube channel to always stay updated on all of the latest and all of the hottest topics that are coming out in the world of dropshipping, along with so many dropshipping tips and strategies to help you run a successful online business. Having said that, let's go ahead and get started with the video. Everything that I'm going over, by the way, you can read about it in the blog, which I will leave a link to right below this video. So go ahead and check that out if you are the type who likes to read. So what are the top 11 dropshipping software and tools for 2022? Let's take it from the top. The number one tool that I want to recommend in this video is none other than AutoDS. And the reason behind that is because AutoDS is really the number one e-commerce platform for dropshipping that you have out there today. You have so many things included in AutoDS, like automatic product importing, automatic order fulfillment, automatic tracking number updates, price and stock monitoring, over 25 reliable dropshipping suppliers, compatibility with the top selling platforms like Facebook Marketplace, eBay, Shopify, Wix, Amazon and so much more coming soon. So you can dropship and have full automation from over 25 dropshipping suppliers, giving you access to millions and millions of products that you can then resell on those selling channels that I just mentioned. And of course, you can do it in multiple regions worldwide. So if you see someone, one of your competitors doing a really good job on a specific market, you can do the same thing on a different market around the world. So you don't always have to dropship to only one region like the US. You can also dropship in different regions like UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and so many more countries around the world. Those are some of the things that help AutoDS stand out so much more. We also have a great blog page that's updating at least twice a week with new articles coming out that will help you out with dropshipping tips and strategies, product finding, case studies, success stories and so much more. And an updated YouTube channel with videos such as this one to help you gain more knowledge in dropshipping and of course, help you scale successfully. If you don't know about AutoDS yet, just head on over to autoDS.com. See all of the features and benefits. Try out your $1 trial and see how it works for you. I'm sure that you will like what you see. One of the things that's worth mentioning is AutoDS's new product research tool that simply helps you find the best products to sell on your stores. And you can simply import it in just one click from the AutoDS system to your dropshipping stores with full price and stock monitoring automation, quick product importing as I just explained, and of course, automatic orders and automatic tracking number updates. Check out the new product research tool because soon you're also going to have private wholesale dropshipping suppliers that only you can work with as an AutoDS member. This is going to be an exclusive benefit and will give you the dropshipping contracts that many dropshippers are looking for. And once again, to work with private wholesale dropshipping suppliers. So you can work with retailers, you can work with private suppliers, you can work with whatever you want and scale your business to new heights. Everything is very flexible on AutoDS. And if you're ever having any trouble with anything, we have full live chat support and a ticket system. If you do not want to wait for the live chat or if it's not available at the moment, you can always open up a ticket. And of course, any problem that you're having will get resolved as soon as possible, head over to autoDS.com, see everything that's going on over there. And then you'll know exactly what I mean and why I put us at number one on the list. Number two on the list is Oberlo. Oberlo is another dropshipping automation software that will help you with things like price and stock monitoring, help you semi automate your orders. And that's pretty much it. You can only integrate Oberlo with Shopify and Aliexpress as your supplier. So it's pretty much just limited to that one supplier, Aliexpress and that one selling channel Shopify. So if that is what you're looking to do and you're not looking to expand your dropshipping business any further, you can give that a look. One of the things that's also worth mentioning about automatic orders, they're using your buyer account to purchase your product for you on Aliexpress. So for example, you imported a product from Aliexpress to Shopify, and now you got a sale on your Shopify store. Somebody purchased that product. Now Oberlo can help you fulfill that order and fulfill it for you automatically, but they're going to use your buyer account on Aliexpress, meaning they're going to need your login details and they're going to use your credit card or whatever payment information you submitted in Aliexpress. So the credit is on you and that's what it's like using the automated orders method on Oberlo. When you compare that to AutoDS, AutoDS can also help you semi automate your orders using your buyer accounts. But better than that, there's also the fulfilled by AutoDS service, which completely fulfills your orders 100% automatically, not using your buyer accounts, meaning AutoDS has enough buyer accounts of their own, and they will use them to fulfill your orders. All you have to do is top up your managed balance and enjoy the special benefits that you will get using the AutoDS and Payoneer partnership. If you want to use Payoneer as your payment solution, you can also use PayPal, credit card and others with AutoDS. But in any case, let's go back to Oberlo. So we know that they have one supplier, which is Aliexpress and one selling channel, which is Shopify and a semi automatic order fulfillment method. And that pretty much sums up what they can do. Their pricing for the starter plan starts at $5 a month, basic plan $30 a month and the professional plan at $80 a month allowing you to import 30,000 products. But of course, all of them have to come from Aliexpress. Those are the top two dropshipping software that you can use to automate your dropshipping business. Now, keep in mind, there are much more dropshipping tools out there, but none of them come close to these. So keep that in mind. And now let's move forward to the best product research and spy tools that will help you gain a competitive edge over your competitors because with these spy tools and product research tools, you can really see what your competitors are doing and it really doesn't matter what selling channel you are using. So let's start with the first one, Zik Analytics. Now, Zik Analytics is a great product research tool for anyone who's dropshipping on eBay. So if eBay is your selling channel, check out Zik Analytics. They are great, especially for beginners who really don't know their way around dropshipping products and trending products that they can sell on their stores. Many people in the beginning of their journey think that they can actually work with everything manually without the need of any software and tools. And very soon they find out how wrong they were and how much they should have used tools to begin with to save them a lot of time and mistakes along the way. So one of the things that's great about Zik Analytics is they provide you with more than 100 million product ideas that you can use. And when I mean product ideas, I mean they show you statistics of how well products are selling on eBay. And in some instances, they can also show you what suppliers those products are coming from and see how much you can profit if you were to import that product and sell it on your store. They also work with around 20 suppliers and offer things like store analytics for your store and price analytics. And to make things even easier for you, if you're using Zik Analytics and also AutoDS, any product that you find on Zik, you can import it in just one click from Zik to AutoDS. You will have an icon there that will allow you to do that. So once you're done researching your products, it's very easy to import those trending products to your dropshipping stores. The only con or disadvantage about Zik is that it's only good for eBay. So if you're not dropshipping on eBay, you won't really find Zik useful for your business. But of course, if you are using eBay, their subscriptions start at $30 per month and climb up to $90 per month. So check out their pricing plans, what's included in it and make the right decision for your dropshipping store when it comes to product research. The second product research tool is Sell the Trend. Now Sell the Trend is great for other selling channels like Shopify and Wix where you are creating your own customized website and you've got your own domain name. So here it's a little bit harder to spy on your competitors and see what they're doing because it's hard to know what stores are Shopify or Wix stores when you're searching for something on Google. It's not like eBay where you can simply search for something on eBay and see what your competitors are doing there. It's much different on Google. That is why you have Sell the Trend that will show you lots and lots and lots of huge database of Facebook ads showing you what products people are dropshipping and running Facebook ad campaigns on them and then you can spy on their campaigns and see what they are doing there. What products they're selling, where they're getting these products from. Sometimes it can give you this type of insight and sometimes it can't but either way you can always use big suppliers like Amazon or Aliexpress to search for those specific products and see what is the source price for the products in the ads that you're seeing in Sell the Trend.  So this is a great tool to use for product research.  You also have more benefits like one click push to stores, a supplier database that can connect you with thousands of dropshipping suppliers to help you source those products, marketing tools and more. So check out Sell the Trend if your selling channel is Wix or Shopify and you need help with your product research with their product explorer AI-backed spy tool and that one click push to store, I'm sure that you're going to have an easy time researching for products and of course adding them to your store and managing your dropshipping business when it comes to product research. The third tool that I want to talk about is Koala Inspector. This is another neat little tool. It's actually a Chrome extension and you can use Koala Inspector to help you spy on your Shopify competitors and soon they're also going to add it for Wix. So with Koala Inspector, you can not only spy on Shopify stores and see what they're doing and how well they're doing it, you can also see what products they're selling, what's going well for your competitors. You can also go to any website, open up any website on Google and then you can click on the Koala Inspector to see if this is even a Shopify or Wix website because if it isn't, then it's really not that interesting. They're not your competitors, but if it is, then you can take that page as an example, go to their product pages, see what's selling well, you can track how much traffic your competitors are getting and not only see how much their products are selling but also see where they're sourcing it from and so many more things that will help you spy on your competitors. Use the Koala Inspector, it's one of the best Chrome tools out there, one of the best Chrome extensions to help you spy on your competition and see what they're doing and learn from their best practices. You also have an integration with Koala Inspector and AutoDS. So if you wanna quickly import the products that you're seeing on Koala Inspector to your dropshipping stores, you can do that with just a click of a button inside the Koala Inspector extension. Number four on the list, you have Jungle Scout. Jungle Scout has been here for a while and they are one of the biggest and best product research tools if you are dropshipping on Amazon. Even if you're not dropshipping on Amazon and you wanna learn about what products are trending today in the dropshipping market, Jungle Scout is one of the best go-to software in order to get that information. They help you with many things like finding new opportunities, they have a huge product database with millions of products, a huge supplier database with lots of suppliers that you can work with and negotiate with to manufacture and private label your products, a review automation tool, a rank tracker to see how well you're ranking on Amazon, a keyword scout to help you build optimized product titles, sales analytics, promotions tool, and so much more. So it's much more than just spying on your competition but it also does a wonderful job at that. The only cons that I have on Jungle Scout is that they have no mobile support. They don't have any mobile apps.  And of course that it only works with Amazon. So if you're not selling on Amazon, if you're not dropshipping on Amazon, you can use this tool to help you find trending products but coming at a price starting at $29 a month which is actually very limited with the things you can do. You'll probably have to go with a $60 or more package. This is probably a tool you're only going to use if you're only dropshipping on Amazon. Number five on the list is Helium 10. This is a direct competitor to Jungle Scout and pretty much everything that Jungle Scout can do, Helium 10 can also do it, including product research on Amazon, keyword research, analytics, finances, and more with over 450 million products in their database. So if you're dropshipping on Amazon, I highly suggest to make a comparison between Jungle Scout and Helium 10 and see what is the best for your business. Helium accounts start at $39 per month and can even go as high as $399 a month for their elite plan. So go ahead and check out those two Jungle Scout and Helium 10 if you're dropshipping on Amazon. Now let's talk a little bit about photo and video editing tools. We talked about dropshipping software automation. We talked about product research. Now let's see how we can optimize our product pages to convert even more. And for that, of course, we have dropshipping software such as Fodor as number one on our list. Fodor can help you do things like edit your photos, create great designs and make collages for your dropshipping images, and also have a free plan so you don't have to pay anything to check them out and check them out for as long as you like if you don't mind seeing ads everywhere. But if you do mind and you wanna put a few bucks on the side for this, the starter plan starts at $9 per month which is really not expensive. Another great photo editing tool that you have is also inside the AutoDS system. With AutoDS's advanced image editing tool, you can also do many of the things that I just mentioned and of course all of that is completely free and included in your AutoDS subscription. But if you wanna use an external tool, you can check out Fodor. The second tool and I highly recommend this one if you want to create highly engaging videos for your products is a tool called Waving Pandas. Now Waving Pandas is a video editing company and they're here to help you not only optimize the current video, the bad one that your supplier supplied you with but even if you don't have a video for your product, you can simply send it to them and they will record a video for you and really create an engaging video because that's what they're all about for your dropshipping products. Now you can use this video on your product page and show the buyer exactly what this product does and what problem it helps them solve and you can also use that video inside your Facebook ad and that is the video that you will use for your PPC, for your pay-per-click and if you guys wanna learn how to run successful Facebook ad campaigns from A to Z even if you haven't engaged in online marketing before, head over to autoDS.com slash eBooks and we have an eBook waiting for you there, eight steps to successfully run Facebook ads 100% completely free even if you're not an AutoDS member we want to help you grow and succeed in your dropshipping business. So Waving Pandas is a service that helps you create high converting video ads for your products, so if you're dropshipping especially on Shopify and Wix, you want to check out this service, they also have integration with various platforms and dropshipping video ad packages so if you wanna buy three videos it's gonna cost you less than just creating one video. The only cons that I have to say about Waving Pandas is that you have less control over the editing process even though you can't tell them what you want and you have revisions with them but you can't talk to them while they're editing cause they're at someplace else in the world and whatever comes out is something that you'll have to revise later but that's pretty much the same with any other video recording company and that they specialize in video ads only. Now once again, you can use the videos not just inside ads but that's what they specialize in and we also have a special 10% discount for you if you'll sign up to Waving Pandas using the link that I'll leave right below this video. Finally, I wanna talk a little bit about profit, expenses and finances calculators because this is a very essential tool to help you understand exactly how much money you're taking out for your business and how much money you're bringing in. This is something that many people think is fine and they just let it run in the background without any extra help from services and tools and at the end of the day they don't really understand why they haven't been able to withdraw any money to the bank. This is exactly what these tools are going to help you with. So starting at number one on our list is Be Profit. This is a great tool to use to help you analyze all of the profits that you're making, all of your expenses, have a full overview of all of your business metrics, everything that's going on in your business regarding financing. They also have advanced ad spend tracking which helps you track your ad spend so you won't be losing money on ads that aren't working well. They also support multiple Shopify stores and they have excellent customer support for anything and everything that you may need. So this is their main website. You can schedule a demo if you wanna try them out before you buy and once again this is the number one go-to tool for managing your finances and knowing exactly how much you're spending in your e-commerce business no matter what online platform, what selling channel you are using. The last tool that I wanna recommend is the eBay Fees Calculator. This is a 100% free tool by yours truly by AutoDS and of course you have a link to everything that I'm talking about in the blog right below this video. Now if you click on the eBay Fees Calculator it'll take you to this page and you have a full explanation of how to use the Fees Calculator right here below and frequently asked questions but basically this is actually very, very simple. Choose what region you're selling on and of course this is good only for eBay dropshippers, eBay sellers. Choose your category, choose your payment processor, your eBay account if you have a store subscription if you're an international seller and so forth then fill in all of the information like the selling price, you're selling the product for example for $30, you're paying $10, no shipping price, no shipping cost and let's say you're not running any promotions in this case you'll make a profit or let's choose a category, let's say it's in the books and magazine and we're going with the managed payments and so for this example, our total fees are $4.67 and we'll be making a profit of $15. This is using of course the algorithms that eBay uses to calculate the fees including the final value fees, category fees and everything else. So use the eBay Fees Calculator to understand exactly how much you're profiting on eBay and at what price you should sell a certain product in order to make great profit and still stay competitive. That wraps up this video of the top 11 dropshipping software and tools. Let me know what you think about it in the comments below and once again don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to always learn about the next step that you should take in your dropshipping business with all types of knowledge base, case studies, dropshipping tips and strategies and so much more. Thank you for watching and good luck choosing the best software and tools for your business.


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Thank you very much. And I would like to join in on behalf of the IIEA, welcome you all here to this jointly hosted biennial conference, jointly hosted by ourselves and by the ESB. I want to thank Evine Houlouin for moderating, agreeing to moderate this conference today. And for her introduction, I know there's going to be a terrific event and so much going on in the room and around the room to interest us in the course of the day. I want to thank in particular all of the speakers in advance on behalf of the IEA. If I may particularly single out part of the ESB for their continuing support for the work of the IIEA. Given all of the commitments the ESB has, all of the work it's doing, all of the development, that's an organisation that still takes time to invest interest and resources in thinking about this issue, in debating this issue, in the research, and all of the work that needs to be done in order for us to ensure that we are on the right path to achieving the aims that we have in this whole climate change agenda. As I say, the IEA is delighted to be hosting this conference in this historic splendid and historic scene setting here in the roundroom in the mansion house. Some of you will be aware that I was Minister for Energy in the last government. And just reflecting on this conference, coming up to this conference in recent days, I think thinking back three years, three and a half years, in one sense it seems so recent, in another sense it seems so long ago, since we were preparing a white paper, not on the broader agenda completely of climate change, but on energy policy. And so much of what we were thinking about then and talking about then including in this room is reflected, I'm really pleased to see, in the climate action plan that's published by the government this year. And when you read that plan you see many of the issues, the occupation, many of the concerns, plans, constraints, opportunities that we were, I was going to say wrestling with, but we were identifying three, four years ago, now appearing in that document. But with a much higher level I think of urgency, a sense of commitment, a sense of broader buy-in right across government and right across all of the agencies that need to be involved in this enormous task. So I think that the climate plan represents, constitutes a real advance for us. You can have your criticisms about its drawbacks. You can say that there's things in there that need to be developed more. You can say there's stuff that should be there that's not there. You can have your reviews about it, but certainly it represents a very important benchmark for where we are now and where the country needs to go in the coming period. And I think that's happened for a number of reasons. I think as I say there's a step change in public engagement and in the public discourse, even in the last three years. And you can analyse, you can say that's happened for quite a number of different reasons. When we were doing our work in 2015, we were still coming out of a period, although I suppose when you look back now on the decade of the crashes sometimes described, in fact things had been moving more quickly in the real economy than maybe we appreciated at the time, so we probably could have been more ambitious than we ended up being. But we were still facing the aftermath of a period of retrenchment, economic retrenchment, a lot of depression, economic and indeed personal and political across the country. So that was the background to our thinking, unfortunately, in 2015 and in 2016. And that has changed for all of the reasons that we're aware of in terms of economic change in the country, but also in the quality of the discussion and the involvement in the engagement of the public. But there's no initiative that contributed more to that than the Citizens' Assembly, because I think the Citizens' Assembly really drove this discussion to a new level and to a new height, leading then obviously on to the Erachtes Committee and the work that they were able to do. But I think the Citizens' Assembly invested this whole agenda with a democratic legitimacy that was not previously there or not certainly there to the extent that it now is. And I think that when we reflect on the nature and the extent and the magnitude of the adjustments that we need to make in our economies and in our societies right across the world, manifestly there needs to be that high level of democratic legitimacy, democratic input, democratic and citizen involvement. And I think that's really to be welcomed, that that is the new context in which we now find ourselves in this country and indeed internationally as we see today in New York. I think that's crucial. I don't think it's just crucial because of the fact because of all the myriads of actions that we need to take as individual citizens and that's self-evident. That's important that giving an example, people leading in their communities, leading as citizens, that's certainly true. But I think that it's true and the necessity for public engagement is there on another level as well and that is because the really big steps, if you look at the Climate Action Plan and look at the targets that we have to keep to, all governments have to achieve, when you look at them, look at the magnitude of the challenges and the requirements that are there, it will need to be underpinned by a significantly higher level of knowledge and of engagement of the part of citizens and indeed voters. And I emphasize voters because we have a new politicization of this issue now as we've seen in the recent elections and we've seen other elections around Europe and indeed across the world. And it is more political now. It certainly is politicized. It's right there at the heart of what hopes and one believes that it will need to be at the very heart of political debate and discourse into the future. So that it will be no good for governments to publish plans just to indicate that certain taxes will be increased or need to be increased and then simply to justify these proposals to parliament in the usual way as you might introduce a budget, a minister deal with that or government deal with that to base it in public with the opposition, go on the television, justify it to parliament and get the votes through. Like those kind of conventional ways of delivering public support for measures that a government wants to do are not going to be sufficient in the future. So this deeper level of engagement and quality engagement is going to be critical. So that's not enough and there's a room where there are a lot of familiar faces that are economists in the room, engineers, investors, people with a stake, people with a commitment to this agenda, but we're not going to be enough. That's not just going to do anymore. It's simply not going to be necessary but not sufficient. So when we did the white paper back in 2016, we laid very of 15, we laid very heavy emphasis on this concept of citizen engagement and citizen involvement, community involvement and that is all the more critical now when we see issues, just a brief word of parity earlier, we see the way the kind of changes that are going to be necessary in the short and the medium term in terms of people's livelihoods, people's jobs where there will be necessary change. That has to be managed. We talk about a just transition but it's a transition that has to be managed. We've had a higher appreciation of the concept of the prosumer so that we're not just passive recipients or users of, for example electricity or energy that we also want to be active consumers as well. And last but certainly by no means least, the marvellous context in which we're meeting today, the Friday is for a future, marches and demonstrations, the engagement of young people, it's just completely changed the tone and the content in every way of the debate and of the work that we're doing. So I think it's in many ways this conference is critically important because it is about how we manage that debate and how we draw a bridge between the energy the commitment, the excitement on the street and the critical actions that need to be taken. And there's always the cry for urgency and that's a cry and a demand that we all share. Urgency urgent action urgent change we know that so many of the things that we need to do can't in fact be done urgently. We want to have an urgent level of commitment to doing them, but so much of it just manifestly in terms of the sort of a shift that you need in the economy a sort of shift that you need in energy policy, it's not something that even if you had everybody on site that you could do as quickly as any of us as we would like to do. So it's about affecting this necessary transition, finding language to say to people, yes the urgency is appropriate, yes the urgency in your language and in your discourse is right, but let's all be together in delivering this so that we don't foster or run the risk of fostering dashed expectations. I think one of the risks always is that there's a high level of expectation of very quick response and action and delivery and the engineering and the science that tells us that while yes it has to be done, we know that it will take some time to do it. So do we have the language in our public discourse, politicians policy opinion makers people in this room, do we have the language to join up the energy and the excitement with the critical actions that need to be taken. I think that's one of the great contributions a conference like this can make if you look at the lineup, all of the different sectors of our society and our economy that need action and discuss them here from a terrific lineup of speakers and understand that this new level of quote-unquote ownership that the public now has and is demanding must be matched by real action with the timelines and all of the mechanisms that are in the climate plan in order to achieve them. And I just finish with this and I'm not an active politician but I think I can still talk about politics and politicians and I think that there is a level of responsibility that politicians now have which goes beyond simply you know the box ticking of yes this is an important issue and yes we make a speech acknowledging it and welcoming what all the young people are doing. I think that politicians have an enormous responsibility to demonstrate and to explain and to debate the real what kind of actions need to be taken, what the reality will be for people in their lives of taking those actions. And that's not a very attractive thing for a politician to be doing. Particularly and I accept there's a huge opportunity here we're not just talking about changes being imposed and you know that it's all a negative we know that there are huge numbers of opportunities for business and for citizens here but there will be change that will involve some measure of loss and some measure of pain and we don't like to use that word in the language of this debate now but we have to face the fact that there will be a cost in different sectors and it's about not pretending that it won't be there it's about giving leadership as to what that will be to show that we can replace jobs with new jobs for example to show that people can actually consume energy in a different way to show people the positive course but not to take a kind of a polyana sense that there's not going to be any cost and I don't think politicians are serving the public and serving this debate that is the attitude that they might be tempted to take particularly if there's an election coming along and really there's also an election coming along so that's just the point I think about politicians so finally thank you again for your attendance as chair of the energy group and the IEM delighted to we're delighted as an organization to be associated with the ESB in hosting this conference I thank all of the speakers and in particular I thank you for your attendance I look forward to deliberations thank you very much


Hello and welcome to the video Hello all my lovely subscribers. Can I just say you were looking ravishing today?   I Can tell I could tell the something about you today. You know you've got some thing about you some aura this mystifying and mysterious That's kind of the same thing isn't it? Following up my video on what is nihilism. I am a nihilist I'm a nihilist what is nihilism rather. I think things gonna have how I'm gonna title it if you're watching this straight at the other It's basically the same setting and t-shirt and red face So it is straight after if you're wondering and today I'm going to be talking about positive nihilism What the hell is it how can you be positive when you're when your cold belief is meaningless in life? Meaninglessness in life. So let's get into the video. So in the last video. I was talking about What nihilism in is I've already mentioned what is and my experience with going through my existential crisis and becoming a nihilist and feeling good about it and feeling bad about it and all my different Observations from that not all of them because you'll have to watch my full video series if you want to watch it That's the that's a little catch 2022. You'll be be coming back with those Plucky binging attitudes and Don't be binging. Don't be binging on these series boy Structure it you need to have daily doses. You need to plan on your doses throughout the day of daily aspergers content So positive nihilism, it's not all negative. So be a nihilist positive nihilism is Usually a result like can't always be a result but it is a result of becoming a nihilist and living with that for Extend amount of time depending on how long you work on it a lot of people when they become nihilist they Stagnate they think that's all there is to do They've learned the meaning of life the meaning of life being I'm the only thing that I am is consciousness and I don't have free will and All that kind of stuff that I I didn't believe I don't believe her free will and I believe the only thing I am is just Consciousness just being able to observe things and I'm not even myself That makes sense. Does that make sense?  But anyway, I am just consciousness. I am not Thomas died my belief and Once you reach that point a lot of nihilists will stop and they will stop their endeavors into philosophy because they feel like they've Being themselves down so corner so much that they've found out the whole meaning of existence and that's it for them They've done they're done They'll just spend the life drinking and smoking and all that kind of stuff and never touching the subjects again But for some of us some of us more positive growthy type people We don't like to be Like that We have something, you know that Even though we we have this core belief and it's such a big part of our life We want to be good, you know, we want to find some Way of anchoring ourselves into the reality that we have to deal with We know that so we need to run me in the most of it and this is the foundations of positive nihilism so when you become a nihilist you You believe in your soul that there is no meaning in life And that opens a lot of doors like you think that I just shut a lot of doors and that's it but Another thing that you realize is that although there's no meaning in life Why don't you just make your own meaning in life it comes on to the whole thing I was talking in the last video about pretending and getting into a routine and forgetting about it and But it's more constant. So, you know, you know about it. You've gone through these cycles a lot and It's become part of you and it's become part of your daily life But you can deal with it and you've been positive and you're making your own life and you although you've got this core belief you Having other beliefs on top of that you are making your own reality around you as to say there are a lot of positives to being a nihilist it can open a lot of Gates you can think less about what other people think about you because you know, there's when you think there's no meaning You may as well just do what you want to do and you may as well. Just not care about all the haters and all the silly people who don't you know Particularly understand or I'm not saying this silly. That's that's not that's not right, but the people who don't understand and it's just You just live your life more easily like at that point Obviously not straight up about but it does take a lot of time and but it's happened so that's one of it one of the things is Being being a positive nihilist you create your own your own fictional reality as it were in terms of our brain We've been you know, it's a fictional reality. We're making it for ourselves but you know we've made one and we progress in that and we're compassionate and We have the the unique opportunity to pick our own core values so when I say Life is meaningless that It basically just wipes away your core values that you have Not all of them obviously a lot. They're gonna be personality. It's a lot of them are gonna persist But they're gonna be in different ways and you get to choose them You get to be more conscious of what you want to be and what kind of being that you want to be So one thing is yeah confidence like you don't care what people think to an extent obviously I'm not gonna go robbing people or I don't know taking a dump on the street or something and Because I guess that'll have consequences You know like I know I said I want to take a dump because that's gonna completely ruin all career child chances that I have Yeah confidence confidence is key or key Remember which one it was once you become in this state and you start to choose what you want to do in life And you you truly believe that you have the ability to mold it because you've got rid of it Once you had a clean slate and you can mold it in any way that you want So you can start you can start doing stuff that you like like I just did science and taekwondo before all this I decided that I wanted to make something out of my depression and my negative experiences and trying to help people and that was my That was my like core value that I wanted to make a big part myself and Although it's very hard for me to feel happy as as sad as that sounds It it's warming to know that Other people I can make other people happy and that's all I want I want people to understand I want people to be sympathetic towards me and each other And I want I want people to understand me which is like I never one of my core values And once you make those core values, you can start building yourself up in a way that you want to To do it. I'm not trying to make this some life coach saying Go look in philosophy how these horrible existential crisis and become an islas like please don't like there's no There's no reason to do that. Just keep your sanity. There's no there's no silver lining to learning about this stuff. It's um Once you get into the whole of it and once you get into it It can be very damaging to yourself until a lot of people can put you into a bad place so don't don't think of it as The positives have been nihilist have been a nihilist and why you should be a nihilist. It's just seeing this over lining in in a very convoluted and strange belief in life Another thing that happens is you feel less shame And you feel less outcasted for doing something that isn't typically socially um normal For example, if I want to have dinner in the morning I'll have some dinner in the morning uh, no, obviously I quite like the routine, but The point of it is just that I'm not going to care if someone says why are you having dinner in the morning? Like why are you having breakfast tonight? Like And that's just a small example. It's not not the big picture here, but That's a little example that you can you can kind of expand off So for example, one of the social norms that people don't do is post videos of themselves breaking down and having a really intense depressive episode, which I've done and because I believe that Being honest and being truthful is more important than my own like egotistical belief about myself That comes into the the next point. It can improve your personality in some ways actually It could do and it could not But it opens some doors to improving yourself from different different angles that Usually people wouldn't be able to go through when you when you have this belief and one of the things with myself in particularly I used to and honestly I I definitely think that I have a very core belief inside myself That I am better than everybody else I still have that And I'm not very happy about it but it's it's It's what I think and it's um It's bad But it can also be good for confidence and stuff and it's always good to take yourself in the highest esteem out of everybody else And before all of this philosophy stuff I didn't I didn't like every every opinion or Of life or the reasons for people doing stuff. They didn't seem because they weren't fully logical And I couldn't understand the emotional aspects of their reasoning I wasn't very able to accept that people were you know, sane and understood things because Obviously I couldn't experience what they're experiencing and it was a very you know It was a critical way of thinking about things considering My own views and stuff being very different to other peoples Another thing would be is if Some of my friends like drugs or they smoked or the drink or they swore I'd immediately put them down in my my head because that was sort of a classifying system for myself for filtering through people that were worth being around and was sane and knew like how to Be logical and stuff like that and that was a important important thing for me about them after being a nihilist and after Going through all of this. I realized that you know What the only difference between A person exactly the same as them who didn't take drugs is just that the fact that they don't take drugs And that's just like something that Just never paid parents to myself And it's it's been very good for me And I've been able to connect with people that I wouldn't usually connect with because I've put them into a certain group or um Putting them into a classification a group the stereotype that I've got to avoid And that's uh one of my Things that that's really helped me it's really helped me socializing connect with people because they feel like I can connect with people more and they're more like me than I used to think they were And it's been very very beautiful and very beneficial to me I'm not saying that that you have to you have to go through that Philosophical four past four process to get to this point where you accept people and stuff, but It was a very important factor in my Change of my personality and my change and my view of people as a whole if I was to conclude this video into something into a little summary I would say that The main thing that now that having this belief has is it gives you power it gives you power of yourself over those four processes that have stopped you doing things because of you know feeling embarrassed or You know not not wanting to be move people to think either enough the rails are becoming really different or all those kind of things and it stops you from Caring as much from that and you do you don't need to care about that which is the great thing There are some things that you should care about of course There's always all relative and to an extent like I'm not going to go killing people just because Okay, if I mentioned that in a video like Oh, no, no, it's happening again I'm not going to go hitting people just because I think there are a bunch of cells that That's the only thing that they are and the bunch of cells of consciousness and You know if I if I do something to them, then you know like Who cares like life is meaningless and everything's going to end in in the the end like all your achievements and stuff Are going to be dissolved into the blackness of the universe ending Kind of thing so it's not like I'm struggling to get myself together now Yeah, it can definitely give you a lot of power in your life. It can change your life around in a different way It's not worth it. Don't do it but It's good to understand this stuff and I hope that you do take me seriously when I talk about these things because they're very deep deep in my you know A deep value of my mind like it's basically my One value that governs what I do um So I hope that you know you take it seriously and You understand that it's not a mental condition or Anything like that is a philosophical standpoint and it's as valid as anybody else's So, thank you very much for watching. I'm trying to make these videos as upbeat as possible because they are not the most Positive and happy subjects in the world I hope you're finding it interesting and let me know Whether you want to know know some new video content From myself at some point I think I'm tired again fingers with autism like I can never tell when Emotions are taken over until they get really intense. So it's I don't know if I'm tired yet. I think I'm probably tired, but You know until I feel like I'm going to knock out on the sofa. I'm not going to really feel it. So it's um, it's difficult Anyway, that's not the topic So, yeah, thank you very much for watching If you want to ask me some questions about it if you're interested if you completely think I'm a loony Let me know in the comments and I'll be very happy to ignore that Yeah But for the rest of you who are taking it seriously and you watch my videos and stuff and You're part of my community and part of the old buddy friendship group that we've got going on here and Thank you so much And I'll see you in the next video where I dissect a dog on Doomsday


are highest and put in policies and principles in order to mitigate them. Principle number four, business entities and assesses changes that could significantly impact the system of internal controls. So we're gonna identify and assess any changes. Anytime we have a significant change we should have in our mind, what is the internal control? What are gonna be the risks related to any significant changes? And we should basically map out what are gonna be the risks related to the significant change, make adjustments as necessary based on those changes and those adjusted risks. Next, we'll take a look at the principles related to control activities. Principle number one, principle selects and develops control activities that contribute to the mitigation of risks to achievement of objectives to acceptable levels. So now we're on basically the ground floor. We're talking about the control activities, the actual implementation and development and implementation of those control activities that are gonna be put in place in order to contribute to the mitigation, the lessening of the risks to the achievement of objectives to acceptable levels. We're gonna be thinking about things then, including performance reviews as our control activities, physical controls as our control activities, the segregation of duties. This probably being the one that you wanna think about first. When you think about internal controls in general, one of the first thing that probably comes into mind should be the segregation of duties. You probably think of things like performance review or people when they first think about internal controls are probably thinking about some type of performance reviews. When considering audit and setting up the audit procedures and someone asks you about internal controls, the first thing that should come in your mind is really the separation of duties as one of the major functions and factions or areas of internal controls. Then we have the information processing controls. Principle number two, business selects and develops general control activities over technology to support the achievement of objectives. So once we have these set up, once we have the control activities, we will set them up and we're probably going to need technology in order to do this. We're gonna have some type of database program as part of our internal controls oftentimes.  And of course we need IT professionals to help us with that part of it. So we set up the internal controls, work with IT then to help us to implement those by restricting or manipulating the database to get certain restrictions and assignments to different individuals. Principle number three, business sets up control activities through policies that establish what is expected and procedures that put policies into play. So obviously once we implement this information, we're gonna actually put into play the policies and the procedures as we set this thing up. So we're imagining of course, we set up the controls, now we're in the part of the control system where we have to actually implement and put those controls into place which involves setting up the policies and procedures and implementing those policies and procedures. Next we have information and communication principle. Principle number one, business obtains, makes and uses relevant quality information to support the functioning of internal controls. This could include identify and record valid transactions, classify transactions correctly, measure the value of transactions correctly, record transactions in the correct period, correctly present transaction and disclosures. Principle number two, business communicates information internally. Communication includes objectives and responsibilities for internal controls needed to support the functioning of the internal controls. Obviously when we set up the internal controls we then need to have the good communication in order for people to understand those internal controls in terms of what is expected of them as well as what the reason is to some degree because that'll give them some incentive to follow through and make sure that they are implementing the internal controls and possibly the feeling of well-being and self-worth as they go through the internal controls, some processes which can seem like they're gonna be something that's not contributing to the performance but actually is when you think about it out on the bigger picture level. So principle number three, business communications with external parties regarding issues affecting the functioning of internal controls. Next we're gonna take a look at monitoring activities, principles related to it. Principle number one, business selects, develops and performs ongoing and or separate evaluations to determine whether the components of internal controls are installed and functioning. So you'll of course, we're thinking about the internal controls here in terms of what are the risks? We come up with a plan for internal controls. We then implement that plan with the control activities. We communicate that information and then of course we monitor that information to see if the internal control processes are set up well, if they're implemented well, if they're doing what we would expect them to do. Principle number two, business evaluates and communicates internal control problems in a timely manner to parties responsible for taking corrective action. There's problems in the internal controls in terms of either the way the internal control is set up, not well designed or in the way it's being implemented, not being implemented or followed through with. Then we go to the appropriate level of management and discuss the implementation and or design at that point. Parties include senior management and the board of directors as appropriate. Obviously if it's to the point where we can discuss this with senior management and take care of it, then that would be it. If it's something that's gonna be a serious flaw in the internal controls and have substantial risk, then of course we would want to include the board of directors as well. Audit risk model. You'll recall that the audit risk model represents in a formula type format. Audit risk equals the inherent risk, the inherent risk within basically inherent in the organization or the type of business that we're in line with. The control risk, control risk, what we are talking about now and then we have the detection risk. This is the auditors basically whether the audit will pick up any problems within the auditing process. These two recall are kind of on the business side of things. What industry they're in, what's inherently risky about the business ventures that they are in, that's their decision to be in that business and take on those inherent risks. The control risk is what they are designing in their bureaucratic system as they set up their business model. That of course is the component that we're focusing on here when we consider the overall audit risk model.


Oh, it did it. Awesome. I don't want to rotate the bike. What are you talking about? See it's like, is it locked? There's like a lock on it. Here, turn it. Did you have it? Yeah, I think I'm live streaming right now. Yeah, for some reason guys, it does not want to do horizontal. We look at the stream right now and see if it's horizontal. So yeah, anybody watching, we're here at the Columbus, Ohio gun rally, gun rights rally. Right now, there's, I think the Ohio gun rights group is speaking. I'm going to go in there and get some interviews here in a little bit. I was kind of hoping to, I don't know if it's messed up. All right, hold on guys, let me see what I can do here. Yeah, I don't know why I can't do horizontal live streaming. There's a lock on it. Anybody knows why that is? Let me know. Got kind of crazy hair going on here. But yeah, I was kind of hoping to see some counter protests maybe. Those have not materialized just yet. Supposedly on the 18th, there's going to be an anti-gun rights rally here. So I'll probably be here for that. I thought it was some guy just went by waving at me. He doesn't realize I had the camera on me. Maybe that's why it's not working. Let me try something here. Yeah, can you Google YouTube live stream app, no horizontal lock icon or something like that?  Hey guys. Yeah, I don't know why it won't record or it won't live stream horizontally. It's supposed to. It just doesn't work. I don't know why. If anybody does know why, let me know. So this is the rally. Probably about a few hundred people here. I already spoke to a couple militia members. You can see them in there. Some people with some pretty cool guns in there.  This is my brother Wyatt. He's my cameraman today. So we're going to walk back over here. YouTube. You can see there's lots of police set up. Lots of police everywhere in case of, I mean Columbus, Ohio, I don't think is really known for its antifa population. No doubt there are some. We got the art college right down Broad Street here. You can guarantee there's a bunch of alleged antifascists who are actually fascists. This is my town though, folks. I grew up here. Lived here for many years when I went to OSU. I have not seen any yet, guys. I'm looking for. That's why we came over here. I was just going to talk to random people, but hasn't been many people showing much interest. Well, whatever. We're just going to have to do vertical. Someday I'll figure this out and be able to get horizontal live streams, but it just doesn't work. When I try to do it, it just goes gray and says rotate device with a little locked icon on it like it's not a feature you can use. So I don't know. Anybody who might know how to fix that, shoot me an email. DroneTech at gmail.com. And I should get that. I haven't seen any gun grabbers yet, guys. We're going to walk around in here and check out the cool people in here. Lots of responsible open carry people. I don't know how well you can hear me. I do have an external mic, but it pops a lot when I talk. How you doing? Good. How you doing? Good. Thanks. As a matter of fact, I'll pull it up so you can read the email. I'm just going to walk around so you guys can see some of the cool flags. Can we count your sweatshirts? Yes, we can. I was like, where'd Jeff go? 2012 because of you. I'd really like to ask some gun grabbers what they think about BIDO.  Legislation was modified to meet our needs. This is what happens when I turn this sideways, guys. Don't underestimate the power of your written word or your phone call. It doesn't work. Don't be complacent and say someone else will do it. Thank you. Somebody just came up to me a moment ago and pointed out, if you guys have any women that are going to be speaking here today and I'm here to tell you that our next speaker is one of the most fabulous women I've ever met in my life. Guys, I did start it sideways. Her name, she is the sponsor of the Stand Your Ground bill that is very going to happen here in the next couple of weeks, so watch your email boxes. But she's kind of notorious lately because she said a few things on her Facebook page about how maybe there's other causal factors, other than guns that are causing this violence. And we got cornered, I got cornered here to say how... I'll walk over here and see if I can get this working all right, guys. We need to renounce her. And what she had said, are you serious? This is kind of a tell-out. We're seeing more police out here keeping the peace, but I don't see any counter-protesters or anything anywhere. I'm going to do some listening to you, represent Tana Keller, and she's running for the same extent. So be ready to come back. Tana Keller! Thank you so much for standing with me. I did say something a few weeks ago that I was much to my surprise. I guess it was in... Sorry about the vertical video, guys. I don't know what's going on. ...between one man and one woman. But they're already completely insane. So there's just a couple of things I wanted to say today. First of all, thank you for standing. Like I was saying earlier, guys, I don't know if we have much antifa here in Columbus. Maybe a little, maybe a few. Down at the... There's our college down the street. There could be something there. And then Ohio State University is right down the road as well. ...has already come out and said he's voting for red flag. If anybody wants to support this channel, I am able to receive super chats now. For those of you who are so inclined. I'd really like to get this horizontal though. Now walk around. These guys right here are Ohio militia. Talk to their guys earlier. They'll be in the video. Because they knew that because they had lived under a government of tyranny, that that was going to be possible in the future. And so they wrote this second amendment for us, which is a God-given right. Nobody gave you the right to carry. They gave you the right to carry. You were born with the right to carry. So they can't take something away from you that they never gave to you. So that's the first thing. But you know, I think they would be astonished at how far to the left the liberals have gone on giving us the ability to protect ourselves. Now I'm a woman. Clearly I'm married to this terrific guy down here who's videotaping me right now. And he's not with me all the time. And so I have this other thing with me called a 357. Unequal footing with anybody who's coming at me. And they know that. Now, and there's no place in Columbus, Ohio, safer than this right here. No place to protect ourselves. Of course, it's not to be infringed. Infringed means it's not even possible to take that away from us. And so as we see, as we sign up, any of you had the stomach to watch the debate. Guys, I'll try to make the stream horizontal real quick. I'm going to stop the stream real quick. But you know, it's like the one.


Hello, and welcome to the San Jose State University iSchools LIS Careers podcast. My name is Kim Doherty and I am really, really delighted to welcome Julie Sherwood to our podcast series. Julie has a job that I believe is part of a very interesting trend among public libraries. She's the partnership and community engagement manager for the Wichita Public Library. She's agreed to talk to us today about her role in the library, the types of activities involved in the work that she does, and other aspects of her job. And I'm also going to rope her into telling us about how she started out in the LIS world and then ended up where she is now. So with that, I'd like to welcome Julie on behalf of the San Jose State University iSchool students. Thank you. All right, Julie. So I have a million questions I'd like to ask Julie because what she's doing is so fascinating, but we're going to be respectful of her time and try to keep this within a reasonable amount of Julie's workspace here. So I'm going to begin by asking you Julie about the specifics of your job. So could you tell us about what a partnership and community engagement manager does within a public library? This is a somewhat unusual title so it'd be great if you could describe your role for us. Okay. I began as a partnership and community engagement librarian about a year and a half ago, and it was in recognition of the fact that there's a lot of common goals that we have with other agencies in the community. And by working together on those common goals, we can gain a greater synthesis between us and really meet community needs. Basically what we do is to try to find connections in the community. We look for what we have in common similar goals and outcomes. We create formal partnerships with them. The partnerships might include things like them doing a STEM program for us or doing some kind of ongoing community program for social issues. And then in return, the library becomes a place where they can hold meetings or offer other benefits to their organization that the library is able to offer. The each partnership is unique in the way that it comes out and it gives us greater access to a whole network of people that we may not already be connected to. The community engagement side of what I do has to do with understanding the community that we live in and what exists in that community and how it functions and making sure that we're listening to the community for what it is they want from the library. So we work with the staff on helping them as they plan programs to look for what our goals are and make sure that those are in sync with what the community is asking for and helping them to find ways of getting that data, whether it's through surveys or looking at what people are checking out, keeping abreast of what's going on in local news, what trends there are in our community, and then figuring out what our community is looking for in a way of programs. And programs are just one way of addressing service needs in a library. There's a whole array of things you can do whether it's displays or promotions or just information and teaching of all kinds. So we look for how we can meet our goals in making a better community through community engagement. Okay, and so going back to partnerships, two questions or one question and one comment. So one of the things that these community partnerships enable you to do is to bring in essentially subject matter experts from these organizations so that you guys don't have to become the SMEs yourself. That's right. Okay, and then my question is how do you identify who you want to partner with? It's actually sometimes it happens in all different ways. Sometimes they come to us with an idea and we look for where the win-win would be in that partnership. Sometimes we're actually seeking out a partner to fulfill a particular direction that we want to go. So for example, the Wichita Amateur Radio Club came to us with the idea that they would like to do monthly programs and work to get that kind of technology and experience out into the community. And they had a whole array of interesting programs on anything from Stormspotting to Amelia Earhart and how radios were used in that. And they've done some introductory workshops and that's turned out to be a really great partnership. We had nine people that came to a session in September on how to get their actual license and so now they're going to offer a class for us. We also had the American Society of Civil Engineers. It started with them looking for a place to have their monthly meetings, but they came up with the idea of what if on a Saturday morning they would do a STEM program for children and they've done programming such as how to make a better sandcastle and how a water plane works. One had to do with packaging as s'mores to keep from crushing what was inside. And they are really well attended and the kids love them. And in exchange they hold their meetings here at the library and now that they're going to have a conference coming up it looks like we will be the site for their conference. And it puts those people in contact with our library some of whom might not have been in a library in a while and we think that their expertise gives us a greater stretch and reach into the community. Certainly expands your ability to offer services that you couldn't otherwise offer. Right, exactly. So going back to the radio group then the fact that they reached out to you with this proposal would indicate that either through your own through the library's own marketing or word of mouth organizations in the community are recognizing that you want to partner. Is that something that you're actively working to to get out a message? And sometimes we actually go out and seek them and I mentioned that I didn't mention that we have a local group called the Health and Wellness Coalition and I go to those monthly meetings and we were looking to get a grant going and so what we did was we talked to them about the grant and were asking for interested partners to come and talk to us. And so we got a couple of interested agencies that contacted us and then we were able to we're still in the process of writing that grant but we're working on a proposal together with that with our community partners. So sometimes we'll say okay what we're looking for is something on this topic whether it's a grant that comes to us or an opportunity like the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage is coming up next year and so the League of Women Voters was a natural partner for that. We have been doing some programming in the past on race and ethnicity and so we're working with quite a number of different nonprofits who are active in that area to help us develop our programming for a new grant that we're writing on that. And is that like an IMLS grant? No, there was a national endowment for the humanities grant opportunity a couple of years ago and because of some things that were happening in our community the State Humanities Council contacted us and asked Wichita to be the one to develop the grant and I got partners to the table and we had some really dynamic programming. We've just recently won a Voice of the People award for our city for what we're doing in terms of race and ethnicity programs and initiatives. So it's been very... Congratulations! Thank you. That's really an accomplishment. That's wonderful. And then how does your current role differ from the previous role you held as program and outreach manager? The program and outreach manager job that I had before there's a lot of similar elements to it but it kind of started with the role of reference in our system. Reference has kind of gone or gone a change over the years and what we wanted to do was to emphasize the fact that there's more than one way to get information to people and programming is one of those ways. So we moved into a new building last year in June and in preparation for that we kind of reorganized and we were looking at the jobs that were being done by that reference team and we wanted to really emphasize their role in creating programming and as that happened that department became more involved in the day-to-day planning of programming and I sort of became in the community engagement side of what I do looking at what they're planning and making sure it's aligning with our goals and guiding them in the creation of programs for our library system. So then this lets me segue into the question and I'm really excited about here among all of the other ones I am as well but that is could you tell the students how your career has developed to bring you to where you are now? Sure when I got started in a library field back in the late 80s my plan was to be a children's librarian and I started off in the San Antonio library system as a floater librarian because I wasn't quite sure that I was actually ready to take on the job of a children's librarian but after about a year and a half I changed jobs. I went to Tracy California and in the Stockton-San Joaquin County system I was the children's librarian at the Tracy Branch Library for three years. When I was done working at that location I was looking to move up to a higher position and so there was a job in Salina, Kansas for the head of a children's department at their community library so I moved back to Kansas and went to Salina and I stayed in that position about four and a half years. There came a position in Wichita for a youth services coordinator and Wichita was my hometown I'd been wanting to get back there for a long time so I applied for that position and got that position in September of 97 and about three years later our director retired and we had a new director come in who wanted to reorganize the library and rather than divide things between adult services and children's services the new plan was to divide things between programs and collections and my job was going to be programs and someone else was doing the collections and at that point I knew how the children's programs worked but I really had no clue about how adult programming was done. I had not really been involved in that side of things and began a process of learning by trial and error how to be an adult services programming librarian and over the years that's what I have been doing for the last 20 years and then as I said last year we reorganized again and this I am now the partnership and community engagement manager so it's kind of been a long transition of where I am now from where I thought I was going to be when I started but it's a great position I mean I really do enjoy the programming side of it it's very dynamic and it certainly gives me a lot of chance to be creative so and that then leads to my next question is what do you enjoy the most about your job? Well I definitely enjoy the creativity and the variety I like developing an idea and I like the out-of-the-box thinking that I get to do and I'm a very curious kind of person and have interest in a lot of things and so this gives me the chance to to do so many different things and what I what I don't like is to get bogged down in the details so what I'm able to do is to create something and then bring someone in to actually carry out what I got started and that's really fun for me then I get to move on to something else so you're kind of you that's a mindset that's like a project person you create the spark you create you know you flesh out this is what it should look like and do an address and then you're ready to move on to the next opportunity right exactly okay I also like the connections that I get with people throughout the community in a job like this much as I love the books and the collections it's really about in this job it's about meeting people listening to people it's about working collaboratively with people and I just really like getting to know people out in the community that it's almost as if you are in many ways the public face of yes the library in the community so yes and and I go to so many of the programs I actually had someone say to me recently do you live at the library or you're always here when it's just coincidental that I'm frequently here when there's a program and that's when they're here so it may seem like I'm always here but but how wonderful then to see that realization of the idea that you had come to fruition that would be so fun and so rewarding so another question would be from your vantage point and and from your connections in the profession and with other librarians and other communities and other public libraries are you seeing an increase in these types of community collaborations around the public library sort of universe or is Wichita fairly unique in what they're doing there you know I am beginning to see more of this in other places when I first got this title I wasn't sure I thought maybe I would be the only one but I have seen occasionally other people that are having similar titles or similar job duties to what I'm doing and I do see it as a trend there was um there has always been um sort of the uh an expectation of what the library is but my experience is that that's changing every every year and even every month you know there's something new something different and I think that the whole concept of a library is changing and one of the ways that that's happening is that the the collaborations and the way that we interact with the community um there's so much now that's happening with data collection surveys and it's not just in libraries in that way I mean every time we go shopping somewhere there's a receipt that wants you to respond back to them because people do want to know who are the people we're serving and what is it that they're looking for from us and the closer you can come to um matching what their expectations are um the better you'll be at um at what you're doing so I do think that one of the the keys to be able to to be able to serve the community best is to find out who is your community and what is it that they are doing and interested in and that they want from the library and partnering with other agencies these are formed for a purpose and they are fulfilling a need and if we can help them and they can help us then it's a win-win for everybody it really multiplies to such a a wonderful degree the impact that both organizations can have in terms of right having a positive outcome in people's lives so a question then based on that we've got students who are going through grad school they're looking at you know what is what is the field going to look like as I continue to grow professionally in this field for someone who would be interested in doing the kind of work that you're doing what skills do you feel are the most important ones to be successful in the work that you do um I would say that that one of them is to be able to manage lots of different things at one time um point basically there's a whole lot to project management that so the more you know about how to meet deadlines how to keep things in budget how to keep your team on track and not get off into the weeds I think those are helpful skills certainly communication is really really a key and making sure that everyone is talking to each other and stays in the loop being able to be um a positive encourager of other people sometimes when we're working on a project like the big read and we invite other community agencies to be a part of our project sometimes they come up with things that they wouldn't have been what we would have done but but as a partner you say okay we're gonna let you run with that and we're gonna stay in our lane here and we're gonna do this part that's right and you really um get a better outcome I think when you accept your partners for who they are and let them do their best and communicating your vision for the whole the whole thing is really important um I also think that even though I think I'm a big picture thinker that being able to manage details it's it's me working left-handed on the detailed side of it but that's really really a critical thing there are so many elements to any program that you do the date the place the length of time the description that you're using and the contracting and the the managing of things and so all of those details are really important and so clerical accuracy and and communication is really important and I think that just being able to create things and to be able to to look at a situation or something that you think people are interested in and and just have curiosity about things I think that's going to help a lot in programming um sometimes there's things that I become interested in not because I I wanted it but because I can see other people being doing that and I'm just curious about what it is I think sometimes that I've seen problems where people want to create programs that satisfy what they themselves want but it really doesn't resonate with interesting others in the community and basically I think that that does a disservice to the community in um in our programming and just taking something that you've seen that looks really cool in one place doesn't mean you can cut it out and press it into a mold in your community that someone else may be doing that work already and no reason to duplicate or compete with them so being able to understand well enough what what's already existing where you are and what what new things you can add that would be beneficial so how can you that analytical that analytical oh good point good point I I think that's a really important point about complimenting rather than competing with because when you can compliment what someone else is already doing or extend the reach of it or the breadth and depth of it or the library resources available to enhance it that that gets to your point about really responding to the community it it is having I've worked for a number of founder led startups and that issue of I think this is a really cool idea so everyone is going to love it it's it's really easy to fall into let's put it that way you know that's that's also one of the benefits of listening and of asking people and of doing surveys and those sorts of things is that if you ask those questions and probe a little bit more deeply they will tell you well yeah that's kind of a neat idea but that's not really what we need what we really need is this thing over here exactly you know I think that's a really really good point that you've made there so to wrap us up I'm going to ask you what advice you would give to students who might be interested in this career path since it sounds to me like people don't sort of say I'm going to have a career as a program or a partnership in community engagement manager it sounds like you you find your way to this kind of a role through a number of different pathways and channels so if that's the case what advice would you share with students about this kind of a role and how to how to get there I think that one of the important things is getting experience in actual team teamwork whether it's on the job experience or outside of the job experience if you're a part of a team actually look at how the team functions and what your role is on that team and see what works and what doesn't and the more practice you get at doing that I think the better it's the easier it's going to become to think of what options you might have in doing programming I think that a wide variety of things of whether it's wide variety of work experience or life experience or even positions within a library as I mentioned I was a floater a children's librarian a manager and I think all of those things helped me develop the skills that I needed to be able to do this job so building all of the different strengths that that it takes to do this kind of job happens a little bit at a time and so I also think that being open-minded to different ways of doing things is beneficial trying to I also think keeping up with the literature as far as what's going on there's a LA weekly thing or it's actually maybe every other week it's called programming librarian and it kind of helps if you subscribe to the programming librarian resource you can kind of see what other people are doing in programs there's also the national endowment for the arts the national endowment for the humanities and then a lot of other organizations in the nonprofit world keeping up with what's happening in your community through the news the local news for example this coming year in Wichita we've got a new stadium that's being built and we're also celebrating the 150th anniversary of our city so one of the projects that some of our staff are working on right now is involves the history of baseball in Wichita and it kind of connects to a satchel page played one of his earliest games in Wichita so it kind of connects to our candid conversations programming on race and ethnicity and so we kind of want to loop all of those things together and create we're looking at doing a drama called Mr. Ricky calls a meeting and as a grand tricky yes yes about Jackie Robinson and yeah we're we're just looking at at all of the different ways to celebrate and so I think that that when you're part of a team and you're brainstorming that that is developing that that functionality of being able to develop ideas so it's being very broadly really beyond the library itself exactly to the whole community yes okay and if I were to place this in a a sort of category of LIS work I was thinking marketing but you're saying programming yes and actually we have a person that I work very closely with our communications manager works really side by side with me on all of this his name is Sean Jones and he I'm the one who's working with the staff on create getting the programs described and created and they're helping to find you know the partners to do I mean the speakers to do the programs and I'm working on like larger initiatives like big read and candid conversations and things like that so we give that to Sean and then Sean takes that and creates the actual print pieces he does the social media okay and he is doing the marketing and promotion of what we're creating okay and clearly he's doing a good job of it oh he's doing an excellent job yep he's he's really fabulous and basically I think that in other libraries they work it a little differently some of them have graphic designers and sometimes the person who does what he does has some elements of what I do so it can be a little bit different depending on how you choose to allocate those roles but but this one I like I said I think I have found a really good happy place for me and and to all the students I would point out on behalf of both myself and Julie we've been doing this for a long time we've been in the LIS field and throughout that time our jobs have changed a lot and and we've worked with different organizations and one of the cool things about the profession is that the more often you take on a new role as Julie has done over and over again the closer you're likely to get to exactly where Julie is now which is her happy place her sweet spot right you know I just think that's terrific well Julie thank you so much for sharing your your time and your expertise with us and I look forward to talking to you again this has been really wonderful and on behalf of all of the students thank you so much for sharing you so much for inviting me I really enjoyed it all right take care all right you too bye bye