I'm here for treatment for my chai. The problem with my chai was she was here from a plastic anemia. From Mauritius they sent us here because many people come here. That's why we are here because government has sent us there for treatment. So in Mauritius we used to get transfusion often because DMT is not available. So they recommended us to come here for treatment to receive the bone marrow transfusion. Few weeks before, a young child, an 18 month old baby girl was referred to us from Mauritius.  She was evaluated there and found to have severe pancytopenia and she was referred to us for further evaluation. At presentation, child had severe anemia, severe thrombocytopenia and also leucopenia. Her bone marrow report confirmed the diagnosis of a plastic anemia. The child was initially treated with supportive care and we also initiated the HLA identical donor search in international and national donor registries. Unfortunately, we could not get any HLA identical donor but the HLA typing of the parents and the child revealed that her father was partially matched. So we considered doing what is called as partially HLA matched bone marrow transplantation. So when the patients who require bone marrow transplantation and they cannot find an HLA identical donor either in family or in international donor registries, we considered doing partially HLA matched or half matched bone marrow transplantation. So child Raghu Malavi did undergo partially matched HLA bone marrow transplantation with the stem cells given from her father. Fortunately, child did very well. Her bone marrow which was not functioning, there was engraftment after the bone marrow transplantation. Child was discharged from the bone marrow unit and she is following up with us on an outpatient. She continues to be on certain medications called as universal procedure medications to prevent graft versus host disease. But she is doing very well post-transplantation thus far. We are very happy to go home because treatment is over and successfully done 100%. And we are proud to Dr. Manika June for his best.


Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We do record the show as we are doing today and it is posted to our website for you to watch at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access our archives. Both the live show and the recording are free and open to anyone to watch, so please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you think might be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. For those of you who may be joining us not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state library for Nebraska. So we provide services to all types of libraries in the state. So you will find topics on our show for all types of libraries. Public, academic, K-12, museums, archives, corrections, anything, anything and everything really are only criteria that it's something to do with libraries. We do book reviews, interviews, mini training sessions, demos of services and products that really runs the gamut of the kind of things we have on the show. We do bring in guest speakers sometimes from across the state, across the country actually, but we also have Nebraska Library Commission staff that talk about programs that we have here at the Commission or about things that we think would be of interest to anybody. And today that's what we have with it. That's what we're doing today. Amanda Sweet is here with us. Good morning Amanda. Good morning. And she is our Technology Innovation Librarian here at the Nebraska Library Commission. So anything techie, that's her. And we are today, this is the Teaching Tech in the Library series that Amanda has been doing for us and we are on part three today. Part one and two all happened last month and the recordings of both of those sessions are in our archives. Who is learning and why and how do people learn. So if you want to watch those recordings. And part four is coming up at the end of this month on June 30th, July, July 28th. Sorry, wrong calendar, July 28th. And that'll be marketing and follow-up. But today Amanda's going to talk about partnerships and preparing it with staff and training.  Take it away. So as Krista said, we've been working on this series for about, yeah, this is our third one. And so this is kind of like a living learning course. The main feedback that I've gotten is I need this information. I need it right now. So I don't have time to make everything pretty before I put it out there. So so what I'm going to do. Yeah. So here's what I'll do is I'm going to cover some course updates for what I've changed so far. Because as I put this stuff out in the weeks after it and throughout the series, I do make updates to that course, purify things and change things up a little bit. I've added some graphics, I've changed things over to a card format. And I'll go over some of what you can expect for the changes that have happened, what's coming up soon. And basically, I put the information out there. And then I make it easier to digest and add some better visuals, graphics, learning tools as I go along. Basically, as I have time, I make it better. And this is also kind of a way to show that instruction is is progressive. It iterates, it grows. What I'm doing now, you're probably going to find yourself doing in the future. If you don't already, many of you probably do. And so then I'll go over. So I talked about user experience design in a previous session. And I've actually done quite a few user experience research materials for this project. So I'll go over some of the findings because that's probably going to be relevant to what you're actually going to be putting together, how much time you have for partnerships, where you're going to fit in staff training and what works for you. So I'll kind of cover over the important bits of that. And one of the tools that I found most useful in making design decisions. And then I'll go over some of some of the partnership basics. If you are completely new to partnerships, I'll go over the resources and frameworks that I found and the framework that I adapted for use in this course. Partnerships is not something that I have done extensively. So I relied heavily on what others have done before me. So that's kind of one of those things that it's just better to use the frameworks of the organizations that have been there and done that eight million times. What I have done more of is staff training. In my life before libraries, I actually worked in, I was kind of an administrative assistant, and I was an interim manager for a year doing training. So I actually had to find the time to actually do that training to help people gain those new skills and figure out what's next and start making those agreements to learn these skills. Why am I learning this? Why is it relevant? How is this fitting into my work life? And how can I translate this over to a multi task into my regular life? And so that is more of what I've done in the past. If you want to know my background and how and why I'm covering it. So let's just dig into it. So the first thing I'll go over is my course updates. So let me actually open up the course. And I will put this link into the chat just in case you don't have it handy. And you should see that popping in now. So some of the things that I've added are converting these tech sections over into cards. So this card format is actually really easy to do whether you're using WordPress or in this case, I actually hand coded it. So it just something that kind of breaks up the page visually updates it makes it look better. I added some additional visual tools so that you can process information better. This used to actually just be a standard bulleted list, but it's been converted over into a graphic that graphic is just something that I made in Canva. Most of the graphics I do are in Canva just because Canva makes life easier. And you'll start to see some of these little graphics starting to pop in here. And a lot of these bulleted, bulleted lists are being turned into worksheets. So these worksheets, you'll start to see examples of them in this section here. So this is another infographic that used to be a list. Now it's an actual visual. It'll start to give you a better idea of how to interpret and translate that information. And if you're trying to wonder how you're going to implement this in the library itself, if you are creating learning materials and resources, and you don't have a whole ton of time, you can actually just put the material out, use the standard bulleted list or the text format, and then maybe a couple weeks or a month later, start adding this stuff in incrementally, which is basically what I'm doing now. And another thing that I started adding are these worksheets. So this will start making it easier to kind of break the information down and just use these as kind of a planning tool or a basically something to make life easier. And so these have been starting to be embedded in here. And and these are going to be reformatted pretty soon. So it's just kind of one of those all things take time. But it'll get there. I think it's good to see this. If people have been joining us for this series since the beginning, seeing how things can change. And it shows like how you come up with a concept for teaching anything. And it really probably is that kind of brainstorming bulleted lists, or I wrote up a paragraph or two. And now how do I make it usable? And we can see how that changes over time and how that actually works. And as a side note, this process will look different for each different library, because some libraries actually have a marketing and design team that's able to do this separately. So if you have a right. So if you are, if you're working on your own like me, then you can start doing something like this. If you are breaking the instructional design process out and into different team roles, you might have one person who is writing the actual content, one person who is purifying everything and putting it into a website or a learning management system, then you might have even another person who's doing graphics. And you might even be able to recruit like a local student or volunteer who wants to start learning this and getting some experience under the belt. And so you can start making a plan for this and then say, and go to a graphics team or an education department in a local university and say, can you make these graphics for me? Do you want to get some experience actually doing this stuff out in the world? And that's another way to do it. So I told you the course updates here, but I should also tell give kind of a brief recap of what these different sections are just in case you are new to the series. If you do want to run through this course, you'll start with kind of understanding who is learning this material and why it actually matters to them. This is the background of user experience research. And I borrowed some influence from local startup companies, because startups are actually they're low on staff low on resources. They just want to test out ideas and make sure that they're going in the right direction. And that's basically what libraries want to do too. So I started incorporating a lot of those startup mechanisms into design. And user experience has already infiltrated libraries, it's already a thing. But it's starting to grow even more into it. So you'll kind of gain access to a lot of the tools and resources for understanding why people do the things they do and how to translate it into a library service. And then this is the what's the problem section is a way to, after you understand what motivates people to do the things they do, you'll understand the different things that people are facing and what actually gets prioritized. Because you might put together a workshop for local parents, or you might put together a workshop for learning Facebook. And then nobody shows up. And usually if you did a survey to find out what people want, and they just say Facebook, then they may have cared about Facebook six months ago, but their priorities may have changed by the time you actually did the thing. So that could be a contributing reason as to why they're just not doing it. The how do people learn will expand your different options for how to connect people to the information and resources they need in the library. I have a little menu of options that you can start brainstorming with and start to use as a planning guide and a tool. So the how do people learn is basically comparing against where people are sitting when they actually learn the information and where people are sitting when they use the information and finding out of those two are stacking up. Because if you are that's one of the biggest complaints that people have against classroom study is how is this going to be relevant? I just learned this little scattered little assortment of stuff. Why should I care? And the gather the resources is once you've started to understand how people learn you have kind of a litmus test of what you're actually looking for. Then you can shift over into finding people who are able to help. Because if you're going to start finding partners, you need to have a really good, solid idea of what you actually want. You can't just walk into a small business or walk into the American Job Center and say, you know, someone told me that they kind of maybe want to do this. And do you think you can maybe sort of do this? And people are going to be like, what are you talking about right now? So we're actually in this session now, we're going to go over some different startup method tools that people have used to build a pitch deck. If you've gone to the computers and libraries conference, you may have actually seen pitch decks in use. It's a way to organize and concentrate your focus on the single idea so that you're able to articulate it and communicate it to people who might we be able to help or people who actually want to attend the project or attend the program. So in the course itself, I haven't purified it yet, we've gone over this, but I've given some resources for how to build those startup pitch decks. There's some examples of what a pitch deck looks like, and how you can start using this tool for yourself so that you don't sound absolutely ridiculous when you're actually reaching out to people. And you'll also learn what is the process of actually building a partnership? What does this look like if you're new to it, you haven't done it before. That's I made like a little infographic just as a reference point so that you're not pulling out your hair when you're doing it. And the second half of this webinar itself is going to be once you figured out who you're actually going to be working with, do you even need an official partner? Or can you just connect people over? You're going to do a warm handoff. And then once you figured that out, you can start figuring out what your staff actually needs to know. And that's where that UX research is going to come in handy that I will go over now.  And how do you track this so that people so that you can justify to a library board that this thing worked or this thing didn't work? This is what I'm going to do differently. This is I'm going to pivot change test what you do next. So the first thing that you actually want to know our goal in this is figuring out what do people care about? So you'll see that this little visual graphic is everything is centered on just living. And then these little circles on the outside here are going to be how important this topic is to people at that time. So while people are actually upskilling, trying to change careers, trying to figure out what's next, or they just graduated from college or something, this bubble might be bigger.  And then they might be trying to figure out what they want to do in life. What's it all for? It might get very male dramatic very quickly. And this will be like a little smaller bubble. And then their family, they might have parents that are going into elder care, they might have younger children that they are still trying to figure out how to be parents and how to do their adulting. And or they might be trying to figure out dating whatever it is that maybe this is what the library wants to know. This is what is important. This is what is going to focus your energy and which program is going to be going on right now. Where do you put your energy? What matters to people? The problem is that the user experience research that I put together for small to mid sized libraries makes it very difficult to actually run through and find time to do the studies that will give you these answers. And that's actually part of what I want to help with in the library commission is how much of this can of this legwork is just repetitive. How many different demographics and categories can be researched ahead of time without doing a whole bunch of this stuff individually? How many resources can be made available so that the risk of research is reduced? So you can have a series of options to pull from without sacrificing your own time and energy. So this is how you would actually condense something into an actual feasible thing. This is a one sentence pitch that's adapted out of the Founders Institute. This is how you would translate what matters to people and pick a little mini sub problem and start to zero and focus on to it. And this is how you're going to start articulating ideas to people who might be able to help to your board members or to anyone you need to explain this project to or get approval from. So it's basically and there are some examples of how this actually works in the course itself. So let me go and find there it is. So the barriers that we have as actual library staff and putting this all together I put together in a persona. So this is you. If you if you read it and you say that I'm completely off, let me know I can fix that. But if you read it and say, yep, that's right on the money, then I guess I did my job well. So from what I've done, I've talked to a lot of library staff, like it's either been through makerspaces over the phone or just during different events that have attended and various different conferences, a bunch of different places. And I started taking notes and aggregating them into this persona. Personas are basically a description of a demographic in your own library. You might put to put this together for an aging population, recent retirees, recent college graduates, new parents, parents of teens, confused parents with technology, pretty much any demographic that you can think of. You can put this together to start guiding your decisions and start guiding your materials. So it's basically turtles all the way down. I had to use design to make this course. You'll be using this design to make your courses. And this is also going to be the information that and the barriers that are going to get in the way when you were trying to actually build partnerships and trying to do staff training. Because if you have library staff that are working multiple jobs and you have people that are whenever they do learning, they have to focus on courses for CE credit because they that's what it takes to be a librarian. Then it's going to kind of take away from other learning. So that's something that I did that has to be changed for requirements for CE. And it may also have to be changed as a priority within the library itself. So it's basically if your goal is to expand library services and to meet actual needs. These are your barriers and you know what you actually have to learn to reach that goal. It's changing priorities and tracking time. Alright, so let me dig. It's 1025 and I'm going to dig into partnerships. So this is a quick infographic that I put together that is based on it's a young adult library services association to build partnerships. So a lot of this stuff that I put together is based on this type of framework. Because as we just talked about in my library my small to medium sized library persona, you're not going to have a lot of time to actually put all this stuff together yourself. You're going to need to rely on partnerships to be able to fill in the gaps. Or you might be able to find online or local resources that you can do a warm handoff for. So when you are building those partnerships you might not actually have a whole ton of time to do it. If you are only part-time you're juggling a part-time job at the local grocery store or you're juggling a part-time job elsewhere and you're also trying to keep track of all your family obligations. Partnerships can kind of fall by the wayside. So it's more or less about finding small incremental time to start building these relationships and finding out not only how the library can who the library can work with but how you can contribute to their organization as well. I will pull up an exercise that I did in a workshop where I asked people if you want to start doing a resources for small business owners or you want to do resources for people who are trying to get a job. Who would you actually work with? Before you can actually start building partnerships you have to know who you're going to partner with. If you only have a limited amount of time you have to start prioritizing which of those partners to focus in on and you have to have like a little backup list just in case that falls through. And you can also start building like an incremental partnership system so that instead of building an official long-term partnership you can start with something unofficial mini pilot program and work your way up to start building that trust so that you don't have to devote as much time and energy to that relationship to be able to create a program or make connections or do what you need to do. And so this I'm not going to go into every single little bit of this because a lot of this you can just read and if you're interested in learning partnerships you'll probably just go to the website. And so let's talk about how you can actually start brainstorming who to partner with and when. So in a previous section of this course and the what's the problem section I will have asked you to make focus on to one single problem that's where that pitch deck came in where you're starting to zero and narrow down focus. If you chose career changers which is a really common one right now I will have asked you to break that down into separate little sub problems. What are the smaller things that people need to be able to solve an address to be able to solve this major problem. So this is where this visual diagram comes in you would put your major section topic in the center and then break out these different little sub topics and then you can break this down into one more layer saying who are the people that are working locally regionally or nationally who are going to be able to help me with this sub topic. So the most common ones for skill building or job centers there can be online recent online learning or Coursera LinkedIn or different things like that. And if you go with the online learning resources like LinkedIn they can be costly but you can also find low cost alternatives and that is also a low maintenance partnership option because it's not official you just sign up for it but you are gaining resources from an external source so it is still technically a partnership because you don't actually have to do this stuff yourself. So as you start breaking this down into topics you'll start to see that a lot of these little sub topics they overlap job centers help with the interview and test but they also help with skill building and then you can see tech training that's popping up pretty much everywhere. And you can start seeing that once you've broken this down and start seeing the patterns between who like what is addressed. You find out that in even when you are trying to tackle for smaller sub topics you don't actually need for separate partners. You might actually find out that there's one that can do it all. We might find out that you only need two people to solve two major two people to solve for major clusters. So just laying this out visually like this can help you kind of organize what is most important. And it could relieve a lot of stress when you're thinking about I have this big thing I want to do but there's so much basically breaking it down into these small bits is so much easier to work with mentally. Yeah. Yeah. And so once you've identified it you can pop into the framework to start making that initial connection whether it's over an email. You can go to a local Chamber of Commerce event. A lot of these tech training places they also hold open houses. So if you go to one of their open houses just go to the webinar and after it they'll usually say reach out to me if you want to do blah blah blah. Just reach out to them and most of these people they want to work with you because you're going to be sending a business. You're going to be sending in people. You're going to be making connections. So once you've identified these partners start making a list of how you can actually help them because if you just say can you give me some tech training. They're going to be like we are to do that. Why should we do that through you. And that's when it starts to that's when you can start making your justification system and start practicing talking about it in the library to friends family and just start practice saying it before you actually connect with people. And so this is where asset mapping comes in. A lot of you probably already do this. There are some resources that are available in the course if you haven't already done it. I want to get into the skills training. So I'm just going to skip over this because well it's in the it's written down already. It'll be fine. So once you've actually started figuring out who you're going to be working with you'll want to start figuring out what you actually need to do in the library itself. What is the library's role. What do you bring to the table. How can you make sure that it gets done and you fulfill your promises that you've made during the partnership phase. So that is why I put together the so you'll see this in the how do people learn section in a previous section of the course. Let me click this open. So and I'll make it bigger. So this section is about how people actually learn in the library. What are the different resources, materials and common things that the library actually does and how do you plan for them. So some of those most common ones community conversations are incredibly incredibly popular right now. And so our workshops trainings. If you're new to this or if you're trying to find a different way to do it, you can use this as kind of a guide tool. When you go down to any one of these different sections, there'll be a mini guide for how to actually do it. And most of them will also have a planning checklist. This planning checklist is going to help you actually break things down into smaller subtopics to make sure that you covered everything. And it's going to kind of make sure that well, your head doesn't explode when you're trying to figure everything out. So it's kind of your quick start cheat sheet to make sure that everything gets done. And so a lot of these are going to be opened out into pre made charts that you can customize and adapt based on your actual goal. So it'll be separated out into task. And so you want people to be able to sign up for it. You want to make sure that you've done the marketing materials and you want to break out things for when the stuff is actually going to get done. Who's doing it when you're going to start this section? And basically, how are you going to make sure that this actually got done? And if this little Gantt chart or this planning chart doesn't exist in this format for every single one. And sometimes it doesn't sometimes it's just a guide that you would want to customize based on what you actually want to do. But it's really easy to just make this kind of chart just by breaking it down into tasks. Who done it? Who's doing it? How how important is it to actually get done? If we don't do this, can we skip it? And whatever is important to your library, add it in and start tracking it. So let me close this out. I'm going to clean up my system, my screen here. And you can just kind of pick what you actually need out of here and use this for planning. So I'm going to hop back into my slides here. And so all of the stuff, the tasks that are broken down from that chart that you will put together, you're going to need probably some time to actually learn and build those new skills. And that is where staff preparation and training comes in handy. And this is more of what I've done. The partnerships, I've relied heavily on what other people have done just because, well, they're better at it. And so this is something that is more my forte. And the first thing is actually finding time to do stuff. So in small and medium sized libraries, it's basically about tracking where you actually are spending your time, finding out what's important and changing habits. Because a lot of times in smaller libraries, people may have just gotten used to doing the same thing over and over again. And that's not even just true just in libraries. That's true in everywhere. And that's why James Clear made atomic habits. It's because you need to find ways to do things differently if you're going to get things done. And if you have never even looked at technology, never looked at training, never looked at learning Excel or learning anything like that and you start finding out that this is a thing that is actually necessary now and you're not used to building this into your schedule, habits need to change. And that's also going to be part of the mindset and mentality of people who are learning and people who are actually tracking whether people learn the stuff. So these resources I put in there for that purpose. It's going to get you into that mindset, kind of start getting into that framework that says I need to do this. This is important to me and my community right now. If I don't do this, my town is going to be unprepared and people aren't going to have access to the tools, information and resources that are going to let them live. If I don't do this, if I don't change my habits, what will happen? And so when you start doing that, you actually want, you might want to start tracking what your day looks like. Where does your time actually do? Where does your time actually go? And I put together a mini activity that's based on these resources and based on what I've done when I actually help people do training, started planning this out. But and I will admit that tracking your daily tasks for a week or a month or the duration that you're going to be doing this training can be tedious. It just it can be. But it was actually also incredibly helpful. And it's because we tell ourselves a million and one times that this tutorial, it says that it's a minute and 30 second long video. This task is only going to take me five minutes. But that's how long the video is. You don't really count how long it takes to remember your password, get logged into the system and then practice that skill after you've seen it. Because I just there was the recent time study I did was learning canva. So canva's videos are broken down into one to three minute segments. And I was like, this is minute 30 seconds. It's not going to take long. Thirteen minutes later, I had actually finished it. And remembering passwords is a thing, people. And it can take time. Built it in.  Where did the day go? Yeah. I needed to do this and this and this. But I did this and this. And that really, that's all. Yeah. And then if you really think about, well, I had to do this prep work first to do the thing. And then this follow up and then someone else emailed me with another follow up and that made it take even more time. And yeah. It's a thing. Yeah. And then you might want to know that about this. But it's life. It's how things work. Yeah. And you might find that the things you've always done every day are not as important as they once were. So like asking yourself what took the most time and was this actually necessary and because that's how habits change is to understand what your day to day actually looks like and just realistically really ask yourself. Is this what my life should be right now? Is this what the library should be focused on? Is this important anymore? Is there something new that should take its place and start making that agreement at all levels of the organization to say, this is what needs to change. This is why build an agreement and say, this is why we're actually tracking our time. It's not because you did anything wrong or because I don't trust you. It's because I don't trust the way that things have always been done. I don't trust that that is supposed to be true anymore. Let's change. It's a better way to do it. And you just need to get down to figure out if there is. You might end up coming up with the answer that actually it did work. Right. I've been doing do still work, but you may discover changes needed. Yeah. And also, if you're going to even temporarily include training and skills development, you might need to change things temporarily and just say, we're going to give ourselves a month or two to learn this stuff. Our schedule is going to go haywire, but this is how we're going to do it. Rip off the bandaid and give it a try.  So whether or you are in person, you are still working remotely. These tools will work. So toggle is an actual time tracker and it has a project management component. The time tracker is free. It's going to be free. The project management has a free tier and a paid tier. So even if you just want to use it for time tracking toggle is a good way to go near and far. He's the wrote the guy who wrote this book. He also wrote hooked and he's just good people. He put together a series of tools that will help with distraction, time blocking, figuring out where to put your time and making kind of a promise with yourself to actually do what you said you were going to do. It's harder than it looks. And there's also some tips and tricks for using a Google calendar so that once you figured out what which skills you actually need, what's most relevant.  The next step is where in your actual day are you going to fit this five minutes because it is easy to tell yourself that you're going to spend this time. But it's harder to actually do it and hold yourself accountable and change those habits and make it a thing. So adding to a calendar set calendar reminders, start training your brain to know that this is now a thing. And so outlook tasks work similarly to Google Calendar. Basically pick your tool of choice and figure out how you can add little mini tasks and reminders to it and start training yourself like a puppy. That's how I did it. It hurt, but it worked. And the Kanban board is so Miro is this awesome mind mapping tool and planning tool. And it helps you build little cards for tasks. And it's great for team collaboration and you can build out little learning tasks and say, I need to learn Google Docs so that we can start sharing things more easily. These are the little mini sub tasks that we need to learn. Let's make one little mini card for each one. This is who's going to be learning it. This is when we're going to do it. Mark off a little checkbox when you're done. And once everything from the left side of the Kanban board gets checked off is done and shifts over to the right.  It feels good to have everything shift to the right. I love checking things off of lists or crossing things off of lists. And this is basically the visual list. It just says it did good. And Trello also has a Kanban board built into it and project management tools. Trello has been around for a while. You may have already heard about it. Some of you may already use it. So this is just a good way to track what needs to get done when you're going to do it, why you're doing it. Let's do this thing. So when you are actually learning stuff, it helps to actually figure out where you're going to learn this from and what is it going to look like once you've learned it. So a lot of times in libraries and across nearly every single organization, you'll you have this tendency to send out a tutorial and you'll say learn Microsoft Word, go to GCF, learn and start doing your thing. But then you actually get to GCF, learn and you start asking yourself questions. You open up these with this first tutorial and say, OK, I learned how to create a new document and do basic editing. OK, I learned how to start cutting and pasting and shifting stuff around. What am I going to use this stuff? Why is this practical? There are forty five tutorials on this page. Which ones are actually relevant to me? You sent me this link. Do you want me to learn all of them? If I go, sure, I'll take these forty five different tutorials, but do the matter. Did I just waste my time? Did I waste your time? Did I time track for no reason? And I'm never going to use this stuff. So start building out a chart. You can put in your main skill set on the left hand side. You're going to be taking Excel classes. You need it because in the library every month you need to do monthly reports to be able to to be able to use this practically. All you need to do is edit and add cells. You're going to need to be able to sort data based on different fields and you need to be able to format this and print it so that we can put it into our budgeting and reporting archives. And so now you need to know that you can find the tutorials that will let you do this and then to practice, do the thing. Gain access to the information and tools and if you're actually able to do it. That's what success looks like. If you are learning Canva and you need to be able to do marketing, if you've ever gone to Canva's website, they have eight billion and one different tutorials. If you send someone over to Canva and say, hey, learn Canva, we're going to do a thing. It's overwhelming and it's it's asking too much of people to say to just send over a random link and ask people to do it. Build an agreement. Where is this actually used? Which of these do I actually need to know? And then once you have this understanding, start chunking it. So you can actually start most of the resources you're going to run into are not going to be chunked to your liking. You might only have 15 minutes or a half hour or an hour that's available in your day. And you might start you might start looking at these different resources and say, I can't use this. This is an hour long tutorial. I can't use this. This is 45 tutorials and I don't know what I actually need. So then you start building this chart. And this is a link to template that will send you over to this Canva template if you want to use it or just go into Google Docs or Microsoft Word, build a chart. That's basically all it is. And you would just put in your task over here and then you'd say, did I actually do it? And then you'd say, if you didn't do it, what went wrong? Or where did you actually have troubles in learning this? What do you want to practice more before you actually start using it? What additional materials and support do you need beyond this random tutorial that we sent to? And this is where you would put the tutorial source so that you can refer back to it just in case you need it. And it's also a quick link so that you can start measuring your track, your track. And so let me click this. And I'm going to open up this version. And I'll do just a quick template of what this will actually look like. So I'm going to open up GCF Learn. It's the most common one that people are going to use. Or it's the most common one people have used. I can't say it's the only one that you're ever going to need. But if you open up the technology section and go into Microsoft Excel, now you have a series of tutorials that you want to start chunking out. So this is actually where you would start building that agreement and just start transferring everything over into that chart. And say and start working with your supervisor, working with the department lead or whoever is actually using this and telling you that you need to know this and say you need to get done with one, three, five and six. This is what you need to know. If you want to be able to move on to this next project, fill in with three, four and seven. And then all it is is just task and done, did it. What went wrong? And so it is 10 52. Let me. Get through the rest of this here. And I'll say if anybody has any questions, anything you want to know more about anything you want, I'm going to dig down into more about. Go ahead and type in your question section of the go to webinar interface and she can answer those questions. We gave you a link to the page for the tech class. But we'll also have a link to these slides as well with all her those links that she's got built into there. So you have that is available as well afterwards. Yeah. And if anyone has actually used some of these different resources, I'd love to hear about it. Yeah, because. Absolutely. And I've gotten some emails recently about people who use the high tech resources. So that was kind of awesome to hear. So if you start cycling through and using some of this stuff, I'd love to actually build out some more use cases, find out what works for people, what didn't work for people and just start improving things along the way. So. To wrap this out here. I'm just going to open up. This here and I'm going to give you just kind of a little primer and how this is organized and how I'm probably going to shift it and change it so that it works better for you all. But everything is broken down into smaller sub sections so that you're able to do a quick reference to be able to access any of this stuff here. What I want to show you right now is this section right here. So I'm going to scroll down to this one here and kind of give you an idea of how to actually use these partnership frameworks. So these frameworks were actually put together by larger organizations. They're either by libraries themselves or they're by organizations who have used this quite a bit. So as you are starting to run through this process. Life is easier if you just go here. And we'll click this open here. So most of these you can actually adapt them and start using them just directly. You can start building out like a little shared document and either Google Docs or Microsoft Word to start figuring out what partnerships actually look like in your own library. And you can start converting what people have already done to what is actually feasible for you to do. We went over the user experience research for small to medium libraries. The World Health Organization is giant and you don't actually have to do all of this stuff. You can check off the most important things to you and your library and start prioritizing what you will practically actually do when you're going to do it and start building a partnership chart as well. So you got those organizational tools and time management tools for skill building and learning but you can also apply them to partnership building because you can break these little mini sections and sub sections out into a calendar chart so that you know exactly when you're going to research this stuff, when you're going to use it and how you're going to incorporate time management habits to build partnerships along with skill building because partnerships take time. I'm learning that right now. Partnerships take time and so this is just something that you can start baking into your every day and because partnerships have a tendency to go by a wayside just like skill building and one easier one to start breaking this one out into is probably either this infographic chart or the master resource that it actually came from. This is where it came from. Break it out. Time management. Give it a try. That's not everything you're going to need to know about partnerships and skill building, but it's a quick primer to get you started. And if there are not any questions, that's about all I have for you and we can call it good. I don't see any questions popping in just yet, but I'll give you a minute just in case. We do actually want to just come in on the questions section that I can see. Good question. How often should you be doing surveys? I guess repeating them to get updated information potentially. And it depends on a survey for what is it a survey to find out? Did this thing that I'm doing work or is it a survey to find out what people actually need? And surveys are not always the best way to do it because you can ask people what do you want to learn? But if people don't know that a tool exists, if they don't know that Excel will solve their problem, a survey is not going to help you. A survey is not learning and it's not going to be informational to say this is your problem. These are the tools and resources that can help. Do you want to learn these tools and resources? But if you survey to say what is the problem area that is most important to you, that'll help more. But another way to do it, besides surveying, is using card sorting or you can use a variety of the different UX tools so that people actually have a brain like a starting point and a brainstorming point to actually know what will actually help them. And then with that information, learn what will help. I remember this was talked about and said when maybe both of the previous sessions in this series about asking the right question. Yeah, what do you want to learn? But what is your problem? Which sounds bad. I don't mean what is your problem? What kind of things are you struggling with or what would you wish you knew more about or something like that? Yeah. But how often should you update that?  How often would you suggest a library do a new. Ask of that information as often as possible. So an ongoing survey or an ongoing, you know, comment form or something that you just are always gathering info. Yeah. And so you can and that is also why I included question tracking in here. Because you can you don't actually always have to do an individual survey to find this out. If you start tracking which questions come into your library and start tracking what people ask for, even if you weren't immediately able to help, then you can start using that data to find out what people actually need. Trenches. Yeah. And just automatically you're going to be figuring that out. And instead of doing traditional surveys, you can also do you can start doing one on one reference interviews. So you can start incorporating these using many questions when you are when people come in either for other things or to start learning a device, start it, start adding one question at the end that just starts asking what's most important to you right now, what matters to you. And there's also let me open up this worksheet that I just put together that I'm going to be adding now. Well, not right now, but so these are some questions you can start asking yourself to make sure that you are actually choosing the right problem. And this is instead of a traditional survey, you can start gathering this information from various different resources to find out. Oh, this is the wrong one. Sorry. I want my UX research guiding questions here. So this is what you want to know from people. Instead of asking what do you want to learn or what do you need, ask what stresses you at night. Yes, yep. And the top priorities is going to help you build out those bubbles to find out which bubble is biggest for people. And just how do you feel about work, situation, school, life? A surprising number of people have a problem with them transportation and transit or being able to gain access to bus ride information in different languages. And so start if you do surveys, maybe try one that's a little closer to this to find out. To kind of dig deeper into guiding yourself toward the right problem area, even if it isn't toward a specific tool. That may have been a touch of a long winded answer. Thanks. Yeah, it's good tips. Absolutely. Yes. And someone did ask about getting having access to all these documents. And as I mean, I just mentioned, yeah, these are all off of that. Everything she's showing you is available to you to use off of that, the teaching technology course page. And this one, I actually think I just added yesterday. Let me double check before I say that I did. Yes, I did. What I do need to add is a download link. I added download links to most of these, but it looks like I missed this one because it was getting to the end of the day. But were there any other? Oh, and the resource, if you were looking for the. Framing the problem, the one sentence pitch mad libs are available here. This is the Canva template that'll let you use this thing. And I will also share out these slides if you want to grab it from here. And do we have any other questions that came in? Yeah, you get this over here. No, see anything of anybody has any questions? Yes, we were a little after 11 o'clock, but that's OK. We started a little after 10. And any of you may know who have attended our show here regularly, we go as long as it takes to answer any questions you all may have. So if you do have anything you want to ask Amanda right now, get it into the question section. Otherwise, you guys do know where to find her. Double checking here to see. And my contact info is at the end here. Yeah, I don't remember why I made that read, but I'll take it. Readability. I don't know. So I don't see any questions come in. I can't see if you guys are typing like in some. I like a little chat. Yeah, I have to wait until it pops up, but it doesn't look like anybody has any different questions right now. That's fine. You guys, you all you all know where to find Amanda. So thank you so much, Amanda, for this. I think great tips and helping to make things less stressful and creating this kind of thing. And I know people always talk about we need to have more partnerships and work with other people. And how do you get started with something that huge? And I think this is a lot of good resources. Yeah. Are in the session here. So thank you. And as I said, I'm going to actually I'm going to pull presenter control to my screen so I can show you all. Go for it. Go. All right. So this is such a page for today's show. Where there is a link here that goes right to the tech tech technology course that Mando has been showing you. Go in here. It's out there. It's free and available for everyone, anyone who wants to to go through all these modules, links to everything that Amanda mentioned here and that she showed you are all in here. We will also be sending you are put into there. But here's the slides that she just used today that do have links in them as well to various things. So that will be included when we get the recording up as well. We do have, as I said, this is a four part series. The first two parts have been done and we have links here to those recordings if you do want to go and watch those if you haven't already. And then the fourth part of this will be in two weeks on July 28th marketing and follow up. So I'll come back in two weeks to learn about how to make sure everybody knows you're doing all these things, right? We're in the home stretch people. I will mention while we're looking at this here and if you look at our full Encompass Live schedule here, usually the last Wednesday of the month is pretty sweet check day. You can see I've got a couple of them set up here for the next couple of months while waiting for working through this first. Then we'll get the topics for those. But usually the last ones of the month is always pretty sweet tech. That's when Amanda comes on the show and talks to us about anything tech related. So you can always plan for that every month. This month's pretty sweet tech in July is the fourth part of the teaching technology in the library series. So there is no pretty sweet tech this month. There's part four. It's still Amanda. That's just part of this special series. We should be back with something new next month. We'll see. So I mentioned the archive. We have a record in the show here underneath our list of upcoming shows is the link to our archives. We see all of our previous ones. And here's the one from last week where we put a link to the recording and link to the slides. Same thing will be for today's show. I will have it there. It'll be at the top of this here. Everyone should have it up here and ready for you to view or to share by the end of the day tomorrow, hopefully, as long as YouTube and go to webinar cooperate with me. That usually works out. Everyone who attended today's show and registered for today's show will get an email from me letting you know when the archive is available. We also posted to our various social media. We use Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. We do have a Facebook page for Encompass Live over here. It is this link off of our Facebook or pages here. See, there's a link to it there on this session page. So if you'd like to use Facebook, give us a like over there. We put reminders as a reminder to log into today's show, recording of the previous show. So we have all of that information here on our website. Otherwise, look for the hashtag we use for the show and Encompass Live abbreviation when we post anything. So when our recording is available, that will be announced on there as well. Well, here on the archives, I will show you there is a search feature here. So you can search our show archives. You want to look for a particular topic, see if we've done a show about something. You can do the full archives or just look at the most recent 12 months if you want just current information. That's because this is the show, the full archives for the entire history of Encompass Live. I won't scroll all the way down. You can see this is a long page, but Encompass Live premiered in January 2009. So we are going on 12 some odd years of the show. So just pay attention when you do watch a show on the original broadcast date. We have the date here and everyone so you can tell when it actually happened. Many of our shows will stand the text of time and will still be valid and useful, but some things may be old. Resources may have changed. Information may have changed about something. Services and product might no longer exist anymore. Links might be broken or not out there at all for very old things. But we will always keep all of our archives here. That's one thing that librarians and libraries do is keep historical information available. So as long as we have a place to host them, they'll always be there. But just pay attention when you are looking in our archives. That wraps up for today. Next week, two weeks from now, come back for part four with Amanda and teach you technology in the library, marketing and follow up. But next week, our topic is accessing census data. Blanca Marimera's cells are will be with us. She is from the Census Bureau and she's going to talk about the 2020 census that just wrapped up and they have the data from and how you can use it and access it and how librarians can work with all that data that's out there now. So if you're looking for demographic information for working on surveys or figuring out what you need to do or community planning or anything, this is definitely a session you want to sign up for and learn how to use all that great census data that has been gathered. And please just sign up for any of our other talk shows we have coming up over the next few months. So thank you everybody for being here. Thank you again, Amanda. And we'll see you on a future episode of Encompass Live. Bye.


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Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. It's Monday, which is Upgrade Pack Day, but specifically today, we are looking forward to one upgrade pack that was added to the code just a couple of days ago that would make this game and specifically the SBC grind on this game so much better this week if we get this one specific upgrade pack. I wanna talk about that today, how you maybe can prepare for that and content today on this game because last week on Monday, we also had a pretty interesting 85 plus player pick and I think EA is really starting to roll out the content. We're getting player SBCs every single day, multiple different upgrade packs have come out last week. I'm expecting that again this week as well and I wanna take a look at the latest leaks for more player SBCs, including more flashbacks. So there's a lot of upcoming content on this game and specifically today's upgrade packs would be great in helping us get a lot of that content done. Now, speaking of specific SBCs as well, yesterday we had the 89 plus Prime and World Cup icon upgrade that we thought we were gonna see but EA priced it at a very high price that we did not expect. So that made the market move interesting ways, especially with fodder spiking but now it's kind of back down. We'll take a look at that and just what to expect on a Monday today in FIFA regarding the market because the market dropped off even more yesterday. A lot of prices continue to go down as people are draining their coins into these upgrade pack SBCs doing the player SBCs. It just seems like a lot of player prices are slowly falling on this game and maybe we'll see a bit of a bounce back today as we normally do on Mondays but there's a lot to talk about related to the market as well. So you guys know what it is. If you're enjoying the videos on the channel hit the thumbs up and if you're new around here hit that subscribe button. Let's talk about this upgrade pack because Mondays are upgrade days, right? And I don't think that this Future Stars Academy player pick the 82 plus this is not our upgrade pack for the week, right? We're getting something else today 100% and the pack that I hope we see is this one right here. This pack, one that we haven't seen a lot of this year but we've seen something similar to this earlier in team of the year. Remember that 78 plus times three upgrade pack that we had? Well, this makes me think back to that but an 81 plus times three has been added to the code. It was just a couple of days ago that it was added. I really hope this is our upgrade pack for today because this would make crafting SBCs a dream this week. And remember how good value and how good the pack weight was on those 78 plus times threes. Imagine an 81 plus. Now of course it would probably be a bit more expensive. So if we're hoping for that upgrade pack today which in reality is that an upgrade pack that we could see today? I think it is because if you think about the SBCs that we have right now if EA want people to be doing upgrade packs this is an SBC that they know we would want, right? I mean the 82 plus player picks that are out they're requiring an 82 squad. All of these player SBCs that they're releasing currently like the Taram we had, the Smalling and the Jones all the other player SBCs that are live the 89 plus and maybe even more like the 85 plus player pick or another upgrade pack that we expect to see later on this week. We'll talk about that in a second but all of those would be so craftable with an 81 plus times three and I would want to do a lot of those. And I think that would be EA's best interest for upgrade packs today on this game. Now what would that require, right? Well, that 78 plus times three required 10 players one rare and nine non-rares. And I think this one since it's 81 plus is gonna require more rares. I wouldn't be surprised if it was 11 rares as long as there's no squad rating requirement today I think we'd be pretty happy. So Stocker Club with some rares their discard price and non-rares as well. I think those are about 400. You can probably get them on bid for 350. Yeah, 350, 400 for these non-rares. So they're basically discard pretty easy to get, especially on bid. Really good opportunity to Stocker Club with those today before those SBCs or that SBC drops. Hopefully that's our SBC for today. Now, could we get something else? Yes, but since that was added to the codes in such a recent amount of time I do believe that could be our upgrade pack today. Of course, they could do some sort of 80 plus double 80 plus 81 plus player pick. You know, all the other options are still there but I really feel like this one would be great because we'd be getting three players back which would help with so much especially for these 82 and 83 rated squads that are in a lot of these kind of cheaper SBCs and it would also give us a great opportunity to pack the Future Stars cards that are now in this game. Of course, with the mini release that dropped yesterday as well. So really hoping for that 81 time street today Stocker Club with the golds. Now, also what that would help us craft is remember last week on Monday we had an 85 plus player pick that was dropped as well. Well, this week I don't know if they're gonna do that but I think they'll do something along the lines of that and Foot Sheriff actually helped us out with a little bit of a leak yesterday saying that the 84 times five upgrade SBC will return this week or should return this week. Now, I don't know if that's happening today but since we had the 85 plus player pick last week on Monday as well as regular upgrade packs it might be happening today as well. We've already seen this SBC earlier on this year and it made the fodder market move which we're gonna talk about fodder regarding this in a second but the last time this was dropped it was during Winter Wild Cards. It required an 83 rated squad but it also required an inform and three 84 rated cards and 84s went up a lot because of this I don't remember if we could do it like multiple times per day or anything like that I would just imagine it would be like one time per day cause that's a pretty nice upgrade pack. So hopefully that drops today it might not be for a couple more days but I do think that with this leak right there and the current state of the fodder prices on this game we'll talk about fodder right off the bat today. I like 84s. They're still at around 4.8 to 5,000 coins after the icon pack yesterday they haven't moved that much. I like 85s as well right? If you wanna make a fodder investment this part of the market is low enough to me where they could rise later on this week if we continue to get more of those gamble upgrade packs maybe we get an 85 plus player pick again today and the 84 times five later on this week. Stuff like that would really make the low tier part of the fodder market go up a lot. 85s are cheaper than they were on the weekend. I think this is a little bit of the sell off that is happening. People are selling these cards because the icon pack yesterday was pretty expensive. I mean, these guys were 13K. They spiked to 14, 15. Now they're back down to 12. This is almost a no brainer type of club stock investment which is kind of a rare opportunity after a big SBC has been put out. Like these guys all spiked to 14. Now they're down to 12. So I think this is just some maybe a little bit of sell off maybe a little bit of over investing potentially but if there is any sort of SBC that requires 84 or 85 rated squads coming out later on this week especially if it's a squad or an SBC like this I think those cards could go up. So I am a fan of the 84s and 85s. You wanna club stock some of those. I think those could be going up later on this week. So definitely watch out for that right there and hopefully that sort of SBC content begins today on this game with the 81 three and the 84 times five but we'll just have to see. Now also for today on content let's wrap it up. What type of content all of those SBCs could we see today? There is one more flashback SBC leak and this is why I'm saying we have so many like leaks right now for player SBCs specifically flashbacks. We had the Balotelli but we have another one Sebastian Holler who just made his return back to Dortmund after being sidelined and battling and beating cancer which is incredible, right? This is a feel good SBC right here and this is incredible from EA. Holler is added to come as a flashback SBC. That's expected, 99 physical, incredible. Incredible from EA sports. Now the card stats don't look that amazing, right? But he's probably gonna be just a fun card hopefully pretty cheap. He's tall, really good heading accuracy, heading he's got the power header trait. So kind of a card that you could maybe just cross it up to and score some headers with or just honestly a nice cool card just to remember what he's gone through this year and now that he's back he scored a goal. Again, as I mentioned this last weekend so he's back playing again for Dortmund which is really, really cool and that's just a feel good story is honestly what it is. So that's our most recent leaked SBC. We don't often get player SBCs on Mondays but since we have three of them still leaked right now Holler, Balotelli and the Yovatich I feel like we could get any of those today. Maybe not, maybe it's later on in the week but I think all of those have a potential to be dropped here pretty soon with this one being the most recent and of course stats expected on the leak. So it's gotta be pretty cheap though EA like let's be honest, right? You want everybody to have this feel good story card in their club, make this like what's an 80 rated card make it like 40 or 50K, really easy to craft with upgrade packs today. That would be very, very helpful and we need like a four star, four star or maybe just give him a five star skill move or a weak foot, that'd be pretty nice as well but just a fun card, hopefully EA do something good with that one and that would bring some hype to the game if the value is good and it would probably just be pretty fun. So any and all of those cards could drop today via SBC but more so today's about the upgrade packs. Honestly, it's about the upgrade packs today because that's where the hype is on Mondays and I think that's what would make the SBC grind on this besides league SBCs, right? League SBCs are always there and they're nice to grind to get packs and upgrades from but an upgrade pack like an 81 times through would be so great to get those 82s and the 83s that we all need right now to kind of chip away at the 82 plus player picks if you're going for those or chip away at some of these other SBCs especially the 89 plus from yesterday. So speaking of SBCs, let's go back in time yesterday and talk about this before we talk about the market because this SBC did impact the market but it's more expensive than we really wanted it to be the 85 and the 86 rated requirements are fine in here but it's the 88 squad that is making this SBC expensive. It did make fodder go up yesterday but it didn't make fodder like absolutely explode because the price on this I think as a lot of people see it is just too much it's still very craftable but I think EA's smart in doing this. I mean, they always are smart, right? They know that they put it at a price that is a bit more expensive but it's still doable. 520,000 coins, this was like 550K when they first dropped it yesterday. Again, you see 71% downvote so people do really think this is not the best value but it's an icon upgrade pack that only gives out primes and world cups which is the first time this year they've reached to that level so people are going ahead and doing it and yes fodder did go up yesterday but it's kind of back down. 88s are like 33, 34,000 coins after they spiked up to 37, 38K yesterday. I think a lot of investors sold off cards. I think these cards could rise back up a little bit. If you weren't able to sell yesterday in the peak of those prices I wouldn't tell you to panic sell right now at all. I think some of these prices could continue to rise up a little bit throughout the week especially if we get some good craftable content. I bought some 91s yesterday. Benzema's at like 60 to 61. I sold a couple at like 69 or 70K.  We're getting the last couple swap tokens here in the next couple of days so 84 times 20s, 85 times 10s. People are gonna be doing SBCs. I think it's gonna be a good time to sell fodder throughout the week as there will be a lot of demand for all the SBCs that are out there. But again, that's kind of what happened yesterday with this pack is the fodder did spike but I think it was just invested a lot in and the SBC was an insane value. That's why we see some of these cards like 87s were like 28K in this spike, right? It shows up here 25K for Trent but there were absolutely 87 million cards that were selling at 27 to 28,000 coins. Now they're back down to like 24 and that's just because there is hype for this SBC but not an incredible amount of hype. So those prices kind of came back down. And then of course yesterday, the market was impacted by this as well with the meta market definitely having some drops and specifically on some icons. I was looking at this Eto card yesterday. Prime Eto was usually like last week he was around 1.7 mil. Right now he's 1.56, that's a bit of an undercut but continually with the coins being drained off of this market and specifically on some of the panic selling that we saw yesterday as people are doing this 89 plus pack, the market is continually devaluing itself right now. Coins are being drained because of the upgrade SBC like yesterday, the icon upgrade. We've got all these player SBCs and of course we're not having as many coins put onto the market as less people are opening packs. They're the saved up packs for team of the year. All those coins are kind of starting to being drained off of this game as there's more and more content that's out. And as fodder continues to be very, very expensive, that's just kind of where we're at right now with this game and the market continues to show that yesterday we had prices falling off and dropping even further. There was even a decent amount of panic yesterday. Mudrick was below a million coins. He was like 900,000 coins flat. Right now he's right around a million coins. So some of your out of packs cards dropped off for sure in price but also a lot of your future stars from team two dropped off even further in price as well. You know, you've got Enketia down at 150,000 coins. Kavica is at 580. I think he was down to even like 560 at his lowest point. Yeah, just a couple of minutes ago, he was down at 560 but he started the day yesterday in the high 700s and it's just been dropping off all day into today. Now I do believe that the market will kick back a little bit today as it normally does on Mondays. Mondays are usually a really nice time to buy some cards off of the market and see a nice rise. And yes, if we do have a good bit of upgrade pack content today, some of the rises may be hurt a little bit by that but I do believe there'll be good opportunities to trade today on Monday as they're almost always are especially with the impacts cards. So I would watch around these future stars team twos. Some of them have already started to go up. Like Enzo was 1.3. He was 1.25 for a lot of the day yesterday. Musiala is kind of low again at 1.39 and Kethia is pretty low. Kavara is pretty low. Timber is at 216. I mean, I'm being very careful right now on this game with center backs and with center mids because also with yesterday's content, of course, we had the Taram SBC which has a 62% upvote which 170,000 coins for this I think is a little bit too expensive but it's not crazy, right? And this is a card that so many people want to just at least try because if you have a Genduzi who was around 150K before his price was crashing, right?  It's a nice SBC card. You could go out and craft for probably a lot less than 172K, 83 squad, 86 squad, not that hard to get done. Fun new card. He is three star, three star, which isn't that great but he's high, high, six foot four. And I'm assuming he's pretty good in game. Like, you know, people love to compare these sorts of cards to like Vieira. You compare his stats to Vieira and it's not that far off for 172K. That's where it looks like it's good value per se. So I think a lot of people are doing this. You actually saw some links to this card go up in price. Like Hakimi's inform yesterday was 300,000 coins before content and then this SBC came out and boom. He spiked up to 320, kinda came back down to 310 where he is now but some of your other links in the league one started to rise up just because people I think are building teams around this card just because it's a French midfielder. We knew this when the SBC league was dropped that this guy was just gonna have hype because he's a French Holy Gang midfielder in the league one. So that guy, that guy's kinda moving prices on the market. Vitinha dropped off a lot yesterday and some other midfielders. So that's why I'm saying be a little bit careful with midfielders right now in this game, especially in league one and be careful with center backs from the Serie A but center backs and midfielders in general because so many people have added the smalling or the Jones or the Taram, their team recently which kind of drops the demand for some of those cards on this game. So that's why you're seeing midfield prices drop a little bit because you have a substitute come out of the game but specifically for this Vitinha he was 250, 260 went all the way down to like 200K flat now back up to about 225 but with those PSG links there's always demand there. So that's kinda why he's balancing back up a little bit but the reason why I shout out those center backs and the reason why I shout out those midfielders is because you'll probably see less bounce backs on cards that are low in those positions especially if they're in the same league as those SBCs that are dropped because people just have a new card that they can go and get as an SBC and try out. So there's a substitute item there. We talk about that a lot, right? There's so many SBCs dropped on this game so many players dropped on this game on a weekly basis that impact the market and that's kind of what we that's one of the biggest catalyst that moves the market every week is a new card comes out which makes an older version go down in price or it makes links to a new version that comes out go up in price, right? But like this Gen Duzzi is down, wow, under 100,000 coins now after being like 150K last week I believe like he's down pretty bad 95K for that's still a really good card but I don't expect it to just go back up to 150 because we have a new Taram into this game. So I'm gonna be taking a look closely at these future stars team two cards and if we take a look at the new ones that we got yesterday I know Malacia's card is cool. I know that it is 300,000 coins for this though is just confusing to me, man. It really is. I don't even know how much he is right now. He was 280K at his absolute lowest a few hours ago. Now he's up to about 325. This to me is it's just the hype and the rarity right now just like how Cherokee was overpriced last week I believe this card will end up dropping off more because yes, he's 89 rated but 92 pace with decent stats at best. And if you look in the end games he does have some really nice ones in here. 90 stand tackle, 90 slide tackle. He does have really good agility and balance which is interesting. 71 composure is not amazing. 94 short pass, good pace of course, early crosser but 300,000 coins for this right now in this game is just it's not it in my opinion. I do believe this will drop off. Same thing with body of shill I think body of shill is a lot more of course affordable at 100,000 coins but also I just think his stats are worthy of about a 60 or 70,000 coin center back and 72 acceleration in February is just kind of not it. Really good reactions and composure. I'd be interested to try them out but that's just not a really top tier type of card. So fun to try out and it's a cheap price at least but those two guys right now I do believe are overpriced just because they're rare and right then many of these cards on Sundays are always rare and they have less supply on the market. So just be very, very careful with those as well in the game right now. I'm really hoping for the upgrade packs today guys because I wanna get on this game and you know I know we just spent a bunch of coins and we just spent a bunch of time and it was almost like tiring wearing us out doing a bunch of upgrade packs during team of the year but it almost feels like this is kind of like a secondary upgrade pack grind because if you have the opportunity to do 82 plus player picks as well and to craft into those which I know we said earlier in the week and yesterday was like this is really not good value to be turning in an 82 squad to get an 82 plus player pick but just the opportunity of an 81 times three to be able to get 82s and 83s and 84s to craft not only these player picks but other SBCs that kind of puts us back in like team of the year grind menu mode which would be just really, really great for this game right now at the moment with so much content like realistically guys there are a lot of SBCs that are out right now. I would love to craft the Catalera. I would love to just get the smalling in the club that'd be a fun card to have and I doubt I'm gonna do the 89 plus because I don't think this is worth it. I'd rather do the guaranteed the Catalera for 200,000 coins less than this and get a guaranteed card that people say is actually pretty cracked. So I'm not gonna risk it on this but I know a lot of people that would like to and even with these 82 plus player picks if we have road to the final coming up next week those would be great player picks to be saving up towards the end of the week and potentially hitting some live cards and saved up packs. I mean what sounds better than saving player picks and packs for a promo that gives you cards that could potentially upgrade because Champions League is back tomorrow. Let's go. So that's exciting and that's why we're really hoping a lot of hope today for me is placed on that upgrade pack. Now also a couple other things of note. We have right now in this game 26 tokens that have been released. So if you're looking for that prime icon player pick I think today with most likely our 27th token being released the prime icon player pick will finally be available. If you've been keeping up today with all the tokens we had one token SBC release yesterday which was token number 26. Hopefully today we get at least one token maybe two to get us over that 27 token threshold which would mean probably three or two tokens to go depending on how many they dropped today 30 tokens in total that's the full number. So watch out for that. And if you guys that are going for that prime icon player pick today and then we're still looking for one last Academy player as well. I don't know if you guys remember that objective screen that showed before this promo was even really in full swing during the first week but we've had Tavares, we've had Ramsey, Lindstrom and we have had Gordon but we're still missing an Italian player. There was five that were shown on that loading screen and an Italian player was one of them and we have not seen that player dropped into the game just yet. So we're definitely still looking out for that. Maybe that's a part of content today. Maybe it's not gonna be for another couple of days but we're definitely keeping an eye on that and then of course, in the store I don't know if any more of our tokens are gonna come in the store. Honestly, I think we had our last one with this 75,000 coin token right here. Yeah, there's nothing else here. 75,000 coin token right there. I think that's gonna be our last one in the store so I doubt they'll do anything additional there. I just got a sale on a Prime Storage Cobb I think. Love trading with the icons. I bought this at 643 literally right before I started recording, saw that he was super rare. Boom, selling it for 720. That's a really nice flip. And the last thing I wanna mention is, some of these cards that you maybe have forgotten about since about a month ago when they got upgraded, specifically my Mbappe which is, I know, very lucky to have but I think the history makers are getting another upgrade either today or tomorrow. It's in the middle of February, they get their second upgrade.  It's the next couple of days. I don't exactly know which day that it is but it's soon that we're getting another upgrade for those cards. But really, like we've been mentioning, multiple times today, the hype today is with the upgrade packs and hopefully EA Sports bring some hype with whatever they drop, but fingers crossed for that 81 plus times three. It's another good content to keep us rolling throughout this week inside of Future Stars team too. So if you're excited for the content today and for those upgrade packs, hit the thumbs up on the video today. Comment down below if you have any questions and of course, subscribe if you are new. It has been Nate the Foot Accountant. I'll catch you guys today in the stream. Peace out.


So it's 2022 and a lot of you guys are still looking towards playlists to help you grow out your streams, grow out your fan base, get you new listeners, all that cool stuff. And while I have my own thoughts on where I think playlists fit in the grand scheme of music marketing, I'll just save those thoughts for another day. But what I want to do in this video is give you guys a tool that will help you start to build out your own playlist network so that you don't have to rely as much on playlist pluggers, playlist pictures, and you can start to have a lot more control and autonomy on your playlist process so you can make it move smoother, faster, and much cheaper for yourself. And if you don't know how I am, my name is Kory. I'm a music marketer and co-founder of Contra Brand Agency, a content consulting and music marketing agency that's worked with artists like 24k Golden, Macy Gray, Alessia Capelli, Tonya Mailman, and a bunch of other really dope artists. And my goal with this channel is to give you all the music marketing software that I can so that you can make your dreams into a reality. Now that being said, let's go ahead and get into the video. It's the mat work. Now, before I jump into this tool, I do want to preface it by saying that this is not a playlist network. This is not a website that you can submit your music to and get yourself on the playlist. But what this is, is a tool that will help you find playlists that are applicable to you, your genre, and the type of music that you make. Now, my goal with giving you this tool is that you can get a lot more control and autonomy over your playlisting process. Because what I've come to see in the playlisting space is that a lot of you guys are spending money on these playlist pictures that, you know, just to kind of say easily, are using playlists that if you put in a little bit of work, you could find and cut the middleman out of and just save that money towards these playlists or your other music marketing goals. And you would spend a lot less money on that side on hiring these people. This will also help you to define which playlist you want to work with, give you the opportunity to build a personal relationship with them. So the way the next time you want to get a playlist that things should move a lot faster for yourself. And once again, you won't have to rely on people to pitch you to these people and burn a lot of that time there. So here we are guys inside of the platform and the tool is called playlist supply. Now you may remember it from a previous review video that I did a while back, but I did want to update it and show you guys some of the new features that they added and give you my updated thoughts and opinions on the tool and where I think it fits into your overall music marketing tool base. Now out the gate, playlist supply has a really clean user experience and a really clean platform. And that is personally one of my favorite features about this platform. It's not overly complicated. It's not, you know, difficult to use. It's not made with music marketers and these super techie people in mind. No, it's made with regular artists, regular people who are looking for these playlists in mind. So they make it pretty simple to use. Now, let me preface once again, that this tool will not help you to get onto playlists, but it will help you find playlists that you can pitch yourself to so that you can start to build out your own playlist network and your own list of playlist key writers that make sense for your music, your genre, and the type of people you want to associate yourself with. Got it? Cool. Let's get into it a little bit deeper. Now one of the key things about playlist supply is that you can search playlists based on certain keywords and criteria that they allow you to search by, right? So those criteria look like this. You can search playlists that have an email in the description. You can search ones that have an Instagram. You can search ones that have similar artists listed or search ones that have a Twitter handle or some type of social handle listed in their bio. Now what this does is it allows you to not waste your time looking for playlists, right? Doing playlists, researching plays, digging, just to find a playlist that you can't even get in contact with. I know personally, I've been there, like I've spent hours looking for playlists just to be like, oh, this one looks perfect. And then I can't find anything for them. I can't find a Facebook page. I can't find an email. I can't find a Twitter page for them. And then that's just like 40, 45 minutes of my time gone wasted, burned out. So what this allows you to do is to filter out playlists based on criteria that make sense for you. Now the other thing that you can do with this platform is you can search playlists based on particular keywords. So those keywords could be the type of genre of music that you make. They could be similar artists, they could be moves, they could be video games, they could be movies, right? This playlist tool or this pitching tool will allow you to find playlists based on the keywords that you want to find playlists that they just send it around. So I'm going to do a quick search just to show you guys what that looks like. So I'm going to look for rap playlists, right? I feel like there are a lot of rap playlists that should make it easy for me. And then I'm going to search out playlists that have an email. I personally prefer to reach out to playlists through email. It gives me a nice little paper trail. You know, it looks a lot more professional. You can do DMs, you know what I'm saying? I've done playlists pitching through the DMs before, but I personally like to do it through email. So I'm going to have my search set to email. And then I'm going to click exact search because I only want playlists that have rap in their handle or in their bio somewhere, and they have an email associated with it. And then I'm going to click search and see what it comes up with. So as you can see, guys, it's still doing a little bit of a search, but look at the list that has built up for me so far, right? So currently it's put together a list of 370 playlists about eight pages worth of playlist contacts. And it's still searching. We'll see where it's at by the time I finish this part of the video, but 370 playlists that I can search through. Now out the gate, you can see down here on this chart, it gives you a little bit of basic information about those playlists, right? So you have the name of the playlist, you have how many followers it has, you have how many tracks are in the playlist, the popularity score of the playlist, the date that it was last modified, who owns it, and then the email, right? That sweet, sweet email that we're looking for so that we can actually contact these playlists. Now what I would personally recommend you do once you have your list built out is filter the playlist by a couple of different things, right? You can either filter them out by followers, so you can make sure you're putting yourself on the biggest playlist, right? So you can see if I click followers, it'll organize it based on a playlist from smallest to largest. So this one has zero followers, three. And if I click it again, it'll do the biggest one with Jazer out having about 987,000 followers and then so on, right? You can filter it out based on how many tracks are in the playlist, right? So if I click it, if I click on tracks, it'll show me playlists that have the most in it, right? So this one right here has over 4,000 songs in it. And if I click it again, it'll do least to biggest and then show me playlists that have, you know, this one has four in it, this one has six. Now, the reason you may want to filter it out by how many tracks are in the playlist is because that would give you an idea of the likelihood of your song actually getting heard. So if you're in a playlist that has only four songs in it, then chances are you're going to get hurt in that playlist. But if you're in a playlist that has, you know, 4,000 in it, then that chance decreases a little bit more, right? So you may want to find a good middle ground for you or just as you're working with these different playlist curators, negotiate for a higher spot on the playlist. But it is something I like to filter out by in taking consideration before reaching out to a playlist. And then the last thing that I would recommend you do is filter out the playlist based on when they were last modified, right? So if I click on last modified, it'll show me the ones that were the most recently updated. So this one right here was just updated yesterday as I'm making this video. And if I click it again, it'll show me the ones that were updated a long ass time ago pretty much. This one was updated 98 days ago. This one was 97 days ago, 949. And the reason that you would care about this is because it will let you know how active is the playlist, right? So if you're finding a playlist curator and they haven't updated a playlist in 949 days, right? Like why even waste your time? You know, like they're clearly not keeping the playlist active. And you shouldn't even bother wasting your time with them. But if you see that they're being active as a recent, they're still currently updating their playlist, then they'll let you know that hey, this person is still looking at submissions, they're still keeping the playlist fresh and active, which means that they're still probably actively growing the playlist and they will be a good one for you to reach out to. Now the other thing you can take into consideration is the popularity score. So similar to the other stats, you click it, it'll order them based on least popular to most popular. And if you click it again, it'll give you most popular and then down, right? So you can also take that into consideration. I'm not 100% sure on how the popularity score is calculated, which is why I personally don't take it into the most consideration. But the biggest things I'll look at are following orders, how many tracks are in the playlist, and then when was the playlist last modified, right? So once you built out your playlist list or you've had player supply go through and filter out those playlists based on your criteria, the next thing you can do is you can save all these playlists and add it to your own playlist database. So there's a couple of ways that you can do this. You can either click the blue plus button next to the playlist name, right? And it'll select it for you. So I'm gonna just go through and select a couple of different ones, right? Or you can click on this box right here, this little white box next to name, and it will select all the playlists. Now, once you do that, you have the option to either copy these playlists into a CSV file, you can copy it into an Excel sheet, you can save them to a PDF, or my personal favorite, you can save it to an internal database and player supply. So I'm going to click save in my playlist database, you can see there it says it's saved. And then now if I go over to the top right and then click on my playlist database, it'll show me all the playlists that I've aggregated over time and have built into my own internal database. So this is what my database looks like, right? These are all the playlists that I've saved so far.  So keeping all the playlist data in one space that you can go back into at any point in time and just find them again. And then you can delete playlists as you feel like you don't need them right like this playlist right here, DJR radio that hasn't been updated in 19,000 days, damn, right? I probably want to get rid of that one. So what I would do is just click the white box next to it and then click delete selected, you know, click okay. And then boom, it's removed from my playlist database, right? So once again, really cool way to just keep track of plays that you come across that make a lot of sense for you ones that you want to keep in contact with ones that, you know, feel like it would be a good fit for you. And what I would personally do is search through the playlist based on those criteria, find all the players that you that you do want to reach out to.  They don't even need to waste any space. And then once again, you can also search playlist based on different criteria, right? So the criteria that I would recommend you build your playlist thing around or your playlist searching around is genres, right? So like you saw, I did rap, you can do R&B, you do country music, rock, hip hop, whatever your type of genre is, that's where I would start, right? But you can also do related artist keywords. So let's say you're a rapper, maybe you want to look for a playlist that have like Kendra Lamar in the title, or J. Cole, or, you know, Yeet, or something like that, right? You can search out playlists that feature demographic and see if those play, oh, see if those artists have playlists that have been created around them. You can also search out playlists based on mood. So maybe you are a hype rapper and you want to look for like hype playlists, or like party playlists, or like excited playlists, right? Maybe you make like lo-fi beats and you want to find chill playlists, or sleepy time playlists, or something like that, right? So you can make a list of different moves that may fit your music and see if they have any playlists built around those. You can also look for playlists that are built around activities. So gym playlists, driving playlists, workout playlists, right? Running playlists, party playlists, I know I said in the last example, but I guess it's an activity, right? So you can list out different activities where your music will make sense for it and then see if there are playlists built around those. And then lastly, you can also look for them based on like lifestyle things, like video game titles, right? Like they are madden inspired playlists, they are Granthodont inspired playlists, they are FIFA inspired playlists, they are playlists that are inspired by a particular TV shows and movies and things like that, right? So things that people are kind of paying attention to outside of music, but someone may be looking to build a playlist around. And then lastly, you can find playlists based on platforms. So I found playlists before that have been like, you know, the best songs on TikTok, or like TikTok viral songs, or like Instagram hits, or things like that, right? So you can search TikTok, you can search Instagram, you can search YouTube, you can search really any platform and then see if there are any playlists built around those as specific keywords.  You will find a lot of hidden gems that other people aren't looking for because they're only looking for genre based keywords, right? And then your playlist network will grow over time and the more playlists that you have to pitch yourself to, the higher chance you have that you actually get placed onto a playlist. So yeah, so I just wanted to show you guys Playlist Supply. It's a really cool tool. It's not that expensive. I believe it's only $19.99 a month. So, you know, a drop in the bucket of the ocean compared to what you would have to pay a playlist plugger to place you on some of these same playlists. And I know that there are a lot of playlists, pluggers and pitchers who use tools like Playlist Supply to find playlists and then they just sell their network to you guys. So you can come and use this network for yourself, cut out the middleman and then that couple of hundred dollars to a couple of thousand dollars you would have spent on a playlist plugger. You can just save it for other facets of your music marketing. So only $19.99 a month. If you're interested in Parchance Gate, I'm going to put a link to it in the description. So go and check that out. And then just let me know how it works for you. If you have experience with it, keep me about it. Drop in the comment section below. But this is a really dope tool. I've used it myself. I have a lot of other marketing friends that use the tool. Once again, I know Playlist Pluggers personally that use this tool to build a network so that it can sell to other people. And if you are someone that is actively looking to build a playlist network, then this is a tool that would be really, really beneficial for you. So there it is guys. That's Playlist Supply, a playlist pitching tool that will allow you to build your own network of playlists so that you can curate it yourself, find ones that make sense for you and effectively cut out the middleman so that you can save your marketing dollars by not having to hire a playlist pitcher and a playlist plugger. Now I'm curious to know, have you ever used this tool before? Is it something that's worked for you? If you haven't used this tool before, does it look like something that could be useful for you? Drop them in the comment section below. I love that you got thoughts on this and everything that goes around it. Now, other than that, if you feel like you learned something from this video, please like and share it with one artist that you feel like needs this tool and could benefit from having something like this in their network. Other than that, once again, my name is Cory and I'll see y'all next time.