May 02 2018 05:40 PM
Here’s the info for our kickoff event for the User Group for ITPro Women. Please spread the word!
The goals for the first meeting are:
Based on votes on the thread, it seems like Fridays afternoons EST are the best time. I know the timing isn’t great for Europe or Australia, and even worse for India. If we get more people interested in those areas, I’d be happy to set up a second call at a better time – please encourage people in your areas to join in on the announcement thread with their preferred times and time zones. I’ll post the notes about the first meeting back on this forum afterwards for anyone who can’t make it.
Let's go for Friday, May 18 at 3pm EST, which translates to:
New York City |
3pm/15:00 |
Paris |
9 pm/21:00 |
New Dehli |
Saturday 12:30 am/00:30 |
London |
8 pm/20:00 |
Chicago |
2 pm/14:00 |
Seattle |
Noon/12:00 |
Brisbane |
Saturday, 5 am/05:00 |
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You can download the .ics invite attached to this post and save it to your calendar.
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May 08 2018 11:01 PM
Hi Cathy, will this Skype meeting be recorded?
May 09 2018 03:09 PM
Hi, @Sonia Cuff I'm not sure - I figured I'd ask the people on the call if they have any reasons why we shouldn't record. If everyone is cool with it, I can record it and post here. I'm guessing this session will be mostly organizing, but I can imagine having some topics that might be more sensitive and people might be more reluctant to talk openly if they know it will be recorded. Regardless, I will post the notes here.
May 09 2018 03:27 PM
Thanks Cathy. Recording does make it easier for us in different timezones to be involved as we can review and join the post event conversations, but I understand your point too. I'm no good to anyone at 5am on a Saturday morning : )
May 12 2018 01:41 PM
Many thanks for your update!
Best,
Tara W.
May 15 2018 11:38 PM
Hello everyone,
I think this group is a great idea, unfortunately I will not be able to attend directly.
Will the link to the recording be posted in theis Thread?
Cheers
Sabine
May 16 2018 04:33 PM
May 18 2018 01:04 PM
Great session, looking forward to the next one!
May 18 2018 01:06 PM
I couldn't make this meeting, but I definitely want to be involved in the future. Looking forward to hearing the recording.
May 18 2018 04:49 PM - edited May 18 2018 04:50 PM
I am super excited at how the meeting went!! I think we had 36 people total show up, and we had some great discussion. Here are my top observations:
Calls to action:
Let's start doing some serious networking - use this User Group forum to post
(TIP - you can use Private Messaging in this Tech Community to safely exchange contact information)
Get info about how to be a mentor/find a mentor here:
Other notes from the meeting
I will start a thread to consider the name for the group - we had some great suggestions in the chat that I will pull out, but I ran out of time to do it today. (Or if someone wants to beat me to it, go for it!)
The Friday slot seemed to work well for a good number of people, so we'll keep that as a recurring meeting. I'm proposing the 4th Friday of the month, so I will create a Skype invite for June 22, 3pm Eastern time. HOWEVER, I know it doesn't work well for everyone, so if you live in Europe or down under or Asia, we can have additional recurring meetings that work better for your time zone, and may also work better for people in the US who have other commitments. Start a thread and suggest times that work for you for your region/time zone.
I will try to attach the chat transcript and recording for the meeting today to this post.
I did record, but my Skype recording didn't work. OneNote to the rescue!
Thanks for all the interest. I think there is enough excitement that we can keep this going!
May 18 2018 04:51 PM - edited May 18 2018 04:52 PM
SolutionI"m having trouble getting the OneNote recording posted - let me talk to the TechCommunity admins and see if I can post it Monday. Have a great weekend everyone!
May 31 2018 05:38 PM
Sorry for the delay - here's the recording. It's only audio, from OneNote, and there's some dead air at the beginning, but here you go!
Oct 10 2018 08:47 AM
May 18 2018 04:51 PM - edited May 18 2018 04:52 PM
SolutionI"m having trouble getting the OneNote recording posted - let me talk to the TechCommunity admins and see if I can post it Monday. Have a great weekend everyone!