Digital Skills Community & Google Business Group (GBG) Abuja

 One (1) day to go! Reflecting on the last Google I/O in 2019, at first I didn’t notice there was one cute black man in this video. But most importantly, I feel honored to be connected with the deep message communicated by Hastu Wijayasri, which is simple:  “Build Cool Things That Matter”. Many Thanks once again to the SPECIAL ONE Erica Hanson I guess you’ll now know why I keep chanting:  “GooKanda Forever” 😀🙏🥰 CONNECT  .  LEARN  .  GROW #IO21 #GoogleIO21 #IO19

  Snapshot details: - Android Things Starter Kit: Pico i.MX7D Development Board, Pimoroni Rainbow HAT, 5-inch multi-touch display e.t.c) - WiFi IP Camera - Google Home Smart Speaker (Large & Mini) with Google Assistant - Explore Google Accessibility at I/O with Hastu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dN-XuQ36As   - Smart WiFi Plugs - Chromecast Audio & Video - Past I/O Badges 2017, 2018, 2019 - Raspberry Pi 3 - WiFi Smart PIR Motion Sensor - Smart Bulbs & Bulbs that aren’t Smart (Lol) 😋😂🥰 I/O 2021 is online and FREE for everyone https://events.google.com/io    CONNECT  .  LEARN  .  GROW #IO21 #GoogleIO21 #DigitalSkillsCommunity

  4 (four) days to Google I/O 2021, double-checking my list: - Keynotes - Android - Flutter + Firebase - On-device machine learning in mobile and web apps - Google Assistant - Material Design - Google Pay - New innovations in Google Analytics - Google Pay - Google Maps Platform - Machine Learning on the web with TensorFlow.js - Smart Home - Progressing Progressive Web Apps - Understanding COGA, W3C's cognitive accessibility guidelines - Secure and reliable development with Go - Google Cloud Certifications - Chrome OS - What's new in Machine Learning - Anomaly detection with TensorFlow - Building globally relevant products - Integrate Google Workspace with your solutions - What's new in Google Play Online and FREE for everyone. CONNECT  .  LEARN  .  GROW #IO21 #GoogleIO21 #DigitalSkillsCommunity

One of my favorites today by Professor Nancy Koehn The case, "Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance," provides an opportunity to examine leadership and entrepreneurship in the context of Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition, a compelling story of crisis, survival, and triumph. #HBSOnlineConnext #HarvardBusinessSchoolOnline #Connext2021

 Fireside chat with Senior Associate Dean Debora Spar. How data science and AI are impacting business with Data Science for Business Professor Yael Grushka-Cockayne. Climate Change, Society, and Business in the Digital Age with Sustainable Business Strategy Professor Rebecca Henderson and Global Business Professor Forest Reinhardt. #Connext2021 #Connext21 #HarvardBusinessSchool

 Great session by Professor Sunil Gupta at Connext 2021. The case, "Amazon in 2021," provides an opportunity to examine how new players are creating an ecosystem of products and services to build competitive advantage, how the definition of competition has changed, and how traditional retailers should compete and redefine their value propositions and business models. #Connext2021 #Connext21 #HarvardBusinessSchool

  Google Workspace Frontline can help open up communication and collaboration channels between frontline workers and corporate teams in a way that’s safe and secure, even from their own personal devices.  Description of frontline workers Frontline workers are the backbone of your business and have one of these primary job functions: - Providing services, support, and selling products in direct contact with customers or the general public - Directly involved in the manufacturing and distribution of products or services - Make up the majority of your workforce and rely on speed and collaboration to get their job done Frontline edition offers collaboration and communication tools designed specifically for frontline workers. Read More https://support.google.com/a/answer/10485041 Frontline edition eligibility requirements Read More https://support.google.com/a/answer/10427827?hl=en Interested, you can sign up here https://www.notifyic.com/index.php?rp=/store/google-workspace-forme...

  I/O 21 punch card puzzle - https://events.google.com/io/punchcard?lng=en   The basic concept of the puzzle is simple. The pattern has a sequence, with a bit of complexity but the overall concept is basic. CONNECT  .  LEARN  .  GROW #IO21 #GoogleIO #DigitalSkillsCommunity

  Still on the I/O 21 punch card puzzle: If you are interested https://events.google.com/io/punchcard?lng=en   STAGE 2C / 4    loading... We are getting closer, we are coming... CONNECT  .  LEARN  .  GROW #IO21 #GoogleIO #DigitalSkillsCommunity

  9to5google.com formula is top-notch; I think those guys invented the Punch Card Machine. 😋🥰😀 Considering the fact that you just have 12 levels to play with, and your options are in three (3) categories: 1. Numbers - 0123456789  2. Alphabets - ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ  3. Special Symbols or Characters &-:#@'="¢.<(+|!$*);^,%_>?/ Here is the formula for the STAGE 2B/4 puzzle solution: AS34NO765DLUCK/ZQIPVJ210-&MB They used just three (3) special characters only – amazing! Well, if you are curious to find out, visit this website: https://www.masswerk.at/keypunch   Type in the formula above, print out (hard copy), draw up grid lines on the printed page for clarity, and then just follow the plots on the punch card. Many Thanks to 9to5google.com 🙏☺ CONNECT  .  LEARN  .  GROW #IO21 #GoogleIO #DigitalSkillsCommunity #9to5GoogleManyThanks

  Still on the I/O 21 punch card puzzle: If you are interested https://events.google.com/io/punchcard?lng=en   But I will give you a small hint:  Can you remember Google’s first motto was "don't be evil", and later evolved to "do the right thing" after Alphabet? I think the puzzle “STAGE 2B/4” is a tough one – I actually remembered the first motto. 😋😂 Even the puzzle said “HEY, NO LUCK B”.. Keep starring at it... 🥰 CONNECT  .  LEARN  .  GROW #IO21 #GoogleIO #DigitalSkillsCommunity

  Get your School Started with Google Workspace for Education today. Click this link https://forms.gle/DFDjrCLPwD9zLCEk7 to Sign Up Thank you. 🙏😊 Notify IC Google Cloud Partner https://www.notifyic.com #GoogleWorkspaceForEducation #GSuiteForEducation #GoogleWorkspace #NotifyIC

  Wow! Perfect, you can send.   Relieving remark from Mail-Tester https://www.mail-tester.com, one of the supportive website that helps email marketers get their deliverability concerns right.   Top email marketers on the planet will tell you the first and most important rule: “Make sure you get 10/10”.   Trust me; a score of 9.9 out of 10 is a strong validation that you’ve got your inbox rate bottleneck solved.   In literal words, it means you have your foot in the door, but that is not surety that you can sit.   Yes, the most important metric is measured on the total amount of emails that get into the inbox(es) of prospective customers.   As you all know, the algorithms are now way smarter than ever.   No matter how determined you are, they have the spam folders waiting for you at the door, where they feel your foot ought to be, unless you get those things right.   And of-course, if you are the persistent typ...

  Safe Browsing site status "Google’s Safe Browsing technology examines billions of URLs per day looking for unsafe websites.  Every day, we discover thousands of new unsafe sites, many of which are legitimate websites that have been compromised.  When we detect unsafe sites, we show warnings on Google Search and in web browsers.  You can search to see whether a website is currently dangerous to visit." https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search After I ran a search on Notify IC, I discovered that about 1.44 million users visit https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search monthly, with about 44.34% of the traffic coming from 5 (five) countries: (a) U.S. 25.50% (b) Brazil 6.75% (c) U.K. 5.01% (d) Poland 3.64% (e) India 3.44% Also, you can read about "SAFETY FIRST - Keeping over four billion devices safer" from https://safebrowsing.google.com Thank you. 🙏 #SafeBrowsing

On the 25 th February, 2021 at about 5:37 AM, I received an email from “The Internet World Stats”.   According to (University, 2021) “The Internet World Stats (IWS) is an international website that features up to date world Internet usage, population statistics, travel stats and internet market research data, for over 233 individual countries and world regions.”   Well, if you are curious enough to visit, here you go! https://www.internetworldstats.com   Actually, I have been a subscriber since 2 nd January, 2016 at about 1:47PM, barely over 5 years now. The name of the CEO/Editor/Webmaster is Enrique de Argaez from Bogota, Colombia.   On his Twitter handle @deargaez he wrote: “I have been doing Internet Market Research since 1997. First as a hobby, now it's my full time job. Please visit Internet World Stats dot com to see some of my work.” Jokes apart, I think if you love DATA, you should be a fan of IWS!   The FLASH NEWS is that Nigeria is currently leading...

  DIGITAL SKILLS COMMUNITY (Formerly Google Business Group) is a global network of community formed by passionate volunteers who run events about Google’s products, digital skills and career development to help local businesses and job seekers adapt and succeed.   A Grow with Google Program   The VISION is to have a global community in every city so we can connect business owners and professionals to free training that will help them grow their businesses and advance their careers.   CONNECT  .  LEARN  .  GROW   CONNECT - Equip local businesses and professionals with the tools to advance, find jobs, or sustain and grow their businesses.   LEARN - Learn about a wide range of digital skills and topics to gain new skills through hands-on workshops and in-person training.   GROW - Apply new learnings and connections to grow their businesses, advance their skills, career and network.   Free training cours...

 In the battle for sustaining innovation, incumbents typically wins. "An idea that is disruptive to one business may be sustaining to another.  Given the stark odds that favor the incumbents in the sustaining race but entrants in disruptive ones, we recommend a strict rule:  If your idea for a product or business appears disruptive to some established companies but might represent a sustaining improvement for others, then you should go back to the drawing board.  You need to define an opportunity that is disruptive relative to all the established players in the targeted market, or you should not invest in the idea.  If it is a sustaining innovation relative to the business model of a significant incumbent, you are picking a fight you are very unlikely to win."  - Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution  Thank you. #DisruptiveInnovation #InvestingInDisruption #RoseParkAdvisors #InspiredByClay

  Destination Peshawar, Pakistan.   Celebrating "Awesome Moments & Friends Day" with Maryam Arshad.   Maryam Arshad is the Founder and Director of Impact Dynamics - an enterprise that creates and curates curriculum for entrepreneurs and runs workshops centered towards tech and soft skills.   She is a founding team member and former Community Manager at National Incubation Center, Islamabad.   She is the Google Business Group (GBG), now called “Digital Skills Community” Lead for Peshawar and Startup Grind Peshawar, Pakistan.   She is a public speaker and mentor.   Her speaking and mentoring profile includes: Tech Camp South Asia (Dubai 2018), speaker at Digital Youth Summit (2015, 2017, 2018), TEDx ImSciences, OPEN Silicon Valley, startups at the K-12 (Education Innovation Challenge) at Base Camp Peshawar e.t.c.   Thank you.   #AwesomeMomentsAndFriendsDay #Peshawar #Pakistan #FCTAbuja #Nigeria

  Either you are using your Personal Gmail Account or your Workspace Business Account; you can create FREE Websites with Google Sites for yourself or your business and IT’S FREE!   The design below is for a School from Enugu State in Nigeria – one of my favorite Google Sites.   I like it because it was built by both school proprietors for their school last year, and it also avails them the opportunity to on-board G Suite for Education now called Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals.   You can check it out! School URL - https://sites.google.com/prudentchildfs.sch.ng/prudent-child-first-school   I will like to share the screencast videos they used – It’s 100% FREE.   Here are the links for reference (if interested): How To Build A FREE Website for your Business or Personal Purpose   Click Here to Start Learning Immediately https://sites.google.com/notifyhosting.com/learningcenter/build-a-free-website   or ...