Women On Web (WoW) : Highlights of Session 1 | Google Drive

Venue : Virtual Height IT Solutions Pvt Ltd, Ahmedabad
Date & Time : December 12, 2-6 pm
Organized by : Utkarsh Foundation

#HelpWomenGetOnline : As mentioned in the Agenda, here are the highlights from the first session of Women On Web event.

The session was mainly aimed at briefing the participants about the whole initiative and teach them the basics of Google Drive along with the hands on session for the same.

The target audience was the women of age group 30-50 years.

I initiated the session by delivering a hangout talk, briefing them how the whole process was going to be, what are our goals, what are we going to achieve at the end of this project, what should people expect out of this whole initiative.

This was followed by the hands-on session on Google Drive by Dipali Vyas. Here's the link to her Presentation. Dipali explained the participants basic concepts of Google drive along with its different features.

The participants were very curious to know new technology, but at the same time it was a bit challenging for Dipali to introduce an altogether new concept to the participants, out of which, most of them were using internet for the first time ! But kudos to her, she could teach all of them at least the basic sessions, and the follow-up sessions after the workshop played a very important role in clarifying their doubts and difficulties.

Here's a small Piece of experience, wonderfully written by our Speaker, Dipali Vyas.

A big thanks to Rekha ma'am for helping with the co-ordination. Also, Dhruva and Jenny turned out to be a great support throughout the event.

Overall, it was a great start to the initiative. I will update soon on our next session.

Agenda : Women On Web initiative

Seeing the awesome response of the audience at WWW Day Celebration, I have planned an initiative on “Women On Web” along with “Utkarsh” Foundation.  

Utkarsh Charitable Trust is a registered non-profit organization, established to support the women who wish to meet their full potential in life, but need a helping hand. The mission to assist women in getting the education or training resources they need for career development. Rekha Adhwaryu is the founder of this organization.

The main motive behind organizing this event is, to help women get online and to impart them basic technology skills, which would in turn make their lives easier ! The target audience is women from the age group 30-50 years. All the sessions are going to be hands on workshops led by different potential speakers and to be supported by some enthusiastic volunteers. The main sessions would be followed by practice sessions for each topics, which would make the concepts more clear and clarify the doubts and difficulties of the attendees.

Here goes the agenda of the event -

Agenda : Women On Web Event

Session 1 : (December 12)

1. Pre-session (hangout) on YouTube Workshop by Vaibhavi Desai - [20 mins]

1. about the initiative, our agenda, milestones and end goals to be achieved
2. introduction to Youtube (channels, subscribers, views), importance
3. briefing on the workshop
4. suggestions of ideas to the participants

2. Google Drive (Introduction and Hands on) by Dipali Vyas - [1.5 hr]

1. Structure of drive, how folders and files are organized
2. creating/editing/deleting docs, spreadsheet, slides and forms
3. sharing rights, visibility
4. multiple people working simultaneously on a doc - chat & comment
5. uploading and downloading files/folders

Session 2 : (December 26)

1. YouTube Workshop by Jenny Chawla - [5 hrs]

1. Grouping the participants, setting up the systems [30 min]
2. introduction, basic concepts (channel, subscribers, views) and briefing about the workflow, helping participants finalize the topics [45 mins]
3. logo, concept enrichment, creating mock ups, drafting, taglines - presentations [1 hr]
4. technical - video capturing, transferring to the laptop, upload video on YouTube [45 mins]
5. YouTube Editor - music, taglines, slides, photographs, captions [30 mins]
6. tags, description, title, privacy settings, copyright issues, make money with YouTube [20 mins]
7. Social media pages, hashtags, sharing - facebook, twitter, google+ [30 mins]
8. Introducing about the YouTube challenge [10 mins]

B.  Gmail  (Introduction and Hands on) by Dhruva Shastri - [1.5 hr]

1. mail compose
2. mail send
3. mail draft
4. star important mails
5. labels
6. search and filter
7. delete/spam/trash
8. add signature

Session 3 : (January 10)

Learning to blog effectively by Jenny Chawla-  [2 hrs]

1. Introduction to blogging and its importance (examples, blogging platforms, types of blogs etc) [30 min]
2. Hands on Session - Setting up a blog - in groups, participants should be divided in groups of 4-5 and each group should come up with a topic of blogging [30 min]
3. mockups, drafting, images, tags, heading, title, subtitle preparation - groupwise ; deploy sample blog [1 hr]
4. Tips for effective Blogging [15 min]
5. Make money through blogger [15 min]
6. Social media outreach of the blogs - hands on [30 min]

Session 4 : (January 17) - [1.5-2 hrs]

Concluding Session by Vaibhavi Desai

1. feedback from participants, sharing the plans for our next season
2. Lightning talks by some inspirational women figures in technology
3. Awarding certificate of participation to the attendees

I will soon update about with the progress of our sessions.