OK hello club gurus welcome to this lecture and this lecture I just want to talk about the best way
to contact me and to ask questions about the exam or about anything to do with AWOS.
So you can see here this is my solutions architect course currently have around eleven thousand five
hundred students in this course.
I've then got to develop her the seesaw the Lamda courses the courses.
So we've got a lot of students and I usually receive between 30 to 40 emails a day as well as all the
questions on the discussion forums.
So when I'm you know when I'm working and having to record new lectures as well as you know writing
the books it does get on top of me.
So I've gone out and I've gotten a team of gurus that will be able to help answer your questions and
contribute and we're going to do it on the a cloud web site.
And I just want to show you the discussion forums here.
They're not very sophisticated to about an online learning form as opposed to a unique chat site.
So it only shows a certain number of discussions and you have to keep loading more.
You can't you know you can't tag your discussions you can't just see you know the discussions that are
on specifically on the seat too.
And you can only see a discussion you know based on the certified solutions architect which you have
to be enrolled in.
You can't see that develop at discussions you can't see the source administrative discussions et cetera.
So what we've done is we've gone out and created a cloud daquiri originally we're using ph people listen
board.
The problem we had was it got completely filled with spam and a lot of Russian spam very very quickly.
So we had to shut that down.
What we have done is we've gone out on our own discussion or are in discussion board or our own platform.
So you can scroll down and say join our community and if you click on access to the floor Asprey Now
you can see the discussions based on different courses.
And anyone can rate this so you don't need to have to be enrolled into the develop of course to actually
go in and do all the discussions on the develop course.
You can also sort the discussions out by tags so you can say OK and they want to see the exam related
discussions say click here and then when they show you exam related discussions and where it's tagged
and also discussions come with a an up voting system.
So essentially if something you know is if it's really popular you can vote Tennent's up if you don't
like an at c can vote it down and then that way the best answers are always at the top.
The other good thing about this is that you know I do have a team of people that monitor this the discussion
forums come in live to both our mobile devices and to our e-mails so you get a probably can answer a
lot quicker than using the to me platform.
So if you do need to contact me or you need to ask a question I would really encourage you guys to use
our discussion forums as opposed to the ones they are a lot more sophisticated.
You can click here to log in or to sign up for free and then you can sign up using your Facebook.
You get up your Google Plus your LinkedIn Twitter or a Windows account and encourage everyone to use
LinkedIn if you can because it will cool down your LinkedIn profile picture pull down some of your credentials
just like your your first name your surname and that's about it.
But the reason we'd like you to use LinkedIn is that later on as we add functionality to this site we'd
like to add a portal where employers can come in and search for certified people in the area.
Now I wouldn't tell them necessarily you know the names of the people or show your picture or anything
but it would say you know this 25 certified solutions architects in New York City area and you know
you can even set something like what your salary expectation is.
And if the employee hits that then they can contact you.
So it would be like a hybrid between you to me and think didn't and this would be something that you
would opt into be something that would be provided by default.
And any any suggestions you guys have that you want to get out of sight.
Let us know.
You know we are developing it all the time.
Ideally we want to make sure that the AWOS certifications are as valuable as possible to you.
So you know we want you to get flooded with job offers.
You know people saying well come over here and I'll pay you 10000 20000 more.
And we want our site to be a conduit for that.
But at the same time if you don't want to be spammed by you know recruitment agents all the time and
know what a pain it is.
Trust me.
You know you can have you can set your profile to being private.
So that's what we're thinking about doing at the moment our site is in beta so it doesn't have any of
that functionality yet.
And if we have it did rollout that functionality we would send you guys an announcement and then we
would tell you how to opt into it you wouldn't automatically be opt opted into it.
OK guys so that's it.
If you can use the forums I'd be forever grateful.
It makes my life so much easier if you communicate to us via the forms and not by the to me platform
or that being said oh we'll try my best to answer everyone on both platforms but always my main priority
is to encourage people to move on to our own discussion forums because we have built them specifically
with you guys in mind and it just makes my life so much easier communicating with you guys through the
discussion forums.
If you have any questions or any suggestions on how we can make our site better please let us know.
If not feel free to move onto the next lecture.
Thank you.