Tierney Smith's presentation on "Coaching in the Cloud" at the 2012 Ontario Coaches Conference. You can find more thoughts/follow up from the presentation on our website http://www.techsoupcanada.ca/community/blog/coaching_in_the_cloud

1. COACHING IN THE CLOUD
Tierney Smith
TechSoup Canada

2. TECHSOUP CANADA
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5. DO YOU QUALIFY?
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6. EXERCISE 1: 5 THINGS

7. GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER
 Do you work independently, or as part of an
organization?
 How many people are at your organization?
 Do you have any IT infrastructure? (i.e.
servers)
 What software do you use as part of your
work? What online/cloud services?

8. WHY CLOUD?
It’s good for…
 Sharing
 Collaboration
 Easy access to information from anywhere

9. WHAT IS THE CLOUD?

10. Data is not stored on your computer…
you access it through the Internet

11. Microsoft Word
Google Docs

12. FOR EXAMPLE…
 Gmail
 Facebook
 Microsoft Office 365
 Salesforce
 Twitter
 Dropbox
 Prezi

14. SHARING… IN THE CLOUD

15. IN THE CLOUD
 View and edit 1 copy of each
document
 Access anywhere you have internet

16. EXAMPLE 1:
PRACTICE SCHEDULE

17. OTHER BENEFITS OF THE CLOUD

20. NO ADMIN

21. MORE CLOUD TOOLS

22.  Email – Google Apps
 Document Collaboration – Google Docs
 File Sharing – Dropbox
 Mass Emails – MailChimp
 Project Management – Basecamp
 Basic Websites – Weebly
 Event Registration – Eventbrite
 Survey/voting tools – Doodle, PollDaddy, Survey
Monkey
 Online Meetings – Skype

23. PRIVATE VIDEO SHARING (FREE OPTIONS)
 YouTube – set the video to “unlisted” and share a
link, or “private” and share with up to 50 YouTube users
 Vimeo – similar to YouTube, with friendlier privacy
options
 Kincast – no video length limit, very iPhone friendly
 Givit – looks promising, in beta
 Shutterfly - up to 10 videos (more w paid version)

24. THINGS TO BE AWARE OF

29. MORE EXAMPLES

30. REFLECTION & DISCUSSION

31. RESOURCES
Further reading: http://bit.ly/tsc_cloud_further_reading
Information about the cloud & case studies:
http://techsoupcanada.ca/learning_centre
 Cloud tool reviews: platformation.ca

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33. QUESTIONS?
Tierney Smith, Community Manager
 tierney@techsoupcanada.ca
 @tierneys
TechSoup Canada
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