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Gale 101- Gale Business: Entrepreneurship

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship is an engaging resource designed to support entrepreneurs, small business owners, and business students in all areas of entrepreneurship including planning, funding, starting, and managing a small business. View our session to review the content, tools, and features found within this valuable resource.
Duration: 30 Minutes
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Welcome again, everyone. Today we have another

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Gale 101 session.

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Today we're focused on Gale business entrepreneurship.

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My name is Amber Winters and I am a senior training

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consultant here with Gale.

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So a brief agenda for everyone first will

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overview the resource itself. So

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the content that's included, what you can expect,

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things like that, then we'll really dive

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into the content so we can take a look at some of the

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different content types your user users

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will be able to explore through.

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but we'll spend the majority of the time actually walking

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through the platform to make sure you kind of understand

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where everything is. You see the different workflows

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and tools we have available all that good stuff.

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And then at the very end of the session, if there are any

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questions that I haven't answered as we move forward

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to, as we move through the session today, I'll

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make sure to answer those at the very end of the session.

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And I do have some wrap up contact information

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for you as well.

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So let's just dive right in here to get business

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entrepreneurship.

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So this resource as you would expect from,

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the name is specifically designed for entrepreneurs.

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But I do also like to include that. It's great for business

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students as well. And it's focused around

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some of the main topics when we're talking

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about small business ownership. So starting

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a small business building it and then

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managing it.

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Some of the different subject area areas

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we include are things like planning and budgeting,

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marketing, finance, building a business

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plan. We have a huge collection of business plans.

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We take a look at as well as human resources.

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So we're really trying to hit everything

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your entrepreneurs will encounter

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as they start their business. So this is great if

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you have

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an entrepreneurial program at your library

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and you have individuals coming in looking

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for that sort of content. This is a great

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place to send them. They'll find those nice

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business plans, but they also find supplemental material

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about really anything they

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can think of for running their small business.

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And in addition to all of the great content, we have a lot of

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tools that are going to help them as well that we'll take a look

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at. So highlights the notes. If they want

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to highlight the different articles, they're reading

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a great translation feature. So if you have

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a large, let's say Spanish speaking

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population, they can translate our articles

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into Spanish.

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We have a read speaker for those who have trouble reading

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text manipulation that allows them to change

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how the words look

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on the page, our citation generator

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for any students coming in using this resource

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for projects or

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homework and things like that as

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well as the Google Microsoft integrations.

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So if they want to save content out of the platform,

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they can send it right over to either their

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Google Drive or their Microsoft Onedrive

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to save content for later.

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So let's talk here a little bit about some of the key

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content types you're going to find and find and this

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isn't an exhaustive list, but these are some of the

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key ones that are really most

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utilized in this resource. So

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the first is going to be journals, magazines

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and news. So this is going to include

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general business journals,

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but it's also going to include some different industry

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specific journals, including things like

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um trade journals and things like that.

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So this is really helping your entrepreneur

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kind of build an understanding of

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just business as a whole and where they land

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within their industry.

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So this is giving them that nice background.

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You know, if they want to start a food truck, let's say they're gonna

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wanna know a little bit about the business industry.

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This is going to help them do that. They could take a look

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at some of the different trade journals related to,

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to food trucks and to bit to food in general.

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And they can also take a look at the news to see what's going

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on, you know, our food trucks struggling

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right now. Are they still seeing success in different

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areas? They'll be able to kind of explore

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that using our journals, magazines and

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news,

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as I mentioned previously, we've got a nice collection

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of real world business plans here as well.

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So if your entrepreneurs know they're going to start

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a business, but they really need to get organized.

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They don't know how to do a business plan. Of course, that's

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something not a lot of us learn.

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They can click into g business entrepreneurship

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and they could take a look at our full business plans,

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which is going to show them how to write out

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an executive summary. If

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they need to analyze their industry, if they need

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to kind of organize the structure

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of their business, we have these pre

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created for them so they can kind of copy

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what they see and edit it to make it appropriate

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for their business.

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We also have a nice collection of multimedia

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content. So if you have struggling

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readers coming in or just, you know, people who

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prefer to learn via video or

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via images or something like that,

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they'll find a lot of multimedia content here. So videos

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and images, but also audio files. So

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a lot of podcasts they're going to find here.

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So if they're looking for a specific

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business focus podcast, they

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can check out this resource, they could certainly

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find it here.

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And this is just going to kind of give them

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another dimension of learning. So they're not just

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getting kind of texts thrown at them and they're reading

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through articles. but they can break up those

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articles by watching shorter videos. Usually

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our videos are, I would say five minutes or under

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a lot of them are closer to one or two minutes.

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So they're getting these little bite size bits

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of information in between having to read articles

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that can really kind of pound

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whatever they're learning home for them.

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Now, our next category is a pretty broad one.

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We call them recommended resources.

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And a lot of these are just going to be supplemental

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and kind of aid and learning for

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both entrepreneurs and students.

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So in this category, you're going to find things like topic

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overviews. So say, I've pulled forward in

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my little screenshot here. This is on patents.

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So if they're trying to patent something they've invented,

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they may want to take a quick look at that topic kind

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of learn what a patent

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is, how it works legally.

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They'll find that in some of our topic overviews,

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we also have reference articles that are a little

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bit longer than those overviews, occupational

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overviews and web listings as well.

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So this is a pretty broad category.

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Again, that's really helping

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provide the supplemental information for

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your users. So not necessarily

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you know, providing them with a full business plan and got them

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ready to go. But telling them about the

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kind of the nitty gritty of business, you know, when

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they hit a new topic or a new

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vocab word that they've never seen before,

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this is a nice place for them to go so they

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can start to kind of learn about the

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business lingo that's kind of swarming

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around. And

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finally, we do include directories in this resource

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as well. So if they're looking for companies

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related to something like consulting

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or maybe employment services or marketing,

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you know, they're ready to get third parties

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involved with their business. Maybe they're past the starting

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stage.

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They're past the planning and they're more into

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the, the managing and growing their business

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part of their small business journey.

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These directories may come in handy for them. They

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can start to take a look at different third party

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vendors and see how they can help

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them with their growing business.

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Now, let's go ahead and take a look at the resource.

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I think it's best understood by just

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clicking through while I'm switching over

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my screen. Oops, I just got

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signed out any questions about

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just what we went over briefly or are we all ready

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to just dive right in?

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Ok, I see. No questions. So we'll go with

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a dive in. So this is the home page here

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of Gale business entrepreneurship. I wanna

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give you a lay of the land before we really dive

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in. So, of course, at the top, as you

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would expect, we have our search bar with

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an advanced search here. So if your patrons know

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exactly what they're looking for, they may want to

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just run their search up top here.

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But down below that, we have a couple other really

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great tools that are going to help, especially

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for patrons who don't know exactly what they're looking

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for. We have a few different options to help

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them browse. So first I want to point out

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our little toolbar here in the top

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right corner.

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You'll see we've pulled forward a business glossary

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here. So

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if they are just starting off their business and they run

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into something, maybe they're filling out a form

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and there's a vocab board that they

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have absolutely no idea what it is. They can

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actually click directly into our glossary here

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and they can search the glossary for whatever that term

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is. And you'll see, we just provide a quick

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kind of consumer focused,

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definition. So not something that's

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focused specifically for those who are business

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experts, but more for those who are kind

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of novices. We'll

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say they'll find that here

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right next to that glossary. They also have

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a browse topics option here

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and this will help them kind of narrow

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down if they have a topic in mind. Maybe, you

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know, they, they don't know how payroll works at all and

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they need to figure it out.

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Maybe they want to take a look at payroll tax. They

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can browse a payroll tax topic.

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When I hit that, it's going to pull forward

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all of my resources related

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to payroll tax. So it's kind of

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filtering down the information they see without them

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even running a search.

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I'm gonna go back just using my back button

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in my browser

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because in this little gray bar here you'll see there are

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a few other ways that you can browse through topics.

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So again, it starts with business topics,

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but they can also browse by business type.

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So again, if they're starting a restaurant

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or maybe you know, a childcare

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facility, they can go through an find

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that here. And so these are some of the top

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business types that we see within this resource

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being utilized.

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So they can go through and find what they're looking

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for here. Of course, if they don't see their

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business type, maybe their business is a little bit

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more specific or a little bit

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less utilized,

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they'll run a search for their business type and they'll

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pull content that way. But a lot

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of times they'll find their business type

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right here in this little browse option

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right next to business types we have and how to,

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so this is kind of browsing by a question

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you would expect to ask. So, they

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may need to know how to sell a business if you entrepreneurs

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at the very end of their business cycle and they're ready

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to sell their business.

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How do they do that? They can click right

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here and see the, how to, and how to

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information kind of move forward this

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way. So this is a nice

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way for them to kind of start to browse if they

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don't know exactly what they're looking for. Most

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likely, one of these three browse options

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is going to get them to where they want to be.

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Now, if I jump back here to my home page,

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I'm gonna do that by hitting

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the resource title here in my

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banner

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and I scroll down to the bottom. So just like I have

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these browsing options up top here, I actually

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have some browsing options here on the home page.

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You'll see, we do have a few topics of interest

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pulled forward. So trending small

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businesses, budgeting, financing

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and loans and grants are found here kind of in

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this carousel at top. So this may

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draw their interest. They could click directly into that

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or you'll see, we've got some different topics

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organized here, kind of based

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on where they are in their business cycle. So

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you'll see planning, starting

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funding

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and managing.

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So again, this is nice if they

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kind of are in one specific spot in their

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journey,

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and they want to narrow down topics there. So you'll

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see if I'm just starting to plan here,

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I actually have a topic that's just related

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to business plans. So let's click

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into that one since a lot of times,

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that's what entrepreneurs are looking for. You

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know, they're trying to write out their business plan to get everything

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organized and it's, it's a difficult thing to do.

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So let's click here in some business. My business

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plans topic.

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Now, when I do that, when I click into any of the topics

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that are listed down here,

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it pulls forward this nice what we call topic

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page. So at the top of this topic

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page, we have an overview of what business

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plans are or if I were to have clicked into

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you know, loans or

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human resources, It would give

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me an an overview of that specific topic,

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but this one is focused on business plans. So

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talking about what a business plan is, why

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it's good to build them, but they could be used for

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what you should include

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and then scrolling down underneath that.

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I have all of my related

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content related to business plans. So as you

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could expect, the actual business plan

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section here is pretty extensive. We have

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about 1200 business plans

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just over 1200. But you'll see, we

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also have some recommended resources related

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to business plans. A few

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audio files, a video, quite

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a few magazines and journals, some linked

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websites and some news here

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as well.

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So scrolling down into that gray bar, you're going to see those

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different content buckets. So our business plans

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are pulled forward. Magazines,

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directories, you say it can scroll all the way

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down. So we've really tried to organize

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how your users see the content. So instead

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of running, you know, basic search and kind of

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seeing all of this just listed, we

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have tried to break it up a little bit to make it a little

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bit less intimidating and a little bit easier to

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click through. You know, they know they're looking for a business

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plan. Boom, they can click right into our business

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plan section and launch all of those

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plans.

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Now, when I do click into one of these kind of content

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types, you'll see up top here in this gray

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bar. Now it's showing me what I've clicked into.

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So right now, I'm only seeing business plans.

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But if I want to, I can change it to all content

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types. If I want to see everything we have related

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to business plans or I can click

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over into a different section. So maybe instead

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I want to take a look at some different business journals.

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I can click into my journals section here.

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But for today, let's stay with our business plans.

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So scrolling down here on this page, you'll see. I also have

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some filters listed here,

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which again are really beneficial, especially if

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your patrons are pulling large amounts of content.

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You know, if they're searching

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a pretty broad term, you

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know, loans or something like that. Of course, they're

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going to pull thousands and thousands

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of, of hits. That may not be exactly what

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they're looking for. These filters

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are perfect for that for helping

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them narrow it down subjects. Here is

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a great one. Since we're specifically

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under business plans, you'll see a lot of the subjects

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are going to be at different industries. So

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the leisure industry, service industries,

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scrolling down restaurants, start ups

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all services. So this is nice if

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they want to kind of model their own business plan

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off of a a current one,

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they'll choose their industry and that's really going

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to kind of fine tune what they see to make

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it easier for them to build their own business

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plan here.

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They can also narrow it down by document type

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publication title. They have a public publication

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in mind or we include a search within

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here as well. So if they want to narrow down by

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searching now, they can do that

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right, using that title there.

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We do also have the option to narrow down to just

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peer reviewed journals. Now, we're not going

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to find any peer reviewed journals in the business

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plan section because

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as you would expect, it's just business plans from

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our business plans handbook and those are not peer

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reviewed. but you will find peer-reviewed

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works in our magazines and journals

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section. So if you have business

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students coming in looking for that peer-reviewed

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content. They will find it and they

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can actually limit down to just that. So they're

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seeing that only

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now let's go ahead and click into one of these resource

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or one of these business plans here.

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I'm gonna do a coffee truck. That sounds

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interesting to me.

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Hm. We'll look into it.

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So when your users click into any piece

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of content, so not just a business plan but a reference

[00:14:54.558]
article or a topic overview. They've got

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a lot of different tools and features that are going to make

[00:14:58.879]
sure they access this information

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as simply as possible and make sure they

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can kind of manipulate it and use it as needed.

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So the first of our tools are going to appear up here

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in this right hand side of the page, the upper right

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hand corner, the first being the citation

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tool, of course, this will be mostly beneficial

[00:15:15.960]
for any students you have coming in.

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entrepreneurs, probably not

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using citations as much, but anyone

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who needs it can hit that citation button

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and they have the options for Mlaap, a Chicago

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or Harvard versions. They can select

[00:15:29.399]
it, copy and paste it wherever they want it to go

[00:15:31.779]
or they can send over to their drives or any

[00:15:33.989]
citation tools that they're using.

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Moving in from the citation tool. If they decide

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they want to hold on to this document, maybe

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they don't have time to read it. Right now, but they want to save

[00:15:44.109]
it for later. They can use our send

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to button right here with this little paper airplane

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that lets them send over to a Google Drive,

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a onedrive or they can email it to themselves.

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So whichever they prefer that they can send

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over. And what's nice is if they do send it over

[00:15:58.950]
to one of their drives, it's going to remain there

[00:16:01.029]
for them forever. they're not going to lose

[00:16:03.038]
access after, you know, three months or something like that.

[00:16:05.729]
They'll always have this document in their drives

[00:16:08.469]
and we actually make a folder for them that's entitled

[00:16:11.000]
Gil Business Entrepreneurship. So

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anytime they send content over from this

[00:16:15.308]
resource, it's all going to funnel right into

[00:16:17.450]
that premade folder for them. And again, they

[00:16:19.479]
can click back into it at any time

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if they're not super comfortable with that,

[00:16:25.320]
the kind of the technological saving.

[00:16:27.440]
We do have downloaded print options here

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as well. So if they want to download it

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to their desktop, they can do that or

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they can print out a hard copy here as well.

[00:16:37.320]
Right next to that, we have this nice get link

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button here as well. And I really like to point out

[00:16:41.359]
this button and it's found on a lot of pages,

[00:16:43.558]
not just document pages, it's found on topic

[00:16:45.918]
pages, it's found on search results.

[00:16:47.950]
and this is providing persistent URL to

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whatever page they're on.

[00:16:51.989]
So if they want to, you know, copy and paste

[00:16:54.109]
this and send it somewhere, put it

[00:16:56.168]
in an activity, you know, if it's a student,

[00:16:58.538]
they can do that

[00:17:00.038]
right here. So you guys just have my copy button

[00:17:02.500]
and again, this is persistent. So it doesn't break,

[00:17:05.049]
which is really handy. So if I maybe even

[00:17:07.318]
a teacher coming in looking for

[00:17:09.449]
a document to share out with students,

[00:17:11.568]
I can use to get link, post it in a syllabus

[00:17:13.920]
or on a discussion board

[00:17:16.170]
wherever I want it to go. And we'll always be

[00:17:18.269]
able to access it. It's also great for

[00:17:20.539]
anyone on the line who promotes

[00:17:23.009]
these resources. If you find, you know, a really cool

[00:17:25.229]
piece of content that you want to share out on

[00:17:27.529]
your, your library's website or on your

[00:17:29.598]
social media.

[00:17:31.449]
This persistent URL is the

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way to go with that. It's not going to break.

[00:17:35.500]
You'll always be able to have that just readily available

[00:17:37.660]
for you there.

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And these tools so send to download

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print.

[00:17:43.630]
These three here are also found

[00:17:45.660]
down here under the title of the article

[00:17:47.759]
you'll see. It's I've kind of broken

[00:17:49.818]
up send to. So now I have Google

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Drive, Microsoft Onedrive

[00:17:54.039]
and Email and then I have downloaded print

[00:17:56.509]
and these tools do the same thing as these ones

[00:17:58.680]
up top here. We've just included a little bit of redundancy

[00:18:01.670]
to make sure your patrons see the tools.

[00:18:03.789]
So if they miss them up here, hopefully they'll see

[00:18:05.848]
them down here or vice versa.

[00:18:09.049]
Now, in addition to all of these sharing tools that

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we have available, we have quite a few different accessibility

[00:18:13.779]
features as well. So again,

[00:18:15.969]
as I mentioned, we do have the ability to translate

[00:18:18.368]
all of our articles. So if you have patrons

[00:18:20.578]
coming in who need a different language for whatever

[00:18:22.799]
they're reading, they can have a translate button,

[00:18:24.920]
which is right here under the title of the

[00:18:27.000]
article,

[00:18:28.809]
you'll see, it gives me the option to choose a translated,

[00:18:31.209]
translated language.

[00:18:33.459]
And it also gives me this other option to set

[00:18:35.559]
an interface language. And I'm going to click into that

[00:18:37.709]
one. So you can see that.

[00:18:39.039]
So what that does is that actually changes,

[00:18:41.170]
let's just click into Spanish,

[00:18:44.380]
all of the tools you'll see here,

[00:18:46.469]
the navigation, the search bar, our explorer

[00:18:48.769]
panel on this right hand side here has

[00:18:50.848]
all changed over to whatever language they chose.

[00:18:53.519]
And this actually follows them throughout the full

[00:18:55.598]
duration of their session. So sometimes

[00:18:58.140]
it's helpful to actually translate right at the beginning.

[00:19:00.519]
You know, if you have a user coming in who needs that

[00:19:02.559]
Spanish navigation, you'll

[00:19:04.729]
see. It's also up top here,

[00:19:07.390]
right where it says Spanish here. If I drop

[00:19:10.118]
that down, I'm just gonna change it back to English

[00:19:14.019]
somewhere there. It is

[00:19:16.588]
because I, I know English

[00:19:18.338]
so they can actually change it at the very top

[00:19:20.410]
of the screen here as well. So they could change it

[00:19:22.459]
by hitting our translate button

[00:19:24.519]
using set interface language or they

[00:19:26.539]
can just go up to where it says English, drop

[00:19:28.838]
it down, choose their language

[00:19:32.469]
and the translate article itself as you would expect

[00:19:34.769]
translates the text of the article here

[00:19:37.348]
and they it does need to be translated each individual

[00:19:39.769]
step. So each new article they find they

[00:19:42.049]
will need to translate. But the interface language

[00:19:44.348]
will stay no matter where they are within

[00:19:46.650]
the resource,

[00:19:49.390]
right next to that translate option, we also have the option

[00:19:51.660]
to increase or decrease spot size

[00:19:53.818]
as needed.

[00:19:56.189]
Next to that, we have some more specific

[00:19:58.729]
display option changes. So we

[00:20:00.739]
could change the background color of the text,

[00:20:03.900]
we can change the font and we do have a dyslexia

[00:20:06.160]
font which some patrons find

[00:20:08.368]
handy. For me, it's a little bit harder

[00:20:10.410]
to read. But um we usually we have a

[00:20:12.420]
few different options here

[00:20:14.430]
and then I can also change my line letter and word

[00:20:16.608]
spacing.

[00:20:18.670]
So again, really kind of

[00:20:20.699]
editing how your patrons are seeing

[00:20:22.799]
this content and how they're reading it. So

[00:20:24.979]
enhancing that accessibility and letting them choose

[00:20:27.118]
what works best for them. So instead of saying, you know,

[00:20:29.390]
do you want this to be a large print or a regular

[00:20:31.439]
print? It's what color background do you want?

[00:20:33.539]
Which of these fonts works best for you, you know, what,

[00:20:36.039]
what doesn't give you a headache?

[00:20:38.098]
They'll be able to kind of navigate and choose that

[00:20:40.828]
and once they make their preferences, this actually

[00:20:43.078]
stays for the session. So when they click

[00:20:45.239]
into new articles, they're going to have this

[00:20:47.459]
kind of orangish background, this

[00:20:50.059]
larger spacing between words

[00:20:52.479]
and letters and then this font here

[00:20:54.618]
as well.

[00:20:56.118]
I'm going to actually jump back to default though

[00:20:58.250]
just by clicking back into my display options

[00:21:01.068]
and hitting back to default settings.

[00:21:05.969]
So right next to our display options here,

[00:21:08.199]
we also have our listen tool and we're gonna

[00:21:10.219]
hit it to open it, but I'm not gonna play it.

[00:21:12.789]
So when you hit it to open it, you get this little toolbar

[00:21:15.250]
dropped down here and it's going to read through the

[00:21:17.299]
full article for me all the way from

[00:21:19.380]
the title to the very end. If there is

[00:21:21.400]
an image with a caption, it reads through the caption

[00:21:23.640]
for me as well

[00:21:25.858]
and it does read in whatever language this article

[00:21:28.199]
is translated to. So if your patron translated

[00:21:30.459]
to Spanish first and then

[00:21:32.568]
hit the listen button, it's going to read this full article

[00:21:34.890]
to them in Spanish, which is another nice

[00:21:37.130]
feature to increase that accessibility.

[00:21:40.140]
And you'll see they have a few options on this little

[00:21:42.299]
toolbar that popped up with this little hamburger

[00:21:44.739]
icon. So

[00:21:47.029]
I can choose to download an MP3 if I want

[00:21:49.130]
to or I've got a few different settings

[00:21:51.299]
here that are related to highlighting.

[00:21:53.828]
So right now as it reads through, you'll see

[00:21:55.969]
it's highlighting the sentence it's reading

[00:21:58.289]
and then it's highlighting the word it's reading in a different

[00:22:00.479]
color. So I can edit that just

[00:22:02.640]
however I need to, to make this kind

[00:22:04.759]
of easier to understand.

[00:22:13.400]
Now, the last tool I want to talk about is our highlights

[00:22:15.868]
and notes tool. Um And this again is

[00:22:17.910]
going to be really helpful for students. Your

[00:22:20.469]
entrepreneurs may benefit from this as well if

[00:22:22.568]
they kind of prefer that organized research

[00:22:24.739]
where they highlight the most important things. but

[00:22:27.068]
it's really simple, you just click and drag over a

[00:22:29.088]
piece of content you think is important,

[00:22:32.039]
just choose a color if I want to annotate

[00:22:34.348]
this, you know, interesting

[00:22:37.750]
use for my plan. Maybe

[00:22:41.930]
I can go through and I can highlight anything I think is important

[00:22:44.219]
and I can highlight as much

[00:22:46.279]
or as little text as I want. I can use

[00:22:48.318]
multiple colors here to really

[00:22:50.400]
kind of mark up this document to find

[00:22:52.759]
the important bits of content

[00:22:55.479]
and these highlights and notes are session based.

[00:22:57.549]
So if your patrons do mark up their documents,

[00:23:00.269]
you know, bring all of the key points

[00:23:02.598]
forward, you wanna make sure they get this out of

[00:23:04.670]
the platform before they sign off today

[00:23:07.108]
and or before they sign off and they can do

[00:23:09.259]
that by sending over to their drives or emailing

[00:23:11.588]
or downloading or printing it will hold on to

[00:23:13.689]
these highlights and notes here as well.

[00:23:16.660]
So just make sure before they, you know, get

[00:23:18.729]
up and leave or before they close their browser,

[00:23:21.289]
anything, they highlighted anything they took notes

[00:23:23.400]
on, they have to get it out of there first.

[00:23:27.640]
And all of the highlighted notes that we take also

[00:23:29.799]
appear under this highlighted notes button up

[00:23:31.858]
top here. My last tool in this little

[00:23:34.189]
toolbar

[00:23:35.949]
so I can click view all highlights and notes

[00:23:37.979]
here. And

[00:23:40.059]
now this is kind of organizing what I've highlighted

[00:23:42.279]
for me. So it's showing me the document I highlighted,

[00:23:45.348]
it's showing me the actual text that's

[00:23:47.519]
been highlighted, the color I used

[00:23:49.670]
as well as any notes that I took here.

[00:23:52.509]
And you'll notice at the very bottom, we also have a bibliography.

[00:23:55.949]
So if I were to go through my session and

[00:23:58.118]
say highlight, you know, three or four

[00:24:00.309]
articles, I found interesting things in all

[00:24:02.729]
of the highlights are going to appear here on this one

[00:24:04.769]
page and it will look just like this,

[00:24:06.858]
they'll all be separated based on what document

[00:24:09.199]
they're in.

[00:24:10.029]
And then it'll show the colors,

[00:24:12.338]
the actual text that was highlighted

[00:24:14.380]
in the notes I took. And then the bibliography

[00:24:16.979]
will just continue to grow at the very bottom of the page.

[00:24:21.130]
So this is really nice. If your patrons are

[00:24:23.328]
looking at large numbers of documents,

[00:24:25.709]
they don't want to send, you know, 10 documents

[00:24:28.019]
over to their drive. It's a little much for them.

[00:24:30.239]
They can instead highlight the important things

[00:24:32.289]
of each of their articles and then send this page

[00:24:34.479]
over to the drive. Instead, you'll see. I have

[00:24:36.709]
my same send to up top here

[00:24:38.969]
so I can send over to Google or onedrive.

[00:24:41.650]
I can also download and print this page here.

[00:24:44.189]
What's nice is if I decided to send this over to

[00:24:46.279]
my drive, this stay is the hyperlink

[00:24:48.439]
here. So I can actually jump from my drive

[00:24:51.108]
right back to this article that I highlighted if I want

[00:24:53.229]
to read the full thing.

[00:24:55.880]
So this is a nice way for them to kind of organize

[00:24:57.910]
themselves while they're still on the resource.

[00:25:00.199]
They haven't even moved out yet. They're still in the resource

[00:25:02.989]
and they can get themselves nice and organized

[00:25:05.029]
here. No,

[00:25:09.809]
I haven't seen any questions come in at all in the Q

[00:25:11.959]
and A but I do want to make sure I'm hitting all of them.

[00:25:14.199]
So does anyone have any questions about what

[00:25:16.289]
we went through?
the content,

[00:25:18.368]
the workflows, the tools, anything

[00:25:20.880]
like that.

[00:25:23.368]
And if you're typing right now, I'm going to switch back over

[00:25:26.608]
to my slides because I do have a bit of

[00:25:28.630]
wrap up information for you.

[00:25:30.930]
So again, if you are asking a question in the Q

[00:25:33.009]
and A keep typing, that's totally fine.

[00:25:35.118]
But I wanna give you some contact information. So if

[00:25:37.219]
you have questions that you don't think of while you're on

[00:25:39.328]
the session. But you think of it after feel

[00:25:41.880]
free to reach out to me. My email

[00:25:43.939]
is just [email protected]

[00:25:47.140]
If you want to get a little more specific in how you

[00:25:49.199]
can use this with your learning community or with

[00:25:51.390]
your library,

[00:25:52.608]
you can reach out to your customer success manager.

[00:25:54.858]
They've got some great best practices.

[00:25:56.890]
They work with libraries and

[00:25:59.239]
entrepreneurial programs throughout the country.

[00:26:01.400]
You can reach out to them directly if you've worked

[00:26:03.439]
with them before or just send an email

[00:26:05.598]
to [email protected]

[00:26:08.189]
and we'll forward you to the correct person.

[00:26:10.380]
If you're interested right now in gale business entrepreneurship,

[00:26:13.049]
but you don't have it yet. You don't know who your sales

[00:26:15.239]
rep is. You can go to support.gale.com/repfinder

[00:26:18.759]
You can enter your information, we'll forward you

[00:26:20.769]
to the correct person

[00:26:22.019]
or again, if you know who it is already reach out to them

[00:26:24.088]
directly.

[00:26:25.199]
And I do want to also mention our support site.

[00:26:27.500]
So if you need some additional materials

[00:26:29.969]
training, marketing, technical,

[00:26:32.269]
uh you know, you wanna look at another webinar, you want

[00:26:34.279]
to see

[00:26:36.000]
what sort of uh promotional material we

[00:26:38.108]
have for social media, let's say all

[00:26:40.140]
of that is found on our support site, which is

[00:26:42.209]
support.gale.com. So

[00:26:44.400]
before you do any of your own training, before

[00:26:46.529]
you do any of your own promoting. Take

[00:26:48.588]
a look at the support site. We might have something built out

[00:26:50.689]
for you already. So you don't have to kind of re invent

[00:26:52.789]
the wheel.

[00:26:58.098]
No, I did save a couple minutes here for questions,

[00:27:00.250]
but again, I haven't seen any pop up, so

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I'll go ahead and end our session a couple minutes early.

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I appreciate everyone for being on the line and

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hopefully we'll see all of you in future sessions.

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Enjoy your day.
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