By Darien De Lu
WILPF US President

July 2021

Is that you in the picture – confident in your power to be in charge of your world (well, at least of your online experience)? It can be! Technology is here, whether we like it or not, but we can help each other by becoming more adept with the options each innovation offers us.

As WILPF prez, it’s important to me that our virtual Congress is an encouraging and powerful experience for you! So I’m presenting this short and easy training – Thursday, July 15, 5:15 PDT / 8:15 EDT:  Making Zoom Work for YOU

Please preregister here.

Can you imagine the simple pleasures of being able to control –

• The view you have of the Zoom gathering?
• The volume of your mike?
• How to get back to the screen you want if you navigate away from the meeting, and then it’s gone?
• Doing all those “simple” things that others seem to manage – “renaming” yourself (perhaps adding your preferred pronouns), raising your hand and lowering itchatting individually with someone, even saving the chat in a form more useful than the garbled “plain text” Zoom offers?

Yes – you can do all this and more, for yourself! And the basic orientation that I’ll offer will allow you to be more able to do new online things, especially because these technologies do keep changing.

Note: If you already know how to do all this, I’d surely welcome your volunteer assistance with technology help during our virtual Congress.  Please contact me to volunteer for an hour or more of a tech. assistance shift!

Beginner or semi-pro, I’ll be delighted to have you join in on Thursday, July 15. I look forward to helping you help other WILPF members, friends, and family, as you practice some of the techniques to claim mastery on Zoom!  Remember to preregisterand you’re welcome to contact me about tech. assistance at our Congress, August 13-22.  I’m at President@wilpfus.org.