Jaynie

Are you changing your domain registrar or changing the website host?

Your chapter's domain name belongs to you as long as you pay for it. It does not have to change with your host. The host is the company that provides the space and service for your website. As an example, one chapter purchased its domain name through GoDaddy (registrar). Their site was hosted through WordPress.com. They then decided to move their hosting to Bluehost and eventually made Bluehost their domain registrar (moving it from GoDaddy.) Through all this, Gmail provided their chapter's email service. 

Here is a link to an article on applying and initial setup for Workspace.

Google for Nonprofits YouTube Channel

Google Domains has an article on transferring your domain name to Google Domains. Again, you do not have to switch domain registrar to "keep" your domain name. It is yours until you stop paying for it or transfer the rights to someone else. Keep in mind that changing your domain registrar also entails issues with your website such as Domain Name Servers (DNS) which normally is not an issue. I was involved with a registrar change where there were SSL security issues that required assistance from the host. 
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Alan Katsura
akatsura@...
Moderator HLAA Tech Group

Thank you Ann for the link. I will go read it next. 

I assume you mean apply through TechSoup? Not yet. I thought we needed an email address on Google first? This feels like a chicken and egg problem. What to do first? I figured “move domain to google, create new google ID, then apply to TechSoup with that Google ID to buy Google Workspace, then create new emails within for board members”. 

I’m flying blind. Maybe the info is in the link you provided? 

Jaynie Kind
Peninsula Chapter

https://help.tithe.ly/en/articles/3275983-setting-up-google-workspace-for-nonprofit-using-your-domain

Has anyone moved their chapter’s domain name to Google? We currently have hearinglosspen.org registered in GoDaddy.com and are looking at moving to gmail within Google Workspace. We don’t want to lose the domain name in order to keep our email addresses. 

The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the HLAATech@groups.io group.

• /Zoom Tech Workshops/TechWorkshop Part 2 Support Links.pdf

By: Ann Thomas, HLAA Brand Ambassador <athomas@...>

Description:
Companion document Running Zoom Meetings as a Host, support links

The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the HLAATech@groups.io group.

• /Zoom Tech Workshops/Securing Your Zoom Meetings.pdf

By: Ann Thomas, HLAA Brand Ambassador <athomas@...>

Description:
Best Practices for Securing Your Zoom Meetings

Help your viewers. With many of our chapter meeting recordings running about 90 minutes, that takes a huge chunk of time out of a person's day. If you can break up your meeting into sections, viewers can see the video's portion that interests them. See the example below. Our chapter website may not interest you, but the HLAA website might. And, maybe you are not interested in the Q&A session. You have 15 minutes of video to view. Click on the timestamp, and the video player starts at that point. In the Video Details section for a particular video in YouTube Studio, it is simple to place the timestamps in the Description section as shown. Use the time format h:mm:ss. To access the Video Details section, from your Channel Content page, hover over the video and click on the pencil icon (details.) 

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Alan Katsura
Moderator HLAA Tech Group

The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the HLAATech@groups.io group.

• /Virtual Meetings/TechRepublic Resources.pdf

By: Ann Thomas, HLAA Brand Ambassador <athomas@...>

Description:
Virtual Meeting Information, March 31, 2021

The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the HLAATech@groups.io group.

• /Virtual Meetings/TR_ebook_-_How_to_use_Zoom_r3.pdf

By: Ann Thomas, HLAA Brand Ambassador <athomas@...>

Description:
TechRepublic

Tech Republic News ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Best Zoom backgrounds for spring featuring fields abloom and seasonal views

How to blur your background in a Zoom call

How to blur your background in Google Meet

How to blur and change your background in Microsoft Teams

Check your Zoom background to remove sensitive personal-identifying items (or go virtual)

Doing a virtual job interview over Zoom or Teams? Here's what to wear

Zoom fatigue? Four reasons video calls are exhausting, and how to prevent it

8 new rules for Zoom after a year of nonstop virtual meetings

Zoom, cat filters and lawyers: How not to embarrass yourself on a video conference

Zoom says video meetings will be a core part of the 'new normal'

Are you staring at yourself on Zoom? New survey asks the WFH question of our times

Microsoft explains why your colleagues sometimes get new Teams features before you do

Microsoft Teams: Switch on AI-powered noise suppression to cut out unwanted background noise

Google is making your Meet and Zoom calls run better on Chromebooks

4 ways to make Google Meet more engaging

9 tips for audio conferencing with Google Meet

Zoom: A cheat sheet about the video conferencing solution

Microsoft Teams: A cheat sheet

Google Meet video-conferencing and chat app: A cheat sheet

Collaboration technology has been invaluable during the pandemic

The volunteer that has been maintaining our website, www.hearingloss-mi.org, is retiring.  We are looking for someone that can maintain the site for us.  Can someone recommend a company that can handle routine maintenance?  Recently, someone pointed out that we are missing a SSL certificate.  I understand this may not be serious, but perhaps input from others will help clarify.  I believe we need to make sure plug-ins may need to be updated on a regular basis???  Any ideas on what we should expect to pay for any services?  The immediate need is to get someone to have access to the site so that our retiree can pass the baton. 
Tony Ferack, Hearing Technology Resource Specialist
Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)
President, HLAA-MI Board of Trustees
SE Michigan Walk4Hearing Treasurer
President, Western Wayne County Chapter
tony.ferack@...
Gallaudet University Certified Peer Mentor for Hearing Loss

Great letter and progress!! 😎

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!

Here is my copy of my letter to the Costco Hearing Aid Managers regarding the Counter Loops.
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I was able to access the California FB page from both the link in the top right on the HLAA-CA main page and I was able to access it from my own page as well. 

Our State Association is conducting an audit with our chapters - making sure their chapter information is displayed on the HLAA and State websites correctly. While doing this, I noticed that our Facebook site is blocked with the message, "This content isn't available right now." Has anyone else run into this problem?

 

Today I tried something new with the "Host Key" meeting (as I will call it).

I set up the scheduled meeting and sent the meeting link to a participant. She entered the meeting (without me being present) and claimed the host key. She became the Host of the meeting. 

While she was the Host (of my meeting) I attended another Zoom meeting, without incident.

I was elated that this happened seamlessly! Please pass along your experiences with this situation.

I still have to test the following scenario:

What is the advantage of me, not attending my meeting? Well, it is the fact that the meeting that I scheduled operates with my default host settings...which, in my case, it may mean that they can have zoom captions (live transcript) since I have a Zoom Pro account.
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Wayne, I would love to know how operator/control person does it! Is it "outside the zoom client?" and in a separate window next to zoom? I assume it is inside the zoom since you mentioned you could see it on "live transcript". I am hoping for more information from you. thanks!
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