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In a dark corner of the basement of Beyer Hall there's a gym strictly

dedicated for members of the Iowa State Weight Club. This is a gym for serious

power lifters and strongman competitors and one of its most dedicated members is

Amy Kurr. "Powerlifting's great it helps you learn to stand up when you fall down. Kurr

is one of the most experienced members of the ISU Weight Club. The senior in

materials engineering has been coming to this gym since before she even started

classes at Iowa State as a freshman and while she loves it now her first visit

here wasn't great. "Everything was intimidating. I was new

freshmen didn't know anyone so I was like nope just kind of ran away." A friend

talked Kurr into trying the gym again but as one of the only female members she

often felt isolated. "I stuck with it I loved lifting so as long as I could find

like-minded people who are there to support me encourage me had the same

goals we're gonna help me it seemed like it go close Kurr was determined to give

other women that kind of place without feeling as intimidated as she was at

first. "I talked to some of my friends who were involved in fitness they're

like yeah it's tough meeting women who like fitness, working out, running,

swimming, anything and I was like maybe we should start up a club for that so we

started up a club for women in fitness we called it ladies in fitness training

LIFT. We wanted to connect women who loved Fitness who wanted to meet other

women the other part was we wanted to inspire these women to chase their

athletic dreams." Meanwhile, Kurr continued to chase hers. She entered and won

several powerlifting competitions setting multiple collegiate records

along the way but she was still looking for new challenges and she found some

while studying abroad. "While I was overseas in Britain I got introduced to

strongman competitions or the strongmen atmosphere and then decided I loved it

wanted to go try out some competitions." "Go Amy@" Kurr has stayed busy in her time

at Iowa State she's a member of women in science and engineering and the Society

of Women Engineers last fall she was selected to be part of the Cardinal

Court but it's her work helping to grow a community for women and fit

that she's most passionate about. "Would love to come back 10, 20 years from now

and just know that something that started as you know nothing too great

whatever turned into something great." Kurt hopes to continue training and competing

in powerlifting and strongman competitions after she graduates this

spring and while she's helped grow the weightlifting community on campus, Kurr

says she's also grown a lot because of that same community. "So I've gained a lot

out of being part of the Weight Club, some of it has just been extreme

personal growth just realizing more about you know who I am what I want

dreams goals has been an incredible journey." For Iowa State News Service I'm

Dave Olson.

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How To Build A Website on Wix Live | Step-By-Step Visual Tutorial - Duration: 37:37.

is it possible to make a website in just an afternoon so right now today we're

gonna build a website so recently I've been asked to recreate this website

which is rainmakers adult worldwide it's a consulting company that brings in

business and hard to reach people and brings them together to add more

perspective to big companies and I'm gonna recreate this whole site in Wix

and I'm gonna make it look stunning and we're gonna do it together now there's

about ten things we're going to cover we're gonna get how to do the logo how

to add the art how to add a call to action how to pop ups SEO a mobile site

a contact section and about section a services section and trust element

sections sound good okay so let's dive right in them and get this

going so first we're going to create a new site we're gonna click on business

and we're gonna go on the Wix editor here now we're gonna create wish could

choose sort of a consulting template which is I quite like this one and one

we're gonna have to download a few of

the few of the well we'll have to get the the specific logos a bit later on

but right now we can sort of we have all the copy and stuff here so let's first

build out the outline of what our website we want it to look like the

wireframe and then we're going to personalize it make it a bit smarter so

the first thing that I feel most people care about is actually the images and

their websites now what we will have here is this sky position but I actually

want to change this whole thing so if you go to change strip Brack background

images we're gonna go free from Wix and we're gonna go

Consulting what does that give us here so sometimes you have to just sort of

play around and really look for things

so here we're gonna have this sort of walking we're gonna make this a bit

smaller by stretching it and we're gonna get so the name of the the company's

rainmakers worldwide so here we're going to sort of get there where we want to

sort of bring them together so

rainmakers we can make the font a little smaller so it fits great here's a little

tip when you change the strip background you can go into settings you can give it

a white opacity and sort of let it come out a bit more

we know the theme is that looks great so now the next thing I want to do is is

change this around

so you can sort of move it as you want

here I want to make this contact us and here we can add sort of a tagline base

on the mission and I know from the company that they're changing for

company so something a little bit like that and here I want to make the design

a green so we can go to customize design feel color and just change that to a

sort of green that fits so let's see that it looks good and we want to get

rid of that border don't we there we go and we can also make the text a bit

bigger so customise design text just so it's a bit easier to read because you

don't want something that's not readable to you so basically and I just want to

change the layout so I'm just going to drag this below and this is also hard to

read so we're going to make this into a different font we're go with Georgia

so already we have something there and I actually want to give this tint instead

of a white let's give it the same sort of let's give it that tint as well so

that it sort of has a green tint that is very subtle but actually blends in quite

nicely so here let's get some pictures from the website so if we go to about us

we have a picture here however it's a web file so I'm gonna have to take a

screenshot of the picture which is not exactly best practice but it's something

you can do to make sure that you have something that works for the client you

want to deliver always so here we just took a screenshot of the picture because

getting your assets is sort of the first and foremost most important thing to do

and rainmakers alright so now I've got rainmakers going on here I'm gonna

change the picture change column background and I'm going to change this

to about us and we're going to change the image and here instead of using free

from from Wix we're going to upload our own image and rainmakers

and as you can see we can actually see the face so we need to position it down

so there we have something perfect okay great and now we can change this to copy

for the website looking sort of a copy and paste again because we're using

Georgia let's go back and use Georgia you want to be consistent throughout

everything and we can update those buttons later for now we can make it a

smaller and there we go we have something that looks a bit better so we

have rainmakers which is still slightly hard to read if I do say so myself and

sometimes you know where I spend a lot of time is is simply in the design I'll

spend a lot of time and like so instead of green maybe I want a white and then I

want the text color to be black and then I also want the borders of the borders

but rather the corners to be rounded

and you can see that already it's sort of a very different feel just from that

I think it looks quite good though you have about us here and there's a few

other things we want to put in so we're going to want to have we have the call

to action we have the art we're going to want the logo so we can just type in

rainmakers type in rainmakers there and here then the business is sort of for

now we'll put in London consulting which is sort of the brand description here we

can sort of we can do our services

and we'll do the three services that the company offers I'm going to show you

some cool tips and tricks here we should bring this is our anchor tag which will

bring up here and then you can sort of drag this height which is a little

finicky I've had a lot of people tell me it's really annoying but it only goes as

high as the anchor tag that's the secret once you're editing your website here

we're gonna add another strip and you can see there's different layouts here

the base livers got a classic white strip and we're gonna go click that

button and we're gonna send to back ok great now we're gonna go click Add we're

going to click vector art and here what we want to do actually is find the three

icons that sort of describe our services and the reason for this is that it's

icons are just a really great way to communicate actually so we'll get three

different ones here again in the vector art which is a Wix exclusive really

and then we're gonna sort of type in three

I actually don't quite like that one

anyways a lot of the web design is really sort of an artistic creation

where you want to find a good balance of art and design while still communicating

the main assets of the website and that's what's really important I find ok

so I mean we're building this straight from scratch by the way and after this

will sort of end up with a contact here and that'll be good so now what I want

to do is add three texts and I'm gonna have three paragraphs and basically

we're going to go back to the web site say corporate engagements and it will

copy

we'll copy that and now we sort of have our first paragraph obviously it's quite

a little long I'm gonna make this slightly smaller and really this at this

point we're really getting the design of the web side the feel of it up to

scratch so those will be our three services we're then going to you know

make the strip a bit smaller so one way to do that is just hold it up go all the

way to the bottom and then again this is sort of the one annoying thing is that

it's often annoying to get rid of all this blank space but that's just one of

the things about Wix

cool so now we have that and we're just going to add a little call to action so

that is just a button and let's just add a border to that

and you can imagine it saying book us now but instead we sort of want the

green so you go to borders and we can use that same green and let's and if we

want to make this as well so now we can keep that consistent green and that

consistent brand all the way through which is really really makes a website

pop out okay great so we have the green we have the about us we have the

services and we have the final contact us okay good let's publish that site and

that's the first one we're gonna do a few more things so one I'm going to add

a pop-up that asks people to subscribe so here we're do a lightbox and we're

going to do

so really simple we're gonna say never miss an update get your name on the list

and we're also going to ask for the name and email we're gonna make this slightly

smaller whoops I guess we'll just leave it as the default for now and we can add

sort of a vector art to make it really pop and again we can change the change

it so it stays on brand colors so then it's sort of node fits a bit better than

it did before and we're going to okay that looks good

so here we're gonna change the overlay so it sort of pops up behind that looks

beautiful okay I like that so we change the overlay we set it up we're going to

set up a trigger so it pops up after ten seconds

great and there we go we have the the pop-up that comes up we have we're going

to publish that the next thing I want to do is I want to change the mobile so go

to the top there and go to mobile view

so here we can see what it looks like on mobile

so it comes up right at the top and this is really the size of your phone will be

this big but it'll be similar so now we go back to our homepage and as you can

see it doesn't look great but we can make it look great in just a few seconds

so one we have our button there we're going to move this up we're going to

move this down and we're going to change the font size here so it fits into one

and then we're going to sort of so that sort of explains what we do so now we

have that working we have the about Us which is very clear our three services

looks a little weird if I do say so myself

so we're gonna make this

slightly different so what we're going to do is we're going to put this on the

edge to make it easy for people to distinguish obviously we're going to

have different text here but this is sort of one version where we're able to

get our message across and we're almost done guys yeah look and this is the call

to action which we can make a lot bigger on the mobile version and then we can

just make this smaller perfect now we have the contact section and that looks

great so as you can see we've just finished

the mobile section so we can publish that now the next thing I want to do is

I want to basically at this point get found on SEO

so what we can do is add alt text and stuff but I just want to before we get

into that change the Meta Description actually of the page so if we go to the

site manager we have rainmakers and

so hear this if you go through this process you can type in so what it'll

actually do is the SEO plan will say it'll recommend a blog post for you

I believe so it'll tell you things that you might want to do so yeah okay yeah

so you will if we go here if we click on here click on the three dots page SEO

this is really important rainmakers this is we're gonna put show up

so so here you have the small description

so now we have what we show up on Google

and then you could say rainmakers London

and there we go now we can put that in and save that and now we've just got

sort of the main SEO but what's great about it is that you can get a lot more

tips from that page so we have the art to call the action the pop up the

services the last strip I want to add is because this client has so one thing

knows when you're moving something down you're gonna move everything down so if

you want to move something down you need to highlight you know the whole strip

and then move it down together so here I'm going to add a gallery and

specifically

so that's a showcase trip so vegan so it'll still pop up there okay great so

that's what it looks like on mobile and what this will do is we're gonna get the

logo of a few different things and then we're gonna bring those into Wix so one

let's download that logo Rio Tinto and

Cambridge these are three clients three

three clients my three clients the person who's worked with and then all we

need to do at this point is change images and we're going to add images

we're going to upload our own images and

if you hold down shift you can upload multiple images done and now we're going

to select all of them great ad that's a gallery and it looks like Cambridge

University doesn't quite fit the last thing is you could change the page

background to white

just so it matches everything so unfortunately Cambridge University

that's not a good so we're just gonna take the the crest for now

we're gonna get here we go who's still not quite that great is it

if not we can Deloitte logo for this you can do if manually you can manually redo

it in Photoshop but for now because we want to we basically the first most

important thing is can you get a rough draft and then come back to it later

I've always found that having a rough draft helps a lot to providing you know

at least the consistent momentum of a great website so we have Deloitte

everything and we make this smaller

and we can eventually add more images

and we're going to add one piece of text here

just says client looks great okay

perfect perfect and the last thing we can do is we can change

we can sort of make this a lightish gray lightish green and this is so it sort of

sticks out a bit more and helps bring that greater green consistency that we

know and love okay great so we have our tres elements we have our services our

about again we can whenever you add something new you want to make sure that

it looks good on the mobile site so you have the pictures there you have a

client you have button contact form the last thing we're going to do before

we wrap this up guys and it's been a really I think really powerful tutorial

today is finally we're gonna link all these buttons to the anchor tag so let

me tell you what I mean by that we're going to link to so these things right

here contact that's what we're going to link it to so if you go and link anchor

contact done we're going to change this to

contact us again we're going to link that to anchor contact done perfect here

we go again

contact us anchor contact done and now all that's

going to link directly to there now the last a few just we're just going to hide

a few of these so we have the services we're going to hide that we have the

blog which we'll get into we have the About section so now we're gonna move

about here so that when you click on about it will take you there

let's see how does that look now pretty good pretty good moving forward let's

finish off with the block shall we so that picture actually sort of works for

us and we have different blog posts here if you go to blog you can do a create

post and we can do our first post and we'll just make the defaults a picture

some text and a headline and that'll really be so well doing something really

simple

and then we can add an image free from Wix one of these snazzy pictures

and you can add your name anyways that's it also if you go back in your dashboard

here you also have a few other things like contact CRM so that's your blog now

we just published a post obviously you'll probably want to get rid of the

other post but if you want to see it you we already clicked on publish there

we're gonna click on View site and at this point all we're going to do is this

is what the site looks like so there's a little bit of a bug with this now

working right so what we're going to do is we're gonna make that a static and I

think that's because there's a parallax

so change strip background settings none and that way it stays so now when we

reload it we shouldn't have that problem

perfect whoops it's still reloading the old version there we go the non parallax

version perfect so that's our site and as you can see the About section takes

you to each part and we even get the pop-up that comes up that wants your

name and email address so said it said why so now it automatically subscribes

you and if you want to check out where those goes where that goes if you go

into site my dashboard and wait for that to load you can go into contacts CRM and

you can see that said you subscribed and in your contact list you have one more

person so that's sort of a cool tutorial about how to make your website your

consulting website you know from scratch from the beginning we made the whole

thing mobile version included the last thing is if you want to have a great

domain and you want to remove the ads that we saw on here then I highly

recommend that you click upgrade and get the get one of the plans it's just it's

a great it's easy it's fast Wix test backups for you I highly recommend it if

you're serious about getting a website but watch our other videos on e-commerce

and on 24 mistakes you want to avoid will make your website and yeah

subscribe and comment comment on this video tell me if you liked it or not

tell me we thought was a good tip so that's about it see you in the next one

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How To Build Social Media Presence - Duration: 7:25.

Hey, what's up, guys? Welcome back. It's Grant Thompson, Kris Krohn. In this video,

we're going to tell you how to get started building your own social media presence online.

Alright, so you need to build social media presence online and the

first thing that I just want to share is don't get crazy. It's amazing. I mean, you

can get lost and even inauthentic like, okay, I'm going to take this, I'm going to post

on Facebook and then I'm going to open it my Instagram channel then I'm going to

tweet this thing out and then after that I'm going to you know, I'm going to move it

over to what's that LinkedIn thingy over there and if you try to do it all at

once, they can feel like a commitment that is so big that if you're

not really going to be committed and stay with it, I don't know how effective

really social media is if you're like doing it in waves if I'm in, I'm out, I'm

in and out or I started my channel but then I've never really been present. I

mean, bottom line is, at least my experience, is that social media is

impactful if you stick with it. Like Facebook, I'm really loyal to Facebook. I

do a really great job connecting that way, I've got I think twelve different

pages that I manage and that's what work for me. Instagram,

honestly, I keep trying to like get into it I just.. Definitely don't do my

Linkedin, drives some people nuts but I would just start by saying do social

media where you feel like you can be consistent with it because that way it

gives your people the opportunity to predictably be able to connect with you.

- As you guys are getting started, there are four main platforms that you really

need to be concerned about. We have so many different social media platforms

popping up but the major players are going to be YouTube, Facebook, Instagram

and Twitter and they all have their own different advantages. YouTube's kind of

like your own TV channel where you can build channels and put out stuff and it

even seems like lower quality content like just being yourself filming with

your camera in your house does better than highly commercialized

content. Same thing with Twitter, you know, Twitter is looking for you to be super

professional. The most successful posts that I've had on platforms like Twitter

are just like how you're feeling about your day or what your opinions are.

Twitter is a place where people want to know just more about the way that you

think. Instagram I found it's kind of like a lookbook, it's a place to post all

your fancy pictures about yourself, it's basically like look

how awesome I am and all these places with nice cars or whatever the case

may be. It's really just glam photos of you and then Facebook is a

place where you can give a very short digestible content to people with ADD

who just wants to run through all kinds of ideas very quickly. So when you're

studying these platforms, Kris is right, you don't need to be overwhelmed with

having schedules and plans to build everything out but one thing that is a

consideration is if you do get popular on one platform, somebody will take your

name on another so as you're getting started, I would suggest signing up for

all of these platforms, just to lock in that username so that you have it to

come back to later on when you actually are serious about some kind of strategy.

- Now when you've picked the platform that you really want to run with, what I would

do is I have some kind of strategy for what it looks like for you to, a strategy

that feels organic and natural, maybe you don't need to program in your phone, it's

just something you want to do like right now I don't need anyone to remind me to

connect on Facebook, I find that I do usually two three four or five posts a

week so sometimes they're daily, like I was in Thailand last week, there was a

lot going on so there was a lot of posting and when my life has a lot going

on, I share a lot on weeks that are kind of slower. I'll be a little bit more

contemplative maybe share something I'm doing with the family and you know for

me, every one of these platforms, you have to learn how to do them well, you don't

just want to put your stuff out there, it's like self-made, here we're teaching

you how to do YouTube for example so that you can do it well instead of

crappy. Facebook, I know how to write a post and get massive traction but for me

it takes some time, I've got a people on Facebook generally they want if you want

it to be high interaction, you're doing one of two things,

you're either sharing something or you're saying select A or B and then

everyone wants to contribute on contribute, contribute make choice a or B

for you and I want to give you my opinion or the other thing that will

happen is it's a great place for vulnerability, not the easiest thing for

people to do but people are willing to be raw and open with their feelings and

emotions or what they're going through you're going to get a lot of support

through through Facebook for example so for me I've got a strategy of like hey,

if I was only going to hit up Facebook once or twice a month, that's not really a

strategy, I'm not really going to build an audience, I'm not connecting frequently

enough with them so the strategy has to allow you to connect frequently enough

with the right kind of content that they're interested in because I've

learned on Facebook there's some things I'll chat about, there's crickets, there's

no likes, there's no comments almost, no one

really cares so as you're contemplating like Grant's talking about these four

different, these four different major platforms, make sure that you're using

them appropriately so that you can do also the intended purpose which is I'm

expanding my influence by using the channel the appropriate way. - And I would

also suggest to take baby steps. Once you've initialized your presence and all

these and you've locked in your username, just go through and make them look nice,

put in your your little icon, put in a banner, update the description or the bio

to describe a little about who you are. If you have that then at least you've

got something and when people come and check you out you're going to look like you

know what you're doing and also by doing this it helps you establish who you are,

where you're branding messages and being consistent through all the platforms and

then once you start getting into producing content, it's very easy to take

that content and rework it for the different platforms. For example, if you

make a video on YouTube, we can take one or two seconds of that video and turn it

into an animated gif and post that on Twitter that just loops back and forth

you know, sometimes they love that kind of stuff or we can just make a comment

on Twitter that relates to the video makes people want to go watch it, we can

also take that content and cut it down from ten minutes down to two minutes and

post them to Facebook so it's very easy to watch and very quick and we can also

take a picture from behind the scenes or you know, just us posing with the thing

that we were doing a video with and post that on Instagram so the same content,

from one channel can be used for all the different platforms altogether and

because you're posting all around the same time, it helps build the momentum

between all of them as well. - As a final thought for today, can you just imagine

being born a hundred years ago? Like it would have been like no social media, no

interaction like the only people you know are your neighbors and the people

you go travel to or the people you can penpal and and I'm going to write you a

letter and tell you I shall meet you in two fortnight's, even though I mean, with

such different times, today we live in such a blessed time that means that we

have the ability to connect with anyone anywhere in the world and so it's a huge

responsibility of how you use this, it's never been easier to meet people, connect

with people, get to know people and also establish what that core brand is like

Grant's talking about so take this advice and information that you've been given

today and use it wisely to go ahead and spread and build that amazing presence

for yourself online. - Hey, guys. Kris mentioned a

couple times the word connect and I think that's what building your social

media presence is all about, it's about connecting with people so no matter what

your content is, make sure you take time to engage with the people who are

commenting a liking make them feel like they're part of your club, that's how

you're going to grow. - Awesome. Friends, listen. If you want your next pro tips on how to

build your YouTube channel for example, that's one area in particular that Grant

and I have tons and tons of tons of deep dive training in so if you really want

to dive in and tear open and get an entire system of how to do it like a pro

from A to Z, make sure you go check out the website, we'll share what that looks

like for you.

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Good Neighbours Help Build a Great City! Fire Pit Tips - Duration: 1:11.

Using a fire pit is a privilege and residents of Saskatoon should be aware that they will

be required to put out any fire that has a negative impact on their neighbours.

When choosing a location for your fire pit, make sure that it is at least three metres

or nine feet away from any buildings or fences.

Also, pay attention to overhanging branches or eaves troughs and make sure that they won't

be damaged, or catch on fire when you use your fire pit.

Fire pits must be made form non-combustible materials such as concrete, brick, or steel.

The opening must not be larger than 0.61 metres with no dimension greater than 24 inches.

The entire opening must be covered with a heavy gauge metal screen with openings no

larger than 13 millimeters or half an inch.

Only seasoned, cut cord wood, or charcoal briquettes can be burned in a fire pit.

Your fire pit can only be used in reasonably calm weather, so that the wind does not cause

the fire to spread unexpectedly, or to carry the smoke into your neighbours' yard or open

window.

All fires must be supervised at all times.