Learning and Teaching Tech Tools Week Four
By: Kaytriona Williams
Tags: Learning, Projects, Teaching, Progress, Tutorial

Hey! I’m spending 30 days building a series of tutorial videos and blog posts demonstrating how to use strategic tech tools that benefit startups. This is my week four documentation. If you’re interested in learning more about my project, you can view the full project here.

What I Did

Being the fourth and final week of my project, I tried to focus on tying everything together in a clean and compiled project. I started with learning Salesforce so that I would be able to gather all the data and analytics from my sales projects.

I decided to learn and teach the basics of Salesforce because it would be a crucial part for anyone following my tutorials in order to build or advance their startup. Salesforce is a CRM so it allows you to compile all your information on customers into organized and easy to access folders.

The final thing I built was a website showcasing all my tech tools in a clear and easy to access format. This would serve as a one-stop-shop for anyone needing tutorials on tech tools for startups. You can view that website here.

In case that website isn’t still running when you view this, I also created a video walking through the website. You can view that here.

The finished product is a series of tutorial videos and blog posts, and a website I built showcasing them. I also built a few additional resources to correlate with the tutorials such as Walkthrough of Three Sales Emails I Created for Strava, and Walkthrough of the Website I Built for Strava.

Link to my blog post on Salesforce:

Link to my videos I created this week:

Problem:

After I created an account in Salesforce, it kept logging me out every time I switched pages. Then when I tried to log back in it would change my username to a bunch of random letters and numbers so I was never able to get back in.

How I fixed it:

After several times of restarting the app, restarting my progress, and creating several new accounts; I reset my password to see if that would help anything and it didn’t change the glitch, but salesforce did send me a link I could click to automatically log me back into my account without having to enter any information.

I copied this link to a separate note-taking app for easy access and then I used that each time I needed to access my account.

Overall

I was able to learn a lot about salesforce by approaching it as a learning to teach experience. This is because when you’re learning to teach then you not only have to remember every important detail, but you have to remember each of those details accurately. You don’t want to teach something inaccurate.

This forced me to pay close attention and take lots of notes.

Building the website showcasing the tutorials I built solved a huge problem for me. I was worried about my tutorials seeming scattered and chaotic. And when you just have a ton of links thrown at you it is chaotic. But the website I built uses pictures in an engaging and easy to look at format that makes everything I’ve built flow together as one complete project.

This month has taught me a lot. Thank you for following along! To go back to the landing page click here.