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0:00Hey, it's Tim here. In today's video, I am

0:01so pleased to share that I now have a

0:04course

0:04available on LinkedIn Learning. To find out

0:07more about this, let's get started.

0:09Now with any announcement like this,

0:11obviously there's a ton of questions.

0:12My YouTube content is absolutely going

0:15nowhere. This is going to stay here. I'm

0:17still going to

0:17be doing my Tableau explainers. I'm still

0:19going to be doing my new feature releases.

0:21And I have

0:22so much more planned for Snowflake, Altrix

0:25and DBT as we move throughout the future.

0:27Now, one of the challenges though is that

0:30people have kept on asking me for courses

0:32and I've tried my best to try and make

0:34parts of YouTube work like a course. If you

0:37go and check

0:37out my playlist tabs, you'll see that I've

0:39even re-termed some of those topics as

0:41courses.

0:42If you actually go to my Tableau prep

0:44playlist, that is in effect a course, but

0:46for whatever

0:47reason, people don't quite see YouTube as a

0:49course platform. And there's actually a

0:50good reason

0:51behind that. The first one is that YouTube

0:53is actually blocked in most enterprise

0:55situations.

0:55So you can't easily recommend a YouTube

0:57playlist as a learning resource because in

1:00most cases,

1:00YouTube and/or Google platforms are

1:02entirely blocked. The other thing is that

1:04once you're

1:05on YouTube, you constantly face

1:06distractions from pretty much every other

1:08hobby that's going to be

1:09way more interesting than analytics. So

1:11once you start watching something on

1:13YouTube in a playlist,

1:14it's very easy to get distracted and be

1:15sort of sent somewhere else. That's why the

1:17majority of

1:18the people who find my videos actually find

1:20it through search on YouTube or they find

1:22it

1:22through search on Google. Once they have a

1:24problem, they'll search for it, then find

1:26my video,

1:27watch that one video, find the help they

1:29need and go on to the next one. They don't

1:31typically have

1:31a need to then watch an entire playlist on

1:34functions or an entire playlist on Tableau

1:36prep.

1:37The other thing is that when you start to

1:39think about learning platforms, sometimes

1:41the incentives

1:42that are linked to them, the business

1:44incentives, don't necessarily encourage

1:47good practice when it

1:48comes to learning. A popular platform that

1:50you probably all know about is Udemy. I

1:51actually

1:52evaluated putting a course on Udemy and the

1:54problem there is it's actually quite easy

1:56to

1:56put a course on Udemy. You can pretty much

1:59just get started. Anyone can start the

2:00process. You

2:01can go through the validation process with

2:03them and as long as you're good at making

2:04content,

2:05you can get your course on Udemy, no

2:07problem. That said, the mechanisms for Ud

2:10emy really

2:11put a lot of pressure on the user to really

2:13follow through with that sort of desire to

2:16learn

2:16and the platform itself doesn't frequently

2:19nudge you. It's got a few mechanisms that

2:22can do that.

2:22It's got reminders, you can set up a

2:24schedule, you can set up learning slots and

2:26then it can remind

2:26you during those slots. But in reality,

2:28once you've purchased the course, it's your

2:31course and they

2:31have your money, the instructor has your

2:33money and there's no sort of ongoing

2:35relationship.

2:36The other thing is that each course is one

2:38purchase. So if you want to learn a ton of

2:39things,

2:40it actually gets quite expensive. I think

2:42most people I know on Udemy have probably

2:44only ever

2:44max bought maybe 10, 15 courses. As soon as

2:47you start to go over that, it becomes quite

2:50untenable really and it actually starts to

2:51cost quite a lot of money.

2:52The other platforms, something like Courser

2:55a, those are really sort of dedicated

2:58platforms.

2:58Those are more for people who have a lot of

3:01time and a lot of sort of flexibility to go

3:03and learn

3:03something big. So I still wanted to find a

3:05platform that allowed you to make something

3:07you can consume over a lunch break,

3:09something you can consume in a short amount

3:11of time,

3:12and then be able to go and learn other

3:13things and move on. Because of course,

3:15analytics or Tableau

3:17is not a subject in and of itself. It lives

3:20in an ecosystem. So you also need to be

3:22able to learn

3:22other things without having to pin down

3:24exactly where you want to start your

3:26journey. And so

3:28LinkedIn learning became a really valuable

3:30proposition for two reasons.

3:32LinkedIn is not typically blocked in most

3:34organizations. In fact, a lot of

3:36organizations

3:37do support their staff to use LinkedIn for

3:39professional means. In fact, they actually

3:41even subsidize subscriptions for their

3:43staff to access content. And so when making

3:46a course for

3:46LinkedIn, understanding that LinkedIn

3:48learning comes free with a LinkedIn premium

3:50subscription

3:51was a really valuable thing because

3:53immediately you're attaching the value of

3:55the course to

3:56something that people already find valuable

3:58, which means if they're already motivated

4:00to learn or

4:01find a new job or find a new client or find

4:03a new customer, and they want to understand

4:05how Tableau

4:06fits in that ecosystem, they can just

4:08switch tabs, go ahead to LinkedIn learning,

4:11find out more about Tableau, understand how

4:13it works, possibly use one of my courses to

4:15do that,

4:16and then carry on with their day on

4:18LinkedIn learning. It's where people are

4:19working,

4:20it's where people are thinking. And so I

4:21thought I just thought that LinkedIn

4:23learning made a really,

4:24really good fit in that particular use case

4:25. The other thing is that maybe you're not

4:27interested

4:28in LinkedIn premium, and you just want to

4:29learn you just want that access to a

4:31learning platform.

4:32Well, LinkedIn learning actually gives you

4:34a free trial period. So if you want to

4:35watch my course

4:36for free, you absolutely can, you can just

4:38go ahead and hit the free trial on LinkedIn

4:41learning,

4:42you get 30 days free one month free. And

4:44then after that there's a monthly or yearly

4:46subscription

4:46you can sign up to. But here again, the

4:48value is this you get access to multiple

4:50pieces of content

4:51on LinkedIn. And I don't know if you've

4:53noticed, but LinkedIn has become a really

4:55powerful social

4:56platform, especially in the world of work.

4:58And so when making a course, I just thought

5:00this was such

5:00a good place to put the course, you can

5:02even have the course integrated in everyone

5:04's timeline to me

5:06at this moment in time with Twitter doing

5:08what it's doing, it felt like just a good

5:10thing. And of

5:10course, I didn't know that three months ago

5:12when I recorded the content, but I sort of

5:13had this hunch

5:14that hey, you know, social platforms are

5:16coming to the place where they're now also

5:18trying to host

5:19video content in lots of different ways.

5:22And if LinkedIn are making this move to

5:23have learning

5:24content alongside their social feed, which

5:26is what they've been doing for the last few

5:28months, then

5:29this is going to be a really good place for

5:31people who are focused on pushing their

5:33work career

5:33learning forward. So that's sort of one of

5:35the incentives now, I totally hear you, hey

5:38, I don't

5:39have money for LinkedIn premium

5:41subscription, I don't have money for a

5:43LinkedIn learning trial.

5:44Well, how can I access this course for free

5:46? Well, if you're watching this video, what

5:48you can do is

5:49you can hit the link that I've put in the

5:50comment, the first comment on this video

5:52will be pinned,

5:52if you go to my post sharing this course,

5:55the link in that post is actually going to

5:57give you limited

5:58access to this course for free. So everyone

6:01who watches my content here on YouTube can

6:03just do

6:03that go ahead, go to that post, click on

6:05that link and watch it for free. And you'll

6:07be able to access

6:08the course for a limited time. But here's

6:09the thing, the course is only one hour 15

6:11minutes. So

6:12it's an absolute no brainer. Go ahead, do

6:14that and discover what else is good on

6:16LinkedIn.

6:16Okay, so I've talked about why LinkedIn

6:18learning, let's talk a bit more about the

6:21course.

6:21It's titled everybody's introduction to

6:23Tableau. This is actually the post I shared

6:25today, I had to

6:26share this post, because this is the post I

6:28'm talking about, if you want to go and get

6:29free

6:30access, if you go ahead to my profile, you

6:32'll find this post, I've put a link directly

6:34to it.

6:34And if you go ahead and just click on this

6:36blue area, it takes you to the course

6:38itself.

6:38I'm going to pause there because this is

6:40the actual LinkedIn learning experience.

6:42Now,

6:42if you have a premium subscription to

6:44LinkedIn, you've already got this. If you

6:46have company access

6:47to LinkedIn, you've probably already got

6:49this as well. And if you've clicked that

6:51link from my

6:51profile, you should get a limited time

6:53access to watch this entire course for free

6:55. And so what

6:56does this course cover? Well, I wanted to

6:58create a course that didn't require people

7:00to have to down

7:01Tableau to understand the whole platform.

7:04And what I mean by the whole platform is

7:06literally

7:07every single part of the Tableau platform

7:09because a lot of tutorials and a lot of

7:10courses only focus

7:12on the desktop altering experience. However

7:14, the majority of people who use Tableau

7:16might never

7:17build a dashboard. And so for that reason,

7:19I really wanted to introduce people to the

7:21concept

7:22of what is Tableau. That's actually one of

7:24the most watched videos on my YouTube

7:25channel. And

7:26when I thought about this course, I was

7:28really speaking to that fact that most

7:30people just

7:30wanted to understand what the Tableau

7:32platform is. And so I've structured a

7:34course that I hope will

7:35solve that question. And in essence, there

7:38's an introduction which everyone can watch

7:39for free,

7:40actually, who does this course for the

7:42Tableau platform, all of that is included

7:44as part of the

7:45available sort of videos that you can get

7:47free regardless of whether you have a

7:49subscription or

7:50not. And as you go down, you can see that I

7:52have a video on each and every part of the

7:53platform,

7:54the videos, the longest video on this

7:56platform, the longest video on this course,

7:58I think is

7:59actually it's an eight minute video, which

8:01is also pretty tough for me, you see my

8:03YouTube videos,

8:04I struggle to keep things really succinct.

8:07So a lot of this course, in fact, all of

8:09the course

8:09was scripted, it was done to a very precise

8:12sort of timing to make sure that it's easy

8:15to follow,

8:15but it's also easy for you to absorb what's

8:17being discussed, there is no requirement

8:19for you to do

8:20absolutely anything other than just to sit

8:21back, relax, watch, you can even listen on

8:24your phone,

8:24if that's something you can do. And then if

8:26you ever forget a particular part of the

8:29platform,

8:29you can always come back to this and just

8:31watch the bit that you want to watch. Let's

8:32say you've

8:33heard of CRM analytics for the first time.

8:35And you just want a two minute reminder and

8:37what that is,

8:37you can go ahead, hit that button and watch

8:39the video if you want to know what the

8:41difference

8:41between Tableau server and Tableau cloud is

8:44. Again, I have a video on that. If you just

8:47want

8:47to know how to piece together the Tableau

8:49platform, well, at the very end, I've got

8:51some business use

8:52cases. And what I've done here is I've

8:54tried to bring users into the world that I

8:56live in, which

8:56is customers come to me and my I've tried

8:59to introduce users to the world that I live

9:02in,

9:03which is customers come to me at the

9:04information lab, and they ask, hey, I want

9:07to do this

9:08particular thing. How do I solve that

9:10problem. And so in this little section, I

9:12try and walk you

9:13through how to think through those problems

9:16based on the understanding of the entire

9:18course. And

9:18because you don't need to have any

9:20technical knowledge, you too can actually

9:21do this as well,

9:22because as long as you've watched the

9:24previous videos, you'll be able to piece

9:25together how

9:26the platform works. And if you don't, then

9:28I've got solutions as well to walk you

9:30through how to

9:30do that and also explain why those

9:32solutions come together. I've done that

9:34three times with three

9:35very different business use cases, even one

9:38that goes into API's and things like the

9:40Tableau

9:40Exchange as well. So go ahead and check out

9:43this entire course. It's broken down into

9:45three

9:45sections. The first one is the core

9:47platform, the main products of the Tableau

9:48platform.

9:49The second one is called enhancing the

9:51platform, which touches on data management,

9:53advanced management, API's, embedded

9:55analytics, the Tableau Exchange. And then

9:58at the very end,

9:58we've got a few more bits, which is the

10:00business use cases, but also the Tableau

10:02blueprint,

10:03which is actually a really important part

10:05of understanding how to piece together

10:07Tableau.

10:07So that's the course in a nutshell. And

10:09when you're done, you can actually go and

10:11watch some

10:11other fantastic courses on Tableau. If you

10:13just go to LinkedIn Learning and just

10:15search Tableau,

10:15you can go ahead and find a whole bunch of

10:18resources that are available here already

10:21for you to watch. So it sits alongside

10:23everything else that LinkedIn Learning has.

10:25And if you were just to type something as

10:27broad as analytics into this search by my

10:29word,

10:29you're going to be inundated with content

10:32you can watch in and amongst this great

10:34sort of sea

10:35of content around Tableau. So that's how

10:37the course works. Hopefully you find that

10:39useful.

10:39Hopefully you find this guide useful. I

10:41just wanted to sort of give you a very

10:42brief guide

10:43as to how to get stuck in. And the other

10:45thing to bear in mind is I'm not immune to

10:47feedback.

10:47Just because we're on LinkedIn Learning

10:49doesn't mean that your feedback matters

10:51less. Doesn't mean

10:52that, you know, I don't go through the

10:53quality assurance process that I would

10:54normally go through

10:55for my own content. In fact, it matters

10:57even more. So if you've got feedback or you

10:59've got questions

11:00that you want answered, what you can do as

11:02you're going throughout the course, if I

11:03just go back a

11:04few pages, you can actually ask questions.

11:07So you can ask, you know, questions and I'm

11:09actually

11:09available to answer them. And the best

11:11thing here is that this is all using

11:12LinkedIn. So you can see

11:14my profile here on LinkedIn, I can go and

11:16answer the questions. And there's something

11:19really nice

11:19about that, because you don't get that with

11:21many other learning platforms. It's

11:22actually easy to

11:23create a course. But it's hard to see the

11:25almost I'm going to say this provenance of

11:28someone's

11:28experience, like, what have they done? Are

11:30they used to making content? Are they used

11:32to teaching

11:32people how to use Tableau. And so you can

11:35kind of lean on some of that expertise long

11:37term,

11:37if you're engaging with their course in the

11:39platform where they also present themselves

11:41professionally. So that is an added benefit

11:43to doing everything here on LinkedIn. That

11:45's pretty

11:45much it for the course. I don't want to

11:47make this video any longer. The best thing

11:49to do, as always,

11:50is to get stuck in watch the course, let me

11:52know what you think. And don't forget the

11:54free ways you

11:54can access the course that I've titled

11:56throughout this video. Thanks for watching,

11:58and I'll see you

11:59in the next one.

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