We just had our FIRST VIRTUAL HIVE ORIENTATION!

Hello, Hivers around the world!

Here in Cebu, Philippines, we have been organizing our monthly Hive Orientation (in person) to our guests and friends for the past months in support of OCD's Onboarding Program. From our recent meet-up, we decided to arrange a virtual meeting to cater to those who were not able to join us on that day.

Finally, last October 17, 2021, I'm proud to say we were able to successfully conduct our...

PREPARATIONS

As always, together with @glecerioberto and @ybanezkim26, we do our preparations on the day of the event. 😂. We rely on the wisdom we have gained from the past months although we did decide to meet up ahead of time to discuss what to do. But we ended freediving the whole time we were together.

But rest assured, we made a few decisions on how to go about with the virtual event. One thing was to limit the number of people joining; meaning only the onboarders with invites were allowed to join. For me, this was important so that it will be manageable for us organizers and speakers since this was our first time to conduct the Hive orientation virtually.

On the day of our virtual meet-up, I made a visual presentation using Canva and shared it with my fellow speakers 30 minutes before the actual event 😂. Well, we were prepared in some way although we had some technical issues too... Good thing, @ybanezkim26 and @glecerioberto managed to record our virtual event from their end.

ATTENDEES

Hive Speakers & OCD Onboarders: @ybanezkim26, @glecerioberto, @thegaillery, @nikkabomb, and @intoy.bugoy.

We also want to acknowledge the presence of @arlin19 who invited her friend, and @romeskie from @hiveph to learn how we do our orientations. Hopefully, we met up to your expectations if you have any!

We had 9 guests & 8 Hivers so a total of 17 people at this event. Thank you to all those who joined us!

PROGRAM FLOW

First, our speakers and other Hivers quickly introduced themselves followed by our invites. Then we followed this with the discussion about Hive Basics c/o @glecerioberto and all about OCD and its programs c/o @ybanezkim26.

After that, I shared my Hive journey to give a bit of inspiration to our guests. Then we followed this with @Peakd navigation, how to write a blog, and lastly, a Q&A portion on the last part.

AFTERMATH AND FEEDBACK

The whole virtual orientation took us 2 hours in total, the same time it always takes us if we do it face-to-face. On our next Hive orientation, we will try to trim down the time so that we would finish up early. 😅 @romeski informed me that she liked how detailed and fun our virtual meet-up was. @queenbella29 have also made her introduction post after that.

Anyways, you can check out the video if you want to have some inspiration for your meet-ups!

Video Sequence:

00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:10 - Hive Intro Video
00:01:40 - Hive Basics c/o @glecerioberto
00:05:03 - OCD c/o @ybanezkim26
00:12:05 - Peakd Navigation, Q&A Portion

Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay.