The first GBG Women Pakistan workshop of the series of four was held on June 7, 2014 at DotZero, Karachi.
The event was started by Imtiaz Noor (Manager GBG Karachi) and Salma Jafri (Team Lead at GBG Karachi) at 9 45 am sharp. The turn out was amazing and the room was full of enthusiastic female entrepreneurs. Jehan Ara (President of P@SHA) kicked off the inaugural event and offers the support of industry association to the audience. She encouraged the females to start thinking out of the box and in case they go stuck somewhere, they can approach her. If she is not able to resolve her queries, she will make sure to get them connected with the appropriate person who could help them.
The stage was then handed over to Salma Jafri and she introduced GBG platform to the audience and disclosed the agenda of the event. She also showed a video of Lindsay Taub (GBG Women Program Lead at Google), which was specially recorded for the event. She welcomed the audience and briefly described Google Business Group and its chapters in different parts of the world.
The session of DramaMama was given by Hiba Masood where she shared her lifetime experience with the audience and encourage them to believe in themselves and shared her seven keys of success. The keys included: be confident, be honest, be kind, etc. She said that we should be proud and confident of what we do. We should also be honest when expressing ourselves. She gave example from her daily life that when she tried to follow the trends of writing on different subjects in order to gain more audience, she failed. But when she wrote in her own voice, expressed what she felt herself, she got more audience than she has expected. She has 3500+ followers on her Facebook page.
I still remember the last of her talk,
All you need is courage, courage is all you need..
I was surprised when she told that she is a mother of three small kids and how she maintains a balance in her personal and professional life. She has made a commitment to herself that she will write daily, whether it’s an essay, a short paragraph, a quotation, or anything. Her Facebook page, DramaMama is worth following.
After this, Sara Suhail’s session was started and she explained how to effectively use GoogleApps for Business. She encouraged the audience to use GoogleDrive in order to secure their important documents and also automated synchronization between different people. She also performed live demos and the audience followed them. She encouraged the audience not to fear from failure, instead learn from it. 
After Sara, a young lady, Samia Bareegh, talked about communicating effectively online and meeting virtually for business. She encouraged the audience to use vacation responder feature of Gmail and also explained the feature of GoogleKeep. She also told that she frequently use Gmail offline feature in which she schedule an email to be sent (remaining offline) and the Gmail sends that scheduled email as soon as the connection gets online. She said that maximum 15 people are allowed in group video conversation using GoogleHangouts and also told one of its interesting feature, that the person currently talking in the hangout grabs the main screen.
Afterwards Salma Jafri grabs the stage and encouraged the audience to make their Content Marketing Plan. She gave the audience a questionnaire which consisted of 6 simple but important questions that should always be considered into account in order to make their Content Marketing Plan.
The last session of the session was given by Sana Saleem, a young lady and Director of BoloBhi. She scared the audience from online security threats and introduced the audience with PasswordManagers, FinFisher, Data Driven Innovation (also known as BigData), HTTPS everywhere, MIT Immersion Program, Child pornography and many more new terms. She said that passwords are first level of defense and emphasized the audience to use two-step verification process in all things.
The event was really great and it was covered by Dawn.com. There were audience’ introductions in between as well. I met so many female professionals who are or want to be entrepreneur, keeping a balance between their personal and professional life.
Looking forward for the next workshop of #GBGWomenKhi.
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