Ep20: LinkedIn Learning Free with a Library Card... And a Whole Lot More!

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How to access.

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LinkedIn learning.

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For free.

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It seems like a sketchy,

catchy click baity title.

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But what you're going to

hear in this podcast today.

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Is how to access.

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All these type of resources

for free no coupon codes.

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No trials.

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No gimmicks.

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No BS.

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And as long as you're a resident.

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In the state that you are.

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You too, can access all this.

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So it isn't just linked in learning.

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It's called.

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The public library.

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So step one.

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Is to go get yourself

a public library card.

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And you're going to want to

get one at the biggest library

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that you can in your state.

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You can actually get more

than one library card.

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And I'm going to get to

that tip in a second.

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But once you have that library card, And

you have set up that pin or password.

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And unfortunately, every library is a

little different on what that means.

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You will go to your library's website.

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And look for digital resources.

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Or e-learning.

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Anything that has, online

training or online resources.

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And once you're there, every

library is going to be different.

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You're going to see a

whole bunch of stuff.

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One of the things that seems to

be most consistent with libraries.

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In the United States.

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As you can get access to LinkedIn

premium content with your library card.

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And the caveat is because it's

linked to the library and not

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your actual free LinkedIn account.

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Any of the certificates that you

download will not have your name on it.

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But you can access all

the premium content.

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Save it to your library.

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Watch it later viewed on a mobile device.

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And learn.

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And that's really what it's about.

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Not getting some certificate

that you're going to post.

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And we're talking.

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Pretty much anything you can think

of that's in that premium library is

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going to be yours to view for free

because you have a library card.

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The reason that I say that you should

collect library cards is because every

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library apparently makes different.

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Deals.

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With the state that they're in for

what kind of resources they can get.

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For example.

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San Francisco public library.

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I could get LinkedIn learning

their premium for free.

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I can also get you to me.

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Oh, that's right.

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You heard me?

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You can get the entire you tummy catalog

for free there as well among other things.

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But if I go over to the Contra Costa

library, I don't see you to me.

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But I see Coursera.

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Yeah, that's right.

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The entire Coursera.

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Catalog as a California resident.

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That I can get for free.

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Now granted they only have a number

of licenses that they can do.

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So there's all kinds of these little

weird hiccups with every library in

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your state that you're going to look at.

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As to how much they actually have

paid for it and how much they can get.

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So in my case, Coursera, Right now

for California residents booked.

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But every Monday I could go back

and check because every 90 days.

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They look for people who haven't used

it in 90 days and they dropped them from

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the program and they open up more spots.

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Now, what can you get in Coursera?

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You can get that coveted, Google,

cyber certificate, Google cybersecurity

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certificate that you hear about, or

that you've seen and take the entire.

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Eight modules.

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It would normally cost you upwards

of depending on how long you did it.

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300, 300 plus dollars because it's

$49 a month to get access to Coursera.

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But at the public library card.

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You get it for free.

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You also get access to Libby, which

is an app that you can download.

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And again, every library has a certain

selection of audio books and books.

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That you can check out for free.

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And read and listened to

on your mobile device.

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So like audible.

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Not as instant gratification because

the library only has so many copies.

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But you can put things on hold

and eventually listened to them.

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So the gist of this podcast and

I'm going to keep it short is.

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Step one.

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Get a public library card.

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Collect public library cards.

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Log in.

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To the public library website that you

have and see what digital resources

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and or e-learning options you have.

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Because as I've just said, within two

libraries of mine, I have access to.

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LinkedIn learning premium.

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The entire you tummy catalog.

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Anything on you to me,

I can watch for free.

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And Coursera.

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Now with those three resources.

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Depending on what unique is.

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You can learn a ton.

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About cyber security from the

basics to the advanced stuff, to

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hacking, to penetration testing.

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Two different language programming.

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All at your own leisure.

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All online.

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And a lot of it with the mobile devices.

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It's just cloogy to get to, and

it's a little difficult and so

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most people aren't going to do it.

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Most people will absolutely

never listen to a video.

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If I created that would be more

than five minutes on how to do this.

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So they're either not going to do it,

or they're just going to pay for it.

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So while they're spending

thousands of dollars to get

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these good, very good resources.

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You already technically paid with your tax

dollars, being a resident of your state.

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It's just.

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Most people don't want to

take the time to do it.

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And it's really not that hard.

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And it is there.

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And it is free.

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And it is a great resource.

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So again, I now have access to

LinkedIn learning Udemy and Coursera.

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That is a ton.

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Of training that I get to take at my own

leisure that I didn't have to pay for.

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I paid for it indirectly, sorry

through taxes, but I didn't have

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to pay for the actual courses.

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And the online platforms, because

I've already paid for it as a

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resident by getting a public library

card, which again, Just in something

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most people are going to do.

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And you get a ton of audio books.

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So if you're into listening to audio

books and you want to learn about

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things, or you just want audio books on

fiction or whatever, You get that too.

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So it is a very valuable resource that

I don't think a lot of people with.

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Take advantage of, and again,

Going to the resource to going

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to the website in question,

they're all going to be different.

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And that's part of the.

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Problem.

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You go get a public

library card for a library.

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And how you get it.

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It's usually pretty standard.

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You fill out online form, or you

fill out the form at the library.

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You show them some proof of residency.

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You get a card, you make a pen, boom

that you've got that's not a big deal.

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But then going to the website.

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And finding where those things are.

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Every library has a different looking

website or a different look and

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feel or different way of logging in.

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And that's what gets a little weird.

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But again, Not very hard to do.

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And the second that you do that

you're going to access to all

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these different types of courses.

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. To wrap it up.

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Get yourself.

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A public library card.

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At as many public libraries as you can.

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Log into those various websites and

see what you get because some will

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offer things that others won't.

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So in my case, the

entire you, to me access.

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Course is on the San

Francisco public library.

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Unfortunately, it's not a Contra

Costa, it's just not an option there.

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I guess I didn't make the same deal.

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It doesn't matter.

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I could just log into the

San Francisco public library,

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access Udemy, do what I want.

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San Francisco public library.

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For whatever reason, I can't

get to Coursera, but I can get

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through it on Contra Costa.

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Had a library card for that one too.

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So I just log in there and I

do the entire Coursera catalog.

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I also discovered some of these libraries.

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We'll let you check out hotspots.

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What.

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That's right.

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You can get a Wi-Fi wireless hotspot.

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In my case for 21 days, I can

put a hold on the mobile app or

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I can put a hold on the website.

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And then once available, I go pick it up.

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And I get a 21 day pass.

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To use a mobile hotspot for my phone or

my laptop or wherever from going round.

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And I just turned in.

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I had no idea that I could get

a mobile hot spot for free.

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That's insane.

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But, Hey.

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You get these little tips.

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She gets these little tricks.

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Again, people have short

attention spans and they're not

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going to do this kind of stuff.

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So I'm hoping.

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But because you're listening to a podcast.

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You'll have, you're working out, you're

doing something and you can actually

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absorb this information and it will be

that kind of a jam where you go, oh man.

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I did not realize I could do that.

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Thanks.

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Because if I can get you access to some

type of training, That's good for you that

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you can get a better job or get a leg up

in the industry or whatever you're doing.

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That's exactly what I want to

do because you have access to

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potentially have access to.

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A ton of really valuable

high quality training.

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So go grab yourself a library card.

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And once you do, and once you log in.

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What I really want you to do is look

in the show notes with this podcast.

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And some of the other resources

you'll have access to when you log

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in to your public library depending.

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New York times.

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Wall street journal.

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For free.

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That's right.

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NYT And wall street journal for free.

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Through the public library.

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So you have a lot more access to

just LinkedIn Udemy and of Coursera.

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In addition to all the books.

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You also have a lot of online newspapers

that you can get you normally wouldn't

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be able to get to because you have

to pay for it so go check it out.

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And I want you to send me an

email and I want you to tell

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me if it worked for you or not.

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Okay, again, show notes.

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This podcast.

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I'll put in my contact

information, send me an email.

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Tell me if it worked for you or not.

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So with that, go get yourself

a, public library card today