New Year, New Digital You: Unlock your online potential in 2025

In our free webinar, New Year, New Digital You: Unlock your online potential in 2025, our expert AbilityNet Digital Skills trainer, Hannah Davies, shared suggestions for tools and apps that could transform how you interact online and with digital devices in 2025.

On the webinar, Hannah discussed online tools and apps such as:

• Shazam
• YouTube
• Reverse image search
• Wayback machine
• Project Gutenberg

Watch the recording below. You can also download the slides and transcript.

Who will benefit from this webinar?

The session will benefit:

• Older people and disabled adults
• Carers of older people or disabled adults
• Health professionals working with older people or disabled adults
• People interested in tech and digital devices
• Web and Accessibility professionals interested in design and digital considerations for older people and disabled adults

If you work for an organisation that helps older people or disabled adults, this webinar shared useful resources and advice to help your clients.

This session is part of AbilityNet's work with telecommunications company BT Group to help older and digitally excluded people to build online skills and confidence.

Q&A

This webinar ran for 45 minutes and included an opportunity to pose questions to the speaker. Find out more about our webinars in our FAQs information.

Slides from the presentation

Download the slides from the webinar [PPT]

Transcript from the presentation

Download the transcript from the webinar [DOC]

Meet your trainer

Hannah Davies

With a background in education, both primary teaching and college lecturing, Hannah is passionate about helping people expand their knowledge and develop new skills, and joined the AbilityNet BT Digital Skills team earlier this year and has been delivering digital skills training sessions to older people in the Aberdeen, Perth and Dundee region.

Do you know an elderly person or a group of older people or disabled adults who want to know more about using digital devices?

Useful links

• Blog: Using technology to help elderly relatives from afar 
• Sign up to the AbilityNet newsletter for more free resources like this webinar!
• Find out about AbilityNet's Digital accessibility services