In today's session, you will learn how you can increase your impact with Asana and about Asana special pricing and programs for nonprofits. Presenter Mark Arnoldi will show real life examples of how Asana can support critical functions with nonprofits, as well as give advice on how to improve your use of Asana. And with that, I would like to introduce Mark. Mark Arnoldi is a nonprofit growth and partnerships lead at Asana, where he's building Asanas go to market vertical to support nonprofit organizations across the world. Prior to joining Asana, Mark used Asana from 2011 to 2018 to build a global health nonprofit possible as the founding CEO. Mark, the stage is yours. All right. Thank you so much, Steffi, and it's a privilege to be here. I'm very excited to see all the interest in Asana in the chat and saw a lot of representation from my hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, as well. So really looking forward to sharing with you all how Asana can support you all to grow your impact at your own nonprofits. So what I'm going to do is first share my screen here. And today we'll be very interactive. I am going to start in the slide deck, but we will quickly move out of the slide deck and actually get into Asana. And I've designed a demonstration for you to show you what it looks like in a real life scenario to how you actually could use Asana to build storytelling for your own organization. So by way of background, my name is Mark Arnoldi, and Steffi mentioned prior to coming to Asana, I actually built and ran a global health care nonprofit for eight years. And I did that using Asana from day one. So I'm going to share a little bit more about that story in a second. But as we get into the session today, I wanted to give you an overview of what we're going to cover. First, I just want to tell you a little bit about my story because I've been in your seat. I've been looking for a solution to make my nonprofit more effective and save time and increase our impact and went through an eight year journey with Asana. So I just want to share a little bit about what that was like. That will be brief. Give you an overview of our special offering that we have for nonprofits. And then the bulk of our time together is actually going to be getting into our product and you'll see Asana in action. So I've developed a template to show you how you can really tell stories effectively and gather stories from across your organization, even potentially from your beneficiaries, and able to tell the best stories possible to advance your mission. And then lastly, we'll just show you how to kind of move through and set up Asana for yourself if you choose to do that. We are also going to have quite a bit of time for Q&A. So please do go ahead and throw in questions as we go through this. And our partners at TechSoup will organize those questions. And I look forward to answering them for you. So first, I wanted to take you to the other side of the world. So about 10 years ago, I stumbled into Nepal. I was en route to China doing some education work during the summer as a college student and a friend of a friend invited me to Nepal. And I found my way out to the far Western part of the country where a small group of medical students, residents, public health students had sort of started figuring out a little bit of something around how to support the health care system there. They discovered this 30-year-old abandoned public sector hospital. It was the only health care facility in the region of over a quarter million people. And I was young and a bit naive, but I couldn't turn away from the need that we saw in the community. And so I decided to join up with that group of people and start a nonprofit organization that ultimately built a public-private partnership to deliver high-quality, low-cost health care in some of the poorest regions of the world. My start with ASANA, however, is that I started using ASANA pretty much on day one. I was starting out as a volunteer. And I worked in the basement of a convent in South Boston in Dorchester. I signed up for ASANA pretty much to just use it as an individual task list to make sure that I was able to manage my own work as I took on a leadership role. We brought on more volunteers. I onboarded them using ASANA. And long story short, over the course of eight years, we really used ASANA to do everything you possibly could. We grew our team to 350 people. We had fundraising initiatives all over the world. And ASANA was a real core part of our success. And in fact, it enabled us to turn this 30-year-old public sector hospital into a beautiful, brand new, $4.5 million teaching hospital to first-of-its-kind in all of rural Nepal. And I really feel strongly, and this is absolutely true, that we wouldn't have had this success without ASANA. When I chose to lead the organization, I wrote a letter to my board of directors, and I told them that choosing ASANA and centralizing all of the work of the organization on one tool was one of the top three best decisions I ever made when I was running the organization. So obviously, it was a privilege to do this work. And I really love my colleagues and miss this work to a certain extent, but now I'm in a position where I'm able to support all the wonderful work that you all are doing. And I hope you have a very similar journey to me. What I found valuable about ASANA in closing out this story is that it really allowed us to consolidate a very, very limited technology budget onto one tool. We figured out clever ways to bring in all of the essential functions to ASANA. So that included things like using it as a CRM when we only had a small donor base, tracking logistics for patients that we had to refer from this rural area of Nepal to Kathmandu, developing grant proposals and a template to complete grant proposals with greater efficiency and all of our internal communications. So a frontline nurse in Nepal could be on their phone, log in, see a staff post about a recent grant we won, or a visitor that's coming to the hospital soon, or that the prime minister mentioned us in the Nepali paper. It really helped with that central engagement too. What I loved about it is it allowed us to centralize our technology spend, which was very limited. We were a small budget organization growing fast. And also, it allowed us to reduce the amount of training and enablements we had to do for all these other softwares. Because every time we figured out how to move something into ASANA, I liked tracking applicants for recruitment. We're using it as a CRM. That meant it was one fewer tool we had to train up a big staff on. So that was my journey with ASANA. That's why I came over, that's why I do the work I do now. Part of our ASANA for nonprofits team, and our mission for ASANA for nonprofits is to accelerate nonprofit sector impact with our people, product, and services. To date, just to give you a sense of scale in partnering with TechSoup, over 4,000 nonprofits in more than 80 countries have increased their impact using ASANA. And before we go into the product, I just wanted to spend a little bit more time talking about what specifically we do that's unique and special for nonprofits. I do wanna say I'm really proud that ASANA has invested in building a nonprofit team. The first team that we've chosen to specialize in as our company's grown, and there are really three key components to what we do. So first and foremost, we wanna get ASANA in the hands of all the nonprofits who want it, and so we wanna make sure that they can afford it. So we offer 50% off to all eligible nonprofits, and that starts for plans as few as two steps. So you may be like me over a decade ago, the first volunteer with a couple of friends, you can get started and you can also use ASANA if you're a multi-thousand person, federated, non-profit. So first, what we do is offer really a discount that we believe allows most nonprofits in the world to get on board. Second, and this is a really key distinctive part of what we offer, we have an entire team of specialists. People who've come from the nonprofit sector chosen to be in this part of the company in order to support organizations like you. And we have it set up in such a way that we can support organizations at all sizes. So we have an internal program called ASANA Advisors that allows us to support even the smallest nonprofits because those are ASANA employees who have volunteered to receive special training who get on coaching calls and support some of the smallest nonprofits we are able to partner with. We have onboarding specialists who offer free onboarding if you purchase ASANA above a certain size. We have customer success managers who will actually be part of your team really. They will start to feel like an internal consultant and make sure that you're getting all the training and resources you need and teach you how to do the tool more effectively over time like in a long-term relationship. And we also have professional services. So if you have a larger team or you have a complex rollout of ASANA, we're actually able to offer a dedicated consultant who spends around 100 hours for a six feet in this case but that's also discounted for nonprofits to get you onboard fast. Lastly, we really do have best in class self-serve resources. So some people just prefer to learn on their own or when they get stuck, they wanna be able to Google something quickly and figure it out. So we have a few different resources on that front. We have ASANA Academy which is actually an online curriculum with short courses. We have ASANA Guide which is not listed here but is like the Wikipedia for all of ASANA. Weekly webinars hosted by our customers like our actual customer experts who are called certified pros who come from the nonprofit sector. We have special templates designed for nonprofits and we have something called the ASANA Together World Tour which pretty much guarantees we're gonna have an event somewhere near your city in any given year. And you can bring your team to that and get onboarding and training. So this is really what we offer in terms of our ASANA for nonprofits program. But bouncing back to our outline, I wanted to ensure that we're gonna be spending most of the time today to really seeing ASANA in action. So I'm gonna take a quick peek and make sure everything's going okay here and air meat looks like it is. And I'm gonna bring you into the product. So I know we have varying levels of experience with ASANA today in terms of all of you who have joined. So some of this will be too basic and maybe some of it will be too advanced. I'm gonna try to hit the middle ground and give you both some basic understanding of how ASANA works and a little more advanced usage. So hopefully it appeals and has benefit for all of you. First and foremost, this is just a demo space. So this is not a real organization. There's no data being leaked here. This is not one of our nonprofit customers. What I wanna do is just spend a couple of minutes orienting you to the basics of ASANA and then we're actually gonna go in and build a project together related to storytelling for nonprofits. So first things first, this is your homepage in ASANA. And just to give you some orientation, if you join ASANA, you'll be able to access your profile up here. This is where you can change some of your settings and do things like that. You'll be able to see your organization's logo. You're able to do this custom branding in the tool. This is what we call an omni button which basically just means you, if you ever get confused and you need to create something in ASANA, you can just hit this button. Cause you can create a task, a project, you can message your colleagues, you can create a team or you could even invite your team members. You have the search bar for those of you that are familiar with using advanced search and email. It's kind of like that. ASANA can be a phenomenal historical record for you and your organization because you never lose anything. Everything gets archived and you're always able to search based on these parameters to find anything that you're looking for. What else you're going to see in this homepage up front is sort of your personal to-do list. That's elevated and prioritized so you can see what's on your list, what's coming up and perhaps even what's overdue. In this case, no overdue task, good job. You're going to see your projects that you've recently been interacting with and what's kind of nice is you're also going to see the folks you collaborate with frequently. So this is just your homepage view. It allows you to jump into a lot of different parts of the product. But if you scroll up to the top left side, you actually can see what we call the sidebar. And the sidebar is sort of like your navigation tool for the rest of the product. So what's great about ASANA is it allows you to organize your work at an individual level and make sure that nothing falls through the cracks in terms of things that are assigned to you and work you need to get done personally. But it also allows you to collaborate and get aligned with your team on things like goals, priorities and complex multi-person projects and workflows. So to give you a brief tour of the individualized spaces, there are two of them. First is my task. This is your modern to-do list. So maybe some people like pen and paper and I understand that. If you come over to SADA, you're going to have lots more options in terms of how to organize this. But think of it as your modern day pen and paper. Everything that's assigned to you and ASANA will fall into the space automatically. It allows you to sort those tasks by sections. You can rename any of these sections as you wish. And you also, and we'll get to this much later, but you have an ability to set custom rules for how you want to organize your personal to-do list. So you may want, for example, a task. If you miss the task and it goes past due, you may want ASANA to write a comment to you to remind you that the task is past due. You're able to create a rule to do that. Or you may want ASANA to bring in all of the tasks that are due within the next week. It can do that as well. So this is your personalized to-do list. Everything in ASANA that gets assigned to you will show up here so you don't lose any of the work. The other personalized view is inbox. And inbox is kind of like what it sounds like. It's an inbox that's designed to replace email at ASANA and with our customers who use ASANA across their entire organization. One of the best things about it is there's basically no more email. We don't use internal email at ASANA. We only use it for quick, logistical forwards and send calendar invites. The reason for that is because, of course, we love this on inbox. It's a very quick way to filter through all of the work that is relevant to you. So this is work that you may be added on as a collaborator, work that's assigned to you, or work that you've selected that you want to just follow. Without going into too much detail, I just want to let you know you can also filter the inbox. So if you're getting a lot of alerts, you can say, I just want to see the messages that are assigned to me, for example. And as you go through the inbox, the great part about it is all of the information that you need to interact with your colleagues to move the work forward, to ask questions. It's all right here. This is what we call the task pane. So you could click on any one of these items in your inbox. That task pane will pull up. It will show you who the task is assigned to, what the due date is, if it belongs to certain projects, and in the task description, you're able to write free text and explain to your colleagues. And this is also a space where if you're confused about what's assigned to you, you can write a colleague and say, can you clarify if these dates are a hard due date, for example. So this is where you can have all of the conversation about that task or that unit of work that you need to get done, and you can access it directly from your inbox. So those are your two personalized spaces, my task and inbox. But the real power of Asana comes from complex collaboration and getting your entire team aligned around goals and getting them engaged. So the way to do that is actually through projects. So as we move into this next section of the demonstration, I just want to show you real quick the four types of projects that exist in Asana. And then we're going to build something together. So as you start working with colleagues and trying to design more complex work, you have the ability to work through projects. On the left sidebar here, you'll see that you have team. And I just want to make sure we're still sharing OK. Thank you. We have teams. Underneath a given team, you will actually see projects. So if you think about moving into Asana for your organization, whatever your organization looks like in real life, whatever your organizational chart is, whatever those team names are, you would want to set those teams up here. And then the team leads or members of that team, as they create projects, they would create projects in that team. A real nice benefit of Asana is you can create an all staff team. So when you need to message the entire team, share good news, make a staff post about an important update, you can do that within a staff team. But for our time today, just so we can keep moving along, I'm just going to show you three different views of Asana as you start doing work and collaborating with your team. Every single project in Asana can be seen in four different views. So it can really match your work preferences and your needs based on the project itself. So you can view a project as a list, which is this, a board, which I'll show you next, a timeline, which is like a Gantt chart, or a calendar. So this is, when you view a project or design a project as a list, it's a really powerful project management view. It allows you to think about how you want to design something from top to bottom or from start to finish. You're able to add sections. You can open and close these sections. You're able to add tasks, assign tasks, give them due dates. And you can think of the rest of the Asana space over here. It's kind of like easier to use, more attractive spreadsheet. So any column you want to add, you can do that very easily by just hitting this button and adding that column here. So this kind of project, the list view, is kind of the original view. It's a view that's good for time-bound projects, action-oriented projects that all sort of, you're all moving towards the same end goal together as a team. The second type of project I wanted to show you that exists is a board. So this is a, given we're talking about storytelling, I wanted to show an example for, in the creative field and creative production, a lot of times in the creative realm, people want to be able to see the visual asset. You can't see that very well in the list view. So you can look at it in this board view. This is like a Kanban board. Some people just prefer to work this way. The other advantage is you actually can see visual assets without having to click into the task. But this all has the same exact task pane information that you were to see in any project type. It just allows you to present it as a visual board. And so in this case, in this visual board, you can easily drag and drop items between columns. Something was assigned. You can drag it here to note that it's now active. It's in process. It's now going through a quality assurance review or getting feedback and now it's complete. And you can mark that task complete right there. So that's the board view. Then lastly, gonna open up just one more project to know we're talking about storytelling as part of this conference. And it's really, really essential to have campaign calendars, editorial calendars to get an entire team aligned on when work is happening across the year. So we also have the ability to show all projects in a calendar view, which is what you're seeing here. Again, if you click on a task, the task pane is exactly the same. It's just a different way of presenting the information. Lastly, one of my favorite views for thinking about complex timelines when there's dependencies or you're worried that a blocker may destroy the progress or move back to timeline is what we call timeline view. Think of this as an easy use interactive Gantt chart. And what timeline allows you to do is visualize the work that's getting done over time. You are able to zoom in and out if you wanna see it over the course of months instead of the course of weeks, you can do that. And a great piece about this is let's say in this case, you're making a new hire highlight. You're trying to produce that and send it out over social media. If that work gets delayed, these two tasks are not able to be completed. So this line drawn between the two indicates a dependency. And what happens if this task gets delayed, you change the due date, you'll see that the dependent tasks auto shift as well to allow for that buffer to be created and for this work to stay on track and not be blocked by this. So to recap, before we go into the actual project and build something together, projects already get work done as a team, you have your pick to see projects as a list, as a board, as a calendar or as a timeline. And within any given project, you can switch between those. So now what I wanna do is take a breath and actually talk about the topic of the conference and show you a real life example to kind of take you on a journey about how you could use a template, a list view project and some rules to save yourself a lot of time and to share the stories of your beneficiaries with your funders and with your broader audience. So for the purposes of this example, I want you to just imagine that we're representing a climate change-focused nonprofit. And the challenge that's being faced right now is there's always a fantastic stories from the field from photographers, from journalists, from scientists, but there's no centralized way to capture those stories, assign them out, track how they've performed over time. And so, you know, you, let's say as a design manager or a creative manager or a marketing manager are tasked with figuring that out. Well, what I would recommend doing and you can set up this project and save it as a template, I'd recommend thinking about a building an intake project. This is one of the most valuable types of projects nonprofits can use to save time. So we're all on the same page as we go through this, the sort of pain point from the need that's been identified for this climate change organization is that you need to be able to capture story proposals from everywhere, from the field, not just from your direct marketing team. Someone needs to be able to triage those stories and review them, assign out approvals to make sure, you know, that your standards have been met before this content goes out into the public sphere and then assign that out. So this is what we're gonna design a project to do and I'll show you how to do that in just a few easy steps. So imagine that this is pretty much a blank project. You come in here and given that these are our goals, you wanna think about how to design sections to meet those goals.  So let's create a section where when they're submitted, they will sit in this section. Then you're gonna need a section for when they get approved. You're gonna need a section to assign out sharing and you're gonna need a section in order to record just a history of shared stories, right? So that's how you use the sections to give your project basic organization. You could just go ahead and add a task here. Someone could come in, they could say story about flooding in China. They could open up a task, they could fill out information. However, that's not very useful for you as the marketing manager or the team member who's overseeing this project because they can just fill out whatever they want here, right? They could, there's no rules, there's no guidance, there's no organization to how they would do that. So what we actually wanna do in an intake project is use of form. So an asana form allows you to be in control. It allows you to customize a form however you'd like to set up questions and ensure that when you use this form, your colleagues are going to be submitting information in a consistent way, which is gonna save a lot of time and make sure you get a high quality story out into the world. So for example, you could say, what is your role? You could make that a required project and you can continue to do this and you can customize this form, use a variety of different methods. This is a dropdown method, for example, what region is this story from? You can customize this in any way you want. For example, to save time, I just wanted to show you the preview of the form. I'm gonna go back to the list view and I'm gonna show you just a couple other features of a really good project and then we're gonna move into a slightly more mature version of this form and wrap up by showing you how it works in practice. So we've talked about sections which kind of give you that high level organization. We've talked about designing a form that you can send out to your colleagues so you can capture information that can come into this project in a consistent way. There's also probably some other data points that you'd like to have in this project. Right now, you're just gonna be able to see who is assigned the work when it's due. But let's say this climate change organization actually works across Asia and multiple different countries. You may want to have create a field or a column for country. And your primary countries are, let's say, China, India and Nepal. Very, very important part of the world for climate change work. You can create that field. And so now in the future, as stories come in, you'll be able to assign a country label to that story. And I'll show you how that works in just a second. The last piece involved here, so you're gonna customize a little bit with your columns, and then last, you have an ability to add some other really nice components to this project to save you time. And we have a feature that's called rules. Just think of it as kind of like a bot that is an automation road hut that's working on your behalf and you're able to build custom rules. So if we go back to the pain points here real quick, you're trying to figure out how to capture stories, a proposal for those, review them, approve them and assign them out. So let's just look at what one simple rule could look like as part of this. You could say that when a task is added, we want to assign for review. So you're able to choose a trigger. It's kind of like if this, then that type of motion. So you have triggers and you have actions. So you could say when a task is added to this project, I want it to be assigned to my colleague, Moses, and I want there to be a comment to Moses that says, please review this submission within 48 hours and mark for approval if you think it's ready. So you can create that rule and automatically every time a task comes into this project, it will be assigned to Moses and it will send a comment to Moses to tell him and just remind him to review this proposal and mark it for approval in 48 hours. That's another really nice component of a really great sort of high efficiency project. So you've got sections, you've got custom fields or columns that you're designing. You're adding some rules to save the project manager time and you're creating a form to create some consistency in terms of how the information comes into this project. But because I didn't wanna walk through every single step, we're gonna leapfrog forward to look at what the final version of this project looks like. And this is where we're gonna wrap up today before we go to Q&A. So this is the same concept. It's a intake project. I just built it out a little bit further to save us some time. So same goals, same section headers here. I did go ahead and add a few different columns. So we had country in our working draft. In this case, also added a column called channel. Channel will allow you to indicate if you want this story to be part of a donor report, social media, blog, website, put in popular press, whatever is relevant, right? Also added a custom field here. So maybe the rules don't work perfectly or something happens. You just wanna be able to know, is this thing still needing review? Is it approved or has it been published? That allows you to see that at a glance here. The other thing I did that I just wanna show you real quick is I built out a few extra rules. And so what I did is I set up a rule that if a task is added to the project, you wanna assign it to Jamie who is me in this hypothetical demonstration and you wanna move it to a section called submitted stories for review. Added a second task that says once the status changes to approved, you wanna add a comment, assign it to your colleague Tiffany and wait for her to assign it to be published. And then lastly, a rule that says if a task is more complete in this project, move it to the record of published stories and gray it out, show that it's a complete task. So this is a really nice setup to get proposals in, have it immediately assigned, have someone responsible for triaging it, move it through an approval, get it to assign to your right team, whether it's social media, the blog, the website, and then store a history of all of your proposals that you've pushed through the organization. So I wanna show you what this looks like in real life. This is the final step. So this is what a form looks like where I invested a little bit more time and built out all of the questions. Again, you can customize all of this. These are all of your options in terms of the type of form you wanna create. You can give space to add an attachment, which I've done here because what are good stories without visuals, right? Let people indicate if they want to respond, for example, this one is optional, whereas the location of the story, the country is not optional, that's required. You have a lot of space to design this to meet your needs. And when you wanna share that form, all you have to do is copy the link and you could share it and then a fun task and an email and a chat with your colleagues so that they know in the future if they are capturing a story from the field and they want the marketing team to do something with it, this is how they make that submission. So in this case, we'll just run through real quick. We'll say that, you know, my name is Kevin, I'm a climate photographer and we'll look at this as the cost of climate change in Nepal. Obviously the story is from Nepal. I'm gonna say I want this story to be used in a donor report. I'm going to actually attach a picture that I, Kevin, the photographer took in Nepal of the receding glacier.  I'm gonna share some nuggets about what I want this story to say, right? So I'm telling the marketing team that I want our funders to see this stark before and after photos of a glacier that receded dramatically in my own lifetime, right? I took this photo, this is a community I belong to, the Peace Corps volunteer. It might be good for popular press. I let the team know that there are human interest angles here too, along with photographs of people I've met. But most important, I'm trying to convey that in Nepal, the rooftop of the world, this water source is the water source for two billion people. And I want to use my photography to sound the alarm and create a call to action for our partners to focus on carbon reduction. So I submit this form and you'll see that come into the project here and you'll see all of these rules at work. So this is the task after the form was submitted. It came into the project. It was automatically assigned per the rule. You can open this up. You can review the content right here that was submitted from the form. And it was assigned to me because my job was to determine if it's ready for approval or not. I'm going to say in this case that it looks like a really important timely topic. So I'm going to jump in, mark it as approved and you will see the rule work again down here. It will now move into the approved section and reassign the task to Tiffany. Because Tiffany's like the master storyteller. It kind of has to go through her as the final review for her to sign it out to the right publishing group. So in this case, it's been assigned to Tiffany and Tiffany can actually write Kevin and say this is great but I want to know more about the human interest angle. Let's set up a quick zoom and I can add notes to bringing this to final, right? So be able to do that. And even within the task itself, you can add a zoom meeting right here, assign it to Kevin, hop on a 20, 30 minute zoom, do an interview to really flesh out this content and get it to final. Once that's done, Tiffany can assign this to a different team member to publish. She can assign it to Chris and say at Chris this is ready to publish in our next annual report, right? So she can do that, move it. You can move it by either dragging and dropping it or you can actually move the sections here. So once Chris gets that, he's gonna publish it in the annual report, market complete and that brings us full cycle to where that task will now move down into your record of published stories. All right, I know that was a lot, but I thought it was really important to show you kind of the power of how a project like this can save you all a lot of time and keep your work organized and help you get the stories of your beneficiaries out into the world. To close out, I just wanna finish with this slide here. And if this is interesting to you, you're interested after the Q&A, I just wanted to make sure you knew how to start with Asana. Very simple, we partnered with TechSoup on this and we're grateful for their partnership. All you have to do is go to asana.com backslash nonprofit, just confirm that your nonprofit is in fact eligible, you'll receive a code and then you can buy the best plan for you online. What that looks like in practice is going to this website, clicking on this button to see how it works. You can choose the country that you're applying from on behalf of your nonprofit, you click get started and that will take you to the TechSoup page where you can make the purchase and receive the coupon code. If you do end up having any questions about that, you have the ability here to reach out to our team here at Asana with any questions and now you might be familiar with what this looks like. It's an Asana form and that goes to our nonprofit team here at Asana so we can address any questions that you have. All right, well with that, I am going to bring it to a close and pass it over to Steffi, our host to help manage questions. Thank you, Mark. This was great. Really, really helpful stuff. I really liked that you spend so much time on the intake form. I have used that feature before not with all the extra functionalities that you just explained. So that was really great to learn more about that and our attendees actually have a lot of questions. So I'm gonna head over to the Q&A section and I'm gonna start with this one here from Mackenzie. She's asking, could you provide us with an example regarding using Asana for social media content planning or calendar? I will say it's on that. We use Asana for this very purpose. We have a social media team. They use Asana to do that. I actually can't show you our space, unfortunately, but I can show you probably within the demo space. Steffi, would it be okay if I take it back over? Real quick, the share screen. Okay, let me pop back into the demo space and see if we have a social media example in here. So I'll use the search function to see what projects come up. So this one is called social media properties. This is probably not what you're looking for, but it's a good reminder and I'll jump into a different project to show you. It's a good reminder that Asana can be used for action-oriented projects like traditional project management to move something from start to finish. It also can be used like a wiki. So this is just an information storage project. You're not gonna assign this task to someone. You're not gonna give it a due date. It's just a place to say, here are all of the Twitter accounts that belong to our organization. Here are the Facebook accounts, et cetera. So this is just a surprise. I don't always know what's in our demo space, so I was hoping this would be a calendar, but it's a good reminder that you can use Asana almost like a wiki. So I think the best version to show you and answer that question would be our editorial calendar. So instead, you could just imagine that this is, in fact, social media posts. A great way to design this is to use the calendar function itself, but sometimes you need to see further out and this can be a little bit difficult. They might just wanna switch into the list view function and have your tasks more visible here. So what I would say is this works very, very good for social media because you can map out your planned dates of posting based on when you get the highest engagement, traditionally, if you're looking at your data, you can bring in the draft copy of the post. You can indicate with a custom field over here where you wanna post that example. So it could be Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, et cetera. And then you can assign it for approval, right? To the manager for the social media team. And from there, you can assign it out to be automated to publish within Facebook or Twitter or whatever the case is. So I think that's a great use case. I highly recommend it. We use it a lot here at Asana. Sorry, I didn't have the exact project for you. It was great still. Thank you. All right, next up is this question. We have been using the free platform for a few years. I'm wondering what benefits are including with the upgrade? Sure, Deffie, I'll do share again just because I think it helps if you don't mind. All right, so let me pull up a webpage here. And apologies, there's like five clicks every time we need to share. So it just takes a little extra time. All right, so what I wanted to take you to was this page here. It's the asana.com slash pricing page. Keep in mind that all the prices you see here are for our regular customers. So for nonprofits, it's half of what you see here. First, I just want to make that clear. Second, it's a great place. The reason I wanted to show you, it's a great place to compare what you get with each version of Asana. This is kind of the overview section of what you get in the comparison. And then if you want to go in greater depth, you can just click here and do compare all features.  You are limited to 15 members on BASIC. And outside of that, I think the next biggest challenge is you don't get all of the views. So if you're really wanting to use that kind of enhanced Gantt chart version of the feature that we have or view that we have for a project that called Timeline, you can see here that's only in premium, it's not in BASIC. So some of what I demonstrated there was higher end usage, like using rules or proofing or approvals, they just aren't going to be there in premium. But what I would say about premium coming back, or sorry, about BASIC coming back is it's a phenomenal way to start, right? And I would encourage you all to do that if you just want to get your feet wet and you're not sure. And maybe you want to get started with a small one or two teams on your organization before you go to a paid plan. That's really why I think premium is his best. But if you are going to try to be automating workflows or using some of the higher functionality, you're probably going to need to move to premium over time. Thank you, that was super helpful. Sort of tied to this question, I would like to show this one here from Sherry. Sounds like this is for large projects, large organizations. How can small libraries utilize Asana? Yeah, so I will say Asana works equally well for nonprofits, small and large. And in fact, I would say small organizations have a bit of an advantage because there's less complexity and it's easier to move almost all of your work over to Asana. So you may not have 15 other tools that you have to migrate out of or move information from in order to get the most out of Asana. So I use Asana as a team of one, a team of five, a team of 30, all the way up to a team of 350. And I found it equally valuable at every step of the way and I see that with our customers. So some tips on how to use it for a small library. I would really think about creating a staff team first and let's say maybe have 15 to 25 staff members bringing all of your staff members on a staff team and using it to create a space for shared announcements. You know, I think that really helps bring people together for shared announcements. People see it in their inbox or get familiar with using inbox. People start commenting, they'll celebrate each other's achievements, especially in this hybrid or remote work environment now. Some of that basic internal communication is really nice to have. And so you can make it sort of your go-to place for internal communication as a starting point. And then some of the other things I like to advocate for for small organizations is just move all of your meetings into Asana. One thing we didn't talk about but is really, really helpful is we have templates. So that project we went through creating, I could save it as a template and anytime you wanted to have a different kind of intake project like for technology hardware or for a grant proposal, you could just use that as a template, change a few small things and it's ready to go. So the same thing is for meetings.  So I think the advantage of smaller organizations is it's easier to get your entire organization communicating really effectively on Asana. And I would start there more in the communications realm. Great. And just a follow-up question regarding the templates. Can those be found right from the Asana environment or would you have to navigate through the Asana website? Yeah, we can. Can I show my screen real quick? Sure. There are just too many things to show so I didn't get to the template site first. I apologize, but I will show you. It's one of my favorite features. It's one of the biggest time savers for sure. So there are a few different ways to get into a template. So let me explain that. First, let's go back to the project we created. If you wanted to create a custom template, you have the ability to do that in some versions of Asana. And you go up to the project header here. You hit this dropdown bar and you'll see Convert to Template. So this is really nice because you can see that it will give you the ability to use it as a template. And when you search in the future in your template library, which I'll show you in just a second, it will show up there. But when you use something as a template, you can rename it. So let's say you want to use it for a technology intake instead of a storytelling. So you want to repurpose it. In your case of being in the staff team, it will actually create the project for you right there. That's what a template looks like when the template is in action. And you can see it's that quick. It's replicated everything for you. The other place to find templates is anytime you're starting a new project. So you start a new project and it gives you the option to you can import data from a spreadsheet. If you have something you want to move over from a spreadsheet, you start from blank or you can use a template. Asana gives you a library of recommended templates that you can sort by team over here. And as your team starts using Asana more and saving their custom templates, you will have your own library of custom templates as well. So templates are highly valuable. Couldn't recommend them enough. Absolutely, great. Thank you so much. That was super helpful. All right, let's see a couple of questions. So actually a question for me. You showed previously that you can add Zoom meeting right in your Asana environment, right? Yeah. So I'm assuming you integrate with Zoom. Do you have other integrations or are there other integrations with tools that specifically nonprofits might use? Yeah, absolutely. To save you having to switch the share screen, I'll just talk through this one. But if you do Google Asana integrations, you'll be able to go to our page to see all of them. But let me just assure you that we integrate have native integrations with probably most of the important tools nonprofits are using. So if you use the Google suite for email, we have that, if you use the Microsoft suite, we have that. We integrate with Slack, Adobe Creative Cloud, Jira, Salesforce, all of Microsoft Office 365. So whether you're trying to move information from your email into Asana to make it actionable, whether you're trying to have your Asana tasks show up on your Google calendar or you're trying to pull information from your CRM, Salesforce, into an Asana project, it has the ability to do all of that. And I know a lot of nonprofits don't have a lot of extra engineering capacity sitting around unused, but we also do have an API. And so if you have an engineering or a web development team, they're able to link up with our API team, use the API to develop custom integrations as well. So yes, we have expansive integration network just because I know like the service and the support around integrations is so important. We have awesome little like five, 10, 15 minute courses on our Asana Academy that show you how to just do like the three or five most important things with the Google integration, the Microsoft integration, the Slack integration, for example, that you can just use yourself. Awesome, that sounds absolutely fantastic. Thank you for that. Here's another question from Ronald. How does Asana perform in low bandwidth situation? Yeah, so my experience is really well because that picture I showed you at the hospital in Nepal back in 2008 or so when I was spending a lot of time there on site, a very, very limited bandwidth. And so over the course of 10 years, of course it's already gotten a lot better. I have not heard customer complaints in the last, since I've been at Asana, the last two and a half years on low bandwidth. So that's my personal anecdote. I used to run our customer success team and I never, ever saw complaints about that. Sure, there is some limits, but Asana does have an ability to store information offline for a period of time as well. So if you are midstream typing a task description or a comment and the network goes out, it will be saved. You won't have to replicate all of that work. And there's some limited offline functionality as well. That's really good to know. Thank you. All right, I think we have time for one more question. Let's see here, a question from Teresa. Does Asana have an educational webinar on using Asana to coordinate grant writing process? Yeah, that's a great question. So today we do not have a webinar specific to that. We do have webinars focused on broader based usage. So in this case, you know, how to think about designing a template but not specific to grant writing as the template itself. I will say our nonprofit team were small and mighty. We're three about to be four as you saw over 4,000 customers. So we're kind of catching up a little bit and we hope to bring on a marketer that's dedicated to our team to help with opportunities exactly like this. So I can't make a promise around any specific timeline, but this is on our roadmap as a team to do more use case specific webinars for nonprofits. And this would be one of the top ones, top three on the list, grant writing. But because we don't have one, the quick advice outside of that is build a really good template and just refine it over time. Build a bare, you know, the minimum viable template, launch it with your team, go through a grant process together, you know, have a 20 minute meeting to reflect on how the template could have been better, update the template, save it again and just keep doing it like that until it's really customized to how your team works and how your team collaborates on putting together grant proposals. Perfect, that's excellent advice. Thank you. All right, I think looking at the time, we're coming up to the end of the session. Thank you Mark for all the advice, all the information. It was super, super great to learn about Asana and how to use it if you're a nonprofit. Thank you everyone for attending the session and all the great questions in Q&A. To close out the session, I would like to just pop up some closing slides. So if you would like to share what you've learned today, please feel free to do so. We love some social media shoutouts. We can use our hashtag NB Storytelling and tweeted us at TechSoup. And this session is being recorded. So you can, we will email the recording to you, including the slides and also any other educational and resource links that we have shared in the chat. So we will email all the attendees by October 12th with that. And just a quick announcement, this was the last session for today. We will resume tomorrow morning at AM Pacific time and 11 AM Eastern time with from projects and smarts to personas and storytelling. So we hope to see you all tomorrow. And if you are also interested in becoming a sponsor, like Elegasana, please feel free to send an email to your Susan B at her contact info below. And with that, I would like to close. Thanks again, everyone for attending. Thank you, Mark. And I hope you really enjoyed the session and see you all tomorrow.


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Throughout the last few years, the speculation regarding an engraving, now commonly known as the Stargate of Ranmasu Uyana, has been circling within certain fields. Known locally as Bawa Chakraya or the Sakwala Chakraya, it is hidden upon a boulder at the Royal Goldfish Park, sandwiched between Tissa Weewa and the Isu Ramanaya rock temples at the World Heritage Site of Anuradapura Sri Lanka. It is not only a unique artifact, but as mentioned, a symbol believed by many to be a key to a portal. Sakwala Chakraya, which translates to Universe Cycle in Sinhalese, is a large circle comprised of seven concentric rings, lines are drawn vertically and horizontally, cutting the chakra into quadrants, parallel lines divide the circle vertically into 10 strips, varying in width from 3 inches to 9 inches thick. Many have interpreted the patterns as figures, resembling umbrellas, bows and arrows, kites, wavy lines and cylindrical shapes, with the outer ring depicting marine animals such as fish, turtles and seahorses. When compared to the other carvings from the same period, they nearly always depict vines, swans and the lotus, all of which typical of Buddhist iconography. The chart itself, however, is without religious context, making it an anomaly and leaving it without any obvious explanation as to why it should exist or indeed its real age. Professor Raj Samadiva, Senior Professor of Archaeology at the University of Kalaniya, Sri Lanka. The first academic notation of the chart's archaeological importance was by H.C.P. Bell, a British civil servant appointed as the first commissioner of archaeology for ancient Sri Lanka or Sela. Bell made a description of the chart in 1911 where he concluded that, quote, this ancient map of the world is perhaps the oldest in existence and is of quite extraordinary interest, its presence testament to the antiquity's astronomical lore, end quote. Although the chart does not resemble modern maps, Bell wrote that it depicts, quote, an old time cosmographical chart illustrating in simplicity the notions of the universe, according to the BBC World, quote, eagle-eyed tourists have remarked on parallels between the chart and Nura Dapura in similar sites in other countries that are believed by some to be stargates, ancient gateways through which humans could enter the universe. Their theory goes that the chart holds the secret code for unlocking the portal, we find the Sri Lankan Stargate highly compelling.


Pretty far from the ocean Yeah, I can smell smoke more. Yeah Just stick them here then That ain't good. He's friendly This is the kind of truck we're gonna have to lever our stuff. Oh, is it? Okay Here it is That's all I want to see. Yeah, that's quite a quite a rig. Yeah, let's go take a peek Check out loads. See if that's still on there. See what we lost here at the museum. Yeah, that's good to see We know we didn't lose that table saw because you'll never lose that thing Things like a bad penny Yeah, I threw that I threw that on there through a couple saws in it We got all the Elgins, right? Yeah, we got that we got the Ladder we got all the piping 12 back of you who you who? You like the you yeah, sometimes This cord seen better days You know I might get another few places out of it. Yeah, yeah, we will This mountain ash What is up guys Joe Holland here I got the man the myth the legend Donnie with me We are excited because this is it's really happening now We made the one trip up to the trappers cabin property. Oh She's probably about a month ago drop off some boards Since then if you guys been following the channel, we've been hired at work milling cutting trees And cutting all the lumber for for the build. We're almost done with that. We've had quite a few setbacks But yeah, but the weather being one of them and yeah, yeah a lot of breakdowns But but we are we're heading up now to do the earth work We were able to hire one crew to come up with a machine They're from down east so they're crazy as hell That's the only bunch of dubs you could get to come up in the wilderness Nobody else would be foolish enough to know one before not full enough take a job like this But we're taking a little leg stretch break. We're four hours into the driver already or three or four hours into the drive and Donnie and I both got the crappy crud In our lungs don't he just come down with it the other day to he tested COVID But he's negative so he's good But we're stretching our legs and we always like to stop and look at this lumbard here. Yeah, this is quite a quite a machine I you know, it's hard to believe that this could tow so many skids full of logs out of the main main woods Unbelievable, but if you guys aren't familiar if you're not from Maine, you might not be familiar with the lumbard It's a steam log hauler. They've made them I think they did convert some over to fuel eventually, but the first ones were all steam engines And it's basically like having a steam locomotive in the middle of the woods and it hauled out hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cords of Of logs pulp and logs both and it was the original the very first track machine ever made These tracks right here Were invented. I think it was Waterville, right? Pretty sure it was around that area somewhere. I can't really yeah, but But it was it's the first track machine ever made Invented in Maine and every tank that's ever fought in the war every caterpillar every excavator every bulldozer Every track machine that you've ever seen derived from these tracks that were made to build this lumbard in Maine, you know at the turn of a 1818 I guess before the 1900s this one This one I think What what's this? This one's got the record, right? largest train Jesus This is how many 37,710 feet of log scale 18,000 feet per scale per turn 6,225 feet per sled 3,400,000 total log scale off of this machine And the fuel was cost 350 cores To produce the steam to power this thing you hold 551 sleds Now that's quite a train A record for one machine in a season January 11th to March 6th Running days and night shifts In one year 1907 this thing ran it did it all with In 53 days it lost six days Four hours and 15 minutes and in that season it hold 3.4 million Feet of lumbar or logs rather Wow And the savings by the use of this lumbard is 62 horses would have been required. Wow Wow Yeah, look at the I mean how to how the heck would this is so heavy Something broke down how the heck you work on anything And back then they didn't have the equipment to you know Work with that we do now That's quite an ingenious thing He built 83 of these things at the waterville ironworks Alvin lumbard The first ones were steered by horses and ran on runners And then after that they they put skis on there Yeah, waterville main Joey See it Which is quite a bit south of us now Yeah He built 83 of them Travel speed six to seven miles an hour. Yeah What gets me is you know middle winner Northern Maine and this is what they sat on to steer Hopefully that steam they got a little bit of heat from the back of that steam.  Yeah Yeah, let's look at that Quite a heavy machine to have in the north Maine woods Fed it right there. Maybe yeah, this is the wood box. Yeah, yeah Break that's quite quite something. Yeah Pretty cool Yeah, we figured it'd be a good spot to stop and stretch our legs and Take a break take a break let you folks know what we're doing We're gonna meet our crew In the town of portage lake Or portage, I guess. I don't know if it's called portage lake or portage the town Yeah, but we're meeting The crew we got coming in from down east there It's all we could get You know, so yeah, you gotta take what you can get going. Yeah, you know and these These guys you get what you pay for. Yeah, you do I think we're giving them 50 bucks for the four days. Are we giving them that much? Yeah, well You know, I don't we might have to see how they work out. We might have to ask for change at the end. Yeah Yeah, but it's quite a crew Bunch of dubs But we take what we can get But the the goal of this trip. What's the goal of this trip dawdy? Well, we gotta clear the lot where we're gonna build Take down a bunch of trees and Make a area and then we're gonna We have to have a wastewater disposal system which was Designed I guess by lurk or somebody. Yeah, and we got to put that in for just the wastewater for the kitchen sink We're gonna have an outhouse So we don't need any septic system for that but So anyway, so we're gonna get that in and and hopefully They will check it before we leave with the machine and we can cover it up and And go from there, but We're gonna be moving some gravel We're gonna be moving some shale Which I don't know if you guys know what shale is if you live outside of Maine, but it's uh It's like a soft Like a soft rock, I guess that That's flat and it kind of shatters And it kind of shatters then it's very Had on tires when it before it's packed, but once it packs it's like cement. Yeah, we're gonna get that put that down for base and then we're gonna We're gonna do some uh gravel up above it. So We found a couple pits that we're allowed to haul some free shale out of And then there's a couple pits where we're gonna be hauling gravel out of at $3 a yard We'll pay the login company. We'll haul it ourselves and load it ourselves and everything and Send them a check at the end of the whole thing. Yeah, but that's the plan for this trip Yeah, but I just want to say if any of you are interested in the logging from way back You want to come to patent main and and come to this lumberman's museum? It is awesome We came here what two years ago. I think it was yeah and It's a place you could spend If you you know to look at everything you got to spend a good deal of time here and uh, there's some really interesting stuff And the drive up here is a beautiful drive up to patent. Yeah, and uh So if you want something to do and you're interested in this kind of stuff why You want to hit this uh hit this up Well, we're gonna get back on the road uh Might shake hands with the unemployed first been a little bit of a long drive and then next time you see us We oh, I guess we're gonna stop in ashland, right fuel up Yeah, see uh, there's a girl there named miss McGee that we usually stop and talk to at the fuel station We're gonna pick up a bag of peas. Oh, yeah, we got a oh, yeah Yeah, a little bit of vegetables And then after that You'll see us Up in portage And hopefully meeting up with that down east crew if they found their way over but wait till you see this group of dobs It's all we can afford and it's the only fools we can get to come in the woods with us Stay tuned. You ain't gonna want to miss it Well, we picked up a hitchhiker along the way.  I hope it can make it this way home. What do you think donnie? I don't know. I'll give you that. No, they flip him off He's stunned. Yep I don't know if he can make it or not Doesn't want to fly Yeah, I felt it hit my wrist pretty hard. It's on the mirror now Oh We got a picture come through There's the machine these birds from uh, from down east picked it out One thing about it these guys from down east They they do know two things that I know of they know how to sway out and they know how to fish That's the truth. I can't argue either one of them. Yeah Yeah, they do know how to work too. That's oh, yeah, I've heard they were Really the bee just flew off We're back on the track No, they do know how to work. That's the one thing and that's that's one thing I've always liked about down east guys is They go hard at it whether they're they go hard at it the night before and they Don't matter. They'll be up first thing in the morning going hard at the fishing Yeah, that's right. I guess I've never been branded heard a lot about him and Obviously, I've never met his His friends that are coming up. So that'll be A treat to meet them We got the machine loaded you said. Yeah, they get they set a picture up loaded We're gonna see them pretty soon imagine we're Probably 15 miles outside of ash land And we're gonna pull over and get some fuel fuel up the generator Fuel up the extra can And then we're gonna see mitz McGee mitz is over here if she's there. We'll see her Pick up some frozen bees From ashland of Portage is probably what 20 miles. Yeah, I think so. Yeah This is a third trip we're made up here Yeah, I still don't know how to get there. Me neither. We're hoping We're hoping some of the breadcrumbs are still down from last trip This is where we deer hunt right here We're in masanis near the oxbow We're gonna be driving right through a mill here the main road cuts the mill right in half Well, we just made it to ashland Had to wait for that potato harrester to go through and we're gonna stop in and fill her up a little bit of fuel throw a few on the back and Make our last stop before we headed into the woods or into portage. I guess we might grab Burger some beat portage way If they're open First we're gonna stop in here and see if old mitz is here That is amazing what a small world I did I grew up in myself Oh, their son and I we lived in that area for years And then he got cancer. So we were done to freak when my daughter's down there. We were at Boston for the hospital And uh, yeah The nice barn you did a darn, so you know the barn. Oh, yeah, he had donny melt it No way, that's awesome.  Yeah mitz wasn't the year today, but that's really cool. This lady She asked where I was from I told her jefferson.  I had my horses in it. It's a nice barn It stood for about a year and a half where it fell over That's not true. It's still standing today. It's still standing, but nobody's ever used it. Really? Yeah Where is it? Do I know it? Yeah, it's right across from uh Oh boy Let's see all over past the townhouse. Yeah the old townhouse and go down Down the hill Past the townhouse and it's on the right hand side. You know where the truce lived? Yeah The next place on the right. Okay It's the band sits out next to the road the house sits way back. You can hardly see it. Oh, yeah. Yeah Yeah, I know where that is. Yeah Small world work over four hours from home and running into people that know People of people Wicked that's something Yeah, it seems like you do that an awful lot.  No, it doesn't matter But we're here at the iga in ashland And we're gonna stop get our last second stuff that we forgot and Then we're gonna go see the boys and go meet our our crew that we hired. Yeah Ragtag bunch.  Yeah All right, donnie. We're rolling into town of port edge Yeah, and we're about to meet these down east dubs Yeah, that'll be interested. Yep They said that they'd work for $50 all three of them total for four days. Wow. That's probably good good income Yeah, and they he I hear you get what you pay for so Let's go. Let's go meet these guys. I don't see their vehicle. No. Oh, there's the excavator right there. Okay. Yeah, wait till you meet these guys There they are right there There they are We were already broken down or something Well, you get you know you You get what you pay for And these were the only guys we these were the only guys we could hire this contract. That's a good job Would you break something already? Yep. Oh man Backward Susan about 18 inches. Oh, it's your hand. I can't tell what it is. Well, hopefully Hopefully this is the good deal. Stop. Stop. Find it. Forward? No, right there. Nothing good Nothing here. How low is it? Right there. There you are. Oh, he's got it. Right in the middle of the trim. Yeah Do you want me to move up? Go ahead. Just a whisker if you don't want to. What's happening? We're on camera Is this your kit? A little bit more. Stop right there. Never been used. You know how to use these? Time or two? Absolutely But if this is the only one we have, we'll go going in and out.  Or are you guys about to go on the same road we just came out? Oh, we don't really know Rocky brocks This is funny. Greased out. You got a ring pretty good? It's about a four mile If it fails, call an effort. Time to eat a cheeseburger, Joe. We're starving. Well, I got you a better one You guys could start on each side and meet in the middle Well, you look at this load. Kind of a rag tag load, ain't it? That's some infiltrator's camera and that's what that is That's what Wayne sells every one of them. Man, that don't look healthy What's that? The sky Donnie, you're looking at a rain shower to keep us from the next three days? I stopped looking mid-summer. Hopefully they're all I stopped looking weather mid-summer Oh, absolutely. I said, Cameron, what do we got coming? He said wind, rain, thunder, lightning, possibility of hail Pretty much cover the basis. Yeah, inch or two of snow would be sat. Yeah Beauty ready Nice.  Yeah, I got chainsaw, beauty Four diesel fuel, one gasoline, a thing of fresh water Two Saint chainsaws, transit, burn chain, rakes. What do you think of this project, Ron? Pretty excited about it, really, to be honest with you. I love it up here. I don't know what it is about up here Yeah, we're in a pretty good area. It's no different than Chamberlain or anywhere. Just getting out out beyond everything, you know Yeah, when you're here, you're kind of here too. Oh, yeah, you ain't close enough to be anywhere else This is kind of either way, yeah It's nice because we're going to be close to Eagle, close to Portage, close to about everything Yes, we followed that. Oh, you were behind them? Yeah Yeah, we followed almost the whole way. Oh, so you must have seen us on the road. Yeah, we see the IGA We ordered five burger baskets, burger baskets Yeah, I got a flat of them, a flat of Gatorade, another flat, I got like two flats of them I got five of them, fresh water I'll just set that back down then. Yeah, just get whatever you want for right now or the ride in Survival kit for the evening He said we got to clean the mice traps That's all right Yeah, he he gave us directions to the camp. So it sounds like it's not bad five miles past us We're good to go. What? Oh the road? His camp five miles past in where we're at. Oh really? Yeah, we're working Oh, I see I see.  Well whoever's on camera should probably could look official. Yeah.  You don't even know I should be used to it by now Because usually it jumps me ever to the line And she sees them every time That's type of girlfriend I'd like to have in the woods Yeah Donnie that's looking kind of wild over there. Yeah, that which way are we going? We're going that way right towards it Well, if you guys haven't figured it out by now these this crew is very far from being dubs We Brandon and I talked about the following the other day.  He's the only bunch of dubs We can get it and then roll up see these birds This as you can see they don't come much better than this crew right here as far as being able to fix anything do anything And work through anything so We got it out for us the jake breaks on up in the mountains there. I can still hear it Yeah, she's roaring. She's roaring pretty good. We happen to be going right over there somewhere. So We're down underneath of that. Yeah Yeah, is she gonna stop do a little circle probably by the time we get there I heard Donnie say he didn't want to deal with any dust this weekend so wait But we got about an hour ride in from here. We got to stop at a checkpoint first and sign in and and then uh Hopefully the roads are in good shape getting in there and we're gonna get in we're gonna get unloaded and We're gonna get set up over mickey's camp. There's a really really nice guy that That saw last episode up here with the trappers cabin knew exactly where it was Knew where we were turns out where neighbors up here. So he come down to the ice cream shop and introduced himself and He said hey while you guys are working on that camp you don't have to sleep in tents if you don't want to I got a camp next door five miles down the road. So he offered it to us and normally I'd turn it down and but uh, but with these with these birds coming up and You know mickey's nice nice enough guy to offer that we're gonna take him up on us So we're gonna get set up tonight and mickey's camp We're gonna get this thing unloaded. We might drop a tree or two. We'll see Lightning might do it for us So we'll be working all night. Yeah, I brought some lights though Yeah But we got a chance that we to get the plumbing inspected I don't know if I want to get started on this because it ain't gonna be a good youtube video If we start talking about this whole plumbing foolishness I'm gonna go ahead and get started on it. So We're gonna have about three thousand dollars into a sink drain that could just drain onto the top of the ground It were into a five gallon bucket because in order to build this place The only hold up on the permit was we have to have a leech field For our sink drain even if we don't want to put a sink in it's still gonna have a leech field for it We had to pay some guy to come up and design a field for us $1,500 later and then buy a field $700 and some odd later We're over yeah, and then we then we got to get it inspected too and it can't be done by pictures The worst part is we got an inspector Brandon's dad's licensed to inspect in 30 towns and on organized townships By the state of Maine and they say no, we can't have him inspected. We can only have this one person That's registered to inspect him in that region territory on organized township Must be something super special for this bucket of water. We're gonna be pouring on the ground So that's the state for you. It's a racket. It's a racket. No doubt about it anytime you get the state involved permits lurk It's a joke. It's for a sink drain. We have an outhouse That leeches poop and piss right into the ground, but we can't dump our sink water on the ground Right into the ground and we're not on a lake. We're not on a screen.   Yeah, that's our nextど And then we're then we're golden you guys go to go Keeper on their 100 I don't think anything do with Cameron camera. Donny said he's got donuts. We got all the food. Someday morning if you guys are still here you get donuts. I've been waiting two years for these donuts. Yeah I've been waiting two years. What's another night? They're not that good. Oh cut it out. Hopefully it's that same night old lady. Yeah. What's that? I think it is. It's not the Trapper Boy. That's right. I brought my pass this time. I'm going to pay for these two fellas behind me. They're coming in to help us do some construction. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Good. Donny. You got the D right? Yeah. Did you and I said the joke? Yeah. I said the Trapper Boys. Trapper Kevin Boys. Awesome. Did you get to see the video on YouTube? My neighbor brought it over. No way. Yes. Oh great. Because my voice is very distinct you know. Yeah. And thank you for the kindness. But as Jill pointed out they were both nice. They were. This is the nicest checkpoint we've ever been to. The further north you get the better. You know what? We just like our job. I just like my job. And I work with two other ladies. One just called in with COVID. Oh wow. Bummer. So yeah. There's a cool picture up there. Bella Pier truck. Is that his double or triple? That's quite something. Is this gentleman with you guys? Yeah they are. I'm going to pay for them. Hi. We can catch them all. So I'm not going to do this field for greater than 70 or less than 18. Don't do this field. We got one greater than 81. No way. Yeah. Way to go dude. Good job. Good job. Well that's for spring chicken huh? Oh yeah. Definitely. Yeah I don't feel like it. Oh cut it out though. He's only as old as you feel. Here you are sir. Thank you man. Thank you. That's our good gravel. That's the good gravel. Yeah. Tell them what we call them in names. What? Lamps. Mains the only place that calls them lambs. People get mad. Yeah well. Everyone else calls them fawns. I said there's a fawn if they got spots on them. That oughta be easy enough digging for you know. Beautiful stuff. 25 dollars yard back home right there Donnie. You know honestly Donnie too. Anywhere they haven't scoffed off we can mix in a little bit because a little bit of loomie and mud ain't going to hurt nothing because that stuff's pretty much rock you know what I mean. Yeah a lot of rock.  I just don't know how chowdery it's going to be to travel on. It will get. I mean it's going to look like that when it's done. Like I said this stuff's three bucks yard we just got to keep track. The closer stuff is free. I don't know. Because we're not on PNC right now. We got to get the stumps rubbed off and see how much we're going to need because we're going to need a ton. We'll wind the shale to it because it's close I say Donnie. Well we're within a couple miles of camp. We just stopped and looked at that pit that's on Irvin Brothers land. That's the stuff that we're going to pay for. They said they'd take three dollars a yard. We just got to keep track of the yardage for them. It looks like good stuff. Looks like good top dressing stuff. It's got a little bit of dirt. A little bit of mud mixed in but it's wicked shale-y and rocky and gravelly good stuff. I think it's going to be beautiful for top dressing. I think it'll pack good. You know that you get a few rains on it and that mud will lock those stones right in place. A couple inches of that would not hurt on top of everything. We'll be definitely buying some of that gravel while we're up here with the two trailers and the machine. We'll haul in just about as much as we can. Right now we're going to go unload the machine and the trailer from Brandon and take a look at the little shale pit that's free from Prentiss and Carlisle. That's a different wood lot owner. Then we're going to set Donnie up for the night in his tent. Donnie's going to be tenting out. We're going to set Brandon and Cameron up in Mickey's place. I'm going to sleep right back there on that bed right in here. That's going to be the accommodations for tonight. We're all going to be pretty darn comfortable I think. I'm going to sleep out with the bears tonight. Yes you are. I'll have plenty of food in my tent so they'll smell it. Yeah you like putting bacon all over it right? Oh yeah jeez they love bacon. They go for the bacon instead of you. Yeah right. So that's the story for today guys. Stay tuned. More adventures coming out. Made it fellas. Right. So camp is going to be somewhere over here. See those stakes in there. This is coming down. This one yeah. Yeah this leaner is coming down. So she's going to I think yeah them lower ones. Them lower four tight is our septic. And then this is the corner of our camp. This is the corner of the camp. That's the corner of camp. That's the corner of camp. So it's facing that way. So this is the backside of the camp? Yep. Yep. Going that way. Yep. So I mean some of these trees can stay but anything that can shade it or touch it we're going to take down. Well we got that machine. Donnie wants this spruce. He wants that spruce going home. And I think he wanted that spruce for a collar tie or something like that. Then the rest of it's all just firewood. That's a stick. That's a stick. Where's that forward stick? It's right there. Oh I see okay yeah. Yeah it might not be squared off yet. No that's fine. So what we've got to do is everything here is going to go. And we're going to back the trailers. It's going to be ballsy backing down that slope. Like me just backing down now with no weight. It was a little tricky. Where was that shale pit? It's up the road. We've got to go look at it because it's not much of a shale pit but it's not far. It's like a couple hundred yards up the road. So but like all this is going to go. And we're going to make a new road. Like that we don't care about anymore. So it's going to come off probably the same spot. We don't have to but we'll probably come off the same spot. Come in and then do a big loop turnaround so that way we're coming with trailers. So we're eventually going to do that. That's good to know. That means the wood needs the wood we've got to pile. So just pick a spot right now where it's not going to be in the way, where we can get to it, where we can deal with it. Right over there. This is the corner right here of the house. I'd say we'll get it back to these hardwoods somewhere over in this country. Yep. Perfectly fine by me. And then the only thing I'm not sure of is our road. I got to talk to Donnie about where the road is going to be. If you see a smarter way for the road, let me know. To come off that one? Yeah. Or off the main road. I don't really care. I mean this would drive you into the house. So the road's got to kind of be over there. And I'd like it to be pretty tight to the camp. I'm not about lugging fire. Honestly, I hate to say it, but there really ain't even wide enough here for, I mean there's only 17 trees between here and the existing driveway. You know what I mean if you're talking about coming in by the excavator and coming in this way, Donnie? And then headed down through there with his vehicle and hit that other road. And leave this island of trees? No, we don't have to leave it. That's what I think we should do. Wow, everything. No, no. We're all ears.  That's what I think. We've got a full day of cutting. Don't make a U-turn driveway. I want a swing driveway as much as we can get with a trailer. Right. We're just going to have to come down by the camp here. And then swing or something. Yeah, because the front of the camp is actually down there. The farmer's porch. And we can adjust this camp ahead too. You know what I mean? Like if we got to adjust the camp a little one way or the other. Yeah, like if the road comes down here. I don't even mind swinging it out further that way. Right. But there's nothing we care about saving for trees. What are we going to do with like the limbs and brush? What are we going to do with that Joe? We can't burn it, can we? No, we can't do that. Could you win the winner I wonder? I think we could do it in the winner. Like a nice pile. I mean, is it to walk it and make a big pile way over? No, absolutely not. Just when we do this, I always want to have a plan. We might as well limb them right up to the top to make fire with it and everything. It's crazy to see. Or we can buck it up into... It's going to kind of make a mess if we cut it all into 16 inch. I just leave it 12 foot and then we'll just make a nice pile over there. We'll cut on it as we need it. What me and Joe was thinking going over. Is over there the best on it? Because then we'll be out of the way. We'd stack all the wood over kind of behind the camp over here out of the way. I don't think you'll have a hard time stumping this stuff. There's some dangerous ones then. And the stakes and all honestly, once we get this opened up a little bit, the guy's going to have a little bit of a brainstorm of how the sun's going to hit it and whatnot too. That looks like a widow maker. Yeah, this one's the most dangerous one right here fellas. That one's terrible. Yeah, right above your head.  I'll probably push right over here. Yeah. And then this one... There's furthest. Like this one's dead right here Brandon. Right, that one's got to go. I'm just thinking these fur really, they're dying. They're coming down. Right. Make a hole going that way maybe. Yeah. Like pile up all the good wood. Right. Why would you put all the brushed on it? Can we pile it like there? Well, in all honesty, we might be able to... If we cut them a couple jacks for ours right here. Yeah, go right up through there. We'll put the logs closer to here and then leave ourselves a runway to pull the brush over in that corner maybe. That works for us. Just kind of, because I don't want to get too blocked when we get to a certain point. We've got to have enough room.  Right. I mean, look at all the firewood in this yellow birch right here. All the firewood you can bend. Yeah. I don't know how the road is going to work out here. Oh, is that back? Give her another hand or what do you say? Yeah, I think we're going to be doing some hauling. Is that thing going on as fast as you were hoping? It's pretty fast. It's got rabbit mode and turtle mode. It's got two speed transmission on the tracks and that's what I was trying to figure out. This looks almost like it was a wash area when you get a lot of rain. You know it. Yeah, and he's got that belly blade. So once he stumps this, I think he ought to push it off and then haul in some... Absolutely. Because there'll be some rain coming down off our driveway. What do you want to start with Cameron? Well, the thing we've got to do is we've got to get Donny set up. He's sleeping in tent tonight. So we've got to get him unloaded and set up. I can set that up. We should find the camp for you guys tonight too. We should go figure that out while we've got some daylight. How bad is that camp? It ain't too bad. Do you want to take a look? Yeah. Well, let's go look. See what you guys think. Did you lock it, Donny? I don't think we locked it. I got the keys if we did. Yeah, take a look. See what you guys think. You feel like you have drunk when you hit the first round of the porch, Josh. Yeah, she needs a little help. I guess we did lock it, Donny. I didn't lock it. I didn't lock it. The keys are in the... Yeah, I got the keys. Score. Show the folks at home the score. Found a sweet shutter seat. A little bit of mouse action, but it's okay. Man, what'd she do? Settle a little more, Donny? Probably. There you go. Holy... Look, the mice have been squirrels on the table. Oh, that won't bother you now. We got flooding up on that top shelf. Get us to sleep. What do you think? Leave that door open. Leave that door open and we'll make do. Probably open the window with this thing, right? Yeah. We'll leave a few things open and maybe a few critters will move along. There was a couple squirrels in here. I ain't scared of that. We'll be laying right there, Cameron. We got wood lights. Big globe protein.  A little lighting on the situation. You got it. It's hotter than hell in here. This one opened. Just don't scare me, old Joe. Okay. You'll be the first in the group to sleep in the old... There's been a mouse cross here, I think. Well, Donny and I left that plate last time. So... That was a couple weeks ago. Jen, you'll be better with them. Group 10 is it? Yeah, canvas. We're going to find out. We're going to find out. You'll be the second to know. I'm just looking at that EPDM rubber can. We're wondering.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering NAB 2017, brought to you by HGST. Welcome back to theCUBE, we are live at NAB 2017, on day three from Las Vegas, I'm Lisa Martin. Excited to introduce you to our next guest, Jim Blakely, the GM of the Visual Cloud Division at Intel. Hey Jim, welcome back to theCUBE. Thank you, thank you, it's good to be back. Great to have you here again, you are a CUBE alumni. You've been at NAB, you said this is your third fourth year, talk to us about from a cloud perspective, technology perspective, what are some of the trends that you've seen really emerge as leading technologies? Well I would say this year particularly, there's a much more focus on the things that are near and dear to Intel's heart, which are virtualization, IP networks, the drive to move all the workflows to standard compute platforms. That's sort of the thing we've seen in many, many industries over the years, and we've talked about it here before at NAB, but this is the first time that I'm really seeing it taking hold, really exciting, yeah. So talk to us about Visual Cloud, what are the benefits of Visual Cloud for studios, for broadcast news, for streaming companies, producers? Yeah, there's two real values. One is it's just a simplification of the infrastructure in the long term, it just makes it easier to procure equipment and easier to run a software-based infrastructure as opposed to having to do it all with purpose-built hardware, which this industry currently does use a lot of. But the other thing that's really critical is it starts to open up the opportunity for new types of experiences, things like augmented reality, virtual reality, what we refer to as media analytics, which is the application of artificial intelligence to media, and those sorts of capabilities give you the ability to tell a story in a way that you weren't able to tell it before. Talk to us about how a movie studio, speaking about storytelling, which sometimes technology, in a long time, it's phenomenal, but there are times we see where it actually sort of gets in the way of storytelling and you sort of lose. So we were talking to some folks the other day here, I think on Monday, about really leveraging analytics to determine even sort of the sequence of a movie trailer, how much time should the lead actor or lead actress be on camera in a trailer? Give us maybe an example of a studio where they're really leveraging analytics to improve the viewing experience, where nowadays a lot of the younger audience isn't going out to the movie theaters because they're used to having access on tablets, mobile devices, et cetera. Yeah, I guess I haven't seen a lot of it. I've seen a few of the studios that are doing work in that area. We do see also research happening at some of the bigger universities, particularly those that are tied to the studios. Maybe USC, with their ECC. We just actually announced here a collaboration, what's called an Intel Science and Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford that is doing research in this area and they're partnered with some of the UC schools to be able to do those sorts of analytics, to be able to sort of almost understand how certain directors change scenes, where how many shots from this angle, how many shots from that angle, coloring, and so forth. And using the analytics to sort of understand how another story was told in order to apply it in the creation that they're making today. So interesting, so cloud adoption, you're seeing that on the rise maybe in media and entertainment whereas some of the things like analytics maybe are more emerging? It's much earlier, it's much earlier, both for the technology behind artificial intelligence, media analytics, deep learning has come on enormously over the last couple of years and it's being applied very heavily in this space. But it's still early in terms of real applications where you can see a real result from it. So the amount of data and content that studios, broadcast news, streaming companies are generating, we're talking petabyte scale, media archives, how do studios, broadcast news, et cetera, how do they evolve their IT infrastructure to get to the visual cloud? What's that journey like? Yeah, so there's a few things to focus on in that. There's sort of how do you manage your compute and applications in that environment? What sort of infrastructure do you have? And that's where we sort of move to a standard virtualized infrastructure really makes sense. We've seen that in a lot of different industries that you first have to make the decision that you're going to move to that sort of an infrastructure. Then networking becomes very critical because especially in this industry because the size of the data is so large, moving it from place to place becomes one of the big constraints. So you need to think through your networking infrastructure that can lead you to a shift from SDI over to IP-based networks and give you much more flexibility both within your environment but also to move things out into cloud environments, service provider environments or other services that you can get access to. And then of course, storage is a huge portion of the transformation. In traditional storage systems from the traditional vendors they're great for file-based storage. That typically is the way we see people do it. More and more a lot of those platforms are also built out of standard hardware, standard equipment but really building an expertise on how to operate your cloud infrastructure across those three domains as the critical first step. And where's the conversation typically? Is it with IT? Is it with the business? Do you see those two sides aligning to facilitate and plan this journey together? Yeah, over time, yeah, the initial, frankly the initial seeds usually come out of the CTO office or whoever is looking at the edge of technology and pushing the transformation. And in companies that listen to their CTO which not all companies actually do that but the CTO typically goes through an exploration process understanding what the technologies are and how to apply it in their particular space. And then as that learning takes place through proof of concept through testing, evaluation, vendor cooperation, learning from peers in the industry that's how it begins to deploy. We were talking the other day to a guest who was driving large scale rendering through the cloud. How can visual cloud enable this large scale rendering these workloads that studios are now? It already is. Most of the large render farms are in fact large clouds and they're made up of servers that are tied together often with a special purpose network that gives you really good performance to share between them but effectively they are clouds specifically set aside for rendering. And some of the open source software like RenderMan that's in that space has facilitated the ability of people who may not have been creators of rendering farms to be able to pick it up and do it fairly quickly. You mentioned storage, cloud, compute. Tell us a bit about what Intel is doing on the Alliance's side to enable visual cloud. Yeah, so Intel has always been an ecosystem player. We don't typically sell direct to most people. So 100% of my job or 90% of my job is making sure that our relationships are in place with the equipment providers, the systems providers, the solution providers, people like Ericsson, Harmonic, Cisco, as well as many of the smaller players to really help them adopt the technologies, go through this journey themselves as they transition their products from more purpose built systems to open standards cloud oriented systems. And so we act as both a technical advisor to them and of course if you've seen any of Jim Parsons recent Intel ads, Intel is 98% of the cloud infrastructure, so. So one of my favorite shows is the big big three. So from a perspective of industries, obviously here at NAB, entertaining in media, as we look at a lot of companies like NVIDIA, for example, who's really, and a lot of companies like them and others across industries that are starting to leverage technology for social impact, almost every company these days is a tech company. What other industries do you work with that are great candidates for visual cloud that are generating a tremendous amount of video content besides media? Yeah, well I think the healthcare environments are very big, not so much from the video creation but in terms of image processing and being able to look at medical images and CAT scans, great 3D models out of all the data sets that they have so that they can manipulate and view them and make diagnosis off of them. That's a big industry. The other one that we think, particularly for virtual reality and augmented reality will be education. So both in terms of the typical K through 12 and college but also enterprise-based training. So if you're trying to learn how to assemble a new machine, you could do that assembly through a virtual augmented reality system. And it scales much better than having to have everybody get their own machine to work on. Absolutely. Well Jim, thanks so much for stopping by theCUBE again. It's great to have you back on the program and we hope you have a great rest of your day three at NAB. Thank you very much. Thanks for being here. Absolutely, we want to thank you for watching theCUBE again we're live in Las Vegas from NAB 2017. Stick around, I'm Lisa Martin, we'll be right back.