Hey everyone, Adam Shaw here from Bervera Media Company. Today we're going to be talking about the patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick. We're going to be going over his history, his biography, we're going to be looking at various visual elements depicting his influence of Christianity on Ireland and we're really doing this video in connection with our Irish history, Irish cultural series pertaining to upcoming Saint Patrick's Day. We like doing historical videos on current events and holidays. If you like that sort of thing, definitely subscribe to us. We like talking about history and tying it all together to make this channel fun. So without further ado, let's get to it right in front of you. We have a vintage postcard of a young Saint Patrick. This postcard was produced in 1910. It gives off certain elements of Celtic culture, certainly with the shamrocks. To get into the history of Saint Patrick, Saint Patrick was a 5th century Christian missionary and bishop of Ireland. He was regarded, as we said before, as the patron saint of Ireland because of his massive converting of Celtic polytheism believers into Christians. He has been regarded as the primary historical source of Christian influence by the church, but archaeologists are now discovering that there were essentially Christian influence before his arrival via Irish pirates bringing back missionary slaves and merchants, people who essentially had Christian faith. So there was a Christian element even before Saint Patrick arrived. Saint Patrick was eventually amongst those captured by Irish pirates at a young age. According to the Confessio of Patrick, he was about 16 when he was captured and then he was taken as a slave while in Ireland. He tended to the animals on a farm and eventually escaped six years later returning back to his family in Britain. He then became a cleric and eventually returned back to Ireland in the northern and western regions by the 17th century. After he became a massive Christian influence, he was revered as we said before, the patron saint of Ireland. Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17th because people, for the most part, believe that was the date of his death. While he was enslaved, this is kind of interesting, while he was enslaved and captive by Irish pirates, this really contributed to the beginning steps of his faith conversion into Christianity. According to his written confessions, he explained that the Lord had mercy on his youth and ignorance and afforded him the opportunity to be forgiven of his sins and he converted Christianity. While Patrick, as we said before, while he was captive, he tended as a shepherd and he prayed to God and this strengthened his relationship with religion and his ability to convert. We're going to show you some different visual examples of his capturing by Irish pirates. We're going to show you some Irish pirates. Let's go down to our images. This is a depiction of Irish pirates. It was produced in 1910 but you can see that these Celtic pirates kind of gave off the Viking look and style, especially with their boats and the shields on the ends of boats. A very interesting perspective here. If we go, this is a book. We talked about St. Patrick tending to animals on a farm. We can see it right here. Animals in the background, he was referred to as a shepherd, his is a shepherd stick and we can see the halo above his head. This is a book that you can actually, if you'd like to search online, the life of St. Patrick. I believe it's freely, you can freely download this online from archive.org. It might even be on Project Gutenberg but I know the book's free and it's got some great artwork in it so feel free to go find that book and download it for free. But here's an example and we can see of the authorities of life of St. Patrick. We can even see, I've got a picture of him being captured by pirates. Can you see these boats? Remember we said those Irish pirates, man they look like Normans, I mean it's almost identical and you know, we can see him being taken right here by the Irish pirates as a young boy. I love this artwork. This is from the book, The Life of St. Patrick. The book I believe was produced in 1899 so definitely check that out. Let's go further into the history. So he was essentially a slave and he was tending to a flock of animals and praying, oh let me move this over, he was praying a lot which helped to his conversion. Six years into his enslavement St. Patrick actually heard, he told himself that he heard a voice telling him that he would soon go home and that his ship was ready. So eventually he decided, well I'm going to flee my master. He traveled to a port 200 miles away where he found a ship and with immense amounts of tenacity he persuaded a captain to take him back to Britain. So he convinced this guy to go back to Britain. After three days of sailing they arrived in Britain and abandoned the ship and began walking for 28 days in the wilderness. They were essentially scavenging for supplies and food, that's what people believe. The crew and Patrick were on the verge of starvation for which Patrick took to prayer and asked God for sustenance. After his prayer they encountered a herd, the crew encountered a herd of wild boar. Since this was shortly after Patrick told them to put their faith in God, his prestige in the group, I mean they became believers. Eventually after various adventures Patrick would return home in his early 20s and would continue his study of the Christian faith. Patrick's return to Ireland some years later is recounted in his writings when he describes having a vision which he states. Let's see if we can kind of also go over. Here's another example of St. Patrick holding a clover. I saw a man coming as it were from Ireland. His name was Victorius and he carried many letters and gave me one of them. I read the heading the voice of the Irish as I began the letter. I imagined in that moment that I heard the voice of the very people who were near the wood of Folcott which is beside the western sea and they cried out as with one voice we appeal to you holy servant boy to come and walk among us. So essentially here this voice essentially saying you need to come help the Irish people. The Irish people need assistance. They need guidance. Patrick then decided to act on his vision and return to Ireland as a Christian missionary. His landing place based on research seems to be Wicklow Ireland at the mouth of the Invertaire River what we know now as the Verate River and I can actually show you where that is. So Wicklow is right here you see Wicklow and we see the Verate River so right here this is where St. Patrick came back into port right about here it's south of Dublin not too far outside of Dublin right here and so his landing place was based in Wicklow Ireland research now suggests this is kind of interesting that this is the place he escaped from the port that he escaped never we talked about he he convinced a captain of a ship to escape Ireland so we traveled about 200 miles throughout Ireland all the way to Wicklow to right here and escaped and then he returned through port through right here probably because he knew the lay of the land kind of legend has it that St. Patrick taught the native pagan Irish about the Holy Trinity using a shamrock this is okay now we're getting we're getting into some good stuff okay a lot of artwork depicting St. Patrick with a three leafed clover shamrock so he was essentially teaching the Holy Trinity using a shamrock using it to illustrate the Christians of the three persons in one God if you're not familiar with the Holy Trinity it essentially is the the father the son the Holy Spirit you know how you do the cross the father the son and the Holy Spirit threes pagans were at the time very nature-esque they believed in aspects of nature the winter solstices the seasonal solstices they they believed in nature very heavily and the shamrock was really a a cultural phenomenon they related to revitalization and kind of revitalization of nature and life and what St. Patrick did very well was tie the nature aspect of Celtic polytheism to Christianity and we see we see this artwork of him depicting the shamrocks here the shamrocks again this is night you know this is 1910 artwork but look he's holding a shamrock right there and this is how it got tied together with Christianity and St. Patrick and you we can see the threes here's just some artwork of shamrocks but you know very reminiscent of a cross and I thought I thought that was interesting to share with you guys you know and it's kind of you know he manipulated Celtic polytheism into Christianity so you know just one of the many reasons why we celebrate St. Patrick's Day because of in the shamrock in green green is a predominant element you know that probably emanated from the shamrock so let's move on to two more aspects of this history we even see you know the legend that St. Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland we've heard this common term before really was a metaphor a religious metaphor for banishing all out Celtic polytheism or paganism because if you look at the the Christian church the snake right was a symbol of evil and corruption and sin and so they I want to say that St. Patrick used metaphors very very well in terms of converting pagans to Christians by kind of creating these elements because there were no snakes in Ireland back then and even this is kind of funny naturalists are now saying snakes never existed on the island back then and he used that to his advantage kind of his this mystical nature that he everything was banished the church really utilized this and he utilized this so so that's kind of a myth that he banished all the snakes out of Ireland so I thought that was interesting and I wanted to bring that up as well so let's look at this is kind of a basic look at the the Celtic polytheism these these monolith essential stones and look we've got snakes illustrated isn't that ironic that snakes are illustrated on on these stones and also what I find interesting about this artwork is threes because oftentimes the Celts would would celebrate three deities that's another thing that goes into shamrock Celtic people celebrated they saw something in three gods they always celebrated in threes and certainly we've got a celebration of snakes in threes right here the shamrock has three clothes three clothes and the cross has three sides so very you know that it was easy to manipulate the pagans using using the threes and we can we'll show the an illustration of the death of St. Patrick we can see that right here we celebrate St. Patrick because on the 17th because it was the date of supposed death notice on the sides shamrocks right so a very potent symbol of Celtic I guess you could say history and religious history so I just wanted to share a little bit of background in history to St. Patrick in his converting of the Irish pagans to Christianity I hope you've learned something from this video definitely check out the rest of our channel we were doing many many other videos on Celtic pagan culture on Irish history and we've done like five different videos a map of Boston a map of Ireland Dublin we're gonna be drinking some Guinness beer definitely check out the rest of our channel give us a subscribe and I will see everyone soon okay take care now all right bye


Live from Houston, Texas. Extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE. Covering Grace Hopper celebration of women in computing. Now your hosts, John Furrier and Jeff Frick. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Houston, Texas for the Grace Hopper celebration of women in computing. This is Silicon Angles theCUBE. This is our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of Silicon Angles with my co-host this week, Jeff Frick, the general manager of theCUBE. And our next guest is Isis Anjali, Anjali platform developer, platform engineer I should say. Welcome to theCUBE. And started the I Look Like an Engineer movement. Congratulations and great to have you. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Appreciate it. Thank you for having me. So I got to ask you the first thing is that you seem a little bit humble right now about all the publicity. You look great. You look like an engineer. I think that's great. How was that played out? And how is that transferring over to this show at Grace Hopper? Which has been amazing. It's been a great inspiring show. Talk about that transition. So I've actually never been in a position before to have any type of large public attention. So it's kind of a mind trip, but in one sense, it's a really unique blessing because as one engineer, I contribute work as one engineer. But if you give me an audience and a large platform, that's just an exponential amount of impact and it's really personally fulfilling. Talk about some of the emails you've gotten from people.  It becomes a movement because it resonates with people because what this event is showing is a new era. We talk about cloud computing all the time. We talk about how businesses are changing. Some are going out of business and a new generation is upon us. And I think this is a historic moment and you hit a nerve. What are some of the things that you've heard for people's share? Some color around the craziest, the nicest, the weirdest, obviously the weirdest, but whatever you think you can share, it'd be great to get some insight on that. So I've had hundreds to even thousands of emails in my inbox ranging from people creating their own communities around, I look like an engineer and parents reaching out, thanking me for inspiring their daughter to want to be an engineer with a picture of their child holding a Lego car. That's amazing. That's awesome. And the change is happening. So I got to ask you, computer sciences was my degree back in the 80s and the old days. No punch cards. So it's pre-punch card. Punch cards was earlier. I was actually coding languages, but it was fun. But it was very male dominated. There's only a few girls in my class, but now it's the spectrum's changed. The platforms are bigger. You got cloud. What are you working on right now? What are you getting your hands dirty with from a coding standpoint? What technologies are you involved in from a CS standpoint? And what do you see out there that your friends are doing? Other women in your peer group? So I'm a full stack engineer at one login. I work mostly with Ruby on Rails on the back end, really JavaScript heavy on the front end. The last really big project that I worked on that we just shipped was a load balancer for Active Directory connector instances instead of having one single point of connection for able to distribute the load which significantly increased the speed of large enterprise companies trying to stick to Active Directory, which could take hours. So I talk about virality of what happened because a lot of marketers are desperately trying to figure out how to make things go viral. And I'm kind of reminded about the ice bucket challenge which was something that just really, it just had the right combination of factors that touched people, was a great cause. And it really just went bananas, right? Everyone got involved from the lowest person of the top level CEOs of all the big companies. What does the nerve you think that your campaign, I don't know, it wasn't your campaign, right? You've now been, it's part of you now that really touched people. Well, I mean, these are challenges that so many people have to face. And it's not even just about women. When I first created, I looked like an engineer. It was about anybody, any gender, any race, breaking stereotypes, because I genuinely believe that as long as you're not being offensive or hurting anyone, that you shouldn't have to sacrifice pieces of your identity to feel accepted at your workplace. That's a common thread we're hearing from a lot of the younger generation coming up is that they kind of almost wave their hands at this whole politically correct thing.  Stop worrying about, we just want to be ourselves. Is that a sentiment? What is the sentiment? Because I kind of, being 50, it's like, okay, it was a different generation, younger generation is like, guys, chill out. What's the vibe? I mean, share with us the sentiment of like, are people overreacting? People just want to be themselves, not somebody else, right? That's what we're hearing. Well, there's actually a lot of statistical evidence that supports that if somebody feels accepted for their identity and their workplace, that they're more likely to do better work. I mean, it makes a lot of sense. When you're happier and you feel more included in your workplace, isn't toxic or oppressive, you're going to contribute better quality of work. You're going to wake up enthusiastic about being there. And when you do better work, your companies have better products. When your companies have better products, they make more money. Startup founders have higher returns and even VCs win. Yeah, versus, versus what? The alternative, like, this is the way you need to act.  We've seen cases where people have tried to force function behavior. Dare I say it? It's possible to have fun and enjoy your work while also being incredibly successful and productive. That's the formula. And the beauty of it is it's not only the right thing to do, but it actually has great business benefits. You get better products. You get, you know, you grow the business. There's really no downside. There are a lot of numbers that really support the financial benefits of diversity. But like ultimately, I think what really affects people is culture. And like the numbers are enough to incentivize companies to want to care. But it's like the hundreds of thousands of people that are working in these companies every single day. We're surrounding, we're spending most of our lives at work. Yeah, it's a cultural issue. And it's ultimately the employees define the culture. If you look at a company, whatever they say, oh, we strive to do X. That's just a mission statement. But if you look at how the employees act, ultimately that is an indicator of culture. If people are cool, then most likely it's a cool culture. Yeah, however, I am a firm believer that a lot of the values need to be instilled top down. So this from the C level and the investors, because ultimately they're the ones that they're doing all of the initial hiring and they have so much control over the development of the culture overall.  And here at Grace Hopper, what is the magnification of a learning that you could share with our audience? I think that your potential is really only limited by your own mind. I never thought that I would start a global sensation that was incredibly positive, that energized people and inspired masses. That was never a thought that crossed my mind, but obviously it's possible.  And instead of being $100,000 in school debt, I have zero school debt and I get paid a shitload of money to learn what I want to learn every single day.  You can make it happen. And we shouldn't unnecessarily self limit ourselves. You know, that's a good point. It's all about not the structure of what you should be doing. If you follow your passion, it's about what you want to do. Exactly. And going for it. Yeah. And then it's not work, right? And then you're following your passion, then you can put in the hours. You can put in the time. You can put in the effort. Well, I mean, sometimes it's still work, but. But those late nice debugging can be pretty brutal, right?  What's the coolest thing you've seen here at the show? Well, I honestly, I have never seen this many female engineers all in one room. I hardly see any. I go to meetups. I work in an industry where, I mean, even my company's numbers are underwhelmingly average. We've got 12,000 of us here. It's so incredibly empowering. It's like the inverse of the gender ratio of the outside world. I know. We do 70 events last year. We'll do over 80 this year. Jeff and I, we're looking at each other like, I mean, I've never seen this many women in one place either. And we're guides.  I mean, not even in college. I was a Northeastern. It's like six guys to every girl. But here, there's so many women. It's really mind-boggling. But it makes me feel like, now I know how women feel at the tech events where the men are. Yeah. I guess, I mean, one level. I think that the community that's being created here is so incredibly powerful. The networks that are being created, people are meeting people that they normally would never get to meet. But it's really, really supportive because you're seeing all of these people that you can resonate with.  But like, here we're in a community where it's like, oh my gosh.  And that is that now the world is connected. So you now have a support system, a fabric that just needs to be tied together. I think Grace Hopper is doing that right now. And I think people come here, it's celebration face to face. But when they go back to their jobs, they always know that they're one ping away on Twitter or can start a movement if they feel like they need to have a voice or shout from a mountaintop. Whether they're shouting or collaborating or handshaking, it's out there. There's a support system. So I actually had never really used Twitter before I started the movement. It was like my second tweet that blew everything up. But I look like an engineer has built a community in the same way that Grace Hopper is building community. And ultimately, I think that building community is one of the things that we can do to help improve retention. Because there are a lot of numbers that I only know one for women right now and it's that 41% of women leave the tech industry after seven years according to Harvard Business Review. And that number is really significant. Yeah, and you know what? We are in the content business where we have no ads on our site. We're all run by data science. We have the sponsorships for theCUBE. We have our research with Wikibon, I'll tell you. Because we offer free content and we don't really have an ad model, the content is higher quality and it runs on social networks. But if we point out that it's a communal experience, the audience is consuming in a community way. It's not a one directional broadcast. So this means that there's a peer to peer back channel going on and consumption. So this is highlighting a whole another trend that is empowering because now you're an engineer who dropped out of school making a boatload of money. As you said, the shitload of money is like the exact quote, which is great. We'd love that on theCUBE. Because we're not censored. We can say whatever we want. So this is called making a dent in the world. You've done that. Congratulations. Thank you so much. It's great when the other thing we had, we had Risha on from Girls Who Code. We had Ashley on and Ashley made an interesting statement.  This whole thing needs a face. And you basically created not a face, but many faces to really kind of highlight what is going on. So I think it really filled, obviously it filled a need as evidence by the way that people got behind it in such a big way. Numbers provide statistical evidence, which is great because it can prove that there's a need. But I think that people care about humanizing it and putting stories and it makes it real. Absolutely. So let's shift gears a little bit. You were on the advisory board of Women Who Code. So we talked about Girls Who Code earlier and they're really focused on rising juniors and seniors in high school trying to move down, stream to younger. What is Women Who Code all about? So Women Who Code is a nonprofit and their goal is to help empower women to be the best engineers that they can be. They have meetups and I'm not even sure how many countries all over the world. I'm not even sure the exact span of as many women that have been able to benefit from their programs. They teach algorithms and data structures. So I got to ask you one more thing. Grace Hopper event is biggest bigger than ever. What's next? What's your vision? I know you're kind of sitting here going wow, the world has changed for you, the world spun in a direction. But if you step back and look at the big picture, how do you see the trajectory of this community? Given the things we just talked about, the community, the interaction, the engagement, the virtual space, the physical face-to-face interaction, support systems, where does it go from here in your mind? I mean, things are changing and I think that we're moving in a direction that's really making progress. Companies are starting to acknowledge the importance of diversity and empathy and inclusion in their cultures. And even I recently read an article that computer science is the most popular major for women now at Stanford. So I'm really looking forward to a future where diversity is the norm and that we're comfortable being everything that we are and celebrating our differences because we're still doing really good at our careers. I just thanks so much for spending time. Congratulations on your success. It's amazing. It just proves that one tweet can shock the world, the tweet hurt around the world. And again, the positive change that's happened thanks to you. It's been amazing. So congratulations. And we'll hope for more breakouts like that because stay the course, get out of your comfort zone. That's the lesson here and congratulations. This is theCUBE. We'll be right back here in Texas for the great hopper celebration of women in computing. This is theCUBE. I'm John Furrier with Jeff Frick. We'll be right back after this short break.


Right you guys what is going on and welcome back to the third update video of the day and Well, we're actually in central Christchurch. This is Battersea Street Amorat none other Then body core gym Which is actually on both sides of the road body core is my second gym My second gym membership. This is the gym that I've been meeting my coach My bodybuilding coach Steve Orton at once a week For the last 10 weeks and what we do is we come inside The the actual weight part of the the weights part of the gym is on that side of the road this side of the road is As you'll see the cardio area which is sick and The posing area so this is the cardio room. It's pretty decent size It's got everything you'd need loads of stuff and Heaps of space but in here as some of you may recognize this is the posing room So this is where Steve and I will meet He takes my body fat. I Turn around here Put the camera there and start filming and him and I run through my posing so basically The only reason I'm here guys Is not actually to do some posing But I want to discuss My bodybuilding plans. We've got some Where you go? Come here. So once I get that sorted. Are we good? Yes, we are okay Welcome welcome guys. Welcome to body core gym. I've become Yeah, quite well acquainted with this place over the last 10 weeks as I said I've been here every single Wednesday morning at 7 30 Right in this very room every single Wednesday morning There's been some mornings that I've woken up at 6 and thought I cannot be fucked But it's about consistency It's about showing up even on the days. You don't want to but you know if you start if you start feeling that way that the thing that sort of instantly gets your head back in the game is the fact that you are actually paying for this you're paying for the service and You know, there's a reason why you pay for that. It's worth it. It is worth it It's it's not me not only worth it for the the physical obviously Steve is you know He looks at my body physically and he he knows what he sees and he's helping me get into shape but mentally Having someone there that's done it all before Has been hugely helpful to my mental state my my my mindset my mindset, you know my mindset coming into this was was all for fun and You know, I think Steve saw that as okay. Yep.  I don't know how help how I don't know How this guy's gonna get into shape?  What do I do? I never got to that point But I'm sure he would have helped me through it regardless now Guys, I have discussed with you earlier today the bodybuilding show that I did That was three weeks ago now. It was here in Christchurch. It was called the South Island Championships the NZ IFBB South Island champs now My mindset going to that show Was good it was extremely good up until about three weeks out when I realized that Look if I do want to You know, I guess have a good showing if I do want to You know try and do relatively well on this show and not just do it just for fun I'm gonna have to really step things up and that's what happened the last three weeks my fatigue went way up I was laying in bed hungry at times, which is a terrible feeling My sleep pattern was out of whack, you know, I was up at 2 3 in the morning some mornings because I literally I Mean, you don't need much sleep when you're that lean I mean, that's what your body's telling you, right? So I'll go to bed and I'll wake up refreshed as if it's been an eight-hour sleep But I've only been asleep for two or three hours Now that's weird, but that's what comes with getting really really lean apparently, you know I'm waking up in the morning after a if I eat carbs the veins start coming up in my my stomach You know what I mean? I've you can literally once you get to a certain level of body fat You can really start to understand and actually see visually what nutrition is doing to your body once you ingest it You know what I mean? So if I'm gonna lean enough state where I'm actually having veins up my stomach and I'm realizing that those veins come out more so after I've eaten certain things You know all of that that's knowledge that I'm getting you know about my body now And it's knowledge that you just don't have unless you're in a lean enough state. So anyways guys It's been a journey. It's been a fucking long journey It was 20 weeks from the start of my diet at about 96 or 97 kgs down to show day Where I was weighing in at about 88 kilograms So that's a 9 kg difference, but what I will say is that they have the hat There's definitely been some some muscle memory. There's definitely been a bit of a recomposition of sorts What I found is that I got myself from 97 down to about 90 kgs, and that's the point that I met up with Steve I was at 11% body fat. I've done it all on my own. I was pretty happy funnily enough from that moment Over the next 10 weeks, I only lost, you know, two and a half more kilograms But my condition went from 11% down to under 5% body fat Now that is all calculated on numbers that's calculated on my body weight as well as the skin fold, you know Skin body fat caliper tests that that Steve does consistently every week but what that tells me is that In that 10 weeks, I've lost the two and a half kg Which has effectively been, you know, five and a half percent body fat on my frame But what's actually happened as well as I've put on some muscle. I have. There's been some muscle memory there So in that 10 weeks, you know, my body's done what they call a recomposition And it's done it without me even really knowing, you know, how I've done it or why I've done it You know, all I've tried to do is get lean train hard and See what my body does and effectively what it's done My body weight got down to about 87 and a half kgs at its lowest. It did not want to go under there My body fat came down from probably about 20% down to about 11% 10 weeks ago And now it's down to just under 5% and you know, I'm six foot one So here we are 88 kg six foot one at 5% body fat and it's the best shape I've ever been in in my life I feel absolutely amazing. I feel active. I feel lighter my feet And I really feel like I you know, if you if anyone out there sees me as an actual bodybuilder I don't look like a bodybuilder Well, I don't I feel like I don't look like one. I feel like I look like a natural bodybuilder at best But what I've tried to do guys is really Just include all sorts of training in my prep, you know what I mean? I was I was doing rugby trainings. I was going out doing sprint training I was going out and doing, you know, long-distance running all sorts of agility type of work with rugby Then I started then I started then I started studying at the NZIS Started doing all sorts of shit there All sorts of fitness testing cardio workouts weight-based workouts outdoor workouts And you know, you include all of that into one and I was probably burning at least 5,000 calories a day You know what I mean? Doing at least 20 25,000 steps a day for 5,000 calories a day You know, it's it's it's gonna be tough to put on weight when you're doing that much activity and I guess that's Where I find myself, you know what I mean? I'm still just as active Since the show I have actually upped my calories. I've upped my carbohydrates quite considerably whilst trying to maintain that 5% body fat condition Because at the end of the day, I want to compete again Right now we're five weeks out And this is what this video is about right now. We are five weeks out from the NZIFBB natural national championships This is exactly one week after the NZIFBB National championships that is completely untested a week after that They have the exact same show Exact same format. It's just it's drug-tested Now the exciting part the most exciting part guys is that in both the nationals and the natural nationals They offer Pro Cards IFBB Pro Cards doesn't matter whether you competed in that one or that one. They're straight up IFBB Pro Cards For the overall winner in men's physique, classic physique and bodybuilding The show that I'm aiming for is the NZIFBB natural nationals. I am a drug-free athlete a Lifetime drug-free athlete and I'm proud of it and I am so so excited To have the opportunity to stand up on stage With a level playing field and to have an IFBB Pro Card on offer Wow the thought of Having a chance of Winning and IFBB Pro Card is just something I've never ever even fathomed I literally never thought that the only reason there's even a chance the only reason I'm pushing through I don't want to continue dieting right now I want to fucking eat the house down, but I can't because I've got this goal and If we can make this happen guys. Oh my god, this will be the cherry on the cake The cherry on the icing on the cake the cherry on top.  This could be the best shot. I will ever have and we're gonna push through and do it now Those are all the words that have come out of my brain without me looking at my paper What I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna pick up my little Book here and talk about it. This video is about my plans. This video is about my plans for the next show. This video is titled I'm gonna try and end my IFBB Pro Card in 2020 and this is how I'm going to do it and Basically guys, I've just told you exactly how I'm gonna do it. So for the next five weeks. I will be meeting with Steve I've actually already got two posing sessions on camera One at six and a half weeks out and one at five and a half weeks out So following this video, I will be chucking them up on the YouTube channel As well as that we've got four and a half three and a half two and a half one and a half and One week out posing videos that will be coming to the channel So for anyone that's wondering what my conditions like for anyone that wants to see if I can if I can improve it and For anyone that wants to continue following along because this journey is not completely over yet Please do I do want to say I do want to say that I you know for me to get my my my weight down Doesn't matter whether I've got this muscle memory happening or not. I need to get my weight down to 86 kilograms 86 for me to do that. I am going to have to track everything Through my fitness power and I will have to start manipulating my carbohydrates quite considerably Because I know that I can maintain a weight with a certain amount of carbs in my diet But for me to you know get stuck into that body fat once again and start really trying to try to lose more body fat I need to reduce those carbohydrates. It's just the way it is But it's been a real interesting journey, you know because you know this time dieting down I haven't gone low carb. I haven't gone keto. I've continued to have carbs in my diet In fact right up until right up until the last week of the show. I Would say I definitely have at least 300 grams of carbs a day in my diet But that is because like I mentioned before I've been so active. I've been able to burn it off It's not like I'm sitting at a desk the whole day.  I'm still constantly learning so I guess the only other thing I wanted to say wanted to touch on was was my cardio what I'm going to be using for cardio over the next five weeks Rugby is out because I we're finished you would have seen a video about that on this channel rugby is done for the season What an experience? Mint absolutely awesome. You guys saw that first video. I made After my first game back it was extremely emotional and You know the emotions are still there. It's we made the final we lost just the last second and Yeah, next year next year. So yeah, rugby's gone So we're not from a tangent there rugby as far as a form of cardio is gone I will be still doing my walks in the morning I will be still doing my runs on the weekends and I will still be studying at the end of day So we've still got the cardio based workouts We've still got the waste weight based workouts, and I'll still be training with weights at least five six times a week So that's the plan. I want to say Thanks so much for being here. I want to say I will be doing my very best to bring workout videos workout vlogs to the channel With Steve and the lead up to the show. I've never trained with Steve before So that could be good could be interesting or definitely interesting. Not sure not sure if it'd be fun But I'll give it my best shot And I think that could be some real cool content coming out to this channel. Jacob McDonald and Steve Aughton Training in the gym coach and athlete athlete and coach Anyways guys have a fantastic day. We're here at body core anyone in Christchurch that wants to come and check it out It's $10 a casual session But the best thing is is it's $10 a week as well So if you want to join up It's $10 a week if you want to come down for a casual session It's $10 if you want to come and train with me. Let me know hit me up on Instagram I'll meet you right here, and we'll go and smash a session. I'm all about that I'm all about collaborating and all about meeting up with as many people as possible networking That's what life's about Peace out guys. Have a great day. I'll see you in the next one. Let's go get this pro cup Imagine that Can you imagine? Stuff dreams are made of They been sleeping. That's why they storming


Hello and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following problem today. Show that the relation r in the set a is equal to x belongs to z such that 0 is less than equal to x is less than equal to 12 given by r is equal to a comma b such that a is equal to b is an equivalent solution. Find the set of all elements related to 1. Now let us write the solution given to us as r is equal to a comma b such that a is equal to b. Now a is equal to 0 comma 1 comma 2 so on till 11 comma 12. Now let us check for reflexivity. Clearly for 1 belongs to a 1 comma 1 belongs to r as r contains a b where a is equal to b. Therefore r is reflexive. Now let us check for symmetry. For 1 belongs to a 1 comma 1 belongs to r which is clearly symmetric. Therefore r is symmetric. Now let us check for transitivity. We have 1 comma 1 belongs to r, 2 comma 2 belongs to r and so on. Let us consider 1 comma 1 belongs to r. Now the only ordered pair whose first element is 1 is 1 comma 1. Therefore for 1 comma 1 belongs to r and 1 comma 1 belongs to r we have 1 comma 1 belongs to r because for a b belongs to r and b c belongs to r we have a c belongs to r for transitivity and here a is equal to b is equal to c is equal to 1. Therefore r is transitive. Now since r is reflexive r is symmetric and r is transitive hence r is an equivalence relation. Now let us do the second part. Let x be an element of a such that x comma 1 belongs to r then by definition of r is equal to a comma b such that a is equal to b we have x is equal to 1. Hence the set of all elements of a which are related to 1 is single term 1. I hope you understood this problem. Bye and have a nice day.


Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday March 29th 2023 This is chief me all just John is worth for a long month public media. We've got a full moon in April 5th I'll be beautiful mid week next week Sunspots have been very active. So have the northern lights. They've been photographed all the way down to Not why but Florida. We could have easily seen them here in Colorado that night except that was one of our snowing nights Drought that was at its worst. Like I said last week November 25th Yeah, 2020 and now it is that much better and just a little worsening of the drought here in Larimer County, but we just got a bunch of precipitation with the snow at the beginning of the week We'll talk about that. So that should push that back again. A little lessening of the drought in Oregon and a little worsening on the plains here lots of drought relief across the nation The snowpack is incredible and this I believe counts the Monday snow Sunday Monday snow Guys it goes shooting up that close for this date. It's almost a record high amount of snow It's a hundred and basically a hundred and forty percent above normal statewide. Some basins are better than others Looking at the overall snow mount up to Monday morning at seven and an additional inch or two fell across most of these Same areas, so it's a little higher, but you see here areas 6.7 to 10 10 to 11 in here Around Longmont We have the two to sixes and one little orange dot there for in the 6.7 to 9.9 We can zoom in and see 6.8 there in northern Longmont. I think that's on 66 or a little bit North of there, but yeah for the most part really surprised healthy snow a belt of Convergence set up right through here. The low was pushing moisture in and we had winds from the Southwest or Northwest I think and Just collided there and kept going much stronger than almost anybody got a few models come into that near that area But not that pattern Balder did much less in the two inch area Modern moisture for this last week was really favored the mountains of northern Colorado With widespread half inch to inch amounts of liquid Smoke not much talk about with the West being so moist just isn't much of a problem there Welcome to the severe weather animation returning we start in late March here and watch it the normal region of highest probability of severe weather Migrate throughout the spring and into the early summer so that's where we expect the highest area Looking at Wednesday quiet in that area a few thunderstorms in the West with another storm coming in yet another I've seen most of the reservoirs are Topping now in California. So even late that has been dry fight 47 years is filling up again We get the marginal Risk tomorrow in that area and then a very major severe weather event for see the ones that Thursday Fridays or Friday the Ohio Valley Tennessee all the way through here the Mississippi is you don't see a lot of Severe weather a lot of tomatoes. So bad news out there Look at the Wednesday surface forecast quiet in Colorado some snow precipitation out West Going to Thursday. There's a little system coming with a chance of showers. I'm not giving it much We do have lots of wind and dry conditions, so we will have a red flag fire danger basically Denver and south into the east this doesn't really cover where the red flag is set up And then for Friday in mountain snows again, but dry on the plains Again our normals 58 to 60 is the climb of the normal high temperature 30 to 31 almost up to freezing for Expected low. Here's our Thursday Friday tiny chance of showers and then a more significant longer lasting system for Tuesday Wednesday into maybe Thursday next week So that'll be interesting to see what we get out of it. These are getting warmer So you've got to get cold air and moisture to get a good snow storm now In the water vapor satellite loop, you can see the low out west a jet-stream tropical moisture coming up in and like that See the ridge here and then going up to the ridge beyond and For Thursday, but pretty much that same pattern that Trough out there migrates in for us. Maybe giving us some lift Moisture most for the mountains again. They got the ridge heading out and for precipitation It's a western slopes area. Just keep getting snow more for California For Tuesdays our next big event a much larger slower moving Kind of cut-off trough. We'll see how cut-off it gets a cut-off lows travel more slowly And lines are here close to the edge of the jet stream winds are strong So it was actually a frame before and after this we'll see it in the animation But this is a pretty long and pretty healthy snow Okay, so let's do that. Let's put it in motion. Here comes the first trough For end of Friday you zip it on by ridge comes in for the weekend giving us very warm temperatures It's gonna be a beautiful weekend again. We're back to a nice weekend pattern Sunday into Monday Zonal flow west to east and that thing starts to carve in and cut off There and Tuesday Wednesday, and then it's finally passed us Little peace gets left behind in the southwest probably give them some showers. I don't think it's gonna give us much Big ridge in the west this big a ridge in the west is going to give the California Break or it may get some time without precipitation happening there So we are warm for the short term and the soul little system comes through cold front right there Friday Doesn't last long warmth builds in quickly for the weekend Above normal temperatures are red. We had cold air lurking north of us And there's a little cold front on Monday, but it gets pushed back watered out than a stronger push comes down For midweek into the end of next week. It'd be quite cold again. We can't precipitation this first system for Thursday Friday Mainly hits the mountains stuff reforms to our northeast in a way basically Nebraska a high and dry for the weekend Zonal flow at this time And you can see the boundary that cold air you got snow and then a low really cranks up here was one two three Three periods of six hours in length where snow is hanging out over northern Colorado There's that little system that goes to Arizona the south that should stay pretty far away from us So for the next five days should remain dry on the plains More mountain precipitation looking at snow up to a foot here in places and then very little out on the plains a spot or two Over the next 10 days We do get some moisture on the plains and it might be a temperature thing that we don't get a huge amount of snow But the gradient is very sharp coming in close to the mountains So we are coming from the 40s jump to the 60s on Thursday a little cold front on Friday Tiny chance of showers giving it 15% very warm weekend. We might break 70 as possible on Sunday We'll see and then we still to cool down Monday, and then our rain into possible snow pretty good chance on Tuesday a New month starts so the not so reliable No forecast gives the south and the east lots of heat and below normal temperatures in the west equal chance of It was here for precipitation finally dry in the southwest if it's true equal chances for us and like that I'm taking a look at the next 10 days of our this is 14 days Of snow in the west and rather than 40 50 60 or 100 inches I got to see a foot and 22 inches and 20 inches in there 17 inches down here So yeah, it's still snowing and the mountains are still piling up and Houses are being buried and shops are being buried, but that's um Or it is Longmont leader Broomfield leader for frequent weather updates This has been chief meter oldest John minutes worth. Keep looking out


Welcome everyone to Tech 101, the best assignments for online volunteers. My name is Becky Wiegand and I'm here at TechSoup's headquarters in San Francisco and I will be your host for today's event. We'll also be joined by Jane Cravens from Coyote Communications. So a little bit more about me. I'm an Interactive Events Producer here at TechSoup. I've been with the organization for just about 6 years this spring. And prior to that I worked for 3 different small nonprofits based in Washington D.C. and Oakland, California. And I was often the accidental techie helping to manage our online presence and email blasts and fixing tech problems on the fly with very little training in those fields. And so I was also a TechSoup user through each of those organizations requesting donations and also using the resources available through TechSoup to help solve some of those tech issues for my organization. So I've come from that background and I'm happy to be hosting today's webinar and sharing the expertise that Jane Cravens will be bringing with us. And she is a really amazing expert on volunteerism. She has a consulting firm called Coyote Communications and she's written some books on volunteering as well. And she hosts seminars like this all the time, and she's been generous enough to share that with us. She also is a host in TechSoup's forums. So you can find Jane there to help answer questions on a daily basis, which is fantastic. You'll also see Aliba Zekian from TechSoup in the chat window. She'll be helping grab your questions and flagging them for follow-up for the Q&A and also helping you with any tech issues throughout the webinar. A quick look at today's agenda. I'll do a hopefully pretty quick introduction of TechSoup in case this is your first time joining us. We'll have some polls asking you how much you're already engaging with online volunteers. Jane will then take over and give us some definitions of what a virtual volunteering assignment or task might look like, and why to work with them and how to attract them. Then she'll talk about some of the best types of assignments. She'll talk about some of the no-knows and the worst tactics. And then we'll talk a little bit about what things you can go home and do in your organization right away to help improve how you engage those online volunteers. We'll have time at the end for Q&A, and we'll also try and raise up some questions throughout the webinar. So when it comes to you, feel free to ask it in that chat window. So quickly, who is TechSoup? We're a nonprofit with a clear focus. We are aiming to help fellow nonprofits, charities, public libraries, and foundations with their tech products and services, plus providing learning resources like this webinar today and our articles, blog, community forums that are there to help you find the solutions to your technology needs to better meet your mission. We've been around since 1987, and we've served more than 200,000 charitable organizations with more than 11 million software and hardware donations in 60 countries around the world. So if you're not joining us from the United States today, we may have a local partner in your country, and you can find out more about them by visiting TechSoupGlobal.org, which is the umbrella organization, also a nonprofit that helps operate all of our programs. We have a variety of new things that we're always doing at TechSoup, including offering new consulting services, new software programs like Windows 8.1 Operating System, and new programs like QuickBooks 2014 that have recently become available. You can find all of these resources and more by visiting TechSoup.org. So with that introduction, I'd like to go ahead and do a quick poll to see who already is involving online volunteers in some way in the organization. So how many of you are involving online volunteers now? And this will just help inform Jane as she opens up the presentation with her content in just a moment. So feel free to click those numbers on your screen. We're going to give a few more seconds here so that everybody gets a chance to participate. You can also chat into us if you'd like to share how you're engaging those volunteers. It's always interesting to see how people are using and working with volunteers in their communities. Just a couple more seconds for you to click on the screen. And right now it looks like about 70% of the participants in today's webinar are saying that they're not currently using volunteers online or involving online volunteers right now. So that's really helpful. I'm going to go ahead and hand it over to Jane Cravens, our host for today on sharing her expertise. And I'd like her to just take a moment to give us a little bit more background about herself and tell us who she is before she gets started. So Jane, thanks so much for coming on the program today. We'd love to have your expertise. Thanks for joining us. Thanks. I'm really happy to be here. I've done these webinars for TechSoup in previous years, but this may be the first time I've gotten to do one about virtual volunteering, so I'm pretty excited. I have been associated with TechSoup since it was called CompuMentor back in the 90s and didn't have a website. I was involved as a client, then a volunteer, and now I manage the online discussion group. So I have seen TechSoup from every way you could see TechSoup, I think. And I feel really happy that they're talking about virtual volunteering today because I think it's a great topic for the audience. And in case you're wondering who I am, I'll put different pictures up. I'm a little bit different than maybe some of the other volunteer management consultants that do presentations because I actually work with volunteers, and I'm a volunteer myself. So I use my experience as a manager of volunteers, both at TechSoup and maybe other organizations, as well as my experience as a volunteer on-site, online, and everything in between to inform what I talk about. So I try not to just talk about theory, I try to talk about what I'm actually experiencing, what I'm seeing other people experiencing. So I really hope you'll follow me on Twitter. I don't just talk about virtual volunteering, however, I also talk about my other work, working overseas in communications issues, and whatnot. So I'm not virtual, even though I'm virtual right now. And I just published a book, and all of today's resource materials come from that book, and the book is called The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook. And it is for sale as a paperback and as an e-book. And also, in case you're wondering about that wacky title, I did a blog today about that specifically. And some of the things I'll talk about today will reflect that title. It may not be for the reasons you think that we named it The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook. There is also a wiki, and this is free. Anyone can access it. And what we've tried to do with the wiki, my co-author and I, is to create a space where the things that change about online volunteering, virtual volunteering, specifically software, hardware, tools, whatnot, will be reflected in that wiki. And you can submit suggestions for the wiki. You can't edit the wiki directly, but you can suggest changes. And I actually right now am the person who will edit that wiki. So let's get right to it. What is it that I mean about virtual volunteering? Well, first of all, it's not new. And it's a practice that is as old as the Internet. So it's more than 35 years old. What it means is a volunteer who is completing tasks in whole or in part off-site from your organization. They are using the Internet and a computer or another network device such as a smartphone. And it includes a lot of other terms that you hear. You hear the term telementoring or microvolunteering, crowdsourcing, all that. That's all included in virtual volunteering. And in fact, Susan and I even include any work done with volunteers online. So even if your volunteer is doing their service on-site, but you're primarily interacting with them online via email, via Skype, well that's virtual volunteering because part of that volunteer service really is happening remotely. And it can be a long-term assignment with a lot of responsibility. It can be a short little micro task that takes under 30 minutes. It can be an ongoing commitment. It can be a one-time just show-up thing. It comes in all shapes and sizes. But what I want to really emphasize today, and this is what our title is implying, is the boundaries between online and traditional volunteering are just about gone. And I did this little graphic to say we really need to stop talking about on-site traditional volunteers only and then having a completely separate discussion about online volunteers. Really, there are now only volunteers. And I don't mean merely volunteers. I mean exclusively volunteers. The boundaries are really changing. And a lot of times people after they go through a presentation like this realize they are involving online volunteers, and they didn't know they were. So it's always interesting to do this presentation face-to-face because usually midway through a few people raise their hand and say, I just realized I'm doing this. I didn't realize I was doing this. So it can be pretty interesting. So what do these online volunteers do? What do they really do? And I have a long list here. This list changes a little bit from time to time. You'll notice on this list, I've got translate documents, I've got design databases, monitor the news. Most of these aren't technical assignments. I think a lot of people when they first hear of the concept think that I'm talking about people who are going to do IT-related jobs. And most online volunteering isn't IT-related jobs. It's just the IT is the avenue the service is delivered, but creating a podcast, interviewing somebody, or monitoring the news, or answering questions, those are very human-to-human interactions. What you'll also notice when you look at this list is some of these could be done in a few minutes. Some of these would take several hours, days, weeks. Some of these don't require a person to have any skills, but some of these require a great deal of skills. You can't translate a document unless you're fluent in another language for instance. So what I like when I look at these assignments is I find them very human. I'm not talking about connecting computers. I'm talking about connecting humans. That's what virtual volunteering is. So I really hope you'll think of it that way. And this list just changed time to time. And if it changes, you'll find that change reflected on the wiki as I discover new ways that people are engaging with volunteers online. So as I said, most virtual volunteering tasks aren't about tech. They're not specifically related to Internet technology. And they're much more related to expertise being donated online. So for instance, if you've got volunteers managing your online discussion group, you don't need somebody who's great at tech as much as you need somebody who's great at being with people, talking to people, knowing if somebody is feeling left out, knowing how to read a message and go, hmm, I think that person might be feeling hostile or angry. And that's a skill that isn't so much IT as much as it's understanding human behavior. So I just want to reemphasize that. That said, it's important to watch your step when you're talking about virtual volunteering. Mind the gap. Watch your step. There's really no reason to ever use the word virtual volunteering or micro volunteering in your organization if you think that some staff are going to be turned off by that. I've noticed that when I work at organizations and I say, you know, Joe edited our brochure and designed it. And everybody's like, that's great. Who's Joe? And I describe Joe and they look at his work and they're thrilled, and they're like, well, we need to thank him in some way and we do that. I never have to say, well, this was virtual volunteering. If I say, well, you know, he did it on his home computer because his computer is better than the ones here. Everybody goes, oh, great. But if I say, well, this was a virtual volunteering assignment that can sometimes get people hackles up. They suddenly, oh, it's a new term. It's a jargony term. I also don't use the term virtual volunteers. And the reason I don't is because when I did back in the 90s, people would say, oh, so they're not real. Or they would say, well, we have real volunteers, but then we have virtual volunteers. So I try to say online volunteers or I just say volunteers. I also think it's a good idea to let the volunteers decide what's online and what's on-site. And so what I mean by that is say you're going to use volunteer match and you're going to recruit volunteers. In your description, you need volunteers to edit your newsletter, describe all of the things you need out of an editor, good English skills, and perhaps a certain software, et cetera. You don't ever have to say this is a virtual volunteering assignment if you think that might somehow scare somebody away. In fact, but actually for volunteers they actually love the term. It's more organizations that hate it. But sometimes you can upload an assignment to volunteer match and you're thinking it's an on-site assignment and somebody may write you and say, well, I'd love to do this, but you know, I could do it from home. And that may not have bound on you. Be open to that. Let volunteers propose what they might like to do as an online volunteer. And there's no need to say if an assignment is best done by a computer or a smart phone. Again, volunteers will decide that for themselves. They'll decide how they would most like to do the assignment. We have one question that came in that I think related to that slide, so I just wanted to clear up. So Giuseppe was asking, is virtual volunteering like microvolunteering? And I know on this slide you said you don't need to use the different terms, but I think there's confusion around what it means. Yeah, microvolunteering is just another form of online volunteering. So microvolunteering is short term online volunteering. Microvolunteering is something, some people say it's what you would do in 10 minutes or less. I've seen other people say microvolunteering is something that you could do in just a couple of hours. There's no dogma. You pretty much get to decide. But just as with, you have group volunteering, you have what's called episodic volunteering. That's the old word for microvolunteering. You have team volunteering. Microvolunteering is just another form of online volunteering. So you can get really caught up in all those terms. If you want to brand it as microvolunteering, and you want to keep all of your assignments really short, that's great. If you just want to call it volunteering and say we have short term assignments, we have long term assignments, you can do that. But microvolunteering is a part of virtual volunteering. Back in the 90's, just a little history note, we called that bite-sized volunteering. Susan Ellis and I, we were so proud of that term. We thought it was such a great term and it never caught on. And then somebody thought of the term microvolunteering and we were like darn, if only we'd come up with a cool name back in the 90's when we were talking about the short term tasks. So I hope that answers your question. So what is a great online volunteering assignment? Well, it doesn't say in essence we have all this work to do, please come do it. Just like a restaurant doesn't say we have all this food, please come eat it. It has a description of not just what needs to be done, but why it's important to the organization. Why do you need this paragraph translated into Spanish? Why do you need this video edited and have music added to the video? Why do you need somebody to monitor the news for a certain term or certain event? When you can say that, why it's important to the organization, it becomes really appealing to volunteers. They see not just work to be done, but a difference to be made. A great assignment also has details on expectations. And I think that it's important to say what your expectations are around deadlines. When does this assignment need to be completed? How often does the volunteer need to report in and say, I'm working on this, here's what I've done so far. That needs to be in writing and it needs to be right up front. I think it's important that an assignment has details on what success looks like. As a result of this assignment, what will happen? And a lot of times that can really cut down on miscommunication and frustration on your part and the volunteer who thought he was doing what you wanted and it ended up not being what you wanted. So if you can really provide details on what success looks like on the part of volunteer, that's really helpful. You should also provide details on how the volunteer should ask for help, how the volunteer should complain, and how the volunteer should quit. When your volunteers come on board, even on-fight, it's not for life. We tend to think of it that way. Great, this person is going to be the moderator of my online community forever while they're not. So come up with details on what is the procedure for somebody to quit? Would you like them to give you a two-week notice? Would you like them to give you a month's notice? Would you like an email? Would you like a phone call? So be very specific on that. And also provide details on your policies about confidentiality and ownership of materials. That's really important in online volunteering, ownership of materials. I tell volunteers right up front that for instance, they're designing a logo or submitting logo ideas. Now this is going to become our property and we can do whatever we want to with it. Are you comfortable with that?  I don't know that that would hold up in a court of law if they suddenly decided, no, I want this back. But what it does do is let people know right up front what your expectations are. And it cuts down on frustration and misunderstandings later. One thing I want you to notice in all this is these are all the things you should be doing for on-site, in-person volunteers. There's nothing really different here. And that's the thing about virtual volunteering. Really all the rules are very similar.  These are the basics. These are what a great assignment in my opinion looks like. And I'm not supposed to be looking at the chat window, but I just saw that you like bite-sized volunteering. Thank you. I loved that term too. I'm very sorry to get go. So let's talk about examples of the why because I know a lot of organizations struggle with it when you say why an assignment is important. So these are from actual organizations. Translating this guide into Spanish will allow organizations to deliver critical information to more than 15% of our population that are native Spanish speakers. Well now you've changed. I have this work to do. Can you do it? Can you come make a difference for us? Here's the difference you'll make by doing this. And I have two other examples there. One for a microvoluntary assignment, tagging flip or photos. One for moderating online discussion group. And again, it's no different than on-site volunteering, but I think it's saying the why is perhaps even more important for online assignments. I really, really do. So here's another important why. And this is something organizations struggle with. This is a challenge. Why are you creating this assignment for volunteers? Or why are you making this online task something for volunteers to do? For instance, if you divide up an assignment, something you really need done at your organization into 50 little micro tasks, it might actually take 10 times as long to get it done because you've got to recruit the volunteers. You've got to read what they do. You have to redo what some of them did. And it might end up taking 10 times as long as if you just involved one volunteer to do it. So why would you divide something into 50 little micro tasks if it's not as efficient? Well because maybe you want to involve 50 volunteers and you're hoping to turn those people into long-term supporters or longer-term online volunteers. Another thing you need to ask why is you should never say it's because we can't afford to pay someone.  It's really important not to do that. That can really make labor groups angry. Something I blog about is when labor groups get angry about say light offs at a school and an administrator says, well we're just going to have volunteers do that now because we can't afford to pay people. So avoid that language. It may be true but it should be something that's never offered as a primary reason that you're making a task, a volunteering task. There's lots of reasons to involve volunteers because some tasks are actually best done by volunteers just as some tasks are best done by paid staff. You may want to involve more people in your organization's work. When I worked at the United Nations one of the reasons they created the online volunteering service wasn't because those tasks weren't getting done that organizations were offering to volunteers but because it was a way anybody could be involved in the work of the UN. And that was something that wasn't possible before. You had to give up your career and go work for the UN for several years to be involved in their work. So they wanted to do online volunteering to involve more people in their work. You may want to reach a particular demographic. You may go, gosh, we don't have many young people volunteering. Maybe if we create online volunteering assignments we'll get some young people in and maybe they'll even become on-site volunteers. And a lot of organizations involve volunteers because it is part of their mission to work with a particular group. So again, look at that. None of those are really different than on-site volunteering. Now this is the first time I've seen this slide. I like it very much. Choose the right way, not the shortest. I like it very much. I like the road too. As a motorcyclist, that's the kind of road I'm trying to master. So that's great. Another characteristic about the best assignments is they're fully supported. That means that the volunteer knows their expectations. The organization knows what the volunteer is supposed to be doing. Everything is in writing. Everybody is going to be recognized. You need to make sure assignments are supported but it's not just, hey, here's the work to do. Okay, see you in three months. So make sure you've got that full support. There's lots of great books and great resources out there. I know of one book in particular that can help you set up the support systems you need for online volunteers. So the right way to engage and support online volunteers is ask more than once your current volunteers, people you see face to face, how they might like to help, how they might like to help online. Often they have terrific ideas. And by the way, that's how I came to virtual volunteering is I was working with a college intern, two college interns from San Jose State University who said, wow, your computers here are awful. Mine at home are faster. Could I build these webpages at home? And I said sure. And that's how I came to virtual volunteering. Create an online group for all of your volunteers so that they can share experiences, so that they can crowdsource problems. They can talk about the events that they just attended if they liked it or not. You can talk about any policy or instituting. It's a really great way to get volunteers feeling supported whether they are doing service on-site or online. Be sure you create a variety of online assignments. You want to create some micro volunteering assignments that take just a few minutes or a few hours, but create leadership roles too. Create high responsibility roles. People want to make a really deep connection. Not everybody wants that quicky, feel-good experience. A lot of people want a really rich, long-term experience. So create a variety of assignments and encourage all of your staff to think about ways to involve online volunteers. It shouldn't be just one person and connect them with the resources they need to be able to do that. Be sure to fully integrate your online volunteer engagement into all of your volunteering so people should have the same or similar orientation, the same recognition.  They are covered by the same policies, etc. And just be sure you are applying sound volunteer management 101 principles to your online volunteers just as you do with your face-to-face volunteers. Confidentiality, screening, recognition, you know, so lots of great training, lots of great books on those sound principles, and you need to apply them to all your volunteers. But there is also a wrong way to involve online volunteers as Keanu Reeves has found out. Don't segregate your online volunteers from your on-site traditional volunteers. Don't create two different discussion groups. For instance, one for your real volunteers and one for your virtual volunteers. That's a dreadful idea. You can create different groups depending on their work. For instance, perhaps you have volunteers who work with kids, and you have volunteers who help in the office. You might want the volunteers that work with kids to have a separate group so they can talk about matters that might be confidential from the other volunteers. But really try to think of everybody as volunteers. Don't limit your online volunteering to only one kind of assignment. Don't just do microvolunteering. Don't just do long-term commitments. Try to think of a variety of assignments. If you don't put every assignment in writing, even those micro tasks, you are just setting yourself up for tears.  Don't have just one person engaging with online volunteers, and it also shouldn't be, say, your webmaster. I always love when people say, yes, we involve online volunteers to edit our newsletter. Our webmaster manages them. The webmaster has nothing to do with communications activities. He is more of a back-in person. To me that is like asking your printer to edit. Make sure it is a variety of staff and not just technical staff that are thinking about involving volunteers virtually. People that think volunteer management principles don't apply online also become very frustrated with their virtual volunteering experience. They wonder why so many volunteers drop out. They wonder why so many assignments get done. And don't get done, and it's often because they didn't do those good old-fashioned volunteer management 101 principles, like regular check-ins and confidentiality training. Another really important thing is it's a big mistake to think that the Internet is more dangerous than real life. It's no more safe, and it's no less safe than on-site interactions. And we'll talk about that in a moment, but I think it's time for another poll. That it is. So we want to get an idea of how prepared you feel in your current organization for dealing with confidentiality and privacy issues when working with online volunteers because we know this is an area where people often feel a little bit nervous about having volunteers who are online rather than on-site, and don't know what kind of policies or parameters they can have set up to help protect them. So go ahead and click on this poll. People are already participating, but keep on doing it if you haven't yet. And this will give us a little bit of feedback to get an idea of where you're at now with your preparation at your organization, whether it be a nonprofit or a library or a foundation or wherever you're joining us from today. I'll just give another few seconds here for people to participate, and then we'll go ahead and skip to the results in just a moment. So if you haven't yet clicked on the screen, go ahead and do so now. So around 45, 46% say that they're somewhat prepared, but when we combine those other numbers at the bottom we have 27, and 7, and 7 that either don't know or are not very well prepared. So doing some math here, so it's a little more than half of our audience feels like they're very prepared or somewhat prepared on dealing with confidentiality and privacy issues. So that's great. And then the other half, or slightly less, could use some guidance in that area. So Jane, can you give us some tips on how to work with online volunteers while ensuring confidentiality standards and privacy are secured for your organization? I think I can. So this is something that scares a lot of people about virtual volunteering. And so I really wanted to make sure I got it into this workshop because it can be the stop point when somebody is trying to introduce or expand virtual volunteering where somebody says, nope, confidentiality and safety are just too scary on the Internet so we're not doing this. So that's why I put this in here. The best virtual volunteering roles consider confidentiality and safety concerns. And one of the things I love is hearing this question. How do we ensure volunteers will keep things confidential? And my question usually is, how do you ensure that paid staff will keep things confidential? And if the person says, well, we have staff go through a training, I say great, you're going to do the same thing with volunteers. If the person says, well, they're paid, I have to remind them that a paycheck is not magical. And a paycheck does not suddenly make somebody more confidential and more safe than a volunteer. Or when somebody says, how do I make sure an online volunteer isn't actually a bad person? When I do this workshop face to face, I say, well, no one checked my ID. None of you know if I'm really Jane Craven. So how would you have done that? How would you have made sure I really was who I am and that I'm a safe person to be around? And so I have people start talking about, well, we would do a criminal background check. We would have references. Well, you can certainly do that with online volunteers if you feel a role requires that kind of thing. I just remind people that seeing someone face to face on-site is not a screening tool. That's not how you make sure somebody is a good or bad person. You're not psychic. I hate to tell you that, but you're not. Confidentiality and safety, they're training issues. So you need to look at how you train employees and on-site volunteers regarding confidentiality and safety, and think about how you need to do that online. Do you need to put a video online? Do you need to record your training and have it available online for volunteers to see? Do you need to change your policies to talk about social media? What people should and shouldn't talk about with regard to their work at your organization when they're on Facebook or Twitter? Or they go to church and talk to their friends. These are the kind of things that you need to discuss in your training. There's great material out there. Just remember that different roles require different screening, different training. If you have a beach cleanup and you have 100 volunteers show up, you don't do criminal background checks on those volunteers. You have them sign in. I don't even know if those types of events look check ID, but they don't do criminal background checks or have people bring references. By contrast, if you're going to mentor a young person, you're going to have interviews, reference checks, criminal background checks, etc. So online volunteers is the same thing. If an online volunteer will work with children, they're going to have a very different screening and training than an online volunteer who is going to translate one paragraph from English into Spanish for you. Another thing that is absolutely fundamental and maybe even more so for online volunteers is you need to make sure that they know they are being heard by you. You can do that by having timely responses to online volunteers when they email you or call you or text you by surveying them. And I don't just mean like survey monkey, but actually calling people and doing a survey that way. Respond to volunteers one-on-one, give them a call. You know, phones still work. A smart phone can also be a phone. Another way to show volunteers that you hear them is change your policies and procedures based on things they've told you. Do formal recognition. Make sure they get that certificate. Make sure they get the coffee mug or the t-shirt or the reference on LinkedIn. And be very transparent about how decisions are made. Don't just announce that a policy is being changed. Be very clear with your volunteers online or on-site to say how the decision was made. Never just say, you know, I hear you. Because I know that when I hear that I immediately think they didn't hear me. Show it. Show that you've heard somebody. And what's great about technology is that it makes that really easy. It makes it really easy to show volunteers that you hear them. I think it's essential that you have an online group for your volunteers. I mentioned it earlier. I'd like to go into detail now. It's absolutely fundamental that you do this. It brings all your volunteers together. In fact, some of your volunteers may tell you things on that group that they never told you in a meeting because they feel more comfortable doing it in a group. It allows volunteers to talk to you anytime. It allows them to talk to each other. They may not have ever met before, but this is the way that they can communicate together, meet each other, share resources, talk about challenges that they're facing, and get advice from your other volunteers. And what's great for you is you then get to mine that data. You get to mine it for reports on how great your volunteering program is, the challenges you're facing, why you need more money. I just think it's absolutely fundamental on this day and age to have an online group. People will say, well, what if we work with volunteers that don't have email or don't join the group? Well, that happens. It's just like if you have online on-site meetings where volunteers come. Not all of your volunteers can come to the meetings. Some volunteers can't because of childcare. They can't because of timing or transportation. Everything you do with volunteers will always leave somebody out. Creating a group is no different than having an online meeting. It's just another way to let volunteers interact with you and with each other. Okay, here's your homework. Everybody ready? No pop quiz, but there will be homework. Your homework is, I hope you all will set up an online group for your volunteers. If you're wondering what platform to use, TechSoup in our discussion group, we talk a lot about different platforms. And on the wiki, we have a long list of different platforms that we've heard people say they use with their volunteers. Ask your volunteers via your online group, via on-site meetings, what they might like to do for you online. Put that list up of assignments that could be done online and say, would anyone like to do this for us? Look at OnlineVolunteering.org. That is the UN's Online Volunteering Service. And look at VolunteerMatch.org. Look at their virtual assignments. And be inspired by their ideas and create your own assignments based on some of the ideas you see there. Be sure you review your policies to ensure that they allow for online volunteers. You might need to alter some policies as necessary. We go into great detail about that in the book. And look for ways online volunteers could assist you. Yes, you, you listening to this call right now. How could online volunteers assist you in your work? Leading by example is a great way to get more people at your organization working with volunteers. And one of my favorite things, it's a trick. I ask staff, you know, if I could get you a consultant in any area of expertise for a month, and cost wasn't an issue, what kind of a consultant would you want? And they'll say, oh, you know, I would love somebody to come look at our HR policies and make sure they're up to date. Oh, I would love for somebody to come and do a marketing plan for social media.   But suddenly I'm using different language. Remember what we talked about earlier. For some reason it's more welcoming to say expert and consultant who just happens to be an online volunteer. So that's a great way to find assignments for volunteers on site or online. So now that we've gone through this, it's time for another poll. And perhaps this question looks familiar to you because you were asked at the beginning how many of you are involving online volunteers in some way because we'd like to see if any of you have realized that you are working with your volunteers. You're supporting them and involving them via the Internet and you didn't know until you went through this workshop. So we want to see if the numbers are different. So please answer this question again. And I'll wait this time for Becky to do the total so we can see if it's different and it is already looking significantly different. Becky Yeah, I agree. It looks like we had a good percentage that said that they were already. But this time we have more that are saying yes than the first time, trying to pull up the numbers from the very first one. And it looks like, yeah, there are quite a few people who've realized that they are already engaging online volunteers and they maybe just didn't define it that way, and didn't understand that until you had defined it for them in this event. So I think we've helped. Becky Congratulations. Becky Yeah, well then it's great to know that people are already using online volunteers in some ways and those who still aren't, hopefully you have more information and more resources that you can go back and figure out how to engage them and work with them at your organization. We have just a couple more slides that Jane has and then we'll go ahead and get into the questions. So feel free to keep those questions coming in and we'll be starting with Q&A in just a couple of minutes. Becky So, again, all of today's resources came from the last virtual volunteering guidebook. A lot of the details, if you want to know really how to change your policies or how to address certain issues in your online mentoring program or how to even introduce online volunteering to your organization, it's all here in this book. Susan and I worked very hard on this and packed it with case studies. So hope you find it helpful. I hope you'll stay in touch with me. I've got a blog, a Facebook page, a Twitter feed, and an email newsletter. You can find all of that at my website, coyotecommunications.com. You can find all of it at the Wiki, the virtual volunteering Wiki. You can type my name into Google. And I really hope I'm going to see you over on the TechSoup Community Forum. In fact, if after this workshop you have more questions, come on over to the forum. We've got a digital engagement branch and you can ask for questions there. And I am online several times a day and I will be happy to answer your questions. And other members of our community will also weigh in and talk about their own experience. So if you don't get your question asked today, please head over to the TechSoup Forum and let's get your question answered there. Great. Thank you so much for that, Sam. Yes, Q&A. Let's go. Yep. So we have a handful of questions. And to add about the community forums that not only can you get your questions answered, but you can also share your expertise. So if you are joining us today having managed a lot of volunteers and have a lot of experience with it, then you can go over there and share that knowledge with other organizations. So we have a handful of questions. Freya asks, we are small and don't have many volunteers. Is it still helpful to have an online group when we have just two or three people? That is up to you. If you see yourself, what I like about an online group is that all of the messages are in one place and it's easy for me to go back and look and read the questions. In fact, I mentor a person in Afghanistan and we have an online group even though it's just the two of us. Because that way she can always go back and read my questions or my answers to her, my advice to her. It's really up to you. I just can find that messages can get lost in email and that's why I like an online group for the volunteers I work with. So I hope that answers your question. Thanks, Jane. I think it does. And I know that you mentioned that we have some threads in the forums where people talk about tools, but are there specific tools that you use or would recommend for creating an online group? Do you have any favorite? Yeah, my favorite used to be Yahoo groups. And it is not anymore because this is a new interface. I've tried for months now to get used to it. I don't. I have fallen in love with a platform called Mini Groups. And it does have a C associated with it, but it's a combination of a group and a project management platform. And I've been playing with it and have really liked it. But you've got Google Groups. You've got Yahoo Groups. There's lots of free tools, and even Wiki Spaces has a group function so you could use that as well. That's great. And you know, it's interesting. I'm part of a volunteer group that we use a Facebook group. That's a secret private group just for us because we all happen to be on Facebook already. And so we can share and get notifications and post things in that group too. So there are tools out there that you may already be using that you could incorporate a group into. And I'm glad you brought up Facebook. That's one of the things we talk about in the book and I'll just mention now. It can be a great tool, but you also have to remember some volunteers do not like using Facebook for work or volunteering.  So be sure you ask your volunteers if they're comfortable using Facebook as part of their volunteering because sometimes you'll get people that say no. Sure. As with any tool, you may have people that aren't wanting to adopt. We had a couple of other questions. We have Rochelle is asking, if a volunteer is at home volunteering online for your organization and they become injured, who would be liable for the injury? Our on-site volunteers are covered by us if an injury occurs while volunteering. Would that also apply to the off-site folks? It will only, and you can double check with your nonprofit centers. I'll have somebody who can answer questions about risk management.  They're up and walking around. Then things can change. An online volunteer is on a computer, and unless the computer jumps up and hits them in the head, I'm really not sure how in the world they're going to be liable just as if you're using Yahoo and you get injured, you can't sue Yahoo. Or you're using Facebook and you get injured while you're on the computer or smartphone. You can't sue Facebook. So the same applies for online volunteering. But always, if it really is a concern, and by the way, I check risk management constantly. There are no cases of this whatsoever. But if it really is a concern, check with your nonprofit center to get you in touch with a legal representative. Do not just call a lawyer because lawyers are woefully uninformed about volunteerism-related legal issues. The risk management center, the nonprofit risk management center is also a good place to go to for legal questions about volunteers. Great. That's helpful. I guess I wonder if that would extend to, for example, I have a desk job where I'm working at a computer all day. If I had to file like a workers comp claim because I got carpal tunnel, I wonder if something like that would apply to an online volunteer. So that's a great question. And I don't know that we could really advise on the sure thing answer because I think you would have to consult kind of the local laws and whatnot as well. But that leads me to another question about whether or not you think it's important to have some type of contract or employee handbook that volunteers also receive, whether they're on-site or off-site, whether that would help make those things, distinctions clear up front. Yes. And that's why I mentioned it a couple of times in this workshop. You absolutely have to have everything in writing. It's just fundamental. I've gotten in arguments with people who don't believe you have to have everything in writing. I do. Now for some of you who are outside the US, you cannot call it a contract. You may not even be able to call it a memorandum of understanding because for instance in the UK if you do that with a volunteer, you've just hired them and they can sue you for back wages. So what I call it is a, I think they call it a voluntary agreement. And you never, in the UK you can't talk about commitments. You talk about we hope you will volunteer 10 hours a week. We hope you will check in once a week. In the US you can say as a volunteer you are committing to volunteering 10 hours a week. You are committing to reporting once a week. Absolutely you need to have policies. What's great about Google and Bing and all these search engines is you can find other organizations' policies and you can use them as a guide to create your own policies. Again in the book we have really extensive information on how to write volunteer management policies so that they cover online volunteering assignments and what your volunteers are doing when they are online. So for instance you may have an onsite volunteer who is talking about your organization on Facebook. They have a legal right to do that. You need to make sure they understand what your confidentiality rules are and what they should not be discussing and what the consequences are for violating that policy. That's great to know. And we also have on TechSoup site, we have a manual that we created. It's a couple of years old but it has some samples of some of these things that I'll include in the follow-up email. It just occurred to me that it has some kind of some basic forms that you can customize and download and use for things like agreements upfront. So beyond having the assignment detailed in writing, having some type of employee handbook but for volunteers specifically, I think you are right that that sounds like necessary to make sure that organizationally things are clear and you are also protecting yourself. Changing topics we have Crystal asking, what kind of online volunteers do you, Jane, use? Do you have volunteers that work for you or work with you? At TechSoup, I work with several online volunteers who help me moderate the discussion group. They delete advertisements or violations of the rules. They look for answers when somebody posts something that they don't know the answer to. They go and look for the answer or they answer it. Somebody may have a question about how do I do this with Facebook or how do I make a website accessible for people with disabilities? And the online volunteers answer those questions. The platform I use to talk to them is a private area of the TechSoup forum. That's where we talk. So that is one of the ways I involve volunteers at TechSoup. We call them our online moderators, our Royal Court. Great. Daniel asks, any tools or apps that you would recommend for managing volunteers and assignments? Are there any tools that you use that you prefer? I really pretty much just use email and maybe, I know in one case I had a lot of volunteers and I was using my own FileMaker Pro database that I created. The more volunteers you have, the more sophisticated your tools are probably going to be. It's a frequent discussion on TechSoup where you can find tools that allow volunteers to self-update their records. And I recommend you have a look at the forum and what we've discussed there about great tools. But me, I tend to, I hate to say that I'm still stuck in spreadsheets and email. Also Rob Jackson and I did a survey of volunteer management software. I believe it was in 2012. We surveyed several hundred organizations about what software they use, why they like it, why they don't. And that's free and available, very easy to find via my website. You absolutely can't find it, just email me. And there are also links on the TechSoup forum about that survey. And you can see what people think of the tools that they are using, and we name those tools. Great. Thank you for that. And we could try and get a link to that to include in the follow-up if you'd like as well. So we're going to just move along because we've answered most of the questions. And then I just wanted to show a couple of additional resources again pointing to the virtual volunteering wiki that Jane has mentioned earlier. And then there are a couple of resources available on TechSoup's website that we thought we'd mention because they might be useful to some of you. So there is a series of courses that are available on volunteer management from one of our donor partners. And it's a certificate series that you can use for continuing education credit or without the continuing ed credit. And then we also have a subscription, a one-year subscription to Volunteer Matters Pro. And then some articles and webinars, so missed about online volunteering which Jane wrote for us a couple of years ago that still got a lot of great content in it. And then a consumer's guide to software for volunteer management does evaluate a handful of the volunteer management tools out there comparing sort of what types of organizations they might be best suited for. So if you're looking for a tool, this article that was written by Idealware for TechSoup is still I think a really valuable piece to look at. And then one webinar that we did previously on social media for volunteer managing and more. So those are some links that we'll include also in the follow-up email. With that we are at the top of the hour, so I'd like to thank our presenter Jane Cravens from Coyote Communications for joining us today and sharing her expertise on volunteering online. And I'd also like to thank Allie on the back end who has been helping grab your questions throughout the duration of the webinar. 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