Okay, it's two o'clock. We will go ahead and get started. Thank you all for joining me today for some last minute tips for Giving Tuesday. My name is Ashley Kefalidis. I am a Community Development Specialist here at Mighty Cause. I'm certainly glad to be with you all today. And I had a chance to mention to those who were on a few minutes early that we certainly appreciate you carving out time as we get into this busy fall season for fundraising. So I'm excited to be with you and I appreciate you making the time to be with me today. And as we get started, what we'll do is we'll take a quick look at who Mighty Cause is, but then we'll focus our attention on to the Giving Tuesday basics and registration, your Mighty Cause profile, Mighty Cause resources, scheduling content, your day of plan, follow up, and then we'll have a bonus, just the least that you need to do for success on Giving Tuesday. And of course, we'll have time for questions and answers at the end. Go ahead and post those questions or comments throughout the webinar in the question and answer box or in the chat box. And we'll be sure to cover those at the end of everything. Also, we will be recording the webinar. So if you need to duck out a few minutes early before we get to questions and answers, no problem, you'll still receive that via email. We'll send a recording in the slide deck, so you'll be able to check in on anything that you may have missed if you have to step out early. So a little bit about Mighty Cause, we are dedicated to serving nonprofits. We have been since 2006. We offer a year-round platform for all of your fundraising needs, but we're specifically designed for the small to medium nonprofit, although we definitely have our share of large nonprofits as well. And not only do we process donations, but we also provide peer-to-peer fundraising technology, donor management tools, integrations, and a number of other features. And also we have a free resource center with blogs, webinars, e-books, case studies for throughout the year, not just for Giving Tuesday, but that's enough about who Mighty Cause is. Let's get on to just Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday basics and registration. What is Giving Tuesday? Giving Tuesday might be larger than you know. It was launched in 2012, and it's held annually the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday. And this is a global giving event, so it unifies nonprofits all over the world through a day of online giving, but also collaborative generosity. Maybe it's in person, maybe it's online, but it is global. In this year, Giving Tuesday is gonna be November 28th and on Mighty Cause, we're again excited to partner with the small to mid-sized nonprofits just like you. And we wanna spotlight your work and we wanna help you bring in those donations. So for our Giving Tuesday on Mighty Cause event, we don't leave you on your own. We're here, we're happy to help. We have a number of resources that we provide to our nonprofits. And this includes a nonprofit toolkit with everything that you need for before, during, and after Giving Tuesday. And we also have a number of webinars, just like this one you may have received the emails. And we have three downloadable e-books that are specific for Giving Tuesday. All that we ask is that you register. And registering is what gets you on the leaderboards and it also is what lets us know who we're working with so that we can provide the best assistance possible. To register, simply head to givingtuesday.mightycause.com. The register button is in the middle of the page. Quick there, follow the prompts. It doesn't take long, but it's all that we ask. We ask that you register. And something to note, you'll hear me refer to Giving Tuesday on Mighty Cause throughout the webinar. And these prizes that we'll chat about in a couple of the details are specific to Giving Tuesday on Mighty Cause. However, I know that we have participants from a number of different local or statewide campaigns. So I know that, for example, Georgia Gives, they also provide a Giving Tuesday event. So a lot of these tips and strategies, these are absolutely applicable regardless of your giving event. But the specifics for Giving Tuesday on Mighty Cause, for example, registration, you don't need to worry about those if you're participating in a Giving Tuesday event within your region. And there's a couple of important dates to note. So early giving for Giving Tuesday on Mighty Cause begins on November 14th. And all donations starting at midnight Eastern Standard Time on November 14th, will count toward your Giving Tuesday total. And that means you can start moving up those leader boards early. Now registration closes November 21st. Again, this is just for Mighty Cause, Giving Tuesday on Mighty Cause. That registration closes November 21st. So we don't wanna wait, even though early giving has started, you'll still have a couple of days to register, but go ahead and get that done now. And of course, the big day is November 28th. Starts midnight Eastern Standard Time and it runs through midnight Pacific Time. Because we don't wanna short change anybody. So from midnight Eastern to midnight Pacific Time. Prizes, prizes, prizes. Mighty Cause is giving away $10,000 in cash prizes and over $5,000 in Mighty Cause subscriptions, which this is huge for us. Now cash may be king, but those Mighty Cause subscriptions, those are gonna help bring in more cash throughout the year. The prize opportunities are awesome and they are beginning with early giving. So throughout early giving and giving Tuesday, the leaderboards track the dollars raised and the unique number of donors. And to keep things fair, we break up organizations into two categories, small nonprofits and large nonprofits. And we also have power hours. So a power hour is a fundraising sprint that awards a prize to the organization that maybe raises the most money or has the most number of donors within the space of an hour. And then we have random prizes, which are also known as golden tickets. And you can think of these as a random drawing where we pick single donations at random and we award $100 to that nonprofit. So this means that every registered nonprofit that receives a donation has a chance to win a prize. In addition to the random tickets and the hour long sprints, we're encouraging our nonprofits to go beyond the traditional donation. And we wanna celebrate the matching grants, your recurring donations and retaining donors. And we wanna celebrate that with prizes. And also this year, we're introducing something new for it's Just For Giving Tuesday on Mighty Cause. And it's our subscriber perks and we love our subscribers. So along with chances to win prizes within that primary prize pool that we just covered, we're going to give away over $2,000 in prizes for which only Mighty Cause subscribers are eligible. So it just brings in a little bit more, stirs it up a little bit, brings in a little more creativity. And you can check the details and all the prize information and tips in our rules and prizes tab, which you can find on the Giving Tuesday website. So tip number one for Giving Tuesday, it's your Mighty Cause profile.  So there are four essential items on your profile page to do this. And these have to be completed, it's part of your registration process. Now the items are uploading a logo, adding a banner, sharing your mission within the about section and composing a thank you message for your thank you page. Now these are required because we also find them to be the most essential. So it's kind of two birds with one stone there. And why is it part of tip one? So the profile page is what your public sees. And you're gonna be sharing this page with your supporters and making the most of this page by presenting your goals and your mission in a thoughtful way is gonna make a big difference. Now your profile page URL is what you're gonna be sharing with your supporters.   So as you're looking at the different features we're gonna go over, just kind of keep in mind giving Tuesday end of year fundraising, what can you do there? You can make these customizations using the quick edit option at the top of your profile page. You can include pictures, videos, organization wish lists, upcoming programs, events, volunteer opportunities. Your page really is like a canvas. Anything that you know is going to really connect with your donors is what you wanna present on your page. And you're gonna think about what do your donors need to know about your organization? Are there upcoming initiatives? Maybe the rising cost of goods lately is changing your budget or maybe your organization has had some breakthroughs in your community and you wanna celebrate that and you wanna further those activities. So that's what you're gonna use your story section for and that's what you're gonna do, use the pictures, your media sections to you, pardon, that's what you're gonna use those sections for. It's gonna be connecting with your donors. And now I have two examples of organizations that have made the most of their pages and keep in mind, this is also some last minute activity. So you can go big or you can go minimal. The point is to be intentional with your pages. So first we're gonna take a look at vets beyond the Uniform Foundation. For what they chose to do on their organization page, it's a little, I'm gonna say streamlined and what I mean by that is that it's not lacking in engagement, but it's very straightforward. They start with their video, they go through, they explain who they are, how that contribution is gonna make a difference. The giving activity they chose to include so we can see that people care. And then we have that media gallery where it's that visual engagement in a new way. They also link their Instagram page where you could link your Facebook or Instagram or not, totally up to you. The other example that we have is woo, went too fast, here we go. So for the Isaac Foundation, the Innovative Space for Asian American Christianity, they went a little bigger. They got a little more involved. So not only do they start with their mission and they start to go through some of their activity, they also have a video and they have testimonials of people who have been involved and engaged. And you'll see how they have their image of photo. It brings the life, it brings the personality to their supporters. So it's not just words on a page, but it's bringing faces. These are real people that they're engaging. So for their page, they did choose to be a little more built out. Both pages are good, both pages are strong. It really is up to you and what you wanna have for your supporters. So as you consider your page, like I said, it doesn't need to be grandiose, but it does need to reflect who you are. So along those lines, we're gonna add or we're gonna update a goal or a progress bar. And you don't have to, we do recommend it, but again, just depends on what works best for you. And this progress bar is gonna be between your banner and the story section on your profile page. And you can update this to reflect the goal, the dollar amount for your Giving Tuesday. Now this can be changed or updated at any time. And you can also adjust the goal so that your page metrics start on November 14th for that early giving. And not only are we gonna customize our profile, but we're also gonna customize your checkout flow. Now you can find the checkout flow on your dashboard under checkout, the checkout section, and then you'll click on the donation form. So if you, excuse me, a few hints here, you can add suggested donation amounts and descriptions that pair up with a new initiative or any budget adjustments. And if you already have donation descriptions, go ahead and make sure that those are up to date. And once you've edited the checkout flow, give it a practice run. We're better yet have a friend walk through the checkout process and share any feedback because we wanna make sure that this is as easy as possible for your donors. So I have two examples of organizations that utilize the donation suggestion amounts and descriptions. And these can include whatever you would like to include, but if you want it to reflect again, your organization and connect with your donors. So the Golden Gate Labrador Retriever Rescue, they only have four donation suggestions, but they make perfect sense. And the House of Blue Hope Foundation, now they included seven donation suggestions ranging from $35 to 2000. So there's no right or wrong, it's the intent. And our intent is to guide the donor for making a donation that's gonna link them to your organization's mission because you're cultivating supporters, you're not just raising funds. We also have the opportunity within that checkout tab on your dashboard to customize a thank you page. So this is essentially the donation confirmation page, but more importantly, this is your first opportunity to thank your donor for their gift.  And to make it even better, you can add a call to action button at the bottom of the page. So this way you're directing your donors to the next step. Now the donation receipt is also customizable. And the good news here is not only do we send that receipt automatically as soon as the donor donates, now you don't have to worry about receipts, but again is that opportunity to thank your donors. So essentially you're getting your first two thank yous in automatically. So it can include anything that you wanna include, it does primarily just need to be text because of the formatting of the receipt. And now that our donors are taken care of, let's take a quick look at the backend of your organization profile page. So the bottom icon on your organization dashboard is your settings tab. You're gonna head here to make sure that you have all of the admins that you need for this here and that you can go ahead and remove any previous administrators who no longer need access to your organization profile page. Now in the general settings section, you'll wanna make sure that your social sharing options have been updated for your Giving Tuesday content. And this can be updated throughout the campaign. So you'll wanna get started now so that when people share your page on social media, it's updated, but then throughout the next couple of weeks you can be updating this so that that content varies from day to day or every couple of days. And finally, double check your EFT setup and your legal information. So within EFT, there's a Disbursement Settings tab just for that. And then within the Organization Info section, that's where you can check your legal info. Now is just a great time to do that. It's always good to check in and when better to do that than Giving Tuesday. So last thing, if you're returning to Giving Tuesday, so if you participated with us last year, go ahead and take a moment to focus on your retention. So check your donor retention rates in the Overview tab on your dashboard. It's gonna be the first item on your dashboard. So donors that gave last year and Giving Tuesday are a great source for this year's campaign. And go ahead, create a special strategy, do a special outreach just for them where you thank your donors for that previous engagement and where you ask them to participate again this year. And as a side note, that retention isn't that retention tool, I should say, isn't only available for Giving Tuesday, the feature's available all year round. So just in your last minute getting ready and activity, don't forget about that retention. It's super important. So tip two is your Mighty Cause resources. So we have the Resource tab, it's on our Giving Tuesday on our main page. And within that Resources tab, we have the toolkit with everything that you need. So no matter how large or small your 2023 campaign might be, we have what you need. And to help with that last minute marketing and communication to your supporters, we have email templates, social media post suggestions, we have logos, graphics, and we have a checklist that takes you from today all the way through the days following Giving Tuesday. Because follow-up is very important. So we have content that will take you all the way through. Now let's say that storytelling or matching grants, you know are good things, but they're intimidating. Let us help you. We have guides that are gonna walk you through not only steps to take, whether it's storytelling, matching grants, and some other activities, social media, things like that, but we also talk with you about the mindset. So as you're making plans and you're going forward, it's not just things to do, but it's the mindset to have. I am telling you this toolkit is like a pot of gold when it comes to Giving Tuesday. So step number three, you're gonna start scheduling your content because this is super huge when it comes to being prepared. Go ahead and start writing those emails now and let our templates help you. You don't have to start from scratch. And let's say you're gonna send five emails right all five now. So this way you can make sure that the Tuesday giving message is clear that the flow of your emails makes sense. And then you can time them out. And also if you have a prize winning strategy, particularly for those power hours, you wanna make sure that your donors know beforehand so that they can prepare. And don't be afraid to cater to your different audiences. Segmenting donors can be super helpful when it comes to identifying and putting that personal touch with your donors. So for example, if you have monthly donors, you're gonna address them directly thanking them for their monthly support, but then you're gonna highlight the prize factor of Giving Tuesday and you're gonna ask them to give again a special gift on Giving Tuesday or during early giving, whatever fits your strategy best. Another example, let's say you have donors that give every year at the end of the year. They always give in December. Go ahead and email them directly and request that they donate for Giving Tuesday. And again, highlight the idea of the leaderboards and the prizes or if you have a matching grant going on and let them know that their donation can go further if they participate in Giving Tuesday. Of course, we definitely wanna recognize and encourage that any donation anytime is good, but it's okay to ask for donations at a particular time. Also, if you have a routine correspondence, be sure to include your Giving Tuesday link in all of that messaging. Same goes for when you're posting on social media.   I mentioned social media. We wanna prepare for social media also. So much of our culture runs through social media and this is where you have the opportunity to raise awareness for what you do, but also to gain donors. So be sure to check out our Giving Tuesday social media tools and our guide and the nonprofit toolkit for this extra info and some ideas and some tips. Couple of things to remember right at the moment. Posting on different social media outlets is huge and the more you post, the better. So go ahead and write up those posts and create your schedule in advance because things are gonna get crazy as we lead up to Giving Tuesday. So go ahead and get the post set up, get your schedule ready to go so that as you start to make those posts, it's a thought through, it's a thorough and a well-dressed campaign. Again, you want everything to be flowing. We've got lots of tools. Don't hesitate to use them. So for example, we have two examples. Pause has already started posting their Save the Date content. They've done so on multiple outlets. Here's just an image of one. And a post from last year shows the organization Save the Animals Foundation in Cincinnati. They started to prep their donors not only for the big day, but they also were using their tagline just one more. So they formed a tagline just for Giving Tuesday and as they started their camp painting, that was their tagline, social media posts, emails on their profile page. It's just one more thing that you can do that helps create an awareness and then a reminder to your donors and to your supporters. When you post online, that's when people can start to share those posts. You'll see for Save the Animals Foundation in Cincinnati, they had eight shares. That's what we want to do. We want to cultivate those shares. Now, we also need a day of plan. So we want to get that together before Giving Tuesday. We don't want to miss any opportunities to engage your donors and not just your donors, but your supporters as well. So you want to assign point people for social media, donor questions, and for monitoring donations. And depending on the size of your organization, this might just be you or it could be a couple of staff members. It could be volunteers. It just depends on your situation and on your setting. The important thing is that you have all of your bases covered so that you're gonna keep your momentum going during early Giving, but primarily on November 28th. Now, here's a big thing.  We want everybody to be clear. We want everybody to have the right information so that they can fulfill their role with excellence. We don't want confusion. We don't want people to be lost. And people feel better. They do better. They volunteer better when they know and are prepared for what's coming up. So take a few minutes beforehand to make sure everybody's ready to go. Now, we wanna engage our supporters on Giving Tuesday. So you're gonna celebrate your milestones.  You're gonna celebrate on social media. You're gonna celebrate by sending out emails.  It's exciting. It's a great day. You're joining together with thousands of other nonprofits and you're making a major impact in your community. So it's something to be celebrated. Now, what we're also gonna do the day of is we're gonna keep an eye on those matching grants and on our prizes. And you're gonna use social media to pursue those other donations. And you're gonna do that also to just engage with your supporters. So here's an example. When Save the Animals Foundation Cincinnati, same organization we just looked at a moment ago, when they received a $10,000 donation, they celebrated everywhere and that included social media. So here on their Facebook post, not only do we see they made a post, but we also see the reactions. There were 736 reactions to this donation. There were 50 comments. This is engagement. This is what we're going for. And this is the opportunity that we have on Giving Tuesday that just is, it's just a little different than any other time during the year. So let's make sure that we're capitalizing on it. Tip number five, we wanna plan that follow-up. Follow-up increases your future gifts and it helps to close out the loop on Giving Tuesday. People wanna know how you did on Giving Tuesday. They cared enough to donate in the first place. So go ahead and give them that respect and give them that gratitude of showing you're Giving Tuesday success. I know we just said it, but post on social media that success. Send out those emails. When you're doing your different newsletters and your different conversations with donors, make sure that you spotlight that Giving Tuesday success. Follow-up is also gonna keep your donors engaged for future donation opportunities, future fundraisers. And it's also gonna keep the door open for volunteering. They're gonna be the people who are promoting you. And also when you have that critical support that you need at different times, following up with your Giving Tuesday donors is part of what just keeps that relationship going so they don't feel like, well, you only use this when you need a donation. No, you wanna develop those relationships. We want to steward our donors and our supporters well. So we're gonna welcome those new donors with a personal touch. This is a great activity for a volunteer, by the way. We wanna welcome in our new donors, especially for those if this is their first Giving Tuesday, but also those who have donated, let's say other times during the year, but this is their first recurring gift, or if they were retained from last year, we wanna add a personal touch to anything that makes a donation stand out. We want them to know they're part of your mission. And this also goes for those big donors. So if you have a large donor, or let's say that they gave a matching grant this year, these are big deals. So make a big deal out of the way that you celebrate them. Maybe this is taking out a big, or excuse me, taking a big donor out to lunch, or for those matching grants, maybe you provide a little bit of nonprofit gear to them celebrating your mission. Make it special as you start to steward those donors. Now, we've got a bonus tip. And this is the least that you can do and still have success for Giving Tuesday. Sometimes the least we can do is all we can do. And that's okay. So all that you need to do is look over your current Mighty Cause page, make sure everything is up to date. You're gonna fill in those four essentials, get in your story section, your logo, make sure your to-do list is done and your banner is there. Excuse me, your thank you page is done. Get those four essentials done. If they are, make sure everything's up to date. You're gonna create a few social media posts. Doesn't need to be a ton, just a couple and at least one email blast so that you can alert your supporters that Giving Tuesday is coming. At the bare minimum, that's what you can do. And who knows, you might win one of those random drawings. You could end up with a golden ticket. All it takes is participation. And whatever donations come in, it's a win. Now, with that said, let's go ahead, let's go through some questions. I've seen a couple come in already. I do wanna mention just a couple of things. I mentioned at the very beginning that we have those prize perks for our Mighty Cause subscribers. If you are interested in our Accelerate subscription, I would be more than happy to get you paired up with one of our experts where they can go through what you're looking for in a platform and then the features that we offer. Not only will using the Accelerate plan boost your Giving Tuesday fundraising, but it also puts you in the running for some prizes. So definitely just nothing else. We can get a good conversation in there, no commitment. But if you're interested, go ahead and post your email in the chat or the Q&A box. I'll make sure to get you paired up with one of our experts. We also have a, I totally lost the word, we have a survey at the end of our webinar. Let us, you can let us know there if you're interested in a demo, but also let us know what other content you would like to hear from us. I know that some people have asked for more examples so we're trying to work those in. There's some other topics people have asked for so we're trying to get those in, maybe not an individual webinar for that, but we're trying to work that information into the webinars and the blogs that we're hosting. So we definitely appreciate it when you fill out those surveys. But let's go ahead and we'll get started with some questions. Give me just a moment to catch up here. So Arnold asked about early giving. So early giving doesn't end on the 21st just to run through those dates again. When early giving begins on November 14th, that will run straight through up until the 28th. The only thing that ends on the 21st is registration and that's so that we can get leaderboards and prizes and all of that filtered out and set up. So registration ends on the 21st, but you can raise funds starting November 14th all the way through the 28th. So I had mentioned and also Leah had a question. So there are some local giving events. For example, Georgia Gives has a giving event on also on Giving Tuesday. So there's some organizations Colorado Gives and then we have North Texas Gives and there's Washington Gives and there's a number of others that are hosting Giving Tuesday events. So if you've registered with any of these other organizations or not organizations, any of these other giving events then that's where you're gonna wanna participate because those are best suited for the organizations within their region. So what you'll wanna do is yes, stick with Leah you'll stick with that giving event that local giving page that's where you're gonna wanna stay. Now a lot of the features are gonna be the same but as far as prizes and also the deadlines and things those are gonna be different. So you'll wanna pay attention to that local giving event page. Also just a quick note, the webinar will be, it is recorded it will be emailed as well as the slide deck will be emailed to anyone who registered for the webinar, but also on our Giving Tuesday page if you go to the Giving Tuesday page select resources and then the toolkit you can find all of our webinars posted there it may take a day or so a couple of days to get the webinar on the slide deck there but you can see it, you'll be able to access it there. And Kim asked for any tips for folks who have just finished a fall fundraiser they had a luncheon but now how do we move to Giving Tuesday so other than segmenting donors there's a couple of things that you can do a big thing is thanking anyone and everyone who participated with the luncheon and letting them know that Giving Tuesday is happening. So you don't necessarily have to ask them to give again but letting them know, thank you for participating in addition what you'll do in a broad outreach you're gonna say, hey, we just had this luncheon and it was amazing for anyone who wasn't able to participate we have Giving Tuesday coming up. The other thing that you can do is use Giving Tuesday as an option to say, hey, get involved with our organization it doesn't have to be through donations. So Kim, what you can do is say, hey, we just had this great fundraiser now's an opportunity I don't know what your organization does in particular but in essence now's an opportunity to get maybe a little more hands on involved if that's suitable and hands on involved might be writing thank you cards or it could be doing phone calls or it could be getting in your community and talking with people. So it more would be an opportunity now to segment to if you didn't get to donate, now's an opportunity but then now's your opportunity to get involved. So I hope Kim, I hope that that's helpful. And I do have someone asked about a quarter after about two 15 asked they're not sure if they're registered for Mighty Cause but they are registered under Washington Gives. So because you're registered with Washington Gives that's one of the regional giving events going on you won't really wanna participate in Mighty Cause you're gonna wanna participate through Washington Gives. So don't worry about registering for Mighty Cause stick with Washington Gives but go ahead and implement the different tips that we looked at here today. For example, if you have participated in a giving event at a different time during the year go through your profile page and make sure your content is up to date. For example, if you participated in Give 828 go on in an update where you have Give 828 and change that to hashtag Giving Tuesday as opposed to Give 828 just to show your donors the difference of the two different campaigns. Arnold asked what kinds of things do we check our emails on? So a couple of things you're gonna meet one checking to make sure that your emails are going out. Also as new emails are coming in or I should say new people are donating so now you have new emails coming in you're gonna wanna make sure that your donor management systems are filtering in and you're making sure that they're getting those email addresses and then add them to any email blasts that are going out. And it's okay if it's a give again email that's okay because oftentimes we're giving in emails have a thank you component so we wanna make sure that we keep kind of keep that thread going we're always wanna be thanking our donors but a big thing is you wanna make sure your emails are going out as they ought to be as they're scheduled and you wanna make sure that whatever new email addresses are coming in they're getting on the email list but also you wanna check to see is anyone emailing me saying that they're lost online or did anybody email saying hey I didn't get a receipt or I think I emailed but I meant to add a dedication I wanted to make this in honor of my mom so you wanna follow up to see our donors contacting you because they'll have questions so that's why you wanna those three main reasons why you wanna keep your keep a tabs on what's going on with your email and Emma asked if people can donate before early giving people can donate before the 14th however if someone donates before the 14th it's not gonna count towards leaderboards and prizes so the donate button does function but the donations won't count towards those leaderboards and prizes so if you're a part of NSGT the prizes, the competitions those won't apply Sarah asked that right about 230 the prizes won't apply but as I mentioned the different features will okay we've got a question about Colorado Gives just a moment so someone asked as far as Colorado Gives and Giving Tuesday so for anyone who happens to know what Colorado Gives is if you don't don't worry about this too much it's really up to you a lot of organizations will use Giving Tuesday as sort of a springboard towards Colorado Gives it I hesitate to give that advice in the sense of there's a lot of particulars to your organization that said if you use giving Tuesday as a launching point for Colorado Gives you can use a lot of the same marketing or let's say that you have a couple of initiatives that you're working towards go ahead and focus in on those initiatives for Giving Tuesday and then when you get to Colorado Gives you can talk about hey look at this momentum that we have look at how much we've raised help us get to the to the end line to the finish line I hope that that's helpful when you have the two different giving events going on you can, I happen to like the idea of using one marketing plan to lead into the other not everybody feels that way which just happens to be my preference it also keeps things a little more it makes things easier for you in the craziness of everything if you try creating two different marketing campaigns that's tough so that I hope that that's helpful Louise I hope that that's helpful Ebi I got your email address thank you for that let me see what else we've got going on so as far as prizes so someone asked how to win a prize and it depends on a couple of things so I'm going to suggest head on over to our prize page and I'm going to go ahead and post the link to our prize page in the support excuse me in the webinar chat so there's a lot that there's a lot of different prizes sometimes it's based on the most number of dollars the highest amount raised other times it's based on the most unique donors but we also have some prizes that are in regards to recurring donors things like that so I'm going to not get too much into the weeds on the specific prizes I'm going to send you on over to the prize page because there's a lot of different a lot of different options and as I mentioned in case anybody missed it at the beginning we do have a delineation between large nonprofits and small nonprofits because we want things to be fair so yes some will be total amount of donations others are going to be number of donors power hours are a little different and the random prizes doesn't matter how much you've raised if a donation was made you might be able to you might it might be drawn as a random ticket so that would be good okay let's see just making sure I'm going through so Lisa did ask because she's also part of Colorado Gives and she asked about why there's a different day in regards to Giving Tuesday Day is just what it is for Colorado Gives Day they wanted to have just a particular time that wasn't that specifically Colorado that wasn't lost in just the world of nonprofit giving also it just allowed for some different marketing and promotional opportunities having it be a different day than Giving Tuesday it's certainly not intended to to computers any donors or anything of that nature the hope also sometimes isn't it's not just donations giving on Giving Tuesday but but also that let's get involved and be be more than just I don't use the word bystanders but let's get involved with our hands and volunteer things like that with Giving Tuesday so the reasons for a different day there there is a number of reasons a big part of it is the opportunity to be just Colorado Gives in December Carrie one, let me see yes Carrie will definitely get you connected with one of our one of our experts okay Allison mentioned a concern about the the thank you note what I would say Allison go ahead and touch in or touch base with our customer support and see they can what they'll be able to do is look specifically at your organization page and from there then they'll be able to see what may have happened there was it an error in somebody's email address the way it was typed in or something like that so we can definitely take a look there what we can do is if you for that question go ahead and reach out if you go to our support page there's an option to to touch base there so I would say reach out to our customer support team Laura yes there will be a recording of the webinar we'll email that and we will also have that on our on the Giving Tuesday page within the toolkit in the webinar section Tanisha California does have a couple of different giving events what I would say is head on over let's see what would be the best way I would actually just check with your local your other local nonprofits to say hey there's not every local giving event is on our platform so I would say kind of touch base to see that said you are more than welcome to participate in Mighty Caught on Giving Tuesday on Mighty Caught we would love to have you we have a large number of California organizations we have a number for example for those who may be participated in Given May although that's a California event it's not happening Giving Tuesday so I would say go ahead and just jump in on Mighty Caught's Giving Tuesday you're certainly gonna have a number of great tools a number of great opportunities for prizes and those that fundraising so I would say just kind of jump on in to what we have okay so we did have a question about recruiting volunteers through the different initiatives so we have a couple of things we have a tool on our on the platform that allows for opportunities now that is part of our Accelerate subscription and what that allows is for you can pose different opportunities for volunteering but also just different calendar events that are going on and you can post that on your profile page and then people can sign up to volunteer or to participate in whatever the calendar event might be so you can do that through your profile page that's one option through our volunteers tool as far as recruiting if you're looking for just some different suggestions for how do you get people involved with Giving Tuesday for example to be following up with social media or something like that a big thing is you and this isn't mean to sound trite but you ask put out a call on Facebook or on through email or through your newsletters however you typically engage with your supporters and say hey listen Giving Tuesday is coming we're looking for some volunteers and then give them a list of things that you need some people are gonna say I don't do social media I cannot be helpful there that's fine but if they make phone calls they're comfortable doing phone calls or if they're comfortable writing thank you notes let them know this is the list of what we need they might say I can't do that but I definitely do this also let them know for opportunities after Giving Tuesday they might say hey it's too short notice you can say that's okay we're gonna need thank you notes for year end giving or we're gonna need people who are calling or stuffing envelopes for year end giving or let's say that there's some different community opportunities in the month of December and you're gonna need people to be at a booth at a festival or you're gonna be doing different engagements or maybe there's a conference that you're attending go ahead and list those the big thing is just ask put out a list of different items or tasks that need to be done and ask people for help and don't hesitate to ask people directly sometimes they won't just raise a hand you gotta ask them but once you ask them then they're so glad that you did so I hope that that is helpful okay just a second here James so we don't so James asked if we have any referrals or suggestions for those who and he referenced them as contractors someone who would be able to run a campaign or put that Giving Tuesday campaign together there are people who manage social media accounts and things like that unfortunately we do not offer referrals or suggestions to anyone we don't link ourselves in that way one thing would be just kind of as I just mentioned about recruiting the volunteers put out a call to your general supporters I know that you're small well I shouldn't say I know that you're small you said that you don't have time that's different than being small but if you are small still go ahead and reach out and what you might have to do is say to someone hey do you know of anybody who can help us and there might be a small cost involved so you're not always asking your volunteers to do it you might just be saying hey do you know of anybody or trusted contractor that I could reach out to but unfortunately we don't provide those so the leaderboards aren't ready just yet those will appear on Giving Tuesday or excuse me when early giving begins so we can't find leaderboards yet because they're not there but you'll see them on the website on the Giving Tuesday page when you go to that main page so once that giving early giving begins and for the matching grants we don't supply matching grants it is up to the nonprofit to secure a matching grant we do have a matching grant tool what that allows is where you're able to showcase on your profile page who provided matching grant and it can be anonymous but it's how much it also would describe what the match is, is it a dollar for dollar? Is it unlocked only when a donation is $50 or more? Do you have to reach a certain number of donations or a certain dollar amount before the matching grant is unlocked? There's a lot of different options what I'm gonna suggest is we do have within the toolkit my favorite thing of Giving Tuesday within the toolkit we do have a matching grants guide that will walk you through all of that and also we have a couple of blog posts and support articles that talk about how to secure a matching grant how to create it on your page but I'm gonna direct you to the toolkit for that. Okay, Claire, give me just a moment here so Claire had asked and I'm just gonna summarize a little bit is it better to add? I'm gonna cover this as a high number of donation suggestion amounts and descriptions so for example, their organization has amounts from 50 to 5,000 and it says that there's $50 since one student to the Youth Leadership Seminar, 5,000 covers a year, a scholarship for a student so there are, there's benefits to adding the increments but we also don't wanna overwhelm our donors either because we want as few quicks as possible and as little scrolling through the checkout flow as possible. I would say decide as a group don't even decide by yourself but ask a couple others within your nonprofit to say, okay, what are the key donations that we're looking for? We like the smaller ones but we also like the bigger ones because we wanna encourage people to give it all levels but maybe decide what are our six major amounts that we wanna make sure people see and I would decide that as a group. I definitely don't know that we want 50 to 5,000 I feel like that would be a ton but again, I don't know exactly what your breakdown would be so I would say get with your group and see what are the main dollar amounts that people usually get and the main dollar amounts that we wanna hit that will help us to reach our goal. At least you're very welcome for those and it gets tricky with Colorado like with the, not that Colorado is tricky but with Mighty Cause in Colorado so I'm glad that you asked and you all are very welcome I'm so glad that you've been able to participate able to ask some questions. I and asked I always think that it is better to go with the local giving event it's what's being promoted in your community the most cause it's Mighty Cause isn't is not that we aren't but we are nationwide where if you take somebody like Georgia Gibbs Georgia Gibbs is also doing promotion so they're doing promotion within Georgia that's also promoting you as part of their event it's just I will always vote to sign up for that local giving event. So Angie asked this is her first introduction to Mighty Cause, welcome. What I'm gonna suggest Angie is I have your email address now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pair you up with one of our experts she asked if there's a subscription or a paid account to participate in giving Tuesday itself to register does not require any payment it's totally free to participate in giving Tuesday so that's a big thing we want it to be available to all nonprofits regardless but we do have subscriptions that will allow for just some extra tools and features to be used but giving Tuesday itself is totally free of charge we're just happy to have you. I'm good I'm glad that this has been understandable and helpful I'm glad that this has been good let me just go through I see a couple more listed in our question and answer box I've been trying to go back and forth a little bit. So someone did ask and I think this might be our last question which is good because we can let y'all go in we're a little bit over time I appreciate everybody for sticking with me so Veronica asked her city hosted a giving day just a month ago and she's asking if it's too much to ask donors to give to another event and how do you go about asking if you do? So there's a couple of things I kind of mentioned it a little bit earlier on but slightly different where someone had their fundraising luncheon so in a similar way there's always gonna be donors who didn't give during El Paso giving day so you can reach out to your donors as a whole and thank them for those who participated in El Paso giving day but ask them hey if you didn't get to now you have your opportunity here's Giving Tuesday the other thing that you can do when asking again is letting people know hey we had this great success whatever your success was now if you didn't meet your goal you can let them know hey we still have 4,000 or 20,000 whatever it is $400 whatever it might be to reaching our goal and you can say here's another opportunity and be sure for those who have given to thank them for giving and ask them would you be interested in and you can even depending on your nonprofit size you could say would you be interested in contributing just another $5 or just another 10 or just another 100 whatever you're comfortable with with your donor base to say we're so close to our goal here's another opportunity here's the other thing when you're doing your asking for Giving Tuesday when you're asking again is you're gonna be pointing out we have the opportunity for prizes so that's one of the things that can make a difference for donors or if you get a matching grant I would definitely encourage you try to get a matching grant so that if you are asking people to give again you're letting them know hey we're just asking you to give $5 and it's gonna be transformed into 10 with our match so that you're saying here we're not just asking for more money but we are meeting you halfway we're creating a match and we have the opportunity to win prizes do you mind giving just a little bit more to help us reach our goal? The other thing when you're kind of shifting from one giving event to Giving Tuesday is highlight this idea that hey this is an opportunity to volunteer it's the opportunity to learn more about us or what you do is you say hey we're not asking you for more money we're asking you to share us on social media we're asking for you to promote us so that you're not giving again from El Paso Giving Day but you're passing on the word you're sharing about us and those are the new donors that are gonna come in so the Giving Tuesday donors are like the new donors where the El Paso Giving Day those are your faithful core so Veronica I hope that that's helpful I hope for anybody had a chance to listen or has a similar question that that is helpful information what we'll do is we'll go ahead we'll call it a day I do have the email addresses for everyone so we'll make sure to get you peered up with an expert one last time I just wanna thank everybody for coming out for bringing questions for bringing ideas and just being a part of Giving Tuesday it makes it exciting as we get closer when we start to see everybody coming again


Today, we'll see how to obtain delegation schemes with updatable and unambiguous proofs and show P-pad hardness. This is based on joint work with Yael, Tom and Kalei, and Omar Paneth. The delegation scheme, a weak machine such as a smartwatch wants to learn the outcome of a costly computation. He doesn't have the resources to perform the computation himself, so he'll delegate it to a more powerful machine such as the cloud who will perform the computation and return the output Y. Now, he doesn't just want to trust the cloud, so he also asks for a proof pi to check that the output Y is indeed the correct output. Importantly, checking this proof should take much less time than performing the original computation. The question we ask is, can verifying actually be faster than computing? In prior constructions of delegation schemes, the verifier needed access to secret trapdoor information in order to check the proof. What we're after today is a notion of a publicly verifiable delegation scheme where the prover can write down the statement and proof in a public place such as in a book or on the internet, and anyone can come and verify the proof without needing any trapdoor information. To actually realize such schemes, we'll work in the common reference string or CRS model. Now, publicly verifiable delegation schemes are essential to decentralized applications, such as cryptocurrencies and blockchains, where you really want to allow anyone to be able to verify the proofs. There's been a lot of prior work on publicly verifiable delegation. First, we had many constructions, but they were all based on pretty strong cryptographic assumptions. More recently, we have constructions of publicly verifiable delegation schemes based on weaker cryptographic assumptions. Last year, we had a delegation for bounded-dev circuits based on what was called the optimal security of LWE, and this assumption was reduced to sub-exponential LWE in the recent work. Also last year, we had a construction of a delegation scheme for polynomial-time computations based on a bilinear group assumption. Today, we'll be building upon this delegation scheme by making its proofs updateable and unambiguous. The first notion that we're after today is the notion of updateable proofs, which is introduced by valiant. In this setting, we have a long computation going from C0 to CT, which is carried out over B-separ iterations. At any point in time, you'll have some prefix of the computation that's been carried out and a proof for the computation that's been carried out so far. Now, we want to allow any prover to perform the next block of the computation, and to update the proof from pi i into pi i plus 1. Importantly, the time to update the proof should take time proportional to the amount of computation he performed. In particular, if a large amount of the computation has already been performed, we don't want the prover to have to redo any of that computation in order to update his proof. Secondly, we also want the proofs to remain succinct. So the size of the proofs should not grow with the number of iterations B. A potential solution would be to have the prover simply perform the next block of the computation and append a fresh proof just for the part that he performed. But of course, then the proof would grow with the number of updates. So today we'll see how to get updateable proofs with both the efficiency and the succinctness properties. And previously, the constructions of updateable proofs were based on snargs, which we only know under pretty strong assumptions, whereas today we'll construct updateable proofs from a falsifiable assumption. The second notion we're after is the notion of unambiguous proofs. We say that the delegation scheme has unambiguous proofs. If it's hard for a prover to generate two different accepting proofs for the same statement. So our result is a delegation scheme that's publicly verifiable and has both updateable and unambiguous proofs and is based on the following this decisional bilinear group assumption. In the assumption, the adversary is given this three-by-alpha matrix of bilinear group elements where alpha is logarithmic in the security parameter. And while this assumption is new, it's similar in spirit to the wide range of bilinear group assumptions made previously and also holds in the generic group model. So using this delegation scheme, we show P-pad hardness based on the quasi-polynomial hardness of this bilinear group assumption and also the existence of any hard language L that's decidable in superpolynomial time and polynomial space. And so for instance, assuming the hardness of SAT for sub-exponential size circuits or assuming non-uniform ETH would suffice to insentiate the hard language L. And we use our delegation scheme to show P-pad hardness by following the blueprint of Chanduri et al. So today we'll just focus on the delegation scheme itself. And for those who aren't familiar, P-pad is an important complexity class of total search problems that's known to contain the problem of computing Nash equilibria. And there's actually been a lot of work trying to show P-pad hardness based on cryptographic assumptions. So the first of these works show P-pad hardness based on pretty strong assumptions. And just recently, there were several works showing P-pad hardness based on LWD assumptions. And all of these works are preceded by applying Fiat Shamir to an interactive protocol for a specific language. And you can actually think of this as constructing a publicly verifiable delegation scheme with updatable and unambiguous proofs, but just for the particular language. And so the first of these works relied on the security of Fiat Shamir or the optimal security of LWD. And just recently, this was reduced to sub-exponential LWD. Another related work shows the hardness of PLS, which is another class of total search problems. And they proceed by making the KBY delegation scheme have updatable proofs. But for P-pad hardness, we will need both the updatability and unambiguity properties. So for the rest of this talk, we'll just focus on the delegation scheme and we'll start with showing how to make its proofs updatable. So as I mentioned, previous works obtain updatable proofs, but based on pretty strong assumptions. And what we do is we use the same technique of recursive proof composition, but we show how to do this without using strong assumptions. And in particular, we extend the idea of local extraction, which is introduced in KBY in order to obtain updatable proofs under this bilinear group assumption. So recalling the setting of updatable proofs will have a proof pi for the part of the computation that's been performed so far. And to update pi, we could just append a proof for the computation that we perform, but then the proof will grow with the number of updates. So at any point in time, the proof could contain B proofs pi sub i for separate parts of the computation. And what we'd like to do is we'd like to prevent the proof from growing by shrinking it back down. So what we'd like to do is we would like to merge the B proofs and replace the B proofs with the single proof pi prime. And our construction of this merge operation will just consist of verifying each of the B proofs and then generating a proof pi prime for this verification computation. And now the proof of pi prime will be shorter than the length of the B proofs from before. And so we've succeeded in reducing the size of the proof, but unfortunately this verification computation is non-deterministic. And so it's not actually clear how to prove that this transformation preserves soundness because we know from works on non-deterministic delegation that in general it's hard to extract a lot of information, such as the B proofs from a single short proof pi prime. So previous works actually assumed that you can extract all B proofs by relying on strong assumptions. What we do is we instead extract small parts of the proof and show that each of these small parts can actually be pieced together via a technique that we call local extraction. And this is how we'll get updatable proofs under a falsifiable assumption. So for the rest of this talk, we'll just focus on obtaining unambiguous proofs. So first we need to understand a little bit more about the KPY delegation scheme. So in the delegation scheme, the prover performs the computation and writes down the tableau, which he encodes via a polynomial F. And now the CRS contains homomorphic encryptions of queries to this tableau, which you can just think of as inputs to this polynomial. And the prover will homomorphically evaluate the answers and send them back as a proof. Then the verifier will publicly check the proof pi using an operation called the zero test, which acts on the ciphertext themselves. This notion was introduced in the work of PR and constructed in the work of KPY. And we won't go into the details today, but this is how the public verifiability is obtained. So next we'll see how to make this delegation scheme have unambiguous proofs. So the first observation is since the proof consists of ciphertext, we'll have to use an encryption scheme that has an unambiguity property. And our property will say, and our property will require that any cheating prover cannot generate two different ciphertexts that encrypt the same message. This property might seem a little counterintuitive, but it's pretty easy to see that it holds in the KPY encryption scheme. In this encryption scheme, a secret key is a random field element S and a ciphertext is just an encoding of a low degree polynomial R that passes through the message at the secret key. And so now if a prover succeeds in generating two different ciphertexts, C and C prime that encrypt the same message, then R and R prime are two different polynomials that agree at a random point S with noticeable probability. So with this unambiguity of ciphertext property, it suffices just to ensure that the answers underneath the encryption are unambiguous and this will give us unambiguous proofs. So now we'll just focus on ensuring the unambiguity of the answers underneath the encryption. So recall that the prover encodes the computation via a polynomial F and actually the honest prover will encode this polynomial by taking the multilinear extension of the computation tableau. Following the work of PRR, we can show that for queries in 01, the corresponding answers will be unambiguous because they correspond to a deterministic computation tableau. But for the unambiguity of ciphertext property, we need to ensure the unambiguity of answers for queries in F. If we could ensure that the prover evaluates a multilinear polynomial F, then we could use the unambiguity for 01 to show unambiguity for every query. And so the idea is to ask the prover to send a proof of multilinearity for his evaluated ciphertext. But it's not clear that an adversarial prover has to evaluate any polynomial to compute his answers. And even if we could ensure that he evaluates some polynomial, it's not clear how to get a succinct proof that he's evaluating a multilinear polynomial. For instance, if he sends back the polynomial itself, then the communication grows with the size of the computation. And so again, we're stuck with the task of designing a succinct proof for a potentially large, non-deterministic statement. And we do this by introducing the notion of local multilinearity, which will allow us to construct a succinct proof. So our proof of local multilinearity will ask the prover for the restriction of the polynomial F in each coordinate. So this will consist of encryptions of AI BI that describe a line passing through the evaluation of F at the point Q sub I. And the verifier will check the consistency of these restrictions and the evaluation of F using the zero test. The problem with this protocol is that since the encryption is homomorphic, an adversarial prover can use the encryption of Q sub I and compute different restrictions. And so our idea is to encrypt the query again, but without the I've coordinate and to ask the prover for the restriction in the I've coordinate. And so now we'll have the guarantee that the second restriction is computed independently of Q sub I. And so all we have to do is test that this restriction agrees with the original restriction. And to do this, we construct what we call a proof of equality that allows a prover to prove that he evaluated the same function on both encryptions. And this will allow the prover to prove that A B and A prime B prime are the same. Then we'll have our proof of local multilinearity that ensures the unambiguity of answers. And recall that together with the unambiguity of ciphertext property, this ensures the unambiguity of the prover's proof. So then we'll have constructed a delegation scheme with updatable and unambiguous proofs. But we aren't quite done yet because to show the unambiguity of the entire proof, we actually need to show the unambiguity of the other ciphertext in the KPY proof. So far we've just described how to show the unambiguity of a ciphertext that corresponds to the computation tableau. And we'll also have to show the unambiguity of all the ciphertext that we added to the proof in constructing these equality and multilinearity proofs. Once we do that, we'll have unambiguous proofs, but we still need to ensure that the unambiguity is preserved in the recursive proof composition that allows us to get updatable proofs. In the full version of our work, we do indeed show how to perform these other steps. And this allows us to obtain our delegation scheme with updatable and unambiguous proofs based on the bilinear group assumption introduced in KPY. And recall that a corollary of this result is P-pad hardness based on the quasi-polynomial hardness of this assumption. To conclude, I just want to highlight the idea that underlies our result, which is the power of local proofs in the setting of non-deterministic statements. So in non-deterministic delegation, we know that in general, it's hard to extract a lot of information from a very short proof. But by using locality, we're able to construct succinct proofs for seemingly large, non-deterministic statements, obtain updatable and unambiguous proofs, under standard assumptions. Thank you for your time.


Welcome to today's episode. I'm gonna warn you if there's children around, you might want to not listen to this episode right now because it's a pretty good chance I might cuss because this is something that I am passionate about. So listen to this at another time if there's children around. What I'm gonna talk about today is procrastination and how procrastination is a bunch of BS.  Procrastination does not exist. Procrastination is a fancy word made up by lazy people for just not really giving a damn. Let me say that again. Procrastination is a fancy word for not giving a damn because here's the deal, if something is important to you you will figure out a way to get it done. If something is important to you you will figure out a way to get it done. Let me tell you exactly what I mean by that. What I mean by that is this. If I said, hey, what's the chance of you making $1 million this year? What's the chance of you making $1 million this year? What's the percentage chance? You might say, oh, it's a 1% chance, a 0% chance, a half a percent chance. If I say, what's the chance of you making a million dollars this year?  What's the percentage chance of you making a million dollars this year? The percentage chance at that point in time, everybody always says it, 100%, 100%, 200%, 500%, 1,000%, I've heard all of those numbers before. What changed? The goal didn't change. The time frame didn't change. What changed was your why behind it? If you're not driven, if you're not motivated to get up and do what needs to be done in order to get to where you want to go, the reason why, if you can't get up and do it is because you really just don't care. You don't care. Procrastination is a fancy word for not giving a damn. So you might say, okay, that's great. Well, how do I actually start to care? In order to do anything, you have to have a strong why. You will not do something, you can be excited about something for a little while, but you will not continuously do something and you keep working hard and own your business or start your business and keep getting kicked in the face and failing and failing and failing and failing and all of those things. You won't continually get up every single time unless you have a why, something that is so strong behind that goal that's going to make you get up.   And the truth of that is, it doesn't exist. When you're looking to be motivated, what you're really looking for is to be driven, to have something that you're so driven for that nothing's going to hold you back. And so if you say, oh man, I just keep procrastinating, I don't know how to stop procrastinating, ask yourself, do I really frickin' care about it? And if you don't, do something else. And if you do care about it, ask yourself this question, what is my why? If your goal is to make $100,000 this year, let's just use that as an example, why is that? What is your why? What is your strong emotional attachment to that goal of making $100,000? If it's just monetary reasons, monetary value, you're not going to be that driven most of the time. But if you say, hey, I want to make my why for making $100,000 this year is because I want to take my children out of the apartment that they're in and move them into a house in a better school district so they can be raised better than they can get better education than I got. That's a strong why. That's something to be excited about.  That's a strong why. And so you have to ask yourself, whenever you figure out what your goal is, whenever you know what your goal is, find out that why, that strong emotional attachment that is going to make you get up when you want to stay in bed. That's going to make you make the extra phone calls when everybody keeps hanging up on you. That's going to make you get up and do the work that needs to be done when you've been rejected all fricking day. So if you ask yourself, if your question is, oh, listen, I know what I need to do. I just don't know how to do it. I don't know how to make myself do it. You have to ask yourself, do I really care? Because procrastination does not exist. You either care or you don't care. Procrastination is a fancy word for not giving a damn. And if you want to get to where you want to go in life, you need to figure out what the real reason is or else you're going to procrastinate forever. So if you liked this episode, please do me a favor, click the subscribe button and please share this with someone that you love, someone that you think could get something from it. And I hope that you go out, you take this information and that you have an amazing day.


My name is Sam Baknin and I'm the author of Malignal Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited. Women with histrionic personality disorder respond differently to two types of men. The first type, these are men who openly desire a histrionic woman. They are infatuated with her, or even, in some instances, actually and truly love her. The histrionic sees herself through their eyes and she likes what she sees. Their gaze defines her, provides her with a sense of identity, where there is only diffuse identity, and enhances her self-confidence and self-esteem. She falls in love with herself through them. But after a brief affair or a few encounters with this type of men, they begin to bore the histrionic woman, the irritator, and she begins to devalue them, because there is no thrill, no chase, no conquest, hunt, or competition involved in the totally predictable relationship. A histrionic woman should limit her contact with such men to a passive role. She should accept their admiration, attention, and infatuation, but not take it any further because the relationship is doomed. This way she will not create enemies among these men, and will be able to dedicate her scarce mental resources to the second type of men, which is absolutely her only kind. What is this second type of men? These are men who are visibly attracted to the histrionic and even desire her sexually, but are very avoidant emotionally or even absent emotionally. This is the only type of men with whom the histrionic woman can have a locked relationship. However dysfunctional and painful, the interaction may be. The histrionic women abhor intimacy and love. Actually, they are not very sexual either.  So they don't need sex, they don't need love, they don't need intimacy. What do they need? They need mind games. With these men, there is always some game going on. Constant hunting, the adrenaline field ups and downs, competing with other women, conquest and loss, etc. When the histrionic woman is in a relationship with such an emotionally unavailable man, she should mirror him, she should approach him and avoid him. Be he is and not he is. Provoke his jealousy, vanish and reappear, promise and withhold, give and torture. This kind of conduct will render these men dependent on the histrionic and gratify their sense of control, of being the winner of having it all.


Hello, I am Dr. Himali Tekani, I am a consultant obstetrician and gynecologist at Manipal Hospital's Old Airport Road, Bangalore. Now, it is a popular misconception that a pregnant woman should eat for two during pregnancy that is herself and for her baby. Technically speaking, this is not true. The requirements of calories go up by around 300 calories in the early pregnancy and it increases to about 500 calories per day towards the end of pregnancy. This calorie requirement would be sufficed by about 2-3 slices of bread, a glass of milk and one or two added fruits in a day. So as such, speaking, we do not need too much of extra nutrition during pregnancy. One must focus on eating a well-balanced, nutritious diet containing adequate vegetables, fruits, fibers and adequate amount of fluids. The other thing to look at is that food digestion becomes slow during pregnancy and that's why a lot of women complain of nausea, acidity and feeling bloated during pregnancy. So we recommend them to eat small meals and at frequent intervals to keep all these symptoms away.


Welcome to our module on the Zutilo add-on for managing your Zotero library. Zutilo is an add-on for Zotero created by Will Shanks, which adds many extra menu items to Zotero for managing tags, item data, file attachments, and more. It makes doing bulk operations in Zotero much easier. In this module I'm going to talk about this excellent Zotero add-on. We're going to cover what Zutilo does, how to install Zutilo, configuring Zotilo, and my favorite Zutilo features including copying and pasting tags, creating related items easily, and copying and pasting item fields in bulk. To follow along in this module you need to have Zotero installed on your computer. You can get the software at Zotero.org and for more information on the basics of using Zotero see our online guide or check out the Mastering Zotero guide on GitHub. This module also uses examples from a sample Zotero library. You can use your own Zotero library to try out the features I cover, but I've also made the sample items for this course available for you to import into your Zotero library. That way you can see exactly what I see and follow along click by click. To learn how to get and import those sample items see the course setup module and come back to this one when you're ready. This is the fifth and final module on this unit on Zotero tags, collections, and related items. It's a bit of a pro tip for people who have been using them for a while and want some tools to make managing things a bit easier, but I still encourage everyone to take advantage of it because you're going to need it eventually. As an aside, there are actually many add-ons for Zotero that add functionality with most of them listed on Zotero's website. Here, I'm going to tell you about Zutilo, whose name is a mix of Zotero and utility.  Zutilo adds a bunch of flexible and configurable keyboard shortcuts and menu items to Zotero for managing files, tags, related items, and for copying and pasting information between items. Once it's installed, this is an example of how a setup can look. If I right-click on an item, you'll see I have a Zotilo menu now with a bunch of extra functions I can use. Depending on how I configure the add-on, some options might be available directly from a right-click. There are a couple of features for collections as well. I hope this sounds exciting to you because I really, really love this tool. First, Zutilo is an add-on, sometimes also referred to as a plug-in or an extension. If you've ever used an extension for your web browser, like the Zotero connector, you'll know what an add-on is. The Zotero connector itself is an add-on, also known as a plug-in, that adds support for Zotero to your web browser. The Zotero software is open source, and that means people can improve it and add to it. As a result, there are a number of really great add-ons for Zotero that you can use to customize and improve the software. You can find information on popular Zotero add-ons on the Zotero website. You can get a little overwhelmed by all of the options here. There's lots of cool utilities and add-ons for Zotero, but most of them are installed exactly the same way as Zotilo, so I'll leave the exploration of the other add-ons for you. In unit two of this course, we'll be talking about Zot file, which is another must-have add-on. Now under the interface tools section, you will see a link to Zotilo. This is a plug-in that was created by Will Schenkes. You can also get to it directly on the web because it's stored in GitHub, which is an open source code repository. Now what we're looking for on this website is an XPI file, which is the format that Zotero uses to package its add-ons. You'll see that there is an XPI file here, so I will right-click and save the file to my downloads folder. Just one warning here. The XPI format used by Zotero is the same format that Firefox uses for their web browser extensions. So if you're using Firefox, make sure that you right-click and save instead of trying to download the file by clicking on it. In Firefox, if I just click the link, you'll see that it thinks that I'm trying to add a plug-in or an extension to Firefox instead of Zotero, and that's not what we want. So make sure that you right-click and save. Next, we want to install our add-on. So in Zotero, go to Tools and then Add-ons. Click the gear icon and select Install Add-on from File, and you're going to browse to the location of the add-on in your downloads folder and add it. Some add-ons require you to restart Zotero before they'll activate, and they'll usually tell you if that's the case. But Zotilo will actually work right away, so we can just close this window and we're all set. Now that Zotilo is installed, you'll see that you have a new Zotilo Preferences option under the Tools menu. So let's select that, open it up and set up Zotilo. The Preferences pane is in three sections. The first is used to add or hide additional features to the Zotero Item menu. The second is for creating new keyboard shortcuts for Zotero functions. And the last tab has a link to full documentation on what every option in Zotilo does. Back to the User Interface menu. The first tab. Every item in here has three options. The first one puts items in the Zotero menu. That's what you see when you right-click on an item or collection. The other is to put items in a Zotilo sub-menu, which appears inside the right-click menu. And the third is to hide the option altogether. So as you're working with Zotilo, if there are features you use a lot, you can save some mouse work by putting them right in the Item menu. Features you like but you don't use often can go in the Zotilo sub-menu. And of course, if you hide an item, it won't appear at all. Now there's a lot to cover in the Zotilo options in terms of the things you can add to the menu. So I'm going to focus on a few key tools that I use and that I think will help you a lot when you're working with Zotero. My favorite items are these. Copy tags, remove tags, paste tags, relate items, create book section, create book item, copy item fields, and the three paste options, paste into empty fields, paste into non-empty fields, and paste all item fields. I use the copy and paste tags items the most. So I put these in the Zotero menu. Most of the other ones I leave in the Zotilo sub-menu. And of course, you can change these any way you want. So rather than going into everything in detail, you can check the documentation for that. I just want to show you some of the ways that Zotilo can make managing your Zotero library much easier. So let's say I've spent the afternoon collecting articles related to my research. And before I finish for the day, I want to make sure that I add some tags. Doing this for multiple items in Zotero can be a pain in the butt because you need to go one by one. But with Zotilo, it's easy. I can add a few tags to one item on this one here. Let's say Canada, since everything I found is related to Canada. And to read, which is a tag that I use to remind myself that it's an article that I haven't read yet. Now I can copy those tags by right clicking and selecting Copy Tags. And then if I select the other articles I downloaded today, I'm going to grab these ones here. I can paste the tags to the other articles at the same time. Just right click, select Paste Tags from Clipboard and it's done. The Remove Tags option is also helpful.  So here you see I have an entry for a book about colonialism in Canada and the database I got it from has pulled in some tags that I don't think I need. I can get rid of these tags by right clicking and choosing Remove Tags. This removes all of the tags on this particular item. So it fixes the problem for this item, but it does not remove the tags from any other items in your library. If you like using related items in Zotero, you'll know that you can actually relate more than one item at a time with Zotero's natural interface. But you have to use a few different steps to do it. It involves a pop-up window and a search, and it's a little bit slow. With Zotillo, I can just do this. Highlight a set of items that I want to relate together. In this case, some magazine article reviews of Miriam Tave's Irma Voth and an item for the book itself. And then I'm going to select Relate Items, right click. There it is. That's it. When I look at one of these review articles now, I see that the other reviews are also listed as related, and so is the book. The last example is one that I actually use a lot. With eBooks online, some publishers actually make individual chapters available. And often when I'm doing research, I don't want the whole book. I just want one section. So I'll download a chapter instead of the whole thing. And when you do that in Zotero, the Zotero item type that I use is book section. But then later, as I'm doing my research, I keep going back to the book and I start adding additional sections for other chapters. And then eventually I get to a point where, listen, I'm basically just going to cite the whole book. So rather than keeping entries for every individual chapter, I just want one entry for the book. To do this manually in Zotero, I would have to duplicate the book section item and then edit its type and change it to book. And then I'll get a warning about fields that might get lost. And then I double check the result. It works, but there's a few steps involved and have to click a number of times. With Zotelo, I just highlight the book section item, right click and select create book item. I still have to check the fields here to make sure that they're correct. But I've saved a couple of steps. And Zotero jumps to the new book section right away, the one that I've just created and puts my cursor right into the title field so I can actually add the title. And of course, I can also go in reverse. For example, I can select a book item and then use Zotelo to create a book section. Zotelo will create the item and then again, put my cursor right into the title field so I can put in the title. The last example I want to show you are the copy and paste options for item information. These are great if you find, for example, that you have a typo in an author's name that spans multiple items or if you need to add an editor to a whole series of book chapters, etc., things like that. First, let's use copy item fields. In this collection here, I have three book sections for three chapters of Goldberg's Threat of Race. One chapter has all the right information, but these two you can see are missing the author and the book title. So what I'll do is select the item for the complete chapter, the one where the information is correct, right click and then select Zotelo copy item fields. Now I need to paste this info into the other two chapters, but in this case, I do not want to overwrite information in fields that already have entries because that could cause other problems. In this case, the other two chapters that I have of the book have different page ranges in them. The page numbers are different and I don't want to mess that up. So I'm going to use paste into empty fields so that when Zotelo sees a field that already has data in them, it's not going to replace it. It's only going to put information in fields that are empty. So I'm going to select both items here and use a command click on a Mac or a control click on a PC, right click and select paste into empty item fields. Now you can see I have accurate title and author information for the book, but you'll also see that my page range has not been altered. Paste into non-empty fields would do the opposite. It would overwrite only the fields that have data in them and leave blank fields blank. And finally, as you can guess, paste all item fields will actually paste everything in from the clipboard, whether or not the existing fields and the item that you're pasting to are empty. Now I'm going to talk to you briefly about the shortcuts feature in Zotelo. If you don't use keyboard shortcuts a lot, this might not be of interest. But for those who prefer the keyboard to the mouse, this can be an excellent time saver. In the Zotelo preferences, which is tools, Zotelo preferences. Select the shortcuts tab at the top here. You can see you can set shortcuts for more than 70 different Zotelo functions. Let's say I want a keyboard shortcut for generate report for item. So I'm going to select that option here and then you see that the keyboard shortcut in the text field at the bottom is listed as disabled. Now I'm going to click in the field at the bottom and actually type the shortcut that I would like to use for this command. So let's try a command that involves the letter G, since I'm trying to create a shortcut for generate report. And since I'm on a Mac, I'm going to try shift command G. So to do that, I'm just going to press that key sequence on my keyboard and click apply. Huh. So Terra has warned me in this case that shift command G is a key combination that's already being used for something else. So that means I have to think of something else. So I'm going to cancel this. I'm going to highlight this again. And seeing as we're doing generate report, how about shift command R for report? That'll work. I'm going to click apply. And this time I did not get a warning. And then if you look in the window, it says that the key sequence for shift command R is now listed next to the generate report command. So now I can just close this preferences when now all I need to do to create a report from a Zotero item instead of going through menu options is to select it and press shift command R.  As you can see, Zotilo gives you some great tools and can save you an awful lot of time. I recommend it for everybody in this module. We covered installing and configuring Zotilo using Zotilo to manage tags related items and item information. I highly recommend this add on for everyone, even if you don't think you're going to use it right away. It's one of those things where you're in the middle of maintaining your library and you're like, I wish I could do this easier. Zotilo will help with all of that stuff. This can become a very valuable tool in your arsenal. And with that, we are finished the first unit on managing Zotero collections in our Zotero course. See you in unit two.