Welcome to NTN Nightly, I am Genelle Norvel. This edition stops stories. Five cases of the British COVID-19 variant diagnosed her make a full recovery. The Cabinet of Ministers strongly condemns recent acts of violence against women and the WHO assures equity for the COVID-19 vaccine through COVAX. The Ministry of Health and Wellness has received confirmation of 76 new cases of COVID-19 from the Israel Long Laboratory. This is from a batch of 309 samples which were taken for testing between January 18 to January 24, 2021. The Ministry of Health also received confirmation that 37 COVID-19 patients have fully recovered. This brings a total number of active cases in country to 412. All of the active cases are stable and doing well. All of the new cases are St Lucia Nationals who range in age from 6 years to 85 years. They are from the castries Souffre, Anselare, Grosillais, Denry and Barbados districts. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health and Wellness on Sunday, January 24, 2021 received confirmation from the Caribbean Public Health Agency, CAFRA, of five cases of the SARS-CoV-2 British variant diagnosed in country. Two of the cases are British Nationals who were diagnosed on December 17 and December 23, 2020, while the other three cases are St Lucia Nationals from the Denry, Miku and Barbados districts who were all diagnosed in December 2020. All five cases have made a full recovery from the COVID-19 virus. Chief Medical Officer Dr Sharon Melmar George. The identified strain had been in circulation from September 20, 2020 within the United Kingdom. The virus has since been detected in Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium and Australia, but the risk of importation into the Caribbean and the rest of the world was rated as high due to incoming travel from the United Kingdom and Europe. Cases of this new strain have since been confirmed in several Caribbean islands, including Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica. It is known and expected that all viruses constantly change over time. As such, it had been anticipated that this would also obtain if the COVID-19 virus. Studies conducted in the United Kingdom on this new variant of the virus suggest that it increases the rate of which the virus spread. This is estimated as increasing as much as up to 70%. The United Kingdom has noted increased levels of transmission and spread in the areas where the variant SARS-CoV-2 strain has been found. However, there is no evidence at this point of more severe cases associated with the new variant or reducing the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine. This new situation, according to the Chief Medical Officer, further emphasizes the need for strict adherence to all protocols recommended thus far and to ensure increased vigilance at all levels where risk has been identified. CARFA is the regional reference lab with the capacity to perform gene sequencing for the region and does gene sequencing for the variant for all its member states. At the recently convened meeting, the organization urged member states to ensure strict adherence to the current regional and national guidelines on COVID-19 prevention and control. The European Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the following. There are no reports of worse clinical outcomes. The level of mortality remains the same. The effect on the population groups affected remains the same. On Monday, December 21, 2020, the Caribbean Public Health Agency hosted an emergency meeting with PAHO, WHO, OECS, and the Chief Medical Officers of the region to discuss the new risk by this new variant. It was further confirmed that the COVID-19 PCR testing being done in countries remains the gold standard to ensure accurate diagnosis within the mutations. And the vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration remains as relevant. The recommendations made are in relation to the strict adherence to the current regional and national guidelines on COVID-19 prevention and control. CAFA allows countries to send an allocation of 10 samples per week, which meets the requirements for gene sequencing for testing. The process of gene sequencing has a turnaround time of 3 to 4 weeks. Meantime, the World Health Organization's lead scientist on COVID-19 says a number of countries have reported variants of COVID-19. This is not unusual given that viruses experience changes all the time. Most of these mutations and variants will have no impact on the virus itself. But each of them deserves attention, deserves a robust framework to analyze them. And what we are looking for for each of them, and there will be more, is looking at transmissibility, looking at the severity, the disease presentation, and the severity caused by those who are infected with those variants, looking at the body's ability to develop neutralizing antibodies, and any potential impact on available and future diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines. As you know, there are a number of variants that have been identified, the one in the United Kingdom, the variants of concern, 2020-1. We have been working daily with our colleagues in our European regional office, as well as across the United Kingdom, at Public Health England, and many academic institutions, looking at transmission, looking at severity. The WHO specialist is urging adherents to personal hygiene measures and COVID-19 protocols, indicating that no matter what variant is emerging, protocols reduce transmission. We are encouraged by the signs of decreased transmission across the United Kingdom, also in Denmark and Ireland, and also in South Africa, which has a different virus variant, the 501YV2, that they identified recently. And we see decreasing trends in incidents, and this is a good sign. And it tells us that the public health measures that are in place work against these viruses. As you just heard Mike say, we have to stay the course. The interventions that are in place that we've seen across so many countries reduce transmission. They break chains of transmission. Everything from finding cases, isolating cases, good clinical care, quarantining, supported quarantining of contacts, individual levels of mask wearing, physical distancing, hand hygiene, avoiding crowds, opening windows, all of that needs to, we need to stay the course. We need to make sure that we adhere to all of those measures. Vaccines are giving us all hope of ending the pandemic and getting the global economy on the road to recovery. But we can only end the pandemic anyway if we end it everywhere. So says Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros, who called for a collaborative approach to the fight against COVID-19. In that stride, the Director-General disclosed that COVAX had signed an agreement with a pharmaceutical company for the COVID-19 vaccine. I'm glad to announce that COVAX has signed an agreement with Pfizer-BioNTech for up to 40 million doses of its vaccine. Additionally, pending WHO emergency use listing, we expect almost 150 million doses of the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine to be available for distribution by COVAX in the first quarter of this year. Together, these announcements mean COVAX could begin delivering doses in February. Provided we can finalize a supply agreement for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and emergency use listing for the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine. The Director-General assured that the vaccines will be received by signatories to the COVAX facility within the first three months of this year. He highlighted that the agreement also made allowances for other countries to lend support to the COVAX facility. COVAX is on track to deliver two billion doses by the end of this year. This agreement also opens the door for countries who are willing to share doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to donate them to COVAX and support rapid rollout. In my remarks to the WHO Executive Board on Monday, I called on the international community to work together as one global family to ensure the vaccination of health workers and older people is underway in all countries within the first 100 days of this year. The commitment of the United States to join COVAX together with this new agreement with Pfizer-BioNTech means that we are closer to fulfilling the promise of COVAX. Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Sharsney on the weekend visited the Ezra Long Laboratory for a first-hand view of the operations with regard to testing for COVID-19. The Ministry of Health and Wellness recently informed that COVID-19 PCR test results were experiencing delays due to the large volume of tests currently being conducted. Staff of the lab and director, Dr. Wayne Felicia, worked the prime minister through the various processes, including the sophisticated equipment procured for COVID-19 testing. Honourable Sharsney has committed to providing the necessary support the lab needs in order to enhance its testing capacity. This is NTN Nightly. When we come back, the Cabinet of Ministers strongly condemns recent acts of violence against women. Stay with us. Demachine Quasay Ek Moonblessi and Nomi Sissidam Bakaisala Kani Pudubut Stray animals are endangering human lives and property. Livestock owners, please ensure animals do not stray on roads, highways, and public places. Remember, sections of the Animals Act 2005 states, stray animals will be seized and put in a pound by authorized persons. Owners will be liable to a fine of $5,000 or two years' imprisonment or both. Save innocent animals. Save human lives and property. A message from the Department of Agriculture. Welcome back. Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations, and Sustainable Development, Honourable Dr. Gil Rigabet has expressed her abhorrence over the recent spate of violence perpetrated her against women. Last week, there was a report of the rape of a woman in Jackmell. Then on Saturday, there was the news of the discovery of a naked body of a woman, the victim of the most extreme form of gender-based violence. Both acts Dr. Rigabet says are reprehensible and should be condemned. Honourable Rigabet has also called on all the inclusions to play their part in eliminating such crimes in the society. Senoucha is too small for somebody, somewhere, not to know about what transpired. Everyone must step up. This requires a collective effort. The elimination of violence against women and girls is not within the purview of any one person, agency, government, political party, or ministry. It is our responsibility. I would like to extend on behalf of my team, government, my deepest condolences to the family and friends of the latest Femicide victim. We were all horrified, so we can only imagine the pain, the anguish, the hurt that immediate family and friends must feel. You are in our prayers and in our thoughts. But the best way that we can demonstrate our sympathy, care, and concern is to assist the police with the investigation so that we can see the perpetrators brought to justice. Honourable Rigabet has also condemned the circulation of images of the deceased. I beg of us as inclusions, please. Let's show some more empathy, compassion, respect. Do we have to go as far as saying what if it was your sister? What if it was a relative? How would you feel? I beg of all of us, please. Let us not participate in this. The increased numbers of those extreme forms of gender-based violence like Femicide and the apparent desensitization of our citizens to the horror of such crimes underscores the very grim reality that deeply rooted inequalities and harmful gender norms persist in our society. Prime Minister of the Honourable Alan Shasne has also called on the general public to desist from circulating pictures of victims and acts of violence. The practice he says is damaging the nation's moral fabric. This is hurtful to the family members every time that they have to see it. This certainly will affect the investigation because it may make available evidence that we don't want shared. I'm appealing to all of us to think of what I did when I heard of these instances. I have a daughter. I have a daughter. I could have been her. So to suggest we don't care, we do. I personalize all of these things. But more importantly, after suffering the loss of your child to then see the indignity of people circulating these pictures, we're better than that solution. We're better than that. National Security Minister Senator Honourable Herman Gill Francis meantime says government has been working towards an improved environment following enforcement and dispensing of justice. The minister, however, notes that there are additional mechanisms needed. We must also look at the Domestic Violence Act and make sure that we get a safe house for our aborted women. I am also looking at the legislation from Trinidad, which gives police officers additional power because as we know for a fact that there are persons in our society who see the crimes, they know of it. They heard the cries of our ladies, but refused to report these matters. So right now with the legislation in Trinidad, the police officers don't need an informant to tell them of what is happening. Based on their intelligence, if they have the information that this is happening, they can move in and remove the perpetrator from that residence. Honourable Francis says government in the last two years has strengthened the capacity of the forensic lab in order to solve such crimes. The forensic lab is at its optimum presently and we are now adding an additional string to the boat where we are now going to be doing DNA testing. We are also taking the scenes of crime officers from the police force and they will be stationed at the forensic lab so that the coordination between the police and the forensic lab will be strengthened. That brings us to the end of NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St. Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am Danelle Novel.


Welcome to the Jalassette News, the top stories in crypto, current angel assets and break them down to bite-sized pieces. So today we're not talking about the news. We'd actually talked about that previously in the day. It is actually January 21st. It is 6pm, El Paso, Texas time. And we had talked about three stories that had led to this little dip that we are experiencing right now in the crypto market. And you can see right now Bitcoin is below 30,000. It was at 41,000. Ethereum is just about one grand. I think it's going to go lower than that. And everything's pretty much a big sea of red. And we talked about why that potentially could be, but it really doesn't matter. What really matters is the narrative that is being pushed out there.  And it'll go to a million dollars and you're going to be a billionaire tomorrow. And it's not the case. That's not it. You have to be a little smart.  Now, hold a link is great. I mean, I've been doing this for quite some time, but there's an even bigger skill. And I'm going to challenge you right now to really think about what you're going to do with all these gains. Because the people who fail to plan are planning to fail. And that is exactly what is going to happen. So I was thinking about all these things this morning and I was listening to one of my favorite authors and podcasters, Tim Ferriss. And he was talking here to Kevin Rose, one of his business partners, and they were talking about Bitcoin. He holds Bitcoin and he was talking about cryptocurrency. And Kevin has been in the game for quite some time. And what Tim said was he goes, what's interesting about crypto, he says, is that I meet a lot of people in my circle who made a lot of money in crypto. He says, I always ask him, you know, well, how'd you get into crypto and what happened? And people will always tell him the same story. Oh, I made like, you know, a couple of million dollars. Oh, I made it 500,000. And he says, but the question I was asked them is, well, when did you cash out?  Oh, I didn't sell. Oh, I still got it. So what happened?  And I'm writing it back up again. And he says very rarely does he find the person says, yeah, I cashed out and I started a business or I did something else. And it really got me to thinking about, you know, we talk about on this channel about where we're going. But one of the things that we don't talk enough about is to plan ahead and make sure that you have all everything in a row, ducks in a row, to make sure that you are ready when the time comes. Because it's not to me like there's there's like different skills you learn. There's there's skills of how to invest, how to dollar cost average, how to have ice in your veins and not really care when the market takes a big, enormous dip like it did today. And we're not care. But then one of the other skills that you have to learn and that I'm learning actually myself is is how to take these profits. And if we don't, we're going to be in a world of hurt because we're going to write it all the way up to who knows what what Bitcoin can go to a million, 500,000, 150,000 just depends. But the big thing is, you know, when do we sell? So we're going to talk about that today in detail. So just as a quick refresher, just remember everything goes in four year cycles. This is January 2012. It's always goes the same thing. Having to the all time high in 2013, big enormous dipper in 2014, then a big reset where everything kind of just goes sideways. 2015, then we take a look at 2016.  Now we turn the corner and we just got into 2021. 2020 was our having we're going to see an all time high. So what we're looking at is this chart that looks something like this and it looks enormous. But really, that's not the way the charts look. If we have to zoom out and take a look what's going to happen over the next four years and it's going to look like this. If history repeats itself over the last eight years, 2020 was just a blip. 2021 will have massive, massive gains if history repeats itself. But then you have to remember just a short time later, we're going to see a huge correction. It's going to be a dip and then a reset and sideways action. And you have to make sure you know what you need to do to make sure that you are not like me, which was right here. Me getting in right at almost the top, around 10,000 or so, writing it up, thinking I'm a genius and then watching it go down and then back up a little bit and going, I'll be okay. And then just going down, down, down and then sideways. We can't do that. I don't want you to be like me and have to write out another four years until you're looking at what, 20, 2025. So that's not my goal here. My goal is to make sure that you know all the options. Now, again, this is not financial advice, but I'm just going to tell you what I'm going to do. So let's just jump in. So first of all, we have to take a look at where do we think the market's going? This is where I think it's going. I've made my price predictions. There was a video I'll link at the very end. And these are all the price predictions for everything that I hold in my portfolio. I tell you exactly why I hold all these different crypto assets in my portfolio and what I think is going to happen with them. This was on January 7th and Bitcoin was hot. I mean, everything was hot. Yeah, Bitcoin at $38,000, Ethereum at $1,200, about the same. Chainlink at $17,000 went up and down, everything went up and down. And then I took a look and I said, this is what the prediction is for me in 2021. And then we're going to take a look at the supply. So like Bitcoin, Ethereum, we all know Bitcoin's got $21 million. I mean, it's 18 and a half right now. Ethereum, you know, it's a limited supply. It can be fluctuated, whatever it on, I don't really care. Chainlink, it's got a, it's my prediction was $35 at the end of 2021. Very conservative, I feel. I'm not a big shuckster.  And it's going to a million on April 7th at 4.30 a.m.  So I make very conservative bets, I guess, very conservative calls, we'll say. So Chainlink 35, I can see that. And there's a $1 billion circulating supply or max supply. Cardano, I see it's at $3. And I, you know, for 45 billion max supply and everything else. So you can watch that video, I'll link it there. And then the next two columns, I just said, this is the probability on a zero to 10.  And 10 means I'm almost certain or I'm 100% certain 99.9% certain it's going to happen. And I gave those a 10. Like, so Bitcoin, my price prediction is 150k. I think it's a 10. Ethereum, I gave it an eight for probability and I explain exactly why. So that's not the point of this video. You can watch that video later. What it is, is exit strategies. And this was my old exit strategy. And the thing with, with exit strategies is that when I put this out, it made sense. I mean, it still is, you know, something that people look forward to. And they, and they say, okay, I can do this, but I needed to simplify everything. It's, it's just like Steve Jobs says, it's actually takes a lot of work to make things simple. It's actually very easy to make things complex. So you have to, to, to boil it down to the message that you want to do. So for this one, it didn't really work out too well. So here's what I did. I said, okay, I'm going to throw this away. I want to, I want to make it super simple for everybody, uh, for what I'm doing, and then they, they, I can leave it up to them. So for me, it's an 80, 20 rule, 80, 20 rule, if you're in business, you know, it's an old adage 80, 20 rule, uh, it means that, uh, 80% of all the gains or things that you actually get out of your job really comes from 20% of your effort. And, uh, it's just, uh, something that, uh, I, I felt like I could streamline the whole process. So the 80, 20 rule for me, and we're going to start with it, with a theorem, cause it's pretty easy. So I'm going to say like this, if I had a hundred theorem, okay, I'm going to 80, 20, which means I'm going to sell 80% in this case, 80. And I'm going to hold, I'm going to hold on for 20. I'm not going to sell these. And this is for all my cryptocurrency. There is at some point where I say to myself, okay, I need to hold on because you don't know if it's going to go to like, not only to the moon, but to Mars and Jupiter and beyond. So you have to hold on for some, because you never know when that moonshot, that, that Mars shot, that Jupiter shot is coming. So hold on to them. So for this example, it's very easy, 80, 20. I'm going to sell 80 of my Ethereum and I'll hold on for 20 for this cycle, for this four year cycle in 2025. I mean, I'll still be around. I'll still be on this channel. And I'll say what my, my predictions are there, but this is what I want to go for. So I got to take a look at the probability eight. So I believe this is going to actually hit to 10,000. That is my prediction for Ethereum. I think it's going to go to 10k. Some people will say, you know, 5k, some people will say 30k. I think it's around 10k. I think it's a pretty reasonable expectation for what Ethereum could potentially do. So if my probability is pretty high, I'm going to skewer this. I'm going to skew this to a higher number. And I'll make an example of that for EOS in a bit. So what I did was I just say, okay, I'm going to sell in five points, I'm going to sell 80 of my Ethereum and to make that simple, five divided by 80 is 16. So 16 plus 16, 32, 32 plus 16 is 48. 48 plus 16 is 64 and 64 plus 16 is 80. So at some point, you're going to sell all of your Ethereum or 80%, 80-20 rule. You're going to sell 80 and you're going to hold on to 20. Sell 80, hold on to 20. This is the 80-20 rule. So what do I want to do? Well, I want to pick some price points. Now, if I think it's going to go to 10,000, I'm going to, I always work my way back. So if I say, okay, I know it's going to be 10,000, I want to skewer this to a higher number. I don't want to sell it at 10,000 at the very last part and then maybe put down like 3,000 here, 1,500 here, 1,000 here and 900 there. That wouldn't make any sense because I feel it's going to go to 10,000, but I need to take profits along the way. And the reason why I need to do that is because of stuff like this, we don't know exactly what's going to happen. We don't know what's going to happen with the governments. We don't know what's going to happen with another pandemic. We just don't know what could potentially happen for this market and what could just drive it haywire. I mean, we've seen the history of what's going on all these four-year cycles, but what if something doesn't happen or what if we don't hit it or what if we hit a speed bump? So I need you to make sure that you take a look at this objectively and say, maybe I should look at a list. Again, not financial advice. This is definitely what I'm going to do. So the very first price point I'm going to say is about 2,000, right, which is going to be 20% of the 80 because I'm always going to do five points. Five points seems like a pretty good reasonable offer to me. So I got 16. So 16 times 2,000, I'm going to get $32,000, pretty good. And there's a number right next to this. It's 1993. What am I talking about here? Well, the thing is, is that everybody likes round numbers. And a lot of times when you hit a solid round number, a lot of people sell. And when they start to sell, then you start to fluctuate down below that price point that you want to sell for. So instead of just going, I'm selling 2,000, try like 1876 or 1,993 like I have here or 1,852. Somewhere a little bit below that so you can get your orders filled so you can make sure you have it. So the next part, I said, I'll do 5,000. So 5,000 times 16 is 80,000. The next part is because I'm going to skew higher, 7,000. When it hits, when he hits $7,000 times 16, that's $112,000, not too bad. Then we hit 9,000 times 16, 144. And then we hit 10,000 times 16 is 160. You add all those up 528,000. That is not bad for just holding on for three and a half years. Sure, I'll take that. And again, I have only sold 80. I haven't sold them all because who knows this could go to 15,000, 20,000, 27,000. Now, if it gets up to there, I might sell a little bit again. But I just want to worry about not leaving this bull run empty handed. And the question I'm going to get is this, why not just hold your breath all the way till it hits 10,000? You're so sure, Rob. Well, guess what? I'm very sure it's going to happen. But again, who knows? There are a lot of variables. The older I get, the more that I realize I don't know everything. So I have to make sure that I play it the best way that I possibly know how. And here's the example. So we all thought in 2017 that Bitcoin, that 20,000 was just a stepping stone. And that was going to go to 25, then the 30, then the 40, then the 50. And everybody was dancing the street. They couldn't believe it. It was going to be so great. Even John McCaffey told us going to million dollars institutions were here. They were going to do the CBOE and the CME. They were going to do the futures contract on Bitcoin. Oh, it was going to be the greatest thing of all time. Well, guess what happened? If you would have set your sell order at 20,000 and you want to sell all of it? Well, guess what happened? You didn't hit it. You got to 19, 6, 6, 5. And what did you see next? Boom. All the way down to 14,000.   So it's up to you. I mean, again, whatever you want to do, but I can just tell you from experience, you need to take or I'm going to need to take profits along a step ladder type of way because there is nothing worse than watching all of the gains that you thought that you had and all the plans that you thought just kind of wither away. So this is where we're going. 80, 20. So when I talk about scooter hire number, let's take a look at something like EOS. So EOS in my prediction, again, I thought that, well, EOS could go all the way up to $30 from, let's see, EOS at that point was $3,040. I'm sure it's lower now because it's EOS. But I thought, yeah, OK, go to 30 bucks because that's, you know, the all-time high was around 29 somewhere around there. So I go, sure, it could happen. But I put it, the probability of put it as a three because there's really not nothing going on. There's nothing much that you hear about. There's no type of press releases. I don't even know if anybody's in work on the EOS project, quite honestly. I know they try to do something with a social media site called Voice and hear anything about it. So it just doesn't seem like it's really doing too much. So I put it at a very low probability to hit $30, especially with all the different products that are going on right now. Could be wrong, hope I'm wrong, but this is where we're at. So if my probability is very low that it could hit $30, I want to skew my numbers on the lower side. So instead of going like 30, 28, then 26, then 20, I want to go, OK, how about this? Let's just hit $4. I'll be happy with four bucks, then $6, then 10, then 14. And then if it gets 30, hey, great, great day, right? Again, 80-20 rule, I'm going to sell, if I have 300 EOS, I want to sell 80 percent of 300, which is 240. Then I want to hold on for 20 or 60 because you never know. It could go all the way up to 10 million. I have no idea. So again, same thing. I'm going to put a price point. This is just arbitrarily just picked. So I'm going to say four bucks at four dollars. I'm going to sell 48. That's going to be 192 bucks. And then a couple of dollars later, six bucks. I'm going to sell 48 again, 288, $10, 48, 480, 14, 48, 672, 30 times 48, 1440 for a grand whopping total of 45, 12. Hey, it is what it is. And again, question comes up, Rob, why don't you just hold till 30? Again, what I talked about with Bitcoin, I am not in that position. I do not want to do that. You're welcome to do whatever you can, whatever you want to do. This is just what I feel like I should do. Next one, and I'm only going to go over a couple more and I'll explain why in a second. So this is chain link. So I felt like Chainlink, I feel, could go to at least $35. It's a very low prediction, but again, conservative numbers. But again, people think that Chainlink is going to $250. And sure it could, but did we ever think that we would ever see? I remember hearing people going, we're never going to see Bitcoin below 30,000. Well, here we are again, so whatever. So the probability for this one was very high. I picked it at nine, I think at least 35. So I'm going to skew to the higher number. So I start with 35, then I just arbitrarily go about 32, 30, 28 and 26. Because right now I think it's like at 17 bucks. But when I did this price picture, I think it was like over 21, 22 somewhere around there. So again, 26, I want to sell 80 percent. I had a thousand link, 80 percent would be 800. I'm going to sell, I'm going to hold on to 200. Pretty simple, right? So again, if I want to divide that by five, because there's always five price points of 800, that's 160. So 26 times 160, I got this 28 times 160. I got this $30 price point times 160. This and I'm going to make 24,000, 160, not too shabby. And again, if you even ask me, there's it is. Why don't you hold your link till you hit 35? Again, Bitcoin, speaking of which, there is one exception to every rule. This is just the way it goes. Bitcoin, I just can't get it out of my mind. I don't know what it is, but I don't know if it's Michael Saylor and all the big institutions that are coming here and they're talking about like Bitcoin, go to, you know, a million, 10 million. I don't know what it is, but I just can't give it up that easily. But I'm going to sell half. I'm going to sell half. And what am I going to sell it on my price prediction? I believe it's going 150,000, could go higher, hope I'm wrong. But I'm always going to never sell everything. And I'm going to sell in this example. I'm going to do a 50-50 split, 50 percent I'm going to hold on to and 50 percent I'm going to sell. So if I had two Bitcoin in this example, I'm going to sell one whole Bitcoin again, I'm going to sell point two, point two, point two, point two on certain price points. And then I will cash out. So again, 60,000 times point two, that's what I think the next stop will be after we get to this dip after maybe a month or so. Who knows? That's 12,000 bucks. It's not bad. 80 times point two, 16,000, 110 times point two, 22,000, 130 times 20 points, point two, 26, 150 times point two, 30, and add it all up. 106,000. So which really, if you think about it, 106,000, or I could wait to sell one whole 150, I'm still OK with that. I'm still fine. So again, it all comes down to what you want to do. This is what my goals are and what I feel is best for me. This is not financial advice, but I have to remind everybody to keep your feet on the ground and all these different sentiment that is out there like, well, you shouldn't sell anything, you got some weekends and you can't sell nothing. I heard the same garbage in 2017. And guess what? I held my bags for three years. I'm not doing that again. You can do whatever you want to do. Lastly, I'll finish off with this in every video from now on in my description. There is going to be a link and they used to look like this exit strategies. And I had XRP Bitcoin Ethereum and you could find those right there. What I want to do from now on is just put them all together and it's going to as you scroll down, it's going to look like this exit strategies, all crypto exits. You're going to click on that. It's going to take you this handy dandy spreadsheet and it's going to have every single one. So the ones we just talked about, these four are all right here and you can take a look and do whatever you want with them. I will be adding every single one as far as my prediction over the next week. So you can always find that there. And also before you ask me, don't try to edit them at all because it's going to ask you for a password or something that they had. This is from Google spreadsheets. I have this set to where you can view it. Anybody on the web that has the link, which you have the link in the description can view it. You can't edit these spreadsheets.  So don't ask me to edit it because you won't. It'll just be to view and that is it. So you're welcome to say what we want to in the comment section, but that is what I have for right now. And I put this together just to be safe. Again, failing to plan, you're planning to fail. And we have just seen this in the volatility of this market. Now you're welcome to do whatever you want to do. Everybody's got their different goals. These are my goals. Thanks for watching. I appreciate it. If you like these types of videos, I would ask you to subscribe and also hit the like button. Also, if you like any of these videos, I do, there's going to be too much going to pop up on your left and right. Like YouTube do its magic and that is it for today. So thanks so much for listening. I appreciate it. And I'll see you on the next one.


Hello, I'm Marcia and today I'm going to show you how to publish a website with GitLab pages on gitlab.com. In the first part of this video I will fork a repo and make it a project website. In the second part I will show you how to make it a user or a group website. Let's choose one of the default templates available from the pages group. I'm going to just jack call and fork it to my group gitlab pages demos. Once we forked the first thing to do is removing the fork relationship as it has a purpose of contributing to upstream projects and won't be useful for a regular website. Now let's enable shadow runners to our fork so we'll be able to build our website with GitLab CI. Cool, now let's edit a file to trigger a build. I'm gonna go ahead and make a silly modification to my readme file. Alright, now let's see our build running under our projects pipelines. Cool, there you go. It's important to see our builds running from time to time as it makes debugging stuff much easier. Once our build passes, let's navigate to our page settings and there it is, our website URL. Ta-da, our website is live. Now let's jump to part two and make it a user or a group website. There are just two things we need you to do to make it happen. The first one is renaming our repository to namespace.gitlab.io where namespace is your username or your group name. To do that, let's edit our project settings and scroll down to rename repository. To make sure I'm not mis-spanning my group name which is GitLab PagesDemos, I'm gonna copy and paste it into the path field then complete it with gitlab.io. Then I can name the project itself independently. Alright, let's see what happens to our page settings. Good, our URL has been updated. Let's take a look at our site. There it is, but the CSS link is gone. The old URL now gives us a 404 as expected. Now let's fix our CSS link which is the last thing we need to do here. To do that, we need to adjust our website's base URL. We just need to remove it so other related paths point directly to our domain not to a subdirectory of it. Okay, now let's wait for our build to complete and we'll be all good. There you go.  Alright, that's it. See you next time.


It is delighted to welcome you all to the second day of our speaking session. I'm David Velsen, I design and develop technology services here in TechSoup, and I'll be your host for today's session. For the next 45 minutes, we'll see very fast-paced demos of tools that your nonprofit can start using to solve everyday technology challenges. So the way we work has been changing after the shift to remote work, and the key to keeping organizations connected is to provide an employee experience that puts people in the center and provides them with the tools and technologies that will help them be productive and connect to each other. Stephanie Samon, a client partner at Meta, gives the first demo today with an introduction to Workplace, a tool that helps remove the barriers for people to connect, communicate, and collaborate. Please take away Stephanie. Me, I'm really excited to be here. My name is Stephanie Samon, and I'm a client partner at Meta, and I'm part of our Reality Lab's B2B commercial sales team. And our team is focused on helping organizations embrace the future of work, and we do this across three social, which include Workplace, our internal comms platform, VR with our Quest 2 and Quest Pro lines, as well as Portal, our video calling device. And just like all of your organizations, Meta is a mission-driven company, and we believe in the power of community, both in your personal lives and also at work. And it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that the pandemic has exacerbated some of the challenges organizations with dispersed workforces have had. The way we work is forever changed, and we're seeing more and more companies lean into a hybrid work environment. With that, there's a huge opportunity to meet employee expectation, and doing so is critical in retaining top talent if they have the right technology in place and feel they are connected to the organization. Our products at Meta enable more than 3 billion people around the world to connect with their loved ones and build communities. Workplace by Meta was built with this exact purpose for work, and it serves as a platform that sits in the heart of company's tech stack to help employees connect and collaborate, whether they work remotely, in the office, or in a hybrid way. With that, I'm going to share my screen to show you a sneak preview of how Workplace can help and has helped organizations such as Starbucks, McDonald's, Delta, WWF connect their employees globally. This is Workplace. You'll see that there's a TechSoup logo here. Obviously, this can be customized to your company's logo. The look and feel of the platform will feel familiar to you, and that's done with purpose. We built Workplace based on the learnings that we've had from our consumer-facing apps because we know that they've helped over 3 billion people be able to connect with loved ones and communities. This helps employees when you deploy a platform like Workplace because they actually don't need to be trained. They know how to use it. They know how to engage with common, post-common, navigates through the platform, which is really important because it removes a lot of that friction and time spent on training. Groups are really the center of gravity in Workplace, and you'll see here on my left tab a few groups based on how you want to disseminate information in your organization. Groups that are for all company are meant to share information across the organization, and then you'll see popping up functional groups. Marketing might have a group of sales, HR, but also geographical, like office location. One thing we see a lot of our customers doing is creating a lot of ERGs and having a space for a place to really come together as a community within the organization. Some of the fast features I'm going to show you today. We have a chat platform that allows you to connect with your colleagues one-to-one or one-to-many just to make sure that you're getting a lot of that critical information from your coworkers. We also have a version of an intranet. So really think about the knowledge libraries and place to host your static content that you want all of your employees to access, whether it benefits, whether it's new, absolutely onboarding, hiring guide, all of that can really live within Workplace. So Workplace can become this one-stop shop for employees to come in, get the information that they need, or be redirected to third-party apps, if required, because we play well with other technical tools. And so if you wanted to direct them to a SharePoint or Google Drive, we have integrations with that as well. But we really see ourselves as becoming the center of that employee experience to find information. And lastly, we wouldn't be met if we didn't offer some sort of data and insight that goes along with our products. And so your Insights tab will really help you get a better understanding of the type of content that's resonating across your organization. What are the groups that are being created? How are people engaged? And how engaged are they? And what's the work that needs to be done to make sure that more and more people are engaged in the platform? So all of that information is here and very clear. All right. Last thing I'm going to say before we wrap up, because I know we're almost at time, is that we love partnering with mission-driven and purpose-driven organizations, which is why Workplace is free for eligible nonprofits. And so to get a better understanding, if you qualify, go to workplace.com slash workplaceforgood and read more on if you qualify and be sure to apply. In this next demo, C.J. Williams, product manager at GitHub, is going to give us a glimpse into the very near future. He'll demo how GitHub is making coding more attainable for nonprofits with a new co-pilot tool in which developers can write a text-based comment describing the logic that they want. And GitHub's AI-powered co-pilot will immediately suggest code to implement the solution. This is a tool I've personally been hearing a lot about lately, and I'm excited to learn more. So take it away, C.J. Hey, everyone. My name is C.J. from GitHub, the home of developers. Today, I'll be talking about co-pilot, its impact, and how it can improve your nonprofit. Just before I move forward to our presentation, talk about myself. I first want to thank TechSoup for this opportunity, just a little bit more background, product manager at GitHub. We're previously worked in AdTech and also network and software engineering. So moving into the three things I want to discuss today is going to be nonprofits and technology. Why co-pilot and give you guys just a short, cool demo of just what co-pilot can do. Previously, with my research and some of the nonprofits and challenges that I've seen and what TechSoup is also helping with is making sure that you're able to leverage technology to solve for your solutions and what co-pilot can do. Okay. And what co-pilot can do is actually help out on your tech sector, whether that's in your nonprofit or you're looking to pivot as a nonprofit or you're just curious about programming in general, co-pilot can assist with that. So what is co-pilot? Co-pilot is an AI, artificial intelligence, parent programmer that allows you to increase your productivity. What we've seen since we've launched co-pilot is roughly most of our developers are coding at 90% faster and some of the cool things that you're able to experience is a 60-day free trial and once you've gone through that trial you can either opt to $10 a month or $100 a year which is great flat rate pricing. And then also we offer all the major programming languages and as of now we're going to go on to a demo and if you guys aren't able to see this screen, please let me know. Okay. I'm still sharing. Right. Okay. One of the great things about co-pilot is you're able to talk as a programmer using comments. So let's just do a quick print. So let's see. I'm missing. Hello. That's it. Another cool thing is about co-pilot is that you're able to click through different comments and go to previous things except for open up co-pilot and to see the suggestions. So this is the power of co-pilot actually. What it does is that it reads the comments and provides different solutions to you as a programmer. Let's just go with this first choice for the sake of time and print this here. Go ahead and run it and what you can see. Hello to everyone. Text soup. It looks like we have a little bit more time. Let's do something a bit cooler. What we're able to do is generate a scissors. Okay. Give it a little time. Okay. And what you can see is that there are multiple solutions that our co-pilot is offering. So let's see. Let's go with it. Let's go with this first one. Good to go. As you can see, you can enter zero for rock one, four paper, two for scissors. So I'm zero. Okay. It looks like it was a draw. Let's run it again. Paper of the draw. Let's see. Going back to the presentation. You can visit here to go to co-pilot and try it out again at 60 day free trial. So next SEO is vital, whether you're writing an article or optimizing your Google ad grant account. In this next demo, Sarah Simone's head of strategy and training at Cause Inspired Media will show you how you can use Google's built-in free keyword planner tool to efficiently research new keywords. Well, I am Sarah. I'm the head of strategy and training at Cause Inspired. Cause Inspired is a full-service digital marketing agency designed specifically for nonprofits. We run ads, build websites, but most importantly of all, we're known for Google ad grant management. In line with Google ad grant management and all Google ads management, I wanted to talk to you today about Google's free keyword research tools. So whether you're looking for ways to advance your Google search ads or optimize your website content, this is the tool for you. So first, why should you care about keyword research? For SEO purposes such as content writing for your website, keyword research really ensures that you're spending your time writing what people are searching for. It hurts to invest a lot of time into a topic that no one is searching for, so you can always make sure that your topics are less competitive and optimized for seasonal search volume as well with these tools. For Google ads, things are a little bit more cut and dry. At a baseline, you just have to do keyword research to be successful in Google ads. So this way, you know which keywords are available, which ones have the most search volume, and which ones are just worth your time. You can also reverse engineer these tools so you can actually optimize your content on your website for keywords that you want to rake well for in Google ads. So why would I recommend Google ads as keyword research tool? Three reasons. The first is that it's free, so anyone can access it. All you need is a Google ads account. The second is that it is easy to use. You can copy and paste directly from it. And then the last part is that it's really accessible. All you really need to give your team members are read level permissions in your account, so they don't even have to be able to make any changes. All right, so let's go ahead and give it a test. There we go. And this is what it looks like. If you already have a Google ads account, you can access your keyword planner by going to tools and settings in the top right here. And it is all the way over here in the left in the planning section. And you get two options. The first option is to discover new keywords. That's where we're going to start today.  I'm going to go ahead and put that in and select get results. Immediately you'll see a plethora of keywords have come up. It looks like 35 total keywords here. And Google is giving us some good initial information. One, here's how many average monthly searches we have. Two, here's our three month change. Is it going to increase in the next three months or are we going to plan for a decrease? What does the year over year change look like? How is our competition? And then what's the cheapest bit on these keywords? What's the highest bit on these keywords? So immediately I can see that my keyword end of your giving, it's got about 880 searches a month. I know that like with a 5% click through rate, that's really not going to be enough. So maybe I want to select some other keywords here. Maybe I want to broaden my search. And immediately I can see Google suggesting I try bidding on charitable giving. I'm going to add that in, get my results. And now I've got 1184 keywords available to use. And I can actually just select the ones here that I think are really trendy. Donor advice funds is really trendy. So perhaps I could write a blog about how you could set up a donor advice fund for my nonprofit. So I'm going to go ahead and select them in that checkbox and copy them. You can paste that into a Google sheet, a Google doc, share it in an email or you can select the next option. Here, which is get search volume and forecast, paste those keywords right in, select get started. And now you have your keyword forecasts for search volume. You can actually download this report in the top right here. If you want to pass it along to any stakeholders on your team or your team members in general. And this shows your average monthly searches, your three month change and your year over year change as well. So quick review. One, you can use discover new keywords to simply discover new keywords. You can actually insert your landing page directly into it or you can just start off with some keywords that you're interested in. And then the other section is really used to help you get search volume for your existing keywords. So you can figure out if what you are bidding on or what you're writing about is being searched or is trendy. And to wrap it up here, you can actually get started just by creating a Google ads account at ads.google.com or if you're a qualifying nonprofit 501c3, you can sign up for a Google ad grant at google.com slash grants or through a certified professional agency like Cosinspired. So we know that in kind giving is important to many three organizations, but where can you find donations? Diz Pati, sounder and CEO of Liquid Donely, created a platform that saves large retailers billions of dollars every year by seamlessly donating their unsellable goods to nonprofits and schools around the culture. So hi everyone, my name is Diz Pati and I am the founder and CEO of Liquid Donely. As a lifelong activist and a weekly volunteer with nonprofits as well as being on the board of multiple nonprofits, I'm really excited to share to the TechSoup nonprofit community today to share how you can get free donated items in your area from local retailers and businesses. So I'd first like to start by introducing my team, a lot of folks who are actually on the call today. So thanks to my team for supporting. CHI is my co-founder and CEO. Previous to this, we worked at Postmates where I was employee 15 and together CHI and I successfully built and launched two food security products, one which won the Time Magazine Invention of the Year Award. Pablo led the sales team at Postmates. They're my eight years there winning large and key accounts for us. And then we also have Dan, a passionate ex-urban planner to help us reimagine how items move around communities and out of land sales. And I also just want to shout out to Rene, who's our director of nonprofit outreach, who's in the chat today as well. While CHI and I successfully built and scaled national food security products at Postmates, the whole time we wondered if there's this much waste and inefficiency with food that can be solved with technology, what other industries can we impact? And so we uncovered the dark side of retail, which is returns. So if you take a moment and think about what happened to the last item you returned, you may be surprised to learn that 16% of all of the items purchased in the U.S. get returned. And 80% of those go straight to the landfill, 80%, contributing to our current climate catastrophe. The other 20% end up in an inefficient liquidation process. And COVID-19 has only exacerbated that problem with inefficient supply chains, difficulty in predicting consumer behavior, and more. This problem that retailers have no sustainable way to handle excess inventory costs retailers $704 billion every year in merchandise returns. Nonprofits like you, places that focus on making our lives better, need items for free to help you meet your missions faster. And every year, 6 billion pounds of waste is generated because of returns. With liquid donate, we're a climate tech solution, where our platform consists of three main components. A donation as a service API, a proprietary matching algorithm, and our team's expertise on third party fulfillment logistics. Our input on the supply side is our network of retailers, and our demand is generated by the millions of nonprofits nationwide in need of quality goods that would otherwise end up in the landfill. Our team is working on building the largest internal database of nonprofits in schools around the country, and we would love for you to join us today by registering at liquiddonate.com slash register-a-nonprofit. Not only are we seamlessly keeping these usable items out of the landfill, we're reducing operational costs to retailers while increasing their ESG scores. We've put together this case study for Walmart, where we can prove that this is something that will be long-term and sustainable for nonprofits, and a profitable business model for us, which means that we'll be able to continue to contribute good usable items to nonprofits long-term. So if you see this case study based on Walmart's public 10K, we estimate they currently spend about $58 billion per year on returns and reverse logistics. With liquiddonate, we would reduce their costs by $56 billion. In addition to the savings of packaging, labor, transport, and emissions offsets, we provide tax receipts for each and every donation as part of our data package, and we seamlessly provide the ability for you as nonprofits to provide those tax receipts in an easy way. And this isn't just a dream. Our attraction-to-date shows that in less than one year, with our MVP and moving into V1 of our tech, we've already donated almost 9,000 items, diverted over 20,000 pounds of material from landfills, given nonprofits over $100,000 in product donations and saved retailers over $12,000. To show you a little bit about what our product looks like, we wanted to share that this is what our nonprofit match currently looks like on the internal side. And if you sign up to add the register a nonprofit link, you'll be able to be part of this list as well. For the product, you'll see that we have a few different components. You can put in the address where you need something for your office or your client. You'll be able to review the products in the area, and you'll be able to check out on the screen with no payment attached. Right now, we're offering free pickup for all of our orders, so the nonprofit will be able to get the item for free from the retailer or from the business, and do pick up for free as well. We're integrating delivery and shipping so that in the future, you can also have the item delivered for a small fee. That is something that we don't make any money on, but something that you'll be able to use if you'd like. And so with that, I would love to tell you that you can use Liquid Donate. We've built this solution completely for you. We're super excited about it. Thank you so much for all the work that you do in nonprofits. I know it's hard. I know sometimes it's thankless, and y'all are amazing. Next is a topic that's been on everyone's minds throughout the year. Nonprofits in Ukraine are acting as first responders in the war and are under tremendous stress. But usually the last thing nonprofits worry about is taking care of themselves. That's why TechSoup Europe is building a program that provides quick answers to the challenges of staying resilient. Kula Berda, senior advisor for TechSoup Europe, will share more in this. For me, I am feeling very lucky to be representing TechSoup Europe here and for you to tell you how HiveMind platform, that is a product loved being agile and it's being as flexible as possible. So this is not a new product and not new project. TechSoup Europe decided to build a comprehensive platform for capacity building of organizations. Let's focus on the center in Eastern Europe. And in the beginning, there were few major topics when campus shrinking six spaces. So we can see this information, and its information, cybersecurity, media, policy, positive narratives, and online campaigning. However, we face, we see our friends in Ukraine struggling with the war and being still activists. It's still this special mindset and special place of heart. TechSoup Europe decided to put all efforts into building also resilience and capacity for organizations in times of war. And by organizations, we mean activists, NGOs, formal and initiatives as well. So we came up with the concept of three times B. So being present, being strategic and being... So we can see that in being present, it is the capacity of building trust, capacity of understanding how the brain and body react in times of prolonged stress, in times of direct trauma, and in times of complex trauma as well. So this is not a normal condition that NGOs are working. Moreover, this is not a natural disaster. This is right now since late February and we're getting into winter, which will be a new challenge. So being present and planning for who we are at the moment. Being strategic is about understanding how to adjust planning to very uncertain and complex times. So what can be the expectations and how to work with complexity and how not to feel bad that the plans or strategy for five years we are not able to deliver them anymore. Most of all, it's also about the growth mindset and learning on the go and one important thing is taking care of what we're able to actually comprehend. So not to plan for a learnings, but rather how not to be overwhelmed and how to adjust and grow in times of the biggest crisis, most probably that people are going through. And third is being connected. So the absolute baseline for resilience and what we are as humans wired for. So this is the capacity building of SQ for at least not even active listening, but like being present in listening. It's about norms, rituals and habits that the organization can develop. Doesn't really matter whether online or offline and how emotional literacy is again a fundamental skill for surviving such time and for still being able to deliver and being a sustainable organization, to being a sustainable human. You can see that we also decided to add something new and it will be published soon on the website. The website is also facts that are designed for the brain in huge stress. So without changing the content, we are responding to real language that people are using. What is important is that of course it is an ecosystem and it will be not only the platform but also local trainings. And one thing that I wanted to share is how to make the trauma-informed training and what I can do is also invite you to our high-point platform or follow us on social media. So if you're anything like me, odds are you're spending a good chunk of your day in Outlook or Gmail, but I bet you could be more effective and free of time to focus on the work that matters. Maria Camila Galvis of Texas Latin America will show us three practical tips to make working in Outlook even easier. And this is Maria. I work for Texas Latin America and we have nonprofits getting involved to technology so they adapt to a digital world. What I've seen in the donations program is that generally the organizations don't use the full capabilities of the technology and we keep with the basic functions. What I want to share with you today is everything that you can do on Outlook Web which we normally use just to do back and forth email but it actually has a lot of innovative tools that will make your life and your working team be way too much easier. So right now what you can see is an email of my colleague who is sending me a document with a very clear task. So he says please find here the document of our conversation and please review and feel free to make any changes. So did you know that if you're in Outlook Web and to make the words you need with the call to action very clear you will find four options above. So I would click in the last one and it means that this particular task will be added to your to-do list. And where can you find your to-do list? Here at the left hand side there's a chart code with a check mark icon. This is the to-do list that I usually use every single day is the first thing that I open to see what are my painting items. So another example I want to bring is we have a very informative email. I will show you this one just for you to know I got information this is not confidential information. This email which is longer can have a lot of information and probably you can maybe want to maybe you want to ask about something. It will be easier if you select the paragraph you would like to answer and then you will see the four options again. And this time I will just click on reply all. So when you click on reply all you will see this selected paragraph and you can reply over that specific paragraph that you want to ask something about. This is very useful and I actually use it a lot and then you can find some other pictures in the settings of your Outlook web. So I will share with you the ones that I mock. So if you click here in the view all Outlook settings then you click here on compose and reply you will find where you add your signature you just scroll down a little bit and then there is an option that it's called undo send. So I think it has happened to a lot of people that suddenly send the email that you have been preparing for a long time and maybe you hadn't missed a spelling or maybe you typed 20, 20, 20 it was 20, 23 and that just changed the whole sense of your email. So you can actually set these to add 5 seconds or 10 seconds for you to basically regret. This is, you can't imagine how useful it has been for me it has saved me from a lot of moments so I have it here for 5 seconds and I can also set it for 10 seconds it means that when you click send you have 5 seconds to just recover back your email, correct what you need and send it again. And the last one, the last feature that I really liked and I want to share with you is in calendar setting so when you go to calendar you can add different time zones I work for TechSoup so it's very normal to feel a little bit overwhelmed when you have someone in Barsob and then someone in Brazil and you have to create a call you have to schedule a call sometimes it's really difficult the time zones are very different so here I'll teach you how to do it you will see here an option to add a time zone let's add a sneer for example then you add the label so I'll put me R and then save so next time you go to your calendar you will be able to see your local time and also the other time zones that you added here you can see that probably the best time to schedule a call for someone in Colombia you will just need to scroll down and see what's the best time that will work for you so those are the features I wanted to bring today for you I really hope that you can explore and use these tips because it really helps you get more efficient and I believe that when you get more efficient especially working for the social sector that you get and achieve your mission in a better way so if you are in Latin America please send me an email I'll send you my email in the chat so I can tell you what are the offers we have in Texas of Latin America our services and our training to take advantage of the technology thank you very much in this next demo our partner Okta will introduce the concept of zero trust security centered on identity in our multi-service world people are the new security promote according to recent studies the adoption of modern technologies is resulting in an explosive growth in identities this is not only a challenge to manage but identity has become a critical element in any security strategy users are targeted as the weakest link in any security chain responsible for 20% of breaches with stolen credentials being the most common initial attack vector but why does that matter? the problem isn't just managing the users themselves when an account gets compromised it impacts the overall business did you know the average cost of a breach was more than 5 million dollars? it's clear that a critical element to addressing this area is to have a solution that provides the ability to establish a trust relationship with users before access is granted and where can you start building that trust? let's take a look when we're talking about identities from various different entities what it boils down to is people and groups and bringing them into Okta's universal directory here at the Okta dashboard let's head over to directories and groups we can see here we have groups of users from various different entities represented by their source icon some are Okta groups or Workday groups in our HR system we can also bring in identities from directories as well let's jump over to directory integrations and you can see we can connect Active Directory and LDAP as well as a CSV directory regardless of your user source be it Active Directory or Workday policy controls and application access can be centrally managed in Okta let's take a look at that in action I'll jump over to my box app here I can see which users have been assigned to this app as well as which groups this app as well as all apps have their own set of sign-on policies so we can get very granular with access to this app we can see here a set of sign-on policies specific to this app and each policy has its own set of rules let's take a look at those rules here we can see the various different conditions that can be applied to access decisions be it people, location or client restrictions such as mobile or web requests based on these conditions we have the options to specify whether or not they are prompted for a second factor so as you can see our identities can come into Okta from several different locations including existing directories, apps or third party identity providers but regardless of their location the same set of policies apply let's take a look at the sign-on experience welcome to the login page the policy for this particular login page only asks for the user's username but also allows authentication via a PIV card we'll enter the username and hit next you'll see we're prompted for a second to verify push this is the first factor requested once accepted the user can be allowed access or move on to the next factor based on the determined risk in this case it's determined that this is a risky login so now it's going to prompt for a password I'll enter the password and we're now in the Okta dashboard where we have access to all our applications with Okta working from anywhere is made seamless for your users no matter what they're accessing an on-prem app or a server and it all starts with app access app access starts with integration there are several ways to integrate apps with Okta the first being the Okta integration network which has over 7000 integrated apps each with their own unique set of step-by-step instructions Okta also supports deep integrations for more than 18 different protocols one being radius which is most commonly used with Cisco ASA we can also integrate with other network appliances such as Palo Alto Networks Akamai and F5 this covers your cloud apps and VPNs for apps that aren't in the cloud Okta Access Gateway provides a method to gate access to on-prem apps without the need for VPN apps such as Oracle EBS and finally the same access controls used for apps expands on to servers with Okta Advanced Server Access giving you zero trust access decisions for your server fleet let's take a look at this in action from here we can see all of our assigned applications things like Cisco Umbrella or on-prem apps like Oracle EBS now let's jump over to our PC and fire up a VPN session with Palo Alto Global Protect as you can see the Okta login experience here is the same experience you have when accessing via the Okta Dashboard and finally let's login to a server this can be done from the Okta Dashboard but for this demo I'll start it from a terminal window I'll establish an SSH connection here you can see I'm redirected to Okta I'm prompted for MFA and now I'm granted access to my server so a big theme of this conference has been the need to communicate and collaborate effectively in a remote first workplace in the next demo Fiona Soderberg of Google for nonprofits we'll cover some tips nonprofits get the most out of Google Forms calendar and hi everybody my name is Fiona Soderberg and I'm a program manager at Google.org today I'd like to go over three quick tips for nonprofits for Google Workspace first off what is Google Workspace Google Workspace is Google's suite of productivity and collaboration tools for Google Workspace for nonprofits you get access to one addition that gives you the familiar tools like Gmail, docs, calendars and slides and then you also have the option to go to a discounted more advanced version if you'd like like I said it's those familiar tools that are designed to work from anywhere on any device which is specifically and more important during the pandemic it allows you to connect and collaborate in real time with team members, donors and volunteers it gives you great storage of 30 gigabytes per user and share drives and also gives you access to Google Classroom which is great if you're hosting trainings or events the three tips that I'm going to cover today is Google Forms how to quickly and easily make a spreadsheet from your volunteer sign up Google Calendar, Create and Publish an Events Calendar for your organization and then Google Groups create groups to communicate with members and volunteers all three products within Google Workspace firstly how to make a spreadsheet from your volunteer sign up form do you ever send out forms to your volunteers get a bunch of data back to manipulate the data and crunch the numbers as you like I can show you how to do that in one quick click the first thing that you're going to want to do is go to forms.google.com to see your database of all the forms attached to your account click on the form that you would like to make the spreadsheet for it'll open up the list of questions that you have created for your survey or your form that you've sent out to your users there's a responses tab all those responses that have come back to you and then the really neat thing is at the top on the right hand side there's a Sheets icon and with one click you can click on that and you create a spreadsheet of all of that data for you to be able to manipulate send it out do whatever you like with it the next tip is how to create and publish an events calendar for your organization so if you ever struggle trying to get all your volunteers to get the right details of an event you don't want to show your personal calendar or your work calendar well this is a way to create a calendar for the public for volunteers whoever you want to be able to see specific calendar meetings and invitation first thing you do here is go to calendar.google.com on the left hand side above other calendars there's a plus button and you can create a new calendar provide a name and description here I'm going to make sure to give a description that reminds me that it is a public calendar so that I know that I'm posting public events here you can create the calendar and it will show up on the left hand side navigation of all the calendars you own you can click into it and then have access to all the settings like access permission for events you can make the events public you can also copy the link to share the calendar with your volunteers wherever it is you can also directly add users to the calendar so they can edit and also share and use the calendar as well so I've made this calendar publicly available I can share it with who I want to I can also create an event on my personal calendar or my work calendar so let's say it's a meet and greet and I can change the calendar to be that of the public events calendar that I want click save it's color coded so I know the difference and then it is available to all those users who have access to the calendar the next one is how to create groups to communicate with members and volunteers have you ever struggled keeping a sheet of all your volunteer email addresses gmail, MSN, Yahoo whatever it is would you like an easy way to be able to email all your volunteers in one place easily and quickly well we have Google groups which is a great solution for this so if you're at groups.google.com left hand side click create group you want to name the group something that is indicative of those folks who will be joining the group so let's say nonprofit volunteers here that will be the first part of the email alias by your organization's domain you can create it and choose who can search for the group who can join for the group and then who can view conversations can post and view members this way you're setting up that group for only the people that you want to add and if you either add them directly yourself or you can go ahead and share the group with them and they can request to be added as well you can add a quick welcome message for anybody who does join just as a reminder of what the group is for so there you have it once you add all the users to this group then you have one email address that you can send out an email to all of your volunteers so how do you get all of these great tools under Google workspace for nonprofits first you need a Google for nonprofits account you go to google.com nonprofits review the eligibility requirements to make sure that your organization is eligible request an account by clicking get started in the upper right hand corner wait for verification and then you can activate and use the suite of Google products and tools that we have for nonprofit users specifically for workspace that means signing up for Google workspace verifying your domain submitting it for review and then signing into Google workspace admin console and get going but all this can be found at google.com slash nonprofits thank you so imagine that you had a robot that could help onboard your new volunteers in this next demo Slack's Rebecca Cormier shows us how you can create a welcome bot in Slack that automatically sends a message to each new member help them feel welcome and ensure they have the information needed to get started hi I'm Rebecca Cormier and I'm a senior solution engineer with Slack I help out with Slack's public sector and nonprofits and today I'm excited to show you some of the benefits of a Slack welcome bot and also how you can go in and create one yourself in a matter of minutes why is this important well when welcoming new team members you want to ensure that they have all of the resources they need to get started but doing so can be tedious for the person doing the onboarding with Slack's no code workflow builder you can automate this process to welcome team members saving you time while also ensuring that these new team members are included and informed and the best part there's no coding experience needed and you can set one up very quickly so you can see here Jennifer Hines is a new project manager with Slack for good and she started and already has a message in her in her DM channel that's personally welcoming her to Slack for good this also is going to have information on how she can find her local channel so if you're an organization that spans different areas you can make it easier for your teams to connect with those local it also has channels she can go and look through search join and then you can have some how to videos you can also have links to your handbook really anything that you'd like that could help your employees and your volunteers feel more welcome and know how to direct them and where to go so how did we do this we utilize Slack workflow which as long as you have the rights and the roles from the admin to do this you can just pop into tools into workflow builder and this is embedded in Slack workflow builder is a visual tool that enables you to automate routine functions by creating workflows by doing some of these tedious tasks that you do every day but really build up and take a lot of time part of this also includes pre-built templates that we've seen people use multiple times we've streamlined it to make it a lot easier and a lot faster for you so you can see right here how to welcome new teammates you can opt to set this up in whatever way you'd like it can go directly to a channel so if you do have a new member welcome channel it can go directly to a channel and let them receive that welcome there or as we saw with Jennifer you can have it go directly to the person that has joined so that's what we did here we have variables that will auto-fill who it is, dates anything that you want to be auto-filled when they join and I went ahead and copied the message that I want to use but this is customizable you just enter your message and it's sent and then preview it once it's the way you'd like you're also able to go up and customize the bot picture so I'm going to go ahead and put our slack bot in here to make it a little more fun and welcoming and personable and there you have it so that's it make sure you hit publish and now your workflow is ready to use and you have made it easier for both those onboarding and those being onboarded now this work can be simpler, more pleasant and more productive thanks so much for watching


Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com. Today I'll have another episode of non-affiliated notebook review video and I'll be presenting the molluskine pro pad which is the pocket size. On this channel I do non-affiliated unbiased and honest reviews. There are no affiliated links. I do not take money from anyone. For the three reason you'll get totally honest and unbiased opinion because you know I have no interest in selling or putting any links anywhere to make money off you. So the notebook I have is the molluskine pro collection pro pad and this is the pocket size and we have still the original wrapping so let's just take or let's just open the wrapping then we'll take a look at some of the specs. So here we have the notebook. The paper is 100 gram per meter square and the pages are detachable and then we have optimized note taking so there should be something inside which makes it different than you know a regular notebook and then on the back of the notebook we have pro pad and this is 9 by 14 centimeter or three and a half by five and a half so it's a pocket size. Here actually have something so an original and simple graphic layout to help you organize your notes. This notebook actually is not it does not open like a book so this is a flip top notebook so you open it on the top. Inside the flap looks like they have a little bit instructions here. It tells you to cut along the line and fold it in the middle to obtain a hanging message. Here is the notebook and here we have the classic molluskine logo and it opens like flip top it doesn't open like a book so you have to just you know push it upward and then we have looks like they touch even a small you know brochure or guide. We just set this aside and there's even a small sticker which I have noticed in with every molluskine notebook. Okay so this is the front side and this is the back side and let's take a look at it. So you can see right where that you know there's some dots and arrows right here and here we have a space for a date looks like it's a date and then if we flip more pages then okay so it looks like it's the same thing all over somehow I was expecting there's going to be a section by section divider but looks like no so it's kind of you know if you want to divide it by section then you can just write heading on the top. So the paper is little bit you know it's not thin it's a thick paper which is very good and then it's ruled on both sides of the paper and looks like we have molluskine on the bottom of the lower section each page and at the end of the notebook actually the end cover is harder than the front cover the front cover is a kind of like you know soft cover it's not hard but the end cover is hard cover. Okay so what I'll do I'll just do the writing test and see if there's ink bleeding or how it feels to write. So I have a ballpoint pen and then I have a roller ball gel ink pen and we'll take a look at both of them. Okay so you can see that it writes very smoothly and if you look on the back of the paper there's no ink bleeding there's no nothing so looks like the paper is absorbing the pressure and the writing very well and the paper quality is very good. This can be a very good travel notebook as well due to its size you can easily slip it into your backpack or pocket or your sling bag and if you need then you can just like you know tear off each page because you know all the pages are perforated so that's a good thing. The notebook overall looks very nice and you know good-looking and definitely I'm happy with the purchase and I have other notebook reviews if you like to see them you can just you know search on this channel and all of the reviews are non-affiliated unbiased and honest. Thank you for watching this video forget about subscribing to this channel forget about liking this video there'll be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you