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And we're opening this series with our guest expert, Allison Reese. The Feed More TechTalks series will be as I mentioned every other week and it's TechSoup's open town hall forum for people who feed people. And this week's featured guest is Allison Reese, executive director for the Super Bowl of Caring and the Tackle Hunger movement which is a nationwide food drive campaign that brings together thousands of groups annually who collectively donate millions to local hunger relief charities each year. The Tackle Hunger map was built to support their mission to unite all communities to tackle hunger and show where and what food charities need in real time. We will learn more about the map and how it's being used while I speak with Allison and today we also wanna hear how we can help you, how TechSoup can help support the important work done by organizations like yours who feed people. We'll introduce you to Quad after I speak with Allison and our member services manager Erin will be taking the mic after me and we'll be telling you all about Quad and Quad is our new peer-to-peer community and content hub where you can connect with others just like you who are working to address food security issues. And with that I'm gonna introduce you Allison currently serves as the executive director for the Super Bowl of Caring and the Tackle Hunger movement which is a nationwide food drive campaign that brings together thousands of groups annually who collectively donate millions to local hunger relief charities each year. An educator by training and in the classroom and school leadership for over 23 years, Allison knows firsthand that we must make sure our families get the food they need so that they can meet their potential and she can be reached at allison at superbowl.org and that's A-L-I-S-O-N at S-O-U-P-E-R-B-O-W-L.org. So with that Allison's great to meet you and where are you sitting right now? I am sitting in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas. Nice, so I'm gonna start asking you questions about the Tackle Hunger movement and map. So why don't we start with what is the Tackle Hunger map and how does it work? I appreciate the opportunity to talk to some of the food charities that you all work with and of course we have had all sorts of great experiences with TechSoup and they have helped us build our Tackle Hunger map. So let me tell you about it, it was built to show where local food charities are working to feed people and what their current status is regarding their ability to meet the demands of neighbors who were in need in real time. So what that means is that when a user goes to the map they automatically find the food charities nearest their geo-location. They can see the status, that is whether they need non-perishables, whether they need perishables, whether they have adequate stock or whether they're in critical lead and not be turning away clients. And people can donate directly to that charity and write through the map. Charities have the option to either get donations directed right to their bank account and that's for free or they could have the donations run through us and we send the donations in a check within 30 days. And how is the data in the Tackle Hunger map addressing other challenges?  Is anyone else using it and is it open? So interestingly enough, it really fits very well within our mission to unite all communities to Tackle Hunger and for our participants in Super Bowl occurring events in collections to be able to have an online resource in order for donations to flow to those charities. But in addition, the reason we started this was actually because of the fact that we had a question that came to us. So at that time, the question was, hey, can you tell us in real time what's going on with food charities and this was during the pandemic. So because of that, we created this map and we're adding charities all the time. When anyone can add a food charity to the map and when they do, we have a charity director who verifies that charity, make sure that it's really a charity and then it proves it to the map. So when food charities provide their status of their current level of need, that allows a user, whether it's the Department of Defense who originally had the question for us or a local person in our community or a church person or just a regular person interested, we can see, we can do several things with that data. First, we can direct people who are hungry to places that can actually serve them because we know if a charity is unread, then we would caution a client may end up being turned away and that's happening more often than not sometimes and our charities don't want that, but that is indeed sometimes what ends up happening. So we can direct people to other charities within that area. We can also encourage community members to pay attention to the map and become support networks to the food charities, especially when they're on red status, when there's a critical need. And another thing that we're doing with this data is in the event of emergencies, this map can actually be used by emergency officials and it has been used and continues to be used by Northern Command to find resources to help, but also to find partner pantries who might be able to help distribute emergency resources. And one last thing that I can think of is that our food charity data now is interestingly being layered with other data so that we can really tell the story that helps federal resources or state resources actually do better. So historical data of where and what food charities need at different times of the year can really lead to better resources across the board for all food charities. So bottom line who's using it now, it's called the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center at the Department of Defense. We've got local officials in some communities around the country who are starting to use it to make sure that when social workers are sending people to food charities, they're sending them to places that can actually serve them well. And then we've also got a couple colleges now that are working on some research where they're actually building an algorithm to determine where to stage food in the event of an emergency, whether it's a pandemic emergency or a natural disaster. And of course the data that we've built and that we're building is critical to that. Very interesting. And what are some of the biggest challenges for the small food banks that participate in the tackle hunger map? Yeah, it's particularly hard. What we hear in just like the forum that you're building, it's particularly hard for small charities to have time to get awareness to the work that they're doing. So literally I can be sitting a mile away from a food charity and have no idea that's happening. And a lot of times that's true with our faith-based organizations. They don't know that there's a charity right down the street. And if they did know that, then potentially they could be more supportive. And because our charities just don't have time to go to these potential partners and seek help, only the volunteers and faith-based orgs that walk in the doors end up being able to help. So in addition, look, our food charities, you guys know, you're constantly battling to find the resources you need to do your work. So we envision the map to be a quick and easy place that charities can indicate their need. Literally all it is you get an occasional email where you click a button in that email. You don't even have to log in to the back end of that map. It automatically changes your color. And food charities, obviously you feel very isolated, which is some of the data that you all have collected from talking to some of these charities. So our map provides this network. Look, if a charity is doing okay, and I notice and I'm that charity and I see a food charity 10 miles away from me on red, I could call and see if I could help. Cause we're all in this together, but we have no way to see where the pain points are in the system at any given moment. And that's what the Tacklehunter map can really do and solve for and help with. Yeah, we, in our Quad community, we're going to tell you about, we were talking about what happens when a pantry closes and how they manage those challenges. So I could imagine this being a pretty useful tool in that instance. Could you share a story about a food banker pantry that benefited from your map? For sure. And on that note, we envisioned, hopefully, having the ability for charities who are in the map to be able to say, okay, we're closing, we're either closing for a short time or we're closing permanently and not really flagging that location. And then the other charities that would be around it would then automatically be unread because now all of a sudden they're serving more. That's just something that we're thinking about for the future, but certainly that's something that we're all having to contend with the increase in the ability to try to function as a food charity. So one of the, I got two really good stories. One of them is just a local charity to where I live. If they were in our first set of data, in our first set of data came from all of the food charities who had benefited in some way from a Super Bowl and Caring campaign at some time in the last 20 years. And we had about 12,000 of them. They were in particular in need. And so the pin was changed. She changed her pin to red and then she emailed a couple of the local civic groups that she had met and who expressed an interest in her pantry because of the map. And within 30 minutes of that email and that pin changing, a partner, a civic group called and said, hey, what is it you need? The charity described that specific need and it was for their Thanksgiving giveaways last year. And within 30 minutes, that need was filled. So it was the ability for her to make connections that allowed her to build some support network that both the map and the community can fulfill. Another great story. This is a really good one. We were doing a phone bank with next to our media. For New Year's Eve, we do that on the West Coast with several channels on the West Coast to all, I think seven or eight different states. At any rate, we had youth answering the phones and the callers were asked what their zip codes were. The kids would enter that zip code into the map and tell the caller, here's your nearest food pantry. One particular caller called in and said, we want to donate $25,000 to this charity in the map. That charity didn't do anything but exist on our map to get that donation. So it's pretty cool. That is so that kind of actually answers my next question. And then we'll move over to Erin, which is why should organizations participate? Why should they join? And that what your second story after that, if you have anything else you want to add before we pass it over to Erin and just to let the audience know, we'll be addressing all of these questions. I see some great questions coming up in the chat and a lot of the same questions I'm actually thinking. And so we'll be addressing all of those after including the questions for Erin. So we'll address all the Q and A at the end. But so just to wrap, Allison, what any, anything final that you want to say about why organizations should participate? Yeah, absolutely. I think charities, just like we're talking about with Quad, they needed one better awareness of the work they're doing. It's really tough work and very isolating. So we're trying to reveal that food charity network better to get support for all charities, whether it's big, small, part of the food bank network are totally independent. We need to know where the holes in the system is and where there's vulnerabilities. Think about this. There's places where they're considered food deserts with potentially high rates of poverty. And you have one church that's feeding people and they're doing it independently and they're doing it with volunteers. If we know where these situations are occurring, we can and should do better at supporting in those communities. Another reason it doesn't cost anything and even when a donation rolls through our map, just full disclosure, the map fee is a very small 3.5% which barely covers our technology costs, even with TechSoup's help. So the only fee that happens is when a donation rolls through us and then we either send you a check or we're connecting it through through the back end of our map. So one last reason, we really have a vast network of groups who participate in Tackle Hunger collections each year. And if a person or a group hosts a campaign for your charity, they can both hold in-person donations and link it to the map to collect monetary donations for your charity through a new Tackle Hunger portal for participation. Think of it like a GoFundMe page or a thing. And that new system is in the process of going up on our website right now, literally right now. So the group can manually report their in-person totals if they had a food collection for your charity to the national Tackle Hunger impact and share everything else really easily through the map. And it's really easy to add. Just by the way, your charity, if you're not on the map, you just go to our map at MAP.TackleHunger.org and there's a little button at the top that says Contacts. And when you click that, you'll see a place where you could add a food charity right there. So we would love to have you and certainly email me. I'm always glad to help. Thank you so much. Super interesting stuff. And we will be addressing all of these questions. There's so many in the chat at the end. And with that, I'm gonna pass it to my colleague, Aaron. Thanks, Susan. Hi everybody. I'm gonna talk about Quad really quickly. So over the course of a year in a TechSoup has had discussions, we put on events, we had interviews with 62 different food and security orgs. We talked about the things that you talk about, data reporting, inventory management, volunteer management, data security, delivery of food, a lot of the different topics. And we asked them after the discussions with our 30 years of experience in the sector, with our resources and our connections, how can we help you make impact? And what they told us is they want a community space where they can talk with each other and come up with solutions and answers to all the ills and challenges that they deal with daily. And they want products, of course, to help facilitate those answers that come out of the community. And they want courses and training to help with tech adoption, which is a big issue. And so we created Quad. Essentially Quad brings all those learnings into one place. It brings the courses, it brings the products, it brings the discussions together. Okay, I'm gonna show you what it actually looks like. So Quad membership is $200 for a year. That $200 was put together by the average annual spend of our TechSoup members. But the value is so much more and I'll show you how and what that means too. So initially I mentioned a community space. We have a new dedicated community space which includes a curated knowledge base. Our digital content team is working hard to make members only unique information added to the space that includes articles and it will include events, guest speakers, presentations. A lot of different things that we feel will answer a lot of the questions that came up out of the discussions from a year and a half. Aside from having a community space with the Quad membership, you also get products and services in courses. We will remove the admin fees for all of that. That means mostly you will get all the courses you need. I will say this, you can get a limit of 10 for courses and product quantities as well. But overall you will still get admin fees removed. And I can explain a little more if we have some Q and A about that. And I will be here with individualized support. When you do a Quad membership, I'll first start out with a consultation with you so I can get a profile of what your needs are for the whole year when it comes to technology and other challenges. That way I can offer suggestions for different products. I'll place a request for you if there are some unique and interesting topics that come up in the conversations in the community space that I think are relevant to you. I will tag you in it. I'll make sure it's there. I want you to get the value of this membership to the full effect. So I'll be shadowing where I can and when I can to make sure you get all you need. Okay, I think we're moving, here we go. So I quickly wanna show you, this is a screenshot of what Quad looks like. It's probably a very familiar interface. To the left, we've got our content area which includes the discussion areas of food insecurity and volunteer management. Those are the two biggest issues that came up in the conversations. Volunteer tech adoption, again, managing volunteers when it comes to delivery services, especially in the era of COVID, a lot of food insecurity or it's had to transition from happy people come to them to going to the people. So that has been an issue as well. Also to the left, you'll see we'll have events. We'll fill this out with all unique content specific to your Quad membership. We also have an area where articles and resources where again, our digital content team is working hard to add content there. In the middle, you'll see all the conversations that we'll have all the themes that we talked about throughout the course of the 1.5 years that we've discussed these topics with these food insecurity orgs. And of course to the right, you'll see the trending posts that will come up and these topics are probably very familiar to you, for instance, adding dropdown lists to Excel. I will tell you this in the conversations we had, most of the organizations spoke about still either using pen and paper for registrants or dealing with Excel. With that in mind, we understand that there is a need to transition from older technologies to newer technologies. So we're hoping Quad will help do that and help facilitate some of that tech adoption. Here's a screenshot of, as an example, of the articles and resources section that our digital content team is building out. And to give you a bigger example of how we're trying to enhance the community space, if there are any unique and engaging conversations that come up from this space that have unique and really good answers to some issues that you guys are talking about, our content team will take that information and they'll repackage it. They'll either do an interview, maybe a video interview with people talking about these issues, or they might just pound the pavement and do some big research and create a more fulfilling article about the conversations that came up. For instance, what kinds of organizations operating food security from Amy, Excel templates for food security organizations, document management, these are all relevant conversations and topics that we've created content for. So we're hoping that this space is gonna be something more than just a forum. And we think that since it's brand new too, we feel that you all have the ability to create your own idea of what you want out of a forum. Your voice won't get lost in the shuffle. Your voice will be right there front and center. And to add to the ability for you to create impact and get discussions going, you can also, through the membership, add nine colleagues to the community space. So that can be your coworkers, board members, maybe colleagues from foundations for city governments that you're working with, specifically for food insecurity. And then here is a list, the current example list of some of our current Quad members. You'll see it runs the spectrum in terms of food insecurity. We have food banks. We've got community service organizations. We have churches that help deliver impact through providing food. We have platforms like Fresh Food Connect. We provide a platform that allows distribution of excess groceries and food stuffs. So yeah, we have a big, we have a big or at least getting bigger group within the community space. And we hope you all can join as well. And again, I think a big deal out of this is to create your own space. Have your colleagues in there, start conversations, introduce yourself to each other and come up with those answers that you mentioned you wanna get out of the community space after a year and a half of discussions. All right, I am done. Thank you very much. Thank you, only two years of pandemic and still I forget to unmute myself. Anyway, I'd love to open it up. We have a lot of questions that rolled in. I'll just start right now and we've got some time. So Allison, I'm gonna start with questions for Allison. How can charities use the map? How is it useful on a day-to-day basis? Okay, as I mentioned before, one of the things is just to have a network in your area and there aren't a lot. If you're a part of the food bank network, then yeah, you might have a core group of people that you could go to, but certainly the ability to see where other food charities are and what potentially their needs are, it certainly allows for a sense of networking in your local area. Certainly Quad is offering a more broad spectrum, but at the same time, the other nice thing about the map is that it allows you to be seen and for people to be able to host these kind of collections through Superbolic Hearing that we encourage people to do and thousands do each year. Depending on the part of country you are in, our brand gets a lot of awareness. We're doing a lot more now with our NFL alumni, as you can see back here, who are also in the very beginnings of some pretty significant work that we're doing to bring awareness to child hunger and the needs around that in our communities. So stay tuned. Thanks. So I wanted to know if you could give me an example of how the data being used as helping, a positive story about the data. I could go back to some of the work that's being done right now, where they're layering this data along with some other key indicators that help us identify better the vulnerabilities. One of the coolest things that it's been used for recently was it's layered in a dashboard where when natural disasters, particularly hurricanes, are taking place. And you've got Northern Command that ends up going in to help support with the Red Cross and with other national organizations. They're using the data about where these food charities are in order to see, here's the evacuation routes, here's where these charities are, here to potentially could help us. And then in addition to that, it's just about getting resources quicker to the people in need. And based on the two times that it has been used and in the ways in which they're hoping to use it long-term, they have taken the response term, in at least one case down from three weeks to responding to certain communities that were in need of food to three days. So that's a good example of some of the things. Literally, like I said, right now we're working with a couple of universities who are taking that data and they're using it to help figure out an algorithm that can be used really anywhere to know where to stage food, where it's most appropriate, where it's gonna be best for the entire community and you're using lots of factors to determine that. But there's never been a project really where we have all food charities in one database that's maintained. There's a lot of different databases out there. Google has one, but a lot of them are including feeding sites, like summer feeding sites, which is great information, but that's not someplace where a person like myself could go and get food support. In addition to a lot of them- I know it's summer months, it's not open, so there's that too, yeah. And a lot of the times the databases aren't maintained and no, ours is not perfect, but we are working on that every day and we've got people who that's their job, that we have volunteers, vistas who are working on that. And then we share that data. Our goal, what we would ideally like to see is just one database that everybody can share, that everybody who needs it. So for instance, we share our data with Hunger Free America and they have a hotline people can call when a food charity updates their information in our portal, that should update it for everyone who needs it, instead of these charities having to go to 10 different places to update their information. So ideally that's what we'd like to see, no whether or not that will really happen or no, but our goal is to find all the food charities and we've got volunteers within our network, especially in our faith-based community and some civic groups that we work with, a lot of youth who are helping us to find all food charities and try to get them on the map. So in all 50 states, we have some volunteers working on that. That's awesome, thank you so much. And I wanted to read a question from Brittany Rhodes, who's actually already a Quad member. Brittany asks, would the Tackle Hunger Map be a good resource for unofficial organizations? Do they have to be 501C3s or can they be not nonprofits? But a lot of ours are being run through other organizations like a church or like a school. But yeah, those are fine as long as we have the ability to direct those resources to a location, so to speak. We just have to always be keeping in mind that these people are making donations through us to that charity. So we wanna make sure that it's absolutely going to feed people. Okay, great. And our next, I'm gonna conflate two questions into one. One question is how can I add our food pantry to the Tackle Hunger Map? And the next question says, we're thrilled to be on the map, but how do we edit the entry? How do we adjust the status? Okay, so two good questions. The first one I kinda answered already, you go to the map and you can either go to TackleHunger.org, which is our basic website. You can go there and click into the map and you can also read more about the map in there. But you can also just go to MAP.TackleHunger.org. You click on the contact button. There's a little place there where you can enter your details. Anyone can enter details. So if you know of other food charities that aren't in there and they need to be, we want them to be, then you can add them too. And like I said, we've got a volunteer whose job is just to vet those charities and then approve them to get on the map itself. So that's how that happens. If you're already in the map and you haven't received an email that says, hey, welcome to the map, click here to learn more, then you can email us at charities at superbowl.org or we also have another one, our sister email is soup, S-O-U-P at superbowl.org. You can email either one of them and say, hey, I'm on the map, but I don't know the email address that's attached to it because the only way we can get in contact with our charities is if we have a good email address. And that's actually one of the jobs that we have a volunteer working on right now to make sure we have good email addresses for the charities who haven't engaged. So that's likely the issue. And once we have that correct email address that you want to use, it's easy to get in and then you can change the information. You can also just email us and we can help you with that or call us. We've got a 1-800 number two that I can put in the chat. Great, so the next question is pretty interesting. From Joe Bobrin, I've seen a number of similar but different maps in the works all with slightly different purposes and audiences. Have you collaborated or spoken with other mapping projects? Do you think it would be valuable to create a basic standard API so these technology projects could easily share data? So like I'm thinking about Mapbox and there's some other projects. How do you guys, are you doing that? Are you thinking metadata standard and an open API in that way? Yeah, and we've our IT developer who started this project absolutely is talking to some of these others. Ours has a very specific goal. And our goal really from Superbolicarian standpoint, it's really to be an extension of our initial mission which is to unite all communities to tackle hunger and have it especially with the pandemic have a virtual way to do that. And so because of that, ours is very unique compared to some of these food pantry finder apps which are really great, but they're really designated just for the clients as opposed to the donors who want to help support the food charity. So we have ideas there, but yes, we are absolutely all about collaborating and sharing the data, sharing the work that we're doing because it's all about feeding people when it comes right down to it. Yeah, I'm happy to introduce you actually to I know some people at Mapbox so I'm happy to make that introduction. If there's people in the audience who are related like for example, if you Joe who asked the question are related to or have connections in that, feel free to put them in the chat or we can just make introductions afterwards. As we mentioned before, we'll be sharing all of this information in kind of a consolidated way and a follow-up email. I'm gonna flip over to Erin because we have so many questions and I wanna make sure that we get the quad questions answered as well. Alison if time permits, I'll ask the remaining but for now Erin. So why is quad a membership program? What do you guys mean by that? And what would I get for the $200 fee that you mentioned? What's a one-year membership program? And it's like very similar to current models of technology that are happening going transitioning through like subscription-based models through the cloud, that type of form of service. So yeah, it is a one-year membership, $200. The $200 is based off of the average annual spend. But like I said, the potential is so much more. We have a course, one of our courses, I think it's a level three course for Accidental Techie Development Director. That's a $350 course. And with a cloud membership, you won't have to pay that. So automatically if that's something, and we have heard that is something that people are very interested in, then that right there, you have gained a really relevant course and you've already paid back the membership that you've paid for. So if that is an example of kind of the impact that you can get, but just to reiterate, it's the community space, it's the courses, it's the products, and it's the services as well. I touched on it a little bit, but I wanna say it now again, which is there is a limit. There's like a 10-quantity limit for anything you get. Not all of our like product programs offer 10 licenses. And all of our product offers are a little unique to each other. So what I'd recommend is that if you're looking at a product, read the restrictions and conditions involved, just to make sure you look at that on the product page and make sure you're eligible. Most of quad members will be eligible because you're dealing with basic needs and most of our corporate partners who offer these programs definitely offer them to basic needs. So that probably won't be a problem for most organizations, but it is something I'd recommend you check out if you're looking at a product page. Aside from the features and categories and everything else and details of the product, I'd recommend you definitely look at the restrictions and conditions section as well, just to make sure you're eligible. Next question from Brittany Rhodes again, who's a quad member. I'm on quad, but I'm not sure of my IT and other colleagues are connected. How can I best get them connected? I need Joe Hickey with me. So I guess Joe must be here in the event. So how do we get, how do people get their colleagues onto quad? Just right here. Yeah, so I did, yeah. I responded to, hi, Brittany. I responded to you in the chat, which is the end that you saw it. So you, so with a quad membership, there's the initial person that's on like the TechSoup account to place your request, and then you can add nine additional colleagues. So typically what happens is you place your request, I send you a hello email, you get a fulfilling email that includes us, a link for you to schedule time for a consultation. During the consultation and afterwards, I will send you a link to join quad and a link to provide your colleagues, the nine different colleagues. And we're really new to this too. We appreciate any feedback anyone's gonna offer regarding improving or making changes anywhere that needs to have change. But what I'm saying that because initially we had in mind just coworkers to be these nine additional people. But in our discussion, we realized that there are different stakeholders involved in a lot of these programs, aside from just the organization, that is the primary organization. With that in mind, beyond coworkers, if there's someone relevant that you've been dealing with that works at another organization, a third party that's helping you distribute food, feel free to include them and add them and use the link, send them the link and they can get at it as well. We're just trying to make a space where real conversations with the right players happen so we can get some solutions, we can get some answers to a lot of the problems that we've heard that have bubbled up in the conversations that we've had. Great, I'm gonna pop back over to Allison and ask some more questions that have been popping in. Here's another one, are charities able to post types of food that are most helpful to their clientele? Perhaps cultural, allergen, religious focus. And I'm gonna add to that question, which is to say if an organization isn't specifically a food-serving organization like we heard from pet rescue orgs that also do food for pets and organizations that help with people who are unhoused, how do they fit into the map? Both good questions. And I had answered a couple of them in the chat to that person who had asked that. As far as the question of other orgs, we have, as long as an organization is feeding people then they're in our map. So we have groups like the Refugee Services of Texas is on our map because they're feeding people all the time, pet pantries for sure, if they're a soup kitchen for sure, because all of those traditionally are groups that would benefit from a Super Bowl occurring campaign. Our initial, our kind of heritage is that we encourage groups to have campaigns using the energy of the big game really. Once they have that campaign, they're gonna make that donation wherever they want to. So they get to determine in their community where they want to provide that resource. And I was just telling that the pet pantry, we've got several of them in our map that do really well because a lot of our schools really love to support those pet pantries. Interestingly, the other question that you asked with regard to adding what kind of donations they're looking for, we actually do ask some of those questions and it's in the database that we have. So when you log into the portal, then that's where a food charity can indicate, change up the information, if their addresses are changed or their times of service, that sort of thing. And most of it right now because our primary mission has been to provide donations and to support that charity. So we don't want to overwhelm the user. We haven't really put that into the view on our map. But like I said, we share that information with a lot of our pantry finders. And yeah, they do have a lot of that information. We are working on that. And we see what the feedback from our food pantries just like with Quad, you want that information so that you can do better. And we're actually about to deploy a second version, which will add some of that. Here's what we need. We're needing food donations and this kind of food donation. So stay tuned, it's coming. With that, we have to wrap. Unfortunately, we're out of time, but it was such a pleasure meeting all of you. And thanks so much for all of your insights in the chat. And I loved finding out where people were from and what they did. And yay, I'm glad. Oh, Susan, you reached out yesterday from Humanitas. Ah, thank you, Daniel. I did see that email and I am delayed in responding. So apologies, I'm terrible with email sometimes, but I will get back to you. And thanks everyone for coming. We'll have these every other week. If you are interested, you can email community at TechSoup or Susan at TechSoup. And we will be happy to tell you more. And thanks again and have a wonderful weekend.


In this session, we shall look at the policy framework for disaster management with the perspective of Eastern Africa. In the first part, we shall look at the frameworks for disaster risk reduction. Risk reduction emphasizes management of disaster risk. It is the systematic development and application of policies, strategies and practices to minimize vulnerabilities and disaster risks throughout a society, and to avoid, prevent or to limit, mitigate and prepare for adverse impacts of disasters within the broad context of sustainable development. Risk reduction is a mechanism to reduce vulnerability. It is a multi-sectoral and inter-institutional process. It requires synergies between sustainable development and risk reduction. Examples include vulnerability and risk assessment, institutional capacities and operational abilities, assessment of differential vulnerability for critical facilities infrastructure, use of effective early warning systems and the application of many different types of scientific, technical and other skilled abilities. In many countries, disaster risk reduction has not been prioritizing in disaster management, but there is a current shift in paradigm. Key instruments for disaster risk reduction include the national development policy, the poverty reduction strategy papers, programs for implementation of millennium development goals and in-country instruments including country cooperation frameworks and United Nations development assistance frameworks. Disaster risk reduction is an all-encompassing entity that involves all sectors at national level. National plans should therefore be driving the driving force of disaster risk reduction. They provide an overall development framework for implementing a national vision. They identify national development concerns and they should define the development goals and opportunities and bring together all sector of plans under a single framework for disaster risk reduction. Poverty reduction strategies are essential in disaster risk reduction and they should be articulated in a number of documents in countries. They include national development policy plans. In some countries there are annual economic and social plans. The national budget is also important. Public sector investment programs and poverty reduction strategy papers. There are also regional frameworks for disaster risk reduction including the African Union Framework for Disaster Response, the Intergovernmental Agency for Development Early Warning Framework, EGAD, the East African Community Early Warning Mechanism, the Great Leads Framework for Disaster Response and the Regional Disaster Management Centre of Excellence. These are frameworks that you should learn and try to find out the key provisions in these frameworks. There are also international frameworks for disaster risk reduction, the key being the Hyogo Framework for Action which aims to build resilience of communities and nations to disasters. These fear standards are instruments for ensuring quality of response. The international strategy for disaster reduction and the UN and the UNDP has a number of instruments that provide for disaster risk reduction. Strategic goals of the Hyogo Framework include effective integration of disaster risk reduction into national policies, plans and programming at all levels, strengthening institutions and capabilities at all levels and systematic incorporation of risk reduction into the design and implementation of emergency response and recovery plans. In the second part of this presentation we look at the framework for disaster response and coordination. Most countries in the Eastern Africa region have national policies or mechanisms for disaster management. How is the coordination of disasters implemented in your country and in your district in particular? Elements of the post disaster phase include response that is decisions and actions taken during and after the disaster and they include immediate relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction. The framework should contain objectives and goals of the response, framework for coordination, logistics and supplies management, communication and information management, survivor response mechanisms, security and human rights, emphasis on the most vulnerable populations, emergency operations management and then rehabilitation and reconstruction. Institutional frameworks for disaster response should exist at the national level, regional and provincial level, districts and sub-district levels. At the national level all countries have a central coordinating office. Some key sector ministries have a coordinating structure for disaster management in line with their sector mandate. Usually the coordinating body is an inter-ministerial committee or task force for disasters that cut across sectors. The national level, the usual structure is the office of the prime minister or sector ministries or office of the president and line ministries. At the districts there is usually a district disaster management committee. At sub-district level there are sub-district disaster management committees although these have not yet been set up in many countries. Ministries and sectors in the response. Sector policies on disaster response may be sourced from health ministry, agriculture and animal sector ministries, education, roads, water, housing, home and internal affairs and the defense ministries. There may be sub-national bylaws in relation to decentralization and the management of disasters in districts. Responsibilities. At the national level the structure should be responsible for overall police formulation and national guidance, planning, coordination, resource mobilization, technical support, hazards mapping, reporting and research. In regions, zones and provinces and districts disaster management committees are necessary. They could be regional and provincial level structures. The informal sector may also be involved as well as the public sector and these may have specific teams. The roles of the districts include assessment, planning, implementation, resource mobilization and information gathering. Roles of sub-district levels include the need for availability of village and community structures. These are the usual first responders and they take charge of the local response. They should be in charge of creating local awareness and community surveillance. Other actors include UN agencies, international agencies and NGOs, faith-based organizations, community-based organizations and the civil society. Coordination is an important cross-cutting element of disaster management. There is need to create a central source of guidance, a unit of command established clear leadership and create coordinating bodies that are related to the command structure. Why coordinate? Avoid duplication, avoiding wastage of resources. The rationale is that there are many actors involved in service provision during emergencies and there is a potential for confusion, competition and duplication. The goal is to achieve the greatest impact through management and integration of activities and ensure that priorities are shared and to rationalize services by establishing common standards among all actors and to ensure communication occurs amongst stakeholders. All actors should work in harmony with established policy framework. Disasters are political. Policy emphasizes the role of government, the role of the executive and the role of local agencies. Challenges. Do you know any challenges likely to affect coordination of disaster management? Tresally at the district level, challenges of coordination include multiplicity of actors, divergent views and policies, divergent interests, linkages and resources.


Hey friends today. I'm hanging out at Universal Studios Orlando. It is spring break So the crowds are going to be super busy But I wanted to come out because it was a beautiful day Maybe ride some rides eat some food and definitely get some drinks. So let's go do this I guess it's a good sign seeing this many people leaving the park, but I'm sure there's a lot more people inside the park Regardless of the wait times and how busy the parks are this weekend or this week has just been so beautiful And it kind of just makes you want to get out and go to a theme park You know what I mean? You ever get those feelings where you're just like man. I'd love to go walk around a theme park I definitely had that feeling today And even though we know that it's very crowded and the wait times are going to be extremely long I want to try to show you guys that you can make the best of the day Even during the busiest times of the year Now I'm not saying I'm gonna ride all the best rides or have the coolest Experiences, but I am gonna make it the best of what we got like you know what I mean? We know what's crowded We know there's ways around actually beating those crowds There's attractions you can do that don't have long waits and there's experiences that people just don't know about so I Figured today would be a perfect opportunity Just to have a relaxing day at Universal Studios on a busy week and Since it's actually still Mardi Gras you can catch beads You got some beads Up the copper start to the day is definitely a quick pit stop into Finnegan's to grab ourselves Some fuel fuel to fuel us through the park and Finnegan's is the best spot for it in my opinion Luckily the grab-and-go section is open. There's normally a line, but not today. Lucky us This is especially a good time to come because it is St. Patrick's Day weekend You know, I already celebrated our Raglan road So why not come over here to my second favorite little Irish spot?  I Love it back here. We got the whole alley to ourselves We get to listen to some music and just relax and enjoy a harp on St. Patrick's Day weekend It's a very hard to find like this empty space on the busiest week at the parks So that's why I appreciate it so much so far only about three people have walked through But I think they were just confused if you've hung out here before you know what I'm talking about It's nice to just get get tucked away a little bit We're gonna move out of our little alleyway there and try to explore around and see if we get on a ride Depending on the wait time cell because like I said, I know it's already gonna be busy But there are a select few attractions that even with our express pass I know that we could probably get on fairly quickly. So we'll test out and see which ones those are Fast and furious supercharged definitely is not one of them a 100 minute wait I don't know if I can ever condone the fact of waiting a hundred minutes for fast and the furious I mean, it's an okay ride, but a hundred minute wait I mean, I would much rather get in line for like Gringroth's or something like that Crazy, I think we will check to see what the wait time is for men in black Hopefully it's not too long of a wait and we're gonna use our express pass, but this is a ride I've been really wanting to ride for for some reason. I don't know why I Absolutely love all these posters they have inside the queue here the universe in you What do they eat? What do they want? It was a 60 minute wait and because of our express pass We got on with just a five minute wait mainly because they have their own loading sign So this is the standby and then the line that we're in is express it actually has its own loading station So that's what makes it quick My friend Erica came up with the win at the last second But it was really cool that we got on within five minutes and their queue is like one of the more preferable queues for Express pass I highly recommend if you only got a day or two here get an express pass Especially during the peak season it went from a 60 minute wait to a five minute wait. That's pretty impressive Some rides though are just not as lucky like for instance the Simpsons ride right now It's set at a 90 five minute wait But if you were to use your express pass on this you would still be waiting probably 30 35 minutes And that is like way too long for the Simpsons People ask me all the time What like rides can you handle with the screens and I can honestly say the Simpsons screen ride Is probably the worst like right up there with the Arctic ride at SeaWorld It's really tough so if you're motion-sensitive and you don't like screens that is definitely a no-go for you trust me But it does have one of the best bars actually in this area I love stopping in the mose to get a duff and even a flaming moe There's Barney It is so cool in here the flaming moe is a non-alcoholic beer But the duff beer is actually like beer beer and you can watch Simpsons like reruns on the TVs kind of just like how the TV would be in moes It's just a really cool atmosphere Sometimes it gets very crowded inside moes, but right outside moes There's a little secret spot that I'd like to go to get away from the crowds All the hustle and bustle is up there and hardly Nobody down here nice and relaxing and you get to just kind of hang out with the ducks and have a good time And look at the birds Doesn't that duck look so majestic the way it's going through the water with the sun reflecting and all It also has amazing music down here You would think it would be like a Simpsons music, but it's not just really chilled and relaxed and today's such a beautiful I see a duck creeping up on me I get very nervous, so I like looking at the camera. I could see who's kind of creep up behind me. I see you ducks Cheers Look at this view though, isn't it amazing get to get a grand look at all of Universal Studios and that helicopter in the sky Time to move along though And I think we're gonna maybe a loop around Springfield and see what's happening on the other side there It's very very busy today But like I said, the important thing is to make the best of it to make the best of the day that you got Whatever circumstances they may be Maybe a quick walk through Central Park. It's a nice night for a walk. Mind if I join you? It's so beautiful over here, isn't it? Honestly, I don't spend much time walking through Central Park Usually I only come over here to watch the Universal Cinematics spectacular, but it's so beautiful Nice little walk. I mean, it's not like the Central Park, but I kind of enjoyed this Now I think we're actually gonna head on over to Islands of Adventure The other park here at Universal Studios and because it's a very busy weekend or a week They actually have the walkway open so we can just kind of like hop over there very quickly But on our journeys over we notice Universal Studios are busts and homers out Saying hi to people Well, it is dancing The Homer dance The walkway is located right next to Despicable Me So you don't actually have to go off to City Walk and like make your whole entire way over They have a little sign directing, but this is only if you have the park hopper You can see the sign is right here tells you Islands of Adventure And we're actually gonna turn right down here and we're gonna go into like a little backstage area But we are gonna have to scan our tickets and look at Despicable Me Holy moly 100-minute wait That is insane. This is a good ride especially for the kiddos, but These wait times are very very long Look at this time to cross over look how they say that are you crossing over? Hello Thank you Good to go And now we're gonna continue right on into Islands of Adventure and I think it'll take us out by Seuss landing It's really fancy. You've never been back here before Yeah, she's never done Halloween hornites either so she doesn't know about all the backstage fun Yeah, they're not so Halloween hornites I Think we're gonna hop in line for the cat and the hat ride now I haven't actually been in the cat and the hat ride for quite some time and I don't think I'm allowed to film So we'll wait and see but I'm gonna check to see what the wait time is and how quick it would be for us to get On with our express pass So it looks like it's a 10-minute wait, but we are still gonna use our express pass This is one of those rides where I absolutely love if you like dark rides like snow white and the haunted mansion You're probably like this ride It's also Erica's first time riding this ride You're gonna love it Look how sad they look and they actually look worried because their parents are gonna come home at any second And we know what kind of mess the cat and the hat made Then the cat came right in he was up to no good so we ran after him just as fast as we could That was so much fun and it literally was a no man away There was a walk on actually and I don't know why I said haunted mansion I would more put this like a mr. Toad wild ride snow white like a classic little dark ride very fun It's definitely a treat It is really awesome that the parks are both open till 10 o'clock Recently we've been seeing like the park closing around like five and six o'clock So we get to enjoy the best of both parks. I Think a good pit stop up to the annual pass holder preferred dining area above Confiscos Maybe we can catch up the velociraptor coaster running. I love it in here. It's very cool Oh got a sanitize Thank you Fancy got to climb up the steps and here it is Look at how nice it is up here, right? And you take a look down from here. That's where we just walked in the cat in the hat fancy that You can either dine inside or outside. We're definitely dead outside because it's a beautiful view from up here This is the inside dining area, and it's actually all decorated from Mardi Gras at the moment, but outside Just can't beat that view Get a little velociraptor coaster right there. Oh I love it Take a look at the menu. You got a scan here, and they've got some really really good food Udon noodle bowls sweet and sour sticky ribs chilled tuna noodle bowl But honestly, you want to see what they got for drinks as well because I know they have some special drinks here Oh, yeah, we got the bourbon Jim beam bourbon Then they have coca-cola cranberry juice what and then a watermelon lemonade the Confiscos margarita Mornings in Bali. These are all very fancy Oh and just as we were sitting here. It looks like the velociraptor coaster is testing at the moment So we're gonna be able to see it make that beautiful loop right now And here it goes look at that Wow It would have been nice if the Hulk actually went at the same time I Think since we're up here in this fancy little dining area might try something new maybe a little pad thai now I've had pad thai before And I think I liked it a lot so I don't know if I'm gonna like this one You really can't judge something after you've only eating at once because different places make like that a certain entree a different way So we'll just see we're just gonna wing it Wow, and here is a look at my pad thai. This is something else. I would say I was not expecting all of this very very fancy Oh, I'm excited to try this pad thai actually got a little shrimp a little bit of chicken a little bit of the noodles and oh Yeah, I Really really like the chicken on here and the shrimp the noodles I don't know. They're not like the same noodles that I got before With my pad thai that I had just that one other time, but they're do they're good Also to go along with my pad thai I got an orange blossom pilsner and I like these cups. They're like little fancy cups very delicious But with that delicious quick snack I think we're gonna move along and take a look at the sunset happening right now Right over Hogsmeade right there. Isn't that beautiful? Wow. I love it Now I think we're gonna head back into Seuss landing I want to do the train ride because I was really really happy with the way the sunset was looking So I think that if we do Seuss's like train ride We're gonna get some amazing views of the Hogwarts castle, and I'm excited for that trust me Just look at how beautiful that is and it's gonna look even better from this track right there Wait time set 25 minutes, but looks like with the express pass. We're gonna walk right on Oh, and there it goes Oh It actually might shock you to know that we've only been here for two and a half hours So two and a half hours. We've already rode three rides had three different drinks and a sit-down dinner I feel like that's very successful on what is the busiest week of like all Oh I'm so excited to see hopefully we cut this beautiful sunset G is for green We'll get to that. Oh candy skies right ahead That's right Oh, maybe just for the old Do that all day look at that I sing on top of a cake And Jay is for jumping right into a lake At the new Magoo zoo you'll find King Kirtchoo Lording it if you happen to see a sign for a village called MNOP Oh is for opposite north and south going Zaxes stubbornly stopped unbudged in their tracks is P is for perfect a day at the beach That was beautiful and we were able to catch that like cotton candy golden hour sky.  It's like the people mover of Universal Studios. I feel like Starting to get a little bit dark out. We could see the fire is turned on I'm excited to just hang out over here though, and it's gonna be nice to see it at night I haven't been over at Universal Studios or Islands Adventure at night for quite some time now We're gonna proceed right into Hansmead. We're gonna check on Hagrid's but if Hagrid's isn't actually You know fully at capacity then maybe a little bit of ride on my favorite ride here the flight of the Hippogriff I love it. I love the flood of the Hippogriff. Oh Very very crowded, but it's okay because in the previous video if you guys seen when I came here and ate at mythos I do have a secret spot where you can get out of the crowds here or two So I'm like showing you guys like where people get full of anxiety because I know a lot of people that really don't like Walking through these crowds like this, and I know how it is. So that's why I'd like to show you these little spots It looks like Hagrid's is at capacity so no more virtual lines and not letting anyone go into the standby so maybe we'll actually just pop in grab a drink and Hang out at one of my little favorite conor spots over here to get away from these crowds. I Love all the different beers they have in here, and normally I get the deathly hollows, but they're out so I'm gonna get hugs head-only Now we're gonna take our beers to our little hideaway spot over here and just enjoy a little bit of the sounds from Honeydukes Got our own little Honeyduke spot Sometimes people like to leave little gifts in the back here and look at that We have I think we found something here Look at that. Yeah, you found me I am a hidden treasure for you to keep or rehide your choice post a picture to the Facebook group Universally crafted or you rocks when found and have a magical day How awesome is that should be hide it or keep it? Let's hide it. Yes, we're gonna reshare the magic here Erica found another one look at this Congratulations, you found a wand may it help you own your magical studies. This is yours to keep or rehide Which ever you decide it's like you're in Seuss landing again. Yeah, we have to rehide it Please post a picture on Facebook This is great Super cute. I Don't know if you're gonna hear an echo or not But we're just sitting down Drinking our beers and relaxing. We found some wands and I think we're gonna actually hide them But I want to hide them very Difficultly so if you guys actually end up coming to Islands of Adventure and if you find these wands Please tag it in the Facebook group. That's on the little paper But also, please send me a message you can send it on Instagram or Facebook or even comment here because I would love to see if one of you guys actually found it. That would be really nifty Okay, so Erica's gonna go back here and hide one of the wands. Hopefully this is gonna be a good spot. Yes Okay, good. Good. Yes. That's a good spot and this is right outside three broomsticks So if you end up finding that on the other side of three broomstick There's like a little a little tiny narrow pathway then let us know let us know And then the other one is actually gonna be right here in the exit of Hagrid's Yep. Oh That's a good spot No one's gonna find it there Now I think we're gonna move along and if you can't hear the sound you can try to guess where we're going next Right next to Hogsmeade. I mean everybody knows the path. We gotta go back over to Jurassic Park now. I Absolutely just love walking through these archways. I have no idea why it just sends like such euphoria through my body I'm like Jurassic Park And there it is Velocic coaster summer 2021 So fancy, isn't it? I Am super excited for the Velocic coaster. It just says summer 2021 so we don't really have an opening day, but hopefully soon I mean, I'm really excited There's a lot of great new rides coming to Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Which one of you guys most like excited for you know me got Ratatouille Guardians Tron Velocic coaster a lot of good things happening here in Orlando I Think we're gonna actually go on spider-man It's only 25 minute wait, and I betcha we can get on express in like under 10 minutes Earlier I might have mentioned like if you don't like screen ride you would hate the simpsons But I think this is one of the better screen rides It's very very good and not too like you don't get too nauseous not at all I do feel like they need to update their office space though. Definitely in the early 90s Oh Yeah That was so much fun, I absolutely love it And with that, I think I am done here for today We're gonna see Hulk take off in the background and pick the perfect spot, but we had so much fun I got a lot accomplished and we've only been here for I think four hours total So we got to ride I think four rides We got to have a couple drinks meet some characters and also sit down and dying at a very nice restaurant I feel like that's a successful day at Universal Studios during spring break So I hope you enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time by And it looks like a very big crowd working their way out of Universal Orlando for the night You


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Welcome to ITU Telecom World 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand. We're un-joined today in the studio by Ki-Hoo Lee, who is from Neofect, which is an SME from Korea. Welcome to the studio. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Great. I wanted to start off by talking about this. This thing that I have on my hand here, which we just put on my hand a couple of minutes ago. This is your invention, the invention of your company here. Perhaps we could talk a little bit about this and what its uses are and how it's used. First, Neofect is a company providing rehabilitation solutions. We manufacture medical devices as well as medical solutions. This product is to solve... We make medical devices to solve the problem in the previous rehabilitation market. For example, the high medical cost and all-in rehabilitation treatment system. So we provide a suitable product to patients and we combine game and rehabilitation to reduce the burden. Great. So somebody who's had an operation or had an accident or something like that and they need to start moving their fingers again to rehabilitation again, this can be something that can enable them to do that in an entertaining way. Perhaps you could show us a little bit or maybe just one application that you could use with this because obviously I see you've got a tablet here as well. Great. So show me... Give me one example then of this that we could be doing, something perhaps domestic, chopping food. OK, yes, great. All of this. So this is connected up to the tablet. Yes.  Let's see what happens then. I presume that I have to chop the food then with this hand. Is that right? Yes. OK. And this is the hand motion that I would use. OK. And so you press start. OK. Maybe I'll bring that a bit closer into the camera. Oh, this one. And this I see. So I'm practicing the move now just like I would do with a game with my dojo. Great. OK. So aubergine. Here we go. And then into the... Wonderful. Great. Fantastic. I see. And the cucumber here. Yes. Into the... Brilliant. OK. So that's great. So this is the kind of thing that one could be doing. Yes. Very useful for home as well. And certainly something which you can put into practical use later on. But it's certainly, I say, getting the hand moving without thinking about moving the hands. Yes. And also, as I say, just getting that coordination going. It is based on wearable device, which contains a bending sensor or a movement sensor. Now you've been showing this device here at ITU Telecom World. I just wanted to find out what has been the reaction to it so far. People say that wonderful product and very nice. Is this a prototype or is this something that basically is already in production? This is not prototype. We are selling all worldwide. We have built a global sales channel in many countries, such as the US, Finland, Sweden, because our product is loved by many patients. Wonderful. And this is one example of the products that you have. You have other products as well. Or this is the main flagship product for you at the moment. Now we only want this product, but we are expanding our product lineup. So next product, part arm, body, leg, expand our product. Well, we wish you the very best of luck with this and all your future products. And we look forward to catching up with you again, perhaps in Busan next year. Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.


what's good youtube this your boy chi world back it's all again with another art tutorial man if you're new to this channel hit that like button comment subscribe make sure you click post notification so you will be notified anytime your boy drops some heat in today's video i will be making a tutorial on the brush pack i created for you guys the link is in the bio if you would like to buy the brush pack for yourself it's only three dollars man so if you would like to follow along with my next tutorials just go ahead and purchase that brush pack man three dollars three dollars i think it's like three thirty three thirty five but yeah link in the bio man um select the color black let me go to one go to the brush pack and we're gonna start with the first one so step it real quick it's zero don't bring it up scale it up the size i'm finna make a copy of it by duplicating that layer go to the second layer right here and i just came up with a new method we're gonna hold this color black and we're gonna drop that color black inside there like that and also let's uh go to the regular brushes you feel me i feel that you're gonna feel all this thing like that you feel me and let's uh on this layer let's click it hit select and let's find a nice little skin tone to start out with and drag and drop it right there the reason you want to create a selection around your color layer so it won't allow you to color outside of that layer now we're gonna create a new layer in between let's find us a dark shadow to color now we're gonna zoom in let's start right here with the nose and notice how i'm just resizing my brush when i want the fade to like really spread out i make my brush a little bigger then i color light when i want it sharper i make it smaller and i color harsh so you just got to have a perfect balance between the two and y'all please forgive me my touch man don't want to listen bro like working with what i got man after we done color that nose in let's come up here to these eyes we're gonna create a shadow line right here a little bigger color this thing harsh that's the deep shadow one thing i gotta do i gotta keep glancing up at my computer making sure the strain on turn off on me i can't even trust my computer bro see make this dark just tackling all the dark tones you know what i'm saying now make our brush a little smaller let's create that line right here after i create that line make it a little bigger so we can get that fade going up like this get that fade going up our brush and then you got to have a light i'm using the apple pencil as well you got to have that that light touch too man and i'm gonna edit this video and repost it for you guys so i can clean it up as far as when the when the ipad went out when the connections are and i'm gonna leave it in real time so you guys can really take your time and follow along but notice how i never went to choose another color all i'm doing is changing the size of my brush and the pressure i'm using like i'm going light to get the light tone and then when i want to get super dark i use i get a little more firm with my pressure so just keep that in mind make my brush smaller so i can have more control make it a little bigger so i can start getting that that line i need to come around and i needed to fade more i make it bigger so to have a spread to it and it's over like this you brush this little line because i see how i made this thing put a little spit right there and now we're gonna put a little dark shadow i'll go back to my brush a little dark shadow right here on this forehead really harsh make it bigger and then we're gonna shade light light shadow coming out from that because it's all about transitioning from dark to light that's all this about man mastering that transition and you're a master shader okay let's put a put a dark tone right here you know what i'm saying and if you guys would like i would make the same heads i did for um procreate for adobe if that's what y'all want or do y'all want some new heads for adobe just let me know or both and do both y'all just let me know in the comments just finish that what's up vv stay stay going bro i what we finna do we finna make under this neck harsh okay now we're gonna make the back of this neck shade big and light all we gotta do put some shading on this ear so let's make this brush smaller you know what i'm saying so we can get inside and get that detail so pretty much we're just gonna trace it trace it like this and notice just like i'm reminding y'all man this is one tone we use see how we utilize this one tone but we give we gave it a nice little blend pressure that's all it is pressure make a difference how hard you color how light you color yeah that make a difference just keep that in mind man utilize and pressure that we got our skin tone color and then even if you want to make that tone darker just say all you got to do is come up here to a huge saturation and brightness you just pull it pull it down a little tad just so you can see your tones pop out a little more if you would like you know what i'm saying but i like them how they work be honest keeping like that that's all create us another layer right above that one and let's make it make it our highlight layer you know so come down here put a little highlight right there highlight right here ain't gonna go too crazy with it we just gonna put it in spots that don't normally be right here make sure my dang computer and you're shutting off on me boy make it bigger remember what i said you make your brush bigger to spray it more so that's why we make our brush bigger just come up here to the fade and um so that's a little fade right there let's put a highlight mark on his neck like here let's put one right here this cheek also don't forget that nose all right here like that let's put up a little make it smaller let's put some highlights right here let it go up highlight go down also put one in this corner right here if you put one in this crease right here just look now we did we did the shading for the skin so now we're gonna do we can take our um the little alpha lock off so i mean take uh oh yeah selection was already off i forgot once you hit this s at the top it i thought it turned it out no just turn it turn selection all right selection is off create us a new layer now we finna color his lips a nice little tone for his lips and when i color the lips i always make the the top lip darker than the bottom that's how i do it yeah everything first little tutorial out the part put this underneath the skin layer gonna go to our color white coat it inside of his eyes put a nice little shadow in the inner eye i didn't do it also let's create a selection around the top line work create a selection let's bring our brush down to like a dark gray with a little tint in it let's go down to um organic the organic brush and then you want to go to clay or let's check out cotton let's see how cotton look a little cotton brush right here just a little bit top and i'm seeing again we're gonna make it a little brighter then we're gonna go to the clay and get closer on your edges like this you feel me there you have it you guys first tutorial at the part we did that using our um using our brushes man a little background color on them and there you have it how you work on your game man and if you want to take it further you know i'm saying spots you know it'd be darker tones that feel free man don't just stop here this tutorial is just something where you can warm up your skills man you can follow along and i kind of let you ride the training wheels for a little bit and then you get off and you start doing your own thing man but feel free to venture out and and take it to that next level man but the the main brush i use for shading this month is that noise brush inside of procreate you know what i'm saying the only thing i would do here is just make underneath this neck and that's about it probably not that dark i hope i put it on this own lid so we can just buy no past at the time just tag right down you know what i'm saying sample that color that we just brought the past at the time come up here the same thing that spread a little bit but yeah my have fun and practice on your skills that's what this that's what this pack is for for real you guys it's for you guys to practice on shading you learn how to shade you'll be able to take your art skills to to the next level man for real for real man i appreciate you guys for watching make sure you stay tuned more heat coming soon i'm gonna edit this video and repost it for you guys and i'm gonna leave it up for ever and we out


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