to the shop right now and today is the day I like the first time in like 10 or 11 years that I'm cutting my hair short but I decided to undergo a transformation for my solo comeback so I'm chopping my hair off and also dying my hair really scared honestly I've always wanted to cut my hair and I always kept asking my company if I could cut my hair for like the next album but now that it's really here and now that I really have to cut it I'm just like so nervous and I don't know what to expect but hopefully it turns out good and hopefully you guys will like it as well goodbye hair you've been good to me my showers are gonna be way quicker I'm excited about that but yeah I think my hair grows pretty fast so not too worried if it turns out bad I'll just wear a wig and at the shop it's D1 till my music video so this is all I'm eating and drinking today it's puer tea just one more day to go so I'll have tea It's done, Sam Q. What's the hair color like? Sam – Because there are people who ask so I'm going all around Oudground Sam – You can't see it, you're so nervous Oudground – I'm feeling the same Sam – I'm so not feeling good Oudground – I can't see it, it just sticks to me Sam – I don't feel like going to the doctor Oudground – I felt so like it's amazing Now that I've applied the hair dye to my hair, my head feels so light, I still can't believe this. I'm seeing how the color comes in. I took my hair, popped it off, now I have a bob.  Hopefully no one will notice. Beautiful day here today to film my solo music video finally. It's 86 degrees today and the sun is blazing hot and we had to do the choreography here like over 10 times and I was sweating so much, but because of the sunlight, I think it's coming out really pretty because the lighting is like all natural. So yeah, I can't wait to see the finished product. We just finished the first scene and now we're taking a little break. Now we are at our second set. It's going to be indoors. There's towels, pensions and there's a pool scene. I have to go in the water. I'm scared. It's supposed to be really nice. The view is amazing.


test you've tested your screen share already. Yes. Okay, perfect. After some attempts, aren't you still full screen? Yeah. Okay. Okay, close yours. So good afternoon, everyone. My name is Manteau Carly. And this afternoon, I will try to introduce some of the problem that one can face when trying to compute high-dimensional free energy landscape or high-dimensional probability densities. And I will also try to give some possible solution that we elaborated in our group. So when working with high-dimensional data, high-dimensional data sets, one, of course, faces the problem of classifying and understanding and representing the huge amount of information they contain. And of course, in order to do so, one key quantity is the probability density function of the data. But since data are generally distributed in the embedding space in a non-homogeneous way, one can hope that there are some few relevant degrees of freedom, few relevant so-called collective variables that are enough to give, restricting to them, a satisfactory description of the problem one wants to study. And so in one general approach in big data challenges is the one of free energy methods. Of course, as I said, the free energy methods are quite general, but molecular simulation in which we are interested in, especially in this workshop, are a prototypical example. In fact, let's say if I consider a molecular simulation, every time step I save a vector of all the, for example, all the coordinates of my atoms, which are molecular atoms and sometimes even water atoms. So my data space is a vector of thousands and even tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of coordinates. So this is a really, really hard problem. So if one wants to go through a sort of free energy approach scheme, this is sort of a possible pipeline that one can follow. So first, of course, there is the problem of identifying all the relevant degrees of freedom for my problem and to restrict to them. And so this is the very known and very hard problem of dimensionality reduction, but assuming one can do it and so going from the full coordinate space to this reduced space of collective variables, one can then try to compute the reduced probability density reduced to this space. And of course, also this is a very challenging task. And there are several methods that try to do it. And there are some parametric methods, which means that methods that are trying to fit some functional form to the data typically. And there are non-parametric methods. Of course, the most famous is the one I represent in the picture is the one is histograms. But in general, there are, for example, all the so-called kernel methods of which we can say the histogram is part, which generally depend on only on a scale parameter that defines the resolution of my non-parametric method at which I want to say look at the data. So this is to compute the probability density. And once I have it, I can, yes, I can compute the free energy by taking minus KBT the logarithm of the probability density. And when I have it, I can find extremal points on it. So landmarks on this landscape, maxima, minima, saddle points. And so characterize how, what is the sort of landscape that the degrees of free don't go to go through during, in this case, a molecular simulation during their dynamics. When I have this, when I have mapped this, this landscape, I can assign states, assign all the configuration to states. And so applying clustering, this is something, for example, Alex Rodriguez has talked about on Monday. And when I have clustered my data, then I have a description of my system. So in the following of the talk, I will mostly focus on the problems that one faces until he can get to an estimation of the probability density or the free energy. And the rest is, I don't have time to cover. Sometimes I cannot go forward. Okay. So of course, the first problem one faces is the one of finding good collective variables. And one would like to do it automatically. But as we have also heard in some of the talks, automatic coordinate collective variable selection is a very challenging problem. It's an open problem. And of course, there are attempts even successful to do it via machine learning generally. But for sure, the thing one can do is to resort to their intuition and insight about the chemical intuition about the problem one is studying and to define or supervise the collective variable definition like this. So for example, in the very famous case, which is very didactical of Alenine decaptide, which is a peptide of two residues and 22 atoms, the metastable states of this molecule are well described by only looking, by only projecting on these two variables, which are two backbone dihedral. So the angles around which the two alanines turn around the phi and psi, and one can simply do a histogram of this variable during a simulation and obtain this kind of landscape. But of course, this is not a realistic case. One can be interested to study. But for example, a realistic case would have like this is the case of the main protease of SARS-CoV-2, for example. And one single monomer of this homodimer has 306 residues and around 5000 atoms. So there is no hope that I can define some collective variables with my chemical intuition. So at this point, it's worth opening up, because I think that the concept of intrinsic dimensionality is very important. So I've talked about a coordinate space or an embedding space, so which is the space of all the coordinates that I input my method, my protocol, that can be of course the Cartesian coordinates of all the atoms, or only of the alpha carbons, the backbone dihedral angle. And this is the embedding space, which has dimension D, which is, for example, the 3N that I mentioned in my first slide. But then in this space, due to a soft chemical constraints, also called breast strains, so inhibition of visiting some parts of the configuration space, the data distribute themselves on a manifold, which is generally of dimension much lower than the embedding dimension. So this is called the intrinsic dimension. Intrinsic dimension can be estimated, of course, and it's a very interesting problem. Some people in my group are doing that. For what we are concerned, it's important only to know that it is possible to estimate intrinsic dimensionality. And of course, since it's an intrinsic property of an embedding space, it should not depend on the choice of some parameters. So of course, it is an intrinsic. And one very important remark is that one can be tempted to use, for example, two or maximum three collective variables to study a problem, because simply they're the easiest to handle for us humans. One, two, three collective variables, we can visualize, we can manipulate, we can think about. But if the intrinsic dimension of a problem is higher than the number of collective variables we retain, then these can lead to misleading descriptions and to wash out important details. So it's very important not to do. Of course, one can have, as the system I mentioned before, the 40 years of SARS-CoV-2, an intrinsic dimensionality of 26. And this is very, very difficult to handle in a visual way. So since it's difficult to find collective variables based on intuition, one can hope to do it, to find collective variables automatically. And the simplest method is by linearly projecting on a hyper surface, on a hyper plane of lower dimensionality. And the most famous way to do so is so-called principal component analysis, in which one finds the eigenvector of the correlation matrix above the coordinates. And then if there is a gap in the spectrum of this eigenvalue problem, then one has also found which one is the intrinsic dimensionality. So if there is a gap in the spectrum after G eigenvalues, it means that the intrinsic dimensionality of the problem is not greater than G. And one can then project onto this first principal component. So here I have an example of a Swiss roll in three-dimension, this surface. Of course, PCA finds that the two principal components, that one component is varying little, as you see from the colors, and it would retain two principal components. But of course, with our eyes, we can see that actually this is intrinsically a one-dimensional manifold. But now PCA cannot project anymore. And as you can see in the image below, if one wants to project on the principal component of this two-dimensional surface, one ends up with a meaningless description. And on the left, I also put another example of a three-well potential. The principal component is along the mostly along the x-axis. But if one projects along it, then one finds a two metastable states free energy, which does not correspond to the real one. When linear projection fails, but the manifold is stillized more to a hyperplane, so stopologically, let's say, trivial, then one can hope to use a nonlinear projection method, which try basically to find a nonlinear transformation of the coordinates to rectify, let's say, the coordinates. So here I put the image of an iron. And there are several methods in literature, and they work even quite well in the case of non-complex topology. So here on the right, I have this risk role, which has been ironed by local linear embedding into this two-dimensional manifold. And then if I apply PCA, I find something which is actually meaningful. And so as we can see visually, we find again that our data are distributed on the intrinsic dimensionality of our data as well. But then the problem arises when, for example, there are some topological complex features. Because for example, if there are loops, I cannot hope to iron some loopy form onto a hyperplane. Of course, there are methods that try to combine, for example, PCA or some nonlinear projection method locally, for example, by defining charts that connect local maps. But these are quite recent, and they're also quite complicated. So this was the problem of topology. The third problem one can face is the one of the curse of dimensionality. So here I want to, I made a simple example to illustrate the so-called bias variance trade-off. So I sampled a one-dimensional Gaussian with 1,000 points. And I simply put it into a histogram or a six histogram with six different so-called smoothing parameters. So six different bin width. And so starting from the left, we can see that when the number of bins is much lower than the number of data points, then I have underfitting. I don't, I miss relevant features. Of course, Gaussian does not have very complex features, but still we're not sure it is a Gaussian if we look at the leftmost picture, right? And so this is a case of high bias and underfitting. If I go all to the right, I can see that basically I have this barcode graph in which I cannot, of course, understand anything about the data. And this is the case of bins, number of bins much higher than the number of data overfitting. I have high variance. It's only variance, it's only noise. There is a high low signal to noise ratio. And while if I look at the middle, we see that there is a good balance and there is a good generalization. And I can actually learn some data. But so this was one dimensional, but when we go to higher dimension, the problem of bias variance tradeoff is even more delicate. And the risk of getting a pure noise, so having many more, let's say, being much more sensitivity than data, or to go in the opposite direction to blur all my information on many dimensions is very high. And so this is a very, very known problem in estimating high-dimensional, when dealing with high-dimensional probability distribution in general. So over the years, in my group, Alessandro and other collaborators developed a protocol which is based on, which tries to go along the pipeline. I illustrated in the first slide. And so it estimates the intrinsic dimensionality, the free energy at each point. And then it does a clustering and tries to represent the states it found. But in this talk, I will mostly focus on the estimation of the free energy density at each point. We'll try to address all the problems I have tried to explain. And this method is called a free energy, is called a pack, point adaptive for a kinetics neighbor. And it does not do an explicit dimensional reduction. So to go around the problem of a collective variable selection, it works in complex topologies because it only looks at data locally. And it handles quite better than other methods, the curse of dimensionality due to an adaptive selection of the smoothing parameter. And to the fact that by computing correctly the intrinsic dimensionality, we are able to restrict to the intrinsic manifold and not to dilute our information on fake, let's say dimension that are only fictitious in the embedding manifold. And the inputs are basically only a metric or a set of airway distances between points. And of course, a reliable intrinsic dimension What is the basic idea of this method? Well, if I have, if I sample points from a non-uniform density, but I go close enough to this probability density, then I cannot distinguish between this and a uniform distribution because it's only a matter of scale. If I go close enough, the date of all data manifolds looks, all the data manifolds look locally uniform. And in fact, this is not made up. This is actually the same Gaussian plotting. If I take the tangent, if I project, let's say, the cusp of my Gaussian on the tangent hyperplane at the top, I cannot distinguish the Gaussian sample from a uniform sample. But at which scale does the sample look uniform? Of course, it depends on the points. For example, this is a two dimensional, this is a scatter plot from a two dimensional sample of a probability distribution that you can kind of, kind of grasp from the scatter plot already. So going around the scatter plot, I see there are, for example, this is a low density region with the slowing, varying density. So the scale at which I see uniform density is a big radius and it includes a lot of points. In this point, there is a low density region, for example, but there is a suddenly varying density. So the scale at which the density is constant is quite small and there are a few points. And this, for example, is in the center of the, in one of the peaks of the distribution. And so even though it's very fast, it varies very fast, I have a lot of points. So what we need, so what we see is that this scale at which my manifold is locally uniform has a point dependence. So what we do is we estimate an optimal number of neighbors to look at in order to, which is an adaptive and depends on the point. And it gives this scale at which in that point, I can consider my distribution uniform. I will not go into the detail of this adaptive case if we will have time maybe later or in the Q&A session. But at the scale at which my manifold looks locally uniform, I am very close to the manifold. So I also see that the manifold is flat because we know that if we sit on a manifold and look around, we approximate it by its tangent hyperplane in D dimension. I stress that the tangent hyperplane is in D dimension. And in fact, these are some consequences because you have five minutes left. Okay, I'll go quick. So the important thing is that we restrict to very close to the manifold and we look at a regime in which we can use Euclidean distances and hypervolumes in small D dimension. So computed the correct intrinsic dimensionality is crucial. I give credit to this picture to the locally flat earth society. So these are the key ingredients of K nearest neighbor. I fix a value of neighbors, which we do optimally, as I said. We count how many neighbors are in the hypersphere containing K points. And then I compute the volume density as a ratio K over the volume. And if I had time, I would explain that there is also a non-less intuitive but more formal way to obtain the same result via a maximum likelihood procedure, which is this one. So I write the likelihood of having density row observing some volume shells around the point. And then taking the log of this likelihood, I obtain this the K nearest neighbor free energy via a likelihood maximization. And the key ingredient of PAK is to modify this likelihood maximization procedure in order with the variational parameter A in order to allow for linear corrections around the constant density. This also provides a nice a nice error estimate. And also this maximization procedure has the advantage of giving a punctual estimate, which means that it is equivalent of taking the limit for the smoothing parameter going to zero. And this has some consequences, for example, of on the possibility to reweight the free energy of biased simulation without incurring in the exponential bias average, but doing it with the punctual simple punctual rating. So here is the testing of this method against realistic free energy landscape in the correlation plot. So we assessed if we are able to estimate the free energy correctly. So this is the free and the real free energy analytically known plotted against the estimated one. The correlation plots are very nice. So these are not toy models because it's actually two to seven landscaping two to seven dimension with which are embedded in 20 dimension after twisting and stuff like that. So the result is very striking. And yeah, I conclude. So basically only giving as input a metric or a fairways distance and a reliable ID estimation, we are able to solve quite satisfactory all the problems I've mentioned before. And we have a robust and unbiased free energy estimator, which performs quite well in high dimension and and with railroad data. And this is, for example, very much thanks to the adaptivity. It incidentally provides a good estimate, which we could have seen in the in the Polish distributions before. And it allows for awaiting bias free energy without the exponential average of problems. I thank all the people that worked on this on these methods. And I thank you for your attention and sorry for taking a bit longer. Thank you. Okay, thank you very much, Matteo for this talk. If there's a quick question from the audience, we can take it or we can wait for after on the gather session. Anyone have a quick question? Okay, maybe we'll leave it for after. So thank you again, Matteo. We'll move on to our last talk for


The Union Territory of Puducherry is a combination of four regions. One of them is the district of Puducherry on the east coast along the Bay of Bengal. The new slick team listed a fishing village in the Bahur Taluk of the district to learn about the fisher's condition. The fisherfolk of Pudukupam are facing a dire situation due to the lack of fish in the sea. They point out that it is due to plastic pollution caused by the floods, garbage dumping and unmonitored tourism. In a summer like this, they will be able to see the unmonitored fish from here. But now they are unable to see the fish. Even though they are trying to catch some fish, there is no enough income. They have put in hundreds and thousands of boats and have stopped here. The reason for this is plastic pollution caused by the floods. They have taken 50 kg of plastic from a man in the sea. Due to the plastic pollution caused by the floods, the fish will be very small. Therefore, the government and the plastic pollution caused by the floods caused by the floods caused by the floods caused by the floods caused by the floods In fact, there are other types of plastic pollution caused by the floods due to the floods caused by the floods made by the floods caused by the floods caused by the floods caused by the floods made by the floods That's why it's called as Thini Sairu Keele. The Sairu Keele has a fish in it, it's called Pulutthi. If you eat Pulutthi, it becomes plastic and you can sleep in it. So, fish can't eat Pulutthi. So, it goes anywhere else. Last time, many of my friends made a video about it. At that time, people showed it in a different month. Other than that, it's called as Pasah. Pasah is also called as Pundichedi. Pasah is also called as Thambari. If you go to the sea, it's called as Thambari. If you go to the sea, it's called as Thandmi. Thandmi of salt water is called as Thandmi. If you go to the sea, it's called as Neeru Thandmi. It's like Neeru Thandmi. So, the fish is in it. And ask why they have to pay road tax when they do not use the boats on the roads. They are also not eligible for diesel subsidy. But the big key boat owners are. About 30 years ago, there was a sea of 200 meters. Now, it's 200 meters deep. At the time of Navina, the income of the fish was just enough. Now, after Navina's income, the income of the fish was not enough to go to any other country. The reason for that is Vela Vasi. In Manila, only one part of the city is given diesel subsidy. In the remaining 18 villages, only one village in the city is given diesel subsidy. Other villages are not able to grow. The reason for that is that the government is not able to find the fish. I have been fishing for 20 years. For the last 2 years, the sea of fish is very small. Tomorrow, we are going to spend 1000 rupees. We will not be able to find the fish for 1000 rupees. That's why we are fishing there. If we catch the fish for 1000 rupees, we will be able to spend 1000 rupees. We will be able to find 4 people for 1000 rupees. Even if we don't catch the fish, we will not be able to go to the market. So, diesel subsidy is good. In Tamil Nadu, they are giving diesel subsidy. It is not only for the farmers, but also for the farmers. We are not going to go to the road, we will not be able to find the tax. Diesel subsidy is good. In Tamil Nadu, they are providing the right money for diesel. Even in Tharakala, they are giving the right money. In a small village, it is about 28000 rupees. For the family, it is only 30,000 rupees. There are 50,000 people. If we look at the 50,000 people, we can see 1000 of them per village. But there are no 15,000 people. For 15,000 votes, why are they giving money to the government? We haven't heard from the government. In the diesel money we buy, we pay 24,000 for the tax. At least 12% of the tax is given to us. We pay half of the government. One of the young fishermen said, you can't find a fisherman who is not dead red in here. It has become an integral part of their lives. One by one, the fisher folk here are seeking out other work. And the prospects of that also look bleak. We go to the boat at 3 or 2 in the evening. We come here at 8 in the evening. We come here at 8 in the morning. And then we leave early in the morning. We don't have any fish in the sea for 3 months. We don't have any fish. That's why they have put it in the pond. That's why we don't have any fish. That's why we don't have any fish in the sea. My brother is out now. My brother is out now. He just left last month. This is the boat job. That's where the boat is. The boat goes to the tourist boat. What about your mother? My mother is in the shop. This is a small shop. If you come here for a year or two, you can see the shop. That's why I am here. That's why we don't have any fish in the pond. If we don't go fishing, that will be the problem. My father is dead. My name is Gobi. We are a dry fish business. Since we don't get any fish, we don't have any living conditions. We don't get any living conditions. That's why we don't get any living conditions. That's why we don't have any living conditions. We are going to get some fish in the pond. We have finished the job here. We are going to go to the village and take some fish. We get a cage for 40-50 rupees at a normal time. Now we have 2 doubles. We get a cage for 100 rupees. We get a cage for 40-50 rupees at a normal time. We don't get 100 rupees now. That's why we get a cage for 40-50 rupees. That's why we get a cage for 40-50 rupees. We get a cage for 100-50 rupees. We don't get a cage. We don't get any fish in the pond. We are a dry fish business. We are a dry fish business. We don't have any living conditions. We have to live in a different place. We have to live in a different place. We have to buy a boat for ourselves. We buy a fishing rod. We buy a fishing rod from nearby. We buy a fishing rod from nearby. If we buy that, it will be a big deal. We buy a fishing rod from nearby. Many people are living in the sea. Three days ago in there, we started underground technology. Our ink was drawn from the fish like theseunderwater technology. My name was Haraharai. I started talent tutoring at my school. We used this company because there was no revenue. We votes for the environmental disaster inกourso in other countries. We used all material to screenshow. We used all material to screenshow. We don't use all materials to screenshow. We don't use anything. Only a small amount of money could help the community. The government is spending money on their own, and the people's money on their own. This is not so good. If they are to work in a fishing area, they have to do their job in a way that they can afford. When they are up, they have to do their job. Now that the land is lost, they will use it in the wrong way. The fishing villages in Puducherry are awaiting the government to take side of the situation. The fishing villages in Puducherry are awaiting the government to take side of the situation and give them relief in some form.


So we know that there are boxes when it comes to sexuality. Things like top, bottom, submissive, dominant. Twinks, bears, gem bodies. Femininity and masculinity. If you're queer, you're familiar. And I know what the rest of you are thinking. No one's whole identity can be summed up in one word unless that word is swifty. Well, there are many cool subcultures and sub-identities within the LGBTQ community, but it gets less cool when people start assigning identities to you. Like you're expected to check a certain box because like, what if I don't want to check that box? And how do you build relationships in a world that thinks it already has you figured out? When you feel like you are being boxed into one big way of being, and that doesn't really feel like it aligns really with who you are, it causes anxiety and depression and self-doubt and lack of confidence to sneak in. It also leads to trans and non-binary folks not really feeling like their full self can be seen. So putting gay men in boxes sometimes could be negative because you don't give the guy the freedom to be himself. If you say a guy is a twink, so that comes along with he's supposed to be more submissive. What if he wants to be aggressive and be a top? But you didn't take the time to get to know exactly who he is and the nuances of his personality. Okay, let's back up here. When we're talking about boxes, we're talking about those subcultures, archetypes, stereotypes or expectations that many do identify with, but others often just have placed on them. And this idea isn't new or exclusive to LGBTQ folks. It's how our caveman brains knew not to get eaten by tigers. But in a study of black, white and Latine queer people, specifically cis queer men and women, they were presented with these labels and asked to literally check the boxes of the ones they identified with. And yes, if you're wondering, trans people were specifically excluded. You better! This was how the men identified and this was how the women identified. But did you notice something? The most popular identity was none of these, meaning most of them didn't identify with the boxes at all, which kind of shows how limited their usefulness can be. Not to say they can't be useful at all. Here's the thing about labels. They are only useful to us when we apply them to ourselves. There's nothing wrong with using some of these labels or boxes as we're calling them as something that helps you feel more connected to yourself. The issue and the barrier comes in when we let these labels box us in. So how do we even navigate this world full of boxes and labels? It's just learning more about you because you will think that you have to conform or be a certain way because other people are or they don't accept you. So you conform. That's what we typically do when we don't know ourselves and navigating these spaces can be tricky when you're doing that. I literally want you to take a piece of paper and a note and write down what are your core values? How do you want the world to see you? When you go on a date, how do you want the guy to see you? Okay, but what would you tell someone who's in a relationship where they already feel like boxed in to an identity that isn't theirs? I would first ask them, what parts of you are feeling like you need this? Do you feel like you're deserving of this?  They have to settle for somebody simply because, oh, well, this person likes me and that's the best that I can get. And I'm just gonna call bulls*** on that one. Well, damn. Ray and Coach D, y'all didn't have to call me out like that. So we have these preferences, long list of preferences. But if you find yourself still single, try dating someone that you typically would not date. Coach D, Lamont, Ray, how do you relationship? Well, I relationship by creating a healthy relationship with myself, by getting to know myself. The more love you feel for yourself, the more grace and compassion and all that good stuff joy that you feel for yourself, then you're able to put that in the world. When you look at people who are in very long-term relationships, what they do well is they communicate their issues, their desires as they evolve because they will change at time. The second thing is commitment. They have agreed that I'm not going anywhere. You get to design and create the life, the community, and the relationships that you want and you get to decide what you're willing to accept it and what you're not and that can be an incredibly beautiful thing.


what we made our loving law. Look at a people in ignorance and he lifted up his boy. He saw a whole city of ignorant people and he wept. Symbolically, I want to say this evening, Jesus is looking at many ignorant families using the wrong method, the wrong approach, the wrong appeal and Jesus is crying. Why? He's crying because of ignorance.


Hi, I'm David Pinarak. Welcome to the Produce Made Simple Kitchen, where you're a go-to resource for everything fruits and veg. So today we're doing a glazed carrot recipe that is perfect for special occasions, but is also easy enough for you to do every day. For this recipe, the ingredients are one pound of fresh carrot scrubbed or peeled, three tablespoons of unsalted butter, three tablespoons of brown sugar, half a cup of water, half a cup of bourbon, fresh ground black pepper and salt to taste, and fresh thyme for garnish. This recipe is relatively quick. It takes about 15 minutes for the entire process. The one thing that you want to keep in mind is making sure that the carrots are cut consistently the same size and width, so that you don't have some carrots that are really hard or some that are really soft. Also, you can kind of use any technique that you want to cut the carrots. You can julienne them, or you can cut them in slices, or as I like to cut them, cut them into coins, because I like Super Mario. All right, now that you have the carrots cut up, it's going to get real easy from here. We're going to take our pan and put it on about medium heat. And now you can just literally just throw all of them in there. Don't be like me and get some on before. And this is what's so great about the dish is it's super easy, where you don't need a bunch of different pans or anything. You can literally just start putting everything in. And like I said before, it takes maybe about 15 minutes. And what's great about it is you're going to have an awesome dish that you can serve to anybody and they're going to think you're an awesome cook. Like how simple this is. I can do it and you can do it. And now we're going to add the water. And now during this 15 minutes, just make sure to stir occasionally, just so that you don't have any of the bottom burning. So after about 15 minutes, you can see now you have this glaze. The carrots can turn a little bit of a brownish hue. And that's what's so simple about this dish. You don't need any more pots or pans. The glaze is perfect on these carrots. I'm super excited to try them. Oh, and it's so good. And the great thing about this is if you're cooking maybe for a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner, you can cook it beforehand and then just reheat it when you're ready to serve the entire meal. So with that being said, make sure to like, comment and subscribe to the produce made simple channel. We'll see you next week with some more recipes.


Good morning Mine Exploring fans. I'm in Julie here. I don't know if you can see her or not. We are out in Death Valley National Park. Mine exploring of course. We're on a pretty good road right here. We've been out on this dirt road for about 15 miles and haven't had to put it in four-wheel drive yet. We should come busting out into a view overlooking Death Valley here soon. Wow look at that road. Long and straight. Well the road got a little tougher. Not crazy but a little hazy today in it. You can see. Wow on Julie it's a little hazy today which is unfortunate but that's looking south over the vast part of Death Valley. There's a road down there too. Look at that road winding around. I don't know it looks a little sketchy. You gotta watch out on these roads. If you get down there and can't get back up it could be in big trouble. So this is looking north through Death Valley. Crazy. Here are the ruins of three miners dwellings. They were dugouts. They were dug half into the hill to provide protection and weather to stay warmer and cooler depending on which season it was. So they're dug right into the hill. Half of them and then a rock wall. Here's an enamelware pot. I'm not going to use that anymore. This is inside one of these dugouts. Fairly spacious probably 16 by 24. There's an old vehicle frame. I couldn't tell you much about it except that it did have some wood along this rail here. It's wider in the back quite a bit. Here's a collapsed cabin. And a bed spring of course. Always a bed spring. The cabins just do not last out in these parts. Apparently this is a grave and buried here is James McKay. Don't know much about him. That's where he ended up. Rest in peace James. So over here is an interesting little shelter. There's a waste pile out in front of it. There's a road that goes up the hill behind it. Looks like a lot of small workings up there. Let's go take a look inside here. Here's this little structure. It's got rocks on the roof to keep the tin from blowing off of it. It looks like it's some pretty old corrugated steel that they're using for siding. Wood framing. And look what's behind it and at it. A portal. This is the inside. It's pretty sturdy still. It looks like it's been redone a couple times over the years. There were some windows in it one time. So it's probably about maybe 10 by 15. All right Julie let's go and see what the mine looks like. Some little cans and stuff. Here's a portal. Kind of handy to have your cabin right at the portal isn't it? Is there? Yeah. Looks pretty low. I'm going to be up and climbing under. Okay. Pretty low for quite a while there. It feels a lot of air and it's pretty low. Okay. So that's what I just came down through. A little bit low up in there. Comes to a little room here. Not real big. Got some support timbers here and there. Looks like some of this wants to slab off of here which would not be good at this point. Keeps going this way a little bit. Really dusty in here. I just came down through that little area. Down this drop it's about a six foot drop or seven foot drop. And a stoped area up above me. And a stall here. A couple of stalls. It kind of works its way across this ledge here. I don't know what happens over here. Well that's a mess. I don't know if I can come this far. Might as well go down there. Okay that's that mess that I just came down alongside all that timbering. It comes to a little skip track. And in here are the supports for the hoist or the windlass. And here are some real tracks that go this way. Some more car tracks. So let's follow this this way a little bit. There's part of a water pipe in the halfway here. Looks like a water line. Something goes down that way. Look at the timbers sitting here. Hey down the old skip track we go. Pretty low. A couple of stalls here. A wire or something. It's back breaking low. I can tell you that much. It gets pretty steep and the tracks look like they're falling apart. What's this for? Looks like an oar lock for a robot. Really a low stope. And it looks like it went down not too much further. I can see the bottom.  It's pretty low for me to crawl down there and really slippery and pretty steep. So I'm going to call it good right here. We got a look at it anyway. This is looking back up. The track is kind of in right here or are they falling apart anyway.  This track must just be for this stope here. There's a pillar you can see what they were taking. And I'm going to climb back up out of here again. Go find something else to do around here. I see somebody crawling over to us. I have an interesting little level down there. Is there? Yeah.


Set Your Site Free. Again, my name is Becky Wiegand and I'm the Webinar Program Manager here at TechSoup. I've been with the organization for a little more than 6 years, and prior to that I spent about a decade working for small nonprofits in Washington, D.C. and Oakland, California, where I was regularly the accidental techie, having to develop new websites and figure out how to make updates on websites, and often in the situation of having my organization's website being held hostage myself. So I've lived this situation and feel for any of you on the phone who are in it as well. Also joining us today we have Steve Murphy. I've listed him here as a nonprofit Web Building Pro because he really is. And after 25 years of working with two tech companies and software companies that he ran, he has decided to dedicate a lot of his time to giving back. And he's spent more than 2,500 hours dedicated to building and developing nonprofit websites pro bono. So we love people like Steve in our community for taking his time to give back, both in person and on events like this today. Also joining us is Kelly Antonucci who is the nonprofit outreach manager at N-Power in New York City. So we're really excited to have her joining us to share her expertise and where N-Power provides a wide variety of on-site and consulting services for nonprofits throughout the New York area. And they have programs that also extend nationwide. And we'll hear more about those later where you can access some support and community to get support for your programs. You'll also see Ali Bastikian in the chat, and she is with us from TechSoup as the Interactive Events and Video Producer. She'll be there to grab and flag any of your questions for follow-up. So if you have any issues or tech problems, feel free to ask her during the webinar. And as questions move you, go ahead and post them in the chat and she'll make sure that they're captured for our presenters. Looking at today's agenda, I'll do a quick introduction of TechSoup for those of you who may not be familiar with us. We'll have an opportunity to hear from you, our audience, about your experiences with websites and where you're at. This will help inform our presenters on what they'll talk about in the sections following. Steve and Kelly will talk about a zero-cost checklist and what to look for to know whether you are held hostage, and then talk about the life cycle of a website and how often you really should be forecasting, changing, and redesigning, or rebuilding. They'll give you some options for new websites, new web builders, and how to update some of the existing sites that you may be captured by. They'll talk about the Bill of Rights for websites, and give you some next steps. We'll also have some time for Q&A, and we'll highlight some products that are out there that may help you get out of being trapped if you are. TechSoup is a 501c3 nonprofit, and we are working towards a day when every nonprofit, charity, library on the planet can access the technology, knowledge, and resources to meet their mission. We do this in a variety of ways. Since 1987, we've been doing this, and we are in more than 60 countries around the world. We do this in a variety of ways, including things like donation programs from Microsoft and Cisco, and a whole slew of other companies that partner with us to bring their technology to the nonprofit sector. And we also do it by having events like this where we offer trainings and informational events to help you make the best decisions for your organization. So with that I'd like to go ahead and have you participate. Tell us how often are you able to update your website content? Go ahead and click on one of these radio buttons on your screen. We have 130 some people in the room right now, and that number is sure to climb in the next few minutes. So we want to give just a moment for everyone to have the opportunity to participate in these couple of poll questions. It helps inform us, but it also helps inform you about where you are at and whether you are an outlier among other peers, or whether you are smack in the middle of nonprofits who are similar to you. So I'm going to give just a few more seconds for everyone to participate. So it looks like around 31% it's almost a dead heat between daily and weekly. So that's great that you have a lot of people are in here able to update their sites pretty regularly. And about 25% say monthly 8.7, 9.5, it keeps changing at me, are yearly, and 2.6 are never, and then a little less than 2% don't have a website. So if we add that up, boy my mask goes 35. So a little less than 40% say that they either can't do it more than monthly or never. And go ahead and click on this next one and then we'll get to the fun content of the day. When is the last time your organization went through a web design or redesign project? So in the comments while people are responding to this, you won't be able to read each other's comments, but when we see things come in that we think are useful or interesting, we'll try and share those back out. Dan comments, we have the ability to update our site if we want to pay each time. So that is definitely a little bit of a restriction. Cindy comments that they are in the process of redesigning right now. So we didn't include that as an option, so that's great to point out that some of you may be in it at the moment. Anna comments that she can update her website quarterly. Greg and Jennifer say that they are in the process but having a hard time coordinating with their web design company. Some are in the final stages. So lots of people are in it right now. So that's great that you are moving forward with web design projects. And hopefully today's webinar will help inform and give you some ideas of how to make that even smoother and improve the process for you. So let me show these results really quickly so we can all see. So around 30% of people say that their website was last designed or redesigned 3 to 5 years ago. 19%, 5 or more years ago. And 19 and almost 18% are either less than a year or in the past 1 to 2 years. So really helpful to see kind of the spread. And this is somewhat better than I was actually expecting based on some of the pre-survey registration. We thought we may have had a much bigger crowd of people that were stuck in the never or 5 or more year categories. So this is great. I'd like to go ahead and have our presenters join us on the line now so they can talk about what it means to be held hostage which some of you may personally feel deeply at different times in your organization with your site. And to tell us how to get out of that, to give us some tips on how to move away from that process. And into one that will be smoother and easier and more successful for you to communicate your services, your goals, and your mission more seamlessly to your audience. So welcome to the program. We are so glad to have you join us Kelly. Well thank you Becky. Good morning. Good afternoon everyone. My name is Kelly Antonucci here from N-Power. And both Steve and I are very excited to have this time with you and be able to share this information. So I'm going to go ahead and just jump right in and start getting as much information from Steve as we can. Steve, when you had first approached me about doing a webinar on this topic, I had kind of an aha moment and a good chuckle thinking about the name. How did you come up with the name? Are you being held hostage by your website? Yeah, the way I came up with the name, and I'm going to go back to the survey for just a quick second Kelly, before I answer that question directly. It appears I, much like Becky, thought there would be many people on this webinar that maybe are being restricted in terms of updating their content. It seems like many of the folks are able to do that. But I also see that many people have entertained a redesign in the last two to five years. And I'm sure many are thinking about doing the same. So I just want to share with those folks kind of toward the last third of what Kelly are going to talk about, we are going to share some very specific, four real specific topics that will help you as you go into those redesign phases to make sure that you are not held hostage. But to answer your question directly Kelly, in the last three and a half years I've been working with nonprofits to improve their web presence. And I've worked with about 30 nonprofits on web projects specifically. And I noticed that over 80% of those folks that I worked with felt like they were held hostage or at least handcuffed by their site. An example, kind of a classic example is a nonprofit in Miami whose mission it was to provide books to grade schools in Haiti. And their website was displaying errors on their donation page so that people could not donate. And the school year was coming up and they relied on those donations for books. And so they were truly handcuffed from actually completing one of their core missions by their website. And given the importance of websites to nonprofits and seeing how pervasive this problem seemed to be, I wondered how it could be avoided. Okay, wonderful. And hopefully we will have many tips to help nonprofits avoid this situation. What have you found to be some of the common signs that a nonprofit is being held hostage or handcuffed by their website? One of the first signs is that the content stale, and we've all seen examples of this. Kind of one common one would be that there's a recent news section on the website and the last post in that area or the last recent news might be a year and a half ago. And that leaves our visitors with that feeling that maybe no one's home and maybe an impression we don't want to leave. And another common one is that we look at a website and we just kind of think, gosh, that looks a little old or a little out of date. And most of the folks on this call know that websites are much like clothes or fashion. What looked good five years ago and was considered engaging really may not be the case today. And websites really do have a shelf life. They are not a fire and forget project. The research shows that most first donors visit an organization's website prior to donating to get a measure of the organization. And our websites, if they look out of date, it's sending the wrong message. The other two are common examples would be that the websites no longer telling the full story of the organization. Organizations change and our websites need to reflect or mirror that change. And lastly that the organization maybe is not supporting or the websites are not supporting the organization's needs. And a website, as most people know on this call, can help you recruit volunteers and it can help you keep your community updated. It can increase your donations. But I've seen organizations be handcuffed and the website has the opposite effect. An example is much like Dan just mentioned in the chat a while back. I worked with this nonprofit in Seattle who had to pay, just like Dan mentioned, had to pay the developer every time they needed this very simple change made to the website. And it got to the point they couldn't afford that. And so they stopped updating their current success stories, section of their website, they no longer updated their upcoming events calendar, and within a year they saw a 20% drop in donations. Wow, that is amazing really how this has an impact on the nonprofits. And I actually have the same experience as you. I have been speaking with a nonprofit in Massachusetts and the executive director had been going out and doing a lot of outreach to the community and speaking at events and talking about their programs. And people would come up to her afterwards very enthused and energized and want to learn more and learn how they can get involved. And they would ask how they could get more information. Could they go to her website? And she was basically mortified to have to say, no, I'm sorry, we don't have this information on our website. So it was really causing a challenge for their organization. Yeah, that's a great example of a website not telling the full story. And I'm just kind of thinking about this and wondering, do you have some type of a self-assessment tool that a nonprofit can use to see if they are being limited by their website? Yeah, one of the main goals for me for this webinar is to dispel the myth that you need a technical person to do updates to your site. So really this list, you should be able to at no cost to you be able to do the things on this list. As an example, you should be able to upload photos. You should be able to add them to a new webpage to talk about current events that you have or have had are coming up. You should be able to create a photo gallery of maybe the last fundraiser, the 10K run, or whatever. But the point is, is that you should expect that you can do all the things on this list. Whether you need to do them or not is another question, but you should expect that you could. Steve, I'm kind of curious because you said at no cost, how would a nonprofit be able to do these updates at no cost? Yeah, good question. What I say no cost, what I'm really speaking of is that a non-technical person, whether that's a member of the nonprofit staff or it's a volunteer that helps the nonprofit, should be able to do these updates. So you should not have to pay people to do them. These items sound fairly like you might need to be a technical expert or have a web programming experience. Are you sure that a non-technical person can do all of these things? Yeah, Kelly, one of these comes from is back in the day when websites were designed in the very early days, they were all designed in a programming language, HTML, CSS, and so on, and other languages. And in that day and age, you had to be a programmer to really update the site. But much like Microsoft Word has enabled us all to be able to do documents and be able to change fonts and add images and so on. There are tools in this day and age that allow non-technical people to be able to change content on a website. All right. And I'm wondering if you can talk a little bit about, in your experience, how is it that nonprofits get into situations where they have lost control of their website and the ability to make these updates? Yeah, so I'm sure some of the people on this call can relate to these. These are my statistics from the 30 projects that I have worked on in the last 3.5 years. An example of the top two, some organizations experience both of the top two, a proprietary system or somebody's left. There's a nonprofit in Seattle that I worked with that used class fees online registration as their primary funding source for their entire organization. And their developer left. And the developer built the website in a proprietary way, and they were unable to take online registrations any longer. So that was a real problem. And when I speak of proprietary or closed, there could be a lot of definitions of those topics or of those words. But I'm using the words in this case to say, if it's proprietary or it's closed, it's requiring that a tech person is required to be able to do updates. And in this day and age, hopefully we can avoid that. Okay. I have to tell you that I hear kind of these same scenarios all the time where a nonprofit reaches out to us and they're telling us that they are unable to update their website. And one of the board members who is no longer there had a cousin who had a sister who was starting a web development company and they were looking for some clients to work with or somebody had a college intern that was able to do the work. And now that person is gone. And now they are basically in this situation where they are kind of stuck and tied to their current site. Yeah. And so that's such a common example that whether it's the developer or a key staff person, it's somebody who is knowledgeable about the website and how to update it. That person is no longer available. Maybe they've taken another job. Maybe they've moved on for whatever reason. And so because of that, that ability to update the website now is no longer within the organization's reach. And we're suggesting some ways coming up here that maybe can help them with that. Okay. So as many of the nonprofits that are typing in the chat we can see, if a nonprofit is handcuffed by their website, what can they do? How do they get unstuck? Yeah. The solution is simple or can be simple. The execution is a bit more of a challenge. But what I'm suggesting is that they should make sure that their website is built with a popular website builder tool. And in this day and age, the term website builder or CMS or content management system, they are all used interchangeably. So making sure that their website is built with a popular website builder tool is a big, big first step. Okay. Steve, I have to tell you, I feel like you just told me that the solution is to just go climb Everest and everything will be better. Are you saying that these nonprofits have to just throw out their current site and start over from scratch? Yeah. No, that sounds scary. And I certainly don't want to leave that impression, Kelly. No. What I'm suggesting is that, as we mentioned a few minutes ago, all websites have a shelf life. And therefore, just like clothes and fashion, they should change. And I can see from the survey that many, many of the folks on this call follow what is considered best practices, meaning that they recognize their website has a shelf life and they know that it needs to have a refresh or redesign. And some people say every best practices are one to three years. Some people say every two to five. But let's just say that somewhere in the period of one to five years, there should be a conscious planning cycle in place that says we are going to refresh our website. And that really becomes the ideal time to look into maybe if you are on a proprietary system or not on a popular CMS, moving to one. Okay. You definitely had me a little frightened there to begin with. But it sounds like these are all things that really every organization can incorporate and think about in their planning cycles. But I am very curious as to how much extra time would moving to a website builder or a CMS add to this planning cycle because I have to tell you that I just got off of the phone this morning with an executive director that has spent 12 months working on getting their current site up and running. And I cannot possibly go back to her and say that if she wanted to move to a CMS it would take two years to be able to do this. Right. And if that person is on this call and it has just taken 12 months to do it, they are going, oh my goodness, there is no way I can do that again. That was such a long and painful process. So what I am really suggesting is that probably that person that you were talking to, Kelly, that was maybe their first website, was that true? Yes, that is correct. So the idea that you take 12 months to build your first one is not maybe uncommon. There is so much work that goes into just getting the content put together and all of that work will not be thrown away. All that work is going to fold right into the refresh project. And then if you decide to move to convert to a CMS it would fold into that. So let me get specific. I have personally done several of these projects where I have taken a nonprofit from a proprietary website to a popular one using a popular website builder. And let's just say, and this wouldn't be uncommon, let's just say that you would plan two months to do a website refresh so that the fact that you already have a website and you are now going to do a refresh in that one to five year period, if it took two months to do that refresh it might take three months to convert to the CMS. So I am suggesting and it is not a bad estimate and it is going to vary on a case-by-case basis certainly, but I am suggesting that an estimate of about 33% addition to the project is not a bad estimate. Okay. Again, that sounds something that is very doable and I think most people can incorporate into their plan. But I just wanted to go back and talk about why this is so important to look at using a website builder or CMS. Yes. So just to review that key point so that you as an organization have control of your website and are not being held hostage for money reasons or for technical reasons you want to have your website built using a popular website building tool so that non-technical people, either people on your staff or volunteers can keep your website current which is probably very important to the image that you are projecting. Okay. And then I also heard you mention not just website builder but the importance of using a popular website builder. Can you explain that a little bit more why it is so important to choose a popular CMS or website builder? Sure. According to Wikipedia there are well over 100 CMSs or website builders available. So you want to pick a popular one because it is going to increase the chances, the probability that you can find a developer who can help you when it comes to the refresh stage or volunteer to help you keep your website current. And so if we think back that at least my experience has been 40% of the projects were handcuffed because a key person left it may not be a bad idea to just plan that key people are going to leave. And so you want to have a popular website builder so the probability of finding a replacement is much higher. Okay. It kind of seems like a no-brainer so I'm just curious, aren't all sites built with a website builder? It does seem like a no-brainer and the answer is no, they're not. And as of September of this month, or September of this year 2014 62% of websites are not built with a website builder or a CMS. So if there are folks on this webinar that don't have their website built in such a way, they should not feel badly because two-thirds of the worldwide websites would fall into that category. But those folks that have not had a website built with a website builder, that often tends to be one of the primary, if not the primary reason they are handcuffed. Wow. And I'm curious, what have you found to be some of the popular website builders or CMS systems that nonprofits are using? Yeah, and there could be great debate on this list. So there could be many others added here but this is not a bad list to start with as a begin point. Here are eight. Okay. And what would you say is the most popular? Yeah, so again based on statistics as of this month, for all websites that have as their foundation a website builder, WordPress dominates by 61% meaning that 61% of those sites were built using WordPress. Jumla about 8% and so on. But there are nearly a billion websites on the worldwide web. So even the ones toward the bottom that have a fraction of the percent, it still represents a very large number and they could be considered in the popular category. Okay. And I've seen a lot of the comments going back and forth on the chat and I've heard a lot of nonprofits that I speak with talking about Wix and I was here, WordPress come up. Do they all do the same thing or do they have different benefits or features? Yeah, so they don't all do the same thing. And it really depends on the goal of the organization and of course kind of website design 101 starts with what is the role that your website is meant to play for your organization? And if it's meant to play more of a brochure role, it's not a very dynamic role. It's simple. You don't plan to have lots of updates or lots of interaction and lots of features. Then the website building tools on the left are primarily drag and drop tools and are easy to use and quicker to learn and so on. The one if you have more high end requirements, the ones on the right while they require a bit more learning, they have a fair bit more capability. Let me give you an example. WordPress for instance has over 32,000 plugins, many of them free. Now what's a plugin? A plugin is something that can be added to a website that adds a feature or adds a function so it can make a website more powerful. So things like for instance you want to have a Facebook or Twitter comments mirrored on your website so that your website has a lot of activity and it's dynamic and so on. Or you want to go look for an event calendar. You'd find many event calendar plugins so you could find those kinds of things easily. So there you go Kelly. So this is a simplistic analysis but it's not a bad starting point again. Okay great. And it sounds like there's not one right answer. It really depends on what the nonprofit needs their website to do and what resources they have internally to be able to dedicate time to making the updates. I'm sure a lot of people on the call at this point are wondering what their sites are actually built with. And I wanted to see if you had any suggestions as to how they can find out what their current site is built with. Yeah there are tools on the internet that will help you evaluate what your website was built with. And here are some links or you can just Google what CMS is this and what will typically happen is there will be a place on the site that lets you type in or paste in your URL or how people get to your website and you paste in that link and it will go out and analyze the site and it will give you an idea whether your website was built with the website builder tool and if so which one. Okay so hopefully people will go after the presentation and just confirm what their site is built on. And if they find out that it is built using a CMS or website builder what can they do to get assistance with getting their website updated? Yeah so that would be the good news that they maybe didn't even know that it was built with a CMS and so they are probably in pretty good shape and so my suggestion is that they reach out and find a volunteer who will help them train their staff or train one of their volunteers to keep their website updated and to teach them how to use the tool. So in that example Kelly you had in the beginning where we have an intern who comes in for the summer and helps us get our content current and now the intern is left. Maybe we just need to teach another member of our staff how to do similar things and there are many, many volunteers available that know these CMSs that can help you. Okay great well it sounds like we may have just given the keys to Freedom to maybe about a third of the people on the call but based upon your statistics earlier we know that two thirds of the websites are not built using a CMS or a website builder and I just want to make sure that those people can actually convert to a CMS system. Yeah and so again as I mentioned I have done it personally. I know many developers who have done it many times to help a nonprofit convert to a CMS but for those in the call it might be a little nervous or just want to see what the size of the task might be. My suggestion is that they reach out and have a volunteer look at their site and give an estimate about what it would take to get there and then they should also recognize that they are going to need a developer, a technical person to help them with that and they probably are going to need somebody dedicated on their side to assist the developer with the content and so on. So very possible and you don't have to bite it off right now. You could reach out and just kind of find out how tough would it be and let somebody help you evaluate that. Okay well I think you have made a very compelling case for converting to a website builder or CMS but I just wanted to ask you this question. If nonprofits do go ahead and switch over could they still end up being handcuffed to their website or in a situation where they can't make updates? Yeah unfortunately the answer is yes. And many on this call indicated at the very beginnings that they are familiar with. They go through a refresh every year, every 3 or 4 or 5 years and so they are taking on that kind of a project. And it's the upfront preparation of that project that can really help you avoid being held hostage. I'll give you an example of a nonprofit in Seattle that I worked with last year who had a developer and there was problems with the developer and the developer got upset. The developer actually built their site on WordPress but then disabled the ability of non-technical people to be able to actually update it. So while we would say, hey the website was built using a very popular CMS, we think we kind of can do the happy dance in the end zone. That's not always the case. So let's talk about some things that that organization and maybe some on this call might be able to do. Okay so you have the Bill of Rights here and the first one is to own your own site. Can you clarify what you mean by own your own site? Doesn't everybody have the ownership of their website? Right. Yeah the answer is no, they don't always but they should. And with just a little preparation you can make sure that that's the case. So just in context, an organization most know this on this call should expect that they are going to pay for two things. They are going to pay for their domain name and their domain name is that thing that lets you type in and get to the website and maybe it's myorganization.org or it's whatever but there is typically a yearly fee for a domain name and the fee can range from 10 to 15 bucks but just in round terms. So there is a domain name fee. And then the second thing is that you need to have your website hosted by what's called a hosting company who has large banks of servers that are connected to the internet. And typically you are going to pay that company somewhere, it can vary dramatically but somewhere between 5 to 10 or 15 bucks a month is not uncommon. Now Kelly, one of the problems that I have seen with several nonprofits is that they got held hostage because the developer said to them, hey, you are very busy. You don't want to have to deal with this domain thing. There are some technical things involved there. You don't want to have to deal with setting up a web hosting company and deciding what plan you want and all that. I'll take care of all that for you. And then you can just pay me a monthly fee and you don't have to worry about it. And of course the problem with that is that if there becomes a fallout between the developer and the nonprofit, the nonprofit doesn't have the domain registered in their name because they didn't pay for it. They don't have the hosting service registered in their name because they didn't pay for it. And that developer can just pull the plug or shut it down. I have to ask you to share the story of the developer that was hosting the nonprofit's website in a rather unusual location. Yes, the very first nonprofit that I worked with, they found a developer who was in college and it was a young lady who wanted to make this a career. And she was very enthusiastic and really helpful and said to them, not only will I pay for your domain and your hosting, I'll actually take care of your hosting to the point that you won't have to pay anything. I'll actually host it on one of my servers. And what turned out was that she was living with her mother as she's going to college and the server was in her mother's bedroom and the nonprofit and she had a falling out and she literally went and unplugged the cable and lights out. That has to be my all-time favorite Steve Murphy story. Oh my gosh. Yeah, pretty dramatic. So don't take the easy way out. It can sound like it's easy, but make sure you own it. And then you also talked about owning your code. Can you talk a little bit more about what that means because I thought if you're using a website builder or a CMS there wasn't any code. Yeah, and this gets just a touch more technical, but I'm going to keep it very simple. Sometimes, not all the time, the developer needs to add some custom programming code to do something for the nonprofit's website, whether it's add a feature or to make it look a certain way or whatever. And one of the things that I'm suggesting is that you make very explicit up front in the contract or the letter of agreement is that any code developed by the developer for building the nonprofit's website is owned by the nonprofit, not owned by the developer. So oftentimes this is never even approached and what will happen is the developer assumes that they own the code. And again, we get into that if there's a fallout, they can pull the code which may start causing problems with the site or may actually take the site down. And that's not anything unusual. Most developers wouldn't balk if you asked to add that to the contract. They would not. And most developers would recognize that you knew what you were doing because you're asking for that. And so I got involved in a situation where this was not made explicit and the organization was left pursuing lawyers and no one wants to do that. No, definitely not. And then the third right you have is the ability to maintain content. So what are some things that the nonprofit's staff should be able to do and how can the nonprofit make sure to incentivize the developer to properly train their staff? I think it's important to take that same list that we have up here now that we showed before, but to take that same list and make it part of the original agreement or understanding. In other words, that the organization says, look, my expectation is when this project is done that a non-technical person on my staff can do these things. And then once that's set up front, now the expectation is set, and that the nonprofit whether it's the executive director or manager or whomever does not sign off on the project until they've actually seen a member of their staff be able to do most or all of these things. And of course, if there's a payment, there's no final payment until you've seen that, or if there's just sign off, you actually validate as a manager of the organization that this in fact, somebody non-technical can do it. And that would of course avoid the problem that I mentioned in the Seattle nonprofit where the developer went out of his way to make sure that only he could be, you know, he was required to do all updates and therefore they had to pay him. So this would avoid that situation. Okay. And then the last right that you have is about protecting your site. And again, that sounds something that's more geared towards a technical person. How complicated is protecting your site? Yeah, so the protecting your site can be kept quite simple. Just see that you have backups. See proof that you have backups being made on a regular scheduled basis and that you have access to those backups. And what I mean by that is that you have access to the folder where those backups are held. And you don't have to understand what's inside those files or what's inside the folder. You just need to have access to the folder because if something happens where you need to get another developer involved or your site gets hacked or whatever, the first thing that a developer would want to do is to have those backups so that we can reconstruct your site. Okay, wonderful. Because nobody wants to be in that situation where their site is hacked and it's a horrible, horrible feeling. It is a terrible feeling. And I worked with a nonprofit a couple of years ago in North Carolina that had that situation where they were paying their developer and they got tired of it. And so they stopped updating their site and their site got old and their site actually got hacked and they didn't have any backups. And they literally spent two and a half months, I helped them reconstruct their site from paper. Oh my gosh, wow. And had they had backups, we could have had it up in a day or two. Wow, that's really a critical thing. And as you said, we think of backing up all these other things, photos and documents. But really keeping us to make sure that your website is backed up as well. Yeah, we do. That's a great point. We think about in our organizations that our servers have to be backed up, or that our desktops have to be backed up, or laptops have to be backed up, but somehow the idea that our website should be backed up somehow gets missed. Yeah, well I think that the Bill of Rights is extremely helpful. I like to talk about all of these things. And I talked to nonprofits that call me about their website issues. And I just wanted to kind of quickly recap some of the things that we talked about during this session.  So first thing is find out what your site is built with. We provided the links in the presentation. And then you also want to make sure is who actually owns your domain name and who is hosting it. We talked about reasons why you really need a reputable hosting site. If you're not on one currently, you definitely want to get on one as soon as possible. And then look at your current contract with the developer and ensure that you would own any customized code that was done for your website. Also confirm that you have backups. When is the most recent backup? And how often are they scheduled? Because again if you're hacked you don't want to be down for months and recreating your site from paper. And then Steve has created that zero-cost checklist. So definitely I think it's a great tool to go through and see how many of those things can you go ahead and do on that checklist because really you should be able to do all of them. And then identify an internal staff person that might be a good candidate for website training. I think Steve talked about the fact that really if you can create a Word document you can in a few hours of training learn how to make these updates to your website. Yeah, I think that's a great recap Kelly. And you have been asking the questions during this webinar. Let me turn the tables and I'll be at a softball question. I can imagine that there are some people on this webinar who are going, I feel like I'm at least handcuffed by my website, but you're starting to use terms like domain and hosting and CMS and I'm getting confused. Kelly what can they do to get help? Sure. Thanks Steve for an easy softball question at the end of our webinar. But I think you make a great point is that we did cover a lot and I don't think either one of us expected anyone attending today's session would come out of this now being a website expert. But hopefully you have learned enough to start asking kind of those key questions. And the thing that I would recommend is really to go ahead and speak with someone that is a website expert and can really help you assess where you are and how to get to a place where you can make regular updates. And of course the next obvious question is how can I speak with an expert? And there are many, many wonderful volunteers out there just like Steve that can help nonprofits with their website. And there are different ways to get connected to them. So there are organizations such as N-Power, that's where I work. We have a program called the Community Corps and we work to connect skilled technical volunteers like Steve with nonprofits that need assistance. It's free to join. It's very easy. You can post projects requesting assistance. And we have the link here and it will also be in the email that Becky sends out later. And one of the things that I would start with is a website review and assessment project because again it really kind of looks at where you are currently and then makes recommendations for you as to what are the next steps. And then we also have projects for website updates, website training, but there's a whole category there of website projects. And then there are also other volunteer organizations where you can post projects for requesting assistance. It's volunteer match and idealist. And Becky I think we are done and ready to turn it back to you. Great. Thank you so much for that, both of you. We have a lot of other resources available and we will get to Q&A in just a moment. So TechSoup and this will be included in the post event email. So in addition to the community core that Kelly just pointed you to, we have a lot of web building resources on TechSoup's site because we know that a lot of you are going it alone. Everything from a toolkit that has a lot of great resources on simple things you can do. We have these different articles and past webinars on tips on how to redesign, tips for creating sites. We have an RFP library which was something that a few people asked about. So an RFP is a request for proposals which is something that you may want to write up basically defining kind of the scope and the goals and what you want your site to do if you are looking at a whole new web project. This RFP library that we have has samples and examples and has a lot of great information in that. And then also one of the resources I want to make sure people are aware of is that we have a whole design and web building community forum where experts and consultants, people like Steve participate and answer questions and help recommend things. So for questions like how do you know which host you have for your website? Or can you recommend a good web host or a reputable one? Those are the kinds of questions that every day they are answering in the forums. In fact I just saw a post there on that yesterday. So great resources. And I also want to highlight really quickly just a few web building tools and donations through TechSoup. So we know that some were mentioned earlier like WordPress is free, Wix is free, WeBleah is free. There is a whole bunch. We also and some of those articles compare some of those tools in depth. So if you are looking for a whole new tool to use you can find resources to compare them. This list is specifically for tools that offer their services as donations to TechSoup users. And there is no fee to join TechSoup but there may be a small admin fee depending on the service you opt with. But GoDaddy, big reputable name for web hosting, but they also offer their web builder service. So it is a full-fledged CMS and hosting service that they are donating to nonprofits. And they just launched only a couple of weeks ago with us. So we are excited to have them. NetSuite offers a light content management system. Huddle is a content management system that also offers collaboration. So if you have staff in different places or branches it allows you to have online collaboration and project management tools. Wiki Spaces is a Wiki tool but that actually can work really well for a website tool depending on the type of site that you need and the type of content that you are looking to get out there and share. CitySoft is another content management system. If you are looking for a really big, complicated, multi-faceted site, SharePoint is a really great tool but that is not for the faint of heart. It is something you definitely would need some technical support and help on. For those of you who asked about e-commerce sites, Shopify is an e-commerce tool that is donated to organizations. So for those of you who have a storefront or sell gear or t-shirts, that is one to look into. And then the last two are for those of you who may have a website but you want to make a mobile-friendly website or have fundraising through a mobile site or text message. So those two are also available in our catalog. So check those out. And I'm going to jump into questions. We only have a few minutes left so I'm going to rush through some bigger topics that came in. Steve, do you recommend that people start with a request for proposals or an RFP when they go into this process? I think depending on the size of the project and the size of the organization, RFPs are very helpful. But I know many nonprofits where that's an intimidating project. And I've personally been involved in many where the nonprofit just reaches out and says, I just need help. I'd like to get my website refreshed or I need a brand new one or whatever. And as a volunteer, we just talk about it and we develop a game plan. And that can be just as effective. Great. A lot of questions came in asking about the average cost for websites. And I know that that's kind of a big question because there is no average. But especially if you're a smaller organization, how much do you think is really a reasonable budget for somebody to come into this and say, we need to put some money into it maybe, or maybe they can really do it all for free. So what's your opinion on cost? That is a very tough question. So I'll answer that in a very general way and with the expectation that there's a thousand exceptions. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 to 5,000 is not an unreasonable number for building a website. I've certainly seen them up into the 50,000 range for very complex ones. And I've also personally built with people with other volunteers websites that are quite involved at no charge. So I think reaching out to the volunteer community and kind of getting a feel if somebody could take that project on, you could expect that you could get one done at no charge. Great. And if you are looking for volunteers, I know that Kelly mentioned Idealist and you can also post in our community forums. N10 has 501 Tech Clubs where you can post and they're in different cities around the country where you can post that you're looking for some help and you may find volunteers. And I loved one of the ideas shared in the chat by a different participant we broadcast out that they connected with the local community colleges marketing program and the students actually built their organization a new website. So that's a great thought too on how to do these programs or do these upgrades without necessarily having the funds to do so. Go ahead, sorry. I was just going to say the one thing I would suggest is that please recognize that you're going to need to be involved pretty deeply. And so it requires an effort on your side even if it's a volunteer, even if you're engaging a volunteer. So just plan that it's going to require resources on your side, yours being the nonprofits. Right. And I think making sure that no matter who you work with that you're looking at that checklist and you're going over it with the volunteer, the developer, the company, the host to make sure that you can do those things after that volunteer decides to move on to a different project or moves away so that you aren't held hostage again. We are at just about the top of the hour. There's a lot of questions we didn't get to answer. So what we'll try to do is we will do a roundup of some of these questions in the form of a blog post that answers many of them. And we can follow up with a second email to you sometime next week hopefully with answers to many of your questions that we didn't have time for today. So I'm really sorry that we didn't. I want to just thank Steve and Kelly for taking the time to really share this expertise with us. And I think some of those checklists are really valuable to be able to walk away with and the links just to be able to figure out what you're hosted on now and how to get away from those things if you are held hostage. A couple of upcoming dates that are important. So for those of you who are interested in our Storymakers Contest, the deadline for submissions for that is tomorrow, the 26th of September. So if you've started that process make sure you complete it by end of day tomorrow so that you can be eligible for those $5,000 grand prizes. Then we'll have a webinar next Tuesday at 9 a.m. Pacific time or noon Eastern with Skype on Skyping out of the office, how to use that for business purposes. We will talk about engaging volunteers using Yammer and how to connect and collaborate with staff, volunteers, and board members on the 9th of October. And there are many more to come. You can access all of our webinars at that link on that slide that you will get in the post event email. 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