All masters say, go turn inwards, turn your ideas inwards, travel inwards, seek yourself within. Some practical suggestions of how one does… how one goes about this. So, I don't know what somebody else is saying because as I told you, my main sadhana has to… has been to remain uneducated and uninfluenced by anything around me. Is it… is it true that who you are today as a physical entity happened to you from outside? Is it true? I think many of you have been constantly attending spiritual discourses. That's why you learned this. It doesn't matter what ridiculous stuff I ask, you'll say. Training, spiritual discourse training, whatever they say. Is it true that you created your body from outside? Is it true? They're saying, yes, what is the problem? Did you create this body from inside or outside? From inside. So the source of creation is within. When the body was this small also, it was there. Now also, it's there, isn't it? So, why is it that you're not in touch with it? It is very simple, as we went through this already, your sense organs are outward bound, that's the reason. You need to understand this.  Would you take it and stuff it into your ears? Tell me yes or no? No. You would know where to put it. No training. Your mother did not tell you how to eat, but still would you know where to put it? Yes. So all the things that concern your survival process, nobody need to teach you. Anyway, it is built into the system. Anything beyond survival, if you have to know, then you need striving. Do you remember when you were four, five years of age, just to write ABC, how complicated it was, the damn A you had to write it 100 times to get it right, isn't it so? Do you remember? Just A, three lines, how complex it looked to you at that time. Today if I asked you to write without thinking, without even a thought on your mind, you can just write. Why? Because of the striving that you put in there, isn't it? If that striving was not there, even today your condition would be same, isn't it so? To put those three lines, you would still struggle. So you need to understand this, anything beyond survival process will not yield to you unless you strive for it. Now, the question that you're asking is, can you give me some tips here, how to turn inward? Yes, I can give you tips, but obviously you're already a veteran, you've been to many places, you've heard many people and it's not worked. Do you want this place also not to work for you? Are you determined about that? No, if that is so, don't ask for suggestions. I don't give any suggestions to anybody, nor advice to anybody. There are methods, if you explore these methods, you will naturally turn inward. Instead of going through a process, you are trying to intellectualize everything, it's like this. Somebody wrote, see all the spiritual books that you read, if you're reading them, it's a sure way to see that you will never be spiritual. Yes, because you will know all the jargon, but nothing will happen within you because you will intellectualize everything. Everything, what should have been a living experience, you will make it into knowledge, that's not going to work. So there are simple methods.  But you want it today evening, turn inward, slogan, it's not going to work.


So with me covering many mods here on my channel with Cyberpunk I feel it's super important to cover this news under risks in using certain kinds of mods and a warning pull out by CDPR as well as covering the fix. How's it going guys? My name's DPJ and if you enjoyed this video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you're seeing and want to see more Cyberpunk on a daily basis be sure to subscribe. So via already a few days back a post was dropped which has now been updated with a statement pull out by CDPR but a statement on Reddit which was posted first by Rormulus is here confirmed that through the use of a mod or a crafted save game malicious codes can be executed to take control of the PC by the creator of the save game or mod. CDPR was made aware of this serious security vulnerability for almost one week. They went on to release the Hotfix 1.11 but didn't bother to address this. You have Pixelrick, red tools team to thank so thanks Pixelrick whose discovery brought this to the attention of the modern community. He goes on to edit his post where he says initially I was under the impression that this vulnerability only affects the PC platform but Pixelrick himself has confirmed that the PS4 2 is susceptible to this vulnerability to an extent. It is common knowledge that many of you like to download save games or use mods from Nexus mods or sources of your liking. It's very different for the average user to know if a save game or a mod has malicious code within it. What's more this is a simple issue of literally changing something from 5.11 to 2.55 if you intend on closing the security loophole. Obviously competent testing was not done and therefore this exploit is there for the taking. So this post basically confirms that the risk is there for the taking people but doesn't confirm the finding of such problems but mark my words people. If people out there didn't have the idea to do this they do now. But thanks to this post on Reddit CDPR are taking action as they tweet it out the following. If you plan to use cyberpunk game mods or custom saves on PC use caution. We've been made aware of a vulnerability in external the out-of-files the game uses which can be used to execute code on PCs. Issue will be fixed ASAP for now please refrain from using files from unknown sources. So what does this mean people? Well my advice to you is if you play on PC don't install any mods sent to you via any external sources only use sites like nexus mods but even there guys check that mods and the creator of said mods have a great reputation which I can confirm all the mods I have dealt with and covered on my channel as far as I am aware will create by legit folks not wanting to exploit anybody. But again guys check and be sure. Also when it comes to game saves which I myself have tried in the past these I'd wait for CDPR to address a fix before using any from now on. Yeah for sure if you have some already installed and have done for a well I'd think you'll probably find there but right now I wouldn't go on to use any others. A lot of these game saves are shared about the internet and uploaded to various different places before making their way onto places like nexus so just be careful people again if you do want to go and use a game save make sure it's from a legit uploader. In terms of save game editors with cyberpunk I'd imagine these are fine if you are editing your own saves just don't overwrite any of your saves with any external saves. Now if you guys are familiar with the mod cyber engine tweaks they have updated their program which addresses this issue so make sure if you use it you have the latest version which I will link down below. This completely eliminates the problem as far as I am aware. So to be honest guys if you have used any form of mod while playing on PC I do recommend you installing this as it takes that risk away. If you don't know how that is done you'll see it on the screen now it's relatively simple people go to the link found in the video description and then just do as I do on the screen. The path to the folder which you need will differ depending on how you play cyberpunk on PC but the path you will see on the screen. Make sure when you do this to tick to overwrite any previous files but yeah for those who don't want to install cyberengine tweaks be very careful and await the fix from CDPR. But yeah guys I thought I just dropped this quick video as I cover and share many many mods 99% of the time from Nexus which is a trustworthy source but you can't be too careful but it's info I feel you need to know so I hope it helps. In terms of console I have no idea how that works I mean I play on Xbox anyway don't play on PlayStation but if any of you guys know how this may work on PlayStation 4 can you even transfer game saves and things like that I'm guessing you probably can via a USB like you could with Borderlands but again if you're into that be very very careful but I'm pretty sure someone down below in that comment section will explain it all. But yeah guys I hope you enjoyed the video and I hope it helps you out if you did leave me a like really helps me out if you're new around here and want to see more cyberpunk on a daily basis be sure to subscribe and hopefully people I will see you on that next one.


Hi, welcome to above life channel. I'm Bridget, and I am the one that does the weekly channeling videos that I hope that you all are enjoying. Today in this video, the topic is a little bit different than normal. I'm not going to be interviewing an afterlife celebrity, but instead I'm going to be talking to you about what the big deal is about afterlife celebrities. Are you one of these people that has kind of felt a little bit guilty and kind of silly for being so interested or so shaken up when someone famous dies? Come on now. You can be honest. It's just us talking here. It is not uncommon and it might feel really strange, but it is not at all strange to feel so deeply and emotionally impacted by the death of a famous celebrity. So why is that? So I want to talk to you a little bit about that from a psychic and energetic perspective to help you understand why it is that our souls, the beautiful interwoven connection of our souls can be so connected to people we've never even met in real life. Now I also want to speak to people who are not fans. So if you weren't a fan of someone and they suddenly passed away, sometimes it wakes you up.  And in those particular instances when, especially when you're not a fan of someone who dies, but all of a sudden you're like really noticing everything about them. You're noticing pictures and news reports and maybe if it's a musician, their music and and you're just really magnetically almost magnetically drawn to the energy of the opening that that person has left the void of the human life has left. So you see so what happens is when people die, we leave the body and when we leave the body, there is when there is a collective connection of energy, meaning if it's someone that has a lot of people who admire them, who follow them, who are fans, or maybe they've done something monumental. So it could be like a world leader. It could be a musician, an actress, a movie star. It could be a Nobel Prize winner, a famous scientist. It could be anyone and when they they leave their body, there is a stop kind of a stop gap that happens. It's kind of like an instant open that happens and everyone somewhere along the chain of humanity. All right. The humanity chain. You have your soul and that person's soul has been connected and connected energetically, connected ethirically. Your mind cannot possibly understand this and I'm not asking you to understand this in your mind or to try to rationalize it because quite frankly, it's difficult to do that and just don't even waste your time. Just know that even if you weren't a mega fan and all of a sudden you are like stop gap open because this particular person left their body. You feel this opening the stop gap open because within you some part of your soul chain was connected to that person's spirit. So when they left their body and they embraced the light of the afterlife energy. Okay. So they're in eternal life. A part of your soul is rejoicing with them.  Lotus flowers bloom and grow in the icky conditions below the surface.  It's not rational in the mind. It's because it's an energy thing. The human evolution of energy in our soul being and our soul expression, our soul experience is magical and it's mystical. And it does not get easily defined or explained, which is part of what makes it crazy to try to figure it out. So the most important thing I want you to understand is if you have had this experience where someone famous died and you all of a sudden really felt sad when you heard the news or you felt this grief or you felt the loss. And then after just a brief time, all of a sudden you kind of feel guilty about that. Like why does it affect you so much? Why should you care so much? It's not like you're their family.  It affects us differently. And again, your soul and their soul has a chain of connection through the human, this human chain of connection. And in some way there was some kind of a beautiful harmonious synchronicity that allowed you then that the moment that that soul decided made the choice and left the body. You would feel it. You would feel the stop gap open. And okay, so I know that probably is going to get annoying. That's how it feels to me. I'm trying to express it so you can see it and feel how it feels when a person leaves that you in some way as the soul are connected to again. Doesn't make sense in your rational mind, but you feel it, which means you might feel sad. You might feel angry. You might get frustrated. You might get fixated. You might get fixated and want to learn everything about that person. When they were alive, you weren't even really that interested. And you might feel some human guilt about that because you might feel like, well, what is wrong with me? Why am I totally fascinated about learning about this person's life when they don't even have a life anymore? And then you might feel kind of guilty about that. Like, well, I didn't care enough when they were alive and now I'm going to jump on the bandwagon after they died. You might have so many judgments and criticism within yourself and let's be clear. There are so many famous people that have an incredible community of followers and they are followers that beat the drum of that celebrity. And if you, you, you miss person or Mr. Person who didn't didn't seem to be around when that person was alive buying their records or watching their movies or what have you. All of a sudden show up and you're just this fan. It's kind of like during like the Super Bowl when all of a sudden everybody at that hometown comes together and rallies around the team. That's what happens with the spirit of people who weren't obvious fans before. They become fans because why? Because their souls were connected to that person and people who are in the fan club or die hard beat the drum of that, that famous person's legacy. They will get really protective and they get kind of mean and territorial. But the truth of the matter is you people who weren't fans before, you are fans in the afterlife and afterlife rocks as far as fans go. Let me just say, okay, and your spirit, your soul has fans too. And so we'll all be able to talk about that. We'll all be able to know all of this when we are all in the afterlife spirit. But right now you're going to have to take my word for it. Do not feel guilty. Don't buy into the judgment and don't take any shade from other people who think that your fan, the fact that you love that person all of a sudden just overnight and they're judging you because they don't think they're comparing. Comparison is a piece that comes in when you got to remember they're grieving too. And nobody's grief should be compared to anybody else's grief. Grief is a personal experience and it takes time in different ways and it moves to people in different ways. Some people get crabby and mean and so maybe that's what's happening to those fans. And you know what? That's not your business. But please do not make yourself bad and do not judge yourself and do not blow it off. Whatever you do, if you are so shaken by somebody's death and you cry, do not hide that.  Their job has been achieved. They get a gold star, you know, that energy. You're helping them as well to evolve and become closer to the ethereal energy of our spirit. And so do not feel bad about that. It just happens, you guys. It's just the way it is. It's just what happens. It's hard to explain it. Stop trying to rationalize it. Just accept that you are a beautiful soul who's connected to other souls and you get the experience to connect through the soulful relationship where you might be sad when someone leaves. You might be really interested in their lives and want to learn about them because now there's a curiosity about it and that's okay. All of that is natural. All of that is natural and don't make yourself bad. Don't judge yourself and don't judge anyone else either. Nobody is a better fan than anybody else and it's not a competition. It's not about that, you guys. It's just not about that. So love who you love, okay? And love them big and make sure that you turn that love inward and love yourself. Love your spirit. Love your soul. We are all truly connected. I have a mentor who is a Native American medicine man and he is a Lakota. And he had said to me many times I've heard him say, Matakawayawasan, which means we are all related. And we truly are, especially in the soul energy realm. All right. This is Bridget with Above Life Channel. Thank you for watching this video and I hope I've given you a little bit of a pep talk and maybe some insight into how it is that when a famous person dies, some people get kind of just woken up, you know, stop, gap, open kind of energy and it's really helpful to you and it's really inspiring and it really serves to open you up for so many better things for your life and that particular individual just served their purpose. Thank you so much for watching.


The severe undulating erosion upon the walls of the Sphinx enclosure undoubtedly showed that the Sphinx had been heavily weathered long before the Sahara became a desert. Therefore, one must suspect that it could indeed be over 9,000 years old. Not knowing exactly how much rainfall there's been in the distant past, the Sphinx could indeed be far older than this. The most notable scholarly advocates, Robert Scotch, argues that the Sphinx may be far older than 12,000 years. Robert Baval and Graham Hancock proposed that the Sphinx may have been built around 10,500 BC during the last Age of Leo. Anthony West believes everything on the Giza Plateau testifies to an advanced, secure and long-settled civilization. Therefore he suggests that the Sphinx may have been built not during the Age of Leo but the whole processional cycle earlier. In around 36,000 BC, a date he feels is more in keeping with the history of Egypt as chronicled by certain Egypt kings. Regardless of an exact date, all of these talented Egyptologists propose a date set much further back within history than currently accepted and they have provided considerable evidence to back up such conclusions. At the time of disclosure, the argument sent shockwaves through the Egyptologist establishment. Not because of the datings, Egyptologists and mainstream historians have grown quite inept at ignoring data, but more because it was realized that there is indeed no other explanation for their arguments. There is little doubt that the Sphinx enclosure was subject to severe erosion within its lifetime and although it could have been explained away as a naturally formed enclosure, we fortunately know from analysis that the limestone blocks dug out from there were then used within the building of nearby Sphinx temple. Interestingly, no other site in Egypt shows the same type or degree of erosion. Was the evidence hidden away? Concealed from the public in what could only be called a conspiracy? Sediments surrounding the base of the monuments under once existing watermark upon the stone's halfway up the Great Pyramid's sides indicate just that. Two inch thick salt incrustations once found within inner chambers, silt sediments rising to 14 feet around the bases of the pyramids, found to contain seashells and fossils that have been radiocarbon dated at nearly 12,000 years old, have indeed slowly vanished over the years. These sediments could only have been deposited in such great quantities by major sea flooding. The watermark was also once clearly visible on the limestone casing stones of the Great Pyramid. These stones were unfortunately unknowingly removed by invading Arabs. These watermarks were halfway up the sides of the pyramid, or about 400 feet above the present level of the Nile River, 200 feet above the base. It seems the last remaining shred of evidence, the enclosure, survived due to the talented individuals that were required to spot it. Those who are thankfully on our side. Some of the largest, and indeed oldest, megalithic sites upon Earth, are mostly classified as ruins due to them indeed being in a dilapidated state. Yet upon our travels around these so-called ruins, we have often found that erosion is not the primary cause of this current state. Many of those built much later than that of the clearly naturally eroded conditions of Cappadocia, where some sections have literally returned to the geologically natural state in which they were first formed, for example. Instead, they appear to have experienced a cataclysm, one possibly involving a great flood. The crack in the unfinished obelisk, unfinished, like countless other ancient sites, abruptly abandoned, ancient quarries, ancient builds, structures, even Moai on Easter Island, abandoned at their seeming height of abilities. These places, preserved in a state of past bustling, yet these once flourishing stone mason locations, are all now moderately damaged, with only those built to an angle and in anticipation of attack or cataclysm surviving in any real significance. A testament to the builders of these sites' abilities and insight, yet further confirmation of an unknown event once occurring. The tallest and oldest of obelisks across the globe often lay topple as if hit by a wave. Could this reinforce the argument of their indeed once being the Great Deluge? One with enough force to topple these multi-ton monuments worldwide? One here's are classified as Neolithic Monuments, some of which, although rarely discussed, weigh sometimes over a hundred times. This may indeed be part of the reason they are rarely academically explored. The most spectacular of these being the Loc Maria K. Megaliths, a complex of Neolithic constructions in Loc Maria K. Brittany. It comprises of the elaborate tumulus passage grave, a dolmen known as the Table des Machins, and the most incredible of the ruins, the broken, or more accurately toppled, men here of Irgras. The largest single block of stone so far known to have ever been transported and erected by Neolithic people. This one rock, like the toppled obelisk of Axum, was of a gigantic size, academically claimed as being quarried and transported by people of primitive nature with stone age tools. It is estimated that it weighed over 330 tons when first placed. The question is, like countless other claimed Neolithic ruins, how did they achieve such feats? How did they lift such enormous stones? Were they, like we have posited many times before, the remnants of a once advanced yet destroyed ancient civilization? We find such possibilities, in particular, the men here of Irgras highly compelling. The University of Seville, working in collaboration with the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage, has conducted an intensive Lidar survey in a historically compelling area between the Spanish coastal towns of Caposoto and Sancti Petri. Their goal was to discover the remnants of a long-written of temple, one dedicated to ancient deities. However, what they discovered instead was an incredibly ancient once enormous mass dwelling, complex yet intelligently laid out as if almost akin to modern-day standards of care in regard to sanitation management, food production, and quality of dwelling for its massive population's well-being. A mega-metropolis that predictably the academics responsible for its discovery have not only attempted to downplay the find, but also tried to claim it as merely proof of their original temple assertion, clearly they are merely backing the tale of events put forth by whomever funded said expedition. From the researchers themselves, the survey area consisted of submerged landscape, seemingly dominated by a series of ancient marches. What we feel was most probably intelligently managed farmlands prior to the Great Deluge, which eventually drowned this entire mega-metropolis, yet I digress.  By combining data from previous anomalous discoveries, the team created a cross-section of findings, and by a process of elimination, they pinpointed an area in which to scan. Yet, interestingly, after said discoveries of the structures, they quickly and simply delimited the entire area without any further field study or investigation whatsoever. Could this rapid delimitation of the area, in regards to the lidar scanning, possibly be in an attempt to obscure the true enormity of this pre-flood ruin? During their focused investigation, they found rectangular structures some 300x150 meters in size. However, these discoveries contradicted their own strictly-followed academic accounts of this supposedly legendary temple's whereabouts. This discovery being the mission's objective all along, yet curiously, as mentioned, any further expansion of the lidar investigations academic funding has been stonewalled. Could their reluctance to continue further investigations on a mission which has already clearly cost a lot of funding due to them actually having discovered yet another complexly, intelligently, clearly advanced pre-flood mega-metropolis? Well, we find said possibilities, and the rapid growth of independently-owned lidar technology incredibly exciting. No other ruins anywhere on our planet is surrounded with more controversy than that of the great pyramids of Egypt, or indeed its accompanying plateau. There are many factors to consider when it comes to Egyptology. Within academic fields, there are many no-go areas of study. Although hard work and research within permitted areas has taught us a great deal about the previous 4,000 years of the site's inhabitants, yet regardless of the most astute academic thesis, there remains three proverbially large elephants in the room. When it comes to a full or even a mere fraction of an explanation in regards to the origin of these seemingly impossibly huge pyramids remains patiently absent. No accounts, illustrations of any kind from the era exists. It is simply illogical, especially when one considers the sheer feet these structures must have been. We have presented many previous features, polygonal masonry being present on the pyramids, eroded yet younger casing stones protecting inner megaliths, clearly of a tremendous age. Salt sediment found encrusting the lower chambers, and so on, suggesting not only that the pyramids are much older than currently claimed, but were pre-flood ruins. Thus, questions arise. Just how old are the great pyramids? In addition to our study of the pyramids, we have also in the past asserted that the Sphinx was originally a lion, which interestingly correlates to the following hypothesis with fascinating accuracy. The Orion Theory The coincidence with pyramids aligned with Orion's belt and other significant constellational positions. Bavall and Hancock support the theory, believing the great Sphinx was begun in 10,500 BC, creating reference to the constellation of Leo and the orientation of the entire complex with the Nile River and even Milky Way, claimed by them as connected respectively. Zeptepi, using similar methodology, put the age at over 13,000 years. These are clearly astonishing proposals, but the current paradigm for their chronology, we feel, is far too short a time span, and due to our own research, which has uncovered evidence indicative of pre-flood origins, copper tools for such an accomplishment amere insult to intelligence. Yet thankfully, due to these various takes on events, their age remains highly contested, and to us, a mystery which is incredibly compelling.


So, welcome. Thanks for being here. We're honored to have you spend some time with us whether you're watching this live. Welcome if you are. And also, through the recording, welcome to those of you watching the recording. Another episode of the nonprofit show and today this bright yellow means it is a thought leader episode. These are very special. They're few and far between. We don't do them weekly. We certainly don't do them even monthly. But today we have Jessica Gruber with us. Jessica is our friend at principle creative director at buzzworks creation. So welcome to you, Jessica. And she's here to talk to us about breaking the digital noise and fundraising. And right now q4 2022 couldn't come at a better time Jessica. We're honored to have this conversation with you. Before we jump into the conversation we want to remind our viewers and our listeners who we are. So hello to Julia Patrick CEO of the American nonprofit Academy.  We are honored to be marching towards 650 episodes. 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I do have one question from the last time I was on here. Did you ever get the scotch tape sponsor for your glasses. We're still working on that right we haven't quite stuck that one. That's very good. Well you know the nonprofit nerd her trademark are her glasses and when we do events when we go out and we send swag boxes to gifts to our sponsors and people that we meet along the way. Those are prime swag and people always like I need my glasses and you're right. Hey Jessica it's fabulous to have you with us and as we were talking in the green room chatter man q4 is just loaded up with so much noise. I mean, I would say some of its good noise. Some of it not so much but we're really excited to have you here to talk to us about that but before we get into it. Tell us a little bit about what buzzworks does. Buzzworks is a digital agency specifically created for nonprofits, and we work with organizations to build kind of a base of their story their mission and things to drive what they do. And, but it's there's also this different level where we take a look at what's going on in your digital space space, and who you're interacting with and how we can take those relationships and pull them offline to create this stronger relationship and this bond between you to create that true community in your nonprofit. Fantastic. And I just have to say like anyone that works exclusively with nonprofits is fantastic because I feel like there's so many web designers there's so many, you know, creative designers content writers, but to know the market and to know, you know, the nuance of the nonprofit sector that takes a little added touch so I'm excited to learn from you here knowing that you work exclusively in the nonprofit space when it comes to their their digital elements and again today we're going to talk about breaking that noise. Yeah, let's do it. Well, one of the first things that you kind of point out, or I should maybe say frame this conversation is you have the most interesting two phrases. Stay aware and in touch. So what does that mean what does that look like I should say within the nonprofit sector when it comes to digital communication. So stay aware has a double meeting. A lot of times as nonprofit leaders, we get put in positions where we're focused on our mission we're focused on driving it. And we forget to look up, and we forget to look at our community, and that person that is there to help you.  So the first day where is looking up and realizing you have this community to support you. The second will stay aware is making your community aware of what you're doing. Because if you're not sharing these stories. Yeah, you're doing all this good stuff. But if you're not sharing it. It's staying bottled up inside of your nonprofit. And no one knows what's going on. There's several ways to stay in touch with them and one of the one things when we build websites and digital spaces. Once we get that donor. The easiest way to figure out how they want you to stay in touch is a second small ask. And that question is, what way would you like us to communicate with you in the future. And there's several ways you can list you can do text missing you say, Oh, I just want to know your social media. You can ask for their email. And one option we like to get is none I know you're doing a good job keep on doing it there are those those people and nonprofits that they don't want you to waste your precious time on informing you they know you're doing a good job. They are the people that want to be involved they want to know your story and they want to come up on your journey with you. Yeah, you know, having that awareness and honoring it. Because I know I've been in so many databases it'll say you know, do not solicit do not contact this person they really only want their end of year tax receipt because they're so committed to the mission. It's really hard but I, I, again, want to recognize, you know, we need to be aware but we need to honor that as well and so, you know, staying in touch with them in regards to that. Now, you're going to talk to us to, and I love this one, Julia I think I like this one, the most is interrupting and engaging, and this is something that you talk about and again today's episode is all about breaking the digital that's amazing. Again, we're here at q4 so talk to us about are we interrupting, or are we engaging. I love this question. Okay, so you brought a creative on the show. Yes, we're going to go out there clowns in the circus. Okay, not the creepy Steven, it's, yeah, the slapstick ones that you see in the Barnum bailing circus is. They are the ultimate disruptors, but they are the ultimate engages as well I mean you have the remaster taking the show around. But the clowns are the ones that hold them together and I learned way too much about clowns this weekend for this. Wow. You actually have them working as a team together. And their faces aren't painted, just to be silly their faces are painted to exaggerate emotion so people, thousands of people in the stadium can see it. And the positions of the clowns they all compliment each other so you have the leader, and you have kind of the front and then you have the one that's being silly, and all of these people come together to create this story that engages. It disrupts, it keeps your eyes off of what's going on around in your world, and it brings you into their story to focus on them. And so today I want to share a technique we get our impact stories from our clients are nonprofits. And it's all it is is six questions. So you guys ready for this. Yeah. Okay, so the first one is what's your story. A lot of nonprofits they come in and they say I can't ask them what your story are. And this question it's so general it's not asking them to go back to the past, where it's negative it's just saying, where are you coming from to make it more relatable. Your next question is, what was your hesitation in working with us. And so now you're creating what object objections did they have to coming in and seeking help. And this doesn't even have to go for clients you can use this on volunteers, you can use this on donors. What objections do you have coming in to being a volunteer what objections did you have coming into being donor. The second question was, after you started working with us, how did that hesitation changed. And this is where they get to spotlight you and say, Oh, they were the best ever they solve my problems, I was able to get back to the community. It's really a family this is what I love to do. So we go one step further and it's what's one takeaway that has impacted your life. I've seen stories where I wasn't even the volunteer that gave the story, we, we posted her story on social media. And then her daughter came in and said, Thank you for so much for making her part of your community. She was just widowed. And she needed a place to come in and volunteer and create and she had just moved into easel. And so we got that. What's their story by posting the first part and it was just a beautiful story to see that they had truly built a family within this nonprofit. To have that community. Yeah, yeah, so the next one is how will this change your life in the future. Yeah, I like that question. Yeah, so now you're not, you're not just talking about the instant fix that they saw, you're talking about the future and how they helped you see their future and how they accomplished their vision, whether it was to get back to community whether they needed your services, and it excelled them in life, or whether they were able to give your third plan giving to you so that you could do their mission to go out and do good. And the last question is kind it's kind of a bonus question is if you're on the fence and working with this nonprofit. What words with some words, and this is where it comes in and it makes it authentic, and it brings ties that whole story together, and it just provides that beautiful touch to the end. You're so great six amazing questions. One of the things we talked about during the three years of the pandemic is that return on relationship. And I feel like these questions that you just shared with us Jessica, really touch on that. So, yeah, and we're definitely going into a time because everyone's tired of the zoom and being online that they want that relationship that they want to be part of the community and so it's really a good time to go out and get that. So it's also I think I love that you said, and it's actually been a thread throughout this conversation this morning, is that engagement piece and listening to what the donor, or the person that you're going to be engaging with. And I can see this volunteer staff funders community partners, but asking them instead of telling them what you're going to do, but asking those questions. It's it's really an important thing and I've got to believe for a lot of folks, they don't see asking questions as engagement but what I'm hearing you say is that it really is that process of engagement. It's a new way about it. Yes, it is a process of engagement and once you get these stories, you're able to start creating these profiles of these are the people we need to attract and you're able to pull these words up. This is what people are responding to. And so I'm going to take these words and start putting it back out in the community. Very, very, very interesting. You know, Jared, we talk about this so much about how we don't ask our community enough we just assume. We do we assume a lot and you know even our guests previous talked about really that data the research of the constituency base and so it's really important and I do think that that's something that all of us in the sector could do a much better job of. And now I'm curious, Jessica, because you're going to take us into the power and the use of influencers. And I feel like that word influence or influencer has really grown also that's accelerated over the last couple of years. But what is using the power of influencers mean, when it comes to breaking that noise of digital fundraising. Really influencers, it's just a different word people have coined to pure to pure fundraising in the digital space. So what you're looking for are influences, especially if you're starting out this can be a really powerful way to jumpstart your social media influence or your donor influence or whatever you're wanting to influence. You find that one person within your community, and they don't have to have a lot of connections they just have to have powerful connections to move you. And you ask them and you go say hey can you help me out with this bit. Good resources for finding your influencers would be in local news outlet. We just did this, our local food pantry, they have a shortage on food. And so we connected with the easel news, and they came out to the chamber so this is kind of going off of the digital space, but then we brought it back in the easel news challenge at the chamber to challenge five businesses to fill the shop fill the pantry. And so then those five businesses had to go out and challenge other business another business and so now we have this cascading effect of giving back. That is so important I love that you bring it back to the peer to peer that connection that power of relationship the power of partnership. I've seen that trend over the last couple of years I would say it was really, you know, advocating for the supporters of the mission to help, you know, spread the word and be advocates for the mission and other, you know, parts of communities because we're all looking to build our donor database, and how do we attract and attain new donors so that peer to peer influencers that's that's an important one. And I would, I would say the most important part of the peer to peer is they brought you in, or they brought their connections into you. So now you need to nurture those that they're still kind of cold they're a warm, cold introduction into your nonprofit and so you need to jump on it and nurture those people into a more warm relationship. The other thing you can do with this is, okay this person opened their network to me. Yeah. How can I open my network back to them to support them in what they are doing. And that helps them be. Oh, they want to support me now. Okay, now we've just made this alignment, and now they want to support you more in the future. I like that you said that because I feel like that creates champions for our missions and our causes, and so that it is a continual thing because I don't think we recognize that enough. You know, these are, these are the people that go out into our communities and have other relationships or opportunities that can really, really help us. Yeah, you're right in that we don't nurture them. I appreciate that you use that word as well because I feel like we don't nurture our champions enough is as part and parcel to this. Yeah, and it doesn't have to be through thank you letters and all these notifications there's other ways to nurture these people. What are their goals and what are their values and how can you tap into those to to grow them. Absolutely. That's fantastic and especially at the digital age you know like sharing a message or are making it so easy to invite someone else to an event or to, you know, share the mission of the organization, because we all know that you know the voice right at our fingertips for so many of us and to use their voice, in addition to the nonprofits voice is pretty, pretty powerful and you're right, Julia I love that Jessica use nurture because we do need to nurture those relationships. Yeah, and we don't do it enough I appreciate you bringing this to the forefront. I also like what you had to say, and that sometimes we're like so deep and into what it is we're doing and our heads are down. We're looking up and looking out. I would imagine that that kind of feeds into the whole nurturing aspect, and why we're not doing it. Yeah, and it's, it's interesting. Because, when, when you're a smaller nonprofit, your goal is to be the bigger nonprofit. When you, if you look at a bigger nonprofit, they have that development team. They have people to do it. They have people specifically out there. Nurturing people for you. That's how important it is. I love that you brought that up because that's absolutely true. Yeah, let's kind of switch it up a little bit and we're talking about, you know, the noise and all these things that we need to be doing. Let's talk about visual storytelling. You know, we get so caught up in the narrative. What does this mean. So, there's different levels of visual storytelling. Everyone has this expectation that we have to be Instagram perfect. It's pretty and yeah. No, you don't have time to go do that.  Yes, get the photographer to take the amazing photos so people want to share it. Before sharing behind the scenes. It doesn't have to be glamorous. Some of the best posts come from just small video clips of what they're doing behind the scenes. One of our nonprofits they're going, they're needing to do updates and so we took just small photos of them having to push their services out the door and this ramp was like it didn't have a rail and so we made it just a funny video of, okay, now he has to be the superhero. Yeah, and he has to make it out this door and it moms if you have a child and you push destroy a little stroller through a door you know how hard that is.  And so it's just a fun video to get people involved in seeing what people, the volunteers really had to do to accomplish their mission. I think the other thing that I would say is to use infographics. I love infographics, but it can't be like the ones that are just stats from research and white papers, they have to be relatable to your audience. So we did one I keep on going back to this food pantry. We took the six months of the amount of people they have served in the past six months, and we compared it to the milk prices, the rise of milk prices. And you definitely saw the increase of people they needed to serve and now for food pantries it's really hard because their prices are increasing. And they still have to buy more food. And so it, and we put that up there and we started getting donations on that one graphic. So that's pretty powerful I love the creativity of that truly. And I also love an infographics where like let's say for the for the pantry, instead of a regular thermometer, you know let's stack milk cartons instead of that regular thermometer and I think that's a great visual element for storytelling that's not your typical, you know, mercury kind of looking. It ties it back to the mission and again it goes back to that storytelling. I love. You know, Jessica, I've got to ask this question because we're so panicked about trying to get all this work in is q for there's a lot of uncertainty. We still get the year end donations with, you know, the economy and flux and concerns there. What are you seeing I mean are you seeing that you're having to change the narrative because of where we are right now, or are you just like, stay the course use these tools, but stay the course I mean, where are you in that ecosystem of change. Um, right now, I would say, stay the course. I mean, it just consistently show up. Okay, don't get scared of it because as soon as you start getting scared of it. That's when you start hiding again. So you need to be aware, stay aware of the community, know that we're going through this time. And when you ask, be aware that we're doing this is what's happening. How we can we make it happen. We're going to get back to the to the top which was stay aware and in touch right like really be in touch and one of the things that we know happened early in the pandemic was so many nonprofits were like we're just going to hit the pause button. We're going to sit on the sidelines right and I feel that if we continue to be fearful of what's going to happen. Then many people will probably retreat as you were, you know saying Jessica to staying the course I love that that's your final answer and moving forward, you know to and stay aware and stay in touch with your constituency base. It's really important, you know, we've got a viewer that just messaged in and this is going to put you a little bit on the hot seat but a viewer's right has written in is canva a good tool to learn how to create an infographic if you're not a graphic designer. So I think you're I think that your infographic has really resonated with our viewers and listeners, but talk about that if you could briefly. Yes, I use canva. My team uses canva.  I love that well thank you I appreciate you giving us that insider tip because that's that's amazing that's really really important. It's a great tool and you're right Jessica it has some templates in there so for those of us that aren't designers, it can at least get you started. I mean, I come from a design background, I still go in there because it's just so easy I mean I have my programs that I do my fancy stuff. Sure. But yeah, if I made something quick, or I'm doing something more social media based I'm in canva. You're doing canva. That's that's incredible well good that's an that's an amazing endorsement and we really really appreciate this. Well hey everybody I want to make sure that we spend some time connecting you our viewers and our listeners to Jessica Jessica you've got a new series that you're going to be launching in November. Can you share with us what that's going to be. Yes, we are it's if you go to your nonprofit growth.com. It's going to be a three part series on building your community and we're really going focus on relationship maps, and your recruiting message and how to network to bring in this community to build you up. Awesome. Fantastic. How long is the workshop or the series. We are doing them once a week so it starts November 3 at 1130 central. And we're doing them once a week on Thursdays up until Thanksgiving. Awesome great timing well that's great and tell us again the landing page on that the landing page is your nonprofit growth.com. Love it your nonprofit nonprofit growth.com fabulous idea and this is I love what you're kind of where you're directing us to because I think a lot of times in the nonprofit sector. And Jared and I've talked a lot about this, you work so hard to this like q4 and then you don't do the stewardship that you need to build those relationships at the beginning of the year. And we're going to talk in that series or last session is talking about how to systemize it to make it easier on you. I love that efficiency is definitely one thing that we need here in the sector. Jessica Gruber, thank you for joining us as a thought leader for today's nonprofit show again for those of you watching or listening. Jessica is the principal creative director at buzz work, buzz works creations. And the web address for that is buzz BUZZ wks.com. So check her out and her team again exclusively providing amazing services for the nonprofit community the nonprofit sector. Thanks for doing what you do Jessica we're so grateful to have you here. Thank you and if you guys like this show. Go share it with another nonprofit. It's, it helps it. It grows it grows you and it grows everyone. So go share the show. I love that. Thank you. Well, I'm Julia Patrick. I've been joined by Jared ransom, the nonprofit nerd herself. We could not agree more share our content. Yeah, we love that. Well, thank you. That's really cool. That made my day that really did. Hey, another thing that makes my day is all of our sponsors are with us day in and day out so we can have these conversations like we have today with Jessica. So we want to give our gratitude to bloom orang American nonprofit Academy, your part time controller be generous fundraising Academy at National University, staffing boutique nonprofit thought leader and the nonprofit nerd. Without these folks we wouldn't have these conversations.  Thank you for joining us today. Thank you. Thank you for having me. It's been great as we like to end every episode. We want to remind ourselves, our viewers, our listeners and even our sponsors. Stay well so you can do well. Thank you ladies. We'll see you again.


So, first of all, the name of this workshop is Let's Improve Model Together, that means Let's. So, in the first place, I'm going to ask you to place on seven tables only. Could that be possible, please? So you work only on seven tables, and we left some material on the tables. You can take it with you. You're going to need those post-its, those worksheets, the stickers. You're going to need everything. This table does not count. This one over here. So we've got one, two, three, four, five, six. Okay. Okay, that's cool. Six tables. Do all tables have the worksheets, post-its, and stickers? Do you have? No? No? No? No? Ah, they do on the other table. Okay, thank you. And does anyone need a pen? No? If you need pens, you're going to ask a person with this t-shirt. She's over here, and the other one is over there. So okay, let's start. Today's workshop is named, as I mentioned before, Let's Improve Model Together, and that's because we are going to do it all together. And if you don't know about me, my name's Che, and I work for Trezi Poon. Trezi Poon is a model premium partner. If you want to know more about it, we have a booth out there. You can come visit us. It is for free, so don't worry. You can just stop by. And on this workshop, you are going to see another or something different that we also do that is contribute to the middle community. And we contribute in different ways, and today we are going to do it in a workshop forum working on these different groups that you saw. And I don't want to say much about it. You can see there's these work groups, and we have some exposition afterwards. We're going to go step by step, but mainly, as you can see, we have 49 minutes. The other one is the one I've been already speaking. So let's start with the planning. The idea today is that I'm sure that all of you have something in mind in Moodle that could be improved, could be developed, could be created, could be removed, whatever. There's some point that you would like to make it different. So I would like all of you to take a post-it and write whatever you want to make different. You have to write anything you could like, Moodle, to improve, to add, to change something that you think could be different. Okay, so the individual part is over. So have you written your idea? So now please, your idea in the middle of a table, all together. So there should be about eight to ten ideas on each table. And now you can read them, discuss them, and with post-it. Sorry, with the stickers, you can add up to three stickers on three different ideas that you would like to work on. Okay, this way we're gonna be choosing the best one on each table. The one you decide to work. Okay, do you have a final winner on each table? You have one? Cool. What about the table on the right? I think there's still, okay, so let's give a couple more minutes. Okay, so now that you all have one topic to work on, let's continue. Okay, now you're gonna have 30 minutes to name your idea. Probably the name on the post-it might be the most appropriate. Maybe a new name comes up during the process, whatever. Just name the idea, and we're gonna use the user story format. I don't know if you're familiar with it, but it's with an idea, we're going to define who does it affect, so whoever. Let's imagine this user story, and let's see this example. As a student, for instance, I want to do something, I don't know, recover my password, which I forgot as an example, so that I can log into my school mobile platform again. Okay, that's a user story. So with your topic, you can define which user are you going to work with, what do they want to achieve, and what is the goal. So as a whatever user, I want to do something so that I can achieve a goal. Okay, with that, during the 30 minutes, after defining this, you can also propose a solution. Okay, so in groups, I'm sure there's people with many different roles on each table. So work together to see which the most suitable solution according to your needs you can find. Okay, after that, one person of each table will have two minutes to explain the issue and the solution to everyone. Okay, so time starts now, and you have this orange line to count the 30 minutes. Each line is 10 minutes. Okay, so if you have questions, let me know, and I will be around the tables. Okay, now we have the exposition time, so one person of each table will have two minutes to share their idea with the rest of the people. So I don't know if you want to use microphones, or maybe they can come to the stage, whatever. So you have a microphone? Okay. So do you want to start? I can start. Well, whoever you decide is a speaker on the table. Okay. Okay. Our idea is about the workshop activity, and we cheat a bit because we add like two things to it. One is the group submission, which is possible in assignment, but it's not possible in workshop. Even you can define groups and separate groups, so the peer reviewing is on beyond the group. But you cannot do group submission, which is a kind of pity because it's a super great activity, but you cannot do this thing, which is probably one of the most common things to do. And the other thing is that the simplification of the phases, so you can be more versatile with spaces and manage them properly, not as a table that you go back and forth on the table, but something that you can create more history of what you need to do. That's enough. It's okay. You have one more minute, so up to you. If you're done, you're done. We have a radio solution, the perfect solution, of course, so that's the thing. It's centered more on the teacher, and it's about making versatile and more comprehensive. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Yeah, let's pass it on to the next. Okay. So, okay. Can I? Yeah, sure. So, our idea is to have a more intuitive question type chooser to, well, the use case is the following. As a teacher, learning content creator, I want to be able to efficiently create questions in the question bank or quiz context, so I have more time available for teaching and helping my students. The problem there is that the current question chooser follows the old styling and functionality from 10 years ago, just like the old activity chooser, which is not really helpful for less experienced model users who have to know the question types installed in order to be able to select the correct question type in their quizzes. A solution there would be to have the question chooser more intuitive and follow the current activity chooser UX or something similar in the future with a search bar for text search in the question type descriptions and tabs for recommended and favorite question types. And additionally, which is not really a development thing, we would like to encourage question type developers to provide clear descriptions of their question type features and possible applications for the question type as to inform the teachers of the question type features. Okay. Thank you as well. So let's move to group number three. Hi. Yeah. Our table's idea is teachers dashboard or maybe we can call it overview page for the teacher to see all the all courses he is teaching in and the student's progress. For example, if the deadline comes for the teacher to quickly see who is not passed the course yet, who is not completed the course yet and quickly send a message to this student or group of students, for example, with the tick marks, just tick the all incomplete students and then the send automated message or pre-made message to the students just to quickly respond to them and to reach out to them that they need to complete something or maybe the deadline is already over and they need to do something. Like quick overview for the teachers and to quickly react to that. Okay. Thank you. Now let's go to the fourth group. Okay. Hi. So ready? The name of our idea is improvements on the gradebook UI, our beloved gradebook. And the proposal is as a teacher I want to be able to choose two different interfaces on gradebook so that I can adjust to my course. So the proposal solution is adding a button in order to switch from a basic gradebook to the default gradebook which is the complete one. So there could be an initial version more basic, more simple that doesn't have, I don't know, that only has the activities that will be graded and that would be the default one. So we can cover the needs for most of the teachers that do not need to make operations and between the grades and something like that. And if you need the advanced features which are the ones that are today, thousands of options, you can simply choose the advanced mode. You see? Yeah. You did? Okay. Thank you. And let's now listen to the last group. See what they do, Yud. Hello. So our idea is called free Spain for model and it basically means a free Spain similar to Excel when you have a big table, either you need to scroll a lot horizontally or vertically. You want to freeze particular rows or columns so the information on student name for example or student number remains visible on the screen all the time. It mainly applies to tutors which needs to interact with the students or with the information on screen somehow. So the proposed solution is create an option in every table in Mudo where a lot of vertical or horizontal scrolling is needed to be able to fix row or column. And one of our colleagues found a tracker already that has something similar in coming in Mudo 4.3. That's good. It was for quiz and you want to be more universal for every Mudo screen so that's it. Thank you so much and thank you all the groups for your work today. So now we've reached the last part of this interaction time which is voting. We're going to vote the different proposals you made and if you're familiar with your experience normally this takes a huge tremendous amount of time but unfortunately today we only had one hour. So we tried to make it quite quickly and like quite express so that I know I thought you were asking me to okay okay it was like okay so normally this takes much more time but this will help us analyze each of your proposals either the main ideas that you had at the beginning and these others that you even came up with possible solutions so we are going to work on that and to analyze them and see if there's a way to implement them maybe not in 4.3 sorry but as soon as possible and well to do that it would be very helpful if now you had some time to please vote so you have this QR code and you have the other option which is entering a slide dot dough and use the code hush both mood 23 and you have the five ideas there so you can rank them okay you have five minutes okay so you're 43 and I've got 43 votes I assume everyone voted I'm gonna is that true or is somebody missing yet anyone okay now some they're still voting are you sharing link with somebody else or there are more votes more votes than people in the room okay I'm gonna I'm gonna close the poll so we have the results now okay so the most the most voted idea is teachers dashboard because plus please then idea number two is improve the great book UI from that table over there as well in the third position we've got intuitive question chooser that was yours right no that one yeah sorry so big applause please I'm sorry I cannot share it with you because it's not my laptop so I cannot do much and then on the fourth position we've got a worship group submission that's yours and last but not least we've got free Spain for moodle which is yours right yeah so I I want to thank you everyone for coming today for spending this time with us and for providing so much feedback because in the end what you did today was to help us all together improve moodle and as mentioned before we're gonna work on that we're gonna create a report and we're gonna share it with middle HQ however if you want to receive that report to you can check that cure code and you just have to leave your email there and we are only going to share with you the report nothing else okay so thank you and I would like to thanks Mary and myself for helping me out organizing all this and just to finish mention that if there's anything else that you come up with your ideas or any other issues whatever that you would like to share with us you've got my email there feel free to write me to contact me and let's see that okay thank you so much bye