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Nonprofit Radio for September 4, 2015: Video Storytelling & Don’t Tell MY Story

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Yasmin Nguyen & Sheri Chaney Jones: Video Storytelling

In a crowded video internet, how do you tell that compelling story so your message moves others to take action? Sharing their smart strategies are Yasmin Nguyen, CEO of VibranceGlobal, and Sheri Chaney Jones, president of Measurement Resources. We talked at NTC, the Nonprofit Technology Conference, hosted by Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN).

 

 

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Hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m your aptly named host. Oh, i’m glad you’re with me. I come down with a case of her panji nna if my mouth had to say the words you missed today’s show video storytelling in a crowded video internet, how do you tell that compelling story? So your message moves others to take action. Sharing their smart strategies are yasmin win, ceo of vibranceglobal and sherry cheney jones, president of measurement resource is we talked at ntcdinosaur non-profit technology conference hosted by non-profit technology network and then and don’t tell my story the right to be forgotten, maria simple explains last year’s you opinion that google must remove outdated links from search results what’s the impact on your prospect research also your donors right to privacy? Maria is our prospect research contributor and the prospect finder that originally aired june thirteenth of last year on tony’s take to the ntc videos responsive by pursuant full service fund-raising data driven and technology enabled, you’ll raise more money pursuant dot com here are yasmin win and sherry cheney jones with video storytelling welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of ntc twenty fifteen the non-profit technology conference we’re at the austin convention center austin, texas we’re kicking off our coverage with this interview. Are my guests now? Are jasmine win and sherry cheney jones welcome. Thank you. Thank you, it’s. Good to be here. They’re seminar topic is stop shooting videos. Start unlocking stories. Jasmine win is founder and ceo of vibranceglobal and sherry cheney jones is president of measurement resource is let’s start sherry, what are non-profits not doing quite a cz? Well as they could with video interviews, storytelling? What? From my perspective, because we help non-profits measure and communicate their impact in value, they often are focusing on their impact. So how are they changing lives and changing circumstances there, too focused on the activities. So, really understanding what your true impact is and telling your stories from there, and you’re trying to elicit really heartfelt story telling stories. You know, emotional, we want emotional impact. Okay, what would you have you have? You know, i think that a lot of times we focus so much on the technology, the process of doing video and also the questions that we ask people, and so we don’t focus enough on the connection, and really, when you are able to provide a space for someone to open up, to feel that they can speak about their passion, be grateful, they then create that connection that we can then capture and witness through videos and so it’s that focus on that connection rather than just the information or that exchange. Now, as we are today, you’re asking people to get in front of lights and cameras or and mike’s on dh and open up yes, men. How are we going toe start this process first, let’s start with how do we find the right people? And then we’ll get into coaching them and and getting their best performance and storytelling out of them. But how do we find the right one? Yeah, absolute tony that the key thing is selecting the right people, and that starts with being mindful of who your audience is. You know, we found that the most impactful, relevant, ah person to interview talk with are a representation of our audience. So, for example, for appealing to a donor’s, then it be great to have a financial supporter donors to be able to speak in their language in the same mindset for them to connect and relate. So think about the group’s. We want this interview to be meaningful for and select people from that constituency. Right? Volunteers, donors, board members. Yeah. Ok. And someone who’s were well respected. Who’s. Our ticket who’s also a very passionate and a champion of of our particular cause to be able to speak for us but also at the same time, carry the torch for our audience so that they can connect with them. Sure, anything you want to add to finding the right person is sure. I always say, think about your wise. Why do you do it? You do, but not just why does your organization do what it does? But why does your funders fund you and whitey here? Participants participate. And when you’re finding people to tell your story, you want to make sure that you are covering those three perspectives. Okay, three wives. The three wise yet three wise men know e wise? Yes, different wise. Okay, sure. Let’s, say with you now. So we found the right people. How do we start the process of making them? Comfortable evoking the really heartfelt emotion that we’re tryingto chief? Sure. Well, i will actually default to us because he’s really good at that, you know, i’m i’m the one that helps you create the content think about what you should be eliciting and he’s when it does the great interviews, maybe you’re more on the on the production side. I’m more on the defining what what questions? You should be asking what impact you should be drawing out of them stuff like, okay, we’ll come to you very shortly. Okay, okay. We got plenty of time together. Twenty five. Just great. Yeah. You know, for someone to be at ease. You really it’s it’s? Really? About how you think about the interview or how you think about being on video? A lot of times, people focus on the act of, you know, being on camera so they feel like they’re being evaluated. They’re being judged or in an interview, maybe you think of, like, a job interview or or some others where they have to perform and they have to be perfect. And what that does is it raises this level of anxiety where you have tio feel like you have to know, not necessarily be your best to be your most authentic. Authentic. Yeah, you’re you’re going to be your best if you’re most if you you’re most authentic, you just you write which is hard to get and even on steven instill videos, pictures it really is okay? Yeah. How are we gonna do so down? So so part of that is in the initial invitation is instead of hey, can you do a testimonial keen? And you come on camera and do a video it’s about framing it in a way that helps them give instead of being put in a position to perform. And so what i mean by giving is, you know, i’d like to invite you to come and share your story so that we can help inspire others like you. You know, we we want to put you in a place where you can be of service to others, and when you’re in that mindset of being of service, to be able to share your experience and insight so that it can help others, it takes that pressure off because now it’s about your own story, your own experience and there’s no. Right or wrong. And so that that’s the first step is the mind set piece. Okay, so let’s try to avoid characterizing it as testimonial. Do you know, do something that way. Put a label on right or even an interview? It should be more of a conversation. And i find that mom i doing so far, you’re doing great. My failing is a failing grade know you’re at least a b plus or something. You’re doing great. You’ve done this a few times. I have securities right already. Absolutely cool. Yeah. All right, s so tell me more. Yeah, so? So. So that’s the first step is setting up the frame for for what? That experience is like giving them information so that they feel prepared, you know, even some questions. Not necessarily for them to prepare a script, but for them to at least be a tease to know what to expect, that there’s not going to be this sort of curveball, or they’re gonna be blindsided because people have a lot of anxiety around, you know the uncertainty. And so that that’s another element. And then once you actually get into the session, then then it’s really about creating that space. I go through a specific routine if i find that someone’s either really nervous or they’re very tense, where we do an exercise called a ci gong slap, and what that is is where you basically take your hand and one hand and you slap the part of your front part of your arm all the way back to up to your chest, and then you do on the other side and then down to your legs and then back up through your back and then on your head as well. You do that a couple times having how hard you’re slapping, just just so just like just like this. So you’re going back like this and that and then down to your chest and then back-up and what you’re doing is you’re activating the various different meridian parts and your body, your head too as well, too. And then once you do that a couple times, you’ll notice this sort of tingle. It just activates the energy and yourself. And so that’s physically gets you ready. Another gong xi gong slap. Yeah, yeah, you can google that nok will be on youtube. The other parties is also getting you into what we call the vortex or the zone or, you know, the peak performance state and so, you know, i listen to some music, so whatever music kind of gets you going here, the whole goal is to are we asking the person i interrupt all the time, you know, that’s bad that’s, bad technique, a weapon? You don’t have a conversation, really? So we’re asking the person in advance, what’s your kind of music or bring bring some of your favorite music, you’re going bring some of that, but even before the actual interview, i will take time to have a phone conversation, just tow, learn about that, build that report so it’s not. We’re not meeting for the first time on camera and, uh, and that way, we feel like we’re friends and i can ask them about different things, so the whole goal is to get them out of their head and into their hearts, because when they start speaking from the heart when they start opening up yeah, that’s when the magic happens, outstanding. All right, you’re tuned to non-profit radio tony martignetti also hosts a podcast for the chronicle of philanthropy fund-raising fundamentals is a quick ten minute burst of fund-raising insights, published once a month. Tony’s guests are expert in crowdfunding, mobile giving event fund-raising direct mail and donor cultivation. Really, all the fund-raising issues that make you wonder, am i doing this right? Is there a better way there is? Find the fund-raising fundamentals archive it. Tony martignetti dot com that’s m a r t i g e n e t t i remember there’s, a g before the end, thousands of listeners have subscribed on itunes. You can also learn maura, the chronicle website, philanthropy dot com fund-raising fundamentals, the better way. Surely now let’s, come to you with questions. Durney um, we really jasmine alluded to a little bit, but the types of questions where you’re aware your expertise comes in. Sure in terms of thinking about what? Why are you doing this video? I’m sorry i called you jasmine. Jasmine? Pardon me. Sorry about that. Yes, you have been eluded. So what’s the purpose of the video you’re shooting. Who is your audience? What do they care about? And what we know about is although fund-raising is up from where it was pretty great recession levels, people want to know that there their money is actually making a difference. So no longer can we just say, oh, here’s a cute kid, i’m going to tell you my story about, you know, my family people really want to know that there’s a collective impact going on that there’s, you know, in the measurement world, the outcomes that you’re achieving. So you want to think about what are those outcomes that you know that people want you two to be showing and then making sure your interview questions are addressing those? So people are telling their stories around how they experience the outcomes that you are saying that you’re achieving, how they’re experiencing a perfect and we’re going to get really kind of personal, right? Like how i saved your life improved your life, help your child, you know, etcetera, yeah. So, you know, we have a list of twelve outcomes that typically non-profits air achieving, like increased knowledge increased, gilles, you know, maintenance of new behavior, reduction of undesirable behavior. So no, those going in before you start asking your questions and let your interview we know that you’re going to want to know about, you know, how did this program increase your knowledge or help you get a job or, you know, decrease your risk for heart disease or whatever it is that you’re non-profits doing, make sure the questions are aligned with those important outcomes. Should we stay away from giving exact questions? You will be asked one, two, three, four, because i find in doing my show that that then leads to scripted questions, lead descriptive answers, and and that’s not from the heart, that’s from appearing like memorized so so sherry but we want to give them topics, right, but not exact questions is that is that the best practice or what? Either either. Yeah, i found that i could give them some questions and with a disclaimer that, you know, these are some of the similar types of questions that will be asking and then also explain to them how to prepare. So just think about some bullet points or just some stories that may be relevant, but not necessarily prepare a script per se as well to so that that, uh it alleviates the anxiety, but you’re also making sure that they don’t have a prepared answer. Percent. Yeah, yeah. Like i said, then that’s not that’s, not the impact you’re gonna want. Um, all right, anything else, before we get to the actual either of you need anything else before we get to the actual session with mike’s and lights and cameras that we should be thinking about? We didn’t talk about yet, you know, i think that’s that’s pretty much covers it for now. We’re going to go and dive a little bit deeper into ours session then during that time. Yeah. Oh, well, i mean, there’s stuff you’re going to say in this session. You you won’t say here is that well? Actually, you know, know what? We’ve got someone holding back. Of course not. Your size is okay. Okay? I want shortchange non-profit ready. You know, of course, that all right. All right. So now we’re in the session, so presumably we’re in some kind of studio. These got a microphone because it might just we could just be doing audio, right? Possible? Absolutely. But might be lights and camera also who’s best toe ask, what do we do when we’re in the studio? Now? I could i could do that. Okay, yeah, you know it’s again, it’s first getting them into that state it’s a two part process getting them into that place where they’re not thinking from their minus their speaking for the heart, then the next step, then it’s it’s like a dance. Then you’re the lead. And so through your mindful questions that you’ve designed, you’ve created both to communicate, impact illicit to bring it out from them, per se. You’re also thinking about what is the overarching storyline that you’re trying to create. So one of the things that well, that we’re going to discuss in our sessions is the ah frame. Where for an appeals type of video you know these air the videos that ah, non-profits play at their events to appeal to, you know, fundraisers and donors and so there’s a seven start, seven step formula that i generally recommend to my clients as a guide for creating questions to elicit out those components. So the first part is, is that emotional hook or that connection? Something, whether it be ah piece of data, something that’s compelling or a story that just gets people that initially engaged. So they want to continue to watch the next step then is gratitude appreciating the people that are there the people that have already supported you recognizing them so then they personally feel connected engaged. The third part then is impact showing the difference that that their support up until this point has made to show that you have traction, and that your stewards of their support this far then the next step is really diving into the importance of the purpose of the mission. Why are we all here? Why is it important to support us then? The next step is to ah is to paint a picture of what the future khun b so this is where we are. But this is how much we can. This is how many more people we can serve. This is the greater impact that we can do. And then then goes the call to action, which is this is how you can help. This is how you can be a part of us achieving this bigger future. And the final part is that emotional close wrapping it up, tying it back to either the mission or or completing the circle of this story that leaves them with this emotional connection. But now they’ve see why why we’re doing this. They also know how they can be a part of it and that’s the framework in which we start to create questions that we start to elicit out in each of the different interviews. We sure this is a real art because that’s a lot to pack into what’s probably gonna be, you know, like a ford of five minute video or so bands. It’s doable? Yeah, of course. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And i mean, in the session we’re going toe share case study where one organization was ableto talk about their recreational programme with kids, but at the end of the day, they were able to demonstrate how they had a fifty seven thousand seven hundred seventy percent return on investment in those chilled children in terms of really transforming their earning potential over their lives. Just buy this, you know, recreational after school program and and talk about in your fund-raising appeal if you’re able teo to share those stories, talk about those kids experience and at the end of the day, say, oh, by the way, give us five hundred dollars, and we’ll turn that into two hundred eighty nine thousand dollars for on these children over the course of, you know, their lifetime that’s, very powerful, and, you know, checkbooks are flying nah bins. What if we’re in our studio session and it’s not going so well? Our interview is not really loosening up very tense. You’re not getting the kind of emotion you’re hoping for. What what can we do to you? Break that besides achy gong slap anything else we can do? Like in them in that moment? Loosen him or her up? Yeah, yeah, you know, first of all, i always try with something with physiology. So some physical movement, whether it be breathing or others just to kind of, you know, shake out some of the stiffness there. If that doesn’t work, then i should start to shift into what are they passionate about? We totally go off or off camera off mike now, mike, or even even if the camera’s still on, but i shift their focus on hey, you know what? What do you know? What are you most passionate about? Tell me about your favorite, you know, and start getting really personal and when they start to then connect with what really means, you know something to them, then it slowly they slowly start to kind of open up in that way. So i found that to be really effective, it might actually be a good idea to keep the camera rolling or the mike rolling because you might capture something really good whether they know it’s being captured or not, they’re they’re more at ease because you’ve broken that i see you looking the tension about okay, let’s, create anything you want, but i was just saying, you know, a lot of it is the magic and editing, so if you know that framework, that yasmin laid out and, you know, that’s what you’re going for your looking for those nuggets that you’re going to put into that framework when you go to create your video and edit it together. And that that’s a really good point, sherry, is that, you know, when you’re looking at the post production editing process, you wanna have someone on your team that understands the story framework here? Not just someone that’s really a great good, you know, on editor or your your brother in law, who knows howto video. But someone who understands the purpose understands the story’s understands elements of marketing as well so that they can put those pieces together in a meaningful way. Alright, we have plenty of time together. So you took some now about postproduction. We moved into that suddenly that was well done. Thank you, baizman. What? What more about postproduction? Aside from let’s not have an amateur doing it. What else? What else can we say? You know, post production actually starts with preproduction. Always found that it’s very, very important to know the roadmap rather than shooting a bunch of content audio or visual and then just dumping it on to someone and saying here, figure it out so it’s it’s it’s essential to be involved throughout the process. S so that’s, really, the key part here and then the other part is, is to understand, to have someone who really understands the dynamics of human conversation, per se you know, there is certain ways in which people speak that are ah, more flattering than others. And so it’s it’s a very subtle nuance of how to cut the foot the pieces and then start to assemble them together and then tie in either music or other elements that enhance that experience, whether it be visuals or other things as well, too. It sounds like you’re strongly suggesting that this be done by a professional, yes, absolutely on baby involved from the beginning, not just that you’ve given them a raw video file, and now they have to try, too. Kraft, what you’re describing? Great, yeah, yeah, i think specially for your your fund-raising appeal videos and maybe the things on your website you’re going to ask people tio to donate to your cause, but i think for and you can correct me if you disagree, but for your maybe website. Testimonials or other things, you know, in our session, yasmin’s going to actually do one on his iphone. So just depends on what the purpose again understanding what is the purpose of the video, your beauty that’s an excellent point, you know, i mean, we were we were talking last several minutes about the least, i think the the video that shone at the gala that ideally is evoking tears and and moving a room of seven hundred people or, you know, whatever. But on the other end of the spectrum share your point is really well taken. This could be very low production value with somebody with an iphone, and it can still be very, very moving. Yeah, absolutely. Doesn’t the production values don’t have to be high to be compelling? Yes. Depends what your purpose is. Yeah, and and and again, it’s, just starting with understanding, understanding your purpose, understanding your audience, understanding your call to action and then finding the right medium for that. Go ahead. Yeah, absolutely. It’s it’s really about having a storytelling mindset, it’s about having a mindset of thinking about what? What are we doing right now? And is who is this meaningful? For and then let’s just capture that moment, especially with technology these days with, you know, our smartphones or iphones or android phones, you know, the cameras and the equipment is so advanced and it’s, i mean, you could capture a great experience bar trying to do it in the dark, but, i mean, if you think about wow, if i’m constantly thinking about how can i share this moment with someone else and who would benefit and why they would benefit, then then you’re you’re ready to go and as far as like professional editing, you know, quite honestly, people can edit themselves, but really, i find that like ninety plus percent of the clients and people i work with it’s a tedious process and that’s something that if they can learn how to improve the quality of capturing the experience that they can handed off to someone else, even if it’s simple edits it’s accessible and affordable for just even the average person who’s just doing a video for their they’re easing or something like that by phone. Yeah, you has been picked up his phone as he was talking for those who are not watching the video. A zoo visual. So i mean it’s just it could be just that simple. Sure, you look like you want to add something? No, i’m just a green. Okay, oppcoll we still have another couple of minutes left together. What if i not ask you that? Uh, what have we not talked about? It doesn’t matter what stage of it is, what more would you like to say on it? It’s a great topic, i think. Just a kind of reiterate it’s about thinking about this experience, the interviewer, the video really, as an opportunity for for you to help someone else give and and the way that they give is through their insights and experience. So we appreciate the opportunity to be here with you, tony, to be able to share and so it’s a it’s a conversation and it’s an opportunity to give. And i think that really when you start thinking of it this way, it alleviates a lot of stress and anxiety around the experience. Okay, yeah, i’d love to leave loved leave it there, but we still have a couple minutes left, so i’m gonna press it’ll further on something i was thinking about when you’re recording, do we do we need tohave an interviewer? Or should we just let the person kind of go free form and on dh hit on the topic questions hoping that they’ll do that, or we need to have an interviewer? I i think yes, i think so. And unless the person is experiencing very skilled with being able to create a connection themselves with either the camera, they’ve they’ve had either training or they could do it naturally. But i would say that the majority of the people are looking to have an interview because the goal is to experience a moment of connection. And how can you experience a connection without having some other person person? Lester trained to connect? Yeah, directly to account. And so to answer your question, yes, it’s important to have at least someone there to connect with? Okay, yeah, sure, because i think it’s not it can be very scripted, and we’re trying to avoid that scripted feel so an interviewer helps reduce that that scripted feel better, more connection, okay? And ah, there is one story i’d like to share and it’s about giving as well too, and sherry’s heard this. Story a number of times because we actually start third time speaking together here. But last year, we were at the non-profit technology conference, and both of us were there to writing. So you guys last year, samaritan picking up last year, we missed each other in d c yeah, so ah, sure. And i were both staying with our good friends, neil and heather. Now kneel on heather have this amazing ten year old daughter named kendall. And every morning when we sit down for breakfast, kendall would just light up the room and she’d ask questions, and she will have about a minute left. Okay. Okay, so, so so anyway, you’re trained, so i know what you know. I’m gonna tell part of theirs just to the store here, and i will re kapin the session here. Don’t worry about the way we wanna hear your story. Okay. All right. So so then ah, went the last morning that were there. She just barely looked up from her bowl and i said, hey, what’s going on, you seem different and she said, yeah, i’ve got to go sold girl scout cookies today i said, well, what’s wrong with that people love cookies, she said, yeah, but every time i get out there, i get rejected and so i said, yeah, gosh, you know, i totally understand, so i asked her i said, hey, kendall, how much of your cookies? She said they’re four dollars a box? So i said here, here’s, twenty dollars, once you give me five boxes, she said really has, like, yeah, it’s like, but here’s the thing i don’t eat cookies myself and so she but i want you to do what what i want to do is i want you to give these cookies to five people that you’ve never met before officer and her eyes lit up, she ran to her mom and said, mom, guess what? We get to give cookies away, then i said, now here, kendall here’s, the reason why i want you to give those cookies away because i want you to know what it’s like to make someone’s day. I want you to see, hear and feel their appreciation, and then when you’re out there and you’re asking someone to ask by a box of cookies, try this instead. Ask them hey, is there someone in your life that you really care about because i’d like to help you make their bay by giving them a box of cookies. So what we’re doing is we’re creating an opportunity for someone to give and so similar to this interview experience when you create an opportunity to give you shift, that dynamic latto outstanding, we’re gonna leave it there. Thank you very, very much. You your favorite cookies with thin mints, by the way about us so good on this. Emotions are number two yasmin win he’s, founder and ceo of vibranceglobal and sherry cheney jones’s, president of measurement resource is non-profit radio coverage of ntc twenty fifteen the non-profit technology conference thanks so much for being with us. It’s. Time for live listener love you know how grateful i am, in fact, not just gratitude love going out to all our live listeners wherever you might be. Podcast pleasantries always those listening in the time shift over ten thousand of you pleasantries to you, wherever you are, whatever you’re doing as you listen and are all important affiliate affections to our stations throughout the country. So glad you are with us. The thousands of you as well must. Be maybe another ten thousand who knows affiliate affections to all those affiliate listeners. Tony, take two and mohr coming up. Don’t tell my story, but first, pursuant you need more money pursuing helps you it’s just that simple. They have online tools made for small and midsize non-profits that help your fund-raising prospect of platform finds your upgrade ready donors there in your database, they’re buried. Who are they? Find them with prospector platform and you’ll raise more money pursuant. Dot com from the desk of world news tonight, i’m featuring non-profit technology conference video interviews at tony martignetti dot com check it out! I’m sitting at the desk at the anchor desk world news tonight, therefore, video interviews from auntie si, including today’s with jasmine win and sherry cheney jones. Also, any sample ward on what non-profit technology network does and how they can help you to use tech smarter, plus keeping your website current after launch and a panel of four on what to do when technology is being blamed. But it’s really not your problem? My video and the links to those four conference video interviews are at tony martignetti dot com and that’s tony’s take two for friday, fourth of september thirty fifth show of the year here’s maria semple don’t tell my story you know maria simple she’s, the prospect finder she’s a trainer and speaker on prospect research. Her website is the prospect finder dot com, and her book is panning for gold. Find your best donor prospects now exclamation mark she’s, our doi n of dirt, cheap and free. You can follow maria on twitter at maria simple. Welcome back, maria, good to talk to you. Good to talk to you. Thank you very much. You’re going to say glad to be here or anything. Well, i am glad to be here, actually and it’s a nice summer months and i’m always happy in the summer. So this is a good thing, excellent and even happier on non-profit radio day, right? Absolutely. Now that i ve pimped you twice and you have no choice but to say yes and i’m happy about everything we’re talking about the right to be forgotten. This came from a spaniard who brought a case in the european court of justice. Yes. So, you know, i thought it was very interesting and i was wondering, you know there might not be immediate applications for prospect researchers in the united states, but you know it. It got me to thinking what implications this might have five or ten years down the line in terms of information that might end up getting a raise from google searches. Um, and it just got me to wondering, you know how how we have to maybe cross check data in other places, especially going forward? If if we’re going to start seeing data, you know, becoming race, could it could even be more imminent than five or ten years? I think very well could be, you know, right now, one of the one of the stats that i had seen was that over forty one thousand europeans, i have actually asked through this online form that google has created to be for gotten so they want mention of themselves erased off of google search results and that huge let’s set the scene in case everyone hasn’t heard of this. This was ah man in spain who brought a case to the european court of justice because there were links in searches of his name is just searching his name. There were links. To old events that he thought were no longer relevant, right? It had to do with a realist state auction that was held, teo, settle some of what they call social security death, whatever that meant. But he was, you know, not happy that that was still out there because he felt that the debts have been settled and so forth. And so he petitioned through this, uh, europe europe’s top court, which is the court of justice of the european union, i guess it’s somewhat similar to our supreme court and petitioned, and it was ruled in his favor that, yes, google is going to have to comply. So of course, if google’s going to have to comply, you have to think that the other major search engines like yahoo and microsoft being will also have to do the same. And to comply. Google came up with this online form. I don’t know if you can. I don’t know how you go directly to the form. I guess you can just search it. I was i i ended up finding a link in one of the articles led me directly to the form and it’s. Pretty interesting, because you actually have to select from a drop down menu one of the thirty two countries that are listed that you would reside in. You do need to provide some sort of a photo id. Ah, so that i guess, you know, if you’re trying to get maybe say, a competitors, you know, information swipes or something like that, they want to make sure that yes, you are you’re the person and it’s information about you, etcetera, and so there are, you know, there’s certain things that you do need to do in order to comply, to get it, to get the data removed, but they really think it’s going to be a very long time before google can’t even get through all of these request and right now it on ly pertains to the european union, as you said, the thirty two countries so this does not apply teo u s residents, but it could there’s potential that someone could bring a similar action on dh similarly succeed in the us i’m not i would not put it past somebody to come up with that idea. Having read, you know, all the press that there is available out there about this particular ruling in europe, one thing that i didn’t realize i mean, i just thought that you go to google dot com and that’s just the one place to do research bedevil evidently there’s, a google dot ceo dot uk, which is, i guess, the european equivalent of google’s search engine, so i think what they’re from my understanding of what i’ve read is that it’s going toe wife clean the search results that you would find on the european search engine and maybe not necessarily google dot com again, it’s also new and all such a grey area and google themselves trying to figure out how they’re going to end up complying with this whole thing. The implications than for prospect research are becoming apparent as we’re talking. You might not find everything that you’d like to find on someone, right? Right? And, you know, i can give you an example. Tony, of a search i was doing a number of years back, i was probably about ten years ago, i was doing some donors threespot church. Actually, i was just doing research. I wasn’t sure that this person was actually considered a donor prospect or not, because sometimes i’m doing the research because they’re considering having this a person as a high profile boardmember and so i’m doing the research, and i kept coming up with this person’s name connected to corporate insider trading, so the bad kind of insider trading and at first i dismissed it because i thought, well, maybe it’s just the same name, but then i came across one article that actually did link the person to the insider trading and linked the person to current employment situation. So then i knew this was indeed the prospect, so i came i had a dilemma because, right, if i put this information into a written profile, then, uh, any donor and he don’t prospect really has the right to walk into your organization and say, show me what information you’ve compiled on may i want to see my donor record on? And so i really had this dilemma, and i thought, well, what do i do with this information? So i decided to call the person who had hired me to do the research, and i asked, why are you having me do this research on this individual? Is it for a simple donation? Or is there something more to this? And she said, oh, there’s a lot more to it. We are considering bringing him on the board, and our board chair thinks he would make a great treasurer for organization. Oh, my so that was, you know, i thought, okay, well, red flag. So i decided to verbally give the information that i had found. I mentioned that the person had paid their fine had done their time. It was well in their past, but i did feel that the executive director didn’t need to know that this existed. Now why this is really interesting dilemma, but why? Just verbally? Why? I mean, if if it’s bonified and you had confirmed it, why not put it in the written prospekt reports? Well, we discussed that. I told her that i would i don’t like to put information into a written profile that would potentially sever our relationship with somebody, and it could, you know, it was a potentially great relationship that could that could have existed. Um, so i did not want to eliminate that possibility for her if if he’d read this and said, well, you know, this was dug up. On me and, you know, i’m uncomfortable with this, and i’m walking away from this organization, you know, clearly it was in his past, everything had, you know, all fine has been paid, and as i said on time, his concert, i just felt that it could end up, um, severing the relationship ultimately, and i didn’t want to several relationship before it even began, since they’re you know they’re may not have been any issues in the future. I just told you to tread carefully. You always have in the back of your mind what the donor or dahna prospect might think if they were to read this in the organizations report that you had written, yeah, itwas absolutely there is always the same reason. I don’t like to delve into divorce records. Yeah, well, now i can see how that wouldn’t belong but alright, it’s, just interesting. You always have this in mind that what would happen if the person were to read this about themselves in the organ in the organization’s files are always thinking away. Okay, interesting. And what what happened in that case? Did they end up inviting the person to be on the board? Do you know, or did they not? They did. They ultimately did. But i don’t think they put him in a treasurer position immediately. You know, i’m not sure down the line if that ended up coming to fruition, but it was certainly at least something that the executive director needed to be aware of. Excellent. Okay, excellent story. Thank you. Um, this all, you know sort of brings up also the the potential, the discretion, really, that google is goingto have and other search engines as they have to comply with this. The way i read the the description i read, i didn’t read the court’s decision itself, but the description i read was that, you know, there’s some vague description or vague direction about, um, what google should consider inappropriate and what not, but but but nothing’s very, very specific. And so that leaves a lot of discretion for google as to whether something like what you described still belongs. I mean, it still could be very relevant, even though it’s in the past, you know, i mean, history is all in the past, we we were studying history all the time. So just because something is in the past google and detrimental to the person google could still very well determine that that belongs under that person’s search results. Right? So now people are wondering, you know, it’s a matter of fact, i read an article that was in a may fifteenth edition of usa today where, you know, they talked about, you know, that the court basically is here is blaming the messenger and, you know, this person had this, you know, situations in their past, google is simply me giving you access to the information, and you know, it e if if reputations can now be somehow, you know, as they’re calling it in this article, airbrushed on demand, right, you know you’re going to have to think about, you know, well, it’s people who have done things, you know, maybe doctors who have botched surgeries and you just think about the implications of all the types of people that would be thinking about having this this shady past erased there’s just a scary amount of discretion that google has because the past is still relevant, but maybe some things are irrelevant. Howto how do you decide what’s relevant to other people and what’s not the other, the other very interesting thing about this is the information isn’t going away it’s not going to be removed from the internet if that’s even possible it’s just going to be removed from a search result with that from of that person’s name. So the personally is a matter of fact, the very newspaper articles that this spaniard, you know, was sad about it on the internet. More people have probably read the articles now that otherwise would have ever read them if he hadn’t brought this to court. And so the articles still exists. It’s just getting to the articles by searching on this individual’s name is something that has been or will be very soon. I’m not sure if it was removed or not, but i think it may be it wass at this point, um, but, you know, is see data is probably still going to exist, but as a prospect researcher, your main starting point is always with a person’s name. Yes, that’s why? I was wondering how this was really going to affect donorsearch research. I mean, we have a lot of info metoo shins buy-in particularly hyre ed that do their research. Donors who reside in europe, right. So you’ve got people who come to this country for their education on they go back or people who started, you know, as a u s citizen and are now living is expats in another country, so you know the borders being as fluid as they are. You can imagine, i know, maybe a very small social service organisation non-profit might not be in that situation is there researching their donors because for the most part, they’re serving a geographic region and their donors come from that very small, smaller pool’s people. But larger organizations that serve that our international and it doesn’t even have to be hyre ed, imagine the wise of the world or united ways we have to go out for a break. 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And i’m tony martignetti and with me is maria simple, the prospect finder, maria appa ra, the association of prospect researchers for advancement, they have something to say about donors they dio there, they actually on their web site, a statement of ethics, and i’d be glad to provide that link to your tear listeners. Tony on your facebook page, we’ll put that after the takeaways. Yes, yeah, sure. And so the main pages apra home dot org’s a pr, a home dot org’s and so there you know that that is the association that most professional prospect researchers would align with and rely on for their professional development. So there is a statement of ethics that the opera has and, you know, accountability and practice as well. I mean, i’m looking at one specific line that they have in their code of ethics around practice. It says that, you know, they shall on ly record data that is appropriate to the fund-raising process and protect the confidentiality of all personal information at all times. Um, so, you know, they take donor-centric mation is safeguarded at their organizations password protect the software, for example, making sure that only people who need access to that information are going to get the access to the information. Well, let’s, go back to this donor-centric ality. I mean, how do you protect the person’s confidentiality when your task is to prepare research about the person? I mean, at the top of the page is the person’s name and, um the pages are loaded with stuff about the person. How do you how do they balance? What do they mean? Their protect confidentiality? So you want to make sure that on ly the people who need access to this information to advance fund-raising are going to have access to the information? First of all, the information is all derived from publicly available sources, right? So google obviously is one of those publicly available sources that we get information from. We’ve talked about hundreds of those on the show. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And so what? You go to a lot of different sources to gather the information and bring it all together? The role of the prospect researcher is, too. Take all of that information, wade through it and come up with a concise profile. Most of the time, the information is is going to be embedded right into the donor record because then you can pull the reports, you know, as you need in the in the donor software, when i’m preparing the profiles, i just do it in a word document so that they can easily cut and paste the information and if need be into their at their end. Obviously, i don’t have access to donor software that my clients are using, so you want to be sensitive to then who you’re emailing these two i don’t mean you as the prospect. Well, i don’t mean you personally, but the prospect researcher and they may very well in a smaller midsize shop not even be devoted to prospect research, so that let’s say, right, the person doing this research on donors and potential donors, you want to be very conscious of who you’re emailing. These reports, too, has who has access to the to the nested folders where these prospekt reports are stored? Yes, absolutely mn it, and then you can imagine a situation where you get your development committee together and you’re doing perhaps some sort of peer review sessions so you might have printed profiles or data pieces of data pertaining. To these individuals on the table, you know, every every development office really should have a good shredder in the office, and i would really encourage people not to allow boardmember sze other volunteers involved in the development process tow, walk out with hard copies because you just don’t want this information, you know, floating around out there that’s very good admonition caution? Yeah, that that where the hard copies go and then they end up in the person’s office or home or something. Yeah, right now. Okay, talking about shredders, you know, i can’t stand seeing those shredders where it’s like quarter inch strips like a four year old could put those back together if if they wanted to there’s quarter inch long strips. I mean, you should get at least cross cut, if not the not the ones that make those little little paper tiny bullets, which you’re supposed to be impossible to put back together, right? And there are companies that you can hyre depending on how much you really have to shred, there are companies that you can you can hire to do shredding. I think that even in local companies like u p s stores they have shredders located within those facilities, maybe even staples. I’m not sure i know ups does, but, you know, there are places that you can go then and taken have it securely shredded. So that might be something to consider. If you do have an awful lot, maybe maybe your office’s air moving and suddenly you find that. Okay, you’ve got files and files from maybe past years, and now things are going all electronic. What are you going to do with all of this? You don’t want to move it right, because you might not need to bring all of that old data with you, but yet it contains some potentially, you know, sensitive information that people would not want just floating around out there. Yes. And as you mentioned, there are services where they’ll just place a bin in your office. And then when it fills up, you call them and then they come and shred it, and they give you back the empty bin. Yeah. What else? What else you thinking around? We’ve just about another minute or so. What else around this data? Data? Privacy and confidentiality? Well, again, just making sure that everything is very well password protected on lee allow people have access to the donor, soft to your donordigital base that absolutely needed shred anything that is printed and keep on top of what’s happening with this with this particular law that that occurred in the european union. And just you know what? Maybe you know, i will of course keep on top of it, tony, and weaken maybe revisited as things develop, um, even if we make it part of, you know, a small piece of the future show, but i think that that non-profits do need to be aware that this is out there and see the potential for its effect in the united states ask and you’ll you’ll be most successful, i think, in searching if you look for right to be forgotten, maria, thank you very much. Thank you, tony. My pleasure, maria simple the prospect finder on twitter she’s at maria simple her sight is the prospect finder dot com next week, it’s september eleventh hard to know what to do on that exact day. I’m going to replay a show called the september eleven e effect about giving immediately after nine eleven and the longer term. Impact. If you missed any part of today’s show, find it on tony martignetti dot com. Where in the world else would you go so glad i brought that singing back? 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Hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent on your aptly named host oh, i’m glad you’re with me. I’d be stricken with ataxia telly inject asia if i inherited the mere notion that you missed today’s show multi-channel storytelling once you have the best stories, make the most of them across the web, social media and e mail. Jeremy bivens is digital media manager for the rockefeller foundation and meghan anhalt is strategy director at purpose. We talked at the non-profit technology conference and your d our plan disaster recovery. Ignore it at your own peril. What belongs in your d our plan darva barca is vice president of technology for lift that is also from on tony’s take two thank you, responsive by opportunity collaboration with working meeting on poverty reduction that will ruin you for every other conference. Here’s our first ntcdinosaur today’s show on multi-channel storytelling welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of ntc twenty fifteen, the non-profit technology conference we are in austin, texas, at the austin convention center and my guests are jeremy bivens and meghan and halt they’re seminar topic is multi-channel storytelling for social impact, jeremy is the digital media manager for the rockefeller foundation, and megan and halt is strategy director purpose. Jeremy meghan, welcome. Thank you, let’s. Start with start with jeremy bivens. Why is storytelling so important? Storytelling is important because we have a lot of social sector organizations that are out in the field collecting stories from their impact working with communities around the world and storytelling helps catalyze people to action, to donate money, to volunteer, to help communities so it’s really important that we capture those stories, that we share them to maximize impact. And why your storytelling so much better than some other forms of content that we have a story telling storytelling interacts this in a different way. You had trouble with storytelling, interactive storytelling interacts with with us in a different way, it kind of tugs at the heartstrings and and inspires us to take action. It educates us, but it it really it motivates us to do more than just doing. Ah report let’s say an eighty page report full of statistics and fax is great, but if it doesn’t, if it doesnt make action that it’s not doing its job and stories can help help bridge that gap. Emotion. Yeah, you want anything? I mean, i think, like, what is really incredible powerful about stories is they do have that human connection they are able to cut through, you know, different very complicated con content or other types of content that are really hard to really connect with on be able to really tie into that emotional human connection. So being able to have that authentic experience where it really motivates you and inspires you to want to do something and that’s where for the work that we do around really driving impact and driving action, it could be a really powerful motivator. Call megan, remember to stay close to the mic when you’re when you’re talking ok? Yeah, no problem. All right, thank you, megan. How do we find the people to tell the stories that we recruit the right ones? Yeah. I mean, i think it goes down, teo really being clear and defining what your goals are for the impact that you want to have in the world and then identifying the people that can be really powerful storytellers for that, that goal. So an example, i talked about in our session yesterday is on this organization called the syria campaign identified this brilliant group of men on the ground in syria who were first responders in the syria crisis. Ah, and they called the white helmets, and they were really powerful story teller because they were sort of be able to bring this like, hopeful element to the work that was happening on the ground, and so it allows people to not feel overwhelmed or sad or feel like there’s, not a hope in what can you can accomplish, and so they’re become really strong advocates for the work that they’re doing so that you can really inspire people to want to take action and not feel like there’s nothing that can happen, teo, be able to have that impact, okay, but within our organization’s jeremy, how do we how do we find the right people? How do you find the right people? Tell story. All the stories you know, storytelling is really a collaborative effort. It’s not just the responsibility for the marketing of the communications team it’s, about everybody working together to define what those stories are. So people that are out in the field collecting photos, collecting quotes, it’s about bringing back things that tell a greater story arc the greater narrative of what your organization is trying to accomplish. So that’s really a joint effort? What if somebody’s good? You believe they have great stuff to share stories to share, but they’re they’re reluctant. I don’t want to be in front of a mike even if it’s audio only i certainly don’t want to do a camera. How do we get started to cajole them? Teo, help us out. So when it comes to storytelling, especially our reluctant storytellers a lot of times a laying that fear is maybe just in baby steps it’s working with them to produce blawg posts instead of going right on camera it’s working with them in media training, it’s working with them in speech development. But oftentimes those daunting task is sitting down and saying, share a story with me because it doesn’t give anybody charlie that place that’s not too helpful, right? Tell me a story exactly. About what? Why who’s listening, right? So instead, really the best way to go about it. Say you’re going to the field today? Can you bring back one quote? From one of the teachers that was helping a student in your in your tutoring center. Can you bring back one photo of the well that we helped dig in sub saharan africa? Something like that. So it really sets the stage say, oh, of course i could bring back one photo. Yeah, one quote, i can definitely get on board with that, and it helps ease them into the process of great stories, and then maybe they’ll be willing to provide some narrative for contacts to that photo or that quote, right once you bring them into the process and they feel like they’re a part of it, they feel like they’re owning it will get more comfortable sharing stories. Okay? Bacon you got any ideas for? Ah, people who are reluctant, uh, we’re reluctant contributors. Yeah, i mean, i think, like, really, as jeremy was saying, starting first by getting them to just ride out the different things that they think that are relevant to the work that you’re doing on being able to sort of break that down for them in a way. That’s really simple s o that they don’t necessarily have to go on camera. Or be sort of the actual microphone for the story itself. But as jamie was saying, being able to, like, break that down through photos to be able to tell the story, sort of on their behalf, okay, okay, how about, uh, once we’re in in production, whether it’s you handed them a iphone or you’re in a studio, maybe more formally, what advice do you have there? In what way? Buy-in coaching them in getting them? Well, presumably there already over there, their reluctance, but maybe now that maybe they stage fright, they were they were willing coming a driving in, they were fine and walking in the door, but now there’s a mike in front of them? Yeah, or in, you know, in coaching, yeah, how do we help them out? I think like one of the key element there is just staying authentic and being true to who you are in your own experience and not feeling sort of like that you have to be over coached or over polished because what we’ve seen in the work that we’ve done, purposes that people really connect with that authentic experience in that raw moment of being able to sort of share in your own voice, that experience that you’ve had, what what do you think is a good story? Maybe i should ask you that first we’ll get around, i get around the good questions. What, what? What? What makes a good story? I think, well, we’ve seen a lot of different elements that really drive really powerful stories, particularly ones that are really share a bowl and connect with a lot of people, so one of those elements is people really like to be surprised they like to hear something that they haven’t heard before. They also really like having that human connection. So as i said, that, like authentic, raw, human, honest moment could be really powerful, with people also being a little bit of paying attention to the right place and the right time, and i don’t mean that sort of by luck only, but also paying attention to what is happening in the news cycle, what people are already talking about events that are happening and sort of what’s already getting attention and being able tio leverage those moments as well, toe add a new element to it, that sort of hook news hook. Something talking about jeremy got more advice, anything you want, teo, that hits the nail on the head, being contextual and being relevant, somebody can identify with your story, they’re going to be more willing to share it. They’re going to be more willing to understand and they’re going to be more willing to take action. Okay, okay, and we’re going to move on because i don’t want to overlap too much with storytelling, storytelling, conversation i had with someone a panel on an earlier earlier spot, but you have some you have resource is that people can use sites non-profits can use to help make them better storyteller so maybe we could spend a good amount of time. We’re not near the end. I’m not i’m not trying to wrap up. We’re nowhere near the end, but i like to focus on something that you have to add to the previous conversation so we don’t do to that of the same let’s. Spend some time on these resource is sites aps whatever let’s get started. Yeah, so the rockefeller foundation has invested some time and resources into this and partnership with our lead grantee, hataway communications and plenty of other people who have provided us input and we wanted to know what what was the real challenge for organizations to telling great stories. And so we had done two things. The first thing we did was we created a report that just kind of let you analyze the landscape of the field what’s available out there for resource is what’s available out there for tools. What are people saying? What our organizations saying that there were issues are what they’re really succeeding? Well, with and from that report and from all of that feedback wave created a platform called hatch for good and hatch for good identifies those five those five areas strategy capacity, content platforms and evaluation, and it helps organizations go through each of those pieces step by step so you can identify what your strategy is. You can go through your audiences with sort of content you should be producing, how you measure that what platforms are out there and available to you, plus that it incorporates thought pieces from thought leaders in the in the space that are sharing excellent stories, how they answer those questions, the types of campaigns that they’re running things like that so it gives you some inspiration, and also a framework to go by is, uh, for the number four it’s fo r hatch fo r good dot or ge. Okay, you’re tuned to non-profit radio. Tony martignetti also hosts a podcast for the chronicle of philanthropy. Fund-raising fundamentals is a quick ten minute burst of fund-raising insights, published once a month. Tony’s guests are expert in crowdfunding, mobile giving event fund-raising direct mail and donor cultivation. Really, all the fund-raising issues that make you wonder, am i doing this right? Is there a better way there is? Find the fund-raising fundamentals archive it. Tony martignetti dot com that’s marketmesuite n e t t i remember there’s, a g before the end, thousands of listeners have subscribed on itunes. You can also learn maura, the chronicle website, philanthropy dot com fund-raising fundamentals the better way. Dahna that report that you mentioned that looked at what makes what keeps non-profits from being good storytellers, what lessons were there? Well, that was that was really focusing on those five pillows, and people were saying, you know, we don’t have the strategy behind it or we’re collecting a lot of stories, we’re sharing them, but we’re not getting a lot of feedback on them, so it was it was that mix of strategy capacity we don’t have enough people on staff, we don’t have the buy-in from our gdpr board, we don’t have the right content, that kind of thing, i say. All right, meghan another you have another resource that you can share? Well, i actually recently was involved in a purpose, the organization that i work for drafting a guide to digital to crafting digital stories, particularly with a lens for young people who are interested in sort of telling your story. You’re starting their own non-profits being able to bring sort of new perspectives to that on dh. That resource, which is an analog actually printed out guide that you can download it’s open source. You confined it purpose dot com okay. And what is going? To share a little more detail, what we’ll, what we’ll find there? Yeah, i mean it’s broken up into two parts, so the first part is really about identifying sort of the way to tell your story, really breaking down and thinking about the different elements of the story, which are very much in line with the resources that jeremy was talking about as well. S o thinking about things like goals, we talk a lot about a crisis, unity profess, which is really identifying a crisis that’s happening, but instead of sort of feeling overwhelmed and that you can’t there’s no hope coming out of that crisis, really turning that into an opportunity on being able to provide that hope in that story. So really thinking through that, and then it also talks about different platforms that you can use and how you can build those stories because a lot of times people think of stories justice being sort of full written out story. So blog’s are articles or sort of long form posts on, and we really think of stories as every little piece could be a story. So a facebook image that you post online with you know one sentence of content can be in a story and of its sound. Yeah, what are what are we talking about? His other platforms for storytelling before we get now, are there more resource is besides those two? Or there are there will be those of the crux, the resources you confined other other other places out there for block post that go through great detail. We were talking about this yesterday purpose has some fantastic campaigns to look at. Causevox has been doing some great stuff in storytelling big duck also has some resource is but a lot of what we’re doing now is taking what we see is the best of the best, and we’re trying to to get off their permission to put it up on hatch for good dot org’s so people can come and find one place where they confined all these great resources from all their best organizations that are doing the best storytelling. Let’s, let’s talk then, about some of the use of platforms. I mean, interesting that we can conceive of a picture in a sentence or two as storytelling nothing. Most people are thinking that way, so clearly is there? More that we should be thinking about more broadly on let’s just on facebook, let’s start there, is there? Yeah, i mean, i think there’s so many different ways you can tell a story on facebook these days. I mean, particularly with, like, you know, the native in beds of video now is getting really prioritized on facebook, so being able to create those videos, obviously there’s your stories now, you see a lot of those videos without the audio playing, so i think there’s a real opportunity there, as well as your people are scrolling through their news feed to be able to get that story without having the audio itself. But also, i mean, you see this a lot through images on facebook and there’s so many different types of images you can create that tell a story. I mean, a lot of people do like this or that, which is, you know, before and after cause and effect type of image, you also get really, like, thought provoking images, so people, images that really require people to think about an issue in a new way in one thing that you i’ve seen a lot particularly lately of on facebook is really just a photo or a snapshot of an individual on then really going behind the scenes to tell that person story. So it’s like here’s joe, who is an iraq war veteran, and then going into something related to the issue of veterans affairs. Ah, and so i think that is one element that could be really powerful was story time, okay? Anything else you want to add? Facebook? Jeremy, before we move off that platform, not not specifically to facebook? No, okay, we would like to go next. Well, i’m just thinking in terms of content like megan was saying photos and videos and different statistics and things like that a lot of times we received one piece or one piece of long form, like a publication or an essay or something like that has a whole bunch of different assets that are already too tied to it. So it’s about taking that piece of content and breaking it up so people have twenty ways into it instead of just posting your block post to facebook it’s about grabbing that photo and taking like a quote and saying, this is the quote, this is the photo and letting your audience engaged that that way, maybe there’s a link back to the block, maybe there’s a statistic that you khun tweet out with that video underneath it they’re different ways you can package that content that they comptel individual stories over the same narrative, the same longer narrative. Very interesting, alright repurpose ing dividing up helps helps increase your capacity, but it also helps give your story cem cem length, and it also makes sure that more people are consuming it. Then just package again into one giant report also also makes the storytelling craft less daunting. Yeah, you’ve got a couple of good stories that can be divided up. You could have you could end up with thirty or forty components across all the different channel. Exactly. Okay, excellent. Excellent. Should we wait? Talk specifically about twitter? You mean you know we’ve hit it sort of tangentially we haven’t named it but certainly could do what you just described on twitter anything mohr there’s now video on twitter anything mohr anyone add? Besides what has already been suggested twitter specific? Yeah, i mean, i think another thing twitter has done recently as well as images. So images are definitely king in the twitter feed these days, and so not just relying on that hundred forty characters but also being able to incorporate an image much like what worked really well on facebook. So being able to have these graphics that can have quotes or have the sort of bite-sized element that people can retweet and share, i think really thinking about like, what is that bite-sized element that could be easily consumable because we do that naturally, anyway, i mean, even if we’re scanning a long form content, we’re looking at the headlines were looking in the margins for sort of the key takeaways on twitter really allows you to pull out those key elements on and create bite-sized terrible content that’s, easily consumable and allows people to sort of share one keep perspective and on building on that, you could also you could also ask questions that on twitter and then build blackbaud post based on that feedback it’s a really quick way to the longer form content using short snippets or maybe a link to a survey if you want to ask more than just one question, yeah, if you could do a storify we actually recently the beginning of the year, we ask people with the what their big idea was for twenty fifteen what was the big social impact idea of twenty, fifteen? And so a handful of our staff leading up to it just tweeted our responses to that question, and then we embedded it into the blood post and people could comment back and say, this is my idea for twenty fifteen or they would respond over twitter and they would put that up there, and then we shared it on facebook and they would add it to the comments so they would reply directly back to twitter again on the comments on the block it takes again that one concept of an ideal what’s your big idea for twenty fifteen and it turns it into something that’s cross platform. Okay, well, we still have a few more minutes left together. What we could talk about some more platforms. We haven’t touched on instagram wherever you want to go, but what else will she got? I mean, in terms of the platforms, the platforms are you know, wherever your audience is, maybe if you’re dealing with youth, you don’t. Want to be on facebook anymore? Maybe you’re looking at snapchat how you, how you actually use that? Maybe there’s an entire generation of baby boomers that are now embracing facebook, so a lot of organizations that might do service baby boomers should be thinking about what’s our facebook strategy for our content. So the platform is really against whatever you set your goals to be again on your stories. Now, do you want to be talking to you? Let’s say little about snapchat? We don’t talk about that too much on show how much you use that for, for storytelling and again, this is this is for people or organizations that want to be talking to teenagers basically right? But if if that’s your objective, how could you be using snapchat wisely for stories? Yeah, you mean in snapchat? Because of the nature of the the disappearing nature of their work? It’s a great way to share things that might be kind of taboo i could see it being used for planned parenthood let’s say i could see them using it to great effect, convert convening ideas to a younger audience that maybe they would be too embarrassed to. Be looking up online themselves or to be looking at content that would stay on their phones. They have this is ah, it’d better information that you can see that disappears or a meeting date or time, things like that you can communicate directly out to your audience that’s temporary doesn’t have to be there for him. Okay, one example of an organization that i think used snapchat incredibly well, eyes do something dot or ge, they’ve been on it for quite some time now and do some really interesting things. So if anyone out there is really interested in seeing how you could engage teens in that in that snapchat way, they’re great organization to check out and you’re not the first guest in these two days to recommend recommend do something for talking, teo, i think they’re they’re targets like fifteen to twenty five thirteen to twenty five some like that when they do great work. Yeah, yeah, i’ve had aria finger on the show talking about do something and i’m also talking about t m i, uh, theo of their consulting spinoff? Yeah, i could do something about it also neo-sage let’s. See? Okay, we got still got a couple minutes where where would like to go with this? You you talked for ninety minutes on storytelling, so i know that i haven’t covered everything. What else more is more than a share. I mean, what else more is there to share about storytelling? I you know, i think a lot of organizations don’t think their storytelling organizations i think that a lot of people would probably listen to this and they would say, well, that’s, great, but that’s not for me, i don’t do that kind of work, and i think that that’s probably ninety nine percent of the time not even remotely true, that it just takes it takes a moment to step back and consider how your work is affecting people. So even if you’re not doing direct service, it’s, the work that you’re doing, how how, how you’re helping those organizations access it right? So it’s either on an individual level or an organizational level. How are you making people’s lives easier? How are you changing things for the better? And if you take a step back and identify what that is and start mapping out what that framework looks like, you’re going to find a place you can tell a story, you know, meghan, in your work, have you seen organizations that felt it wasn’t for them? It’s just they didn’t have anything t tell. Yeah, well, i think a lot of times people think that they don’t necessarily have they’re not, you know, maybe doing direct work on the ground or feel like they don’t have access to those stories that they traditionally think of as the ones that are incredibly powerful. But i mean, in the work that we do and particularly when you’re an organization seeking to have impact, one of the most powerful ways to show impact is through the stories of the impact that you’re having on, and that doesn’t always have to be work on the ground. I mean, it could be working with the siri’s of organizations, but i also have a social purpose and being able to help those organizations, maybe it’s, a young entrepreneur who just started a new organization, change the world coming out of school, being able to tell that story of how you were able to help that individual can also be really powerful. I mean, you see a lot. Of times who we do, you know, an annual reports are report backs for donors and that’s a storytelling i’m being able to find the right way, tio sure, that message can be key. So i think all of this applies for that that as well, yeah, ok, so do cement prospection. I mean, you’re a charity, you’re you have a charitable mission by design and definition. Who were you? Were you impacting? You got to be helping somebody and those somebody’s i can talk to you. Okay? Absolutely. I’m going to say it again myself. A couple more minutes share some more about whether we’ve even if we we’ve covered it, but maybe we didn’t cover enough detail here’s some more about stories. One of the points we went over in the session was this idea of the forty sixty rule that i borrowed from garth more from the one campaign and that’s about spending only forty percent of your time producing content and sixty percent of your time marketing it. So when you’re making that block post, no perfect is the enemy of good making sure that it’s good enough to go out, but thinking about who should see this block post who should see it and what do i want them to dio and then going to those places with, you know, whatever that content might be, because spending more time finding the right people that should be consuming it and should be sharing it and should be adding to it is ultimately more fruitful when you’re looking at your your analytics and your feedback. So you’re not just sending a story out into the wind and hoping that it catches on, you know, it’s got no value, then back in the morning it had anything to that? Yeah, i mean, i would say a lot of times, people sort of sometimes have quotas for certain number stories or start number of videos that they want to get out each year, and i think at the end of the day, the most important thing with any story they’re trying to tell is the story itself and that it’s compelling and that its strategic on and you’re creating that story for a reason and not just creating a video for videos sake on dh that’s really what’s going to drive the success of that piece of content in connecting with people is really having something powerful that people can connect with first on then thinking about sort of how you can use that to achieve your goals that you have for your organization on be able to build that impact. And then, as jeremy was saying earlier, be able to break that down into pieces and being able to use that story in a lot of different ways across different platforms to achieve your goals. Can we measure the r o i of storytelling? Absolutely. But you have to start with the strategy first, because maybe the roo i’ve storytelling is we want to raise more money, and we want our donors to being more involved. We want our board to be more involved. We need more volunteers. So, starting with your strategy and thinking about what your goals would be, why are we doing? Why are we still telling story exactly what i mean? What were we trying to do with these? Yeah. Okay. And then and then measure from there. Okay. Yeah. Purpose. We talk a lot about signaling and confirming that tricks. So a lot of times, people would be like, oh, great, this video got a million views? That was what that is, what we would consider a signaling metrics, so it shows the sort of a way of attention being brought to an issue, but it isn’t necessarily proving that doesn’t mean i can’t exactly uses worthless yeah, so you keep that in the category of could we keep that the category of, say, signaling metrics? But then you still have to pay attention to the broader change that you’re trying to have in the world and a million views on a video might be one thing, but a year from then, you might see some real impact on an issue that you’re sort of pushing through legislatively, and that video is all about that. And so that’s, where you’re able to sort of confirm that impact, ultimately it doesn’t happen right away. I mean, a lot of times when you’re tracking impact four stories, it takes a lot of time that speaks to a swell looking at the long form are the long tail of storytelling and that you don’t just want to produce that video, send it out there and hope open the best they need to start thinking about what’s. The game plan for this how we’re going to get this in front of the right people? Yeah, i mean, a classic example of this, of course, is in the marriage equality shift that has happened in the us over the past, you know, decades really on really that started with the power of stories. I mean, being able to connect with people on these universal issues of love, inequality on overtime, being able to sort of really connect with people on that issue and be ableto ultimately move the needle. All right? We’re gonna leave it there. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. All right. Jeremy bivens, digital media media manager for the rockefeller foundation and meghan and halt strategy director for purpose. My pleasure. This is tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of and t c twenty fifteen the non-profit technology conference. Thank you so much for being with us. Tony’s. Take two and your d are planned coming up first opportunity collaboration. It’s a week long unconference in x top of mexico around poverty reduction throughout the world. This really is an amazing experience. There are no keynotes, there’s, no power points you’re always sitting in. 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Is that tony martignetti dot com that is tony’s take two for friday, first of may seventeenth show of the year here’s our next ntcdinosaur view on your disaster recovery plan with dar veverka welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of ntc twenty fifteen the non-profit technology conference we’re in day two we’re in austin, texas, at the convention. Center and my guest is dar vivir ca she’s vice president of technology for lift a lefty, and her workshop topic is avoiding disaster, a practical guide for backup systems and disaster recovery planning. Dar welcome, thank you very much. Good to be here. It’s. A pleasure to have you this day two, we’re highlighting one swag item at and ntc per for interview and, uh, i have a double chip biscotti from a sputnik moment. The hashtag is hashtag is sputnik smiles and i’m told that the glasses go with the biscotti. So this is essential. This is this interview’s swag moment. Thank you very much. Sputnik smiles and it goes into the goes into the swag collection. There it is. Okay, door. Um, we need to know some ah, little basic turn. Well, you know what? Before we even get into why is disaster recovery and the related and included back-up so, um, i don’t know if it’s just for gotten ignored, not done. Well, what inspired the session is a organization i used to work for. We were required by auditors to do a disaster recovery plans. So when it came time for the annual audit, i got out the current disaster recovery plan. It went all right, i’m going to go ahead and update this, and when i discovered want to read the plan was there were servers that were eight years gone for last eight years server and reading the planet was very clear that what the previous person had done was simply changed the date and update the plan for auditors. And as i thought about it and talk to other people, i found that that actually happens a lot people. It’s d r is sort of that thing they don’t have time for because no one ever thinks it’ll happen to them, so you push it off and you push it off, and you either just download the template, you know, a template off the internet, and you slap a date on it and basically fill it out just for the auditors. But a lot of organizations never actually think through their disaster recovery, they don’t get into the details, they don’t worry about it, and then when a disaster actually happens to them, they’re sort of stuck. You don’t have a plan that i don’t have a functioning crush on, and they’ve never tried it out, so that was what inspired the session, and as we dug into it, we we tried to give the thirty thousand foot view because disaster it cover, you know, there’s an entire industry, the deals with technology, disaster recovery. You can spend days on this topic, and obviously we didn’t have days. We had a ninety minute session, so we tried to give the thirty thousand foot view of the practical items you need to pay attention to if you’re not confident in your organisation’s d our plan, if you don’t have a d r plan or if you do and you really don’t, you know, you think it really needs an overhaul that sort of the top ten of items of what you should really be looking at when you’re dealing with disaster recovering backups. And we tried to give some several practical examples myself and the other speaker and andrew, who could not make it this morning of disasters we’ve had to deal with as well as other well known ones. Yeah, okay. Do we need some basic language? All right. Before we get into the d r disaster recovery topic short jr is one of them disaster recovers, often referred to his d r it’s often spoken about in terms of business continuity or bc, which is sort of the larger plan for the entire organisation. Should’ve disaster strike there’s. You know, there’s very d are specific things such as our poet recovery point objective that we could talk about your rto, which is recovery time objective, there’s very specific language like that or disasters it’s usually just referred to d ours. So whenever we say d arts disaster recovery okay, we’ll see if we get into those eyes and i could explain this week. Okay, um, all right. So clearly we should have a disaster recovery written, just recovery plan. Even if we’re an organization that small enough that doesn’t have an annual audit. We still should have something in place. Yes. Okay. What belongs in our day? Our plan top ten things. You need a contact list for your team. So if you have a top ten of the d r i do. Of what should your plan d our plan. You know, it could be anything from a five page outline that just covers the basics and in in our sessions slides, which i’ve posted in the ntc library, gives it some good resource is for doing a d our plan or it could be a you know, a huge hundred page document covers absolutely every aspect of business continuity or something in between it’s going very by organization, and the reality is, if you’re a small organisation with a small team, you might only be able to do the five page outline but that’s better than nothing that’s better than no d our plan or a d r plan that realistically hasn’t been updated in the last ten years, but i would say, you know, the top ten you really should have in your day. Our plan is number one, a contact list for your team members. What is the contact for your team, folks, your business continuity folks, if you normally would get that out of your email and you’re in a disastrous situation, you know you can’t get to your email or, you know, like we’re ever going through, and i want listeners to know that she’s doing this without notes, i it seems very confident that she’s got hopefully i’ve ever altum in-kind get seven out. Of seven or eight of ten will be ecstatic, but so continue. Oh, but i want to say, yeah, as we’re going through, consider two organizations that may not have someone devoted to it correctly is our listeners are small and midsize non-profits right? They very, very well just all be outsourced or it falls on the executive director’s desk. Excellent point. Would you cover that in the session? So to finish at the top ten contact list, three team members contact list for your vendors, a call tree and some sort of communications. How do you tell your organization and your members that you’ve had a disaster? Either your servers have gone down, your pipes of burst and your communications are underwater? How do you do that? What is your network look like? So network diagram process? Outline how you’re actually going to do your disaster recovery a timeline? How long do you expect these activities to take before you? Khun b live again, a list of systems and applications that you’re going to recover if you’re a large enough or gore you can afford a hot site was called a hot or warm site where you can immediately. Switch over two other equipment. You know information about that. You’d need that to start your recovery. And then also information about your backups. You know, who’s got your back ups. What system are you using? How do you, you know? Get those back. So those air sort of like the top ten things or d our plan should have. Alright, let’s dive into the the process. Okay? A bit is that intrigues me, bond. Hopefully listeners? I think so. I think i have a fare beat on what’s. Interesting. I hope i do. Um, yeah. What? How do we start to think about what our dear process should be? First, you have to think about what all could be a disaster for your organization. A lot of people think about things, you know, earthquakes, hurricane, sandy, hurricane katrina. But it could also be water pipes bursting in your building. That is one of the most common thing if your server is not properly protected. Which a lot of a lot of stuck in closets. Ah, dripping pipe water. We call those water events. And that seems to be the most common thing. Departments encounter is leaking pipes in the building or some sort of a flooding situation. But it could also be an elektronik disaster. Such, i’ve worked at an organization that underwent what’s called a ddos attack, which is a distributed denial of service. It took out our entire web presence because malicious hacker hacker went after that’s where there’s millions of right network and they just flood your network seconds you’re overloaded and yeah, and that’s a disaster situation. So one why would they attack like that? Why wasn’t non-profit attack malicious? The cp dot organ are attacked out with avon marchenese travon martin decision. Folks attacked our petition site way. We were able to get it back online, but for a couple of hours. Yeah, we were off line. And that could be considered a disaster situation. For sure. Yeah. How do you help us think through what potential disasters are not even identify them all i think about what could affect your or what you wear. You vulnerable? Some of the things we talked about in the session and we’ll think about it. How would you get back online if the’s various things happen to you are your are your services sort of in the cloud do you have servers on site and start there when thinking about your process is, what would you have to recover if these various scenarios affected you or with these various scenarios? Scenarios affect you if your website is completely outsourced to a vendor that has de dos protection. Okay, that’s not a scenario you have to worry about so kind of analyze it and every organs going to be different. You know, if you live on the west coast, you’re probably concerned more about earthquakes than other regions. So it’s it’s going to vary for each organization, what sort of disaster you’re going to be worried about? And then you start getting down into the practical nuts and bolts in terms of who are your disaster recovery people, who’s your team, if you’re really small lorry, that might just be you or as you mentioned before, if you’re using outsourced, manage service provider and your vendors responsible for that, make sure your vendor has a d our plan for you. Ah lot of folks just assume your vendors taking care of that, but when it comes right down to it, do they actually have d our experience can they recover your items actually sit down and have that conversation because so many of the small org’s, as you pointed out, do youse outsourced thes days and there’s there’s a lot of manage service providers that specialized in non-profit, but you need to have that conversation. Don’t wait till you’re under a disaster scenario to discover that groups they don’t actually have that experience have that conversation ahead of time. What else belongs in our process? Outlined in your process? Latto outline if you’ve got a another site either a cold, a warmer hot site or if your stuff is based in the cloud, where would you recover to the outside is some place you go to a different drink, cold water or hot? Sure cold site would be where you’ve got another location. Let’s say you have a dozen sir servers at your location, and in the case of, you know, your building being inaccessible or underwater. A cold site would be where you’ve got another location you could go to, but you don’t really have any equipment stage there, but it is another location you can begin operations out if that’s a cold sight there’s nothing ready. To go, but you’ve got a sight ah, warm site would be where you sort of have a skeletal equipment there, it’s far less capacity than you’re currently at, but you’ve got something there it’s not live, but you got stuff ready to go that you can restore to and get going. And a hot site is where you can flip over immediately. Your live replicating to somewhere else, it’s ready to go? It might not be full capacity, so it might not have, you know, full blown data line size that you’re used to might not have your full range of service, but it is live and you could switch over near instantaneously. That’s a hot site, ok, eso you’d want that in your process and you’re going to want to think about what are you restoring and that’s where we get into the backups? What comes first and that’s, where you start getting into terms such as recovery point objective and recovery time objective those air to very common d our terms recovery time is how far back are you recovering too? And what does that mean for each system? So if it’s your donorsearch system that’s probably fairly critical. You want a recent restore of that? If it’s a system that doesn’t change very much, maybe a week ago restores okay for that sorry that’s recovery point objective recovery time objective is how long does it take you to get back online after a disaster? You know, ifyou’ve got to download your data from an external source. Has anyone thought about how long that’s going to take you to get the data back? Is it going to take you fifteen hours or three days? So it’s in a lot of folks don’t think about that ahead of time, they just go. Oh, you know, we’ll we’ll pull it back down if we have a disaster, but they don’t think about instead of their nice normal data communications, they’re going to be on a tiny d s l line trying to pull down one hundred fifty gigs of information and it’s going to take a week to get it back down. I have to say you’re very good about explaining terms and thank you, proper radio. We have jargon jail? Yes, we try not teo transcend. You haven’t transgressed cause your immediate about explaining exactly what recovery point. River and recovery time objectives are it could be very confusing. You know, if you don’t understand the terms in tech, you can be confusing what folks are talking about, and that was one of the focuses of our station session is making it less confusing and being very practical, practical about what you can or cannot do. And if folks go and look at our slides, they’ll see on several of the items we did a good better best, and we tried to talk about that all throughout the session because we realized again for a small ork or, you know, even a large order that just doesn’t have the resources to devote to it. You might not be able to do best practice, but you could at least try a good practice that would be better than nothing. And then so we do a good, better best for each each type of thing like what does a good d our plan look like? Versace best day our plan and at least try and get to that good, because at least you’ll have something and it could be a continuum where you try and improve it along the way. But you got to start somewhere. It’s. Better than just ignoring it, which is what happens at a lot of places. Like what you’re hearing a non-profit radio tony’s got more on youtube, you’ll find clips from stand up comedy tv spots and exclusive interviews catch guests like seth gordon, craig newmark, the founder of craigslist marquis of eco enterprises, charles best from donors choose dot org’s aria finger do something that worked and they only levine from new york universities heimans center on philantech tony tweets to he finds the best content from the most knowledgeable, interesting people in and around non-profits to share on his stream. If you have valuable info, he wants to re tweet you during the show. You can join the conversation on twitter using hashtag non-profit radio twitter is an easy way to reach tony he’s at tony martignetti narasimhan t i g e n e t t i remember there’s a g before the end he hosts a podcast for the chronicle of philanthropy fund-raising fundamentals is a short monthly show devoted to getting over your fund-raising hartals just like non-profit radio, toni talks to leading thinkers, experts and cool people with great ideas. As one fan said, tony picks their brains and i don’t have to leave my office fund-raising fundamentals was recently dubbed the most helpful non-profit podcast you have ever heard, you can also join the conversation on facebook, where you can ask questions before or after the show. The guests are there, too. Get insider show alerts by email, tony tells you who’s on each week and always includes link so that you can contact guests directly. To sign up, visit the facebook page for tony martignetti dot com. Lively conversation, top trends and sound advice. That’s. Tony martignetti non-profit radio. And i’m lawrence paige nani, author off the non-profit fund-raising solution. Oppcoll do we need to prioritize what what’s mission critical and, yes, we can work with out for a time? Yes, how do we determine that? Definitely we talk about that in terms of its not just a knight each decision either because we may think that the emails the most critical thing out there but development may see the donor system as the most critical out there program might think that the case management system is the most critical out there, so you finance wants their account, they want their accounting system up. Obviously you’ve got to have an order in which you bring these things up. You’re probably not gonna have enough staff for bandwith or, you know, equipment to bring everything back online, so there needs to be and hopefully your executive team would be involved in deciding for the organization what is most critical in what order are you going to bring those things up? And that needs to be part of your d r plan? Because otherwise, if you’re in a disaster scenario, you’re not going to know where to start and there’s going to be a lot of disagreement of who starts where so you guys need to decide on the order, okay, we solve a few minutes left, but what more? What about d r and related back-up that’s not going to wait till i’m back up because i think we could do a little bit in terms of d r i would say the key points on backups are check them because a lot of time, yes, monthly or quarterly, at least is anyone looking at your back-up back-up work-life one of the scenarios that we talked about that actually happened to my co speaker, andrew, was that their server room flooded and it hit their razor’s edge server, which is their entire c, m, s, c r, e, m and donorsearch system, and they thought it was backing up, but no one had actually check the backups in the last two months, and it was on, and it was not s o in terms of back-up just typical, you know, pay attention to the maintenance. What do you backing up? Has anyone checked it? And again, if you’re using a manage service provider, make sure if they’re responsible for for looking at your backups of managing them, make sure they’re doing that. You know, double check and make sure that they understand that your backups are critical and they can’t just ignore the alerts about your backups. You know, you don’t want to be in the unpleasant situation of three of our servers just got flooded. We need the data and discover nobody was backing it up. It ain’t exactly okay, all right, anything else, you wanna leave people about back-up before we go to the broader d r no, i think that’s good for those were the highlights for it. All right, so back to the disaster recovery. What more can we say about that? There are going to be a lot of watches if you’re in a large d our situation. And so one of things we stress is one getting down into the details of your d. Our plan before disaster hits. Because if you’ve never thought about how you’re actually going to do the restores air, actually, how you’re going to be rebuild those servers. You need two ahead of time. A lot of folks never practiced have a fire drill. I hate fire drill, but and you don’t have a live fire drills in this case, it might be a live fire drill. You don’t want to have that, so you should make some effort to practice, even if it’s just something small, you know, trying to restore one server. I mentioned in this session that i was put in a situation years ago at johns hopkins university, where we were choir, to have verification of live tr practice, so i was put in a room that had a table, a telephone, a server, and we were carrying two laptops and we couldn’t come out of the room, and so we had completely restored our domain. We had a set of backups on the thumb drive and added the second laptop to that domain improve that we had restored the domain, and an independent person that was not connected to our department was monitoring to make sure we had done it, and we had to prove it, and that was an eye opening experience is as experienced as i was doing that i’d never done it live, and it took me three tries to do it so that’s, right? Encourage folks to really try and practice this stuff ahead of time and get down into the you know, the weeds on their on their d our plan and, uh and also to think about it, you weren’t fired because way, john no, no, no. I actually like too much, john soft. No, we we did complete it within the time frame, but we were a little startled when we discovered that we thought we knew how to do it first time. And we kept making little mistakes. There were two of us and they’re doing it. And we were surprised ourselves that we thought, oh, of course we know this. This is not a problem, but no, we were making little mistakes because we didn’t have the documentation down. A specific is it needed to be. And so that was a very eye opening experience. There’s a couple of their d r gotchas we talked about, which is crossed. People don’t think about the cost ahead of time. How much is it gonna cost to get you that data back in the instance of my co presenter who had the damaged drives, they weren’t expecting a near ten thousand dollars cost to recover those drives, but that’s what happened when they didn’t have the backups? They had to take those hard drives to a data recovery place, and the price tag was nearly ten thousand dollars. Dealing with insurance is another big one that people don’t think about having to account for all of the equipment that was lost, and dealing with that insurance morass often gets dumped on the auntie department in a small organization. There’s not, you know, a legal department that’s going to deal with that it’s going to be you so to, you know, kind of talk to your insurance provider ahead of time and see what all you have to deal with in a disaster situation. So you don’t get an unpleasant surprise if you’re ever in one a cz well on the insurance topic, just are you covered? Exactly what i think is your equipment covered. And what do you have to to do with that in terms of accounting for it? If you suffer a disaster, you know the gooch is we get so ah, a couple of minutes, if if oh, for days about consciously trying to think about somebody we don’t hold back on non-profit video, i think some of the other ones that we covered in their thick wit mint again to the cost. How much is it going to cost you? Two gets new equipment and did you account for that when you were doing your d our plan and a time to recover? A lot of folks don’t understand how long it may take them to do a recovery and also deciding what is important and what is not important, not just in terms of what should be restored in what order, but in terms of practical things, do you really need to restore your domain? Er, or could you just start over from scratch? If your domain only contains maybe fifty accounts and doesn’t have any associated servers faster for you to just start over and just recreate the domain immediately? Especially if a lot of your emails in office three, sixty five or google maps, you could reconnect it very quickly. So, you know, thinking about more practical gotsch is like that that you should think about have time, you know, obviously it’s that’s the best. Practice to think of all these details and we realised folks may not be able to, so we provided someone sheets and some samples of them of just quick, yes or no questions and thinking this through and things to think about and where will we that is not notice provoc radio has a professional sound i don’t know about ntcdinosaur ten, but that was a way over there. They’re on their own. They can come to us for expertise if they if they need to, but, um, see, now i messed myself up because i ask you about something, but we were just talking about how much, how long will actually take you to recover things and whether or not you should practically skipped recovering something because it might be faster to rebuild it. Okay, i have a follow up to that it’s my smart ass humor, maybe lose it. All right, so why did you leave us with one take away d, r or back-up the session was a little bit misnamed because technically, you’re not going to avoid a disaster. You really can’t. In many cases, you’re not gonna avoid the, but you’re not going to avoid. The earthquake if you’re in that region so you need to plan on how to deal with it. So it’s more like avoiding avoiding your d are becoming the disaster cause you’re not going to avoid the disaster itself, so you might as well plan for it. Outstanding. Thank you very much. Door. Thank you much. Darby america, vice president of technology for lift. This is tony martignetti non-profit radio coverage of ntc non-profit technology conference two thousand fifteen. Thank you so much for being with us thinking thanks to everybody at and t, c and the non-profit technology network next week. What skills are most desirable in your board members? If you missed any part of today’s show, find it on tony martignetti dot com opportunity collaboration with world convenes for poverty reduction, you know, ruin you for every other conference opportunity collaboration dot net. Our creative producer is claire meyerhoff. 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Oppcoll hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m your aptly named host happy new year. I am always optimistic around the beginning of a new year. I can’t help it even in the depths of the recession. I was optimistic at the beginning of each new year. I hope you enjoy time with your family and friends. We have a listener of the week, cheryl mccormick. If she has any glimmer of a connection, she says she listens live, including on seven mile beach at grand kayman two years ago, she blogged that this is her favorite podcasts had been a long time fan. Cheryl was based in carmel, california, and his principle of ascend non-profit consulting and executive coaching she’s at a send non-profit cheryl, i’m going to send you a video of the non-profit radio library. You pick a book and i’ll send it to you. Congratulations, cheryl, and thank you so so much for your longtime support of non-profit radio. Oh, i’m glad you’re with me. I’d be stricken with an outbreak of helio backdoor pylori if i had the stomach, the idea that you missed today’s show ethical storytelling lena shrivastava is a storyteller and filmmaker, and much more as you plan your stories for twenty fifteen she wants you to know that there are boundaries and organizing tools there lots of aps and sites to help you organize supporters and volunteers in twenty fifteen amy sample ward is our social media contributor and ceo of n ten, the non-profit technology network on tony’s take to the best of twenty fourteen and let’s help peter martino. We’re sponsored by generosity, siri’s hosting those multi-channel eighty five k runs and walks lena srivastav is with me in the studio. She works in narrative design, social innovation and digital storytelling for human rights and international development. She’s worked with unicef, the world bank institute, unesco, the rockefeller foundation and others you would recognize. Lina has been involved in impact campaigns for several documentaries, including oscar winning born into brothels, and he nominated the devil came on horseback, oscar winning you know chen today and sundance award winning who is diane e? Crystal she’s, the former executive director of kids with cameras, she now runs a social innovation strategy collective in new york, she’s at lena srivastav a dot com and on twitter at l k s r ivy lena, welcome to studio. Thank you so much for having me, tony it’s. A pleasure. Don’t be nervous. Sounded nervous, you know you’ve done bigger gigs in this. I have there are there are a lot of cold. Okay? It is. Yes. It’s ah it’s bitter twenty something out. Yeah. Uh, you love story telling matt i would say, master of storytelling what? Why? Why is it so critical for non-profits storytelling is yes, i love storytelling. I believe in it very deeply because i think storytelling is what builds community and it also represents community you can’t have. You can’t really understand your communities without really understanding their stories. So in what that means in the nonprofit sector for people working directly with community organizing with direct service with any of those things to really understand what your programs are going to be doing in terms of their impact on the ground, you’re going to need to know your stories and you need to know your community stories and a cz we think about gathering our stories and doing it in an ethical way, which were goingto spend time. With we need to be building this into our programs at the outset, right? As in the design stage and and strategy stage, absolutely so a lot of people, when they think of storytelling or narrative, they think of communications only they look att fund-raising they look at how you’re communicating with your stakeholders and that’s a very important aspect, but storytelling is a crucial part of effective, um, community facing program design. It’s really important for a piece of advocacy as well? Okay, a community facing, you know, way have tony martignetti non-profit radio we have jargon jail, i know that that’s a borderline one, maybe that’s not so jargon, but i haven’t put anybody in george in jail for a while, so i have kind of itchy triggered but a cz as people know buy-in parole comes comes very easily, so community facing what we mean by that. So a lot of program designed when when people are creating programs, they’re doing it in headquarters, they’re doing it in a strategic planning phase. What they’re not necessarily doing is involving members of the affected community of this is okay, you can put me in jargon jill, for saying this for the beneficiary community last way doing with that term, but they’re not necessarily involving them in program designed. So when i say community facing it means that you are ah incorporating community members, whether they’re ngo community organizations or committee leaders in your program to sign. And as we start to think about r our story telling what, what what do we need to be thinking about in terms of program, like, logistically, you know, i’d like to leave listens with things that they can take away and, you know, execute what what should we be thinking about specifically? So they’re a couple of ways to think about story think storytelling the term is pretty broad, right? So what you’re looking at is making sure that your understanding the human, the human aspects as opposed to the data aspects or the reporting aspects of programs. So what are the intended and unintended consequences of a program? What? What is the community saying that they need? I’m not i don’t advocate for communities on ly to be taking control of programs i’m not trying to cut out non-profits or institutions or philanthropists that’s not the intention here, the intention of looking at a community’s stories of the community’s needs desires their expressions, especially through cultural means. Um, what are they saying? That they need themselves, right? What? And how do you how do you integrate that so that’s one form of story and that sort of closely aligned with with design or, you know, human-centered design or ethnography or those kinds of terms, right? The other thing is, is just is cultural expression like how you make sure that what you’re doing is is respectful and relevant and resonant with the community? And how do you storytelling and culture? Um, how do you incorporate those things into the inn into the dna of your project or your program or your organization? Like, how do you make sure that that’s part of the philosophy and in a third way of thinking about stories actually producing story like actually producing digital web documentary, even journalistic pieces like, how do you then do that piece? So there are three levels of story, okay, if we want to find out what people are saying, their needs are mean is simple as interviewing people are having focusedbuyer oops surveys isn’t all that simple. Well, it can be can be all of those things, but it also does help to understand, i mean, the weight understand political, social and economic and cultural context is to understand how, ah, community and again, i’m broadly defining community, but how community is expressing itself? What are what are people saying? Right? What are they? What are they producing in terms of anywhere from theater to film to their journalistic pieces? So you want to be able to understand those different levels? And yes, it can be a symbols of survey or interview, but you really do have to understand cultural context on dh my second guessed today, amy sample ward is gonna have a lot of ideas about listen, using tools for listening to your community now, you said community is very broad, so i mean non-profits going to have lots of different communities, they have volunteers, they have donors, those two may or may not overlap. You might consider your board a community, you have people, you’re helping the people whose lives you’re hopefully changing and for the better, um, people in your physical community or geographic community is your commute, so we need to be aware. Of what? All these different communities i have in their in their minds? Absolutely yeah, i mean, you can’t really think about on ly one community is not just your community of donors, it’s, not just her community of ah ah, the quote unquote, the affected communities of people who are most going to be affected by the work that you do you do have to do. I mean, another way of saying it is multi stakeholder analysis, i suppose, but oh, that’s jargon exactly think that was last year that was okay. Excellent. Yes, yes, all right. And we’re going to continue the conversation. Of course we have to go away for a few minutes, and lina and i will get into ah, how to empower your different communities and of course, these ethical considerations and she has a lot of very good storytelling of our own to do with some film work. Stay with us. You’re tuned to non-profit radio tony martignetti also hosts a podcast for the chronicle of philanthropy fund-raising fundamentals is a quick ten minute burst of fund-raising insights published once a month. Tony’s guests are expert in crowdfunding mobile giving event fund-raising direct mail and donor cultivation, really, all the fund-raising issues that make you wonder, am i doing this right? Is there a better way there is? Find the fund-raising fundamentals archive it. Tony martignetti dot com that’s marketmesuite n e t t i remember there’s, a g before the end, thousands of listeners have subscribed on itunes. You can also learn maura, the chronicle website, philanthropy dot com fund-raising fundamentals, the better way. Welcome back to big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent let’s do some live listener love st louis, missouri, bronx, new york, san francisco, california live listener love to you, the uk is with us can’t tell exactly where, but we could see one of the countries in the uk is represented also turkey welcome. We had a guest e h to m c piela who’s ah was based in madison, wisconsin, but he was he was from he is originally from turkey. Also, japan is checking in can’t see which city though konnichiwa, seoul, south korea on yo haserot live listener love and there’s more to come, lena time either. Yes. Ok, you’re feeling warmer now? Yes, you’re shorty’s warmer. This wound up. We got some warm water. Cool. Okay, um, but let’s see, you have some some very interesting film work that you’ve done and we want to keep in mind that and some of the, you know, the social change work. It’s very easy to use. What could be? Maybe, you know, inflammatory images or, you know, sort of exploitative images. And so, as we think about the ethical considerations, i’m hoping you khun build this into one of your some of the stories, like maybe born in tow, born into brothels. The story of young girls born of prostitutes in india. It wasn’t just young girls. It was it was children of eight children. Yeah, so i mean, that that’s an interesting case. There were that story’s. About eight children who learn basically photography from a western filmmaking. She was iraqi jewish, but a british born photographer who had actually gone to calcutta to photograph sex workers and the children of the sex workers who she was working with. Just sort of saw her camera and said, we want this too. We wanna learn from you. And it was just it’s. A very beautiful it’s, a very beautiful film. I’m very proud of the work that we did. There were charges from people in india that it was, you know, why’s this western filmmaker wise, this western woman, you know, coming in and trying to change things. And that’s an interest it’s an interesting charge and i can see where somewhere that charge could be valid. In this case, there are a number of reasons why i think the western filmmaker did this one. She was asked, and we put together some really interesting programs in country with indian partners and then scale that two different parts of the world and and the children themselves have been they’re not children anymore. They’re on their twenties now. It’s it’s been a while, but they all sort of benefited in different ways, and you consort of trace the impact, the direct impact on these kids. There were charges that people thought it was, you know, sort of hijacking their stories, and i can see where some people might say that i would argue against that. But i think the hijacking part it’s the the the tendency for some filmmakers, especially in film, to take stories from people who are living in the affected communities and use them to tell either a broader story that doesn’t really take into account what the community has expressed. What they need there was there was a film we started, a group called regarding humanity. It’s ah there’s, a facebook group in a twitter group, it’s a community aimed at this discussion about ethical storytelling, and we founded that group because there was a film called prostitutes of god, which was also an indian story, and it was a film that was made by a filmmaker with a non-profit i don’t remember the name the non-profit that was broadcast on vice, and the filmmaker went into a community of the of the aussies in south india. They’re sex workers connected to a temple to temples and told their they trusted her. She established trust, they told stories together, and then the way she framed the film, the community itself was extremely angry because it was a condescending portrait, and she just basically told the story in the way she wanted to do it. If the title is inflammatory, yeah, exactly. So the entire film is just it’s it’s not it is not representative of the community at all, and what they did is they did a response video. They’re like, you know, you haven’t represented us in the way that we trusted you to. This is not our stories, you’ve gotten everything. She had their titles wrong. I mean, like the way they identify themselves with within this community. And we there’s a group of seven of us who actually formed this group and two of us are left running it. And we’re like, we first regard regarding human going humanity on fish and it’s there’s a website regarding humanity dot or ge and were just like this. This has to stop, and it was sort of around the time of cockney twenty twelve you know, all of those and sort of looking at the tendency of storyteller’s filmmakers, journalists to take people stories and then use them for fund raising or for advocacy for their own sort of aggrandizement. And that was that’s something that we don’t want to see happen in the non-profit space i am not anti western intervention, i am not anti western filmmaker, not at all because i think there’s a there’s a way to do that, the way to tell stories together with community that is representative, you don’t have to be of the community to tell the story, but you do have to be extremely responsible and responsive to what the community is saying about itself, even if you’re critical of it. All right? So in our everyday work, no, what do we need? Teo, how do we police ourselves so that we don’t exploit and you know, and can cross a line, so they’re a couple of things. One is to make sure that when you’re looking at their different, we’re looking at still images, there’s looking, moving images and it also framing in terms of the text that you’re putting out one is to really understand what the cultural context is, what our community’s saying about themselves, looking at working with professional photographers, working with professionals, if you can afford it for sure, and making sure that the framing of image is correct, like i’ve seen images where you’ll have an entire story told in an image, and people are cropping in ways that becomes extremely disrespectful. Well, that’s, a very that’s interesting can you give me? Give us an example? Sure so there’s there’s a there was a photograph that i was looking at with another project where it was there was a grave site with a number of people who had were at the funeral, and they were sort of it was it was in central america and someone cropped the image and it was a mistake. But something cropped the image to cut off all the heads of the living people, and they were all you could see was the grave and people standing around this grave and you can’t really do that. Your dehumanizing the community, that’s morning. So we had to correct that, so that that that that kind of thing. You know, you know when you have an image. I don’t know, do you where’s the boundary to what? You know what you’re what you’re permitted to do with that image? I mean, let’s just suppose you have the person’s license and an approval and consent and all. Where do we draw the lines of the hide? You, khun how you can use it? I mean, it comes down to your own your own morality. Really, it does. I mean, there you there, there are templates. I mean, i have, and i’m still perfectly happy to share it on your facebook page or on your think there’s a there’s, a rubric that we created called the three arts it’s israel relevance residence and respect and it’s there’s a a series of questions about how you’re interacting with story or with image and for your interventions, but yeah, it’s, ultimately subjective, right there’s no hard and fast rules about the way you use image. But it does. I mean, ultimately you have to be. You have to understand that that people want to see that see themselves a certain way. I was doing an image search for another client and looking for positive images of african american males. I mean that were sort of license that i could license for commercial use, and there were so few, i mean, there’s a google image search, right? So this is we do have to create those images, we have to have access to those images, we have to be really careful about how we frame those images, and it can’t just be stock images all the time, right? When you’re thinking about it, i mean, it has to be the more personal you are, the better in your work. So, you know, just you don’t want the same image circulating in the same kinds of, like, marketing images. That’s that’s not what it’s about it really is about getting images, getting story, getting film, all of those from the people that you’re already working with with their permission, of course. And and in some cases you were you were executive director of kids with kids with cameras. In some cases, the empowerment is simple as providing the the tools. Yeah, i mean, i tend not so i just i tend not to use the word empowerment just because i think that there’s a there’s because that kana tates that i’m somehow empowering. Someone that i’m that you have the power, i have the power and i could give them power. Yeah, exactly. So i’m trying. I try to stay away from that word. I also don’t like the phrase giving voice to the voiceless that bugs me no end, okay, because no one’s voiceless, so but but yes, i mean, part of this is participatory storytelling. Participatory storytelling can be a really great way of ensuring that your story is representative, right, but that’s, not the only consideration husby. Good, it has to do what it has to be sort of actionable has to do what you wanted to do in terms of either it’s fund-raising her advocacy or marketing or program design. So it has to be useful, teo you, if you’re in the non-profit so participatory storytelling, someone way participatory media is a really great way of ensuring that you’re going to be that one of your ethical factory has been met. And then you have to understand you have to understand how image, how film, how any of this is circulated and distributed. How can we, you know, small midsize shops? How can we gain this expertise? And by the way, the link that you referred to the three r’s yes, we’ll put that in the facebook page with shows takeaways will be posted this afternoon, so if i have the link well or you can add it is a comment either way ilsen it’s ok, how do you it’s quite that expertise? I mean you either if you don’t have the budget, you do a lot of reading on this. I mean, there is a lot of reading there’s a lot of knowledge out there on dh we have some on the regarding human e website, you can just go and take a look at some of the case studies that we’ve got better to look at the facebook page because we have a constant stream of we like this. We don’t like this like what you all think about this s o it’s really about gaining that knowledge? You can if you have the buddy you khun hyre someone to help you with photography, with film or you can hyre storytellers locally there’s there’s something called the impact producersgroup on dh were a group of people who look at how you use storytelling effectively for social change, for social impact so and you can also look at some of the organizations that are doing this really well, like msf does this beautifully that’s doctors without borders argast borders oxfam out of the uk. So someone we’ve criticized some of their work, but some of the work is really, really good, and they’re smaller organizations that we sometimes highlight on the regarding community page, so people are doing that they’re they’re doing this well, yeah, we don’t want the negative it’s certainly it’s, eminently doable absolutely have to be very conscious exact of what you’re doing absolutely responsible. Yeah, exactly. There no throwaways here? Can you tell us another story? Maybe, maybe it’s a film, or maybe that doesn’t have to be one of the films you worked on, but because your work is particularly interesting because you’re building social engagement around trans media, whatever the media form is, you’re doing the social engagement work, but using the images of of the of another body of a body of work that that important that don’t say that tells the that reveals the issues. Yeah, so a lot of the work that i do as you say, it is an engagement, but i’m trying to bridge that gap between engagement and relevant action, right? So it’s not just about oh, we’ve raised awareness of the problem. So for example, you mentioned the film that we worked on called who is diana crystal now? This is a very large scale engagement thing, so it’s not necessarily. I wouldn’t recommend this as a model to smaller or mid sized non-profits because it it was its very large, involved project, but the learnings from then we’re about to issue our impact report, which will hopefully have some guidance for people. We wanted to make sure that the stories that we that we told were reflective of the honduran community that we were working with, and although i think they just lay the ground work so i’m sorry, is this a film is a film about a documentary about people leaving central in south america, he’s travelling north to the u s through mexico through mexico and crossing the u s mexico border, and the film itself is a story of one man who was found dead. On our side of the border in arizona and the quest to identify he has a tattoo on he has a tattoo on his body is danny crystal that zest that name? Yeah, it’s also. Exactly. And i can’t tell you who danny crystal is. You have to watch the movie, but but it’s it’s, it’s the story of i mean it’s basically the film director mark silver saw thie image of a skull in the desert. You know, he he and i were talking about systemic change and how you tell the story of systemic change and he saw this girl is like, what does one skull what? Just want an unidentified skull tell you about the world? About migration? And so we tried to tell that story about the systemic issues around migration through our website through a book that we wrote and produced, um and through a number of different participatory there’s something called border stories, which allows people to send reflections in tow our website. But ultimately it was about making sure that our stories lead to action both within the non profit sector are partners that we’re working with, and we had an entire engagement. Xero mechanism teo bring those people into program design, and also that it had effect in the village that this this man came from. He was ultimately identified so that’s that was e i think that there’s again there’s a very large scale project. It took about five years. But i think that there’s learnings there, but how you teachings there rather about how you can take your stories, work with the community, and then create ah, human portrait of your issue that then becomes actionable. Okay, so share a couple of a couple of teachings because this could be certainly done on a smaller scale. There were different. The smaller community. Well, much more community. You don’t have to have an entire involved website. You can do it with one image you can do with an image in a paragraph. I mean, for sure so you can do it in many, many different ways. I’ve worked on like xero budget projects, right? And still the quality is there hopefully, but what you can do is you can. One of things we did is we worked with a new non-profit called kali brie, which is one of our partners, and it was sort of born under the aegis of the of the social engagement, uh, platform that we created the woman, robin reineke, who is in the film she’s portrayed she used to work with the pima county morgue and then ended up taking her work informing this non-profit around it she has been sheena is she and we, the impact team, have been sharing images have been sharing digital asset social media so sure, lots of sharing lots of bearing, elaboration, sharing tool sharing, sharing cultural assets and then making sure that the work one of things that we did was have our website point her website for people who are trying to identify missing missing relatives. We’re trying to locate them rather and there is that all that’s stopping but that’s ah that’s an example of what is the community thirsting for? What are they saying they need in this case? It sounds like they were saying they need help finding missing relative. Yeah, exactly. And there’s no there’s, no centralized database for missing migrants, undocumented migrants or that they don’t get into our national databases. So there’s a there’s a real need there we have to kind. Of wrap it up, which kind of kills me. You’re one of the guests. I wish i had longer time. Tell me what you love about the work you do. Oh, it’s, just it’s, it’s, so personal. There’s, though, there’s, just so much room for you know, sort of a person to person, community, community kind of interaction, it’s, strategic it’s directed its targeted it’s all those, you know, sort of technical things, but it altum it leads about making sure that the people that you’re working with and on behalf of our always represented and i love using. I love using art it’s, just it’s, it’s, so much more passionate and juicy than a spreadsheet. Leanest, rivest, arba, you’ll find her at lena srivastav, a dot com. And on twitter at l k s r i v. Ok, sir, if lena, thank you so, so much for sharing a wonderful story. Thanks for having my pleasure. We have tony’s take two and amy sample ward coming up first generosity siri’s they host multi charity five k runs and walks for you if you won’t get enough people out to host your own event because you’re smaller midsize shop, so they put a bunch of them together if a five k event might fit into your twenty fifteen fund-raising then i hope you will talk to dave lynn he’s, the ceo of generosity siri’s, and you can reach him at seven one eight five o six nine triple seven or generosity siri’s dot com and please tell him you’re from non-profit radio i’ve got two best of non-profit radio twenty fourteen videos at tony martignetti dot com from a to z the less after ice bucket challenge show to zombie loyalists with peter shankman a few weeks ago, i picked out the ten best shows from last year. Check out the videos with links peter martino emailed me quote, i was listening to the last episode with amy sample ward and thought i might share something fun we’re doing here at martha o’brien center with a social media channel that is new to us, we launched a podcast with stories about our work in september end quote, he was probably thinking, you know, if this if this clown tony martignetti can do it, then certainly we can do it for ourselves back to quote ah, and we have received great feedback, including a wonderful article about the podcast in our local paper, the tennessee in endquote. Congratulations. I’ve peter, that is an outstanding story. Thank you for sharing. Peter would like to meet other non-profits who are podcasting their stories to share ideas with you’ll reach him at peter j martino on twitter or for the show it’s at bt l pod that’s, bravo tango lima, papa oscar delta, bi t l pod let’s help peter out. I would like love for our listeners and are the non-profit media community to ah to share. Maybe we’ll all learn something that is tony’s take two for friday, ninth of january, first show of the year. Any sample word? Alfa sierra whiskey she’s, the ceo of and ten november tech november oh my gosh, i’m losing my november tango echo november non-profit technology network she’s the ceo there. Her most recent co authored book is social change anytime everywhere. About online multi-channel engagement, she blog’s at amy sample war dot or ge and she’s at amy r s ward. Any simple word? Welcome back and happy new year hi, happy new year to you, thank you very, very much so before we dive into what we’re thinking talking about, could i just share a little bit about what you the quote from peter, of course you can yeah, yeah, i thought that was well, first, feel free to send me those things you don’t await until i’m listening to the show to share that, but that’s awesome on we’ve actually seen we’ve we’ve seen an increase in organizations thinking about podcasts and audio as as an alternative to trying to do videos, which i think have become a little bit more formalised for organizations they feel like, you know, they’re not making a video every week that maybe just a conversation that really the video is about the conference or the video is, you know, to be a companion with their annual campaign or something. So we are seeing an increase in organizations really interested in that, and i imagine that a bunch of folks will follow up with peter, after your invitation and sharing his email or twitter account, but a note that i can offer from antennas that we have these communities of practice, online groups of non-profit staff who are, you know, interested in the same topics we would love to start one that’s around podcasting and audio if their community members who want to be involved and kind of be the group leaders for that, so just let me know, just email amy am wy att and ten and tn dot org and weaken get you set up and have you, you know, finding finding other community members. Ok, cool. So you’re going you want to start at intend a podcast on podcasting? No. Well, a community of practice. So it’s an online group, and they can you can we are communities, the practice give you, you know you can use our weapon, our pot for me. If you want to have monthly webinars, you could just use the audio part. If you just want to have calls, they’re all recorded so you can listen to them like a bod gas but it’s just a way so that everybody can find each other and keep talking and sharing resource is excellent. Thank you very much. Okay, yeah, we have a ton of live listeners, so i’m goingto offer thee the hashtag non-profit radio if you want to join the conversation. Well, monitoring the hashtag here in the studio on dh please join the convo and you can ask some questions of amy or put in your own. Just add to the conversation however you like. Because we’ve got we’ve got new york, new york. We’ve got bayside, new york. We’ve got new bern, north carolina. We’ve got new brunswick, canada, boston, beverly, boston, boston, new york. Know sam boston, massachusetts and beverly, massachusetts and there’s. More live listeners out there. It’s. Amazing. Um, we are going to be talking. Yes. So what we want to talk about is organizing tools. And i think you know this show sometimes these shows really do work out. I actually do plan them out. I think this is a perfect dovetail. Two. What? Lena and i were just talking about it. I know. I know. You were listening in. Yeah, definitely. I mean, i think, you know, even though we were thinking of these beans, you know, maybe a way to highlight some tools that folks who are doing some community organizing committee management work would use really these air these air tools to help whatever kind of project you’re working on, whether that, you know, folks who are remote and collecting stories, and you’re trying to share those or i mean, whatever that project, maybe you need to be collaborating with people and being social and so, you know, we have a number of tools, many of them and ten uses, so i can i can vouch that they do work and that at least some humans have been able to figure them out. So so, yeah, happy to share. Okay, um, tools could start on your own site, right? Oh, definitely. I mean, i think i think that’s something that people forget, especially when you know what we can talk about different different groupings of what a team is that you’re working with. But sometimes you don’t know who the people in your community are that want to be working with you, and there may be incredibly, incredibly active or or community leaders that really want to give their time to you, and you don’t know that. Because you’re not making that an option. So i wanted to start from the pen of most broad place and remind folks that your website isn’t just a way to tell people about what you do or highlight your programs, but also let people who are looking to do something for you quickly have that resource. So one example, i thought i would highlight because i think it is something people can understand even if you’re not looking at the website is the girl scouts of northeast texas have a grate on their volunteer in the volunteer section of their website. They have a volunteer tool kit that has videos it has template. You know, you don’t even want to log in, and you don’t have to have contacted them first. You going to say i want to start volunteering? Let me look through what some of these resource is our that you’ve already made available so i can see what more i need. And then i can call you when i need more, okay? And what what else is there? Is there on their site that makes us noteworthy? Um, well, i think what is noteworthy about it to me? Is that something like the girl scouts or, you know, another organization that that has kind of programs that are recognizable? We forget that even though people know who the girl scouts are maybe or participate in the girl scouts, that doesn’t mean you just automatically know how to get involved or, you know, even if you are already involved, how do you know where to get the resources you need? Teo do kind of your volunteer role, whether that’s leading a group or participated in an event, etcetera. So what i think is most notable is actually not the content, but the fact that the content is made available publicly on the website you don’t have to know you want to be part of that, you know, special online group, or you haven’t had teo call them and get a password, too, something there, just putting it there so that anybody can get it a part of this, this kind of engagement and organizing is listening to what conversations are out there and that if you’re not doing that smartly, it can be really burdensome and time consuming because you got to go out and look at all. Your separate channels all the time. Yeah, and i think what is difficult for for many organizations, at least that i’ve talked to before is thinking, okay, well, we have a facebook page say, and maybe a twitter account i think those are often the most common to so say you’ve got in the counting on both of those platforms and, you know, you’re paying attention if somebody maybe comments on a facebook post, you know, that you put up on your page or you’re getting an email notification of someone is replying to one of your tweets, but you may you may be keeping it at that level and that’s great, i mean, definitely we should all be paying attention of people air directly engaging or commenting or replying, but there’s, that piece of the conversation that’s all those people that maybe you care about are talking about topics you care about, but you’re not following those and so making sure that that you’re also tapping in and of course not reading every tweet that goes by but making sure you’re you’re staying on top of opportunities to engage people on dh, not just waiting for them to reply. To you? Okay, how do we start doing this? This is the way we got a world wide web. Tio tio, listen to how do we do it smartly? Well, there are i mean, there are a ton of tools, so i put in just a few of my ah, a few of my personal favorites, because way which was using them, but again, i am just one one version of humanity. So there many, many tools out there, but one that i think that’s often overlooked because it’s not necessarily the most well, certainly not the most new but it’s also not the most social are google alert there free they’re just alert you, khun, get them azan email or and you just can put in whatever you want. You could put in your name so let’s use non-profit radio is an example i would i would put in non-profit radio i’d also put in the hash tag non-profit radio of people are using it without a space i’ve put in tony martignetti i would put in common mis spellings of tony martignetti on and that way, no matter what, let the robots of the internet go do that. Work and find where people are mentioning your name non-profit radio, et cetera. Or, you know, let’s, say today you had a couple specific topics you knew were going to be on the show on, so not using google alerts, but talking about our next tool, you vain tools that are actually looking at that social web to find you? Are there other experts on these topics? There certainly are about social media, you know, are there other people talking about still making? Are there other people talking about maybe locations that were going to be discussed as examples? All that kind of, you know, just putting out putting out some taproot to see what’s out there, i think can really help. So to tools to share first is mentioned dot com on it. I mean, you can just go there today and sign up for us, uh, free free by-laws log in and test it out. But it’s really for monitoring conversations in real time. And, of course, one of the benefits of a lot of these social kind of monitoring and management tools that there’s analytics built in so you can start scene, you know, what’s working what? Isn’t where there are popular comments or or even influential commenters. You know what that twitter user that aa lot of folks were retweeting. Okay, so mentioned is cool. Let me ask you quickly about just jump back to google alerts, aren’t there sure, cem cem shortcomings. I mean, i had, uh i had a conversation on the show last year with with maria simple, and we were sharing that and she had some alternatives to google lorts there there tend to be some holes in those aren’t there? I would say they’re holes in every tool and that’s why, you know, that’s? Why? I probably have, you know, ten different tools ultimately in the ecosystem of technology that i’m using because there isn’t one tool that does everything you need. You have overlapping alerts with different tools. Yeah, okay. All right. So, it’s pretty simple strategy. Okay. All right. So mentioned is cool. You like mention? Yeah. You also like sprouts social? Yeah. Sprout social is something that we’ve kind of test run at and ten and part of why it’s been a tool that we’ve used it in ten and something that i definitely hear from community members. Is the ability for us all to log in and see, you know, what’s happening on the inten or twitter account or on the facebook page, etcetera? So everybody being able to see the same thing and not all logging in independently, all replying to someone’s tweet without knowing that it has been replied, you know, that kind of confused, um, process and, you know, not just confused, but really a waste of time, right? If there’s three people all trying to respond to someone that’s great, that three people care to respond, but, you know, there’s, only one needed so krauz social really helps with that kind of multiple people on a team being ableto log in and monitor things together again, similar to mention it had some of those analytics pieces. So, you know, measuring what’s, working in real time and figuring out where that prioritize, okay, we have to go to a break in in about a minute or so, the sprouts social have a free component, or is it is it fee only? Um, it has at least a free trial, and i, uh i would imagine that it has either free or low cost option. Or, potentially, i see they tweeted you, perhaps we can treat them really quick on the brake on and ask about their non-profit options. Okay, did they use the do you see the tweet? Did they use the hashtag non-profit radio? They did. Okay, well, sam will pick it up on a break. Why don’t we go away for that break? And when we come back, you and i will keep talking about some other tools we got, we got box, we got slack, we got doodle, we got lots of valuable tools. Stay with us. Like what you’re hearing a non-profit radio tony’s got more on youtube, you’ll find clips from stand up comedy tv spots and exclusive interviews catch guests like seth gordon, craig newmark, the founder of craigslist marquis of eco enterprises, charles best from donors choose dot org’s aria finger do something that worked and they are levine from new york universities heimans center on philanthropy tony tweets to he finds the best content from the most knowledgeable, interesting people in and around non-profits to share on his stream. If you have valuable info, he wants to re tweet you during the show. 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If you have big dreams in a small budget tune into tony martignetti non-profit radio, i d’oh. I’m adam braun, founder of pencils of promise. I got a little more live listen, love, we got woodbridge, new jersey, i don’t think they’ve been in before. Welcome, i’ve listened love to woodbridge, new jersey’s also belgium i’m sorry, we can’t see your city in belgium, but welcome and beijing in china me how amy, i saw that you tweeted sprout social, but we didn’t get a response from them yet we’ll see if they’re listening. I don’t know, i don’t know where they’re based and we’ve got a lot a lot of live listen, so i’m not sure that with us, but in case we will, uh, we will continue and sam is watching the hashtag if if they do respond bonem you got some more for for manager? Yeah, we want to go from how about we go from listening? Teo managing your your team or your constituents? Your your communities? Yeah, so one tool that we’ve been playing around with at and ten is flack and black is, um i know that on the show before tony and just realizing that i’m no longer a spring chicken of non-profit radio going on here multiple years now, this was probably a long time ago that we talked about it, but we talked about a tool that totally still exists yammer so it’s kind of like a twitter or, you know, social network, but it’s just inside the organization, black and similar. So it’s, a new internal organization tool on dh some of the reasons that i think it’s cool and wanted to share it today are also the reasons why n ten started testing it out and playing around with it. So one is, of course, it’s, that internal tulani searchable and you can post things, you can have different groups, and people can say, you know, so and ten is an example. We have a group just for the upcoming conference, so if you want to share an update our hey, i secured, you know, this rental and here’s the contact, if anybody needs it or, you know, whatever those kind of just little notes that you don’t want to just send us an email and overwhelmed everybody, but you want to post somewhere so it’s it’s a cool, flexible tool for that, but it also allows you to pull in social media content. So for example, we have staff who believe it or not are not on facebook or some staff who are not on twitter and this way. We can pull in everything that the inten you know, facebook, profile, post or that we post on twitter from antenna so that all staff can still see what we’re posting or promoting or talking about even if they’re not on that platform on dh that’s been helpful for staff? Who can say, oh, gosh, i see it’s been three days since we, you know, posted about this upcoming event. Could we get another, you know, post out there about it, even if they’re not again following that channel. Yes. Excellent. Okay. And i saw slack. Does have is free, like is free. Yeah, i love that slack. S l c k dot com. Yeah, and it’s pretty it’s. Pretty fun. And you can, of course, set up notifications. And you know those different customs things. If you want to just go check at first if you want to be overwhelmed with emails, but yeah. It’s a free tool. Go check it out. Okay. So then, when it comes to all of your content, i think this is something that we get a lot. Of questions about on dh this goes for bulls working with your internal staff teams, but then also, you know, maybe staff and bored collaborating on things or staff and volunteers in the community collaborating on things on an interesting example where where we have content that we need to be sharing with people outside the organization is at our conference. So all of those people who are presenting, you know, up on the main stage, the opening plenary when we need to have all of their slides, and if they’re sending it to me, an email there video files could be too big, they’re you know, i might lose track of which version they have, so finding some tools to share share content on, and i think a lot of people have heard of drop box s o i wanted to share on alternative so that people had a couple of options to review called box and box dot or ge is free for non-profits, and it works similarly to drop box so you have your files and folders and you can upload things and share things, but you can also be collaborating on a document and have those notifications about revisions or comments that other people have made a cz you’re working on things, so i’m just thinking back to the beginning of the show and and having content, whether that’s videos or, you know, documents with text all of that that you’re trying to share with people, probably in lots of different locations, okay? And i i saw that they have up to ten free user licenses. That’s what you’re referring to? Yeah, so you can have ten can for free ten accounts? Yes, you don’t. Okay. Uh, doodle for calendar ring. We just have about a minute left. Okay, well, that is fine. Doodle is extremely simple and easy to use, but it is a tool that i do not know how i would operate without it. Take you ten seconds to get a doodle set up. But this is for scheduling calls, figuring out when people are available, it has time zone support, so it’ll tell people, you know, the times on there in you don’t have all of that. Oh, i thought i was responding in east coast time, you know, but it’s a really great flexible tool. That’s free to use on guy. Couldn’t recommend it more interfaces with whatever calendar using whether it’s ah, whether it’s an app or it’s i cal or its outlook, it interfaces with a bunch of counters. I used to use it, and then they ran into trouble. I think they weren’t supporting apple for a while and then now i have to get back to it. Now, on your recommendation. I’m going to check out doodle again. Awesome. Okay, we have to leave it there. Ok. Well, thanks for letting me share all those different tools. I know it’s always something people like just to have a tool that could go test out. Absolutely. Yes, people do love it. And thank you for offering to help peter martino that’s a map award. You’ll find her at amy sample war dot or ge and at amy rs board. Thank you again, amy. Yes. Anybody interested in podcasting community? Let me know next week. Henry tim’s, the founder of giving tuesday. How did this thing get started? How did it do in twenty fourteen? There are some people critical of it. We’ll talk about all that. How did you do? Please let me know tony at tony martignetti. 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