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>> Good afternoon.
My name is Vanessa, and I will be your conference
operator today.
At this time I would like to welcome everyone
to the Google Building Capacity
Through Technology conference call.
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to prevent any background noise.
After the speakers' remarks,
there will be a question and answer session.
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press the pound key.
Thank you.
I would now like to turn the call
over to Ms. Suzanne Knizner.
Please go ahead, ma'am.
>> Suzanne Knizner: Thank you, Vanessa.
Hi everybody, and welcome to today's Social Media Monday,
Google -- Building Capacity Through Technology.
So glad that you are with us today.
My name is Suzanne Knizner, I'm the Project
and Corporate Coordinator for Campaign Consultation.
And I will be running the tech end of today's presentation.
Before we get started with the content, I just want to go
over through a few details.
If you were to lose your Internet or phone connection,
please simply call or log back in as you did originally,
and you will automatically be re-entered
into the presentation, and pick up where you left off.
Also notice the chat feature to your right-hand side.
You can certainly ask any questions
that come up along the way.
We will be monitoring that
and answering questions throughout the presentation.
Please know that today's presentation is being recorded,
and will be available afterwards,
and that all links during the presentation will be available
at the end.
Let me introduce this part of the presentation
to Michelle Bond, Project Manager
for Campaign Consultation,
who will introduce today's presenters.
>> Michelle Bond: Wonderful.
Thank you so much, Suzanne, and welcome everyone.
We're very happy to have you with us today.
Also presenting this afternoon is Elizabeth Matthews,
who's the Alumni and Outreach Support Specialist
of the Corporation for National and Community Service,
and our Social Media Specialist, Danielle Ricks,
here at Campaign Consultation.
And so I'd just like to invite Liz to open up --
up here, and -- and welcome everybody to get us started.
>> Elizabeth Matthews: Great.
Thanks, Michelle.
Welcome everybody, thanks for taking time
out of your busy day to join us.
These calls are fun, and hopefully helpful,
so I appreciate you joining us
on the first Monday of every other month.
And we are lucky to have this fabulous team be our guests
for this call.
These are hands-on tech vistas, which is the project
and partnership with Google.
There are 23 of these [inaudible] vistas
across the country in 7 cities, and this is the Pittsburgh team.
So we've got Julie who is a Pittsburgh native,
and Ben who was working at the Apple store prior
to joining vista, so he's got the tech expertise background,
and Blake relocated from Denver to Pittsburgh.
So they are -- are our fabulous team, and I look forward
to hearing your presentation, as I'm sure everyone else does.
And if we have any other hands-on tech vistas that are
on this call, please don't be shy, make yourself known,
either through the chat room or during the Q&A.
So thanks everyone.
>> Great, thanks Liz.
And we're really excited to have our guests with us today.
So I hope to also learn a lot more
about that program from you all.
Just briefly, the Social Media Monday web shop series,
as Liz mentioned, is offered every other month
on the first Monday.
And the purpose of these sessions is really to --
in addition to showing vistas and communities new technologies
and platforms in the realm of social media,
to really take it a step further and provide you
with some real case studies and expertise from people
who have used it -- who have used these platforms
in their service, so that you can take the skills
that you might gain, and use them directly
to accomplish your [inaudible]
and create change in your communities.
So whenever possible we do have alumni
who are currently serving members to --
to share their experiences with us.
And so that's what we hope to get a lot of today.
And with that I will pass it over to Danielle
to get us started on our agenda.
>> Danielle Ricks: Thanks so much, Michelle.
Thanks everyone for joining us on the call.
Today's agenda, we're going to do an overview
of the Google suites of products.
There are many of them, so we're just going to touch on a few.
But in particular we're going to do an overview of Google
for non-profits, and how non-profits can use these suite
of project products in -- in your day to day,
and we'll do an overview of those specifically for you all
and for the non-profits.
And then we're going to have a case study with our hands
on tech Pittsburgh folks.
And it's a really great case study,
I think you're going to enjoy it.
It's a lot of information to share about the type
of information -- type of products that Google has.
And sometimes you -- your head can explode with all
that information as you try to figure out how to use it,
and so we're hoping that with this case study we'll be able
to walk you through just how you can apply it to your day to day.
So I'm going to turn it back over to Michelle,
who's going to tell you a little bit about a poll
that you should be seeing right now.
>> Michelle Bond: Thanks, Danielle.
If you would, just briefly in the bottom right-hand portion
of your screen, just take a couple seconds
to give us your first response.
We always like to know where everyone is at on the call.
And we have a range of people with us today,
so please just feel free to do that, and we'll come back
to that in just a moment or two.
>> Danielle Ricks: Great, thanks Michelle.
So while you take time to fill out the poll,
we wanted to talk a little bit about the overview of products
from Google, and there are many.
There's YouTube, there's G-Mail, there's Blogger,
there's Picassa, there's Google Reader, there's Google Talk,
Google Voice, Picassa, Analytics, Google websites.
There's a lot that's available to people who want
to use the Google products.
We are going to touch on many of them today
that are specific for non-profits.
We are not going to get to the Google Plus section today.
It was so much information, we didn't want
to take anything away from the hands-on tech people,
then we wanted to make sure we had enough time
and got that out there.
So we may do that later on in another web shop, but we wanted
to let you know that we wanted to really focus on the products
that are going to be available for non-profits and specific.
So I think the poll is just about done,
we've got a couple of seconds there.
If you have not done the poll, please go ahead and we'll --
there are just a few questions that we want to talk
about to figure out where we are with the people on the call.
And the reason why we do that is we -- we --
we think in advance about who we think is going to be
on the call, and how we're going to plan our web shops,
but we also want to find out specifically from you
which direction we should go, and whether
or not we should spend more on one section or not.
And we're almost ready for the poll results,
and we're ready for the poll results.
Okay. And Suzanne will let us know where we are.
>> Suzanne Knizner: Okay.
It looks like the majority of you are using Google products --
44%, and you're using one to two of them, which is great.
Hopefully you'll learn a new feature today.
You are almost all vista members, which is wonderful.
And we have a couple of staff members and volunteers.
And let's see, 61% manage website, blog,
or social networking site,
and 74% do have a team need or content sharing.
>> Danielle Ricks: That's great, thank you Suzanne.
So we're really -- really happy to have so many vistas
on the call with us, and to know
that you are also managing websites, there --
we will then spend quite a bit of time on analytics,
and I think you'll find that very interesting for you all,
and that you're working as a team,
and we have some team building and team efforts
that we can show you there.
So what we want to look at right now --
excuse me, losing my voice -- is a quick video.
And we'll -- I'll share my desktop
as soon as I get the rights.
And this video is about Google for non-profits.
It's a -- the link will be provided
in the final presentation in the final slide, and we can also --
I'll put that in the chat if you like.
But this is a -- an overview if you will of Google products
for non-profits, and how you can use it.
And I think they kind of say it better than we ever could.
So be mindful of the volume as we get ready to go.
Can everybody see it?
Almost, it's still loading.
[ Silence ]
Yes? Oh.
>> [ Background Music ]
Today countless organizations, including many non-profits,
use Google to save time and money.
Google Apps is a suite of web-based tools
that makes collaboration easy.
From e-mail and calendar, to documents and spreadsheets,
these tools are designed to help you improve productivity,
and minimize IT hassles.
G-Mail is Google's e-mail service that allows you
to use your organization's domain name
in your e-mail addresses.
With just one click, interact with your colleagues
across the world via text, voice,
or video using the built-in chat.
G-Mail is customizable to fit the look
and feel of your organization.
Integrated calendar is another way
to help your organization manage time effectively.
It's easy to see and manage other's schedules.
You can invite colleagues to meetings and events,
and keep track of RSVPs.
Google Docs is a great way to improve operational efficiency
by creating, sharing, and collaborating
on documents online in real time.
Shared documents can be restricted
to certain users and levels of access.
Regardless of their location, users can work on and comment
on the same document without having
to e-mail attachments back and forth.
And with the revision history feature,
you can view all changes made to a document by each collaborator.
Google Forms makes it quick and easy to collect data
from colleagues, donors, and members.
In a few clicks your form is created and ready to send out.
After that, responses are automatically added
to a spreadsheet that you control.
Google Sites is the ideal place
to tie together everything you've accomplished
in calendar, docs, and forms.
Create your own free website that can act as a central hub
for everything that your organization shares.
You can also add YouTube videos, photo slideshows, and more.
Here are a few more resources to check out.
Google Fusion Tables to manage
and visualize your data immediately,
Google Maps for collaborative mapping of projects
across your organization, Open Data Kit to collect data
out in the field, and Google Analytics
to measure the impact of your website.
To get started, apply for Google for non-profits today.
>> Danielle Ricks: Okay.
So that is an overview of some of the things that you can do
with Google for non-profit, and the suite
of products that they have.
And here's a list here of some of the things
that are offered specifically for non-profits.
And you can see the list goes on and on
and on, it's sort of endless.
And again, I know it's a lot of information,
but our hands-on tech team is going to break it down
and make it digestible for you all.
And so up next then is Julie, you're going
to give us an overview, are you not,
on how non-profits can use Google.
>> Alright, thanks Danielle.
So I want to give a brief overview of the Google
for non-profits offerings,
available to non-profits right now.
The screenshot actually in the background
of this slide is the Google.com/nonprofits website,
where you'll get a lot of the information about the offerings,
and also the grants program if your organization decides
to go the Google route.
So Google for non-profits covers a lot of tools
that are especially beneficial to the small
and the medium-sized organization.
One of the first things I wanted to mention is the free version
of Google Apps for G-Mail that would allow a non-profit
to operate under its own domain name.
Also included in the offerings is the YouTube
for non-profits program, with the added features
like transparent overlays for donations on your videos.
Another feature is easy enrollment
into the grants program, which is actually housed
under Google for non-profits.
Organizations approved through the grants program are given
free ad words advertising money.
So when you do a search query, as we've all done before
within Google.com, you'll notice that on the right-hand side
of the page some small ads appear.
And this is ad space that's free for non-profits
to post small advertisements directing people to their site
or to their campaign that they're hosting,
and can be a number of things.
If you want to apply for the Google for non-profits program,
you'll need to be a registered 50123 organization,
one that doesn't have a strong religious
or political affiliation.
And the application process is actually a single signup,
and that covers Google Apps, the ad words advertising,
and also the constant YouTube brand and channel.
And then one final thing, all of this is free for non-profits.
>> Danielle Ricks: Thank you, Julie.
And so before we move on, we're going to start --
the hands-on tech team is going to dive
into some specific products for you all, and we'll start with --
we'll take a look at a video on how to use YouTube.
But before we get there, I wondered if you or Blake
or Ben would like to tell us a little bit
about the hands-on tech Pittsburgh and what you all do,
and how you interact with non-profits.
>> Sure. So we're a -- we're a team of vistas in Pittsburgh,
and -- and our -- sort of our primary mission --
this is Ben by the way, I'm sorry --
sort of our primary mission is to work with non-profits
in the city of Pittsburgh, particularly those
that have a -- a strong anti-poverty focus.
And we're going in and --
and seeing what sort of technology needs they have,
and then tech assessments for them,
and then recruiting volunteers to help them with those needs.
So everything from web design to social media
and database development.
>> Danielle Ricks: And Ben, we're going to take a look first
at the YouTube channel, and how non-profits can use that.
Tell me a little bit about YouTube, even -- any --
either of the three of you,
talk to me a little bit before we watch the video,
just a little bit about YouTube
and how you've seen non-profits use them.
>> Hello, this is Blake, and I'm one of the other volunteers.
Yeah, YouTube as Julie said, you can have a customized brand
of -- branded channel, and also with that,
you know, customized banners.
You can also have -- you can have donations like embedded
in your videos, and these are called call to action overlays.
You can also have a -- a donate button close
to your video that's connected to a Google checkout.
Also there's good analytics.
You can see where your --
where people are viewing your video from, and, you know,
where -- whether, you know, it's blog traffic or -- or what not.
You can also have the ability to select which video is featured,
and you can upload videos more than 15 minutes long.
And there's also good fun things,
like Do Gooder Non-profit Video Award.
So if your video gets 10,000 views,
you get a 2,500 dollar grant.
And also there's other contacts -- contacts like on Mick --
my take on peace video concepts -- sorry about that.
And also there's live video editing on YouTube.
So you can put things like stabilizing
of video footage, effects, and music.
You can also upload video up on mobile phones, webcams,
or flipcams, and some organizations give them out,
so it's pretty easy to do that.
>> Danielle Ricks: Great, thanks so much.
We're going to just watch a little video from YouTube
that explains in length what you've just explained to us.
You did a great job, thank you very much.
And so here we go.
>> [ Background Music ]
Does your organization have a compelling story to tell?
>> It would help if I would share my desktop then,
wouldn't it?
>> -- connect with your supporters, volunteer --
>> Okay. Sorry guys, there we go.
[ Silence ]
>> [ Background Music ]
Does your organization have a compelling story to tell?
Do you want to connect with your supporters, volunteers,
and donors, but don't have the funds
to launch expensive outreach campaigns?
The YouTube non-profit program can help.
>> If I could give one piece of advice, it would be sign
up for the YouTube non-profit program.
If I could give another piece of advice, it would just be
to capture the story of your organization,
use video to tell it, because video is the most powerful
medium by far.
>> The non-profit program helps you use YouTube
as a powerful fundraising tool for your organization.
>> In one weekend we managed to raise enough
to feed 500,000 children in school for one day.
[Inaudible] views, and had thousands of comments.
>> And tell stories that haven't been told.
>> Because you guys --
the YouTube community started sharing these videos,
there's been housing programs started,
and feeding programs started.
Literally homeless people
that were sleeping outside slept inside last night,
because of you guys.
>> Over 10,000 non-profits are already using YouTube's premium
tools for non-profits.
Your organization can too.
Learn more and apply at www.youtube.com/nonprofits.
>> Danielle Ricks: Okay.
So that's a little overview of what you can do
with YouTube for non-profits.
And now we are going to turn it over to Julie and the gang,
and Blake and Ben, and they're going to walk us
through some Google Apps.
And I'm going to give rights to Julie.
There we go.
Okay Julie.
>> Yes.
>> Danielle Ricks: You now have rights, and you should be able
to share your desktop.
>> Okay, perfect.
So Google Apps allows the user -- you the user to aggregate all
of your data and [inaudible].
A lot of you are probably familiar with G-Mail,
maybe you have personal accounts or even professional accounts,
if that's the host that your organization already uses.
I use Google Apps at my job every day.
And it includes things like my e-mail,
calendar, search, and docs.
So also our hands-on tech website was built
within Google Sites, and it provides a lot
of simple templates, very easy to use and manage
if that's something that you decide to do.
So now I'd like to give you an example.
I want to show you how I add an event to my calendar
with the click ad feature.
Alright, so right over here next to create, and I'm going to say
that I have meeting with Ben on February 3rd
at 10:00 a.m. Click Add, and that will show --
if I go back to last week --
okay let's try that one more time.
Okay, meeting with Ben --
>> [Inaudible].
>> -- on 2 dash 9.
[ Silence ]
>> Okay, so now it has showed up on my schedule,
and that's so easy Google example
to translate my quick phrase into an actual calendar event.
Okay, so now I'll open a shared doc that I am sharing
with my co-worker Blake.
And something that's cool with docs is that you can edit
in real time with your co-workers.
So this green little square up here,
that represents B Anaburg [phonetic],
which is Blake Anaburg,
and I can see everywhere there's green is where he is typing.
So if Blake were to add something to this document,
I can just see exactly where he's typing
at the -- in real time.
[ Silence ]
Okay. And then also with G-Mail, it's run under the Google name,
so it's probably not surprising that there's a search feature.
So for example, if I wanted to find an old e-mail
from Danielle Ricks, all I would have
to do is start typing her name,
and all of these e-mails are the most recent ones from Danielle,
and it pulls up all my recent e-mails,
so finding anything should not be a problem.
Alright.
[ Silence ]
>> Danielle Ricks: Julie?
>> Yes.
>> Danielle Ricks: Okay.
Do you want to go over analytics first?
Or do you want -- let -- yeah, let's do the analytics,
and then we'll do the video afterwards.
>> Okay. This is Ben, I'm going to go ahead
and grab the analytics, so --
>> Danielle Ricks: Great, thanks Ben.
>> Let's see, is Julie still sharing your screen?
>> Danielle Ricks: Yes.
>> That is perfect, okay.
Alright, so we use Google Sites for our --
our -- handling tech sites.
But one of the key things with analytics is
that you can actually use this with any website.
So you just have to embed a little bit of code,
and you can sort of take advantage
of all the things you can do within analytics.
We use this a lot to track people when they're looking
at -- at our site to see
where our visitors are coming from and what not.
So this is kind of a -- a basic look.
You can see the site, we had a little bit of a peak last week.
We sent out an e-mail,
and that's why we're seeing these sort
of peaks and valleys come in.
One of the things that we particularly find useful
as vitas is that we're recruiting volunteers,
which I'm sure a lot of you are.
Within the Google analytics,
they have a newer feature called visitor flow,
and this actually shows you where people go
when they get to the site.
It's particularly useful, so you see that the majority of people
when they land on our home page, a fair bit are going
to the volunteer page, which is what we want them to do,
or go down to either the events or to our mission statement.
And we can see that we're pretty much split
between non-profit visitors, which we want
to apply [inaudible] volunteers that we need the help from out.
So visitor flow makes it very easy to see
where people are coming from and where they're going on the site.
It also allows you to see where it anomalies, like why somebody
from China is interested in our program.
I have no idea why, but they're on there.
So analytics allows you to do that.
There's also another feature, let's see, within the content.
This is called -- let me see if I can scroll down.
It's called the in page analytics.
Let's see if this works this time.
It allows you to see on the site itself what people are
clicking on.
We'll see if it loads up.
Sometimes it's a little buggy.
It's a new feature, but it allows you
to see percentage-wise -- hope you can all see that --
exactly what people are clicking on.
So 11% is pretty evenly distributed,
which I guess is a good thing.
Can see that not too many people are going necessarily to --
to the Pittsburgh [inaudible] page, but are more looking
at our program itself.
And then one other last thing.
I know there are a lot of pieces within analytics,
but you can see traffic sources.
And this allows you to see where the traffic
to the page is coming from, which is pretty --
pretty useful when you want to see
if your host organization is linking properly,
or most of your traffic is coming from a blog
or a newspaper article.
>> Danielle Ricks: So I just have a couple
of questions for you guys.
We have some pretty advanced people on the call,
which is great, but we are going to archive the slides of this.
What is analytics?
We hear that name thrown around a lot.
For people who may not be sure what that is,
let's just give a definition of that.
And then secondly, all this information is great,
what do you do with it?
After you get all of this information,
do you put it in a report?
Does it help you decide what you're going to put on your blog
or what you're going to put on your website?
How do you use this information?
So what is it, and then how do you use it?
>> Sure. Well analytics in general is kind of a term a lot
of different companies use, and it generally means looking at --
at data, looking at incoming research, and analyzing it
to sort of package it and make it useful.
So sort of to -- to do that, most of what we use analytics
for is just seeing how our website's performing,
just to see if --
if our newsletter did accurately go out.
If we don't see a -- a big spike
after we send an e-mail then maybe the link was wrong
in the e-mail.
It does help us to sort of see if some
of our partner organizations are referring properly.
We've had some blogs that posted on our program, and we wanted
to make sure they were actually driving traffic to see
that it was a relationship that made sense
for us to keep working with.
But generally for us it's a little bit more just seeing
if the site's working properly.
You can package the data and do some other things with it.
And some of our non-profits can use it sort of to see if,
you know, people are coming to their page and donating,
or if they're hitting the front page and they're not clicking
on a page for donate, then they, you know,
sort of adjust the way the front page looks.
You know, you -- you want that traffic to be driven
to the appropriate areas.
>> Danielle Ricks: Great.
Anybody else want to add to that, or are we good?
>> We're good.
>> Danielle Ricks: Alright.
So we are going to take rights back.
>> Alright.
[ Silence ]
>> Danielle Ricks: Okay.
Give us a couple of seconds.
And so the only thing that we wanted to share
with you all is then the Google Sites.
They talked a little bit earlier that -- about building --
the team did, about building a Google site.
And for those of you who have not done it,
we have done an entire Social Media Monday web shop
on -- web shop on websites.
And so you are more than welcome to check out our archives
for some back Social Media Monday web shops on that.
But just very quickly I wanted to share my desktop,
and go ahead and show you a video that sort
of describes what is available in Google Sites.
Oh. This is an introduction to Google Sites,
and I'm hoping everyone can see my desktop.
Here we go.
>> Google Sites makes websites and Wikis simple, and it's free.
Create and publish a new page with just a few clicks.
Add info just like you do in a document, just start typing.
And you can insert pictures, videos,
or other types of content.
Make as many pages as you like, and arrange them as you please.
All your info is stored securely online in one place.
You can make your site public or private,
and control who can edit your site.
Getting started is easy,
and there are a number of helpful templates.
More than just a visual theme,
site templates can include site structure,
custom page templates, embedded gadgets, and more.
So whether you're making a site for business, school, a club,
or your family, you spend less time getting set up.
Get your site at sites.google.com.
>> Danielle Ricks: Okay that was short and sweet, right?
So now we are going to go ahead
and do our case study, in the day of a life.
Julie, I am read for you to get started.
>> Okay. You know, it's easy for us to talk
about all the new great Google tools that are out there.
But I want to sort of paint you a picture of the day
in the life, and the practicality of all --
everything that we've mentioned so far.
So Julie starts her day
by checking her agenda via her Google calendar on her iPhone.
She sees that she has a meeting scheduled
with a local non-profit in the afternoon.
So she arrives at the office, pulls up her custom Google site,
which is tailored to show the upcoming events of the day,
volunteer registration forms, docs, and e-mail.
She remembers that she wanted to request Blake's permission
to include a photo in a Google Doc presentation.
So she sends him a quick Google Chat message.
He replies okay, that's fine.
Thanks for asking.
So Julie plays with the photo in a Google Docs presentation
for the upcoming meeting,
and she shares the presentation with Blake.
Later in the afternoon, a freak blizzard hits the city,
and disrupts traffic flow.
Blake realizes that all of the volunteers scheduled to work
at that day's project will probably not be able to make it.
So he logs into his Google Plus account,
and starts a video hangout with the volunteer circle
that he previously created.
Blake then refers to his Google Fusion Table map to see
which scheduled volunteers live
in the closest proximity to the project site.
Through the hangout Blake is able
to notify his volunteers living closest to the site
that they should continue to not -- to plan on showing up.
In the meantime, Blake receives a number of missed phone calls
to his Google Voice number from the volunteers.
The voice messages are transcribed
and sent to his G-Mail.
He can quickly scan them and determine
which individuals will be able to make it to the project.
That afternoon, Julie meets with the non-profit,
and returns to the office to archive her notes and plans.
She does this on her co-worker's computer that she borrowed
since hers was stolen
at the local coffee shop the week before.
Even though her work and her work laptop was stolen,
her data remains secure because it was stored completely
on the cloud.
She is still able to perform her job as an [inaudible] vista,
completing daily tasks
like checking her website's incoming traffic via Google
analytics, sharing documents with her colleagues
in Google Docs, and managing her agenda with Google Calendar.
Regardless of what issues may arise during their [inaudible]
vista year of service, Julie and Blake feel confident
that they can rely on Google Apps
to help create sustainability,
and build capacity in their community.
>> Danielle Ricks: Alright, thank you.
So that's the day in the life.
That's great.
And so we wanted to leave some time
for some questions and answers.
I saw someone's hand was raised, but I'm wondering
if you were able to get your question in the chat.
[ Silence ]
Are there any questions from anyone on the call?
>> At this time if you would like to ask a question,
press star 1 on your telephone keypad.
[ Silence ]
There are no questions at this time.
[ Silence ]
>> Okay, well if you think of something along the way,
please let us know either in the chat or by pressing star 1,
and we will be sure to answer your question.
>> And there will also be an opportunity later
on to keep the conversation going on the vista campus,
and we'll provide that link for you as well.
>> I do have a question.
>> Okay.
>> This comes from Wendy.
Have you ever had issues with people finding out --
finding or not finding your Google site?
>> I will turn that over to the hands-on tech folks.
>> So whether or not people are finding it at all.
We -- we've benefitted that Pittsburgh Cares,
our organization, it's pretty well known here
and they've given us some referral links to the point now
where I think if you Google hands-on tech Pittsburgh we come
up pretty close to the top.
But we found out early on getting posted
on a local non-profit blog actually helped a lot,
as they had already had a lot of traffic.
So sometimes just getting the early referrals
from other websites, be them, you know,
blogs or community organizations,
or local council members or something
like that sometimes can help jump start.
>> Great, thank you so much.
We have another question from Amanda.
Does Google charge to use their donation checkout?
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>> Hands-on tech team?
>> That's a good question.
Blake's going to answer it.
Or well, they're -- they're going to start charging
on March 12th I think.
It's actually a -- a point of contention we've run into.
They -- they were free if you were under the grants program,
but it looks like they're going to be revoking that.
We're still working to get that hammered out,
but I believe their checkout is now similar
to Paypal, or will be in March.
>> Wonderful, thanks for clarifying that.
Hopefully it'll -- it'll work out to in our -- in our benefit.
Does anyone else -- oh good, another question.
What tool did you use to create the A Day
in the Life of case study?
I like it.
>> Well actually we used PowerPoint to grab everything,
and to load 'em into the PowerPoint presentation.
But a lot of the images came from Google themselves,
and Julie provided -- Julie, you want to let us know
where you got your images?
>> Yeah. Some of them are just screenshots,
and then we added the [inaudible] to, you know,
put our own text in there,
make it personalized for hands-on tech.
The story idea, we hosted a workshop back in November,
it was along with in lines of what we're presenting on today.
And one of the Googlers did a Day in the Life,
and I simply recreated it and added a few things
so it pertained more to vista work, and non-profits as well.
>> And we're so glad you all liked it, because it just kind
of ties everything together, and you guys did a great team --
hands-on tech team for that, and great job, Julie.
>> All great questions.
Are there any others before we move on?
Remember you can access the chat feature, or press star 1.
Alright, well we will move forward.
But if I see any questions that come up,
we'll be sure to answer them.
>> Great, thanks everyone.
And as always we do want to remind you of a few things
to keep in mind regarding social media and your service.
First of all the Hatch [phonetic] Act,
as you may be familiar with,
which restricts any political activity as a vista member.
So just to remind you that that does apply
to your online activities as well as your offline activities.
Of course, you know, to be tasteful and appropriate
in your online interactions, that you are representing vista,
and so would like to do that in accordance with, you know,
the vista spirit as well.
And then of course to stay safe online.
Protect yourself and your organization,
and just a few tips on doing that,
obviously to keep your passwords in a secure place and not
to share them with anyone, to be select --
selective in setting up your username and e-mail address,
and make sure that it reflects what's appropriate
for your organization, obviously to ignore users
that are unwanted, and also to just be very mindful
of your interactions online.
And we've provided links to these resources
at the bottom of the page as well.
Also you'll notice that we have opened the evaluation.
So if you would, just take a few moments while we are wrapping
up to give us your feedback.
We really do take a look at that,
and try to improve on each session.
So we want to make sure
that we've heard your voice in that as well.
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Another thing we'd like to remind you of is campus tours.
Campus tours are offered twice a month,
and available on the vista campus.
The easiest way to access those is by using the calendar feature
that you see there on the --
the bottom left portion of the screenshot.
These are offered on different -- different topics,
but are designed to give you an overview of the resources
and materials available on the vista campus.
And so we do encourage you to partake in one of those,
and also share those with others at your site,
so you can get a sense of the --
the wealth of information that exists on the vista campus.
>> And this is a list of the links
that were provided during the web shop.
If you would like to go back and see some of the videos
that we played, or look at some of the links for setting
up the web shop, YouTube for non-profits, Google grants,
and then we also hope that you will visit the hands-on tech
Pittsburgh site as well.
The next slide are the vista social media useful links.
This is where you will find [inaudible] vista
across social media platforms.
And so if you're not following us on any of those spaces,
we do encourage you to do that.
And so those are the links for -- to our various sites.
>> And that's -- oh excuse me.
And as always, I thank you for joining us --
joining us on today's session.
We really enjoy having you with us,
and some of the [inaudible] April, our next web shop will be
on planning events, and so we will be showcasing different
tools such as Meetup or Event Bright [phonetic]
that you can use to really bring your online interactions
offline, and -- and really benefit from a face
to face contact with others who are working in your area,
or at your -- in your location.
So please join us for that, and again,
thank you for your participation today.
If you haven't filled out the evaluation,
please go ahead and do so.
And any other questions, you can always find us
on the Social Media Monday forum on -- on the vista campus,
where we can continue the conversation.
>> Thanks everyone.
>> Thank you, have a good day.
>> Thanks everyone.
>> This does conclude today's conference call.
You may now disconnect.