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>> Suzanne Knizner: Hey everyone,
and welcome to the Bimonthly VISTA,
Social Media Monday web shop.
I'm Suzanne Knizner.
And, today we're bringing you our Social Media Monday web shop
on using Youtube to tell your story of these.
Please look in the lower right hand portion of your screen
and you will see that we are asking you
to answer a few questions.
These polls help us to know who is participating in this webinar
and direct them to your needs.
With us today, we have Liz Matthews, Outreach Specialist
for the Corporation for National and Committee Service as well
as Danielle Ricks, Social Media Specialist
for Campaign Consultation and Robyn Stegman,
Project Specialist for Campaign Consultation.
Liz and Danielle will be presenting today
and Robyn will be managing your questions
and leading the dialogue
in the chat feature of this presentation.
>> Robyn Stegman: Thank you Suzanne.
>> Suzanne Knizner: Robyn?
>> Robyn Stegman: So, I'm going to give you a couple of tips
for how to participate
in today's excellent web shop we have for you.
First, if you have any questions anytime during the presentation
you can always submit them in the Q&A feature, which is right
under the chat feature, you'll see a little Q&A
and just pop your questions in there.
We'll be reserving the chats for tips and resources
and ideas that you have.
We'll be asking some questions along the way
and sharing some resources with you, but if you have questions
or comments for your fellow VISTAs you can use the
chat there.
And then, we will also be opening up this online later
for question and answer.
So, if you want to ask your question vocally
to the presenter, there will be an opportunity at the end
of the webinar for you to do so.
>> Danielle Ricks: Great, thank you.
So, everyone, you should see the poll running
on your right hand side,
and if you would please just take a minute to answer
that for us, it will help us give an idea
of how we guide our conversation today.
We want to know if you're using video
in your position as a VISTA.
We'd also like to know how you're currently sharing video,
Youtube, Vimeo, are you using a smartphone app such as Socialcam
and Vine, or are there other apps that you're using
or other ways that you're sharing your videos online,
and then we want to know why you're sharing your video,
is it to document your service, to promote your project,
or to share maybe your VISTA experience
with family and friends.
Often times, it may be difficult to explain
to them what you're doing
and since a picture says a thousand words, video has maybe,
you know, twice that, 2000.
Or it could be just to showcase your talent.
So, we wanted to get a temperature in the room
and figure out how you're using that.
While you're taking a moment to fill out the poll,
let's go over today's agenda.
We will have an introduction of our Social Media Monday web shop
and what they're all about,
an overview of what we're going to cover today.
There will be an introduction of our VISTA guests.
We'll have some examples of video sharing sites and apps,
and we're really hoping that it's going
to help drive the conversation as well today.
We have not one but two VISTA case studies for you
where we're going to go over some videos
and some storytelling ideas with you.
We have a few tips and resources.
During the chat and in the chat, Q&A, Robyn is going
to be providing several links that we're going
to be sharing with you.
They will be available as well at the end of the presentation.
And then as Robyn mentioned, we are going to open up questions
and answers and open up the line.
Now, this Webinar is slated to run 60 minutes.
We may stay over for an additional half hour
to answer questions if they come up, if we haven't got them all
in the hour but if not, you can also join our Twitchat
which is going to happen after this presentation.
That information will be available
to you a little bit later.
And also, please know and keep in mind
that is not necessarily a how-to, how to use YouTube,
how to sign up for Vimeo.
It's more about the storytelling and us being able
to give you examples, a story, a feed,
and how you do that using video.
We have several web shops available for you
on the Social Media Monday archives page
that are very basic how-tos, how to sign up, how to get started,
how to start your channel.
There are actually two, one on YouTube alone
and then the other one on storytelling,
and Robyn again will be providing those links
for you in the chat.
This particular web shop is more about the nitty-gritty
about let's talk about stories, how do you tell stories,
let's get some examples of them.
What kind of production value should you be using?
What type of editing equipment should you be using?
So, those are those kinds of things
that we're going to talk about.
Now, Liz is going to give you an introduction
to Social Media Monday, and then after that we'll check
and see the polls which should be done
about that time once you've finished.
>> Liz Matthews: Great, thanks Danielle.
And thanks everybody for joining in on this web shop.
We know you're very busy and we appreciate you taking time
out of your schedule to dedicate an hour or so to this topic.
So, just to give you a little bit of background,
the Social Media Monday web shops are designed as part
of your professional development.
These web shops are focused, as you would imagine,
on social media and they occur the first Monday
of every other month.
So, we cover a variety of tools.
For example, our last web shop was on Flickr
and in June we're going to talk about LinkedIn.
So, while these are fun tools to use in your personal life,
these web shops are designed
to talk how you can use social media professionally
in your VISTA service to both move the mission
of your organization forward as well
as to achieve the goals in your bag.
So, I just wanted to also remind you all
that we have regular webinars on a variety of topics
from measuring poverty to resume writing, as well as life
as a VISTA, to managing your healthcare and living
on the living allowance.
And this Thursday, there's a webinar
on planning your professional development while serving.
So, you may want to check the calendar on the VISTA Campus
for upcoming topics and dates to register, and we'll remind you
about that at the end of this web shop.
>> Robyn Stegman: Great,
we actually do have the poll results.
>> Liz Matthews: Oh great!
>> Robyn Stegman: So before I turn it back over to you Liz
to do the overview, can you, Suzanne,
just let us know what's going on
and who we have on the call today?
>> Liz Matthews: Are you on mute, Suzanne?
[laughs]
>> Suzanne Knizner: Yeah, okay.
So, it looks like the majority of you are not using video
in your position as a VISTA.
So, that is good to know so that hopefully, you can pick
up some new tips during today's presentation.
And that the majority of you
who are currently sharing video are using YouTube,
so that's great, and only a few
of you are using other applications.
And it looks like the majority of you are sharing videos online
to promote your project which is a great thing to be doing,
closely followed by documenting your service.
So, we hope that with today's presentation
that that will give you some more resources to use
in your service, and to promote your project,
and to of course showcase your talent.
>> Danielle Ricks: Well, that's right on time, Liz.
This is like so great.
>> Liz Matthews: I know.
That is good.
Okay. Well, thanks everybody for filling out that poll.
That gives us a better read as to, I would say,
who's in the room, who's on the phone.
So, today, we are going to talk
about how video sharing can enhance what you're doing
as a VISTA and what your organization is trying
to accomplish in your community.
So, as we know, images really help to tell the story.
It's definitely more enticing to see a photo or better yet,
a video to get a point across.
So, we're going to, today, look at ways to use video,
both to tell a story, to promote your project,
or to promote VISTA, to raise awareness about poverty
and the issues that your organization is focused on,
whether that's hunger, or education, or homelessness,
as well as showcasing your organization.
So, we're going to see some really great examples
by our guests, and we are lucky
to have two alumni as our guests today.
This is unique, so welcome to Amanda Flitter
in Manchester New Hampshire and Maggie Garvey
from Prescott Valley, Arizona.
Thank you both for joining us.
Amanda, do you want to just tell us quickly
where and when you served?
I know you were both a member and a leader.
>> Amanda Flitter: Yes.
>> Liz Matthews: Can you tell everybody where?
>> Amanda Flitter: Yeah.
I served both terms in Manchester, New Hampshire
with the Families in Transition VISTA program.
So, I started in 2010, right out of college.
So, my first year was been
at Court Appointed Special Advocates in Manchester.
And they do advocacy work for abused
and neglected children in court.
And I did a lot of marketing and social media
and fundraising work with them.
And then my second year was as a VISTA leader for the program
and my office was at Families in Transition.
>> Liz Matthews: Great.
Thanks Amanda.
So, we'll be hearing more from her in a little bit.
Maggie, you want to tell everybody
where you served as a VISTA?
>> Maggie Garvey: Sure.
My term of service was in Prescott Valley, Arizona working
with an organization called the Youth Camp supporting a
nationwide initiative called Generation United.
And, you know, my term of service ended in 2007
and I was asked to step in to the source coordinator role
for our now statewide regional VISTA program.
So, I started VISTA in 2006
and really haven't stopped doing it yet.
>> Liz Matthews: Great, we love it, a lifetime of service,
[inaudible] all about.
Excellent.
Thank you Maggie.
So, we'll hear, like I said, in more detail
from both of them in a bit.
But for now, I'm going to go ahead
and turn it back over to Danielle.
>> Danielle Ricks: Thanks very much and thank you to our guests
for joining us, and we're going to hear a little bit,
as Liz said, more from them
as they tell us how they're using video
to share their stories of V. And right now I just wanted to sort
of give you an overview of some
of the video sharing sites and apps.
I see in the chat that a lot
of people are asking what apps do we use.
So first, let's start with the sites.
The two big heavy hitters out there are YouTube and Vimeo
and everyone I'm sure knows
that YouTube is a video sharing website
that allows literally billions of people to watch and discover
and share originally created video.
And the same goes for Vimeo.
It's very easy to use.
We'll talk a little bit about that on the next slide
but it's very easy to use, it's very easy to set up.
One of the things that we like the most about YouTube is
that it does have a nonprofit channel
and it allows you to do playlist.
So, even if you don't have a lot of content, you can pull content
from other areas and we'll talk about that in a little bit.
Three of the most popular video sharing apps right now
and I have to address right now
because this changes very quickly, but there are three
that are very easy to use from your smartphone,
and two of them, Viddy and Socialcam are both
for iPhone and Android.
They're compatible with both phones.
So, whether you have an iPhone or HTC, you can use these,
you'll go to viddy.com or socialcam.com
from your smartphone or in your app store and download it
and walk you through the process.
Both of these apps allow you to share with other sites.
What I like the most about Socialcam is
that you can share them with YouTube,
and we'll be talking a lot about YouTube today.
And I do recommend that when you're using these two apps,
either one of them or any of these apps that you're using
that you back it up to a video site.
Often times these wonderful fantastic apps come
around for a couple of years and then they disappear
and it takes your content with you.
You can see in the screenshot that there's a little sign there
to go ahead and post this to Posterous and guess what,
Posterous is gone now, the blog has already gone down and was
so popular for such a long time.
So, again, you want to make sure that you're backing this
up either on YouTube or you send it to a cloud service
like a Dropbox or Evernote or somewhere
where you can hold on to it.
The other one we want to talk about is a new kid
on the block, and that's Vine.
And they're owned by Twitter.
They haven't been out very long.
Right now, it's just an iPhone and iPad app and allows you
to take short looping videos but you're not going to be able
to tell very long story of V but you can capture moments.
Again, it's the new kid on the block.
We're not sure what the longevity is going
to be with this.
A lot of brands are using it however.
So it may be something fun for you to experiment
with if you're a creative type.
A lot of animators are using it.
I would definitely, if you have an iPhone or iPad, check it out,
see if you like it, and it's again another way for you
to just share very quickly.
What we like about the apps are
that you can download video very quickly using these apps
with the iPhone.
You can actually edit them on your phones using iMovie,
upload it to the site and be done with it.
But if you want to do a little bit more storytelling that's a
little bit longer and can get to more of the crux
of what you're doing in your service project,
then we do recommend doing a YouTube video or a Vimeo.
So, let's go ahead to the next slide.
And this is Vimeo.
There are two versions of it.
There's the Plus and the PRO.
And this, as it says, is the easiest way to keep
and share your life in video.
You can do it in HD.
If you want to go professional and pay for it,
you're going to go PRO.
Otherwise, you can just go Plus
and it's an express for uploading photos.
It's clean, easy, very easy to use, user friendly.
If you have not delved into video sharing yet,
I would suggest starting here.
And the video link there is just vimeo.com to get started.
And again, Robyn has those links and she's dumping them
into the chat feature for you.
They will also be available for you
at the end of the presentation.
So, I'm going to go ahead and share my desktop and take you
over to an example, and we're going
to be showing you quite a bit of video today.
They're not very long and that's a good thing
because you don't want to tell your story in a way that's going
to distract people or keep them from being very interested.
There's been a lot of studies on this.
So far, they're saying the sweet spot is somewhere
between 1:20 and 3 minutes.
We can debate that back and forth with our guests who are
on the phone who are going to be coming in a little bit later.
And let's go ahead and just take a look at Vimeo channel.
You can see it's very, very clean.
And this particular person didn't even upload a photo
so you don't to.
But I was able to find this video using the AmeriCorps VISTA
search feature.
So, I just dumped in AmeriCorps VISTA and I wanted
to see what other videos were out there, I found several,
and this is the one that we picked.
[ Music ]
>> [Background Music] I went to sleep last night.
Tired from the flight.
I've been fighting for tomorrow all my life, yeah.
I woke up this morning feeling brand new 'cause the dreams
that I've been dreaming has finally come true.
It's a new day.
It's a new day.
It's a new day.
It's a new day.
It's a new day.
It's a new day.
>> Getting things done for America.
>> [Background Music] It's time for you and me, for us and we,
that's you and me together.
>> Danielle Ricks: And what I like about this video is
that it was very simple, very easy to do.
The editing was probably the most difficult part about it
but they took a very easy idea.
They do the credits and talk from the sidewalk.
They'd use regular pieces of paper to tell the story.
It was basically music with a little bit of audio and anyone,
I know you may not think you have the skills
but I'm telling you anyone, anyone can do this.
I now want to take you over to YouTube for nonprofit
and talk a little about that.
It is the reason why we like YouTube so much
and you can tell your organization stories
through videos on YouTube
and they have a special program for nonprofits.
Now, you don't have to start with the nonprofit channel
but if you are working for an organization and social media
as part of your responsibility and you are able
to start your own channel and you are able to take advantage
of the nonprofit program, we highly recommend
that you go ahead and apply.
All the information is for you right here.
It's a 1, 2, 3 step process.
You apply right here.
Robyn's going to give you the link in the chat
and you can download the Playbook for good
which will help walk you through it.
I'm going to play a small quick video for you that's going
to explain the program a little bit better probably that I can.
[ Pause ]
>> [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 nonprofit program can help.
>> If I can give one piece of advice, it would be sign
up for the YouTube nonprofit program.
If I can give another piece of advice, it would just be
to capture the story of your organization and use video
to tell it because video is the most powerful medium by far.
>> The nonprofit program helps you use YouTube
as a powerful fundraising tool for your organization.
>> When we can, we manage to raise enough
to feed 500,000 children in school for one day.
The video also gained over half a million 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 program started
and feeding program started.
Literally, homeless people
that were sleeping outside slept inside last night
because of you guys.
>> Over 10,000 nonprofits are already using YouTube's premium
tools for nonprofits.
Your organization can too.
Learn more and apply at www.youtube.com/nonprofits.
>> Danielle Ricks: Great.
So that's an explanation about the impact
that YouTube nonprofit program can have
and the outreach that it can have.
I wanted to go over now to the Corporation
for Community Services YouTube channel and Liz,
why don't you tell us a little bit about this channel.
Is this a government or a nonprofit?
>> Liz Matthews: Sure thing.
So it is a government channel and that means
that there's not a limited link of video that, you know,
we can upload a video that's 15 minutes long, 30 minutes long,
even though ideally the videos
that you all are putting together are probably shorter,
1 to 2 minutes.
And we can also brand the page which is great and if you scroll
down a little bit, down now,
you can see that the AmeriCorps VISTA channel is
within the playlist there on our-- on the CNCS main page.
So, obviously every organization is set up differently
but because AmeriCorps VISTA is within the Corporation
for National and Community Service,
that's part of the federal agency, it make sense for us
to be listed there at the playlist.
And then folks can go to our--
all of our different videos as well
as accessing it directly from YouTube.
>> Danielle Ricks: And that's a great point
and from our channel, you will see
that we have our own VISTA channel.
It is not a nonprofit channel which means
that we are restricted to only upload videos of up
to 15 minutes which may be plenty for those of you
out there but there are some other advantages
for the nonprofit program that you may want
to go ahead and explore.
So, for our homepage, we picked this is VISTA and I'm going
to talk over it sort of as it plays.
One of the things that I wanted to point, again,
are these playlists which we really like quite a bit
because these are uploaded videos that are featured
on the page and then these are favorite videos
from around YouTube.
In other words, you all pages and you all videos we kind
of put there to highlight the work
that maybe we're not connected in any other way.
We're not connected on Facebook.
Maybe we're not connected on Twitter
but we found a great example of stories of V around YouTube
and we wanted to add them to our playlist so the people coming
to our channel can find you.
And then we have our VISTA volunteers report every project
that we did and some other really interesting videos,
of course, the Social Media Monday webinars are here.
So this will hopefully give you an idea of the kind of things
that you can feature on a playlist and you may think
that you don't again have a lot of video to get started
but you could add AmeriCorps VISTA to your playlist
and some of our video.
You can add some videos from the Corporation for National Service
to your playlist and that will help you build out your channel
and make it more of your own.
So now, I am going to stop sharing my desktop for a while.
We talked about Vimeo.
We gave you the example.
We talked about YouTube for nonprofits and we hope
that you guys will go ahead and take advantage of that.
At least investigate.
We talked about the CNCS on YouTube channel.
We talked about AmeriCorps VISTA on YouTube channel
and now we would like to go ahead
and introduce you to our guest.
So, hi Amanda.
>> Amanda Flitter: Hello.
How are you?
>> Danielle Ricks: I'm doing great.
Let's just dive right in there.
How did you get started doing these videos
when you were a VISTA?
>> Amanda Flitter: I actually first learned
about all the different ways you can use YouTube and Vimeo
to sort of support your project when I was
at my VISTA leader training last September.
I was in Indianapolis and I spoke with a fellow VISTA leader
who she had mentioned during one of our workshops
that her project actually had each
of their VISTA members do their own video
and sort of tell their story.
And then what they actually did was at the end of the year,
they would sort of hold a community showcase.
So all the members would attend
and they would invite site supervisors and other members
of the community, they could kind of have a screening
of all the different videos that their members put together.
So, it seems like a really compelling way
to start telling our story because the Families
in Transition VISTA program had only been around for a couple
of years so we hadn't really done too much with video yet
and it seemed like a really neat opportunity to sort
of start branding our project and to get our member stories
out there 'cause we had, I believe it was between 28
and 30 different members doing different things all
across New Hampshire.
So, it seems like a really neat way
to start telling their story.
>> Danielle Ricks: Great.
Now, how long did it take for YouTube?
Did you do a story board?
Did you come up with a theme for people out there who are saying
"boy, that sounds great but I don't even know when to get
or how to get started."
What's the very first thing you want to tell them?
We're going to show your video in a minute
but what's the very first thing?
>> Amanda Flitter: Okay.
The very first thing that I did was kind of okay,
what is the goal of these videos.
What do you want people, you know, to take away from it
and I really wanted-- we at the program wanted
to really give people the opportunity to kind of talk
about their individual sites and the great things
that they were all doing individually 'cause they were
just doing such a neat variety of thing.
So I think that was sort of the first thing is to kind of have
that long term planning and then also just because we had a lot
of members and knew we wanted to all
of a sudden start doing a lot of video, we kind of planned it out
and we created a timeline of, you know, when we wanted
to have certain videos done by so we sort
of had a steady stream throughout the year.
>> Danielle Ricks: And I'm going to go over to the channel now.
So obviously, you chose the logo?
>> Amanda Flitter: Yes.
>> Danielle Ricks: To go here and how long--
what else did it take to build out this channel?
>> Amanda Flitter: Well, we didn't do a nonprofit channel.
So it was pretty simple.
I just kind of kept in mind, you know, the colors of, you know,
the Families in Transition logo,
sort of matching the blue and green.
So it definitely had that feel to it.
I've noticed that actually they're starting to post a lot
of new videos now since I've moved on and you can tell
that they've also sort of kept the colors too
and made sure that, you know, the subtitle,
they are a matching font.
So if you're-- I know some organizations have some
branding, some don't, but definitely things
like matching colors and using the AmeriCorps logo
and having those little subtitles at the bottom,
which a lot of programs make it really easy to put those in,
just make it looks more cohesive and more professional.
>> Danielle Ricks: And I will point
out that AmeriCorps VISTA is in the title for the
about for the channel and so it makes it really easy
for you guys to be found in the search feature.
So talk to me a little bit about Meet Amanda.
This is actually how we found you, right Liz?
>> Liz Matthews: Yeah.
>> Danielle Ricks: With this video.
>> Liz Matthews: Right.
>> Danielle Ricks: So talk to me a little bit
about this video, Amanda.
The audio is a little low here.
>> Amanda Flitter: Yes.
Yeah, 'cause, you know, the speaker was a little echoey
but I actually, I definitely was not alone in this project.
I had a co-VISTA leader
and so she was actually the one behind the camera on this
and kind of gave me a taste of my own medicine, so to speak,
but we would just kind of tape it in different chunks.
So that way we sort of have longer version
and shorter version.
So, I usually had 3 or 4 questions that I wanted
to ask each member kind of, you know, why they chose VISTA,
what their site and specific project was about,
and kind of some big highlights from their year so far and kind
of had them in separate chunks so that way we could kind
of put them together but then also take them apart
if we wanted to do shorter versions.
>> Danielle Ricks: And what I really liked about this is
that Families in Transitions follow VISTA on Twitter
and they tweeted the heck out of this and so many
of the other videos and that's actually how we found
out about this particular video and this particular page.
Now, did you all share from the page or did you come
up with a strategy to do something separately
on how you were going to use these videos and social media?
>> Amanda Flitter: I think, it just kind of grew
as part of it, you know.
We, I think we knew pretty much from the beginning
that when we had these videos that it would be really simple,
you know, to just use the links to share them
on Facebook and Twitter.
And I think we really-- that was really important so that,
you know, our audience could really find them
and because our YouTube channel had-- it was new.
So we wanted people to make-- to know that it was there.
So I think too linking to it
on your website is another good option.
If your project or your host organization has one,
that's always a really great opportunity
to really push it there as well.
>> Danielle Ricks: And before we go into our next case study,
can you talk to us a little bit about the production.
What tools did you use?
What software did you use to edit this?
I see that you're using, you know, words,
Chiron [phonetic] we call them over a black background.
What did you use to produce that?
>> Amanda Flitter: I had a--
it was actually a program that came not with the--
the actual camera I used for this was the Flip cam.
So, Flip cam actually does have its own video software
but it was-- it didn't have as much capabilities as I want
so I was kind of lucky enough I had some video editing software
on my laptop from a previous video cam I worked with before.
But if you have, you know, a Mac,
you definitely have iMovie on there.
For Windows computers, you have Windows Movie Maker
and I've also used that before and it's pretty simple.
So those are just two free options
that people tend to have access to.
And those definitely have all the capability that you need
because this is my first time working with videos so,
and since we're doing so many I kept it pretty sure and simple.
So, things like Windows Movie Maker and iMovie,
they have that ability to just easily put in titles
and easily do simple transitions.
So, it kind of just-- as you can see,
it's kind of a simple-looking video
but it still gets the message across and since I had
so many videos to do and to keep it simple I made it not
as overwhelming to sort of jump in to the whole video process.
>> Danielle Ricks: That's great.
Is there anything, Liz, you wanted to add or ask?
>> Liz Matthews: Yeah.
Actually, Amanda, I wanted to ask,
the background that you had set up.
So, was that a sign that you actually had in the background
or was that part of the video editing process?
>> Amanda Flitter: I was--
there's actually a wall in our office that had the logo on it
so I was sitting in front of that.
>> Liz Matthews: Okay.
>> Amanda Flitter: Yeah.
>> Liz Matthews: Okay.
And you just, in terms of sound, you just--
was there anything that you did to make it a little bit quieter
in the background or how did you manage that?
>> Amanda Flitter: I think it was just sort
of planning ahead whenever we went, you know,
to people in different offices.
We sort of made sure we're, you know, like, okay,
give your coworkers a heads up that, you know,
you might be doing a video if you're in a small office
which was the kind of the case for our office.
Everything is pretty open so we would just let people know, hey,
we're shooting a video for the next, you know, half hour
or however long it was going to take.
So if you could just please keep it down.
So it took a little bit of teamwork.
'Cause it's a Flip cam it's pretty simple
and you don't have-- we didn't have like a sound setup
or anything like that.
It's possible.
>> Liz Matthews: That's great.
Yeah. I think overall, content is probably more important
than the quality and we do appreciate the
co-branding there.
I think--
>> Danielle Ricks: Right.
>> Liz Matthews: If you will, as you create these videos,
it can really make a concerted effort
to of course include your organization's logo but also
to include AmeriCorps VISTA because it's really important
for us to be identified and be associated with you all.
We need to folks in communities to connect the dots
so that they understand that it's AmeriCorps VISTA members
that are doing this work.
>> Danielle Ricks: Absolutely.
>> Liz Matthews: It's really important
and we really appreciate that.
So thanks for such a great example.
>> Amanda Flitter: Great.
You're very welcome.
>> Danielle Ricks: And stick around.
I know folks are going to have questions for you.
They're probably putting them in the chat right now so--
>> Amanda Flitter: Okay.
Great.
>> Danielle Ricks: So stick around
and we really appreciate it.
Now, we're going to move on to Maggie.
Hi, Maggie.
How are you?
>> Maggie Garvey: Great.
Thanks for having me.
>> Danielle Ricks: Oh, thank for being here.
So we wanted to talk a little bit about the YouTube channel
that you all started and the videos that you've done.
And we'll just-- we'll dive right in.
How did you get started and better yet,
why did you get started?
>> Maggie Garvey: You know,
I think we really just started using video as part
of our social media work.
You know, social-- video content is so digestible
by the social media community and so it kind
of led us naturally to start making these videos.
And we also, we had a large event here in town and we wanted
to have some type of a breakup between the speakers
for Martin Luther King Day and we put together a small video
for that kickoff celebration for Martin Luther King Day
and we uploaded it and found that people watched it.
And that was really the beginning of us falling
into using video as part of our social media strategy.
>> Danielle Ricks: And for the VISTAs who--
you all were managing social media but for those who really,
maybe that's not in their job title, this is still a great way
for them to get the word out about what they're doing.
Wouldn't you agree?
>> Maggie Garvey: Oh, absolutely.
You know, it's really, it's simple.
You know, the more people have been using things like YouTube
and the more videos people are producing,
the less picky the audience is about things
like video quality or sound quality.
So none of us have to be kind of, you know,
Hollywood movie makers.
We just have to get good people in a room and set up a Flip cam
and ask them good questions and all of a sudden,
you have a video that's worth posting
and it's really not hard.
It's just kind of the leap of getting into it.
>> Danielle Ricks: So speaking about getting into it.
Let's go and let's look at some videos that you've done and one
of them we're going to start sort of in order of difficulty
and we'll work our way down.
So here's the first one
and I believe this is the really long one.
Correct?
>> Maggie Garvey: Yeah.
[ Video Clip ]
>> Danielle Ricks: So talk to me a little bit
about this video, Maggie.
What was the concept behind it and how did you go
about putting it together?
>> Maggie Garvey: Yeah, and if there is one point I can make
on this call today, it would be to think
about strategic storytelling.
So, this video we put together.
You'll actually see in the background that we shot,
there are Christmas decorations behind a couple of these people.
So we shot this footage, you know,
in November and December, really.
But we held on to the footage and put it together
so that we could drop this video during AmeriCorps week
because we wanted to do two things.
One, we wanted to add our story
to the nationwide story during AmeriCorps week
that was promoting VISTA helps people get into job,
that it helps you build a pathway to employment.
And we have some really awesome alumni and we really wanted
to highlight the work that they've done.
The other thing we wanted is that we found
in our last recruitment cycle that competition there
in recruitment is kind of heating up.
So we wanted a quick way to be able to tell people
who were already looking on our project
about how successful are members are at finding employment
in work that they love to do.
So we made this video strategically.
One, it tells the story of all of these alumni but the other is
that it allowed us to participate in the kind
of national conversation that was happening in AmeriCorps week
and our hope is, we'll see what happens
in the upcoming recruitment cycle, but our hope is
that it also helps people who are applying
to our project understand more about who we are
as an organization and what we're good at.
>> Danielle Ricks: And so someone's going to look at that
and think, "Oh my goodness, that's a 9-minute video.
That's really long."
But you strategic about this and your hope is
that people will watch it in parts, watch it in full.
What was your thinking about the timing of it?
>> Maggie Garvey: Yeah.
So, I mean, so the correlation, you know,
the kind of 1 minute to 3 minute.
All of that research is kind of about YouTube videos
that are kind of in the old marketing paradigm which is kind
of like interruption marketing, right?
That they're all-- you're only going to pay attention
if you're interrupted for maybe a couple of minutes.
These videos are designed
to support what we consider inbound marketing.
So once somebody is already at your page,
and maybe they are already thinking about applying
to national service and they might already be thinking
about applying to your project,
they're much more invested [inaudible] on the video
so this isn't something that we would come as like put,
you know, it's not a Super Bowl commercial
but it is a larger educational piece that we would use as part
of supporting our website or blog or those testing.
>> Danielle Ricks: Okay so, you were strategic about it,
you knew it was inbound marketing,
you knew you wanted it to be a little bit longer,
let's tell them what type of effort that went into this.
How many hours and how much editing, how much shooting?
>> Maggie Garvey: A lot if we consider that.
My guess is that it's probably somewhere close to 100 hours
because we did 10 interviews that were all an hour long.
So then you go to kind of editing all of those
which means you're going to need to watch all
of those videos a couple of times
and piece them all together.
I mean you can see in the video, I mean the content,
there is noise in the background,
the edit transitions are really rough.
It's not like we spent a lot of time making it look perfect.
But it was still a lot of footage to go
through so we'll see, you know, the return on investment.
We can talk about that earlier.
We'll see if this video actually helps people understand
who we are better through the recruitment process,
which is our hope.
>> Danielle Ricks: And Liz, I know you had a couple
of questions for her as well.
>> Liz Matthews: You know, I think she [laughs],
she may have answered them.
You did such a great thorough job here.
I think that making the point that the video can be
for a specific reason is really important
so I think this is great.
So, thank you Maggie.
>> Maggie Garvey: Thank you.
>> Danielle Ricks: Right.
So now let's go over to another one and let's play a little bit
of this one and then Maggie, I'll just ask you a couple
of questions on how this differed.
We know that the man hours, again the time is different,
but it has a different feel to it as well
and a different audience.
[ Video Clip ]
I'm sorry guys.
I'm trying to get the audio, hold on one second.
Because-- no, it's-- you got to hear the audio.
[Laughter]
>> Liz Matthews: Definitely.
>> Danielle Ricks: It makes the video--
>> [Background Music] I need somebody, help.
Not just anybody, help.
You know I need someone, help.
When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody's help in any way.
But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured.
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down.
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me get my feet back on the ground.
Won't you please--
>> Danielle Ricks: So Maggie, what are we watching,
how is this different in so many ways
than the other videos we just saw?
[laughs]
>> Maggie Garvey: That [inaudible] contest.
So our team this year was just incredibly team-spirited
and put this flash mob together.
And when they did it, of course, we thought we have to capture
that to be able to put it up and use it
with our social media work.
So, you could actually see there are different angles,
that there were actually two different Flip cams in that room
and we're switching back and forth between the angle
for who had a better shot because it's really only going
to happen once so you want to make sure
that you have enough people on the floor recording
so that you don't miss it.
And then the editing for this maybe took us an hour.
We've just kind of put it together,
make sure the music lines up with their actions and put it up
and that was also part of our AmeriCorps Weeks fest.
Yes, and again, you know we did this locally to get people to,
you know, ask questions about what we do really
and we used it the same way in national content is
to get people to, you know 548 people to watch it and think,
okay, well, that looks fun,
and maybe what is this national service thing
and can I go find out more about them.
>> Danielle Ricks: And so,
what I like about this is she showed you all
in the previous video a very strategic planned video
and how they were going to use it.
They knew what they were using it for the marketing.
And this is in the moment, live,
you want to capture what's happening in the moment
and the quality maybe isn't as good as the other one
but it doesn't really matter anymore with YouTube,
wouldn't you agree Maggie, the people are sort of used
to the grainy and the shots that are a little shaky?
>> Maggie Garvey: Yeah, actually I was just watching TV the other
day and there's a commercial for I think it's like a dentist
or some-- or it was Crest Pro Health and they actually--
it's a commercial that is a woman pretending
that she's holding a Flip cam talking
about how much she loves this product.
So you see, what you see happening
in the marketing world is that we're actually--
it's easier for us to digest quality film like this
that we think is authentic
and relationship building whereas the kind
of the high glossed, really produced stuff,
we see it a little bit more removed.
So you know, in some ways, the fact that this is jumpy
and it's hard to hear people makes it look
like we're real humans who really shot this
which is endearing to our audience in some ways.
>> Danielle Ricks: And what a great shot
to end on, that's cute.
[laughs] And then we've got one more example to show you
and I'm going to see if I can get the audio right
so that I can enlarge this, here we go.
[ Silence ]
[ Music ]
>> Diane DeLong: I know AmeriCorps works.
570 teens are being positively impacted
through leadership programs, mentoring programs and variety
of after school programs and the [inaudible] project,
thanks to our AmeriCorps.
>> Paul Mitchell: I know AmeriCorps works.
31 family members in Prescott are now able to learn English
as a second language, work on their homework with their kids
and learn computer skills because AmeriCorps works.
>> Maggie Garvey: I know AmeriCorps works.
23,000. That's the number of hours that were generated
by community volunteers in support
of our national service members
and the community organization in support.
7,000 volunteers helped to contribute
to that 23,000 hours of service.
That's how I know AmeriCorps works.
>> Gerry Garvey: I know AmeriCorps.
5,060 families in the greater Prescott were assisted
with basic human needs.
5,060 of these people were children
under the age of 5 [inaudible].
All of these programs succeeded
because of the help of AmeriCorps.
>> Jim Knaup: I know AmeriCorps works.
A zillion.
That's how many people I hope to see in the new website built
by our AmeriCorps VISTA member called [inaudible].
>> Danielle Ricks: Now, talk to us a little bit about this video
because it's very-- it's a very compelling way
to do just statistics, ooh, I can say that word right now,
statistics, as opposed to writing it down in a memo
or emailing it to someone.
This is a much more compelling way to tell the story.
>> Maggie Garvey: Right, it is.
So, I think this is a perfect example of the video that's
like you know-- these supervisors.
We have-- we get our supervisors together once a month
and we ask them to kind of come up with, you know,
give me a fact, give me something that proves the impact
of what's been going on at your site and they kind of came
up with this little narrative and we talked
about the AmeriCorps works tagline.
We did it with the national narrative that was happening
for that AmeriCorps Week and you know, it's so scripted
that they sound scripted.
You know like our supervisors were a little uncomfortable
doing this activity with us.
But you know, it had a good number of views mostly
because when we put it out, our, you know, on our Facebook
and Twitter accounts, we tagged these other organizations in it
and those organizations shared that video as well
because we were representing not just our own work
but also the work of all of these partnering organizations.
So yeah, it was a fun way for us and that video, I mean it--
we shot it in probably 35 minutes
and then probably [inaudible] and another 40
to edit it and put it together.
The longest part of that was creating these slides
with the text in them.
You know, really, really simple stuff.
>> Danielle Ricks: So, that's a great example.
You did a fantastic job, Maggie, of taking us
from a very long strategic look at how you can do a video
to live in the moment to something
that can really tell a story with statistics but didn't--
but took maybe, what, an hour and a half to do total.
So, the acting, those are great, great, great examples.
>> Maggie Garvey: Great, thank you.
I'm glad it could be helpful.
>> Danielle Ricks: And now I'm going to give it right back
to Suzanne and take my finger off the trigger for a minute
and we'll go ahead and hear from Robyn.
Are there any questions in the chat that we can get answered
for the folks on the line?
>> Robyn Stegman: There are just some discussions at chat.
The first is about music licensing and some
of the examples of videos we've seen so far have music
like Will I Am or music that might not be--
technically can't be used.
So, just-- where should VISTAs go to make sure that the music
that they're using is legal for them to use in their videos.
>> Danielle Ricks: I'll chime in and then I'll ask the guests
to help and tell us what their experiences were.
For Vimeo, they're not going to kick you out as quickly
as YouTube but YouTube has very strict restrictions
on using music that you do not own the rights to.
So, where we get our music
from is really the software that we're using.
There's some common music that comes with iMovie,
there's common music that comes with Live Movie Maker.
Now, there's not that much music.
You end up hearing the same music over and over again
but you can't-- but there's plenty to choose from,
they are different length, you can loop them,
you can add special effects to them, just stretch it out
and these are completely legal.
You may also want to see if there is any music owned
by your organization that they own the rights to.
And if you can digitize those or find them already digitized,
that's a good use as well, but you absolutely want
to have the rights to the music that you're using for any
of the projects that you're doing in video.
And I think-- I believe the reason why you were able to see
that in Vimeo was because it did have a very small audience.
They weren't really marketing that channel
but that does not fly very well in YouTube,
it will not last very long on YouTube
if you're using someone else's music.
And anything Amanda or Maggie like to add?
>> Amanda Flitter: No, I think you covered it but yeah,
I definitely want to second the YouTube will find it
and they'll take it down pretty quickly
because I had that happen.
Actually, my first organization that I served at,
we had put up a video and all of a sudden, it was taken
down so it's definitely something to be aware of.
>> Danielle Ricks: And the other thing is they may clear rights
from the United States, you may have a [inaudible]
that clears right here but because YouTube is globally,
it may not clear rights in the other parts of the country
so it's better to just use the music that comes
with the software that you're using or use a music
that you know is owned by your organization or any
of your original music that you're willing
to donate to your project.
>> Maggie Garvey: I will just chime
in on this, it is a problem.
So the flash mob video that we posted,
the first time we uploaded that, we didn't give music credit
in the box below the video to the music that we were using
and the video was taken down immediately.
And the second time we put it up, we gave like credit
where credit is due to the artists that we sampled
in the flash mob and it stayed up in YouTube so far.
So, do I think we're treading a kind of a line
because we don't actually have rights to all those songs, sure,
but it stayed up in the world of, you know, of YouTube.
We're not making money off of the video
so we'll see how it goes.
>> Danielle Ricks: Right, Collin Johnson have put in the chat
that Amazon has royalty free music for less than a dollar
and then Patrick Reynolds has given a link
to creativecommons.org and Moby G-R-A-T-I-S dot com
and they both have royalty free music as well.
And that's great information to know.
Anything else, Robyn?
Anybody given us some tips on how they are using and I know
that someone is-- we did a lot of talk about Flip cam
and they talked about it being discontinued
and they have gone out of business.
They will still honor flip videos.
They're still working as long as they're working
but they have gone out of business.
My suggestion is really to use
if you have a smartphone, your smart phone.
They all have the ability, all smartphones have the ability
to download a video app.
And I've got to tell you now that many of them are in HD.
They have very, very clean, clean video for the kind
of things that you may be using in your service
to tell your story of V. [Inaudible Remark]
>> Robyn Stegman: We have some--
>> Danielle Ricks: I can barely hear you, Robyn.
Hello?
>> Robyn Stegman: Okay, it looks
like we have some other questions
that are surrounding the permission to use music
and we did talk about the Flip cams.
So, what are some other ways to actually take video?
I know that the iPhones, you can use your video [inaudible]
to do that.
>> Danielle Ricks: The androids as well.
Maggie, were-- Maggie and Amanda,
both of you were using Flip cams?
>> Amanda Flitter: Yes, we were.
>> Maggie Garvey: Yeah, we also have some kind of Canon point
and shoot cameras that are a little bit more advanced
that has some video capturing so it's--
those videos are shot with using the Flip camera
or the Canon cameras.
>> Amanda Flitter: Yes.
>> Robyn Stegman: Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead.
>> Amanda Flitter: Oh.
I was going to say that's a good option to investigate
if your host site has a still camera
but not necessarily a video camera.
Sometimes, you know, cameras a lot of times come with some sort
of video function now so you can definitely see if that has a lot
of quality although definitely, you know, smartphones too
which we had already talked
about are really good for video now.
>> Danielle Ricks: Right.
Okay so, we're at 3:52 and we have one other question?
>> Robyn Stegman: Yeah, we just have one other question
about editing tools for the videos?
>> Danielle Ricks: Sure.
I like iMovie for iPhone and Live Movie Maker
if you are using a PC, Mac or an Android, how about you Amanda?
I think you guys talked about a couple of those as well Maggie.
Did you have any of your favorites
that you wanted to share?
>> Maggie Garvey: None.
The ones that Amanda uses are the exact same ones that we use.
I mean, we don't-- you know, we don't have a lot of money
so nobody's investing tons of money in some fancy software.
It's really like the software that comes with Flip cam,
iMovie or Movie Maker, okay.
Sometimes, Movie Maker Pro,
you know like not something too heavy.
>> Danielle Ricks: Right, so for those of you
in the chat asking the question iMovie for iPhone and iPad,
Live Movie Maker for your PC or Android, both of those are free.
And often times, your camera
or whatever camera you're using will come
with its own editing software as well and that's free
so that's our biggest recommendation for you now.
And those are all free.
I'm looking in the chat, so.
We want to give you just a couple of tips.
We do want to get to some of the questions on the line
but we're running out of time
but we do have to call till 4:30.
So, YouTube for nonprofit tips
which stream events live like the flash mob.
Think about if you're at an event and you want to tweet
out the event or put the event on Facebook,
this is where your phone and your app are going to come in.
You're going to shoot a little bit, maybe 30 seconds,
send it right off to YouTube or send it off to Twitter
or send it off to LinkedIn, sorry, well yeah, LinkedIn too.
And you've got your audience, they're there
in the moment with you.
You'd be surprised what that will get
when you return back on that.
The other one and I think Amanda talked
about this a little bit is embed your video.
YouTube allows you to embed your videos on your website
or you can show them on your channel or on your Facebook page
and embedding your video on your website will keep--
the people who are following you, they are no longer going
to have to ask what do you do?
They'll be able to look and see what you do
and what your impact is.
And I talked about this a little bit earlier,
let's create a playlist.
So if you have a lot of good thought content,
consider creating a playlist
so that you can control what the viewer will see next.
And by that I mean, you can order some of your best videos
up top or maybe your mission has changed
or maybe you have an event that you're trying to promote,
you can move the playlist around and move the videos
within the playlist around to control what people see first.
Then share it obviously, share it on Facebook,
share a link on Twitter.
You can share it in your newsletter or eBlast
so you might want to put in your newsletter and eBlast.
At the bottom, you might want to put the link to your blog,
the link to your Twitter and Facebook account
and then add link for your video as well.
You can share it by adding it to your email signature.
And my favorite is share it on Pinterest.
People think that Pinterest is just for pinning photos
that they find across the internet but it is also
for pinning video as well so you can create a board on Pinterest
and include your video there.
Okay, so, Liz is going to talk to you a little bit
about our V is For page while Suzanne goes
over there to show you.
And Liz, you can tell them how we actually found Amanda.
>> Liz Matthews: Excellent, thank you Danielle.
So we wanted to just bring this up because video is another way
for you to submit what V is For means to you.
So, this is our campaign that encourages VISTAS
to submit what V means to them, either through photos
or like I said video or the good-old fashion written word.
And we choose a winner each month
and they receive a vintage VISTA t-shirts that you can see there
on the screen in the lower left hand corner.
So we came across Amanda's video
and so that's how she became the February V is For winner
and now she is proudly wearing
around New Hampshire her t-shirt.
So, it's a just a fun way for us to again show
to the general public, to potential members,
to stakeholders what this is all about and we have
yet to choose the winner for March.
So, if you've got a video that you have already made but have
yet to post it on any of our social media sites,
please go ahead and do that so we can go ahead and by the end
of this week, I'll have selected the winner for March.
So go ahead whether it's a video,
put it up on our YouTube channel or post it on Twitter
or Facebook and we will get in touch with you
if you are the winner.
>> Danielle Ricks: Great.
Thank you, Liz.
>> Liz Matthews: So, that's what that's all about.
>> Danielle Ricks: We're getting close to the top of the hour
and we still have a little bit of housekeeping we're going
to do so we're going to save the questions, we're going to move
through this and we'll stay on the line with you until 4:30
to answer your questions.
We are also going to have a Twitchat using the
hashtag Vyoutube.
So if you don't get your questions answered in the chat,
you weren't able to get in on the line, we'll be there for you
to answer them on Twitter.
We also want to encourage you to keep some things in mind.
So Liz is going to go through some of the things
that we need you to do while you're
out there in the digital space.
>> Liz Matthews: That's right.
This is the not as fun part.
So, if you all remember
from your pre-service orientation you were made aware
of the Hatch Act to which you all have to abide
by when you are a VISTA, a VISTA leader.
So that's restrictions on political activity.
So if you're in doubt of whether what you want
to do is violating the Hatch Act, go to your VISTA Handbook
which is on the campus and look at all the do's and don'ts
and see if you can go ahead with what you're trying to do.
We ask that you just be a bit tasteful and appropriate.
This is no longer your personal social media
that you're doing here and you should also be tasteful
in your personal but professionally,
we'd really like you to remember that you're representing VISTA
and you're representing your organization.
So just keep in mind the general rule, if you don't want
to see what you're posting on the cover of the New York Times,
then you probably shouldn't be posting it
and just finally staying safe online, keeping your password
in a secure place and so forth.
So you can read through those and we just wanted to remind you
of the serious side of social media.
So just some things to keep in mind there.
>> Danielle Ricks: Thank you and for those of you who are
on the call, this presentation will be available
for you a couple of weeks in the Social Media Monday course page.
Any of the other videos that we have
in the archives are available now.
The link will be provided for you in the chat.
Please do take a look at those.
For those of you who said you're brand new to using video,
I do recommend that you look at those two video sharing
and YouTube presentations that we did earlier.
These are some useful links for you from today's web shop.
These are all available for you.
The next one are our VISTA Social Media Monday links
and we're hoping that you're following us
across the social web and those are
where the places you can find us.
Finally, you'll see an evaluation taking place right
now on the right hand lower corner.
We would really appreciate it if you go ahead
and fill that out for us.
These will help us figure out what we do in future web shops
and also help us improve these sessions for you
and we do thank you very much for your time and participation.
And Liz is going to tell you
about some other upcoming opportunity.
>> Liz Matthews: Thanks, so as I mentioned earlier in the call,
this Thursday is an opportunity for you to actually focus
on planning your professional development.
So no matter where you are
in your service year this is relevant
and it can really give you some good tools
for what resources are available and how
to work professional development into your day
and into your weeks and your month as you serve.
So again, you can check out the full calendar
of the upcoming webinars on the VISTA campus.
So I know you all visit the campus everyday multiple times a
day so, please check out the calendar.
And we will for our next Social Media Monday in June,
first Monday in June focus on LinkedIn, so this is tips
for using LinkedIn for nonprofit.
So we hope you will join us for that web shop.
So thank you all for being here.
>> Danielle Ricks: And for those of you who can stay on the call,
I'm going to turn it over to Suzanne.
We're going to open up the lines to see.
I see a lot of questions happening in the chat
and while we're getting ready to do that I just see one
that I would really like Liz to--
>> Liz Matthews: Yeah, I think I know
which one you're talking about.
>> Danielle Ricks: Yeah, good, okay.
>> Liz Matthews: Yeah, the Sequester,
so let's see, I saw it up here.
What if you're trying to use video to make the case for VISTA
to survive the Sequester?
How do you advocate without lobbying?
Wow, we really appreciate your sentiment there.
You can absolutely not make a video
as a VISTA about the Sequester.
You can do it as a-- just as an individual, not associated
with VISTA if you wanted to address that
but that really is the key territory and it would be--
you'd be getting in deep trouble if you are to post something
with the VISTA t-shirt on about the Sequester.
So, wow, we really do appreciate folks being concerned and trying
to lobby in favor of VISTA.
Unfortunately, it's not something
that you can do while associated with VISTA or your sites.
It would have to just be personal, as an individual.
>> Danielle Ricks: Right.
>> Liz Matthews: So hopefully that answers that question.
>> Danielle Ricks: Yeah.
Yeah.
>> Suzanne Knizner: Great, thank you Liz for that answer.
Becca, if you can please give us instructions for how to answer
or ask questions on the line.
And after Becca gives us those instructions we'll like look
at the chat and see what we can answer in the mean time.
>> Becca: Thank you.
We will now begin a question and answer session.
To ask a question, please press star 1, please unmute your phone
and record your name when prompted.
If your question has been answered,
you may withdraw your request by pressing star 2.
Once again, for your questions press star 1.
>> Suzanne Knizner: Great, thank you Becca.
>> Danielle Ricks: While we wait
on that there is something I do want to address
and that's the release forms.
Yes, you should use release forms is the short answer
and yes, you can post something on the wall letting people know
that this event is being recorded and if you're
at a large event,
that's probably the better way to do it.
There are several sites and we'll have to get a link for you
on where you can get examples of release forms but I would
like to ask Maggie and Amanda how you all have done it
in the past when you are shooting video.
>> Amanda Flitter: Well, I know for our program we had a photo
and video release forms that kind of covered both in one form
that all of the members signed right at our orientation
so we kind of knew that everybody was all set
and I believe our state office here
in New Hampshire also have releases.
I remember signing those sometimes at things
like AmeriCorps week events.
But I've also definitely seen it done other way too where either
in the emails or announcements I've gotten for events before
in the past or, you know, if it's a sign, you know,
letting people know that photos and they're going to be taken
and if you're uncomfortable, you know,
to please let somebody know or to, you know,
refrain I guess from, you know, certain sections
because when you do have a group, a large group of people
and you're taking photos and video, I know I can speak
from experience, you might have, you know,
that name on a piece of paper checked off.
They don't want their photo to be used but it's very hard
to remember names and faces when there's a lot
of people milling around.
>> Liz Matthews: Yeah, we usually recommend
if that is the case to ask the individual who would prefer not
to be photographed or videoed to be off to the side
so you don't have to play a guessing game,
so that's right, good advice.
>> Danielle Ricks: Anything that you wanted to add there?
>> Maggie Garvey: Yeah, I would just add, you know,
one [inaudible] Martin Luther King Day and that we get
like 600 people out to that event
and there are a good amount of people 'cause we get kids
out from JPO, Juvenile Probation [phonetic], sorry,
that are participating in the day
that can't have their photos taken
and we have a green dot system so on the front of them
by their shirt colors, everyone with a green dot
and then we're going to actually ask them to put a green dot
on the back of their shirt as well which--
because there're so many people at those events, taking pictures
and live tweeting and, you know, doing the whole thing.
Two things happen and we have them to [inaudible] on their own
and then anyone we have whose kind of being a new reporter
for us we tell them to look at the green dot and not
to post pictures if they have someone who has a green dot
on them and those kinds of things.
So you do photo release ones and then you do your very best
to make sure that you're not capturing anybody who, you know,
their safety in some cases could be threatened
if you did publicize their whereabouts.
>> Danielle Ricks: Right.
And Liz, when we did the VISTA reporters how did we handle
the-- how did we handle the releases?
>> Liz Matthews: We gave out releases
so I mean I do have a sample release
that we can put somewhere up on the campus
and I still have those on file.
I also wanted to just respond.
Allison [phonetic] asked a very good question in the chat room,
she says on the subject of the Sequester,
can you as a VISTA just make a video
about the wonderful things you do as a VISTA and send
that to say to your legislature with no mention
of the sequester in there.
Absolutely, in fact that would be fantastic.
It will be wonderful if more of our decision makers
and stakeholders understand what it is
that you all are doing as VISTAs.
And there is no reason
in the world why you couldn't send them a video to say, hey,
I'm in your district, I just wanted to let you know,
you know, what some of the work is that's happening here
to help reduce poverty in this community or,
you know, what have you.
I think that would be fabulous and we'd love
to see that video as well.
So thank you for thinking about it.
>> Danielle Ricks: And I'm putting this in the chat feature
but just so everyone knows, we will get a copy of the photo
and video release form and place it
on the Social Media Monday course page
as a complement to this presentation.
The video will be available as will the PowerPoint presentation
and we will add that document as well.
That's a great complement.
Do we have any calls on the line?
>> Robyn Stegman: Becca, do we have any calls on the line?
>> Becca: We show no questions in the queue.
>> Liz Matthews: Okay.
>> Danielle Ricks: All right.
>> Liz Matthews: These are all Social Media mavins
and they're very comfortable in the chart room, apparently.
>> Suzanne Knizner: Well, we like it and it is, you know,
we're always happy to hear everybody's voices
but it is a little bit easier sometimes
to participate via chat and we understand that.
So where do we stand, Danielle?
>> Danielle Ricks: Robyn, are we okay?
Have we covered all of the big questions in the chat?
Is there anything else while we have everyone on the line
that we need to address?
Robyn?
>> Liz Matthews: You may have lost Robyn.
>> Danielle Ricks: Okay, well let me take a quick peek
to make sure we haven't overlooked anything.
>> Liz Matthews: And then Danielle, you're going
to be leading us in our Twitter chat here afterwards?
>> Danielle Ricks: Yes, Robyn and I will be on the Twitchat
and we encourage you to please join us there
if you have not gotten all your questions [inaudible]
and we will keep the conversation going.
We also would love to have your share your tips as well.
I love that green dot idea as did the people in the chat.
They thought that was really fantastic and to those of you
who are on the call, please do fill
out if you have not already the poll.
I think it is just about closing and we want to make sure
that we get all your answers and we thank you
so much for joining us.
>> Liz Matthews: Thanks everybody.
We really appreciate all the hard work that you're doing
and helping to get the messages out there and videos out there
to really show the public and everyone
in your community what it is that you're doing.
So thank you.
And thanks to Amanda and Maggie.
Woohoo!
>> Amanda Flitter: Thank you for having us.
>> Maggie Garvey: Right.
>> Amanda Flitter: And thank you to all the members for serving.
>> Suzanne Knizner: We'll be back here on the 4th
for Social Media Monday in June.
Thanks everyone.
>> Liz Matthews: Take care, bye-bye.
>> Amanda Flitter: Bye.
>> Maggie Garvey: Bye.
>> Danielle Ricks: Bye.