 So, this is the Central Florida chapter, if you will, of TechSoup, and Tech for Good is a program under TechSoup, and so is NetSquared. My name is Aretha Simons. I am the Central Florida community organizer for NetSquared, and again, we are program under TechSoup, and NetSquared is a global network for Tech for Good. You'll see that hashtag Tech for Good meetup groups, and TechSoup is a non-profit that helps other non-profits either get, implement, or use technology, and I hope you are taking advantage of TechSoup. I mean, so many non-profits that say, no, I never heard of TechSoup. There's all this software and products and services that you can use, and it is a global network. NetSquared, this community that we're in, that we're doing today, it's in 128 cities in over 41 countries, so I know we're doing Central Florida, but there's some people who join us from other countries, from other cities, so this is a community that you can be a part of. You can be a part of the TechSoup. You can be a part of the Georgia group if you see a topic that you like, just jump in and become a member and, you know, get all the knowledge. And as I said, it's a global network. So here, I want to share a few things with you about the NetSquared community. Again, we welcome everyone, so again, there are people from other groups that join us. We do put community first here at TechSoup and then NetSquared. We're here to support each other, so we share knowledge, resources, information, and you know, as nonprofits, we are always trying to build stronger communities. And TechSoup does that by giving technology as one of the tools that they use. So with this forum today, we're going to invite everybody to participate. You can type in a chat room because everybody has something to contribute. Even though we have, you know, expert speakers that come, you may know something, you may have worked in the field. Sharing knowledge, just type in the chat room. And one thing I do want everybody to remember, we treat everybody with kindness and respect. So that's one of the philosophies of TechSoup. So I do want to say that we need your help. I need your help. We need event producers. We need people to market it, share this information, get it out on your social medias to your friends, your family, especially those who are in the nonprofit community. We need a welcoming crew. We need somebody to be in that chat room. Welcome to everybody to be a moderator in the chat room. We also need note takers because afterwards we like to put notes up and, you know, highlights on a blog. So anyone can plan an event. If you have ideas, if you want to speak at one of the events, we do this monthly. Just type in the chat room, say, hey, I have a topic I'd like to share. Or I know somebody who'd be a great speaker to share their information. And again, I invite you to speak anything to do with technology that nonprofits can use that would be great or any consulting that you do. So I told you about NetSquare, but let's talk about TechSoup a little bit more and how it connects you either with donated products or discounted products. If you've ever looked at TechSoup, it's TechSoup.org. There's tons of software and even hardware. There's headphones, there's laptops, refurbished computers, and so much more on the website. So please, please take advantage of it. Again, some of it's free, some of it's at low cost. This is just an image of the 100 partners that we have. Just a few of them are listed, Microsoft. We're on a Zoom platform. You get a discount on Zoom from Microsoft. I know they're giving office for free and even their cloud-based system. You've got Amazon, Adobe, DocuSign, there's hundreds of them. So go in and take a look. What you do is create an account and you have to be a 501c3. Once you put your information in, you have access to all this information and these wonderful partners. So please do take advantage of it. This is just an example of what TechSoup has. If you have a staff of 10 people, this is some of the technology you can use. The retail price of buying all this software would be over $2,000. And with TechSoup, you'd be in a member, you'd just pay $201. So I mean, that's a steal. So that's just kind of some of the information and some of the technology and tools that you have with TechSoup. So I'm going to talk about some of the upcoming events real quick. Next month, we are almost into March of 2021. Next month, talk about March already. We're going to be talking about how to transfer from your nonprofit into a sustainable business. And then in April, we're going to be talking about social media tunups. I know we all need a tune up on social media. I do. I get lazy sometimes. And so if we want to keep our nonprofit out there, keep our image fresh, we do need kind of a tune up on the social media side. So enough about me. I want to welcome our speaker for today. That is James Alexander. And I want to tell you a little bit about him. I got to read his bio. I got to read a few things. His bio is extensive. He has a master's degree in communications and a bachelor's in broadcasting. He's been a producer for shows that air on the Today show. He's been a producer at the Daily Buzz. I know some of you in the Central Floyd area, you remember the Daily Buzz. He's interviewed multiple people, including celebrities. Russell Simmons, Ron DMC, The Backstreet Boys, Robin Thicke, Trey Song, you name it, John Legend. There's so many people. But he's also interviewed our local nonprofits. I have seen his shows. I've been a guest on the show. And so I wanted to talk with him about how nonprofits can kind of get their message out there and how they can obtain media to spread their message. So I want to welcome James Alexander to TechSoup Today and Next Square. Thank you so much, Jane. I'll stop, share my screen and put you up here. Awesome. I got you. I did it. I know you were looking forward. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us this morning. And I'm very excited to be talking about nonprofits. As you know, as Aretha knows, I'm a Schreiner as well. So I'm the director of social media for the state of Florida, for the Schreiners and for our bigger organization. I am the associate editor of our digital magazine. So I do quite a few things outside of being an entrepreneur and speaker and so on and so forth. So yes, television has been a labor of love. It's been crazy to start off the news in Baltimore that I moved here to Orlando for that little known show called The Daily Buzz, which transformed my life for the last, well, I was there for 10 years. So I've done that. I've produced commercials. I've done a lot of something, everything. Even done the, well, we don't even have it anymore because of the pandemic. We used to do movie junkets where they would send me out to California or New York. And whenever they would come out with a movie, I got a chance to see it before everyone else and also interview the stars of that movie as well. So yeah, it wasn't fun. Leave me. It was okay. It was okay. I had to sit in the makeup chairs, wait to be called. It was like a cat-a-claw. So yeah, but my love, one of the reasons totally about this, I love nonprofits. I mean, it's what I'm, it's a major part of me. And one of the things that we do on the Shrine level, in fact, I had to come up with the entire infrastructure for our whole marketing, branding and so on and so forth for the state of Florida is that we took a step back and we prioritized where we would make the most impact. So, you know, online was for us. Although, yes, I know how to do television. I still have connects and television and a lot of stations around here in Central Florida and New York. That wasn't our first, that wasn't at the top of the list. And I caution anyone who has that at the top of their list that they must be on TV. There are several ways to get on TV, but if you dominate the internet first, you'll be able to make that transition to TV. What we have done, what we have done in the state of Florida is we've partnered with Google. So we are a certified community partner with Google. With that comes a lot of opportunities to learn how to kind of market ourselves online, especially through the biggest search, I mean, database in the world, which is Google and how we can do it just there, but also coming in and understanding the whole landscape of marketing when it comes to social media as well, it's just a combination of the two to get us out there. So when you started this journey, it has not been easy. And what I would say is, if you are about to do this, there are some things that I want you to definitely master before you start spending money because a lot of nonprofits, they have limited budgets. And because of that limited budget, you don't wanna put yourself in a position where you spend a lot of money and get little return. So there's a few things that you should do. One of the first things is, have a meeting with all your stakeholders, okay? Meet with them, decide what course of action you're gonna take, okay? I wouldn't even talk about money first, let's decide what platforms are we gonna be a part of. A lot of nonprofits as you see are basically a part of everything. But the problem that that is, you wanna see where your demographic is coming. You know, every nonprofit is different and they're the people that they service or they're trying to get in front of, it's kinda different. I can tell you right now, we have Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, okay? Those are the massive ones. Yes, we have our website, but those three are the massive ones, but we've also talked about TikTok, doing things on TikTok. Because TikTok is a massive platform and people are looking for information. And what, you know, the history that we have will play well on TikTok. If anybody has a TikTok account, you will see some of the different videos and then they give document, it's like a documentary style, like very quick videos, part one, part two, and so on and so forth, right? So, you know, one unique thing about our history is that we are, if you go back to Supreme Court ruling, we're responsible for making sure that there are black fraternities and sororities in existence to the day. It was a landmark ruling in our favor. And if we had lost, there would be no alphas, alfalfa alphas, alfacapa alphas. I mean, excuse me, aka's, don't let me get in trouble because I tell to us and we say it correctly. I don't want to get in trouble. I love all my divine. I love y'all, but yeah, so that's just history. So when you look at our vice president, Kamala Harris, and she belongs, she's a aka, right? Yes, and I want to ask you something. So you're mentioning, you know, social media and those are definitely ways. When you try to get on TV or getting your messages out through TV, do they look at that? Do they go, you know, search you because people want to Google your name or Google your nonprofit and see like how ranked you are. Do you have a lot of views? And when you were thinking about having someone on your show, that was a nonprofit. What was the first thing that you did to search that nonprofit? I looked at the content first because I'm a little bit more sensitive than nonprofits because I belong to a massive one. So for me, I don't want to look at content and what the impact was. All right, so if you're dealing with someone that's not like me, you got to look at numbers. What numbers do you have? What impact do you have online if I partner with you? Because essentially this is a partnership. You think it's not, you think you're just appearing on television, but I'm giving you credibility using my time, my money, my airwaves to give you credibility to your nonprofit. So when you look at this in its entirety, it is a great partnership because what you want to do is make such an awesome impression on that producer, on that news director, on that assignment editor. I'm talking about television-wise that they are more likely to allow you to come back. Right, so the numbers are going to speak volumes. So when you go to your social media, when they go and research you and they figure out, all right, so they have a hundred people on social media, maybe not. If they're doing an event, who's all involved? Is the mayor involved? Is the chief of police involved? What big names do they have involved? And don't take it as disrespect if they do come to your event and they interview those big names and interview you last. Because those are the people in the community that are easily recognizable and you're a, you know, you're using that example kind of like a startup. So they're going to ask why are they partnering with you? What's the significance and so on and so forth? And that's important, but that's great. But if I have somebody that has 5,000, 10,000 people online, whether it's Facebook, Instagram, or, you know, any other platform, I am looking at, okay, this is a major one. Now, there's a pitfall with that because you have so many people. Is this going to be a commercial or are they really promoting something that's going to impact the community? And that's where you kind of draw the line. Back in the day, I'm dating myself, I'm old. They, you know, it became a fine line between commercial and actual news. You know, if it lends itself to being a commercial or for that organization, then that's airtime you can pay for. So, you know, that's, it's a fine line, but if you find the right people, you make the right relationships. And that's what it comes down to. Ultimately, you make the right relationships. You're able to get on television. But again, I'm gonna be honest with you, I would not do that first. I would just build up my base and do things online via social media, email newsletters, my website, drive people. I would do webinars, you know, something in, something along that nature in order to bring people to your page and just build that base up. Then when you call in the television and you call in the radio or you call in all these other places, you're able to do some things. I mean, I'm gonna be honest, I'm gonna ask this question of everybody. Have you guys started your own podcast? I'm gonna allow you to unmute yourself. And I do want you to know, this is gonna be like interview style. So feel free. I'm gonna let you ask questions live. You don't have to come on camera, but this is a great time to, you know, ask questions and get information. So how many of you have a podcast? You can unmute yourself. No one has a podcast. No one has a podcast. Okay, if you're a nonprofit, I can tell you right now, you need to start developing your own podcast. You can do an interview or you can do a Zoom interview. So we know what we're doing now and put it live on Facebook, live on your social media channels, even on your YouTube page. You can do that stuff. Start filling, look at it as documenting your process, documenting what it takes to be a, what the nonprofit is doing basically. What it takes to be a volunteer to nonprofit, what it takes to run it and so on and so forth. People like seeing that, why? Because it gives you credibility. They see where their money is going. I'm like, oh, okay. You know, if I donate to, I'm just pulling out, if I donate to Karen, right? I hope I'm saying it correctly. If I'm not, I apologize, love you. But I've donated to Karen. I can see that if I get $5,000, what she's gonna do with it, based upon what I've seen through her videos and I listened to on her podcast, when I wake up to the graphics on her Facebook page and the events that she has, I see what kind of impact $5,000 would do for that nonprofit. So now you're giving people more visuals. As you know, we are more visual. I mean, as, I would say this, and you gotta look at it too as a, I know we're nonprofit as a business, okay? And you're trying to get people to donate to you. Back in the day, I wanna say 2000 to 2004, it was three times. So if I put my graphic video or whatever in front of you of my nonprofit, three times, you are more likely to donate something, right? As far as businesses, the same thing with business. You are more likely to buy something. And that's essentially what you're doing. When I left, it was up to 12. And I was 2014, when I left the Daily Buzz. I kind of ventured on my own, started producing other stuff and started my own company in the healthcare. Now it's upwards of 20. So you're saying you need to be in front of their face at least 20 times? That's why you see retargeting. Like when you visit a website, even on your phone, you will go to another website, another website, another website, but you will see on the side some sort of commercial or advertising from a website you visited two days ago. There's technology out there, retargeting, so on and so forth. They have to stay in front of you constantly in order to see, would you flip the switch and buy? The same thing we're going through with one of my companies, my CBD oil company. We have marketing to where it retargets, but we're also on more than, we're on more than 6,000 websites. And what we're doing as far as our marketing. So, when you look us up, you should be retargeting, retargeting, retargeting because we want you to buy. And that's kind of how you have to look at this. All right? You may not have the money to make that happen, okay? Because it's expensive. It's not cheap, but what you can do is put up enough content, enough shareable content. And that's one of the things I want you to keep note of. Shareable content is the best content you can have. Why? Because it's shareable. It's self-implanatory. And I tell you this, why, I tell you this because one person can share content to 20 or 30 pages. That person, whoever's one of those pages, if they have five, 10, 15, 20,000 people, if it comes up early enough, depending on when it comes up, then you have those, that many eyes that are looking at it and interacting with it, that are commenting on it. All that data can be seen through your back portal when you do Facebook. So when you look at that, you say, okay, I'm making an impact. And you can kind of decide whether or not to put like a donate link and so on and so forth in that content, which should be great. Because now you have an opportunity to these people who may answer you to say, you know what, I want to donate. I like what she's doing. I like what he's doing. I want to donate right now. And you just made it easier for me to donate by providing a link. Go to the website. I can see everything. And boom, it's there. So with that being said, you really, really want to create shareable content that's going to help you tremendously. On our page for the Shriners of Desert of Florida, Prince Charles Shriners, if you want to go look, it's nothing but community work. It's a ton of community work. We do seminars. We do, you know, we talk to Google. We talk to different business leaders. We've had investing groups. We've done a lot of things as we provide content, not only for, we provide content for everybody. So it's content for our members of our organization and also content for those who come to our page and kind of say, oh, okay, this is what you guys are into or actually helping everybody and you're providing, you're becoming a resource. So shareable content is key, but you have to develop a plan. I'm saying all this stuff and why I'm telling you this, you have to sit down, develop that plan, get a calendar and really a social media calendar and lay out what you want to see over a month. And you can automate this stuff. Don't think you have to go in and produce stuff every day to where it's killing you like, oh my God, I gotta do something. You get what I'm gonna come up with today. Nope, you can plan a month out. There are different websites, apps that you can use in order to do this and you kind of go from there. And I'm wondering, actually, Aritha, do you guys have under TechSoup, do you have Canva? No, Canva is its own platform and it's free anyways. Well, they have a page session. They have the, I know they have a higher level where you can create because I have that as well, but I don't think Canva is one of our partners. Okay, okay. If you can afford it, I gotta get the list of what TechSoup has, but if you can afford it, Canva Pro is a great opportunity to create great content without spending a ton of money. You can embed videos, you can do presentations, you can do a plethora of things and you can publish directly from Canva to your social media pages. So I would advise to jump in that, to give the look and see if you can do it and anybody can do it. I mean, it's easy stuff. You also have music on there too, but yeah. Yeah, it is. I think you gave great advice to social media calendar because a lot of times we get busy and we get distracted and we was like, oh, I did it Monday, I forgot to do it Wednesday. So having that calendar and those other platforms that you can automate it. So that's great. And Canva, yes, it definitely is good when I've been using it for a couple of years. It's good when I've used the pro, then I went back down to the free because I've learned some other websites but that's great advice. Anyone have any questions for James? You can unmute yourself and for free to ask any questions at this time. You've been sharing a lot. As I was listening to you, I was thinking, everybody wants to be on TV because they think that that's gonna be a big deal. I remember when I had a nonprofit and I actually got my first chance to be on TV, it became a good problem because then I wasn't ready for some of the other things that people wanted me to do. Be careful what you get blessed with. You pray for it and you got it. Exactly. I think, yeah, I mean, that make sure you have the infrastructure in place to handle, it depends on where you go to. So make sure you have the infrastructure in place to handle that onslaught of inquiries as to what you're doing, how people can be a part of it, how they can support and so on and so forth. And like you said, it's a good headache, honestly. You have the opportunity to really expand, right? And that's great, but if you don't put it together in a way that allows for that, people don't even feel that you're unorganized and then they're gonna look at us like, oh, maybe I shouldn't be a part of it. You remember, people are always looking for opportunities to say, no, they're all constantly, constantly, like the first thing is, no, I wanna do it. I don't wanna be a part of it. Then when you show them things, sometimes they still may say no, but at the end of the day, it kinda, as you continue to do things, let me go out and participate. Let me be a part of it. And once they started to join it, they started telling their friends, their friends started telling their friends and so on and so forth. It's just like Yelp reviews. I had the Googles, one of our Google digital coach for the desert of Florida, she was telling me that she will go to different products or different services. And if she saw her friend like it, then she wouldn't question it at all. Okay. She wouldn't question it, but she didn't see anybody that she knew liked it or she would scrutinize it, highly scrutinize it and then make a determination whether or not she would want the services and so on and so forth. So, I just tell you, just be prepared for everything because even with, I know we talked about television and so on and so forth, but social media too. I mean, you just don't know. I mean, you can raise an easy million dollars through social media. You can do it within a couple of months. Yeah. It's so easy to do. Sure. Definitely the future. Well, I know we have a small and mid-sized nonprofits here. Okay. You talked about social media and you just mentioned the Google platform that you use. Can you tell us more about that? Okay. Yeah. So, I, you know, through my infinite network, I just so happen to come across, you know, Google does, I knew they did a lot of stuff with the community, but I don't be honest with you, even with my knowledge of all this stuff, I am a graduate. They don't even have the program anymore, but I'm a graduate of Google Accelerate, which is a marketing kind of, it was like a marketing school, sort of speaking, you go online, you learn how to do all the marketing, you graduate with a certificate on digital marketing and so on and so forth. And they've changed so much with the algorithms and so on. I'm not even gonna go down that rabbit hole. I'm gonna stay away from that. But I knew Google did a lot of stuff with the community because they're always trying to expand, right? So I asked the question, what can Google do for me? What could it do for my organization? And it turns out Google can do quite a bit. And once you become a Google partner, there are numerous things that you have access to. And there are numerous people that you have access to. And it's a great thing. So Google for us has, we're still unraveling it, right? So I still have meetings with the digital coach. I'm still going through the community. We have a 501c3 for the state of Florida and we also have obviously nationally we have it because we have over 265 different temples across the US. We say temples, but it's not religious, remember? But we have 265, not excuse me, across the world because we have organizations in Japan. We have sites in Japan, South Korea, Kuwait, Bahrain, the Kingdom of Bahrain all the way across the US, 48 different states. So we're kind of large, right? So for us, it became important to look at our footprint and to partner with somebody that will allow us to expand that footprint and expand, well, help us to get into people we haven't been in front of and introduce ourselves to new people. So Google has been a basically has been a great opportunity and what I can do everything, what I'll do, I'll send it to you, I can't do it right now, but I'll send you the, I'm looking at the message on track and sorry, I'll send you some information on, I'll respond to that in a second. I'll see you some information on the Google person in the community and that way you can share with everybody so they can see it as well. So the question is, yes, I reached out to Google, Shriners, who is a Shriners? Okay, so we are the ancient Egyptian Arabic order, nobles of the Mystic Shrine, North and South America and its jurisdictions incorporated, Prince Hall, Shriners. Prince Hall, we named that because Prince Hall was the first man of color to become a Mason, actually, because it's preregistered to become a Shriners, you have to be a Mason and he did it so we could bury our dead and that was way before we had the United States was even born. So we go way back, but the Shriners, what we do, there are two organizations of Shriners. You have the ancient Arabic order, nobles of the Mystic Shrine, which is known, who are known for the Shriners hospitals, they do a lot of events, you see a lot of guys riding around with the cars, doing the parades and so on and so forth. They used to do a ton of golf tournaments and so on and so forth, but you see their headquarters in Tampa, actually, you go down there and here in Orlando, you have Bahia, they've expanded, they used to have, not too far away in the mainland, actually, one of the, they're not headquarters, but their temple was in Mateman, but I think they left that one. It is a massive nonprofit. Yeah, yeah. That's really all you need to know, is it? But I just want to say, I want to say this, yes, that's true, but on our side, we help out St. Jude, we have National Diabetes Initiative, we sit on a board for the American Diabetes Association. So we do quite a few things. We have youth groups, we do mentors, we do a ton of things in our community. So yeah, two great organizations, but that's what Shriners are. Marguerite, you put a question in there about Google, the Google platform, you have problems with your G Suite, and you say you spent hours on tango, and I'd like to know if you contact Google, because I know the G Suite was kind of a new thing. I don't know if they worked out all the kinks, but I would definitely like to know if you were able to work out that with Google. And he mentioned Google, I don't know if many of you have applied for the Google grant, because we're talking about marketing and getting your message out, apply for the Google grant, who gives $10,000 to nonprofit 501C3s, and it's advertising dollars. People pay money to be at the top of the page whenever you look up something, but Google is giving nonprofits $10,000 and advertising dollars. So make sure you look for that, apply for it, and then you have to keep up with it, because you can't just apply for it and just let it sit. You have to go on there, and fill out everything they ask for. They ask for your keywords. They ask you to put in information. You have to do that on the monthly basis. Otherwise, they'll think you're not doing anything. So make sure you look up the Google grant. And G Suite is a part of TechSoup's platform, so you can go on there and get that for free. And also Microsoft Office, you can get that for free, but... How many people know about, how many honest with you, Alita? How many people know about Google AdWords? Yeah, well, we do know about it, and we did get that grant, but we are so small and spread so thin we were not able to take advantage of it. And when we got the free G Suite account, which we did, then we tried to connect our G Suite to Microsoft Outlook, which is where everything else lives, and it suddenly decided to disconnect itself. And we spent hours and hours with them and could never get it reconnected and finally just had to give up on G Suite, which was very painful because our current email server gets blocked a lot of times. And so I'd love to go back to G Suite, but we don't know how. I guess we need technical support to help with that. Well, I'm glad you told me that because I would definitely share that with our team. That's feedback, they like to know at TechSoup what problems that our partners are having with the partners who provide products for a nonprofit, but I definitely would reach out to TechSupport through that platform that you use. And can you stay in touch with me through the Meetup Group and let me know how it works out? And I see your email in here, but just send me an email. Question. Okay, I would love to do that. Marguerite, were you assigned anyone from Google once you did that? Assigned a special person? No, no, we never were. And we could never really get any response from Google and maybe we weren't doing it right, but when we started dropping email messages, we panicked and went back to a previous email provider. I can understand. All right, so I'll share with Aretha, our person and what I'll do is I'll start asking questions as to why that happened. That would be great because we would really, really like to take advantage of this whole Google nonprofit thing and we're pretty much Google people, except that I'm an old guy and I run my life through Outlook. And so there's that conflict all the time. Okay, okay. I mean, the reason why I asked everyone about AdWords and thank you Marguerite, I just wanted to, you know, you guys be careful with that. AdWords, your budget at $10,000 is gonna go out the door in a few days, depending on how you do it. But AdWords is a, yes, it's a great platform and there's so many different tools within AdWords, AdSense and so on and so forth, but there's so many different tools within there. You're looking at specific words for your nonprofit. I mean, it could be a great tool but your budget can go pretty fast depending on how it goes. So usually, yeah, I'll talk to Rita about it and what can I go from there as far as trying to figure out if we can get you somebody that can help out, okay? That would be great. Thank you. So Sabrina asked, how can she get G Suite for her small nonprofit through TechSoup? You go to techsoup.org, I put the website in the chat room, you set up an account, it's free, upload your information and then you have access to all of the 100 partners. Also, you know, look for software, there are grant software in there. There's all kinds of technology and products and services that you can use. So you're gonna have fun. Any other questions? I'm gonna interested in knowing what platforms everyone is on right now and how many numbers do you have? What do you mean? What platform is everybody's on right now? Social media? What platform do you guys utilize? Okay, I'd be happy to talk about that. We're very active on Facebook. We have two Facebook pages, FL Greenway and SJR, the number two, the letter C. Those are both our Facebook pages and they're very active. And then our website is Groupal and we have a lot of trouble with Groupal, needless to say, but it's a very extensive website and that's pretty much getting started with Instagram but not enough time. I have no idea how to start a podcast and we are just launching a big trail alliance partner program and would really love some help with spreading the word about that launch. And also we are having at Enterprise Museum which is a little bit north of Orlando. We're having the Lost History Week in March which focuses on quite a bit on indigenous people, removal and African history that was through a grant with Florida Humanities. So we're very busy but really not technology enabled enough at this time. Okay, so here's a couple of tips. As far as your Instagram page, just create the page and you can link up your Instagram and Facebook so that takes care of itself. So whenever you post online Facebook it automatically goes to Instagram so that's what, no, and so yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm like, oh, I got too many inspirations in my head. So yes, everything, we link up everything. Actually, we also use another app. We use HubSpot, we use a couple of other things too to kind of link up everything it makes it easier for us. The only thing I'd say we've done is Twitter because that's a one-on-one conversation and that could be, that takes a while to monitor. Okay, so with that being said, so that handles your Instagram part, it's easy. You can go back door, Google, go to your settings and you can do it. Ashley, for the password for Instagram, connect everything, you're good to go. Your podcast, you can do your podcast straight from your phone. All right, you have to do is go into the, what do you have, you have the iPhone or you have the Android? Android. Okay, okay. For all of you who have iPhones, shame on you, you should always get an Android. Okay, now I'll go back to you. No, so you can go to a place to work and you can download an app to do your podcast which you can link to your Facebook page and it'll take care of itself. So everything, just know that everything is pretty much, everything can be integrated. So you don't have to worry about having to post to each page, each social media site, each platform and so on and so forth. No, you can link them all together and you don't have to worry about it and you can do your podcast from your phone. Okay, you're literally, you can sit in your car and do a podcast. I hear what you're saying but I have no idea how to do it. So maybe offline somebody can tell me how to do it. I mean, Aretha, we can, there are apps within a Play Store we can send for you to just kind of download to your phone and you kind of go from there just like you recording your voice. Remember back in the day we used to do, you know, our voice recorder for our voicemail. One of the people like, you know, we used to play music back outside. Maybe that says me, I'm old. So you gotta be ready for a podcast because it's like everything. Once you start it, you gotta be ready to keep going. So wait till you're ready to get in that space and then you do that. Somebody asked what else can you implement into your business for more exposure? Before you answer that question, somebody asked what's the podcast app for Android that you mentioned? I'm sorry, I wanna mute and unmute because I wanna make sure I hear everything I wanna need in the background to distract anybody. So what we're gonna do, I want everybody to break out their Android phones and you can break out your iPhones right now. We're gonna do this right now because I want you guys to be on top of this. Click on your Play Store, okay. What you're gonna do is you're gonna type in podcast C-O-D-C-A-S-C, okay. Okay, so many different things you can do on here. So many apps and so on and so forth. All right, what do you guys see on your podcast? Unless, I'm sorry, somebody said something. Just keep going. Oh, okay, okay, I thought I heard something. I see about a million podcast apps. Yeah, just go through the steps if you want it. All right. All the time. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yeah, so okay, so when you get to the, when you do your podcast, all right? So you have the podcast player, podcast app. You have your podcast app pack, all these things. Podbean, every one of these apps that you will see, you can create a podcast on, okay. Which one do you recommend? Somebody said, what was the one that you recommended for the Android? Anchor, yeah, I have anchor. I haven't used that much, but I have anchor. So the type in podcast app, or type in anchor. Sorry. Okay, okay, so let me go to Ms. D's question for the sake of time. She wants to know what other ideas do you have to implement into your business for more exposure? What ideas can you get about, you said social media, you said podcasts. We said you're doing social media, you're doing podcasts, you're doing digital marketing. Basically you're, we're just talking about Google ads. I think you should look at every other platform that's out there as new that you can capitalize on, honestly. Get one of your younger volunteers to jump on it, like TikTok and so on and so forth. Outside of that, if you look at, in order to expand, I mean, look at partnerships, research, what companies you can do real partnerships with, start introducing yourself to those companies. And every company, every major company has a nonprofit arm. So yes, there's gonna be a lot of competition when it comes to that. But a lot of companies do a lot of nonprofit work and want to partner with nonprofits, but they haven't been presented with the opportunity to do so. So search within your community first, then go up. And you can partner with these different corporations. They're looking to give out money, especially at the end of the year. So yeah, so that's one of the things, I think a lot of people, we're talking about media, but a lot of people don't do the homework on that. And the worst thing you can do, and this is a life lesson, is go to a company at the last minute and ask for money. Develop that relationship now. Remember, you're like, yo, we need a $2,000 when we can help us out. They know you, they know what you're doing. So your ability to get that money goes up because you developed that relationship. So that's about it. That's priceless. Anybody else have any questions before we, in this session, don't forget to sign up for our next sessions. I'm opening the microphone. You have opportunity to ask questions. James, I wanna thank you for your time as well. Somebody just typed in a new question here. Let's see. Thank you, Sabrina. Dr. Sabrina said, thank you, this is great. Thank you for coming on. Anybody else have any questions, any comments, any feedback? Okay, well, this has been great. I wanna thank everybody for coming on. Was that, did you have a question? No, this is mother. I'm just proud. Okay, okay, great. All right, great. Welcome to town. Thank you. Marguerite said, this is great. She need more details. So we'll be in touch with you, Marguerite. And again, sign up for the March TechSoup, how to develop a sustainable nonprofit and then do the social media tune up in April. So I will see you all back next month. Have a great day. Thank you. Thank you. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.