 I don't have anything to say that I'm right less necessarily than the others. But most of the important thing I do want to say to Cape Office, I have my whole, I'm a DAB communications director, game player. I have my whole team, well, not my whole team, but a chunk of my team here. Matt Singsings is in the very back here. It's going to get Matt out of the room with applause. Matt is, that's the first Army that I believe hired on the team that's supposed to be the race. Last. So a lot of soldiers were asked first and finally and I think we're going to be glad to know you're represented. We had to get rid of an 80 person dream on, but it happens. Up here, I do want you to know these folks because they're obsessed with you. First one here, Brian Lett. Brian, raise your hand. Put together a bunch of them for this event, particularly Brian put together the label this year. What's the stuff that you see that run the flow and bring the show and all that stuff? Brian did a great job outstanding writer, great communicator, a deputy national communications director, Ashley Burns here. Ashley's really the point person for all our stuff in DC especially. Does a fantastic job, amazing writer, dynamic part of everything that we do. Top Hunter, God, raise your hand. I know you have. And Top has a lot of video stuff and Top's going to be more media relations. So if you need to talk to someone if you're going to put a breast release together, do that kind of work. Top's available. He's happy to help you provide some advice and provide some periphery, maybe even write some stuff for you, especially depending on the soap what you're going to be about. So we're going to start with Austin Schafer. Austin is an Air Force veteran. He's really our top video person on DAV. When you see those shots of the DAV people driving on and the cameras coming in, he's also DAV's loan licensed girl pilot. So that's kind of an interesting thing that an interesting role he fulfills. But Austin's really elevated the quality of our McGill products. Top's done some amazing, bigger stuff. Great story builder. How many of you see the disaster relief video where the guys sitting there talking about it? That was Top 100. Did a great job. Austin and Corraine worked on that Woody Williams piece. How many of you like that? Great job on that. I hope you guys have shared that. Last night I was talking to Dale Dye and he told me that our Israeli friends didn't get a couple of things right in Austin City. But he liked the message. But when I got to Woody Williams, Dale told us, he said that you nailed it. He said Woody's a hard person to get down and get you talking. He said Woody's super lucid. He's a focused person, but it was a feat for him. He said, yeah, coming from Dale Dye, I want to say that's about as high a praise as you can get. So I want to pass that on to you guys. On the far end here is Mary Peter. Mary, you're back. Mary's clearly become our lead lead legislative writer, does a great job, kicks in for social networking, did our social networking presentation. How many of you were able to attend that yesterday? I thought you did a great job on that. Mary's happy to help you with that stuff as well. And Dave Rodney just showed up. Let's give Dave a round of applause. So again, thank you for having me here. Thank you for having me here today. Just about everyone here. Mary had an interesting comment yesterday. He said that knowledge is power, but it's only power if it's shared. And typically at these seminars, I get into leads on certain aspects of our mission or certain tools that are available, and I think we kind of need to get back to basics. Mark, for my purchase, especially Commander Nixon, Barry and Randy Grease, it's very important that we're able to activate this organization, our strength of this organization is based on our ability to activate it. So they want to make sure that chapters, especially chapters, because departments are usually on a little bit of a different level in terms of experience with me, but they want to make sure that chapters know the resources that are available to them, so they can go out and have the mission. So it's kind of getting back to basics. I had a staff sergeant when I was in the Marine Corps, and he's arrived from a French war beginning to serve, or serving. And believe it or not, that staff sergeant never wants to polish my boots. If you're a leader, you're also serving, and you're serving, you're making it possible for the people, you're serving to do their mission, which is to win wars or in our case to make sure that veterans with their fights can get their victories. So it's important that we know as leaders we have available to our troops. I am not going to provide anyone here with a sign-up sheet so that you can come up and ask me for anything after this. I'll give you my business card, and all these folks are happy to help in our phone call way. But we want to make sure that you're able to relate to people without an email, without receiving an email, what's available to you, what tools and resources you have. So that's the purpose of this. This presentation that we're going to put out today is something that's going to be available for you. It will be on the convention page, it will be made available so that you can take this back and you can build your chapters if you want to. You can even email the presentation to your chapters, and they can get it to the members of the section of the website and identify all the tools that are available so that they can carry out their mission. So that's the purpose. This is really back to basics. Some of this stuff you guys already know about. Some of it might be a surprise to you. Some of it will be a friendly reminder, but we want to make you aware of the resources. The first resource, of course we're getting more and more into is DEV's website. Read this. Go to, visit this into DEV's website. The more you visit it, the better, the more accessible it will be to other people because it will improve our rankings so we can more search about it. Fugue will recognize us, the subject matter of experts, who we are. So you can go on the website and check it out. Get the magazine, read the magazine, of course. If you're a DEV leader, you should read the magazine every time. I hope, and I think these people are doing a great job of getting that content for you. So, thank you. A handful of information that's designed to make you better exposed to the persons for DEV. So that's a big part of what we're doing. One of the easiest resources that we have that are fingertips to DEV leaders is Google. If you're looking for something that DEV's done, if you go to DEV Employer Support, you're going to find it on Google. So don't ever take it right here. I think there's a little search account where they have a green there. I typed in DEV Employment Guide. All of a sudden, the first two links are DEV Employment Guide. You don't have to call anyone. You don't have to do anything. You just did a Google search. Google maps us better than we map ourselves. I mean, they're a very successful company when it comes to that. So you could go to Google and ask it a DEV question, and sometimes you can find some things that might end the firewall and have it log into members of the section of the website again. There's a search function on the website in the top right there. Search for DEV. You type in what you're looking for and it had to find. Mostly, you're going to find articles that way. Google's better at finding kind of beyond articles the resource backstab that's available. So keep that in mind. As you know, I'm going to talk about this a lot. It's members of these sectional websites. How many of you have been there? You've all been there, right? How many of you have said, I wish to help a reorganize that thing so I can find one? Well, we did. Of course, the top right corner of the website is the homepage is the members login. We've got a nice arrow there. Right down there, we printed out a bunch of copies of the website. We cut all our action buttons up and we just started reorganizing. It was a lot of all the things going on in the early part. But how we did this was we said, what is it that our members are reorganizing behaviors and how can we reorganize information so that you get to the things that are most useful for you? So when we did that, that was the driving force. That's how we, you guys actually voted on how we wanted the web book, how we would put things in order to promise. So here's what the members section was like. It's hard to see because there's quite a few buttons there, but the first thing on the top left is going to be your member advantages action button. So you can go there, you can find out about the 4x plan, 1-800-FLOWERS, all the different member advantages things. A member advantage is not a benefit, it's a change to promise. But member advantages is up on the top left because it is the most frequently searched item in the members section of the web site. And we did not want to get lynched by you guys. So we kept big links just the way it was because that comes from a time when chapter 8, when a bunch of folks came to us and they said, here are the things that we feel are most important to us as member leaders, and we want to get those things as quickly as possible. So we decided, we're not going to mess with that. You guys who use quick links, I don't want to hear, you know, you guys moving on this. Now we can't find anything. So quick links is still there. But on the bottom, just below member advantages on that left column is a tap or an action button called member leaders. And that's going to be your friend. I'm going to go over what all is in that. But then if I go down on the left, got member leaders, service officers, legislation, employment, webinars, and DB store O. On the right we have publicity, voluntary services, fundraising, toolkits. So there are multiple ways that you can find any one thing that you're looking for. And like I said before, in the top right at this slide, it says member section. That will take you directly to the member section of the web site. So when you get this tool, you can kind of use some hyperlinks that are you need to go. So member and team of all those things that are available, right? That's really stuff that is, it goes beyond the folks who are member leaders who are active and DB who probably know about this stuff anyway. But it's the most important thing to the majority of people who visit members on the section of the web site. Quick links, of course, I mentioned before, that came from you. So we're leaving it alone. If you want us to update that, we're willing to update it. But I don't think it's really necessary if you look at what's in, what we've done for the organization of the site. Here's the members of the section. On the left is a list of the resources that are available there. And that's way too many. But we're trying to, we thought any tool that a member leader might want and we're going to put it, we're going to put it in this section. And when you guys start calling us, you know, I don't mean the hiring guy on a regular basis is the number of leaders. Well, then we'll move it. But we need feedback from you to do that. And before that, I did introduce this team member, Connie Cowell. But Connie is available. We have phone call if you can bring the site back up at the end. She definitely wants your feedback on the real organization. We'll be sending out a memo to the county of the National Convention. But Connie does a really great job on this. And Connie's just one of the re-owners to show up at the back of the production area. I mean, you know the rain, I think the rain around the house. Stuff like that. And the rain's always available to help. I will warn you that if she assists you and you see her at the convention, she will want to help her anyway. So just keep that in mind. Ask her then. I'm going back in. Okay, members of the leaders. So let me go to the leaders section. These things are listed alphabetically. You can click on the action button. But I kind of move them around a little bit in terms of what I think is probably most important to you. What is mental orientation? This is a toolkit, a guide that's available that you can get into. It'll help you kind of introduce new members to the AD and get them oriented to our mission to what it means to be an AD member and overall about Shannon, aren't you taking pictures of her? Please give her a round of applause. These are senior designers. She's really the kind of the brands are for the ADV. If you need help with a logo review or anything like that, just start with Loryn. The logo or the Shannon should give you as positive feedback as you possibly can when you go to California. New member information. That's another thing that's available there. And that branches off into a lot of different things that are available for incoming new members. And there's materials there for chapters that will actually recruit new members. So you can go in there. Put it around here to know that stuff. It's available for you and we created it for you. We just want you to use it. Annual financial report changing. I mean, you could use that thing. There is no really intersection of websites. I'm going to put it down really fast. I'm probably going to get a lot of my nerves. We saw that. Annual financial report cap. That's a lot more of an in-depth look at how you fill out annual financial report for NAV members. You're going to run into some stuff, I guarantee. And even the most experienced among you isn't aware of it. Here's something that we put out a while ago. It's a certificate where you can go in there basically like a field, update the certificate, and recognize Old Brown. And recognize a member who volunteered to bring in several members who volunteered. Print that thing out and it's already done with NAV's branding. You can get on some ice paper. You can get on some cheap paper, whatever you want to do. But it's another thing that's out there because we have the most important thing that we can do as leaders sometimes is saying thank you to people. That's so underutilized, unfortunately, because we start to think of things in military terms. We start to think of things in terms of mission. We must accomplish mission. But we forget sometimes to say thank you to people and inspire people instead of, you know, sometimes that's a lot easier than the carrots a lot are to say. Chapter officer guide, how many of you know about this? If you don't, or if you have new chapters coming in, you've got to get them familiar. You can just run out of this. This is one of the easiest, most efficient ways to do it. You can print this out in the inventory. Here's something. How many of you are aware that there's a chapter print supply ordering resource through Office Demo? If you're an answer, right? How to do this on folks. That's available in the intersection. Here's a couple of ads that the communications director at DAV had forgotten to do that at some point. But if people wanted to ask, it's basically forgetting not stuff out. And this is art that you can use in other ways to do it. That's available on there. You can download those things. You can customize it based on what's going on locally. So that's out there. You can get out there and use it to help you raise some funds. I restrain state information. Of course, that's a pretty important tool because if you're not reinstated, you're not serving veterans, are you? So that's not what you keep in place. Here's one. How many of you have folks who asked you for a membership card? They lost theirs. Whatever membership department is saying, we'll all process it. You can get it here and create one goal for the auxiliary for your units and for your choppers. So that's another one you can use to work. A guide to our course, this came from Doug Wells Dean. It's a real nuts and bolts kind of look to help you do the necessary reporting of National Ninth Horse if you know what's going on. So we're all on the same page. The Constitution and my laws, these Constitution and my laws you all know about this. If you go DAV, National Constitution and my laws in Google, you can find this slide easier and they go to the member leaders in the section. But it's there. If you have questions, it's there. There is also available a kind of a template guide Department of Chapter Constitution and my laws in that section. And that's another thing that you can use when you're maybe someone's rewrote a few rules and kind of just want to get back to basics and look and have a foundation that you can draw on for your Constitution and my laws if you're trying to make changes or just get back to digital and see how it's spelled out there. But the DAV National Constitution and my laws did the same thing for you. Convention information, this is where you'll go to find this report, other things that have come out after this convention. And we keep those updated but we're starting to archive those after a couple of years because it's just you got a little bit messy, you know, going back 10 years on some of this stuff. But the webinar's staying around and most of the stuff we have staying around for a while there in different ways. Social Networks. It's pretty easy to connect with DAV Social Networks anywhere on DAV's on DAV's website. Go to DAV.org. This is not the members of the site. Well, there is a link and there are links in the members of the section of the website for this. But our social networks are pretty easy to find there on the bottom of the home page. So anytime that you're just getting into Twitter or something you want to find DAV, of course you can just search on Twitter where you can also go there and click and it takes you right over to our social networks. We're getting into the area that we like the most. This is the publicity this way. You can find under the publicity the members of the section. First things first, logos and branding. We have a guide that tells you how to use DAV's logo and before we give you the logos we hold them ransom and say click on this button integrity check FUGRED downloaded the guide so you can use the logos properly. At that point it just opens up and you'll see a ton of different versions of those files. You can still reach back out to us or reach out to Lorraine and her team in the production department primarily if you need help if you have a question if you want us to review something the key here is that we're staying consistent and if we're if we're not consistently presenting our brand we're inconsistent and we're fracturing our efforts so we got to stay on the same page with this brand new stuff. A lot of people are getting creative and more and more creative you know I've seen some red, white and blue TV logos popping up with this sense of logo we've moved on on our branding and sent extremely well for the AV we need to get more consistent and stay consistent on that front we've been pretty generous I think we're pretty generous but it's certainly not getting handed in how we interact with chapters departments or using logo we know when you're just trying to do the right thing or you're trying to give it a little bit of a local flavor or whatever we've been pretty fair about that but if it gets you know it's the AV logo almost every AV member does always belong to my chapter Lincoln Brass or whatever if I'm trying to get fancy but make it a big red TV logo or something like that that's my work especially if you're a block eye I'm a book almost seriously on it alright identity presentation this is a new one that we've been promising for a long time right it's kind of a comprehensive look at the AV's mission from a national perspective and it allows for you to go in to get a new presentation and customize it's a PowerPoint file it's consistent it has some colors right it has a font that you can all live with because it'll be on your computer already it has video files in it if you're having problems with video files which is an issue that we've dealt with or we've been kind of dealing with as we roll this out because the size of the files let us know but we can also even delete a video file if you want to it starts off it gets in pretty quick to the AV's identity video that has been updated and is available now I'll click on that next time and I'm going to show the video that it's been updated actually right now Dale Dye is doing not that actually burns into a great job with her voice by the way you actually remember unless you all that stuff or anything but if you can get Dale Dye to do it we're going to do that so we'll be rolling that out again with Dale Dye's voice talking about the AV which I think is pretty cool but again any presentation take it and make it your own if you have a local service program that's great if you're donating codes or something like that you need to go out and communicate back to the same Minnesota Vikings which is something that's happened before or anything like that so if you've done some of that stuff that's still right or a code driver or something like that you can create your own slide that is consistent branded with the AV and not the other useable information line we're going to get ahead and add about once a year hopefully once a year or at least once a year but we want to ask for the stats from there and update it with local transportation network stats local membership stats you can chat there you can be an apartment you can even be for committees certain things like that when you're trying to make presentations or you're somewhere we're excited about that because that's one of those things that you guys ask It totally made sense, but it seemed like it was a little heavier than we thought it would be into it. Because our numbers at the AP different kind of a moving target, and meeting the needs of a bunch of people is a bunch of different aspects of the organization, which is a little bit challenging. But they're in the publicity side, too. You can get quickly to the identity video. That's available, too. If you go to the About Us section of the website, you can download that video, throw it on the thumb drive, take it somewhere, upload it to a computer, and it can be a presentation all on its own. These things are available, too. I think there's three videos totally to get any presentation. And that's pretty ambitious, but powerfully. So there are very specific instructions when you click on that link to get in there, and maneuver around, and try to keep all those things in the same holder, so they separate, that sort of thing. We are not always, I mean, if you saw how this looked before boring about all of this presentation, I am no power by range, OK? And a lot of us aren't, but having that template keeps things looking pretty good when you work with them. How many of you know that DAV has a podcast? We're three episodes in, and another one on the way. We're doing an interview with Veiled Live today for an upcoming podcast episode. We have a bunch of content that we call in, and it can, and it's generated and come out, and there's a bunch of subjects and things you want to cover. It's available anywhere where you would normally go to look up a podcast based on your phone system. You can go there and download those things. You can also go through the policy page here directly to DAV.org, I think it's DAV.org, or backslash and podcast, and get to all that stuff. Ashley is the co-anger of that in class. It's not a personal version, but everyone at this table, everyone on our team, all the directors at DAV are working with us, trying to get them out. Podcasts are seed-based on how many people visit them and view them. Like I said, information is powerful, it's something powerful to share. So get in there, and you said, we're going to be more on our social networks in a while. It's a very new thing. Like I said, we're three issues in, but our determination, and we're gonna keep doing that because there's an investment in time that goes into that. It's gonna depend on how much traction we're in that way. That's how we do business, that's how we look at things. If it works, then we keep doing it. If it's not working, then we go try something else. We'll be as creative as we can, but we also gotta, we also, everything's limited, so you gotta make the most use of your time. The Pulse Survey, DAV, I think that's Veterans, DAV Veterans Pulse.org is another way that you can get into that. It kind of has its own vanity URL. That's another thing that if you read that, it would give you some pretty interesting insights just when you're doing conversations, if you're working on speeches, that sort of thing. Just some stats that come from DAV that we did with the nationally recognized research company that can kind of tell you how do people really think about Veterans. What do Veterans feel about someone saying, thank you for your service? Why do you would say, no, Veterans is kind of embarrassing, things like that, but when we asked you about Veterans that question, I think it was 78% of that, it said, actually, I appreciate it, and I just think I wanted that, but I appreciate it because it's a comparison on behalf of that sort of thing. But that information is out there, information on women veterans, how does DAV feel about Congress using DAV for their healthcare? It turns out before. So you can get a lot of that information on there. Another Pulse, DAV, thank you that much. We had a really, a tremendous amount of success with the bank of that last year, and it's all social. You can find it through here, but it really has a prime time is to get closer to that, I would say. We're looking for some sponsors trying to get involved in that process and you on there, but it's really cool that you can go out there and find a couple pictures of the veteran you know, upload them and make kind of your own visual part, and then you're kind of part of another thing and you can share them on social networks, but you're also on the platform too, so it's kind of a neat thing. We have the DAV press room, that's also available, it's public facing. The press room is primarily for media, but it's also a place where you can go if you're looking for some key files, or just trying to get with your local media if you want to get with them, you can send them over to the press room to look at what's going on at DAV. The PSA toolkits on there, I've gone into that in depth on other occasions, it's still a thing, our PSA figures right now through August, or just in August, through June, are our figures for PSAs are higher already than they were all of last year, and it's insane how all our PSAs keep mainstreaming, but if you want billboards in your community, if you want radio in your community, if you want your PSA, if you want to hear more DAV PSAs, there are instructions that are going to help you be an ambassador for that program, so get on there and check that out, and also to DAVPSA.org, and download those messages, so you can download them and share them in chapter meetings, like department conventions, do what DAV does, right? Before our, you guys will notice this, that before our summer's period, this team up here has been spending as much time as we can in doctoring you, so of course sharing as many of those videos as we can as often as we can, because it makes us better. The publicity guys there, the publicity guy has a little bit of age on it, but this is a huge resource, it's comprehensive, there's all kinds of guys interacting with the media, there's press release netlets and things like that. You do not, and Todd's going to cover this today, at the media center, but you do not need to go to our commission to reach out to your press, you do not need to go to national pet boarders to say, please, please, can you help me talk to the media? And you can do it on your own, we're happy about it. Don't feel like you're stuck, or you need everyone's permission before you can go do something like that. If you're a chapter leader, you represent DAV, if you have an event going on, you should go talk to the media. There's a list of the videos you'll see that I've lost in the city are there. I've lost in the city, which was great. I mean, we all know that it's never 100% exactly what something we've been, but I hope that mental health awareness when it comes out, because the awareness one, sorry, comes out that you guys go on there and then look at sharing that. I think homeless, veterans, awareness, day or month or week or whatever, there's one all the time, but I hope when DAV starts pushing that out, they'll share it as well. The other action about the service officer. We don't have as many resources there as we do in other sections. CSO, DSO training, all that stuff is kind of handled in a little bit of a different way, but there are some pretty important things there. There's the NSO Locator. The NSO Locator is the most popular resource on DAV.org. I don't know, it's not quite my time time, but the vast majority of the time if someone visits DAV.org, they're looking for a service officer, and that's their on-trade DAV. So knowing where the NSO Locator is is great, but you can also, if someone says to you, how do I find my NSL? You could say that you could go to benefits questions.org. If you do that, I'll drive you straight to the NSO Locator. It's just a little bit of an easier way for you guys to remember how to drive someone over there, so microphone them and represent them when you mention benefits. If they're in the same lose area. Service Officer Guide, that's the resource that we put it together and it was all driven by the National Service Department, but that's there too, and sometimes you might find a service officer on a chapter level or a volunteer service officer, and we really just use a little bit of a refresher. So that's out there too. And the Contact Guide, which is the basic starting point for most of the relationships that we have with others. Voluntary Services, we have all kinds of tools in Voluntary Services because it's on a, it's been on kind of a steady slow decline as baby rumor short-comer has. There's more competition for people's time, as grandparents become baby servers, things like that. So we've tried to do more and more in this area, but it's not, we're seeing a lot more, especially here's the Voluntary Guide where we're really looking at it. We're seeing so much more outreach on the local level. Jamie, Jamie, is there anyone here, Jamie? Yeah, Jamie's in the back there. Jamie came out to the G&B, picked up the van. I said, well, do you need some help with some media stuff? And Jamie was like, no, I got it, I've got to be able to find out more. It's people are already doing this, they're taking the initiative, but there's some guides out there if you're not. And a lot of you may have noticed that as often as we can, you can work down on team members or something. But as often as we can, when you come to the AD headquarters to pick up a cable, we're going to do at least a Facebook live with you. And our goal is to do press releases for every single cable that goes out. If you and Brian Lead actually leads that charge. So if you need to talk to someone about how to publicize the incoming cable, you can talk to Brian. And he's available to you, but there's also the school kit. And anytime you need volunteer drivers, reach out, we're happy to help. We just did a thing in Portland, it's one of Janus, and I don't think one was able to make it. We worked with the HSC one of Janus up in Portland. We put some more resources than we normally would in just outreach about the transportation that we've got there. And within a week, she had 50 interested volunteers. How many of you could use 50 respected volunteer drivers? Right? So if you have a city and you wanna do that kind of enhanced outreach, you can do it on your own or you can do it with us. The media wants to work with us on these things. So it's, I'm studying too much, I don't want to be able to see stuff because I can't even ramp up about it. It's an area where we can take what we're able to do or what you're able to do. The credibility to have locally reach out to the media and start a relationship that can lead to all sorts of great things. There's, of course, volunteer for betters at work. A lot of these things, I think, volunteer for betters at work is one of the things that can be found in multiple places on this list, I don't know, in the action matters. Moving on, we have legislation. Legislation is in the area that it's a lot of play on DADCAN.org. There's a lot of stuff available up and facing on legislations. We're not trying to hide anything, certainly. But we did want a place specifically there where there's kind of a repository that was available. Got the independent budget. How does DAD fill about how VA's, how much money does VA need and where does it need it? How does it need to spend it? We get together with PBA. We get together with VFW and come up with this report altogether. Here's one that's going to be particularly more election year gifts and votes. DAD's on partisan. We have to stay aligned with DAD if we're going to talk very election-cycly. If you become partisan, you're going to have a very interesting conversation with that department about the choices that you made in representing DAD. That doesn't mean that we fight for freedom. So if you want to support a candidate and you want to do that as an air force that or an Marine Corps that or whatever, that's your right. Throw in your DAD cap, though, or identify yourself as a DAD chapter leader and start saying that you support one candidate over another. And like I said, Ed will be on the phone with you. He's very pleasant, but he's also very efficient in communicating with certain things. So that might be an interesting conversation. Yeah, to stay within the lines there, though, look at DAD's resolutions. One over DAD stands on anything and you try to be a head user. It's called DAD's legislative program. We know that for many of you, that's resolutions. So that's how it's listed in the members of the section. Get in there, though, and you'll find where DAD has to stand on a lot of different topics. The BPD leader tool kit, you do not have to give benefits protection team leader to get into that resource and start learning how you can be a better advocate for DAD, but if you're interested in being a benefits protection team leader, talk to your chapter because a motivated, good benefits protection team leader can do so much to change people's lives, to change law, to change how we approach it on the state and federal level so you can get involved. There's also a presentation that that links to where you can kind of get a little bit of a more multi-media experience there. We also broke out our Capitol Hill community videos. When someone says something stupid on your Facebook page and we have a video that you've seen before that kind of answers the question, it's a little easier than just going after them to say, well, here's Davey, here's a very efficient way that Davey is explaining our stance on unique initiatives. Ashley, our team, especially in DC, lead the way with the phase and they've done a fantastic job. But the video's gonna do us much better if they're just sitting out there on YouTube getting their share on it. Setting the right for straight series, those are the same thing, a bunch of videos that we put together, these things are getting okay or they're just gonna stop coming all the time. So the best way to stay in touch with our staff is to be active on your social networks and make sure that Davey's someone you're following. And the more you follow Davey on Facebook or on Twitter, the more alerts you're gonna get and the more effective it'd be as a social networking advocate for Davey. Of course, we link over to the Commander's Action Network where you can also find that by going to dvcm.org to get into that. We have our Women Veterans Report, the newest report, great artwork. There's one in the Janice if you're at various and the second's a lot for their next job. But that's a great report and that's the kind of thing you can get that out and share with someone you can share a link to that with a lawmaker, you know, to try and get some of those, some of the recommendations that Davey had in front of him. The first report is there too. What's kind of interesting is you can go to the first report and see the initial recommendations and go back to the second report and see how many of them are actually made, how many of them actually became water or active on and where we need to have that. So it is kind of nice to be able to go back to the first report because it was a pretty groundbreaking report. We've got a ton of help from our leaders to put that together. Davey, if it were just actual headquarters, we're not, there's no strength. It's the strength of having members who are living and experiencing it that they make us strong. So your involvement is always important and feedback is important. So some information on fundraising out there. There's the drive for your community pool kit or start out with an able donation pool kit. How many of you are aware that if someone in your state donates an able to DAV that your state department is going to receive right away from that? I'd be more likely to support a fundraising program that will lead to more revenue for your department. Right? So there's a toolkit that can help you publicize that. There are more messages that we're coming up with, spots, things like that, to promote the program. The more you promote it, the more money you can get in your state level. So get involved. And there's a nice feedback here on that. This is something you can share on a local level. Some of the donors who come into DAV through this program have great potential to do a lot more for us and a lot of our existing members. I mean, we need all of our members. Some of these, you get a higher network going around with us, so it's helping DAV's mission, giving us a little bit more stability, a new channel for introducing ourselves to donors. Just to get a school kit. I'm so inspired by how much work you guys are doing to get our kids to campus. And it's fantastic. But we're not encouraging you to raise money for, can't grow directly, or for, or through, exclusively, when we're out. The just-be-kids school kit is a workaround for us because we want those donations to come in, to DAV, we want to count them, we want to match them, and we want to get them back out there. But based on our constitution by-laws, we know you cannot sit there with a DAV cap on and raise funds for another entity. It's just, it can't be done. So through just-be-kids, if we make that happen. Drive for your community event. That's, these things, a lot of things that are available while they're facing, too, but they're also in this repository. Drive for your community, and I think you can raise up to $10,000 by getting killed with your local for-gailer ship. Sorry, $6,000. Sorry to make your game all over, but directing me as per usual. $6,000, that's a pretty nice thing you can do, of course, today. Raise some funds for your job. So get on there and check that out. Employment department, same thing. You've got a hiring guide, job fair, and a direct link to jobs.davo. It's just another way to scare you back over to those resources. The hiring guide is something, it's an area where you can introduce yourself to some, introduce DAV to some companies that could do a lot more for us, and it's a service to veterans if you make them aware of the benefits of hiring. This has been a phenomenal resource. More people need to get in there and read it, and it'll make you a better advocate for veterans, especially in the employment space. For job fairs, you can get a direct link to our job fairs, so you know where we're coming closer to you. Of course, you can send people to jobs.davo for more resources, articles, and things like that. The other one is toolkits and guides. So you've seen these toolkits in all these different sections, but if you go to the toolkits, if you're just looking for a toolkitter guide, and you know what you're looking for, but you just can't picture the line around the name, you can go to this, and you'll see a link to links to all the toolkits guides that DAV has put together for you. Same thing with webwriters. You get to all the webwriters that are out there, and there's the DAV interview, and the new review is posted. So if you want to share that, go out there and interact, it's live. Finally, there's DAV.org or DAVStore.org, where you can go to get all the names here that they sold out from upstairs this morning, right? The members of their member leaders. Just in case you get to find it anywhere else, go to the all tab, and another resource that you should be aware of is our handover board. By the way, I'm right there. Sit right out here in the audience and we'll see you on the cover for our handover board. It can be better or worse, I don't think. The handover board, read it, and don't talk about DAV, especially in the national level, how we handle our finances unless you know what you're talking about, because you don't want to provide inaccurate information to your donor, either. But if you get into the handover board, not only are you going to see how DAV spends our money, but you're going to get an in-depth update on every staff that's carried out in the national level with the transportation number, for employment, for legislation, how many bills do we have now? So that's where stuff's going to be. I mentioned our social networks before, but that's just another way you can become a better advocate as I follow this, that I share a lot of this stuff. We're not at the time, but I know we went through a lot of stuff there. I know some of you might have some questions on the resources, and that's great. That's the microphone's up here. Like I said, this is going to be available in the link to, in the convention page. So you can find it there. We're also going to be emailing a memo out about it after this. But my goal is not to get to the mode of space where we're emailing specific files. I'd rather teach out of that city coding and get it out to something. We've had a great year, though, from the communications perspective. Things are, they continue to just keep going up, and it's not always going to keep going up, but wherever we're at. I want to make sure everyone here knows that our PSA success is directly related to your advocacy and your communities. So if we have a great transportation network in your community, you're more likely to get a PSA placement there than you would in someone else. If you want to get involved and help us with that stuff, that's great, but this is a tool, I hope a lot of you can go in there and download this and use this at the department and mentions, use it in your chat for meetings and making it available, so. Do I have any questions, sir? P.C. P.C. Yes, sir. Wisconsin Grant Mallow. On the global brand, I believe that several years ago, there was a letter or some form of information that allowed us to make this provision, basically, to do it. I was wondering if there was a letter or something for us to get to somebody so that they could do a logo for us. To create a logo for you? Not to create a logo, but to use the DAB logo in the personalized path for us. Oh, so you want to make that a chapter path? Yes, DAB's logo on it. Yeah, when you go to that publicity section and you go to the logos and branding section, there are very specific goals. There's even threads that you should use to get the colors right. Okay, I don't think you need to use it. You do need permission to raise it for your department. Right. But you don't need to come to me and say, hey, I'm going to have a DAB logo that has my chapter on it. Well, if you make it, I'm sorry, go ahead. That was the logo, right? That you have where it has the symbol to the solid level. Okay. I gave that to her and she said that she still didn't have information through that. You're a chapter member and you're having issues with permissions. You can call us up and I'll put together a little order for you. It's kind of weird that they're now... Yeah, it is weird that she's the only person in the area that would like to ask questions. Okay, well, we're happy to. So, actually, we're going to try it right here if you want to connect with her. And you take care of that right now. All right, then. How does a chapter look out to you at the end of your life? That's a great question. And I'm not on that side of the business, necessarily, but I believe that that's handle. Do I have a department, Ashton, who's well versed in this, who can speak to that? How does that... This handle, I think it's similar to old Peralta. Let me look into that and get back to you. Where the department decides how those resources are giving up. It's a very new program. So, I'm not even sure that all the departments necessarily have a law scanner. You can't have their one-to-one. Well, that, I don't remember where it says in the PSA. So, really extensively talked about PSA. We've had seminars that, and they're built online anyway, that talk more specifically about how to talk to someone about PSAs. And in the PSA toolkit, there are some specific things. One of the big things for me that I would cringe about is if you were to go to a local station manager and say, please run DAB PSAs. Please, please, please do it. We're a great charity. We really mean it. And you're sitting there talking to someone who's maybe doing a $10,000 deal to DAB. That's kind of an insult, right? That you would be going there and asking for something that they've already given you without thanking them for doing it already. That kind of ice is available in the PSA toolkit. We could go through it. If someone wants to do that, I've offered this before. And very few people take this upon it. But I've said, I will give you a gift that you can give them. It will be the cheapest gift that they've ever received. It may have been made in China. But it will tell them that you appreciate them. It will be a coffee mug or some little piece of swag. If you want to have meetings with station managers, we will help you do it. We'll lock you through it. It's just, you don't have to be the bravest person. You just have to be someone who's going in there at hand and saying, can you do good things for veterans? Do you really appreciate more support from you or anything we can do to get more of a better time from your station? That's right. Great, thank you very much. Thank you, sir. I'm very proud of you. I'm very proud of you. Thank you. You're here. You're a beautiful person. There's about 40,000 veterans serve a sort of, you know, different majorities. What, we do have relationships with many of them. We have memorandums to understand what many of them, especially when it comes to our service department, we're challenged because there are so many who want sometimes to partnership and when they come to us for a partnership, what they really want is for, they want to be in the middle of Minnesota, so to say, this one's the early hit on the head. They want to be a phone worker. They say, well, we know that not all the other services and things are available to them and what they're really doing is, in some cases, they're basically social workers and they ask for these benefits they're sending to them. So that can happen at the local level. That can happen at the national level. It can happen a lot of ways. But it's challenging for us when basically we're doing all the work and we're going to be in that hill and there's people who want to take our staffs and find out how much money we're getting veterans and benefits or how much transportation we're providing and then we're reporting that like they did the job. That's a little bit of a challenge that we have with some of you veterans service organizations. On the other hand, you look at the chair of the service trust. That is a partnership of sorts and we're doing millions and millions of dollars in grants that help all these different smaller charities. The, when we look at partnerships and think about people who want to deal with the right stories about or make people aware of, we start with the chair of the service trust because unlike the, we can't vet 40,000 charities but people go through the grant process, we can tell, meet fiscal responsibilities. They're willing to report to us how they use funds and once we kind of build that relationship of trust we do more with them. We're doing more and more with other charities because where it makes the most sense. It's just that there's only so many, everyone knows that there's going to be so much time that you have to dedicate to these things and we want to be good partners and we want to be good members of the community. We just need to make sure it's always productive for us. So we're pretty candid in our relationships with women. We share our expectations of them. When it comes to legislation particularly though, we work with everyone we can. If there's a charity that you can think of that you think maybe 80% like, if it comes to helping caregivers get benefits or something like that, if I doubt that in Washington D.C. we're willing to sit back and, you know, explore the seven table talk and work there. Ashley works, more than I do certainly, with all our partners, but Ashley needs fairly very good. Especially with the bigger PSOs, but we'll meet with, it's just about me. It's a long answer. Sorry man, you want to say I would take a break? What's that? I think it's a long question. Well, thank you. Thanks, great question. For those of you who write your favorite chapter, one more for Norman. I have a few questions for you. Do you know what would be a confidence like that? If it will be available in the convention page of the website and there will be a letter that goes out that will help you seem to go in action just have a look. And then you can use it locally. Will the convention public that I have, all these other areas as well? Every other one that we make available. Some of the meetings and things that we have, we don't share, slides up for whatever reason, but everything that we do make publicly available or available, that will just be there. Thank you very much. I'm blessed to go outside. January 11th, State Department of California, I'm sure you're all on a couple of things. Maybe I can catch it, but before I became as active as I've been able to do the last couple of years, we used to have a speaker's bureau that was one of the kids we all like to think about. You know, if I had a page that would tell us how to establish a speaker's bureau, maybe an outline of what a speaker might have to, or should be able to speak about, you know, that junior and higher high school level, so that we can pray to veterans now in the service, but also what we do as veterans to serve them, as we do each and every day here. Thanks, and then the last thing you did when you posted your slide, could you add a new one? You had such an element here at the podium with their names, their area of expertise, their whole number, and their email. So we may get to the contact, and frankly, you might also think about how you have an audience here at the convention, over 3,000 families, how they have a story, even if they might not offer anything and make it available that you might even have a point of contact so that, you know, we could get more of a story out. Yeah. I'm sure you guys have a great recommendation, Maureen, can you and Ash get together and we'll just create another slide when we upload this to the convention page, and we'll put those kind of areas of expertise and contact information so you can get direct contact. We'll do that. Thank you. We'll slide it on now. On my other question, the speaker's room, we actually do not have a speaker's room, and what that means is that if I were to croak tomorrow, we should make some people on stage, maybe a class just like that. If I were to croak, and the people I know weren't the new blues members, speakers basically would break the chain. So, naturally we're working on a speaker's room. That was a recommendation that came from the staff and we're doing that. We have a ton of speeches that are available, which, you know, that's another one. I'm not sure if you have any of that. With Connie, we should link to the speeches for the members, the members of the intersection. They're already helping us refine it. I put Connie's, I thought I put Connie's up. I put Connie's email up there, but if you have a recommendation, let us know. But we'll work on that part of it. On the chapter level, I'm just not sure that we try and ask you guys to do something. Actually, I'm not sure how feasible that is. I'm just gonna be honest with you. But if that's something you want to do on a local level, there's some resource we have that we think can help you. We'll do it, but for Veterans Day, Matt Ceasing did a Fourth of July speech. He said, well, it's not as if we can speak in Fourth of July, we don't have Veterans Day on Florida Day, so we came up with a speech for that one in the speech section. And when we did kind of all the requests, someone said, well, it's swag day. Now, Connie, why don't we have a speech for that? I'm not gonna go out and find every major on all day, if you're a member of the grant, you can sign me by, it seems like a grant of 65 days. But we will make speeches where it makes sense. And if we're doing one for one person, then the last one I can go with that one. So we'll work on that, maybe I'll make these ways you've heard. I'm sorry, but another recommendation that Jerry had that I thought was really interesting was talking about, I think Dale Lye may be inspired this, but I'm not saying Dale Lye's been great job on PSA, but I'm very sure I have something to see and thank him. But one of the things Jerry brought up was he's watching Blue Bloods, and someone goes into a VA facility and the inaccuracy of their engagement was so outrageous that it wasn't setting. And he said to us, I said, well, what can we do about that, nice and well? That's some of the Blue Bloods that occur two weeks ago is dead to the media, it's gone. That's a round-down range or something to do with that. However, there is an opportunity that we can discuss and say it will be proactive. Sometimes you can be reactive to be proactive. And in that case, if you're gonna send us an episode, you're gonna say, well, this really infuriated me. I don't want it to be if we look like bunch of winers, especially the media, when a certain station that maybe runs Blue Blood is actually donating millions of dollars for the media to us. So I'm trying to go on the last, but it is an opportunity like we discussed and reach out to them and say, they're technical, vital, whatever. Hey, look, if you have questions about better stuff and you're gonna have so many balls betters, we're happy to help you. Well, we're happy to write the advice whether you follow or not. That's up to you, but we're happy to do that. And there are people writing and lying right now and they also can be one of our guarantee who do come to us for our subject matters or peace matters. So thanks for that discussion as well for coming back. Steve, I'd like to see your bodies, chapter 47, Louisiana, to add to that recognition, is our role, one of that is technology, whether it's important now, we're gonna capture story, we're gonna bring that higher, the horse events are going to be very moving out after this horse event. Probably bigger than 70% in some of our new events from our accident. The second point is, well, I wouldn't put it at, I would ask attention that we, my perspective is three banks, one of three banks that across the 16 clients worked in the bank was 3% of those of the eight, that's our spouses and citizens who were in contact with all of our stories a lot about this way and they would pass that board out to the community and that's what we hope to look at today and use for our distribution. Thanks very much. It was a great pleasure to be here. We can use our help then, but it may get that back to making our lives get on the streets. Thank you, Dan. From chapter 22 in Florida, I want to thank you for your time. My question for you is, while the question is also coming in the video, it's truthfully, I am so overwhelmed. This is my first national convention and it's just way, way too much. Some of these questions are really good and I can't really assess if everyone speaks. Yeah, as a matter of fact, there, if I had to open the camera with my beautiful face, we'll write the questions as well. Thank you. From chapter 22, Dan, you could say, that's what it can't work, it's the AB can't do it. Nope, you didn't hear it quite right, or I said it quite wrong. You're, of course, allowed to raise funds for the AB, and that's why we have specific just-be-kids guidance, but you're not raising money directly for the AB. You're raising money for the AB and by using that scholarship and taking that money and processing in the correct way, the National Bank Order snatches those funds and then that results in that giant fact check that we gave to get all those kids taught here so that we can. So, you're absolutely authorized to raise funds when you're doing it through the AB, you're not doing it for a camp or out there, I think. Does that make sense? No, where are your caps? You're raising money for your kids? Where are your caps? You're raising money for your kids? Absolutely. It doesn't just take place through old problems. We get you to raise funds in other ways. Or just the kids. Yes, absolutely. There's a whole crowd in the AB department now. I mean things. Very confusing, I think. Here's an example of what you've done with it. Say there was a charity, say there was an American Legion post and they had some service for it, you know what I'm saying? But if you were raising funds and go to the bucket that says American Legion and you're wearing a D&D cap, you absolutely can't do that. Is that why you need lettering? Sure. Thank you. My name is Commander Christopher Mayer, AB SHOCK 233, Fort Bend County. One thing I noticed that I do in National Rise is we both in constant contact when we reach out to our members. I know you guys have a big list and one thing I do with my constant contact when I reach out to our members is I put a ton of resources in there with a ton of events. A ton of those come on. And one thing I do is I look at the click record. I study the clicks and I see what people are actually clicking on and that was in the earlier. You only want to create content that people are actually looking at or using. You don't want to put much energy behind something that no one's taken advantage of. So I would encourage, I don't know if this is a question or not, but I would encourage National to, you know, we set up these blasts. Don't let us do that by just stating it and you don't know who actually looked at the email. You don't know who did it. You don't know if it was the spam folder. You don't know if it was clicked on. I would encourage you to put a ton of resources into those emails. See what people are actually clicking on. And then, you know, if everyone's, if you think people are interested in housing but they're clicking on the discharge rates, you know, maybe we need to focus a little bit more on that and that's not what people aren't thinking about. So that's something I'm suggesting. You already have the constant contact. Take all these beautiful resources that you already have, dump it into the constant contact. See what people are clicking on. And then, do that. I think that would really, we'll get beautiful drawing of this. So. Thanks for the recognition. And that, I guarantee you, I'm looking through my presentation here just for glory. I've not seen a slide that we have from chapter newsletters in here for that resource. We do have a resource that's for you or how to run an electronic newsletter. We'll have that to the site deck as well and make sure that's available. I'm not sure we've lost that site already. I'm just scratching my nose and deleting the drill, maybe I'm concerned now. But we'll make sure that's available. Looking at your click rates and your overrates on that is very important. Also, one thing to know about electronic newsletters is that they're non-linear. You can send that to someone and they don't have to, you know, click an envelope and go mail it to someone who they think the information is available. They just need to forward that message. So, electronic newsletters, if you're not doing it, you should be. And, yeah, then, you know, we're going to run into the debate all these days about what do we do with these folks who don't have computers and things like that. And we're going to try and reach out to them as best we can, but if you got anything about them, we have limited resources and digital communications are everything. So, I do appreciate your comment, though. I think sharing some of these resources makes sense. Sharing some of them probably doesn't. Sharing more than that, which, of course, definitely makes sense. Sharing the drive for your community tool kit makes sense, because that's not available. But let your audience decide what's important to them and find ways that you can activate through that. Sir. My name is David Freeman. I'm 10th to 20th in the Great State of Virginia. I'm the Senior Vice. I'm not sure how to answer this question, but it's dealing with the students. I thought it was going to be us, in my state. And sometimes when I was, I had a TAB shirt on, made my cap, and a student would come up and ask me, he said, well, my mom's a no-term. Well, my dad's a no-term. And, of course, I don't have a whole lot of time to explain to that student that they asked me a question about something. But this is a great thing that they go to a lot of schools that don't have computers, and they don't have those resources at home that they can use to probably access to what we do as far as the big G&D is concerned. And what made me think about this question is because when the student asked me, well, my mother was a no-term. My dad was a no-term. And is there something that I can get as being a better son or a daughter someone that's going to college or advising a high school student or junior that's about to be a senior? So, I mean, this is a great way of getting information out. A lot of times, I don't have to, me don't have the resources or the sometimes even the knowledge of the top of my head, or the top of my head. Of course I can have to come to the chapter or try to get to that chapter. We have a G&D hospital in Hampton. And some of the problems, I've never had anybody have to take problems here. And Hampton, let's see there's a way of having to get them over there, and sometimes they only get some of the E. Yeah, well, so not all this stuff is digital. Not everything in the program I live, we're looking at things that you can print for that are available. And the chapter supplies, when it comes to ordering chapter supplies, that's the area where I've opened it up. And I can have a bus driver in every state who's in and out just around the morning who saw our share of the information and be able to be outstanding. Want to learn about people, want to learn about betters? Go help them. I got limited space on that bus. And I'm full of kids back there hollering and all that. Well, I mean, maybe if you had a few brochures, that might help a little bit. We do have speeches and things for outreach. And we do encourage people to go when there's other states and things like that to go out there and then speak. And we have a very full dance bar on the National level just getting to schools and things like that in our area. And we know if we're doing it in the chapters in our area, we're gonna see Steve here. No, Steve Gerber does that all the time. He's an apartment commander now, he's also my chapter commander. But speaking and out there speaking and trying to educate people, he says, what is dad, you know, who first and say might be a bunch of them for all. But he just tried to explain to them that it's EAP and it's just a little bit. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Thanks, Larry. Just one thing I've done, we're all properties, yeah, we're all properties, we're all clean. Being that I knew this is, I've opened this office up. What I don't see what I'm going to help on and what I'm trying to do will be trying to help when it's this activity in the public system. The tax resource over there right now, there's a ton of books that I don't see myself just got out six years ago and six years ago in this whole thing. What I'm working to do is I see that you have a good combination on research, right? How to research questions that can be asked and find the problems that we can solve and instead of me trying to do things on my own, instead of me trying to do things on my own on the aspect of what's the college veteran wants, student veteran wants, is that something that can happen to you guys that can't help? I know one thing we don't want to do is bring problems we have on people who solve them, so I'm not trying to have that for me. You guys are my problem. I'll try to help on that process, but is that something that we can start moving to and I can help in case of other superiors in the process? I certainly think there are student veteran students in every college now, and that's not necessarily what I think we do, but it's also because the GI Bill is very nice. Veteran students are a reliable source of writing from the colleges. We are doing more and more local service office stops this year, but in the future information seminars, we're trying to get into schools as much as possible. If you were to talk to the service department and say, can you do an information seminar or a college? That's something that we want to do. If it comes to where the guys are, just get the word out in terms of having some messages available, we might look at doing some magazine stuff for student veteran offices. We do that on a very limited basis because in the past we've had issues where we get out basically, it doesn't, subscriptions of DAD Magazine because some transportation network coordinator says, well, this is, we need them and we'll write it out. And then that person moves on in three cities, 12 magazines, they're getting sent out every month and they're in a box, you're actually doing something like that. But we're willing to work with them now. We do want to know what student veterans need. There's a whole charity that does that to try not to do the gate, but it particularly comes to benefits. DAD service officers need to get hold of those guys. We're not going to get, it's not organic for someone to get out of the military and want to join DAD the next day. It's just, no one, you guys won't do that. Coming out of Vietnam was pretty rare at the center of the day back then. But it doesn't mean that we don't offer services, that we don't make them aware of career resources that are available through DAD and that we're not behind making that contact. And we do a lot of that stuff that I didn't have a chance to talk about through military.com and military times and stuff, but we're reaching out specifically to the transition military audience. We don't do that as much as students, but we, we could, and maybe there's volunteers there and other ways that we can collaborate based on the interesting things happening. They were all saying this. Oh, we're, we're way over time. And so I thank you all for your, for everything. Thanks, William.