 Good morning everybody. Good morning. One of our participants that we know couldn't get her caption started and she was here a little early and so that's what we were talking about before we went ahead and started our meeting. I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Ann Thomas and I'm the president of the HLAA Diablo Valley Chapter and our other board members are present here today and everyone's doing tasks behind the scenes because you can't run a efficient really smooth Zoom meeting without help and other people moderating features. So I'd like to introduce Zoher Chibit and Zoher can you say hi so that hello welcome to HLAA Diablo Valley Chapter and Zoher admits everybody. I'd like to introduce you to Alan Katsura who's our right-hand man person for IT things and Alan does all kinds of tech support and Alan and I work on other projects so Alan can you say hi. Good morning everyone. Jill McFadden who has on a wonderful sign she made to go with our presentation today is our secretary and she usually handles all the Q&A. There you go and Walt Bateman is our treasurer so we'd like to welcome all of you today and since the Walk for Hearing is right around the corner and we just launched our team website we wanted to make sure that everybody could really knew how to participate in the Walk for Hearing. It can be problematic. Before we get into our presentation I'd like to go ahead and give directions. Oh excuse me I forgot something. So we're going to have three people who've been very active in the Walk for Hearing talk about why the Walk for Hearing is so important to them and I also wanted to introduce them so Regine Castle. Regine can you say hi. Hi. In 2006 Regine was the chair for the first Walk for Hearing in California. Caprice Shuler is coming and I don't know whether she's here yet. I'm here. She is. Okay Caprice can you say hi. Hello I'm Caprice. And Caprice lives in almost the Central Valley and prior to our having Walks in Northern California again she was traveling every year to Southern California to participate in the Walk and she has a four-year-old daughter named Avery and Caprice and her family have a team and they walk for Avery and raising awareness about hearing loss and she'll tell you her story. Oh my god I have a typo here on your name Barbara. So Barbara Dagon is our chapter member and Barbara has participated in lots of different walks. Originally she was from New York and participated in many of them there. Before we get going we have some directions on how to use Zoom. We have captions a full transcript a chat window and we'd like to ask that you raise your hand later for questions. So Marilyn wherever you are whoever was this these directions are really for only desktop versions and if you are on a desktop version and you need to access captions which of course are 99% of us you need to click on the CC icon which is circled in red and click on subtitles. If you would like to view a transcript in the side you can glue you can also click on that you have the option to increase the size of the font for your captions and I like mine set to the largest. Also one of the things that happens is we have chat windows we have other pieces here that you can open up and talk to each other. Now originally the chat window used to interfere with the captions frequently if people didn't fully open the chat but this is not that important today but I want you to know that you can place the chat window anywhere you would like on your screen. So when you click on that chat button what'll happen is see this little box here that says chat in number two with the downward arrow when you click on that downward arrow you'll be given an option to pop out and pop out means you can move it unlocks the chat window so you can move it anywhere you want on the screen. So if you would like to change the font size you can use your keyboard to do that rather than doing the slider for the for the chat and with on a Mac it's command which is that squiggly symbol plus to increase or command minus to decrease and on a pc it's control plus or control minus. Please feel free to chat with anybody we'd like to ask that when you chat that at least you identify yourself maybe say where you're from because lots of times our presentations are attended by people all over the united states and so today most of us know each other but lots of times there are people who we don't know where they are or where they're coming from and it's just nice to see how far and wide we're spreading the word. For Q&A we'd like to ask that you raise your hand and how you do that is if you look at the menu bar normally it's at the bottom of your screen in back black next to the cc icon there's an icon that says reactions when you click on that the bottom most option says raise hand so when you click on that your hand will raise so that the moderators behind the scenes will know who you are to call on you and what happens is with that raised hand feature the order that you raised your hand is the way that the list shows up for us so it's first come first serve and we're easy where it's very easy for us to identify that Alan could you raise your hand so that people could see what that looks like in your thumbnail so you know the little pictures and you may see them in different places on your screen well you should be able to see right now a hand raised in the upper left hand corner of Alan Consura's screen and Barbara did that and everyone at the so as moderators we get to see that and it also shows up in the participants window something that's been difficult for a lot of people to figure out is that when there is a presentation like today you can tell zoom how you would like to view the people who are also in the meeting so if you have it set on speaker view which is up in the upper right hand corner what happens is the presentation will show up on the left and the present the presenter will show up on the right well the default is the presenter is much smaller if you would like to increase the size of the presenter read lips be the middle of this space here between zoe hair and our presentation from january there are three lines like this if you click on those three lines you can drag that those two screens back and forth to have them be the size you want i always need a reminder about this so this is for me as well as everybody else when i get excited when i get nervous i speak faster when i speak faster it's harder for other people who are hard of hearing to understand it's also more difficult for the captioner to caption accurately so this is a reminder for me as well as everybody else to just think talk slower talk slower if by some chance you have an external microphone if you have not connected it for this presentation every other presentation going forward please use an external microphone when you do that it increases the clarity of the audio exponentially and for some people who have normal hearing it's not such a big deal but for those of us who are hard of hearing it's a very big deal so i use an external microphone and i can show you what the difference is so i've moved my microphone away and now i brought my microphone back so you should have been able to really tell a big difference there so why are we what are are we talking about this morning we're going to talk about how to use the walk for hearing webpage how to form a team for individuals alliances and sponsors and i feel very grateful that regime caprice and varbra could join us this morning i know that regime has another engagement and so she can only be with us for a little while so regime i'd like to go ahead and put you right in here right now and to just talk about what inspired you to become involved in the first walk why you have stayed inspired and what's so great about it so it's all you unmute yourself unmute yourself okay can you hear me now okay first of all i have to say and thank you so much for inviting me um this is really an honor i hold you in such high esteem i just think you walk on water but um i also have to agree with you on speaking slowly i also get excited very easily as my friends know and i talk much faster when i get excited so i put down here speak slower in front of me so i will try to keep remembering and if somebody wants to punch me or something if i'm talking too fast i'd appreciate it um all right i think that all of us have a story and i want to begin with my story um so that you understand why i appreciate hla and the walk so much in 2000 i contracted meningitis and went into a coma for 10 days and wasn't supposed to live and so when i got out of the coma i couldn't take a step i couldn't remember anything not even my grandchildren's names and of course because of the antibiotics that saved my life i had no hearing in this side and very little very little hearing in this side so when i started to deal with this it was so difficult because i couldn't hear anyone talking to me i really admire children because my grandchildren were never told what to do but you know what they did they stood in front of me they held my face and talked to me really like this and so i don't know why kids get things that we don't as adults but that was just amazing that they did that so uh fast forward i took flip reading by um Barbara Barbara Barbara what's your last name uh bishop Barbara Bishop and she told me about hlaa well i'm telling you this i mean we all say this changed our life when we found hlaa but it really did change my life because that's where i learned devices so now i use a pocket talker every second of the day and a microphone and uh we showed a lot of devices at the library about what people can use and to see where am i now okay so i love hlaa i learned coping says i mean we all know what what i learned but i wouldn't my audiologist never told me any of these things and i'll tell you 20 years later i'm still learning when i had a little meeting i may only learn one thing but that's a one thing that i can help me with my hearing loss so and pope asked me to be president of i mean the chairman of the first walk and i was so nervous as mail and fin can attest to we were all very nervous because we'd never done anything like this before we never had an example but we all knew that walk for hearing was so important to raise money for national and this year walk for hearing is so much more important than any other year because of the pandemic so national doesn't get the funds from the convention the walks are all much less money that they get and we don't want them to lose money we want them to continue to be and do everything for us to help us in our daily life so i just wrote a letter and i went down through all my emails and i had 179 people that i sent this letter to with a link for them to go right to donating and i set uh five hundred dollars as my goal uh it started yesterday i've now had seven hundred and fifty dollars in my my castle team so what i suggest for all of you you're probably nervous about writing a letter because i was really nervous but my husband's a really good writer so he wrote the letter for me but whatever letter you write doesn't matter how fabulous it is that you're this you know excellent writer write that letter and send it to everyone on your email list to join your team we have to do this this year more than any other year because we need to find more money i want to get sponsors and a lot of sponsors aren't sponsoring this year because they told me they aren't giving this year because they have to take care of their employees so we're the employees of HLAA and each and every one of us have to do our part so any questions okay but back to you and thank you so much for asking me and i wish i could stay for this wonderful demonstration but i have to go yeah i know you have to go and enjoy your gathering with um your family members today and thanks for being with us bye bye bye and actually regime was so inspiring now i think that we should go ahead and hear from all the presenters first because just hearing her and i can't tell you i've known her since i first became a member of HLAA and she is active in the peninsula chapter which is redwood city every time i hear her story i get goosebumps so caprice you want to go ahead and tell your story about the walk on how you became involved and avery oh mute you have to unmute yourself okay hi i'm caprice and i live in lo-dye california and my daughter avery she's actually six now she just had a birthday and she was born with hearing loss she's been wearing hearing aids since she was two months old and so i the way that i found out about the walk was actually on facebook i'm part of a group on facebook called parents with children with hearing aids and somebody posted pictures of a san diego walk for hearing and i was like what is that that looks really cool so i just went to the walk for hearing website on my own and looked at all the different cities in the us and found that they were only in southern california and there was one in long beach and one in san diego and so i was like why is there two in southern california and not one in northern california and i um contacted ronnie the walk manager that first year and said can we get one in northern california and so i just decided that it was i thought it was really cool and i thought it was important to support my daughter and so we just decided to go to long beach and so we went for two years to the long beach walk for hearing and um every year i would ask ronnie about northern california and then finally she emailed me and said we're gonna do a a bay area walk for hearing and i was so excited and then of course covid hit and we didn't get to actually have it but um so i just love walk for hearing i love telling people about it i love um educating people about hearing loss um and just supporting my daughter and another really cool thing about walk for hearing is that you get to choose an alliance that 40 percent of the funds that you raise goes to and so uh there's a school in sacramento that is called the chat school and it stands for children's choice for no children's choice for hearing and talking and it's a school for kids with hearing aids and cochlear implants and that's the alliance that we've chose to give to the past two years and um last year my team which is team avry after my daughter last year we raised over six thousand dollars and that school the chat center got a check for twenty five hundred dollars which i just think is really cool it is really cool and avry can you share how because you've been really amazing and how you have reached out to people you know and everything to get them to participate in your team and that's something that i think that a lot of people are uncomfortable about so can you talk about how you first started doing that and you've been very successful at what you do um yeah i just send out um i mean i do all mine on technology ray jean was talking about sending out a letter but i um usually use facebook the most um because you can directly link your facebook page to your fundraiser and people can just click a button on facebook and donate so i raise a lot of money from facebook and then i've also found that um personally texting my family and friends and i just text them the link directly and say you know we're taking donations with here's the link if you're interested in donating and i just send them the link and i feel like sending it personally instead of like a mass email if you just text them personally you get a lot better response and um this year i've actually done i did two new things because this is my fourth year doing it and so i was like how can i raise some more money so um this year i went to a local pizza place in my city that does fundraisers and we had a pizza night actually this just this week and um 25 of every order goes to the walk for hearing and so i don't know how much money we've raised yet because i have to pick up the check in about two weeks but i i think there was maybe at least i passed out at least 30 or 40 flyers to people and so i'm hoping i got at least a couple hundred dollars from that and then i have another friend who on facebook that sells jewelry she sells this paparazzi five dollar jewelry and she's doing a live event and on facebook and all the proceeds are going to go to team avry and so those are just two different things that i tried this year and i'll see how much money it raises but so far this year i'm already at 3600 so um yeah those are the things i do i'm just really passionate about it and so i don't i don't feel bad asking people about it because people know how passionate i am about it something that the first time when i met caprice which was last year when we all got together on the peninsula with ronnie to talk about how we would approach the first new walk for hearing in the bay area was how caprice was talking about once she's asked people the first time it kind of got on people's agenda because they knew her that this comes up every june so it's just kind of like it's just oh caprice is going to contact us about this so they just kind of are already set aside a certain amount of money in their mind to be able to support her in this valuable endeavor did i get that right yeah yeah because once everybody i mean everybody i know knows about team avry we have shirts actually i'll grab my hat right here next to me no you're in the picture hang on i'm in the picture too yeah here's our team avry powerpoint so we have team avry this is team avry right here yeah that's my family so we have hats and shirts and all of our family and friends have bought them i i do orders every year um so everybody that knows me knows about team avry and knows that it's important to me so yeah every year people know that it's coming and i don't have to like give a whole explanation every year because they already know about it so i really just say here's the link if you want to donate and most people donate every year they just know that once a year this is what i do thanks so much for being um so excited to come today and i can feel your excitement through the uh zoom camera and i really appreciate it yes barbara you have oh go ahead so i was just gonna say thank you for having me i like i said i love talking about walk for hearing so thank you we need to capitalize on that some more uh so barbara dagan has uh participated on all kinds of walks for hearing on both coasts so barbara can you go ahead and share some of your experiences and why it's important for you and unmute yourself okay better okay i'm so delighted that i just heard the two people before me because i feel so very in sync with them um and you will see why in a minute the the topic that we were asked to talk about is why is the walk why or why has the walk been so important to us and the major reason why the walk has become something very important to me is because it is so closely aligned to um hlaa as a whole and the effect that hlaa has had on my life i was a native new yorker i'm still a native new yorker i moved out of new york and didn't return to new york until 1995 i had a got a job um at mount sinai hospital uh in the communication disorders department and a speech language pathologist in that department immediately recognized that i was having problems so she told me about the hearing loss association of america that was either a coincidence from heaven or it was a result of hlaa's outreach efforts because she knew about hlaa she was able to describe it to me and encourage me to go and attend a meeting which i did and i joined the new york chapter immediately um i after a year or two i joined the board of the new york chapter and one day at a board meeting a member of the board by the name of ann pope um who by heavenly coincidence just happened to be a chair of the national board of directors mentioned a brand new idea she said that some of the chapters have suggested that we have a fundraising walk um it just so happened by heavenly coincidence that i had just happened to participate in an american cancer society's dog's walk for here of the dog's walk for cancer it was the most delightful the most wonderful walk it was such fun and lo and behold they they made out like bandits it was a very successful walk so i talked about that at the new york chapter board meeting well after that the walk became an annual country-wide chapter and state walk um and each year it was more and more successful in 2010 i moved to california to rosmore and joined the jail valley the the diablo family the diablo valley chapter um as you can see by my cap and my shirt i immediately um took my dog and we went to the walk in san francisco that was held at um christie field um and had an absolutely marvelous time i was so pleased to meet everyone and to know that this i was participating in something that was beneficial to the whole organization as well as to me now here's my closing point these walks have opened up a world of possibilities for me and for us not only do the through the funds that have been raised that enable our chapters and national organization to function but through the building of awareness and here i want to say you know we all know the phrase location location location i want to say awareness awareness awareness because when we tell our friends about the walk when we ask for ask our families for donations we are making them more and more aware and through them their friends and relatives they're becoming more and more aware that um hearing loss is something experienced by active vital people determined to participate in life on an equitable basis and i'm so very proud and happy to be part of it it has truly changed my life and i thank you hla and barbara i thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your story today and for moving to california so we get to have you as part of our chapter thank you so i'd like to just kind of go back and just share these pictures that are were from these pictures were all from the last walk that was held in northern california in 2010 and it was a very inclusive walk so we had an asl interpreter we had captions we had um i think we might have even had a hearing loop there so this picture which is larger has just always captured for me the beauty of sign language um and in a bigger picture this person is like raising his hands to heaven you know at our event this is our chapter member um judy o bryan with her family as their team this is regine castle who you heard earlier and this is regine and regine and sally in the bottom corner their sally has on sally edwards has on the yellow jacket and last year she was the walk for hearing chair um for our first walk up here and i think that year in 2010 i think sally and regine shared the chair of that in 2010 was the first time that they really had an information booth at the walk for hearing and we hosted that information booth because we were the one of the first people in the country to go visit our chapter to go visit farmers markets and other entities with a pop-up tent and so the bottom picture is what our booths look like and all the way over there in the little corner we the walk was at christyfield and the day was so incredibly beautiful um the bay the golden gate bridge was in the background you walk by all these old buildings and uh there so in that picture with the two little kids you can see this building in the background and it was like they were sitting far forward i just walked by with my camera and they had on these the t-shirts with the were the smallest size that they had for the walk and i just love them so that's what happened in 2010 and hopefully the first time we get to walk in person we'll even have more fun so last year i actually was when the walk became um scheduled to be virtual i thought how are we going to be able to do this there's no way that this is going to be able to have the same kind of um feeling the same anything as the in-person walk well i have to tell you i was really really really wrong so um and for those of you who don't know me really well i'm really a very positive person so to have this kind of feeling be like well i don't know how that's going to be that's not a a prominent part of my nature so and i was hoping to be proven wrong so the first walk for hearing that was virtual i signed up for it immediately and i have to tell you it gave me goosebumps in a way that a virtual walk i mean that an in-person walk never has so the major sponsor for the walk for hearing ceo of a major company you're able to hear him tell you why he thinks it's important to invest money in us the other companies who are there they were saying you are so important we're willing to give you our our funds to support you because you're important what you're doing is important so if anybody has that kind of scoffing part about well it's virtual it's not a big deal i hope you can overcome that because it is a big deal um last year i cried and i made a commitment um that i tried to attend every single walk for hearing that i possibly could there were some days i did two virtual walks um it was just amazing okay so now let's see if we can be ordered in our thinking here so what's happened with the walk for hearing so since 2006 there have been 285 walks we've raised over 16 million dollars and you know we live in a world where unfortunately you need money so i really would like to see national ads on television about hearing loss i would like to see us be able to have an ad in the bay area on tv about hearing loss have all of you seen the ad that's running on tv now about the aides walk coming up that's what i want for us we've partnered with 1750 alliances and we've been joined by 750 hla chapter and state associations so that's something that we can really be proud about now why do we walk we walk to raise promote fund and advocate we want to raise public awareness about hearing loss we want to make the invisible visible and the way that we do that is because we speak up walk for hearing you can see it on your t-shirt you can see it everywhere you're walking with thousands of other people we're promoting hearing health protect yourself protect yourself protect your hearing funds we're raising funds to waste awareness and educational fund awareness and educational programs and advocate we advocate for public policies that support people with hearing loss and this is so fundamental for us if sometimes you wonder hla a is in maryland and so far away from us you know how do we really benefit from that well we absolutely completely totally need a voice for hearing loss in washington without hla a and lisa hamlin who is our policy director and she's the person who belongs to all of these committees advocating for our rights we would be sol so every time we're thinking about that we would not have captions on television without that without hla even if we complain about the quality of the captions we still have them so the bay area walk for hearing is going to be on saturday june 12 and we want you to join our team as one of the options oops sorry so how do you go ahead how do you be involved with the walk for hearing the walk for hearing can be that the website can be a little difficult to navigate and so the focus of our discussion today is how to make it easier for people to do that so when you go to the walk for hearing website which is this address ww walk for hearing dot org you'll see something that says find our walk so when you click on find our walk it will take you to a page that lists the different walks and as it turns out um on saturday june 12 2021 hla is combining the virtual walks last year was the first time that it happened and they held individual virtual walks and i'm telling you it was really really exhausting and overwhelming so this year rather than doing that our walk and the long beach walk so last year one was held on saturday and one was held on sunday so rather than doing that they're going to both be held together and connecticut and westchester rockland will be together so what you want to do is you want to go ahead and click on register for the bay area walk and so here's somebody there we go thank you so how do you register for the walk so there are a couple of ways that you can do that so you could choose to join the hla a diablo valley team and when the walk page opens up you'll find this icon in the upper right hand corner so you see that um right now that icon that says search for a walker or a team to support well if you click on participant you're looking for a person so for example regime talked about having a castle team caprice has an avery team so let's say you knew the person's name who had a team you could either type their name in there or if you click on the magnifying glass a full drop down list will open up that lists every single person who is a participant if you want to find our team you can click on the team which right now is purple click on the magnifying glass to find the list and click on us or you could put hla diablo valley chapter in there and then what comes up is the image that you see right below that so there are three ways to register you could join our hla a diablo valley team you could register for your own team like caprice and regime have done you can also make your own team part of another team so this year um jill mcfadden has very graciously agreed to be our team captain and i created a sub team alan kud sir has created a sub team as part of our diablo valley team because there are people who i would like to invite personally like caprice all the people who know her that she talked about earlier support her so these people would be supporting our team because i ask them to because they know me you could also register for your own team by yourself when you do that outside of the chapter team you get to designate who you would like to donate your funds to your portion of the funding and you can register as an individual so you may be wondering why might somebody want to register as an individual and i think that's no so the reason is that everybody who donates to the walk for herring doesn't get a t-shirt or as alan kud sir asked me a question this morning and he said gets the swag so in order to get that you have to donate a hundred dollars so if you wanted to donate a hundred dollars and you wanted a t-shirt it's my understanding that if you donate that money as part of our team you don't get your t-shirt but if you do it as an individual and you designate your funds to go to hla a diablo valley then you get a t-shirt and i can i can make sure and verify that for you i emailed ronnie this morning but um she's busy doing some other walk things and i didn't hear back from her so after you've registered every person who registers as an individual has their own walk center and hla has set this up so that you have tools that are have already been created for you so you don't have to reinvent reinvent the wheel and alan is going to take us through the walk center alan is this where you wanted me to turn the meeting over to you i could take it from here okay so alan is going to be presenting on how to use the walk center and do you have access to do you want to can you um move the slides no i'm going to give you a remote control okay and let's hope it works because sometimes we've had problems with that oh i wonder if we didn't make you oh you've got a co-host oh there you are so do you have remote control now yes i do okay so what we're i'm going to go through the powerpoint briefly and then we'll go directly to a live site and you can see how everything works um so once you get inside there you'll see this section here and this pretty much walks you through what you have to do you'll learn how to use the email setup they have a template in there that you could use or you could create your own template and reuse it for all your emails and you could have several templates you could have one for asking one for a thank you and they also have pre-made ones so you don't have to do any of that if you don't want to and here is some of the images that you could have on your emails you could preview it here you could save it as a template and we'll go through all that on the live site and we also go through how to set up your profile and so now we'll go to the live site here okay so we're going to go to my walk center um alan i don't see the share you don't see the share oh now we're good we're good okay it's just a walk took a while to come up yeah they're supposed to have that fixed we're supposed to say that the share isn't visible yet because evidently they have a problem with the delay on the shares okay so we'll go to my walk center and that will take you to a page where you'll go to the north case the bay area and log in takes you to your own personal login page and from here i'm going to log into my mother's site and here so you have she's a member of the devil valley chapter and she's on that team so this that's what this information here is for obviously scroll through if you're going to be using hlaa logos there's a branding guide here there's tips for fundraising and i think this is just for um it's a link to facebook to post your walk on facebook here's the swag that they have t-shirt 400 350 you also get a cap we'll go over how to connect to facebook these are your recent activities that you've done and over here they kind of walk you through the various steps that you need to go through continuing down the page this is all the information of your contacts and your emails here you have your progress and where you can edit your goal as you go along you collect different badges and so they'll just display here and we'll go through creating content for your personal page so first thing i like to go through is set up the profile your personal profile so if you go here to profile there's three sections here everything is pretty self-explanatory you have your personal information and when you complete it make sure you update or save it this is some information about yourself so if you got a t-shirt what size do you want the t-shirt um there's a couple other questions that they ask and again make sure you save it and here you can make your personal page private or public and you could change from a team to an individual if you want to so if you want to connect your walk to facebook after you can maybe i'm doing this i'll turn um let's set up the personal page here first okay so you can set up your own personal page you can come down here to personal page and edit there is a default template that has information in here and that's the first part of it is part of that template and from there i changed it and you could just use what they have there or you can modify it or create your own template and so i chose to make a message for myself for my mom and once you did that you just want to save it and so this will be available whenever we want to use it you could also create a custom url for the page and in this case i just changed it to my mom's name instead of having the long url sticking out here it's just a matter of convenience alan could you just quickly let people know um what a url is and why it could be valuable because some people might not know that so url is uh basically it's a web it's a web page address it's a universal resource locator um and so when you click on it here it allows you to just make a prettier url instead of having um a bunch of miscellaneous characters in here you could put something in here that's more meaningful so like if you look up here in the address bar this is a url it's just the web address so how you might use that is let's say you were sending out mass emails to people that you wanted it to show your email address rather than a walk for hearing address you might choose to include the link that url that alan just showed you and then it would take people directly to your page and they wouldn't have to search how i talked about earlier okay back to you alan sure and down here if you want to include a photo you can just go in here and just select what you want choose your file or you can even actually do a video if you want so that's all updated now you could go into your contacts and there's different ways you could get your contacts in you could add them individually or you can import them from your address books so you have your contacts list here here on the side it keeps track of everything that you have done or need to do so for this walk there's 22 contacts in this list 21 of them have not been emailed yet there's one that needs follow-up there's a donor that has not been thanked yet you got one person that donated 21 they have not alan i'm going to interrupt one moment right here so as you're setting up your personal page here what you might decide to do which i'm assuming alan did here is you make a donation so that you can test out how he made maybe a donation to himself you know he made a donation on his own page so that he could test out how the page was working and so he wouldn't he's still unthank because he doesn't need to thank himself so you get to select who to thank and who not to thank back to you okay so what i did i composed a message and in this case i have a template see the downward facing arrow on the side there so you may be wondering well i'm talking about templates well i don't see any templates how do i find them so that downward facing arrow when you click on that all kinds of other options are there for you you have a template for thank you you have a template for reminding people it's coming up they're all see see now you have a solicitation thank you other you can make a difference you can create additional templates back to you okay so these are all the default setting ones that hlaa has created for you um okay so i can't find my i thought i had a template out here anyways so you could go down here you could create a heading or select a heading that you want to show get your act this far out the way here so i think it's still there so when you scroll up a little bit see the message there the message is not the default message see i told we told you it's a little bit hard to navigate that's why that's why we're doing so this message right here above those images i think alan isn't that your customized message on this um template you created it for specifically for um you it's not so um anyways for what i want to do at this point i just want to show how to uh create the finish off the template so you have layout here you can select an image that you want on it and you could preview it so you can see what it looks like and it's not showing the image in place um but you can see how the content is and how it's going to look and then we'll link to your personal page down here it doesn't show it here but it says here that it will add the link to your page at the bottom of the message and if you have people selected to send it to you can send it from here um and you would do that by going into your contacts and selecting the people that you want to send the particular message to so in this case it's just we could go so the solicitation personalized screening would just put the person's name in the template so one of the things that when alan was at that screen before alan can you go back that one screen where you were listing your contacts see the little boxes so you can select if you look at the top in the blue it says email all well maybe you only want to email a couple of people so how would you go about doing that so the way that you do it would be you would only check the person who you wanted to email so alan right now what you're looking at has checked his own name so that if by some chance right in our demo here that he would not be sending a message to somebody else who he wouldn't want to be doing that too so anytime you would check that box you could send a message individually or maybe even a couple of them to those people like theoretically let's say you had three or four chat or three or four family members who you knew weren't very active on their email and so you wanted to slightly nudge them a little bit um you could choose to send the email to like five people you could even probably say oh i don't know if you checked your email yet but you know we're we're doing so i just wanted to point out that box since lots of us tend to not be very tech savvy back to you alan okay so in a way see grab this template you selected so if we want to preview it preview it and from here i could just go ahead and send it and so i've successfully sent the message if you have a layout that you like you could also just save it as a template for future use so you don't have to do this every time you want to send the same message out to somebody and then over here you now see that there's another message that's been sent let's see here what was it over here okay so here if you want to connect to facebook it's just as simple as it generates everything for you you have a facebook page for your for the walk here it has my personal message so information yes that tilly's url links directly to this page and so if anybody had tilly's url rather than going through the other things that are in the front of all of those steps which can be confusing it would take it directly to tilly's page yeah so actually if you just add that link copied into our email or something and you clicked on it and it would just open up to the personal page here so here here someone could join now or donate now and donate directly to the team so you have selected amounts that they'll take and you could they could fill in if they want us to make a anonymous or put their name in the billing information so forth or you could join they could join your team and then there's the personal information here badges how much money has been raised who their donors are but then again here you could do all some of your invitations from here from facebook and i think this is what caprice does a lot i think she's from facebook and this has a lot of the almost all the information that is generated from this section here let's see if there's anything else here i think that's everything that's on here well and before you go the image that we're looking at here is the one that i used is the introduction for our presentation and if you look right below that on the left hand side right now in blue it says home well after you have been to this home part once and read this you're probably not going to go to home again the two things that you're going to be using the thing that you're going to use the most is the one that says email so alan could you just click on email next so people can see that that blue home turns to email and it'll take them to the email section where you're just located see there so alan clicked on email and then it opened up this whole section and and this is really the guts and the foundation of after you've set up your profile page how you keep track of things how you can send out invitations to donate and things like that okay and once you've set up your profile page which is the next one over more than likely you're not going to visit that again for the whole time of the walk because you've already input your name and all of that stuff so you can completely ignore that so this middle one is the one that you may choose to use a lot okay alan do you have anything to add or do you want me to take it back um you take it back unless if anybody has any question i think debbie has a question yeah uh this is debbie uh had no um how much time does it take to prepare this it looks like and how much time in advance should you be focusing on the um your profile because i was just going to be in i think in october and probably a good idea to start wait asking for money now for like for my team in florida um or you have to do it like one month is there a limit or a time frame you know i have never heard of a time frame so my understanding is see ours are ours have always been in the spring and so we have to wait until the website gets updated to be able to start doing the the walk um portion so we're always and i've been just jammed so we're always a little later there are some reasons to think definitely to think ahead even a year ahead about walk sponsorship so like lots of organizations budget for things the previous year for the following year and they have granting cycles so i recently reached out to google because they're a local tech company for us and they would have been happy to have donated to be a sponsor for our walk but they had already designated and used up all their funding for 2020 and their schedule starts in september so that could be a reason to really start thinking about that um a place of the asking is that depending on how you know the person so somebody may it might not make any difference they're just you know they have a lot of money they're handing out money so you know that about them so you have them hand out the money it just becomes part of the pool other people feel that you know the closer and part of that you ask people to the event it's more exciting and momentum builds so you know this whole part of this there's an emotional part the emotional component there's a strategic thinking about it if you really wanted to address that does that answer your question debbie you still here yes she says it's good okay so i'm going to take us back to there are a few other slides in our powerpoint and i just want to run through them with you so the first thing everybody needs to do is once you've registered is create your profile and this is what the profile screen looks like there's another option that we have here and that is that for raising money and raising awareness and it's alliances and any organization that's a 501c3 organization can fundraise with us and it's fundraise march raise awareness all of the reasons why we walk and it's really a wonderful component that they can do that and so this year i think that we might have 20 alliances that are joining us and they have they will be their own entity and the funds that they raise go directly to them so caprice i know that you know about a couple a couple of other alliances in and around sacramento on my right can you talk a little more about alliances do you have anything to add um i just have um the chat school is the one that i give to but the alliance the way that the alliances work is that 40 percent of whatever you raise goes to the alliance that you choose so when you set up your profile those questions that alan had up one of the questions is which nonprofit do you want your um to be your alliance i don't know if it's worded that way but that's what that question is and so you choose which alliance you want 40 percent of your money to go to and um so i know for a lot of the chapters a lot of the chapters they and is that right and some of the chapters about a different piece i'm talking about an alliance in and of itself can be part of the walk and so theory oh yeah so like the chat school so like the chat school is my alliance but the chat school can also start their own team and promote the walk which is what i'm trying to do because last year the chat school was not involved with the walk at all they were just listed as an alliance and i raised money for them this year i'm really excited because i just i get their newsletter every uh month and in their newsletter they're promoting the walk this year they had a link to it and they said um they had the link to register and so this year they are promoting the walk so yeah so if anybody knows an organization that's hearing loss related they can become part of our walk just like we're a team but they're called alliances and so what the only reason i'm mentioning it here is to put your thinking cap on because we want to get as many people involved as possible because the more attention that we have and the bigger our sphere is the more clout we have and we want everybody to provide for us in the best way possible so that we can live whole healthy lives okay so if you wanted to be an alliance you would contact um ronnie um and here she's answers walk for hearing at hearingloss.org so raises awareness about their organization they get a share in the funding opportunities and it connects them with the heart the you know the full body of the heart of hearing community so sponsors theoretically there theoretically there can be tons of us who know businesses who donate to organizations and so they would be a sponsor for the walk now when somebody sponsors the walk what the portion of the funds that um are left over from the sponsorship go to the bay area walk they don't go to an individual team so when i mentioned before talking to google so when i talk to google i approach them as being a sponsor even though that doesn't benefit the diablo valley chapter specifically it will benefit all of us because it would support the whole walk and unfortunately the timing is off so some quick faqs can you donate by check yes you can and um you can just you could email any of us you can send it to hladvhearingloss.org for additional directions why would you create your own team so you have family and friends who would like to support you see caprice family and friends want to support her regime castle family and friends want to support her i'm thinking alan he has all kinds of family that wants to support his mother so all of us have our family and our family would support us more than necessarily an individual team so all of us here have extended relationships beyond who we are as individuals everybody who knows us knows how difficult life can be for us all of the adjustments that we have to make and they love us they want to help us they they they want to um show in some way that that they're behind us so that we can feel their love and their comfort so why would somebody register as an individual now alan asked me about this this morning and the slide was prepared and i have an email out to ronnie my understanding is that if you have a team and people donate to your team and everybody who donates to your team doesn't get a t-shirt you only get a t-shirt if you're the team captain or you donate as an individual now caprice i could yeah i could explain that for you yeah oh is there a way that you could go to the live website again or yeah yeah because it's really easy if you just look at it i can just show you real quick how it works we just a moment here if you want to just go to the website and search like if you want to just search for team avery and pull up my page i can show you see here isn't this just amazing that we can go from a a powerpoint presentation to the internet to seeing everybody i mean it just excites me no end um actually go back to um find a walk find a walk and then there go to team yeah um yeah avery shuler okay and then click on um click on team avery okay so on the right there you see our team roster all those people have signed up to walk and some people donate their money if you scroll down a little bit further till you see my daughter's name okay see avery shuler there she has three thousand dollars under her name so if you see down a little bit further like shelly simus that's my mom so my mom donated her money under avery's name which means she will not get a t-shirt because she has zero dollars next to her name but if so somebody could donate money under their own name or they could click on avery's name and donate it under avery so most people donate it under avery and when you do that you don't get a t-shirt but if you scroll up to the top like my dad rick clad my dad donated five hundred dollars on his page and so he's going to get a t-shirt because it's under his name does that make sense yeah well it makes sense to me but it's hard i mean it's a little hard to understand so your dad created and created a team and his portion is designated to team avery well he didn't create a team he just signed up as a walker on our team but when you sign up as a walker every walker gets their own walk page so like that walk center that alan was showing you everybody has their own walk center and their own so if you click on my dad's name it'll take you to his page but it's still part of team avery but instead of sending out the link to avery's page he sends out the link to his page to his family and friends and he's still raising the money for team avery but he's raising it under his name and so he's he will get a t-shirt because he's doing it that way so caprice would another way to think about this so you used your mother as an example so your mother made a straight donation to avery's team but didn't choose to do additional fundraising for team avery yes that's why she didn't that's why she did not fund through her own page yes okay so let's go through that again okay so caprice said and caprice if i get something wrong interrupt me okay caprice said that every single person who makes a donation gets their own walk page if you choose to make your donation from that page to the team that you're signed up for then it just goes into the full amount which is the three we're looking at here three thousand eighteen dollars so turns out caprice's father wanted to do more fundraising than just his own donation so he chose to donate he chose to raise funds through his personal page and when he did that he gets the t-shirt for the amount of money that he raises is anything over a hundred dollars is that correct and he also has his own fundraise uh facebook fundraiser so i have a facebook fundraiser and then he has a facebook fundraiser and so whenever you create your own facebook fundraiser it's going to go under your name and so you would get the credit for that okay but all of this is still registered under um team avery team avery so yeah can you go and show the diablo valet team so i think in the diablo valet team right now um it's the team all of us then there's jill and you and me that have our phase our planning to raise funds on our own what do we have when we do that oh i think you clicked on yeah click on that there you go okay so as jill and i choose to raise and i know that we're committed to do this as as alan jill and i are raising funds within our team people will um be contributing to us but it will add up to the total for diablo valet eventually because our po our portion is being designated going to diablo valet is that right caprice yeah you can see an has raised a hundred jill has raised 50 and i don't not sure tilly tilly tilly okay tilly has raised 40 and then up at the top the captain has raised 50 and then that totals right below it shows you that totals 240 as a whole team but those individuals have raised that much money and so an is going to get a t-shirt because she's raised a hundred jill if she raises 50 more will get a t-shirt and so on does anybody have any questions about this so i want everybody to know that alan and i are prepared to help you walk through this personally individually we just wanted to give it as an overview to hopefully motivate everybody and have everybody get excited so alan you want to let take send it back to me sure let me share my screen we have a couple of things here okay so hopefully that answered that hundred dollar piece about your t-shirt and the swag because this year it's a t-shirt and a hat right last year it was a t-shirt and uh beach towel so as part of the walk this year and so part of some other pieces hla is also promoting health so we all want to hear now and be well together right so we want to learn how to live well with hearing loss we want to stay active engaged and we need to make hearing health a priority which means not letting your husband mow the lawn without ear without ear protection not using a power tool making sure that everything that you're doing in your life that you're conscious of the fact that continued noise definitely impacts your hearing so are you ready are you set are you ready to go and get your walking shoes on even though um we will do it virtually and something that we didn't mention and caprice already has her set up so everybody last year was encouraged to okay so we're engaging visual visually right virtually but that doesn't mean that we couldn't do our own personal walk it could be five people if we're lucky you know things are getting a little better here in northern california we might even be able to have a handful of people put on your walk for hearing t-shirt do something and just walk around in a public place so that you're having your own mini walk it could be a park so this is the big deal i i think the website is kind of complicated so i don't expect ever anybody who went through our presentation with us today to have gotten everything does anybody have any immediate questions nobody has a question that's impossible come on joe i do i have a comment i love the idea of walking together somewhere and um i have a few people younger generation that i would like to do a facebook page i never in my wildest dreams would even think of tackling that but i think it would be a good idea because the younger generations look at facebook all the time um so i may be calling on you or alan if i can't figure it out looks fairly simple but thank you this presentation has been fabulous and i appreciate it i'm totally more enthused than i was before thank you joel can you tell your story about the first walk you did it wasn't for the walk for hearing but joel sometimes says that she's kind of shy am i can i say that that you like to feel that way about yourself except when i'm not right you mean this little walk in uh hawaii uh huh okay well i was 59 years old sitting at a desk in a rinda working and i was spreading out more and more and more and i just thought i can't i'm only 59 i don't want to keep adding five pounds every year and i saw an an um information sheet about you know walk for leukemia and lymphoma and and go to hawaii and do it i thought what a great idea because my daughter had just imagined taken my grandchildren and moved to hawaii well that was unacceptable so um i joined this team it was a walk team and for three months i trained and did a marathon on Maui it was fabulous and i i stayed a next week to be with my grandchildren i was able to see them and i had trouble hearing them that was the first time i really noticed that my hearing was going down and it was frustrating so anyway that was my first time and i raised over three years of doing marathons i've raised 15 000 and it was a very very exciting experience every all of it getting physically fit hearing from people who had relatives who had leukemia just it was so rich the experience and heartwarming and seeing my grandchildren every year for three years because i joined the walk team and it was fun but i i have to admit though i did go back down to doing a half marathon because marathons that's a long time it took me seven hours and 54 minutes to walk a marathon but anyway this this team is as exciting to me as that in in another way so i remember when i heard this story the first time i remember you talking about the the difficulty at first in thinking about fundraising in and of itself and then how you moved into that and what happened could you tell a little talk a little about that oh the fundraising part yeah i was so excited that i was doing this that i i used graphics typed up my whole thing and found pictures that i wanted to use and i was in stickers and at that time we didn't have a color printer and i just i you know went to kinkos and copied off this thing that i put together and throughout the time i sent different follow-up letters just to give them my progress because we did half marathons we you know i met people who had leukemia and walked with them and so i had lots of different pictures and information to put in these follow-up letters and it was just astounding who you know gave me money my ex-husband gave me four hundred dollars though that was it was great is that is that i don't remember what i told you an well i i remember some of the feeling about the difficulty at first of thinking about asking for money but then once you start doing it how all of a sudden it sort of takes on a life of its own that's sort of beyond you yeah that's so true and i love the process of sending out i personally wrote a thank you note to everybody and i loved it it was very time consuming but i had the time i mean i was working full time but still in the evening every day i would you know write five thank you notes or something like that it was just and it was all um i didn't i was not computer savvy at all at that time so it was all handwritten and but i love that i love connecting with people that way so and you can still do that i mean anybody's free to do that minna i see your hands up but did you leave hi hi okay i wanted to ask the question that has nothing to do with what you guys are talking about a long time ago in the chat i asked bob if he would like my my my muffin thing we're moving out of the house and does bob want mine so should i save it for bob or should i sell it so this question is for bob yeah so but i'm assuming you mean bob's astro and minna is that a muffin warmer yeah oh i see it bob's astro are you still here so would you like to have another muffin warmer he has to unmute himself and answer unmute okay okay uh yes i haven't made muffins in uh quite a while i still remember how to do it yeah well we gotta get together when we have to eat about myself okay i missed what you the last part of what you said bob that i was talking at the same time i remember your muffins when we had our in person and i saw your basket and i the first day and i said oh we have the same one at home so because we're so we're selling our house and we're having an estate sale i thought of you when i saw this so i think i heard you say that yes you would like to have it bob is the answer yes i'm not sure about the question the question is would you like another muffin warmer another muffin warmer no the one i with one i've got is about 25 or 30 years old at least yeah so minna has minna has one she's willing to give you would you like it no i i don't really need it okay then i will sell it in the estate sale i will sell it then well what if our chapter grows and quote a copy of the recipe it should be on the website what if we have a hundred people coming to our meetings wouldn't that be nice we would need two baskets so i can hold on to it i will hold on to it and when we have our next in person meeting i will bring it to that meeting and we can figure it out then how about that and this must be at least 25 or 30 years old too at least we've been in this house since 1972 49 years so i'm i'm sure okay that was my question you need to bring it filled with muffins oh okay all right i'll find the muscle recipe maybe it'll be for my charlie brown recipe cookbook or my snoopy recipe cookbook but i'll sure it's a deal i'll do it no problem i need to know what kind of muffin bob made i don't remember were they grand muffins oatmeal raisin oatmeal raisin okay i'll make the same thing but no i better not it will be wonderful and mine will be first time ever i'll find some muffins i'll figure it out okay it's a deal thank you for giving me the time to ask this question thanks something i'd like to remind everybody of i had a conversation with someone this past week that i've known for a really long time and they didn't really understand who they have hearing loss and they didn't really understand that hearing loss is a disability just like if you were in a wheelchair we are covered under the ADA you need to ask for communication access i was talking then they were talking about how every time they visited their doctor their husband had to come with them because they couldn't understand and i said well are you asking for communication access i didn't know what i was talking about so i want to remind everybody if we're not asking for it they think nobody needs it and if you have a problem getting it the place where you go to is patient services so if you ask your doctor for an accommodation and he doesn't quite know what that is you go to patient services and today basically with face masks most of us need captions so there are multiple ways they can do that the easiest probably is captions the doctor would use his phone or a tablet and have um ava on them and you could have it on your phone and you could maintain social distancing to be able to see what they have to say so you might be so i'm telling you guys it's time to step up okay so where and this is 31 years for the ADA and we don't really have much in our county and whatever we do have it's only because i keep asking for it okay so where do you think we should have access it's everywhere if you participate in city council meetings all the ones that are online your senator your house of representatives all of the parks and recreation classes your pharmacy healthcare your bank our bank in um who we bank with this is mechanics bank and i use the walnut creek branch and the danville branch and i advocated for a hearing loop there and they have a portable hearing loop there because i asked now they're not so well trained on it and because i know how every time i go there i have to ask for it and usually i have to show them a little bit about how to use it but it is there our buses in the last year we've received a request from contra costa county for disability access for our transportation system so i've been forwarding all of these surveys and things that they've been sending to us to all of you if you guys do not speak up and say you would like to be able to understand the bus driver you would like to be able to use transportation in our county and it's not only there but in we have in uh la marinda there's the spirit van which is run by a um a non-profit group there which is available for people over 65 have and i don't use i haven't used the spirit van but it doesn't take much to not be able to drive anymore so all you need to do is have a little a few problems with your vision and we all have to depend on on other transportation well then you need to be able to understand them but if you don't ask for that they're not going to provide it and when you ask for it you need to document that you asked for so what you're doing is you're p you're creating a paper trail so the a da and requirements state that you need to ask for your accommodation and you need to be refused and you need to have documentation that that happened so if you asked for an accommodation and they don't give it to you then and they say oh i don't know how to do that i don't know what it is then you provide them with information that it's mandated under the a da and you feedback to them and they say no you have documented what happened here if we did that at our county as a whole we would have a much more um accessible county for us and we need it and we deserve it so i'm hoping to light a fire under everyone's rear end and sometimes it takes talking to your doctor sometimes your doctor can go to bat for you so all of you know that i had a cochlear implant in december and my surgeon went to bat for me at the hospital to ensure that the day of my surgery i had effective communication and it was via ava on my my my app and their apps but without that i'm telling you i wouldn't have been able to understand one word and then this thing that some of us are thinking about well okay well we understand when they're in this certain location if everything is fine but all it takes is a little bit of a movement off center and we don't understand anything you go to a hospital setting and you have to take out your hearing devices and then most of us are deaf so i see jill you have your hand up i think may i may not have her's up first i don't know if she's there i'm here me not here and i have a question should i ask it now yeah yeah okay so my question was and you said that you have sent us emails um asking us to raise our voices that we need these services i how will i find those emails should i search under hlaa dv to find these emails that you have sent to us no you're you i know that you're signed up to our and we use an email marketing tool to distribute information to our chapter members the tool that we use just call mail chimp so you have received a mail chimp that i know i personally created about that so the only way that you off the top and the time frame right now is i think for the latest one is over um they were doing a survey and contra costa county wanting all of our input about that um and i don't have any way of knowing for sure who responded and who didn't respond but at this time i don't know how you would easily search for a specific topic you might try to search your email and see if it would pick it out of the body of the message okay because i do not remember but i've been busy trying to pack for about a month i do not remember any email asking us to give our opinion for the contra costa county public transportation survey well it was sent out so you missed it okay so when we get when we get one of these kinds of emails we should answer right away because they are time sensitive yes okay within the email and you guys i'm not perfect you know like you know i screwed up about the registration for our meeting today so you know we're doing our best i'm trying all of us are trying so it's an oops and you fix what you can fix and what you can't fix you move on so um i try to put a link button to where the survey is so you can go ahead and take the survey and i try to make them big so you can see it so i would try to identify it with a name survey okay and if people have other ideas to help with the messages you're getting please let us know jill the mind can endure only as i mean the mind can absorb only as much as the end can endure it's almost noon i'm ready to go okay well we have i think a two more slots so jill is saying she wants us to end our meeting so i'd like to remind everybody we're a member organization you can knew your membership online on our website just click membership and we'd like to thank our wonderful captioner cori dosty um every single time we have our meeting without you it would never ever ever be the same um if you know of somebody who's looking for a good captioner cori can be contacted at this address and here's the rest of our information for anybody who needs to contact us and we'd like to thank you for coming today and i need we need to hear suggestions about other things that you would like to hear about so we have to set up presentations we need help and we need ideas so please send your comments to us and we'll see you next time oh i have one thing to tell everybody i'm so excited some people are here now that we're here before i'm getting my second implant on the 25th um and yeah so min i knew you didn't know that so my first one i was just kind of blase about happening but this one i'm really excited yeah okay so bye everybody