 So we could give more people the opportunity to be part of that presentation. So for now, I guess we'll just move on to discuss communications plan today. So I'm going to share my screen and comments. So earlier on, we were trying to know where we're all joining from. We see someone, one person joining from Lagos, two people from Gariki and then of course we have Eli from Vancouver. So I'll go back just one more slide where my slide is going to start from. We have one more poll. We want to know what devices you are using. If you click that link that we shared with you, you'll be able to tell us what device you're using. And we're asking for this so we know what is permanent with our audience. Should we be considering some future presentation on how this could be beneficial to you? So we thought to collect this data. So I know we're not much on the call, but it would be nice to just have that. So if you follow that link, sli.do, you should see on your page. It tells you, I mean ask that question on your device. I'm using two devices, so I'm voting in two devices there. Actually it's Mac PC, not Windows PC. Sorry, Windows. Okay, so I think I'm going to proceed. I think we've taken all the counts. I'm just one or two more people, but okay. So please, as we proceed, I would like to request that we mute our microphones so that we can minimize the distractions from the noise. So I had to mute on your chair. I'm so sorry about that, but there was some noise coming from you. So I'll just go back one slide more. So this is the scope of what we're talking about. We're discussing communications plan today, and my name is Jeremiah once again. I am a development communications professional. I don't like to use the word expert, so I don't deprive myself the opportunity to learn from others. So currently I am in charge of communications and advocacy for a World Bank funded project in Nigeria, Domicile at the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, and prior to that I led corporate communications at the NCDC. So I've had previous experiences before those two stints, and I mean I've experienced a bit, quite a bit of planning for communication, and I've always seen it as something that many organizations, especially small organizations, both nonprofits, social enterprises, and small businesses struggle with. Some of the reasons why I see that happening is because first, many of the organizations I have interacted with and consulted with, or consulted for rather, many of them don't see the need for it, and they just go into the events, you know, wing it, plan, without that proper planning. It's just about something is happening, and that's it, and most of the most people that I've seen limit communications planning to just events and all that. Quite a few number of organizations tie it into the core of their organization and the goals they are set up to achieve. So we're going to be looking at what communications, what the communications plan is and why we need it, an overview of areas where we can apply it, irrespective of the size of the organization you're running, and a few tips on how you can get started using communications plan for your advantage, I mean, for your organization. So simply it's whatever activities, whatever initiatives, whatever ideas you're exploring towards a specific outcome for either an event or for your organization, or for a particular campaign, whatever it is that you're putting together as steps, or activities, or initiatives to ensure that a particular outcome is achieved with an audience boils down to communications. You know, it aligns your activities to ensure that whatever you're doing directly impacts the final goal that you're looking towards for your organization, or for a particular case that you might need that plan for, that's communication planning. I wrote here, I said it prioritizes your needs, it helps you identify your audiences, it helps you take a deep dive into what your messages should be, your message or your messages should be, how should you deliver these messages, and how would you know if this message, if this message that you've passed across to your audience has been received by the audience, and of course you don't send a message just for the sake of it. One of my former bosses always has this mantra, your communication should be to educate, entertain and inform, you know, informs people, it educates them and also entertains them. I mean that's like the sum of it, so there is a call to action that follows every message. The action you see people taking, is that what you wanted them to see when you pass that message, you know? So that's what communication plans helps you to take a look at and ensure that your effort is successful. So timely and proactive delivery of activities are all ensured by, are all ensured by your communications plan. So please, I'll still adjust to keep our microphone on mute. So basically what your communication plan does for you is, it's all about your message. You have an idea, it is put together into a message and communicated through a series of ideas, initiative activities towards an end goal to see, to see your target audience act on that message. So possible use cases are listed here. We have either to achieve business or organizational goals. It could be for campaigns, you are having a campaign to launch a product or to advertise a product, or it could be held campaigns. I mean, also events management, during events planning, there is communication, you must have a plan for that. During, I mean, publicizing your event, you must have a plan for that, branding your events, the coverage of the events, or you could say documentation for that event. I mean, the event venue and all that all this needs to be planned for, internal communications for organizations. How do you ensure that every member of staff in your organization, big or small, understands your vision and they agree with that vision and then align with it and support you to achieve, I mean, to realize that vision. Public relations is another aspect of communications planning. It's actually broad based, you know, media relation also, how you interact with the media, how you relate to them, social media management, project management, communication, you're on a project, how do you communicate with your stakeholders, which could be the funders or the people who gave you that job. It could be as simple as building a website for an organization or for for a client. You want to let the client know what to expect, when to expect it, and when to start measuring the efforts you and the client are committing into that particular job, you know. So that's all communications planning. There is a way to do it. Sometimes your communication must align with your overarching goal. What is it that your organization is said to do, your nonprofit, what are you set to achieve, you know. So your communications plan has to speak directly to that. At the end of your communication efforts, at the end of all the efforts you commit into doing communication, does it enhance the achievement of your organizational goal or for a particular project that you set out to do or an initiative that you set out to actualize, if the communication plan doesn't speak directly to that. In fact, in the business, in the for-profit world, the private sector communication is tied to the return on investments. So if a company is launching, say, a new phone and they produce one million pieces of those phones, of that phone, and they launch a communication plan, the success of that communication plan is going to be tied to how much of those phones is sold to the target audience that the phone was meant for at the end of the period. So it's the same for nonprofits. Your communications plan has to speak directly to why your organization, what the mission or the vision of your organization is, or what you set out to achieve with a project. So consistent and effective communication with an audience provides momentum to achieve your programs or your set goals. So communication is very, very important. No matter how passionate you are about whatever you want to do, it doesn't replace your lack of planning. Remember, it's not just about you, it's about everyone in that position or one part. And then it's also about the audience you're trying to reach. So don't wing it if you must do it. So communication plan can be very comprehensive and quite elaborate. So this overview that I gave here is looking at it, I mean looking at a very wide scope of what a communications plan could be. You start with the situation analysis, lots of research, lots of questions to ask, both external, I mean viewing externally from the organization or internally into the organization. I mean, there's just so much that goes into the situation analysis to understand the context, both the broad-based context and the organizational context itself. Then there's more research that goes into who your target audience is. I mean, there's a lot of science around all this. It's a lot of effort that goes into that. And this also commands a lot of resources down from, I mean up from the social situation analysis, down to the monetary and evaluation, plenty of resources at every point in time. So that's where the problem now is. Besides the fact that this becomes a very complex science to do, there's also the resources you need to commit into this. So it's a lot of money. It's a lot of time. It's a lot of intellectual resource that goes into achieving a very comprehensive communication plan. I know of big organizations that have literally been grounded because or their movement has been slowed down because they lack a communication plan. And it's not because they can't just go ahead to do the communications. It's because without research, it's almost impossible for them to achieve what they're set out to do. They cannot. So, but then that's where the advantage is for small non-profit. It doesn't have to get this complex for you to start guiding your activities with a communications plan. And that's the essence of the presentation today, keeping it simple, the post approach. The post approach simply just means people, objectives, strategy and tactics. I mean, this is the bare minimum that you can get for planning communications. This post approach, it's not just, it's not peculiar only to communication. It's a, I mean, it's a cross sectoral, cross industry technique that is applied both in engineering, the sciences, social sciences, and the acronym remains the same. But sometimes the meaning, especially at the end, the tactics, sometimes it changes to tools. Some people, it changes to technology. But for us, this is where we keep it, public people, objective, strategy and the tactics. So the advantage of this is it forces you to focus on your minimum viable product, your barest minimum, the base for you. Where can you get started? Because it's not, it's a given that you have to plan if you don't want to fail. It said, you have to plan if you don't want to fail because lack of that means that if you fail to plan, you're planning to fail. So this is something that can get you started both for your own business as a person or for a nonprofit that is just starting out. It gives you this overview of everything that your organization is, I mean, your communications plan is all about what at a glance, you just see what your communications is all about, either for your organization or for an event, I mean, all those use cases that I listed. So the post, like I said, the post approach gives you an at a glance overview of what your communications plan is. I mean, at the tip of your finger, you just know who are my people. After all your research and all that, everything fits into post. So you think, who are my people? Who am I trying to reach? What are my objectives with these people? Or it could be the other way. Some people start with the objective. Oh, want to achieve this. So who do you want to achieve it with? I want to achieve it with this particular group of people. Oh, nice. So what's the strategy? This is how we're going to reach them. We use this, this, this, this. So all your strategies, what are the tactics? What are the tools? What are the technologies you can use to bring these strategies to life? So a very quick tool for developing plans, not requiring something comprehensive gets you started on developing a more comprehensive communication plan for your organization. So we'll start with the people. That's a target audience. Who are you trying to reach? I put a second question there, saying specifically, who are you trying to reach? So this question that I put here is something that I've found to really help me know who exactly, at least as close as possible to who my target audience is. It says what individual or individuals or groups have the power to create the change you want to see in your program or your goal? So I give you a quick example. You say you're trying to reach out to children of school age who do not have the opportunity to be in school. So the question is what individuals or groups have the power to help you get these children to school? Is it the children themselves that have the power to create the required situation, opportunity or opportunity to ensure that these children get to school? Is it the parents? Or perhaps it could be a religious hindrance, as we've seen in some part of Nigeria, or it could be traditional, as we've seen across the country and in some West African countries too. So that's the question to ask that who has that power to create the change that you want to see? That person becomes your target audience. But then it's not a clean line sometimes. There are blurry boundaries. So that's why we have the primary, the secondary, sometimes even the tertiary audience. The primary audience is the most important group to reach. People with the direct power to cause the change that you want to see. Then those people sometimes you do not have a direct access to them. So that's when you begin to look at the secondary audience. Who has an influence on this primary audience to get them to achieve the change that you're looking to achieve? So it's very important to know who your primary audience is and who your secondary audience is. Say for example, still the example of the children that are out of school in rural areas. So you reach out to the parents and the parents are actually the ones that will give their children permission to go to school. But if there is no school to attend, their permission won't even make any difference. And then you step up and you say maybe the chief and the elders of that community, the gatekeepers. And the gatekeepers are also willing to allow the children to go to school. But they don't have the wherewithal, no resources and all that. So your audience changes at that point because these people, even though they're directly impacted by the change that you're trying to bring, they don't have the power to bring that change that you want to see. So you begin to look elsewhere. Maybe we should be targeting the legislators in charge of that region or maybe we'll begin to target funders who are interested in getting children into school. So those questions just helps you get to who your primary and your secondary audience is. So taking it further, I mean we're supposed to keep it simple with this presentation, but just to pick your curiosity, you could go further into audience analysis, looking at who your audience is, what personifies your audience, what motivates them, what is the response you want to see with them, how do you tailor, how do you need to tailor your messages to achieve the kind of response that you're looking for? So on the right, I also put some other things you could be looking at to take a deep dive into who your audience really is. And these questions are really important for you sometimes to understand who you're trying to reach. You know most times the success of your work is not in the one or two successes or achievements that you record. It's in things like how viable and sustainable it is after you have gone. How scalable is that, how scalable is that your solution or whatever you have done, I mean you have achieved, I mean to spread your impact beyond your reach. How scalable is it? So those are some of the things to look at to consider a success for your goal. I mean either for your non-profits. We move to objectives. So how will communications help you achieve your program goal? What key points do you need or do you want your audience to take away? What will be the first three of these? So first things first, how will you, how will communications help you? So want to reach out to school children, communication, how will communications help you? So perhaps we should be looking at, we need to even create an awareness on this problem in the first place. Oh there are so many out of school kids. Oh really, what's the data? Where did you get your data from? And what is the cost? What do you think is the cost and all that? What key points do you want your audience to take away? So by the time your message gets out, what do you want people, what do you want your audience to know that this is, this is what you're trying to say to inform this kind of action from your audience. So if you consider all the points that you want to be your message to your audience, what would you say is the top most priority, the first three priorities of this? So that that becomes part of your objective. It becomes, it forms what you use to design your objectives for your communications plan. So but then you need to know the difference between your communications objective and program objectives. Your program objectives could be to get children back to school, out of school children give them an opportunity to be in school, but the communication objectives becomes, could be say you want to be able to, you want to ensure that you raise this amount of money, this amount of funds to enable these children get back to school, or your communications objective could be that you want to raise awareness about the situation in order to achieve your goals. Your goals could be to get the student back to school or by solving the problems that is stopping the student from getting back to school. So the goal could be to build the school classrooms, provide books and all that. So your communications objective could now be that you want to create awareness on what the problem is and how that problem can be solved, what action people who hear your objectives, what action do you want them to take. You also need to know the difference between communications objectives and key messages. You know, communications objective and your key messages are quite different, but they're two sides of the coin. So you have your communications objective which is to create awareness or to show the actions that needs to be taken. The key messages are now your call to action. How do you communicate those objectives to your audience? You could use phrases, you could use keywords, you could use action words, call to actions and all that to pass what your communications objective is. So for instance, we're looking at some of some objectives. Do you need to educate elders, legislators or business leaders about your program? So maybe the problem is that people are not aware. So if people are aware and they understand what the issues are, perhaps they will direct efforts to that issue. Maybe it's not so much about there's no money for these children to return to school. It's the fact that there's no political will or perhaps there's a lack of understanding with the gatekeepers and they're unable to, they don't see the need for this to happen. So that's what you want to demonstrate to them. Remember you're looking at ways to ensure that your program is sustainable, the program is scalable, something that can go beyond you and your efforts. That's real success. So it could also be that you need to find partners to sustain your efforts. Partnership could be one of the things you're looking at or perhaps you need volunteers. So communication can actually help you achieve a series of some of these objectives but they need to be defined. When you're establishing your objectives, make them as specific as possible. I think what I should have done is to actually design specific objectives around the questions that I asked at the top. That's an afterthought. So these are examples of specific objectives. Reach 10,000 young Nigerians with information about your program in 10 weeks. You can see this is specific. This is definite. 10,000 people who are young and Nigerians with information about your program within a definite timeline could also be recruited, an additional 25 million stupid. So these are definite goals. These are specific as possible. And then it means that your communications plan has a life cycle. So it ends at a particular point. It could end for good or it could end a cycle to start another cycle. So think keywords and calls to action summarize your messages or your message to a few pertinent words and show that that message is clear enough that it breaks through the clutter of noise that goes through to your audience through whatever channel or platforms or technology that they get their messages from. So talk about strategy. We started with people, which is your audience. We're looking at the post strategy. We started with people, which is your target audience. And we talked about how to narrow down to who your primary and secondary audiences are and how they impact the overall outcome of what you're trying to achieve. Then we also looked at the objectives, which is what guides the overall direction of your communications plan and eventually constitutes or informs what your key messages are. Your key messages are those messages that are one word description of what you're trying to achieve and the actions you expect your audience, your target audience to take. So now we're looking at strategy. What are the broad approaches you plan to adopt to reach your objectives? So what are the best strategies that you can use to ensure that children get back to school using our example of out of school children in rural areas? What strategies can you use? So there are numerous strategies that you will stumble upon. I mean some as wild as your dreams can take you, but we have to be realistic here. Which of those strategies are actually realistic for what you're trying to achieve? Which of those objectives are like low hanging floats that you can easily take advantage of? Which of those strategies are truly fundamental to what you're trying to achieve? Very fundamental in the sense that they directly and fundamentally impact what you're trying to achieve. So you dive down. So if you find these strategies, what one strategy do or you need to use a combination of both of one or more strategies to achieve what your communications objective are. So let's look at some consideration for adopting strategies. I give two examples here for instance. Say you want to raise awareness about the example we're looking at is out of school children in rural areas. So you want to raise awareness about the situation. You may want to choose a combination of media relations and community outreach. That's an example. It could change depending on what the objectives you arrive at. You know the objective depends on like I said what who your primary audience finally becomes based on the problem that you're trying to solve. Your primary objective could also be informed by the kind of resource that you may have or so there are many things that can whatever it is that your communications objective are. You need to consider some things to know what kind of strategy to adopt. So we say here to raise awareness you may choose a combination of media relations, community outreach or is it an individual problem from your research from whatever little situation analysis that you do could just be one on one questions that you ask people. Maybe it's just people's individual behavior beliefs that is causing the problem. So you might in that case you might want to choose social marketing or facilitate communication versus you know these are some considerations. So it varies greatly by a lot a number of factors which are peculiar to every scenario every situation. So now we drive down to tactics. So when we're looking at tactics you're thinking of the channels the media the platforms how to how you bring these strategies to life. So what are the best ways to reach your audience with your messages? What tools? What platforms? What techniques can bring your strategies to life? What media habits of your audience? What media habits are peculiar with the audience that you're trying to reach? So are there other points that you need to take advantage of? Is there a social behavior peculiar to your target audience? For instance there was this story about I think somewhere in is it Uganda or Kenya now? But I know somewhere in East Africa this non-profit saw that a particular village community the women they travel like kilometers to fetch water to use at home and so street I mean it's a natural flowing water so but the distance is so much and they thought the solution to that would be to you know get them boreholes to to bring the water closer to them and they actually got the funding and dug boreholes for the women. The few months down the line the women were back to you know going back to the river to get water even though they have a walking borehole and so I think the team realized they may have missed something. We thought their problem was water now we're giving them water and they're still going back to the stream to fetch water but what could be the problem and further research revealed that the the women used that time of going to the river to fetch water they used that time to bond so it became like a cultural activity for them so it's an important part of their lives because in that community women actually are not allowed to socialize so that's the only time they have to get together to talk about stuff you know that one two hours journey to the stream and back gives them enough time to bond together and this water that has been brought into their community took that away so they had to go back to you know using the river so you can see that this is a cultural norm for these women if you want to reach out to those kind of women you have to keep that into consideration so you need to ask that question what is the best way to reach your target with what you're trying to do the messages that you're you're trying to get across to them what is the tactics that work for you so those are things to ask you think about channels that are most relevant credible cost efficient and popular I mean these keywords are really really important because I'm not taking these keywords into into consideration or I'm not taking them important could undermine your effort I mean when you're dealing with your audience we're talking about trust we're talking about mutually benefiting relationship we're talking about sustainability about of that initiative or something you want to ensure that whatever change you're trying to you're trying to bring to life that change still exists even long after you're gone so that's that's true change that's that's like that's real impact so you need to think relevance credibility cost efficiency popularity with your target audience um and then one last question is how will you evaluate the effectiveness of all these channels those are considerations you must have so as you implement continually evaluate the effectiveness of your tactics and make any appropriate revisions schedule regular reviews so that's the cycle where you get to your tactics you implement when you implement you evaluate as the last slide says we evaluate effectiveness of this channel whatever you find out from what you your evaluation is you incorporate it back into into your objective I mean to know what you want to achieve so um also consider how you will measure the effectiveness of your communications efforts go beyond the vein matrix for instance let's take an an event for example it's not just a number of people that attend your event you want to check how relevant what you what this training we're having today right now this discussion at the end of it want to be interested whether um talking about communications planning directly impacts the people that attended the event want to be sure that um the next time we're having this event you want to attend and that the next thing we're talking about is truly relevant to your your work or your nonprofit or stuff you know so those are things to uh those are those are things that go beyond the vein matrix vein matrix could just be number of attendees uh who even knows if you're listening to what I'm saying so uh your attendance just it's just a number but that your listening goes beyond just your just that number um that what I'm saying is relevant to your business to your nonprofit goes beyond that number that you want to come back you want to hear what we have to say or you have something to contribute you want to take a class or something or a training all those go beyond the number so focus on action what actions do people take about your call when you when you issue at a call to action can you see that call to action translating into action I mean in the life of your audience so that's that's what the focus should be on what is your call to action what results do you have for those so if there is a call to action you need to check the results you are getting does it interpret or does it mirror your call to action I think that's that's the end of my slide I was supposed to put that's the end before going to the next the next slide I think I'll take a pause here before I go to my final slide to say um I think this slide should have come before this so this this is a slide where or now if you have any question or you have a contribution you could either share or you could put your hands up and we we will give you permission to speak so contributions questions if you don't want to talk you can type your question just go to slidio.com slash i047 and okay I think i047 and your question will pop up here for everybody to see but if you want to talk you can raise your hands and we'll give you a chance to say something okay so I'm assuming um um no no feedback from okay I'm seeing um I think Shaye okay no or Niocha wants to say something I think you can unmute and speak everybody will hear you yes Solomon my question is the I went to I just went through to the site of a text to to see what they're offering and um I want to find out the product that the um text to this offering are they pre-donations or does the NGO have to pay a late to discount for such product okay okay so one of the one of the things we are going to be doing before we close for today is Mufon is going to take us through what they're offering and what is going to cost organization usually most of them are offered for free but one or two of those products will require the organization to pay like an administrative fee I think some is just one of administrative fee um one or two other products is like periodically but those administrative fee are very very small as in really negligible so Mufon is going to take us through that I hope he'll be able to answer more um to your question so Prince Prince can we hear you please on mute and speak hi everyone so um I would say this this is a very um great presentation I just want to ask first of hope the slides will be shared um to us so we can have a look after that's fine okay sure um once we're done I'll just remove my uh I'll remove all the polls the poll questions and then send the slide to us I believe that works for you okay yeah secondly um I wanted to ask a question about like say being in an organization that involves a lot of projects and different like say different funders and all that because um that can entail having different plans um towards that let's say you're in a team where they have several projects that involves say different funders that also require have their own different requirements now how do we find a switch spot between merging the goal of the funders because they all come with theirs and the um the objectives of the overall heading company thank you so um from my experience what I've found is yes um the normal thing that is supposed to be obtainable for you is an organization has a set of goals or a particular goal or a vision or um their mission there's usually that set of um collective direction for the organization what the practice is supposed to be is that your funders your partners are supposed to align with your goal and help you achieve it that's what it's supposed to be of course we've seen where organizations just go after the money rather than after their vision or the goal that they want to achieve and align anyone that wants to fund with them so I'm going to base my response on the fact that you are clear as an organization of what you want to achieve then funders are supposed to align with what um your goal is and support that either to further yours or to expand the scope so that being said usually it's not out of practice to have communications plan specific to a project so you can have one organization with an overarching communications plan specific to the that's vision or mission that the organization is trying to achieve for instance ncdc has um their goal of protecting the health of Nigerians their mission says that they want to use evidence space evidence-based scientific um scientific uh what's that word to you know to to protect the health of Nigerians that's the overarching goal but there are there are projects that happen within the ncdc um that speak to specific aspects of the work ncdc is doing and each of these projects all plug into that at the end of the day they plug into advancing that one overall goal so you can see it's so it's not uncommon for you to now see a communications plan for the ncdc strategy communications plan for the ncdc to achieve that um evidence-based approach to being the model national public health institute that they want to be but then the projects that exist within the ncdc now have their own communication goals i am on a project um called the um the registry project uh i mean the the meaning of registry is quite a handful um let me see if i can find it um it's really quite okay it's a world bank project called the regional disease surveillance system enhancement project now that's a project that is that is complementing what the ncdc is trying to achieve but it has its own um objectives it has its own communications plan it has its own project objectives and communications objectives but at the end of the day whatever the actions whatever um whatever the achievements of the project the registry project achieves it speaks to the the baseline for the ncdc which is to become a modern national public health institute that protects the health of nigerians and um and the sub region you know so i don't know if that answers your question oh yeah it does yes thank you so much okay do we have any other contribution question experience sharing um before we move on okay so i'm going to go back to my last slide um and i'm going to go back to before i say thank you want to see what do you want to learn next so today we talked about communications planning for your non-profits either big non-profit or small but mostly small um but want to be sure that what we are discussing next the next time we put this meetup together is directly relevant to what you want to learn so please go to slido slido.com slash r047 and let us know what you would like to learn in the next class or in the next meetup private please we'll encourage everyone to click the link share what you would like to learn because your contributions your perspectives are highly appreciated we want to actually see how we can um create all of this targeted to you like targeted to you and your organization's needs so please look forward to your responses yeah i see word is that microsoft word okay i think it would be helpful if we're a bit specific you know microsoft word is a big word there's so much to learn in microsoft word so it could be we could tailor learnings to achieve certain things maybe it could be document formatting or it could be template creation because i found those are some of the common things that are small non-profits small to medium non-profits um are looking forward to templates templates templates that can that can do this the branding aspect and all that so it will be helpful i think you can edit what your what you have put i think you can edit it yes you can edit your responses if you're already sent in something so just edit to kind of elaborate more now we'll give some more minutes to see um what's what what we have um and if you see something that somebody that's somebody has written on you what you you agree with the person you can write it too so that your your word cloud will be the the biggest you know okay so i see how to build brand uh is that identity okay i think there's a word limit there's a character limit for this and um it's affecting what some people are writing i think there's a 25 character limit yeah for for what you you can write there okay i see excel i think we have two votes for excel so excel is okay corporate branding branding for non-profits okay okay so um we'll give one more minute and then we'll proceed so um we see comprehensive social media plan we see excel taking the lead branding for non-profits corporate branding so i'll take that as one i see data analytics assist social media analytics brand community okay um so i think we have a fairly good idea of what um we what the need is i see analytics taking the lead wow it excel and um okay that's awesome that is awesome all right uh i believe we can move to the next slide i see charts let me see okay data analytics um marzino dixie um i hope you've used the link um i see you've written data analytics but let me see if data analytics okay data analytics is on the world cloud okay okay okay okay all right um i think we'll proceed to the end we thank you for taking part in the poll i mean it gives us uh current social media issues it gives us an idea of what the need in the community is um so we would be looking forward to the next um translating data and data from analytics for influencing that's uh that's blessing sani saying developing key messages uh let me add that to developing key messages okay entered um blessing sani also said translating data from analytics for influencing i think if i may offer you a phrase blessing um does data for action work for you data for action so it could be perfect thank you all right so i'm going to write data for action which works for us um all right i i really appreciate our time and thanks for the feedback so i'm going to pass this over to um um fun to let us know what uh we can get what what nonprofits can get from um text soup for free or for almost free so i thank you so much for staying through the presentation i think a few more minutes will be done okay thank you so much jerry like wow you killed it so yeah um let me get my slides up a minute please okay can we all see my screen yes i can see your screen okay so um uh getting started with the net square technology space uh that's what i'll just want to um go on with uh earlier we had li our community manager who um did an introduction to net squared and the um text soup so um i'm just going to make this a quick run through and i expect that there will be questions and all of that so um text soup offers so some really amazing let me just go back a slight some slight bugs so maybe this is a quick technology overview a quick overview of the technology market space so this before this is how um can everyone see what i have on the screen jumbled up lines yep we can see okay so um initially this is how um getting access to software works probably you need a software you have to go through a library to get to Microsoft and all of that right now uh with text soup this is what we have so all you just have to be is part of the text of community and text soup gives you access to some certain softwares many for free and some at a discounted price uh many for free and some you just have to be um like the administrative fee and all that which is a whole lot more affordable than what you would get if you were to get it by yourself so um it's simple just go to text soup global and for Nigeria Nigeria the text of the global so if you are a nonprofit in very church if you're a library you can register at text to the global the registration is free is free you just have to submit the qualification documentations um the documents that will be required probably like your um documents of your cac documents and all of that for Nigeria you need your cac documents the documents you used when um creating your company and eligibility each donor partner has their own eligibility criteria for google google has their own eligibility eligibility criteria um for google i can say for google because i have actually done google very well google and microsoft you just have to initially be part of the text once text to verify you as a non-profit or um as an organization under the non-profit classification google um easily uh gives you the google for non-profit platform which is a whole lot like i will show you some of the things i will show you an example of an organization which i have registered i'm the director of i see for that organization and i would um show you also the softwares and services we have access to either at a discounted rate or absolutely for free so eligibility each donor partner has their own eligibility criteria your organization type budget and mission so part of the question that asks is your organization type the budget your mission and that also determines your eligibility your registration qualification and all of that so it takes between seven to ten business days for me it took it took less than a week so the thing is that eligibility can change over time like during the um by the big period it was quite hard trying to register organizations because a lot of people were now becoming more aware of um trying to get services online so um verification took a whole while longer than understand that seven to ten days so this is what um tech sub offers it it helps organizations to actually save as high as over 17 000 dollars like plus so it's kind of like you save 17 000 dollars plus water software and hardware for free in some cases like in some countries like the u.s. canada and so part of the caribbean you can get even down to hardware for free and also it's majorly tech um tech sub and next word is majorly um sorry tech sub and next word is majorly tech for good that's what uh we are trying to um we are tech super trying to achieve um so you can get free non-profit tech resources at tech sub dot org if you go to tech sub dot org you see webinars blog how to articles how to do some write-offs how to focus on your organization branding some of the topics that we that we are that you um put out to discuss so some of these things are s part developed you can also get s part developed courses there are also coursewares there where you can take some trainings at virtually free or discounted s part developed courses designed to deepen and expand um tech skills so there are also tailored news theaters newsletters for your organization for now for libraries for non-profits and also um you get to network so and like this event is also part of the networking that we are trying to build you get to attend a free tech for good events groups in over 120 countries you can learn tech skills if you like um Eli shared our profiles earlier you can actually meet um either me or Jeremiah afterwards you can link up with us on LinkedIn um you can connect with our committee so um like Eli had said earlier we're trying to move from the meetup and we are going to uh TechSoup events so events at TechSoup.org you can check that out later so also you're trying to build a trusted for TechSoup Abuja here you're trying and in Nigeria as a whole you're trying to see how we can build a group of trusted um a network of trusted um NGOs and organizations that can actually benefit from what TechSoup tends to offer so if you're looking for if you're not in Abuja or you travel to another state or something for you to find the nearest um next squared uh next squared um group close to you can go to nextsquared.org there is there's a repository that shows the list of all the groups and probably contact people there also so if you need tech help you can go to firm.techsoup.org and you get like detailed questions about um databases software digital engagement design and web building plus everything else all from a non-profit perspective so at this point um we would like to encourage you to always come around because this this is kind of this at this point of community update what we're trying to do at this point is what we call a needs parade so a needs parade you what what what we mainly require from me at this point is um you can share with us what you want uh what you want sorry i'm about to share my screen for you can share with us probably if you're an NGO or an organization within the non-profit range you can you can share with us if you need technical help if you need someone um uh with an IT skill if you need volunteers uh if you need people to come in as interns so that's where the needs parade is and I was supposed to share this earlier although we had um LA our committee organizer uh do the intro earlier but um probably starting from next meet-up I would like to let you guys know that the needs parade actually allows you to share um share with us probably openings that are probably you have in your organization where you need people since we are also a trusted community so if you need people to fill in some openings people who are skilled in that aspect you can actually come here during the period of the needs parade you let us know and you be given a minute to actually share with us what you need and the requirements you actually need from such people so okay so if you can see my screen this is the tech sub Nigeria and this is I'm already logged in in my profile so this is my account I am the director of ICT for AFRU education access initiative and I registered my organization um on the text which actually give us um easy easy validation and verification for google for non-profit so uh the verification process is not um this thing so I know okay yeah this can actually be shared most of this information so what they just asked you is the name the full name the address your phone number the admin email the website if you have any your mission statements then um you can put more organization details like the budgets that you kind of had your legal identifier your tax identification number so for everything it always has a value um validation dates so the last qualification date was um this thing tech sub actually allows you to new york uh qualification for all of this every three to four years for us we started on the 11th of last year and the next qualification and the current qualification is aspiring on the in 2024 so by 2024 we just have to renew our qualification again which is not really much of a big deal you just need to it's just some light processes and it's always best you kind of like starts working towards renewing so what they just need is your documents these documents um contain like your cac and your directors the your lists of directors and all of that so this is the main part that I wanted you guys to see the what's your qualified for full so as our organization now we are qualified for the amazon web services we are qualified for this orthodex bit defender this is an antivirus box.org for box.org is a one-time payment and you have a huge space of drive I can't really remember the space for Microsoft you have discounted for you have discounted packages absolutely you're going to go into the catalog to show you most of all the things that they offer for organizations in Nigeria so there's also Microsoft cloud which involves the office 365 and all of that there's Microsoft discount throw there's asana asana that we know the project management and collaboration is adobe unlimited there are some tech services that you're qualified for like um advisory on certain things pertaining your uh like technical things pertaining your NGO and all of that um docu sign you have docu sign donated you donated if given to your organization and then they discounted then they stab you and veritors so those are some of the things that for us as an organization we're eligible for so let's go to the catalog let's let me show you some of the things we have in the catalog if you find this is 8 30 what I want to suggest is I think this deserves a whole session on its own because exactly what what go back to the previous slide or the previous page let me show you something you see some of these things that organizations are eligible for a lot of organizations don't know what these things can do for them I have been using a lot of this for my work both at a personal and organizational level and I know what they can do for me amazon web service amazon web service is there on its own um tableau is there veritas the docu sign so I want to suggest that um we should consider this for one of the comment session maybe the next session um to look into detail what benefits organizations can get from tech soup directly um if others agree they can show by they can show that by show of their hands raise their hands and all that you can just put your thumbs up okay I see many hands going up already so that's good I think we should target this for the next class it should do a deep dive into exactly how what organizations are getting what those things are and how can they actually get on board so if that works for me I didn't want us to go past 8 30 I was even targeting 8 15 so that it's yeah me too I wasn't really paying attention to time because it kind of filled my whole screen I was trying to speak so fast and rush up everything yeah it's okay thank you for for that that you've shared so in closing we'll just like you to rate us quickly and um and we'll be done for the day but it's really been an exciting um session so far thank you for um for finding the time to join us also I think we now have a bit of insight into what we would like to learn and at the same time umfum mentioned something very important which is the needs mapping which we can use to spread more opportunities I mean if there are other ways you feel that this community can bring value to you as an individual or an organization please don't hesitate to reach out um for that so please can you just visit sli.do the same link we've been using and just rate um this meeting just for our own internal um internal review towards future um sessions please let's take a few minutes to visit sli.do slash r047 please vote for us we're the next senators vote for us where our score is 4.7 we'll bring water to your communities if you vote for us and feel free to reach us um after this uh um after this session we are available you can connect with us on link then I believe um like shared our profiles earlier let me see if I can get that info okay okay so our rating is dropping 4.4 but when I need to read more I need to study more so that our rating can you know go up so thank you so much everybody who's seen five votes um I think we can now call it a day um please before before you go can you guys um kind of like in the chat box tell us paths we could improve on or where uh probably what we didn't do so well on paths we could actually improve on so it can actually shape our performance during the next okay Shay thanks for that review say she came late um but she enjoyed um the patch she was here for thanks so I guess this is this is it for today thank you very much for joining um would would announce the next one early on so that you can have us in your calendar and um we hope to add value to you as a person and as an organization okay Marzino is saying that if we can meet regularly that's the plan we plan to meet regularly um we plan to do this once a month and find one or two things to do in between just to make sure that the value that each of us in this community can offer goes round you know I'm just taking the session today but there's a lot I can learn from you Marzino Dixon or Shay or anyone else there's a there's something you we can get from you if you also feel that you have value that you can share with the community please reach out let's do this together this is supposed to be fubu for us by us ubuntu you know um kind of thing it's not um a down an up-down relationship we are we dishing things down for you know it's something that we're supposed to all share together learn from each other and um my my my my personal goal is I want to see more impactful small nonprofits I mean around us and um in the country so um I think that's all for me we have absolutely one thing is that time to ask me a question uh okay can Solomon just ask but I'm not sure I can't promise that I might answer here but I can drop my email and we can actually continue conversation later or you can follow me on LinkedIn I kind of interact there very well okay yes you will get the slides from the presentation yep yep all right I saw hands up do you have something you want to say okay I think it could be from the show of hands that we requested okay so everybody I think this is it this is 20 39 once it is 20 40 we'll drop the mic okay so thank you all for coming it was a really big pleasure having you all here like it gave us so much joy having to see everyone here trust me and we look forward to having you in our next program come with someone definitely bring someone thank you