Okay.

I'm working with one screen today.

So it's like I'm having to like pop open the Teams window and then like minimize it.

So it's kind of kind of a pain.

But let me I'll just completely minimize this.

Okay.

Is this better now?

Yes.

Okay.

Um so team, today we're gonna be talking about e-comment.

So for the next hour, we're gonna be going through the ins and outs of the e-comment solution.

Um e comment for those that aren't familiar with e-comment, uh, basically what it does is it's designed for your uh members of your community um to basically engage with your agendas.

What I specifically mean by that is you can go in or they can go in, they can review the agenda, and then they can make comments on certain agenda items that you allow for for comments on, and you can then see those comments so they could potentially offer like suggestions or feedback or just kind of vocalize how they feel about a certain item, and then you can see all of those comments.

Um, so it's called citizen engagement.

In addition to that, we also have a piece to e-comment called speak up.

Speak up basically allows for members of your your um community to register to speak on certain agenda items, and if you're using live

manager,

what it looks like you are, those speaker requests integrate with live manager um on the speakers tab.

So uh live manager has a speakers tab and it basically has a comprehensive list of all of the speakers for that item.

If somebody registers to speak, then their name goes into the speakers tab in Live Manager for that respective item.

Um a lot of people what I'm just kind of having conversations with them, they find that they they're gonna be using e comment but not speak up, like the speaker registration.

So you don't have to use speaker registration, it is an option, and I'll show you how to turn that on.

Um you know

what?

Uh we're we I don't think we're using the live speaker.

Speak up, we don't need it.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, we're not gonna

need it.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah, we'll

then

explain if we did that.

Yeah.

Plus, we're not allowed to speak for it.

Sorry.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

So yeah, we will we will take that take that off the table then.

Um, so we'll just focus on the comments then.

Um so starting out team for e comment, e comment is managed through media manager.

Media manager is your huntington beach.granicas.com site.

It's where you kind of have your like your archive library, it has like your encoder data, um, kind of all of that good stuff.

So you're gonna manage e comment through the media manager site.

That's Honeyton Beach.granicus.com.

Um, if anybody needs a log into the site, let me know.

I know you've been kind of legacy customers of granicus for quite some time, but sometimes we find

that

people don't have a login.

Um, so if you do need to log into the site, let me know.

Um, but otherwise, this is the place, like I said, kind of the central place where you're gonna manage all of your comments.

Um, and this the um the uh body of the comments.

And so when you log into the site here, um you land on your home screen.

Okay, so just like normal, you land on your home screen

here.

Um for e-comment, we're gonna be focused on this upcoming events repository here.

Um so when you publish an agenda from Legistar, um, depending upon when that meeting occurs, so it's either like today or then about the next 30 days, it will show up here under e comments or sorry, under upcoming events.

And so under upcoming events, you're gonna see a hyperlink for that meeting.