West Hartford Girls Softball League

(00:00:02.604) Aaron Lyles: I know for the record, it was my idea for an 8:30 meeting. (00:00:08.504) Michael Moran: I know. I could swing it. (00:00:10.004) Aaron Lyles: 8:30. Okay. Did you watch any Masters today? (00:00:15.004) Michael Moran: I watched a little. I did not watch as much as I would have liked to, but I watched. (00:00:20.204) Aaron Lyles: A little. I had it on. I was in a meeting. (00:00:25.504) Michael Moran: was like (00:00:25.904) Aaron Lyles: yeah, yeah. (00:00:30.904) Michael Moran: I do love Masters weekend. (00:00:32.304) Aaron Lyles: Though, it's—I love it so much. (00:00:35.704) Michael Moran: Just the best. (00:00:37.704) Aaron Lyles: and you got out yet. (00:00:40.304) Michael Moran: Saturday noon I'm gonna play. They want to play nine, just in that, you know, be gone for (00:00:46.004) Aaron Lyles: forever but (00:00:49.304) Michael Moran: Yeah, that'll be the first trip out. So, we'll see how it goes. Every year, I'm like, I'm gonna play more this year and it never happens, but maybe (00:00:58.104) Sarah W: this (00:00:58.304) Aaron Lyles: year it's (00:00:59.304) Sarah W: Been really. (00:01:01.204) Aaron Lyles: Hey, (00:01:01.304) Sarah W: everyone. (00:01:02.804) Aaron Lyles: Hey, Sarah. (00:01:03.504) Sarah W: Hey. (00:01:05.304) Aaron Lyles: Thanks. I know Danziger is here. (00:01:11.204) Amy Bieniek: joining. (00:01:13.204) Aaron Lyles: Here and yeah, a few minutes. (00:01:23.204) Sarah W: Everyone's day great. (00:01:26.404) Michael Moran: Good. I finally picked up my coaches bag today. I was the last one from Talbot's house, (00:01:31.304) Sarah W: so (00:01:34.604) Michael Moran: Way to set a good example. (00:01:37.204) Sarah W: Nobody knows. All of us know. Yeah. (00:01:42.304) Michael Moran: That's good. (00:01:44.004) Amy Bieniek: Don't (00:01:44.704) Michael Moran: tell anybody. (00:01:45.104) Amy Bieniek: I got ours. (00:01:46.604) Michael Moran: Okay, it's just rookies, so not (00:01:54.104) Aaron Lyles: like our (00:01:55.104) Sarah W: grandmother (00:01:55.704) Aaron Lyles: And John, I can't get it. (00:02:00.004) Amy Bieniek: What was there? (00:02:00.504) Michael Moran: Anyways, that's (00:02:03.004) Amy Bieniek: Over dancing her too, so I was like, are you coming? Like oh no, I forgot. No. Okay, we love (00:02:11.104) Aaron Lyles: the same (00:02:11.404) Amy Bieniek: street (00:02:11.704) Sarah W: offers. (00:02:14.504) Michael Moran: I do like the black. Is that black hair or navy blue? That's what you're wearing. (00:02:18.304) Aaron Lyles: Maybe just, (00:02:19.904) Amy Bieniek: You know, I don't have a sweatshirt. I was gonna go in last year, but it was so cold. I'm like, I'll save them for other people. Buy (00:02:27.204) Sarah W: One later. Yeah, we sold out. (00:02:29.204) Michael Moran: Pretty much. We need more swag, but I'm gonna save that conversation for another time. (00:02:36.304) Sarah W: That's whenever Oliver went to, like, he does West Hartford Youth Little League. I don't know the difference between the two, but he went to his assessment and came home with a ChapStick magnet, a squishy baseball, all the stuff, and then they go to this little pitching clinic and he comes home with like 10 more things. (00:02:55.004) Michael Moran: Of like. (00:02:55.404) Sarah W: West Hartford Little League. I'm like, oh my God, there's a lot of stuff, but we've got it at our house and now we see it all. (00:03:02.004) Amy Bieniek: the time. Your house is branded. (00:03:03.004) Sarah W: branded. Yeah. (00:03:05.604) Aaron Lyles: That's great. (00:03:06.004) Sarah W: Yeah, makes sense to invest in something about (00:03:09.704) Aaron Lyles: More business, Joslyn. Cool. I'll get started just so we kick off and then are recording it. So if anybody else jumps in later, we can always watch with them. But, cool. So the purpose of today is really just not be hibernating on this so much and kind of get aligned with everybody, show you what I've been working on, get your feedback, and kind of walk you through what I've been building for the site. So, little backstory, just so it's not completely out of the blue, (00:03:46.304) Sarah W: um, (00:03:47.204) Aaron Lyles: What I do and what Nesolagus is, essentially, is a qualitative research firm, but we do a lot with production media, with storytelling. And then we go really deep (00:04:00.304) Sarah W: into (00:04:00.904) Aaron Lyles: into the narrative data side of adding audiences. So that's primary work for me. I create novel instruments for organizations, for companies. So most of what I do is centered around data, and that has led to other work, which is more consumer-facing websites and other things. (00:04:21.604) Sarah W: that kind of (00:04:22.004) Aaron Lyles: deal (00:04:23.004) Sarah W: with (00:04:23.204) Aaron Lyles: data. So, I'm already in this world. I've been looking at our site for a long time. I'm watching all this evolution that everybody here on this call has been creating (00:04:31.604) Sarah W: for the league (00:04:32.204) Aaron Lyles: And my contribution, the way I see it anyways, is to (00:04:37.104) Sarah W: kind of represent (00:04:38.504) Aaron Lyles: All that work and let the girls be proud, let all of us be proud of the work we're doing and have that show in our external-facing brand, essentially. And then functionality is the other thing, so I'm thinking about how (00:04:53.504) Sarah W: can we kind of (00:04:54.204) Aaron Lyles: Have better functionality, have some functionality where we didn't have it, and then how do we do it so we can all take a role. I know that we've spent the last year in our committee meetings talking about making sure that anybody can jump in and take their piece and have it be more of a co-op, rather than letting this rest on any one person's shoulder. So that's kind of the (00:05:19.504) Sarah W: background. (00:05:19.704) Aaron Lyles: And I will stop there. Any questions about that? (00:05:25.304) Michael Moran: So awesome. We appreciate it, looks really good. (00:05:29.504) Sarah W: and (00:05:30.904) Michael Moran: I think it's great. (00:05:31.504) Aaron Lyles: Oh, awesome. All right. So I will share screen and I'll show the site. (00:05:37.104) Sarah W: site. (00:05:37.204) Aaron Lyles: I'm gonna stick to the agenda to make sure we capture everything. This is what happens when you have you. (00:06:12.604) Sarah W: Fine. You're muted, Aaron. (00:06:26.404) Michael Moran: What happened? (00:06:37.504) Matthew Danziger: How can we hear you? (00:06:39.704) Sarah W: Yeah, we can hear you. (00:06:40.704) Aaron Lyles: I think I just have to share with no audio. (00:06:43.504) Matthew Danziger: So, (00:06:44.604) Aaron Lyles: she's (00:06:44.904) Sarah W: fine. Yeah. (00:06:48.704) Aaron Lyles: Okay, try this again. All right, cool. Can you hear (00:06:55.104) Sarah W: me? Yeah yeah, (00:06:56.204) Aaron Lyles: Sorry about that. Okay, so this is essentially one large landing page. There are other pages, but it's designed to have anchor links throughout so it's easier if we want to direct people to specific sections of the site. (00:07:12.204) Sarah W: our (00:07:13.004) Aaron Lyles: Our landing page can be. I mean the hero section here is video or static. (00:07:18.504) Sarah W: image. (00:07:18.904) Aaron Lyles: This is designed right now so if a device is not capable of showing video, there will be a static image in there. I'm hopeful you guys have been able to see the video piece. (00:07:32.004) Sarah W: and this (00:07:32.404) Aaron Lyles: This is what I shot from the clinic. If you haven't seen it already, our main call to action here is register. And then view schedule. Schedule, something will go over here because there are some things that are Sports Connect that we're not going to touch, and there are other things that are. (00:07:47.304) Sarah W: kind of (00:07:47.604) Aaron Lyles: Ours. So functionality is a little bit later. So this is a donation bar building out, kind of a fundraising muscle, something we talked about as well to help get some donations going to the league and be creative in ways to do that. Sponsors scroll. Right now I'm still working on just the look and feel of this all. So there are light and dark modes here, so you can change that just with the click of the button up here. If you click into the (00:08:18.304) Sarah W: logos (00:08:18.904) Aaron Lyles: That takes you to the sponsor page. All right. Now there's a go. Um, so this will come up later as we go through the agenda as well, but on the sponsor page I was playing around with different tiers so we can see if there's a way to attract sponsors on different levels, and each one of these sections, kind of tiers, shows you what is involved for that level and what you get for your sponsorship. So this is something I was playing with, and that's obviously something that needs to be discussed, but I figured I would at least mock it up so we can see what that looks like. So as you go down, this would be our new main event section. So, opening day, anything that we really want people to be able to see clearly is up here with top billing above the fold. What I will also show you as we go through is this button down here, edit mode. Anyone who ends up with that admin access will be able to click that button and then the whole site becomes editable right where you are. So rather than being in the back end and wondering what's going on, you'll make your changes right here, click save, and then you'll see them take place. So editing will be super easy for anybody to do, again by design. This here is treading into my territory of survey world. So one of the things we've talked about is really working with tangible feedback to improve the league and to make sure that we have our finger on the pulse, because we're all busy, we all work, and then we pour our hearts out there when we can. This is a way to make sure that conversation is going, so we can have an extension of (00:10:01.504) Sarah W: ourselves. (00:10:01.804) Aaron Lyles: So what I've built here is first survey. These are what conversational surveys tend to look like. They feel more like text. This is responsive on mobile, tablet, desktop. Mic, your beautiful face is over here, you can upload GIFs, there's all (00:10:23.604) Michael Moran: sorts of (00:10:24.104) Aaron Lyles: functionality in here. So when you get a (00:10:26.704) Michael Moran: chance (00:10:27.104) Aaron Lyles: put through it, try it out. There's ring choice questions in here. There's video, audio, text responses—not in this specific survey, but we have the capability of having people respond via video, selfie style, and you can have a lot of fun with this. I'm going to jump out real quick just to show you kind of (00:10:46.504) Matthew Danziger: What I asked me. So sorry, what is this? Someone has an idea, they don't want to send it to a single person so they just post it on the board. Is that what this (00:10:58.004) Sarah W: is? (00:10:58.704) Aaron Lyles: No, so this section of the site is literally rotating surveys, so that one is about opening week. Like, how did it go? How does it feel? You know what, just asking questions that we might want to understand, like sentiment back from families. It could be anything, right? Like, if you guys have like, hey, I (00:11:16.904) Sarah W: wonder (00:11:17.004) Aaron Lyles: what we should do here or like whatever those questions are, as we go on in the season, it's very easy to spin off surveys to get some of those answers back as a lead. Out of scope, different thing. Like if we wanted to create this for coaches and their teams, whatever, that's all possible. But this is just a way to create a section of the site that allows people to kind of provide (00:11:41.104) Matthew Danziger: feedback. Sorry, one more question. (00:11:44.004) Aaron Lyles: So (00:11:44.404) Matthew Danziger: how does, how does someone know how to go to go on the site and go to this spot? Like (00:11:48.604) Aaron Lyles: if (00:11:48.804) Matthew Danziger: We prompt, like when you create a new question, does everyone get an email that says, hey, go answer this survey question? Because that's how we would do it today. We'd email and say, like, hey, here's the link. (00:12:01.204) Sarah W: Fill out the (00:12:01.804) Matthew Danziger: Survey. (00:12:02.104) Aaron Lyles: Like, (00:12:02.504) Matthew Danziger: Yeah. (00:12:02.904) Aaron Lyles: So, (00:12:03.104) Matthew Danziger: every (00:12:04.404) Aaron Lyles: Everything is linked based. It's all web-based. So you would have a specific link for this section of this site, and you would just hyperlink it to whatever email blast newsletters are going out. If you wanted, hey, we want to get league sentiment on this thing, you just hyperlink it, (00:12:20.604) Matthew Danziger: and send it (00:12:21.004) Aaron Lyles: out. I can also do (00:12:22.004) Sarah W: QR codes. (00:12:22.804) Aaron Lyles: So, what outreach you're already (00:12:24.804) Sarah W: doing? (00:12:25.104) Aaron Lyles: You would just integrate the link in the messaging. (00:12:30.304) Michael Moran: We're going to—we bought some A-frame signs too for Sterling that are going to have, you know, thank you to sponsors that we're going to put out. Then I have a filled map for one, and the other idea was a QR code with feedback. So people know if I have something to say, there's a way to say it, so maybe we could put the QR (00:12:47.104) Aaron Lyles: code (00:12:47.404) Michael Moran: And the topic of the survey on the side and just kind of rotate them out. Yeah, we want to have the field where people can just scan it and fill it out if they've got (00:12:55.604) Sarah W: something (00:12:55.804) Michael Moran: to say, (00:12:56.904) Aaron Lyles: Yeah. Yeah. Again, like some of this could be evergreen too. This could just be a survey that we constantly get feedback on throughout the season and we look at the data (00:13:07.004) Michael Moran: later, (00:13:07.204) Aaron Lyles: You can look at that in a cumulative way. I'll show you some of what the back end looks like. I just think it's a good idea that I really start talking to more people in the (00:13:17.404) Michael Moran: league. (00:13:17.704) Aaron Lyles: But this is what you guys want it to be, and again, like anything that's not wanted, let's not do it. Like, I'm not—I'm not married (00:13:25.904) Sarah W: to anything. (00:13:26.404) Aaron Lyles: So that is the feedback section. This is kind of our catch-all—everything you need: you schedule, find a division, volunteer, donate. I'll go down and show you what those sections look like, but if you click any of these cards, you would go right to it. I'll go back to light mode, just because it's a little bit easier to look at here. So in light mode, it kind of looks like this. And then this is just a section of our history, our story, and I created all these graphics just to kind of start creating an aesthetic. And look, if we don't like it, we can change it. I just want to put something so it's a little jazzier. And then join the season—there's all sorts of call to actions here. This random lady that I found (00:14:20.704) Sarah W: is (00:14:22.004) Aaron Lyles: the face of this new section. (00:14:24.104) Sarah W: calling him (00:14:25.404) Michael Moran: Does this just embarrass everybody else who doesn't want to (00:14:30.004) Sarah W: be on this? (00:14:30.604) Michael Moran: He (00:14:31.304) Sarah W: gets (00:14:31.504) Michael Moran: out (00:14:31.904) Sarah W: of it. (00:14:33.604) Aaron Lyles: Now, this is the concept behind this. It was kind of like, really for coaches and for new families, new coaches to go in and get everything they needed. So if you click into home base, this is also on our main nav up here. You have a little bio. The idea of Amy was like putting a face to, you know, kind of being that person that everyone already knows, that has knowledge. This can switch out Amy. You can have it forever, whatever you guys want. I think this is just a good way to represent that there's real people behind these things and behind the league instead of just PDFs, right? So this is a bit of Amy's background, and then here is why did we create this. Again, you guys have this link so we can dive in later, but she's a little bit of just background of what this is all about. Then the pick a topic is really getting started, practice planning, skill development, rules, and you're in here. Look at that. (00:15:31.404) Sarah W: guy right (00:15:32.004) Matthew Danziger: there. (00:15:32.104) Aaron Lyles: And this was a way to kind of, again, you could download the full PDF rulebook. And then also, what changed here, caveat is, we're all gonna audit this, right? Make sure all the copy is, Amy already went through and did a really great copy edit. We'll probably all need to do that, so keep that in mind as you go through. But what has changed is just trying to create quick resources for people to go to and just get the information they need without searching around everywhere. Rules by division are in here, so this is all expandable: rookie, training, minors, majors, juniors. All the information is in here in a more broken down way. Again, you can download the full PDF at any point. Pitching rules, and then again the full rulebook there. So that is (00:16:27.704) Sarah W: what (00:16:28.204) Aaron Lyles: and then you would go back to home base. You have all these (00:16:32.404) Sarah W: Again. So (00:16:32.904) Aaron Lyles: Aaron. (00:16:34.004) Amy Bieniek: Can I (00:16:34.504) Aaron Lyles: comment? (00:16:35.104) Amy Bieniek: Yeah, down to those. (00:16:36.304) Sarah W: resources. (00:16:38.004) Amy Bieniek: Yeah, there were those different sections about safety and stuff. When I was reading through this, I'm like, oh, this is great. There's safety and protection. He has all these, (00:16:45.404) Matthew Danziger: like, (00:16:45.804) Amy Bieniek: great things, like common sense of, like, don't leave a kid at the field, all this stuff. And then when I was reviewing the rule book today, I'm like, oh, (00:16:55.204) Sarah W: he likes (00:16:55.904) Amy Bieniek: I straight took this from there, but I didn't realize it was in there because there's so much information in there. And so this just sort of falls it out differently. (00:17:06.204) Matthew Danziger: And I didn't read. (00:17:07.204) Amy Bieniek: Those, Amy. I didn't. (00:17:08.404) Sarah W: Read all the. (00:17:08.704) Amy Bieniek: Rules. The rule book was. (00:17:10.504) Aaron Lyles: Too long. Yeah. All relied you. (00:17:14.504) Amy Bieniek: I was like, oh, these are such great ideas and I'm like, oh, this is verbatim from this document, so it's nice that it's just visually displayed differently. I think it'll (00:17:24.504) Aaron Lyles: be helpful. I built my career off of, like, I did add kids, like contacts, and nuance is huge for me. So breaking things down, making sure I understand why behind it matters in my (00:17:36.504) Sarah W: works, so (00:17:37.204) Aaron Lyles: That's kind of the design philosophy here as well, to really like (00:17:41.804) Matthew Danziger: hand (00:17:42.204) Aaron Lyles: Holds as much as possible. (00:17:44.004) Matthew Danziger: And can I ask a question though? So all this looks great, and I agree with the simplicity of it and the navigation to it. I wouldn't expect the average parent to go in and say, oh, I'm just going to navigate around. (00:18:02.904) Sarah W: Like (00:18:04.004) Matthew Danziger: There was value, I think, in the simplicity of some of the selections that we had from the top. So is there still like the (00:18:13.404) Amy Bieniek: top (00:18:13.804) Joslyn Austin: that (00:18:14.504) Matthew Danziger: can get to these (00:18:15.604) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, so the home, I'm going to make that sticky so as you scroll it'll stay there. Right now it's not, but basically that bar at the top will just stay, so you have home-based programs, scheduled field sponsors, and pledge at all times. Then when you are in HomeBase, you would just back out and go to any one of these. (00:18:40.304) Joslyn Austin: Yeah, does it show somebody how many visits things get? (00:18:50.004) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, we have to see all the metrics of everything in here and then all the survey data as well. So it's relatively complex. So I think like how we deal with what we (00:19:02.004) Sarah W: want to (00:19:02.604) Aaron Lyles: learn and see in the back end is probably a phase two (00:19:05.704) Matthew Danziger: question. (00:19:06.304) Aaron Lyles: But yes, the other thing is like right now, this is like I built on Vercel. So this is kind of like it is a live link but we will redirect it through DNS to your actual website. So nothing changes (00:19:18.704) Sarah W: there, (00:19:19.004) Aaron Lyles: All of the registration background checks still go all through Sports Connect. Nothing changes. There are the buttons that go out there. Now we're going to go out there here. So the functionality of what you already have is going to be there, and Matt, to your point too, hopefully if someone has something specific they want to get to, there are like 55 direct links, right? (00:19:42.904) Sarah W: Like (00:19:43.204) Aaron Lyles: You have a whole library that we can (00:19:45.004) Sarah W: all (00:19:45.104) Aaron Lyles: Use if we want to send it to someone. Oh, you have a question about this. (00:19:49.004) Matthew Danziger: here. (00:19:49.204) Aaron Lyles: We can send them literally to that place, or they would come here and kind of go around until they found what they were looking for. Ideally, you know, people aren't—I don't know how much people are going to the site. Now, I haven't looked at any of the analytics or anything, but I just know from personal experience, it's hard to navigate because it's the same template that every single week has, and it's not good. So the idea is to try to make it so it is a good resource, and I'm open to designing that in a way that helps. (00:20:18.804) Matthew Danziger: I (00:20:18.904) Aaron Lyles: Don't make it too complicated. So in each of these, again, I won't go through all of it, but a lot of this, like communication with families, just really helpful things that we've all kind of as coaches have realized that I wish I had a resource for this, will find its way in here. The step-by-step guide for Game Changer is now (00:20:40.204) Sarah W: an actual (00:20:41.604) Aaron Lyles: Like page for it. And then I think the PDF is still printable here as well. So things like that. Just like creating helpful sections for people to go to navigate different things. (00:20:44.804) Sarah W: PDF (00:20:45.404) Aaron Lyles: is still printable here as well. So things like that. Just like creating helpful sections for people to go to navigate different different things. (00:20:58.004) Amy Bieniek: And then (00:20:58.304) Aaron Lyles: I will do. I'm going to stop now for questions. Do you want me to keep going, showing, and then you guys ask questions as they come up? (00:21:08.104) Sarah W: Yeah, (00:21:08.404) Michael Moran: I think you (00:21:08.804) Sarah W: can keep going. (00:21:09.904) Michael Moran: Yeah. Okay, Aaron, I guess maybe one question before you keep going. I think a lot of what we've been working on is trying to streamline and trying to make things more efficient, and at least have everything kind of out in the open. You know, I ask this not as a leading question, but is this in a sense more work for us to update? Like, is it like buying too much house, where if we can't keep up with it, it ends up being too much? You know, I don't want to buy a house that I can't maintain. (00:21:40.504) Aaron Lyles: right? (00:21:41.004) Michael Moran: Like I just don't, and I don't want Lindsey or you to have to slave over this thing. (00:21:45.104) Sarah W: to (00:21:45.404) Michael Moran: You know, if it's a, you know, twice a year audit, we go through it and it's easy to do things. What's your, you know, your honest view? (00:21:53.904) Aaron Lyles: of the (00:21:54.304) Michael Moran: maintenance and the upkeep (00:21:55.704) Amy Bieniek: from (00:21:55.904) Michael Moran: a manpower, a woman power, standpoint (00:21:58.604) Aaron Lyles: You know, it's a great question and Lindsey and Sarah beat you to it by a week and it is the question you should be asking. And that's the other thing: I don't want this to be work for anybody. I want it to be easy. You know, there's some work to the site we already have right now and that's something I'm trying to still learn from Lindsey. We had a conversation about this. Sarah and I talked about this too, so I think there's still something we're going to need to understand more, just about what is the workflow right now, where are some of those lockdowns, where do we need a deficiency, where would this just be too much, and going through all that, right? But this is designed where you literally won't have to do much of anything. And if so, it's always like click that button and it's right here, change the header, change whatever. Also, a lot of this information won't be changing regularly. (00:22:51.804) Sarah W: Yeah, (00:22:52.904) Aaron Lyles: You know, like, and that was the other piece of, like, all right. 10, you like, you know, all this is just kind of static information that came out of documentation. We already have it. It was just making web pages out of a PDF. So that's most of the site. Any of the scheduling stuff, I think that's more of a phase two. I did build some of that, but it's really another Sports Connect thing, and we already kind of have a system, so I think whatever we're already doing, we should probably primarily keep doing. Things like this, you're just not changing it unless something drastically changes, and then click the edit button. So, I think manageable. I don't want to create more work for me or you. (00:23:34.804) Michael Moran: Yeah, (00:23:35.504) Aaron Lyles: Okay. Yeah. Um, so, yes. So that was the, again, like Game Changer has some integrations. So I built up the functionality, but they don't have a direct API. So depending on how fancy we get down the road with Game Changer, this could become kind of your place for everything Game Changer. So we do have it like half wired up, and that's another conversation later. This section, Moments That Matter, right now is the clinic video, but if we get some footage from opening day, these can rotate. So this is kind of like a visual place for people to come and get a feel of the league. This was the other scheduling thing that I built that could take the place of what we do now, but let's just curve that until we know. (00:24:27.504) Michael Moran: more (00:24:28.604) Aaron Lyles: Without going through all this, you can look by program or by division and see what's fall ball, what is each division, and what does all that mean? All the information is in here, summer all stars, so just really taking the information we already had and creating pages. (00:24:45.904) Sarah W: out of it. (00:24:47.104) Aaron Lyles: This section here is kind of just like a number if you edit. You can come right in here and change it to anything you want. So if there are other stats we want to highlight, that's super easy. Creating a gallery here, there's a button here to share your game day photos, all the (00:25:03.804) Sarah W: consent (00:25:04.304) Aaron Lyles: and data compliance stuff is built into this site as well. So when you go to submit, you would see a form here. The consent is here, and I'll show you all the compliance stuff as well. (00:25:17.504) Michael Moran: But that might be a good one to post at the field too, like a QR code, like, (00:25:22.304) Amy Bieniek: you know, (00:25:22.604) Michael Moran: Like you do at the big board out of a game or something, you can send it to a six-digit text or something like that, where, yeah, parents can post videos and we can go. I just feel like kids think that's cool. (00:25:34.704) Sarah W: I mean (00:25:35.504) Michael Moran: obviously I know what kids (00:25:37.304) Aaron Lyles: think (00:25:37.604) Sarah W: these days (00:25:39.404) Michael Moran: So I'm a local expert, but I do think it would be cool for people to, you know, we also don't want to be the only ones taking pictures. Aaron does a great job, but it'd be nice to crowdsource that kind of thing too. (00:25:56.304) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, and I know Sarah loves shooting, I (00:25:58.204) Sarah W: think (00:25:58.504) Aaron Lyles: that's another like, (00:25:59.704) Amy Bieniek: you know, (00:26:00.104) Aaron Lyles: And there is a part of the volunteer thing in a survey, as well as, like, where would you be interested in? That's one of them, so we can get information. It's like, oh, (00:26:09.304) Amy Bieniek: there's, (00:26:09.504) Aaron Lyles: There's ten parents out there that are willing to shoot, you know, and (00:26:12.904) Sarah W: it just (00:26:13.204) Aaron Lyles: Shoot. Anyways, (00:26:14.804) Matthew Danziger: it's just (00:26:15.604) Aaron Lyles: a portal to kind of easily go ahead and (00:26:18.204) Sarah W: upload (00:26:18.504) Aaron Lyles: Stuff as admins we would go through that. You know, like nothing posts live in full, you know, we reviewed it, but just give somebody a place to really easily do it. This is mock right now, obviously. But this is, again, a way to kind of highlight the people behind the scenes. So these are, in here, it's administrative coaches. And then you would go in and you, you know, click on a coach. So for parents who maybe want to get to know their coach more, they would come in here and see a little bio. This would all be templatized as well. So really simple: stats, one photo is fine. You know, obviously locked up other versions of this, but this is a way to just highlight the coaches, the board, the volunteers, to see who's really running the league with the families. And any of these sections that we feel are like, okay, that's a little much right now, or whatever, I can hide them and we can approach it later. Just like dealing. I think all of (00:27:24.504) Sarah W: these (00:27:24.704) Aaron Lyles: have (00:27:24.904) Joslyn Austin: Aaron, sorry if anyone already asked this, (00:27:29.604) Sarah W: but (00:27:29.904) Joslyn Austin: Like, who puts all of this stuff in, the coaches themselves, or who does that input? (00:27:38.504) Aaron Lyles: No, good question for the coaches. My idea was to kind of just reach out to all the coaches, show them this when we all feel we're at a good place for that, and then just send them the link to the template. They would literally fill out their name, their bio, and they'd upload a photo, and then it just creates that essentially, so it's super easy to do. When we're at that point, I would just spearhead that and get all that information in, so no one on this call would have to handle that. I might just need a little help with the outreach, but other than that, it's relatively easy. Once it's in there, at least for the season, you don't touch it again until the next. (00:28:17.204) Matthew Danziger: I know on Facebook I always get a notification on the Little League. They feature their volunteers personally. I don't know if I like it or not. I think if I don't know if I want all my information out there, you know, about me and my history and all these types of things. So I think about it, but yeah, (00:28:43.504) Aaron Lyles: I think nothing. Is it mandatory? (00:28:46.204) Matthew Danziger: Face to the name, I think, is good. I agree. (00:28:51.504) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, and if we want to (00:28:52.504) Sarah W: just do (00:28:52.804) Aaron Lyles: That to say, this is your code, like, you know, this person you're gonna see in the field, that's fine. Coaches who want (00:28:58.804) Michael Moran: to (00:28:58.904) Aaron Lyles: opt out from that? That's fine. Like, you know, this (00:29:01.804) Michael Moran: That, yeah, I think making it more personal is great, like it just builds the relationship, the continuity. I think, you know, we can leave it short and sweet so that, I mean, we're always gonna get some people who probably want to write too much about themselves and (00:29:15.004) Aaron Lyles: probably, (00:29:15.304) Michael Moran: Some people don't even want to be on there, so I think we can get a little bit (00:29:19.504) Aaron Lyles: but (00:29:19.804) Michael Moran: Just keep it sort of simple, but I do like having that face-to-a-name kind of thing. (00:29:25.304) Joslyn Austin: Yeah. Yeah, there are still coaches that have coached for, like, I don't know how many years that I forget who they are. They come up and I'm trying to mark their name off for picking up their shirts, and I'm like, what's your name again? I feel (00:29:39.004) Sarah W: so (00:29:39.204) Joslyn Austin: Awful, but people just have pictures and you know, just two who. (00:29:45.104) Aaron Lyles: Yeah. Yeah. No. I'm in the same boat, and then you're too far to ask for the name now, so it's like, (00:29:49.404) Joslyn Austin: hey. (00:29:52.904) Michael Moran: So yeah, I'll (00:29:54.304) Aaron Lyles: take it (00:29:54.504) Sarah W: helps (00:29:55.004) Matthew Danziger: With that, just say hey, (00:29:56.204) Aaron Lyles: coach. (00:29:56.704) Sarah W: Yeah, (00:29:57.504) Aaron Lyles: I know. It's like, hey Chef, you can get away (00:30:00.604) Michael Moran: with that long time. (00:30:01.504) Aaron Lyles: Yeah. Um, this section Sarah and I talked about, like using Givebutter or something that kind of goes out of just like Venmo. There are a lot of free platforms that, based on this chart of being for the donation, we can integrate really easily. But I think we're probably at that point now where we should just discuss that. (00:30:20.804) Michael Moran: A very, you know, I used Defi Ffy for the Savannah Bananas tickets, and I uploaded our 501(c)(3) paperwork from All Sports, and there were zero fees for (00:30:33.204) Aaron Lyles: charity. (00:30:34.404) Michael Moran: Okay. I think they do donations, but it was nice because we didn't lose all that money. You know, they didn't scrape 2.75, 189% off of it. So we might want to just look at that. (00:30:46.704) Aaron Lyles: to (00:30:47.304) Michael Moran: have a few dollars. (00:30:47.804) Aaron Lyles: That's a hundred percent. Okay, I'll take a look at that. That part is easy. You know what, I'll need help with, Mike, to link up accounts and that kind of stuff. (00:30:59.604) Michael Moran: but (00:31:00.904) Aaron Lyles: That's pretty easy here. And then this is just a way where, again, (00:31:04.904) Sarah W: this is believed (00:31:07.104) Aaron Lyles: So yeah. So you could come in here and, you know, whatever the fundraising (00:31:12.404) Sarah W: event (00:31:12.704) Aaron Lyles: You come in and write the information and then you'd save your changes and they would upload, and then it would look like this. So relatively easy to handle, and then when we are actually fundraising, this is where we're gonna send people. So it would be the, you know, the website forward slash fundraising car wash, whatever that ends up being. And then when you click into the actual event, there'd be an image upload section, help us get our goal about the event, and then details, like where it is, all that kind of stuff. So, (00:31:46.904) Matthew Danziger: um, (00:31:48.104) Aaron Lyles: Again, everything is just a form to get to that stuff and then ready to play. So that's your main landing page, and I quickly show you Fields pledge, one data page, and then I'm going to just shut my face and we can talk through. Then there's some homework. (00:32:05.404) Matthew Danziger: stuff. (00:32:06.804) Michael Moran: Does that work? Yeah, I don't do homework. (00:32:09.904) Sarah W: house. (00:32:12.604) Aaron Lyles: Respect, um, fields. So, this was another one that I just wanted to (00:32:16.304) Matthew Danziger: Kind of clean up, (00:32:16.904) Aaron Lyles: Just as being like a parent who always looks for easy ways to kind of do this stuff. So, this has all our fields in here, created a couple like graphics where if you filter through, it actually highlights which ones, which because Amy and I were joking the other night like I didn't, I still don't know what field what we've been doing this for years. So (00:32:37.304) Michael Moran: That's why one of the five signs. So, two will be sponsors. And then the other one, I was like, what do I do when I have a, I had AI make me a field (00:32:46.304) Aaron Lyles: Map (00:32:46.604) Michael Moran: with like a you are here in front of the snack shack (00:32:50.204) Aaron Lyles: and like (00:32:50.504) Michael Moran: restrooms and then field numbers for the I'll send it to you. But I had the same thought. I'm like people probably want to know, hey, which one's (00:32:58.504) Aaron Lyles: number two. It doesn't feel intuitive. I don't know. I want to go once you free, and it's not that (00:33:06.204) Michael Moran: and then I yeah. (00:33:07.104) Aaron Lyles: Um, but I'm sure other people have easier numbers. I mean, easier time with one through four and I (00:33:13.404) Matthew Danziger: do (00:33:13.604) Aaron Lyles: but (00:33:13.804) Sarah W: Basic information here, Nordstrom is here as well. The same kind of treatment here. You can click open and map, so go there, you can get directions. And then up here, if you click share fields, it'll give you this populated share through Facebook. There are other ways to share as well. I was just testing functionality there. You can also copy the link. So also for fall, I think it's good to just share with other coaches when we want to get people to understand that boulevard is the actual name of the street, (00:33:15.704) Aaron Lyles: information here, Nordstrom's here as well. The same kind of treatment here you can click open and map. So go there you can get directions. And then up here, if you click share fields, It'll give you this. Populated share through Facebook. There's other ways to share as well. I was just testing functionality there. You can also copy the link. So also for fall, I think it's good to just share with other coaches. When we want to get people to understand that Boulevard is actual name of the street, (00:33:47.404) Matthew Danziger: so (00:33:48.704) Aaron Lyles: That's fields. And then the pledge is something you guys can tell me you think on this, but this is something I did with my fall ball team. It's important to me, but really like standing for something when it comes to youth sports. So this is all about just, you know, making sure that there's sportsmanship and that we're not dealing with Rocky Hill type situation and this is (00:34:11.404) Matthew Danziger: kind of (00:34:11.704) Aaron Lyles: Bringing in real data around it, too. Just about youth sports and what that can be like if it doesn't go right. So some stats here on what that is, and then what I did last year was I had, you know, I didn't make it signing anything, but I basically said this is what the buy. There's a rules of road for players, for families, and for coaches, and we all kind of have things that we're accountable for and (00:34:34.404) Matthew Danziger: this is (00:34:34.604) Aaron Lyles: A transparent way to see what each bucket is accountable for is something that I think makes a strong stance just throughout Little League. It's like we're known for this and leading the charge for this. I think it's a good look: zero tolerance for bullies. So, you know, we know this happens here and there. There's an easy way to report a concern. You can either include identity or say anonymous, report your claim, and then that'll go. And that's another thing we gotta just, you know, set up the email stuff in the back end. But making it easy for families, coaches, whoever, to kind of come in and say something. And then share the pledge as just a way for us to kind of show that leadership. Everything is exciting. All other references are here. All right. And then last thing here, the data, also the financials, always, you know, being non-profit, everything's here. I think there's, you know, obviously this year as well, go up there too. But this is for just making sure people feel comfortable on the data end of things because Sports Connect and what I build are different worlds, just making sure that we're clearly separated. You guys have a licensing agreement with Sports Connect, so we got to make sure that we're not crossing lines there either. So this is kind of like laying out what we handle, what they handle. Language, so people just want to get really quickly to like, what am I, what do you have access to, what are the rules of the road, you're in control. And because there won't be, you know, children doing anything on the site, but because there is youth involved, FERPA and COPPA are your kind of like leading data compliance things you gotta think about. So everything is here with COPPA, and I have that on my end. So anything you need to compliance is covered. And then this kind of shows you your main pieces of the tech stack. Lindsey, I'm still thinking about what you said about, let's start with what is a tech stack we talked about. (00:36:38.804) Michael Moran: So (00:36:40.004) Aaron Lyles: They're just like your main components, and you can go out to their policies as well. So I know it's a ton. I just wanted to cover, it is recorded, so if we want to go back to anything, and I'm happy to answer questions outside of this call, but I want to make sure we went through at least all of it. (00:36:59.104) Michael Moran: Thoughts (00:36:59.404) Aaron Lyles: in (00:36:59.704) Michael Moran: there, is there a way to integrate the Instagram account onto the website? Where it's, you know, you don't have to post twice, but it'll, you know, show up in both places is that and, you know, 2014 thing or, you know, (00:37:14.904) Aaron Lyles: I would say so. Yes, I would say we might want to get our Instagram feed up to where we want it before we highlight it, but it is. There is an icon that night. Is that bad? Am I being (00:37:26.204) Sarah W: rude? I love you. (00:37:27.104) Aaron Lyles: Yes, we can easily do that. We create a section and just put the Instagram feed into it so it's linked here. We can put it (00:37:34.904) Matthew Danziger: in the NAB as well. And Aaron knows, let's cool (00:37:37.604) Amy Bieniek: today. (00:37:37.904) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, (00:37:38.504) Amy Bieniek: maybe (00:37:39.404) Aaron Lyles: Maybe all of you. (00:37:42.004) Michael Moran: That's pretty mean. I feel like I've really tried hard on that, but (00:37:45.104) Sarah W: you (00:37:46.204) Michael Moran: Didn't like that turkey. That turkey was (00:37:47.804) Aaron Lyles: Awesome. Is awesome. (00:37:50.204) Matthew Danziger: Of course, (00:37:50.604) Aaron Lyles: We can put that in there. Um, I don't like it depends. I think in (00:37:54.404) Michael Moran: Little League. (00:37:55.204) Amy Bieniek: That is (00:37:56.204) Aaron Lyles: completely something you would do. (00:37:57.704) Michael Moran: So are you just showing off (00:38:01.204) Amy Bieniek: now? (00:38:01.504) Sarah W: Oh, (00:38:02.404) Aaron Lyles: somewhere else? Yeah. I was running away. (00:38:05.604) Michael Moran: That's all (00:38:06.404) Aaron Lyles: Right. Yes. No, we can do that. I can also put the icons up here, and then if you want a section, just let me know where you want it and I can put it anywhere in here. So yes, I think we should be doing that, like social is going to be somewhere where families and players are gonna want to see themselves. So, (00:38:27.004) Michael Moran: Yes, I just I think if we have like a more (00:38:30.804) Amy Bieniek: centralized (00:38:31.504) Michael Moran: communication strategy, that sounds probably too fancy for what I'm talking about, but I try to get everything like on Facebook, on the website. (00:38:39.804) Sarah W: on (00:38:41.204) Michael Moran: On Instagram, and I just think we could streamline that a little bit. You know, you don't have to go to three different places to find out the same information. (00:38:47.804) Sarah W: or (00:38:48.104) Michael Moran: In one place, that would be better. (00:38:50.904) Matthew Danziger: with (00:38:51.504) Michael Moran: All is a little bit more clear. (00:38:54.304) Aaron Lyles: No, absolutely. I think there's another conversation here too about the communications element of the newsletter that we've been talking about. (00:39:02.704) Sarah W: about. You know, (00:39:03.704) Aaron Lyles: We could create an email campaign about what we're doing on social. Everything should really kind of talk from the same place, and the website can kind of be the hub where all that stuff comes back to. So I absolutely think that's a conversation we should have, but I don't think it's a lot to team up on it. But I agree, we don't want people going all over the place. It's too complicated already, and once the season starts, it's going to be harder. So anyway, we can centralize communication. I'm here for that. (00:39:35.804) Michael Moran: Yeah. (00:39:40.104) Aaron Lyles: Okay, so any other questions? Any other feedback? (00:39:48.904) Matthew Danziger: I mean, thank you for all the work. I think a lot of this looks really good. My biggest concern is just, I don't think Amy could read the first page of the (00:40:01.804) Amy Bieniek: rules. I don't (00:40:03.304) Matthew Danziger: know how much (00:40:03.804) Amy Bieniek: time (00:40:04.104) Matthew Danziger: it was (00:40:04.804) Amy Bieniek: deeper (00:40:05.304) Matthew Danziger: in there. Yes, and time like getting, navigating the website and (00:40:11.104) Sarah W: so (00:40:11.304) Matthew Danziger: the easier we can make it to navigate the website, which maybe is just the bars. (00:40:16.204) Aaron Lyles: bars. (00:40:17.204) Matthew Danziger: Like I wouldn't. I wouldn't even expect myself to kind of go through. And just, you know, peruse the website and see all the things that understand what they all are. Like we should make it as easy as possible. (00:40:32.204) Joslyn Austin: And, like, no matter how much information Lindsey puts on there every year about each division and what it looks like, and what practices and games look like, and you know what, you need people email all the (00:40:47.304) Aaron Lyles: time (00:40:47.504) Joslyn Austin: asking, like, and they'll say, I looked on your website and I didn't find (00:40:51.904) Sarah W: any (00:40:52.304) Joslyn Austin: information on what the training division is like. So I think that this would be great if there's a way to kind of have, in every division, all those stupid questions that parents (00:41:05.604) Amy Bieniek: would ask, (00:41:06.104) Sarah W: you know (00:41:06.804) Joslyn Austin: Like what if this (00:41:07.804) Aaron Lyles: or (00:41:08.004) Joslyn Austin: Whatever, that'd be awesome. (00:41:10.104) Amy Bieniek: awesome. (00:41:10.304) Joslyn Austin: Yeah, thank you. (00:41:12.604) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, that's a good idea. Maybe just an FAQ on its own. (00:41:19.304) Michael Moran: own (00:41:19.504) Sarah W: and (00:41:20.104) Michael Moran: poor. (00:41:20.504) Aaron Lyles: You know, people can kind of keyword into it (00:41:23.104) Joslyn Austin: too. (00:41:23.304) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, we could definitely do that. (00:41:25.204) Michael Moran: There is a kind of thing where we can look at the traffic data, see, you know, hey, it's been rules that are (00:41:32.204) Matthew Danziger: that are (00:41:33.604) Michael Moran: Most visited or schedule like in, and then modify this as we go forward. (00:41:38.204) Sarah W: forward. (00:41:38.604) Michael Moran: Well, those up. (00:41:42.404) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, that's so right now. What kind of visibility do you have to the analytics? (00:41:51.004) Michael Moran: I just attack (00:41:52.604) Aaron Lyles: was. I, I assume they have something that would show you traffic. I think that's admin level Sports Connect piece, so just to see kind of what you can see now. I can certainly show you what this will yield, so just from the survey end of it, right? This is another project, obviously, but very in-depth data and the website, they don't do the same thing as well. But psychographic archetypes, this goes into all sorts of things, all the narrative responses, and then again, the other thing that says my whole suite of tools automates a lot of this as well, like reports. So if there's something you do want to know and learn about, the reports are endless and they're super detailed. As far as this is the results of a ring choice question, we've got all sorts of data and also gives you (00:42:50.104) Sarah W: Map from (00:42:50.604) Aaron Lyles: like to do something with the data, so when that time comes, I'm not worried (00:42:55.704) Matthew Danziger: about (00:42:57.004) Aaron Lyles: capturing it and being able to show you it. I think it's more of what's the most meaningful for the league, like what do you like to understand the use case? You said yes, absolutely. But if there's something else that we want (00:43:10.204) Sarah W: to learn, (00:43:10.504) Aaron Lyles: We have the capabilities. I just have to understand kind of what you would. The current backend looks (00:43:17.304) Sarah W: like (00:43:17.404) Aaron Lyles: And how this plays with that and yeah, we can. (00:43:22.804) Sarah W: So, when I go into sports connect and go to, I don't know if this is what you're talking about, Aaron, and I log in, so I click on the website drop-down analytics. There's a box that says Google Analytics 4 and that's nothing, and then Facebook Pixel, and then it says update. So is that the area that you're speaking about? (00:43:43.104) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, so if it's set up, Google Analytics is what would be feeding that data to you. (00:43:49.604) Sarah W: and then the (00:43:50.304) Aaron Lyles: Facebook is, you know, usually if you're running a campaign or you're, you know, your organic post to YouTube, (00:43:57.104) Sarah W: if you're (00:43:57.504) Aaron Lyles: doing like that's a pixel. Get some cash. (00:44:02.004) Sarah W: back. (00:44:02.204) Aaron Lyles: Yeah. Like it's in the creative and then you can track. (00:44:04.904) Sarah W: then you can track (00:44:05.904) Aaron Lyles: Who's coming in from that ad. So that's probably past what we would need, but the Google Analytics would be helpful. There's (00:44:13.204) Sarah W: not there. So I don't know if we've never set up anything. To track it. (00:44:17.704) Aaron Lyles: It (00:44:18.804) Sarah W: might be. Yeah. (00:44:20.304) Aaron Lyles: um, Yeah, let me look at that. Yeah, I'll get back to you guys in like the details of that, but it shouldn't be a problem to be able to see that kind of (00:44:32.004) Joslyn Austin: stuff. (00:44:35.104) Aaron Lyles: Um, okay, so and yeah, Matt, just to kind of put a point on that too. I think my goal wasn't to give parents homework or ask them to do anything, right? It was more about going to create a single resource that has everything, and then we cherry pick where we want to send people based on their asking rather than how we've kind of been piecemealing it. It's kind of, oh, that lives here and send that in immediate spots. If this is not done in a way that can do that easily for all of us, then that's my job to change it and that's what these conversations will do. So I completely understand the concern and I want to make (00:45:17.704) Matthew Danziger: sure (00:45:17.804) Aaron Lyles: that (00:45:18.104) Matthew Danziger: I just like when we launched this or pilot, or we're gonna do like, I'd probably start with less and then add versus kind of have all the functionality and bells and whistles. And then, you know, have the overall me. (00:45:36.204) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, and that is typical. You would do an MVP and then, you know, full feature and roll out incrementally. I mean, how involved we want to get is really the threshold on that too. It's easy to hide a second and bring it later. So once we, you know, whatever you guys want and don't want, as long as you communicate that to me, I can strip away anything. (00:46:01.204) Joslyn Austin: And then Aaron, so somebody would still need to be like Lindsey's role, like our webmaster that has all the regular stuff, but then you're kind of doing the other stuff. Is that correct? (00:46:15.204) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, and you know, I wanted to make sure I had this, at least this still worked to do. I want to get it ready. So, like, if we think we're good, we can go for opening day. My transition next, early next week, would be that Lindsey and I talked. I got to learn a little bit more, just a, and I'm fishing around on the site to see all that, but I think eventually the idea is to kind of streamline some of that. It's just that a lot of it lives in your treatment. Oh, you know, how you have to operate, so there's probably not too much that will change with that workflow, you know. (00:46:55.704) Joslyn Austin: Yeah. And then, as long as we use your, like, this platform with you. Like when you're, you know, when your daughter ages out of our (00:47:06.504) Aaron Lyles: league, (00:47:06.804) Joslyn Austin: you're still managing this part if we're still doing that, and then somebody else will still be kind of our webmaster. (00:47:14.504) Sarah W: Is that (00:47:15.304) Joslyn Austin: kind of how it goes. (00:47:17.404) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, I think eventually you won't really need the webmaster responsibilities, depending on—I know Little League is trying to change their contract as well and use a different platform. So I think when that happens—they're looking for 2027—I think that will probably change things as well. But Fahrenheit talked about succession too, because yeah, when crews out, it will fall in priority for sure. That is part of the design. (00:47:46.104) Matthew Danziger: too, (00:47:46.704) Aaron Lyles: Like, it's—and I build guides, so as I've been coding this, I'm building documentation, which is a (00:47:54.204) Matthew Danziger: full. (00:47:54.704) Aaron Lyles: Like, here's how you do everything. Ideally you won't even need it because I just want the site to be easy to come in and do your (00:48:01.604) Matthew Danziger: stuff (00:48:02.104) Aaron Lyles: when it comes to scheduling scores that kind of stuff. I think we tackle that later it was just do what we are already doing just (00:48:11.304) Matthew Danziger: because (00:48:11.604) Aaron Lyles: there's GameChanger, there's the process we already have. There's (00:48:14.904) Matthew Danziger: things that (00:48:16.104) Sarah W: I just (00:48:17.304) Aaron Lyles: don't think (00:48:17.704) Matthew Danziger: we should, (00:48:18.004) Aaron Lyles: You know, monkey with yet. But yeah, I think that's the time cru ages. (00:48:22.204) Matthew Danziger: out (00:48:22.504) Aaron Lyles: and we're in that transition period. I think just from a technical standpoint it's (00:48:28.604) Matthew Danziger: probably going to (00:48:29.004) Aaron Lyles: be an easier thing. (00:48:33.604) Joslyn Austin: Thank you, Lindsey. (00:48:36.504) Lindsey Leung: has a question. So, once we're in season, you know, I have been a parent of an active player in a while, but I would think that most parents are going to the site to check the schedule and the team standing. And Oh, that's primarily where they're going. So, those things are going to still be (00:48:59.104) Matthew Danziger: on (00:48:59.304) Lindsey Leung: the Sports Connect page, right? And is that going to look odd to be going back and forth between this look and that look. (00:49:09.504) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, so that's why I was trying to see if I can just skin that in a certain way that, (00:49:16.104) Sarah W: you (00:49:16.904) Aaron Lyles: Know, schedule, um, I want to see if I can just create basically like (00:49:21.404) Joslyn Austin: a (00:49:23.104) Aaron Lyles: Front-facing look to where is this? Um, to what you currently use. Just like basically change the UI of it. Oh, I think I might—yeah, I did hide it. Um, I got to see what I (00:49:40.304) Sarah W: can do (00:49:40.704) Aaron Lyles: As far as that's concerned, I think no matter what, if you guys just stay the course and you have those updated scores and I see them, I can bring them in just in an easy way, like a one-button thing, and just create this look of the results. It just won't be the actual functionality. So that's one way I can do it. There might be a way to integrate it and just change the UI. (00:50:06.304) Sarah W: I have to look at that. (00:50:10.304) Aaron Lyles: Yeah. Um, any other questions? I know we only have 10 minutes here and I'm (00:50:18.904) Michael Moran: way, of course, sorry. Can I just clarify that last (00:50:21.904) Sarah W: piece like (00:50:22.404) Michael Moran: the new website will have standings that look like the new website or when you click on standing the due to the (00:50:30.604) Sarah W: website, (00:50:35.304) Aaron Lyles: So, let me just find it on where he where, (00:50:43.704) Lindsey Leung: You go to teen central. Um, I mean we don't have the, that's the seasons I active. So like you're not gonna (00:50:59.304) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, (00:50:59.504) Lindsey Leung: This is yeah I guess yeah there's scores aren't there but the schedule is and those are games, right? Yeah. (00:51:05.304) Aaron Lyles: And where did the scores go? And those get entered. (00:51:10.504) Lindsey Leung: I don't remember. They show up. (00:51:14.604) Michael Moran: On the game, and then you have to enter the score there. (00:51:19.704) Joslyn Austin: You guys are all (00:51:20.904) Sarah W: parents. (00:51:21.104) Joslyn Austin: I also, like Lindsey, haven't had a child in the league in forever, but how often do you guys go to the website to look at this stuff? (00:51:31.904) Sarah W: Never (00:51:33.204) Aaron Lyles: yeah. (00:51:38.504) Michael Moran: I don't use it for schedule, like a game changer. I usually do a PDF and I track all my team stuff on my own when I'm coaching. But you know, if I wasn't a coach, I probably would go to the site to look from a parent space, like look at the schedule on the website, but I'm looking at standings and results, (00:51:58.604) Sarah W: you know, (00:51:59.204) Michael Moran: all the time (00:51:59.704) Joslyn Austin: throughout the year. (00:52:01.204) Michael Moran: Yeah, it's just me. (00:52:01.804) Matthew Danziger: me (00:52:02.004) Michael Moran: and now that's (00:52:07.104) Aaron Lyles: That, Matt. (00:52:08.604) Matthew Danziger: I think that's gonna be a game changer too. Yeah, and be completely linked up, or I haven't even thought about how that is gonna show up at works, but (00:52:21.804) Joslyn Austin: I mean, I'm from the era of, you know, we didn't use the website at all for any of this stuff, even scores, schedules. You know, we just, each coach would send out (00:52:35.704) Sarah W: like (00:52:36.704) Joslyn Austin: Literally a document of the schedule for the year or for the season, and so I don't even know. I mean, I never look at the website unless we're starting over and (00:52:46.904) Matthew Danziger: you know (00:52:47.604) Joslyn Austin: in putting all the stuff in (00:52:48.904) Matthew Danziger: background (00:52:49.904) Joslyn Austin: checks. There's (00:52:50.604) Matthew Danziger: some really good stuff here. I think I think the thing that I'm gravitating most to is the celebration of the players. (00:52:58.604) Sarah W: So (00:52:59.104) Matthew Danziger: the right? And the ability to kind of post your videos. We talked about that. The, you know, the league, you know, type of components like I (00:53:11.204) Aaron Lyles: think (00:53:12.604) Matthew Danziger: I mean, you said it was, you know, rinky dink today and this is obviously souped up from that, but when I look at our website today, I don't think, oh man, this is brutal. I mean, there are some sections that need to be updated. I think that's just a testament to what we were saying before, like it takes a lot of work to keep things (00:53:29.604) Aaron Lyles: current. (00:53:30.704) Matthew Danziger: Um, and so, you know, it seems like the things that we should be most focused on (00:53:35.604) Sarah W: are the (00:53:37.004) Matthew Danziger: It's getting the feedback components. I love your philosophy on that and the celebration of the (00:53:44.504) Joslyn Austin: players. (00:53:46.804) Sarah W: Yeah, I think it helps build the relationships that we have with families and with the players and kind of continues to grow. And I think like, I do fundraising at work and I think of all of the past families, like how could we get those past families to donate on our Givebutter, our Zeffy, or whatever we end up using? How can we build that part of our community to (00:54:12.904) Joslyn Austin: Yeah, I just want ultimately what is going to drive families to look at the website. Yeah, (00:54:19.304) Sarah W: Seeing. (00:54:21.304) Joslyn Austin: You know, seeing your kids. (00:54:22.304) Sarah W: Seeing the (00:54:23.004) Joslyn Austin: Teams? Yeah. (00:54:26.704) Michael Moran: Yeah, I think it shows. You know, again, what from this (00:54:32.204) Matthew Danziger: group (00:54:32.604) Michael Moran: goes on behind the scenes that maybe people don't see, and I think this shows that, hey, there's somebody here who's taking it seriously? (00:54:40.904) Sarah W: I (00:54:42.504) Michael Moran: think I know that that's true because I'm on the inside, but I think it's nice to, like you said in the beginning, Aaron, maybe the reason you started this. Just here, take all the (00:54:52.404) Matthew Danziger: collective. (00:54:53.704) Michael Moran: Everybody in this group and everybody over the last few years has done to make it a lot better. Like we all really care, and I think (00:54:59.604) Sarah W: you (00:54:59.904) Michael Moran: Go to this webinar. There must be a lot of people here who care about running a good league and putting on a good product, celebrating the players, and helping families. I (00:55:11.404) Joslyn Austin: think that (00:55:13.304) Michael Moran: Did shine through in something like this. It's not, hey, we, you know, we templatized, put some red in there. And, you know, I know that's not it, but I just think this shows, it really shows great, and I just (00:55:28.104) Joslyn Austin: think it (00:55:28.404) Michael Moran: represents all the hard work over. (00:55:31.504) Sarah W: the last (00:55:31.704) Michael Moran: bunch of you that went into this, so I think it's awesome. (00:55:36.504) Amy Bieniek: Yeah, that wasn't actually celebrated or recognized. (00:55:40.304) Michael Moran: Yeah, (00:55:40.504) Amy Bieniek: And this whole home base thing, I think, Michael, and back to your point, all that information is there in the coaches manual, but I was really thinking about the new coach that's brand new with the parent that just wants to help. You're a seasoned coach, you've been doing this forever, you played baseball. The person that doesn't really know much about the game but just wants to help. (00:56:02.804) Matthew Danziger: And like, (00:56:03.304) Amy Bieniek: Holding their hand a little bit more and walking them through, because I became a coach because the man that was handed the bag clearly needed help. I was like, oh boy, this guy needs help. I'm gonna start running all these practices. (00:56:17.204) Michael Moran: yeah, (00:56:17.704) Aaron Lyles: So (00:56:18.304) Amy Bieniek: Just to make sure (00:56:21.304) Michael Moran: That (00:56:21.704) Amy Bieniek: They're to show people that we have structure in place, which there was structure, but this just highlights it more. (00:56:26.904) Sarah W: I think. (00:56:28.104) Michael Moran: Yeah, (00:56:28.404) Aaron Lyles: It's a good direction, though, and I think in the next four minutes, I'd love to hear more if you have it. (00:56:35.104) Sarah W: too, (00:56:35.404) Aaron Lyles: I think redesigning in a way that focuses on those three things, like fundraising, celebration of players, (00:56:42.504) Amy Bieniek: feedback, (00:56:43.204) Aaron Lyles: as that's our new nucleus and then kind of gate some of these other things behind simple tabs because I actually think Homebase is a great way to really find everything you need in one place. Depending on what we could refine it more, but I think if it's all just contained and it's not all right here, that would probably help with that overload and then focus on those media elements with the videos and the photos, the Instagram feed, and then really pump up the fundraising piece too. I think that could be helpful, so that's really good feedback. (00:57:18.704) Michael Moran: What I do think, like some base stuff that is good to share in a very clear and easy to navigate manner, like schedule, right? You know, you got to think people are coming to the website for fun. They're coming to find out something. I think divisions, and what each division is and what kids it's for, should be very, very clean and clear. So if you're new or, you know, I just think that is summer and fall. It's always a (00:57:50.204) Sarah W: little (00:57:50.304) Michael Moran: coming for a lot of people and like Joshua saying, we (00:57:53.004) Aaron Lyles: get (00:57:54.404) Michael Moran: I don't know what to do. Like, what's what? Yeah, and then I think so I mean we can work on the copier work that looks like structurally. I just think it's got to be, you know, you don't want to navigate to nine tabs to figure out which (00:58:09.704) Sarah W: division (00:58:10.104) Michael Moran: you move to town. You want (00:58:12.404) Matthew Danziger: to play (00:58:13.704) Michael Moran: Want to figure it out. I have takes one five minutes, probably gonna say, you know, forgot I was playing baseball or lacrosse or something else, and then I think, you know, in-game stuff to make that. (00:58:22.504) Amy Bieniek: easy (00:58:22.804) Michael Moran: On top of all the other stuff we're talking about, I just think, you know, what time is my kid's game? Where is it? Like last minute after work. (00:58:31.804) Aaron Lyles: something (00:58:32.204) Michael Moran: And it's pretty easy to say my kid's in minors and it can get it. (00:58:36.904) Aaron Lyles: right (00:58:37.404) Michael Moran: right (00:58:38.204) Aaron Lyles: In front of me. (00:58:40.104) Sarah W: Yeah, (00:58:40.404) Lindsey Leung: in (00:58:40.804) Sarah W: Game Changer, we can link it to our Google Calendars. Would we be able to do that through the website if somebody didn't want Game Changer or wasn't using Game Changer? (00:58:52.304) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, so right now I think you could do that. (00:58:54.604) Amy Bieniek: Okay, (00:58:55.704) Sarah W: Of course, connected, I (00:58:56.904) Amy Bieniek: Don't know. I think you can do it through sports. (00:58:59.504) Aaron Lyles: Connect. (00:58:59.904) Amy Bieniek: I didn't do it (00:59:00.804) Aaron Lyles: That way, but I think you have that Google link. (00:59:03.604) Amy Bieniek: and then you, (00:59:04.104) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, I believe you already have that. So yeah, again, like (00:59:10.604) Sarah W: I don't know (00:59:11.504) Aaron Lyles: Like yeah, that part is probably something (00:59:17.204) Sarah W: we (00:59:18.004) Aaron Lyles: want control over just because that's part of Sports Connect, and it's why I didn't really put a lot in his schedule yet, like (00:59:25.604) Sarah W: the piece (00:59:29.604) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, but I think you're right. I think the FAQ thing is another thing to really just navigate how we would do, and I think you, and whether that's just a catch-all thank you or if it's, you know, by table—each table, as it's a thank you back—I could probably help as (00:59:43.804) Joslyn Austin: well. (00:59:44.004) Aaron Lyles: So, (00:59:45.704) Amy Bieniek: um, (00:59:47.704) Aaron Lyles: Yeah, I'm happy to do that. Okay. (00:59:52.904) Lindsey Leung: we're (00:59:53.304) Aaron Lyles: at time, so (00:59:56.304) Lindsey Leung: I think (00:59:56.604) Aaron Lyles: what? (00:59:56.904) Lindsey Leung: I'm just sorry, I know we're (00:59:59.004) Aaron Lyles: about time. (00:59:59.304) Lindsey Leung: I just wanted to (01:00:00.404) Sarah W: explain like (01:00:01.304) Lindsey Leung: the standings and scoring and stuff, just for the context, the old website, as Joslyn said, didn't have any of that. Then we decided we wanted to include that. To me, the two reasons why we wanted to show that this is an active website, it's not a dead website. We are all in. We want to update and, you know, we're into it and all. We wanted to get in, motivate the girls to get competitive, like, yeah, I want to go check on the website and see where my team is at. So that became sort of a focus of the current (01:00:31.804) Sarah W: website. (01:00:33.604) Lindsey Leung: And if that's not the philosophy anymore, it's okay. But if it is, I still think that should be one of the, you know, pillars that we're talking about was maintaining that focus. (01:00:43.504) Aaron Lyles: as well. (01:00:45.404) Joslyn Austin: Great. (01:00:47.104) Aaron Lyles: And I want to be clear too, and I hope I have not offended anyone. I am not crapping on all the work. I know what you guys do, which is why I'm trying to be like, I want to elevate all that. What I get frustrated on is that SportsConnect doesn't give you good tools to do it. It's hard work because it's (01:01:04.304) Lindsey Leung: not (01:01:04.504) Aaron Lyles: Good. It's not (01:01:06.204) Joslyn Austin: good. (01:01:07.204) Aaron Lyles: That, so (01:01:08.604) Lindsey Leung: It's just, I'm not, yeah, I'm not offended because I can't. I have like a choice of like 20, whatever those things are called, and I can't change the forming. (01:01:18.404) Joslyn Austin: or (01:01:18.604) Lindsey Leung: anything. Yeah. (01:01:19.104) Joslyn Austin: That's what you've done? You know, like how you've learned how to finagle things. It's crazy. You know, we send you this thing and you're like, well, you know the website can only do so much. So what you've done and how you've learned (01:01:34.404) Sarah W: everything is (01:01:35.004) Joslyn Austin: like, already amazing. And I know your hands have been tied with a lot of (01:01:38.504) Aaron Lyles: stuff. So, (01:01:39.004) Amy Bieniek: Yeah. And the amount of emails you got from me in a five week period. (01:01:42.304) Joslyn Austin: Period. (01:01:42.504) Amy Bieniek: Was ridiculous. (01:01:43.004) Sarah W: Ridiculous. (01:01:44.204) Aaron Lyles: Like I want to be clear, I put this on the league, which I don't know why, because I overloaded. But you know, there are a lot of reasons, that's why we're all in this call. So don't feel obligated either, right? There's no—I appreciate the kind words as well, but I want to do something that is helpful, and when it's not, I want to know that so I can refine. It's not typical work for me, where we have kind of full control and we build everything from the ground up, if that makes sense. Like, what do you want? Cool, we'll build it. The Sports Connect piece makes that tricky. So this is my way of asking, what can we really do that does something different, that no other districts are doing, that helps our league feel represented? That's cool. Where are those things that we can... (01:02:33.204) Sarah W: focus on (01:02:33.704) Aaron Lyles: But I don't want to lose the functionality you're talking about. I don't want to lose all the stuff that, like, you know, when it comes down to it and I just get out of work and I need to know where the hell I'm getting my kids. Those nuts and bolts will all be there. So I'm on a fast learning curve to understand how to play nice with those things and just, you know, still kind of learning what we can and can't do, but (01:02:59.204) Joslyn Austin: I'm happy to like eventually work with you on frequently asked questions (01:03:04.004) Aaron Lyles: because (01:03:04.304) Joslyn Austin: like I usually pride myself on putting out all the information for people like any question. They would possibly have with my emails and then they still (01:03:12.904) Sarah W: like (01:03:13.304) Joslyn Austin: Text you and they're like, ask you questions and you're like, oh my God. Explained all of it. So I'm happy to help you with that. (01:03:21.504) Sarah W: stuff. (01:03:22.804) Joslyn Austin: Appreciate that. Yeah, (01:03:23.804) Aaron Lyles: Yeah. That would be really helpful. I think that would be great, and then we could just direct people to that. (01:03:28.804) Joslyn Austin: at all (01:03:29.204) Aaron Lyles: times. Go to that. Thank you. It's in there. Don't ask (01:03:32.204) Joslyn Austin: me again. (01:03:35.504) Aaron Lyles: Cool. Well, we did record this, so I have the transcript, so I'll kind of do a recap. You guys have access to this doc. The agenda also has some of these pieces of some of the needs. Some of the outstanding things, who I think, anyways, would be the owners of some of these things as we refine over the next week and a half. Some of the stuff may fall off anyways. (01:03:57.204) Sarah W: But (01:03:57.504) Aaron Lyles: Um, I will clean everything up in a recap and then we can kind of go from there, but I do appreciate you guys. (01:04:05.504) Sarah W: Going through the (01:04:06.004) Aaron Lyles: long haul here and going through every piece with me. (01:04:10.004) Joslyn Austin: Thank you for (01:04:10.604) Michael Moran: putting this all. (01:04:11.304) Joslyn Austin: done (01:04:11.904) Michael Moran: really well done. (01:04:13.004) Joslyn Austin: Yeah. (01:04:13.304) Amy Bieniek: Yeah. (01:04:14.604) Sarah W: Thank you, Aaron. (01:04:15.204) Amy Bieniek: Yeah, (01:04:16.204) Aaron Lyles: Thank you, guys. If you come up later, just shoot me a text, call, or (01:04:23.904) Sarah W: email. (01:04:25.304) Joslyn Austin: Everyone, (01:04:25.804) Aaron Lyles: thanks. (01:04:26.804) Joslyn Austin: Hi, (01:04:27.304) Sarah W: Guys. (01:04:27.504) Joslyn Austin: Hey (01:04:28.304) Aaron Lyles: yeah, (01:04:29.104) Amy Bieniek: hi.