Unlock the secrets to making your nonprofit more resilient and future-ready through strategic collaboration and cutting-edge technology! Join us as we sit down with Glen Benjamin from LAN Infotech, who sheds light on the vital role cybersecurity plays in safeguarding nonprofit organizations. Discover why a robust business plan is not just a formality but a necessity for securing grant funding and cyber insurance, and learn how regional mandates, like those in Palm Beach County, are setting the bar for employee cybersecurity training. Glen shares practical resources and offers guidance on how nonprofits can strengthen their cybersecurity frameworks to protect sensitive data.
This episode takes you on an enlightening journey into the power of partnerships between nonprofits and for-profit entities, showcasing how these alliances can drive significant community impact. We explore how innovative AI tools are revolutionizing the grant application process, thanks to a groundbreaking collaboration between Hats AI and LAN Infotech. Hear about a fictitious company led by Chris and Momo that exemplifies how nonprofits can drastically streamline operations and focus on their core missions. As the digital landscape continues to evolve, we stress the importance of nonprofits adapting to emerging technologies and utilizing new funding opportunities to ensure their sustainability and success.
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Chris Baker (00:03):
Welcome to Visual Eyes, the podcast where
collaboration fuels change.
I'm your host, chris Baker, andeach week we'll explore
incredible connections betweennonprofits, businesses and the
community.
This is a space where wehighlight inspiring partnerships
, uncover strategies forcreating meaningful impact and
share stories that show howworking together can make all
(00:24):
the difference.
Whether you're a nonprofitleader, a business owner or
someone just passionate aboutbuilding connections, this
podcast is for you.
So today, really looking attrying to build connections and
collaborations betweenfor-profits and nonprofits,
nonprofits, non-profits andnon-profits Any way we can build
(00:46):
a collaboration effort, that'swhat we're trying to do here on
Visual Eyes.
So today I have Glen Benjaminfrom LAN Infotech, who has a
wealth of knowledge, especiallyin the IT realm.
So, glen, tell us a little bitabout you.
Glen Benjamin (00:59):
Thanks for having me.
Chris Baker (01:00):
Thank you, Momo, for recording.
Glen Benjamin (01:02):
Thank you, momo, for recording.
So.
Glen Benjamin, atlanta Infotechthat's the day job where we are
primarily managed serviceprovider, which means we take
care of companies, business,information, the infrastructure,
we protect it.
We look at cybersecuritybecause, somebody's got to.
Not many customers we deal withare really protected.
(01:24):
We're also a Microsoft partner,but the reason you have me here
today is a big piece of ourbusiness which is really growing
is in the nonprofit space.
Chris Baker (01:34):
Yeah, that's actually how I met you Initially
.
I was introduced to you throughCarol Boston, but then the
first thing thing we I met youat like I think in person was a
nonprofit fundraiser andChristina DeSilva was there and
she had a table, and then I gotto actually see your space.
Um, so it was a really goodintroduction.
(01:54):
And here we are some threeyears later for you.
Two years, two years, two years, exactly there we are, yeah.
Glen Benjamin (02:03):
And because of what's happening in technology
in general.
This is escalating faster thananybody could have ever imagined
.
Chris Baker (02:11):
So wait, what is escalating faster than anything?
Glen Benjamin (02:14):
Well, it's this famous four-letter word we talk
to about.
Chris Baker (02:17):
AI.
Isn't that two letters?
It is.
Glen Benjamin (02:38):
But if you don't do it right and you don't have a
plan or a process, you couldscrew this up pretty badly.
Don't worry, you're never goingto deal with it.
And about a month later after Istarted, when people realized
where I landed and they knewwhat Michael Goldstein, the CEO,
had set up, they were asking mequestions.
I'm like I have no idea whatyou're talking about.
And here we are, five plus yearslater going.
(02:59):
I get calls a couple of weekson what can we do to generate
money, sponsorships, how do weget sponsors?
And again, this big work calledgrant funding we'll get into in
a little bit.
Chris Baker (03:12):
Oh yeah, One of the next pieces that I wanted to
cover is some of thecollaboration highlights that
you actually got to work with.
What nonprofits stand out inyour mind?
That land, infotech, and youpersonally have worked with.
What have you done?
You know where are those andhow much time are you giving me
here?
I mean not forever, but give mea good story.
Glen Benjamin (03:33):
So the ones that we're collaborating on a regular
basis.
You mentioned Christina.
That was when she was withHands On South Florida, I think
it's the new name right, that'sthe new name.
Yeah, she's now at FlightCenter and hi.
Chris Baker (03:47):
Christina, if you're watching.
Glen Benjamin (03:49):
We do a lot of work with Neighbors for
Neighbors, which is Katie Marr.
Those are two of many.
And then we have affiliationswhere a, in fact we are an
affiliate of Nonprofit.
First they're in the Palm Beacharea.
We do a lot of work there.
We've met lots and lots ofnonprofits and we are trying to
(04:10):
get them to understand one.
You got to have a business planfirst, so important.
Chris Baker (04:15):
Like every business you have to have a business
plan, got to have that exitstrategy.
You need to have all of thesethings lined up so that it can
live on and it can build alegacy, but more importantly,
you're not going to get any ofthe grant funding, you're not
going to get cyber insurance.
Glen Benjamin (04:31):
You're not going to get a lot of things.
And I know we don't have timeto talk about everything but
you're not going to get thosekinds of things unless you have
a plan put together.
Chris Baker (04:39):
And I know cyber insurance is extremely huge
right now and I know that whatI've been hearing is now all
nonprofits are required to haveit, so you have to kind of build
out that.
Is that correct?
Glen Benjamin (04:49):
I'll speak for Palm Beach County.
It will eventually permeateBroward Miami-Dade.
Chris Baker (04:56):
Martin and all that .
Glen Benjamin (04:57):
But Palm Beach County put their foot down
earlier, in 2024, even late 23,.
That says you're going to havea plan, you're going to train
your employees to understandcybersecurity and they need to
be tested, and that informationneeds to go back to Palm Beach.
Chris Baker (05:14):
County.
Glen Benjamin (05:15):
So we're an affiliate of Nonprofit First.
We already have that mechanismin place.
If you're not doing it, forgeteverything else we're talking
about.
If somebody hacks your data,whether it's your list of donors
, your sponsors and such- youcould actually be out of
business.
And if you don't have what Icall cyber insurance to help
(05:37):
cover or remediate those costs,this conversation I'm having
with you is useless becauseyou're not going to be around to
do anything about it.
Chris Baker (05:46):
That's true.
So one of the things we weretrying to talk about is
collaboration.
This is actually a good segment.
This is something you actuallyhelp train the nonprofits on.
Yes, you also help them findthe access to get them what they
need, to get them the cyberinsurance that they need to
continue.
Glen Benjamin (06:03):
We will get you the right resource.
We are not allowed to providecyber insurance.
Right, you need somebody elseyeah you have to be a licensed
insurance company and because ifyou don't do what you're told
to do and something happens andyou have a hack, your cyber
insurance just tripled orquadrupled for next year.
Here we are at the end.
(06:24):
We're middle of December as werecord this, so in just a few
weeks you may have your renewalcoming up, and if you didn't do
what the professionals told youto do, you're going to have a
really bad day.
Chris Baker (06:36):
Any cyber attack without any type of insurance.
It can wreck a business, anonprofit, easily, in seconds.
So how do you go about trainingand giving those classes and
information to nonprofits Right?
Glen Benjamin (06:50):
So we're up at a nonprofit first on a regular
basis.
We also do some work with theFlorida Association of
Nonprofits.
They shortened it I think it'sFlorida Nonprofits officially
and I train Florida nonprofitstwice a year.
Usually it is February and July, if I remember the dates.
They have a whole series andwe're at Nonprofits First,
(07:14):
probably every other month, andit's starting to queue up even
faster because, again, peopledon't understand this.
I don't expect them tounderstand all the intricacies.
This is not speeds and feeds.
This is again what is yourbusiness prepared for?
Let's have a plan and I'm goingto give you my real title.
Most people do not know what Ireally do.
(07:34):
Besides the cyber and otherthings.
I'm a certified businessresiliency manager.
I've had that title for years,so I'm definitely wired
different.
And when I talk aboutresiliency, how do I keep your
business running regardless ofan incident?
And I'm not defining it as cyber.
I'm not saying COVID, I'm notsaying anything specific.
(07:55):
But what would you do ifsomething happened?
And the questions, and it's areal simple conversation how
long could you tolerate beingout of business?
In other words, your businessis shut down An hour, two, three
, four.
Can you handle that?
Yeah, maybe.
But if your business was down aday, a week, a month, what
would you do to keep it runningand survive?
(08:15):
We're not going to get intothat conversation.
We can't yeah, but I want peopleto start thinking about what
he's talking about and no, I'mnot just talking about hurricane
.
We've proven, in fact.
The day we're recording this, Iwas swimming across Sunrise
Boulevard to get in here.
Only one lane of traffic worked, so I ran a little late.
(08:36):
But the whole point is what youhave in your business plan that
has been well thought out,documented, and you've taken it
to the next step, which is whatwe would normally do is you'd
have a three ring binder sittingbehind your desk.
There would also be digitalthat says if this happens, go
here, what's?
plan B, c and D, yourcontingency plans laid out in a
(08:58):
perfect plan, right and, by theway, that's where some of the
cybersecurity plays, because ifyou don't have that and you
don't have a plan and this andthat, you're ultimately going to
fail.
And we don't want that, becausewe want to keep everybody
healthy, happy.
We don't want to lose membersof our organizations, we don't
want you getting shut downbecause you missed a little part
(09:19):
.
Chris Baker (09:20):
So what motivates you to help nonprofits?
Let's go back to thecollaboration part.
Glen Benjamin (09:26):
Now that's a great question.
Five and a half years ago, whenI joined the organization Land,
I had no idea what they weretalking about.
Fair enough, and because I'mreally a community advocate,
that's the title we publicizeright, I'm out there.
I work in groups of communities, whether it's chambers.
I work with nonprofits.
I am on the board of somenonprofits, advisory or direct
(09:49):
board so I know what theyexperienced I had again.
I'd never done that before, butas I got deeper into the role
and, by the way, six monthsafter I started, we had this
thing called COVID, so we hadnothing else to do other than
sit on Zoom calls all bloody daylong.
There were days I was doing 10or 15 of them at one time.
(10:10):
But I got to connect, meetpeople.
Again, it was virtual T-shirt,shorts, pink bunny slippers
different motif than today butto at least understand, because
we had nothing else to do.
We weren't selling anything.
We're trying to connect, keepour brand out there, try to help
people.
And during that process Istarted to do as nothing I never
(10:32):
would have thought in mylifetime that I would do.
I started doing these Zooms orit was on Teams or other
platforms Remo was one of them.
I started to do virtualfundraisers for nonprofits, had
no idea what I was doing.
The first one I did was, youknow, it wasn't great.
And then we did one for,actually did a couple for
(10:56):
Gilda's Club, okay, right herein Broward, and that's Kim
Prytano I'm giving her a shoutout.
We had no idea how to do it.
It was March of 2020 when weall went to the shutdown.
Her event that she was going tohost at Nova Southeast got shut
down for a virus we figured wasgoing to last a couple of weeks
(11:16):
.
Chris Baker (11:16):
It went a little further right, it went a lot
further than we actually allanticipated.
Glen Benjamin (11:21):
So, yes, I wound up sitting in my house with a
bunch of computers and a bunchof volunteers from guilders.
We put on her event because itwas critical to the community,
especially healthcare, becauseshe was giving, as part of the
program continuing education,units or credits.
So if you're a, nurse, apractitioner, a doctor Very
(11:43):
important, yeah, and this wasthe first one I'd ever done and
I'm like I have no idea what I'mdoing, but I understand the
need, because she had hundredsof people that were going to
come to.
Nova Didn't work out, so we didit virtually.
I had a bunch of volunteersfrom Gilda's Club and did they
know what they're doing?
No, this was we're flying bythe seat of our pants Sure.
(12:04):
But the issue or why it wasimportant is, hey, these people
need the education.
She lined up like 12 doctors, abunch of staff and whatever
that we're going to present.
I did a bunch of staff andwhatever that we're going to
present.
I did a bunch of training orpractice sessions and the
doctors or their assistants thatdid not show up for those
sessions.
I guarantee you, when we did it, live was not great.
(12:26):
That was the first one and wegot better and better.
I've done some for Urban Leagueof Palm Beach County and we did
some of these.
I did some for South FloridaInstitute on Aging.
They made the most money ever.
In fact, when we did thevirtual one, they made more
money that day than they had theprevious four years combined
(12:47):
Combined because there was nocost right.
Chris Baker (12:49):
You're not running a hotel.
Glen Benjamin (12:50):
There's no food and beverage and if you were
hungry, leave your bedroom, makea left, go to the kitchen, you
go fed yourself.
But we figured out real fast,wait a minute, this is
productive right, and I know,today, here, whereas we walk
into 2025, the issue of workingfrom home, working at an office,
that debate will go on forever.
It will.
(13:12):
And yeah, I'm not going to picksides but I like working at home
t-shirts, pink, bunny slippersbut then I'm out in the yeah,
I'm not going to pick sides, butI like working at home t-shirts
, pink, bunny slippers but thenI'm out in the community, I'm
out at chambers, I'm out ofthings, and that's the way we do
our business.
We understand the value of achamber or an organization.
Chris Baker (13:27):
That went a long way, but hopefully that answers
your question.
Yeah, I think it helped alittle bit.
So the next question I reallywanted to touch base on is what
challenges have you encounteredworking with nonprofits and how
have you addressed them?
Glen Benjamin (13:41):
lot of people at risk.
You've got clients, you've gotpatients, depending what you are
.
Chris Baker (13:44):
We have to do this correctly.
Glen Benjamin (13:58):
You've really got to have an assessment of what
you have and where you're tryingto go, which is no different
than any other business, startup, for-profit doesn't matter
where you're going to go.
You can have great passion, youcan have a great idea, your
value proposition is wonderful,but that doesn't help, right?
We have to figure outcollectively what you're trying
(14:19):
to do and what you're.
At the end of the day, you knowwhere is it you want to be and
what group of people are youhelping.
Because we have to make surethat this does not fail, Because
if you're going to take peoplein you know you've got to be
able to sustain.
Chris Baker (14:35):
Yeah, and I mean we're making a like.
Nonprofits are making a hugedifference in the community and
we want them all to succeed.
You know, and this is one ofthe reasons that we started this
podcast is because I want tohelp them understand different
ways that they can collaboratewith for profits or for with
other nonprofits, so that theyhave a little bit better
structure, they can buildfurther and hopefully leave a
(14:58):
legacy that's going to continuebeyond them, because if it's
just them and they don't havethat plan, it'll end with them,
and that's kind of the sad truth, right, and I don't want that
to happen.
I want them to look beyond andI want them to make a bigger
impact, and that's the goal.
It is the goal.
Glen Benjamin (15:17):
To the original question why we do it.
We love to help in thecommunity Nonprofits.
They're relatively simple.
They're typically smaller thanthe customers we deal with, but
they have the same challengesand we just have to.
It's an awareness that, no, youshould not do that.
Let's put a plan together andthere are plenty of nonprofit
(15:41):
consultants listening, hopefully, and there's an opportunity
here for you to sit down anddetermine what the next steps
are, and you're not going tosolve this in a day.
This is a phased approach.
You start here and you workyour way through that.
Chris Baker (15:58):
Right, and that's one of the biggest challenges is
we need to help educate them toget them to that next stage,
and I think us, as for-profitcompanies Land Infotech Visuals
by Momo we have something thatwe can teach them and we can
help them, and I think that'sone of the most important and
most impactful ways that we cando as business is to help and
(16:21):
help these nonprofits thrive.
So what is your future visionor impact that Land Info Tech is
going to be giving to the world?
Glen Benjamin (16:30):
Wow, that's a really broad question.
I'm buying time, so I couldanswer that.
Now so again, we're about thecommunity.
You know, I don't carry asalesperson's title.
I am a community accountdirector, right, and we're
trying to help, we're trying toeducate.
There are so many things thatwe see that we just can't share.
You know, a lot of what we dois through an organization
(16:53):
called InfraGardI-N-F-R-A-G-A-R-D.
There's no U in there, org orgov I forget which one, probably
org where it's the FBI, secretService, homeland Security.
We get information that isreally confidential I can't
share, right, I can talk in aprivate setting.
But, generally speaking, we cando so much and we see things on
(17:17):
the security side you don'twant to know about.
But in a group setting, whereit's private, we can have those
kind of conversations where howyou protect yourself, protect
your organization, protect yourfamily, some of us still work at
home when we morphed from thepandemic, those of us who went
home and went I'm moreproductive at home.
(17:38):
Boss says fine, I know that'sanother topic.
That's a whole episode on itsown.
But how do you protect family?
Because a lot of us work athome on the same cable network
as our kids and our family.
Chris Baker (17:52):
How do you protect yourself?
Glen Benjamin (17:54):
And where I'm going, which is a really
difficult conversation.
We will not get into it heretoday, but we've got to start
thinking differently because ourworld has changed.
You know, whether you acceptthat or not, it literally is the
parents understanding what yourkids are doing for 10 or 18
hours a day just going, or youknow, with their thumbs.
So we'll stop there.
(18:15):
But it's all about how do weimpact and protect the community
.
Chris Baker (18:18):
That's our role.
You don't know who's on theother line unless you can see
them face to face, you don'tknow who's on the other line.
Glen Benjamin (18:24):
And that's not true either, because you can
also and I'll say the word againAI on a Zoom or anything else.
You may think that's Chris, butthat's really some type of
avatar that looks exactly likehim.
Again that's another episodefor a different time, but we're
telling people listen to whatthe experts say.
Chris Baker (18:43):
Yeah, we're living in a different age and actually
one of the things that we didwant to bring you on here is for
a special treat for the wholeentire audience to learn a
little bit about something thatI really think that Land Info
Tech is going to leave as itslegacy in some ways.
Glen Benjamin (19:01):
I'm getting verklempt already.
Chris Baker (19:04):
So Glen here is going to open up his computer
and he's going to show yousomething that LAN InfoTech has
put together that's going tohelp nonprofits amazingly move
forward in the next coming years.
You know for the future.
Glen Benjamin (19:18):
And, by the way, if you're going to ask me for a
projection on that, no you know,if you're going to say well,
what's this going to be like infive years?
Chris Baker (19:25):
Who knows?
Glen Benjamin (19:26):
We don't, because this is escalating beyond what
anybody thought.
Chris Baker (19:30):
Yeah, there really is.
Glen Benjamin (19:32):
There are advantages for nonprofits that
at least take a look at it, tryit.
You know you don't have toinstitute anything, get us back
involved.
But in a minute here we'll goon and show people, wow, how
fast they could potentially findfunding that they had never
thought of.
Chris Baker (19:49):
All right, so we're going to pause here for a
moment and then we'll get set upand then continue the show.
So now that we're set up, we'regoing to talk a little bit
about what we're discoveringhere.
So what is this program?
Glen Benjamin (20:02):
okay, before we go into the program.
Okay, I had to build somethingfor this demo yes okay, and we
made up a fictitious company runby by chris and momo.
In the background wave, chris,and and momo um, you know, so I
took some of your principles.
Yep, I used AI.
I have no problem with anybodyusing AI, as long as it's done
(20:24):
safely and securely.
Chris Baker (20:26):
Correct.
Glen Benjamin (20:26):
I will be talking to a school later today and
that's the way we areapproaching it.
Kids, students, people areusing it.
Are they doing it the right way?
I'm not sure.
Chris Baker (20:37):
Sure.
Glen Benjamin (20:41):
And what we want at the end of the day with AI is
critical thinking.
You could spend again the 18hours doing AI, but when I ask
you a question, you need to knowwhat's right or wrong, and I
don't need you to look it up.
I need you to tell me here'swhy it is or isn't, and tell me
why yeah, okay, all right.
So all I did was set up a verysimple, fictitious company.
Chris Baker (20:59):
This is completely fictitious Right, visual Grants,
foundation Right Not a realcompany Right and there was no
drinking involved when wecreated this.
Glen Benjamin (21:08):
This was completely sober.
So we believe every nonprofithas a story.
I'm just going to show you.
I made this as minimal aspossible.
For a reason, okay, because Iwant what we're going to show to
take over.
Okay, all right, I'm going toshut the document down.
Yep, I'm going to do this asbest I can live, and if
something happens, we blame theinternet.
Chris Baker (21:30):
We'll blame the internet, if anybody has a
problem.
Glen Benjamin (21:32):
All right, so I'm okay.
So now this is a proposalmachine.
Let me get rid of that.
So, proposal machine, let meget rid of that.
So this is something Land InfoTech has partnered with, a
company called Hats AI, workingwith them for months and months.
We released this just a fewweeks ago.
But, here's my first live testin front of an audience that's
(21:52):
going to be broadcast I have noidea where.
Okay, so this is the system,the application.
So I'm going to hand this toyou now.
I want you to tell me how muchfunding you're going to need,
and get as crazy as you want,ask for the moon, I don't care,
because this is not really goingto go anywhere but, it's going
to produce something for Chrishere and he's going to go.
Chris Baker (22:15):
All right, so I'll put a number in there.
I got a quarter of a million inthere, okay.
Glen Benjamin (22:18):
Go crazy, make it a million.
Chris Baker (22:20):
Make it a million.
Make it a million, go ahead.
Glen Benjamin (22:21):
Because, again, we're not going to submit this,
because us two goofballs wouldgo.
Chris Baker (22:26):
All right, one million Put a million.
Glen Benjamin (22:28):
Now I want you to write in one sentence that's
all I want what you would dowith it program, whatever Chris
wants to do.
Chris Baker (22:39):
All right, so I'm going to create a program that
educates nonprofits on videomarketing nationwide.
Glen Benjamin (22:51):
Okay, okay, and then here I'm going to upload
that document.
Okay, it'll give us somethingand I'll tell you why this is
all important as we pass thecomputer back and forth.
Chris Baker (23:01):
So I'm going to upload that document, so this is
the Word document that Icreated, the created.
So basically you would alreadylike, as a nonprofit, they'd
already have this information,kind of like, laid out like this
is our company, these are ourvalues, this is what we do and
that's what you're uploading,correct.
Glen Benjamin (23:18):
And if this was real, I would take multiple
documents.
Chris Baker (23:22):
Gotcha.
Glen Benjamin (23:22):
As nonprofits request this type of grant
funding.
We could put more in there.
And then this is an LLM, alarge language model that begins
to learn Sure.
In this case, I made it up.
Chris Baker (23:35):
It's all for fun.
So this one is very simple.
Glen Benjamin (23:38):
It's only one document, but you could add and
it was like a paragraph right.
Chris Baker (23:42):
Right, could you add old?
Glen Benjamin (23:44):
grants yes.
Chris Baker (23:45):
Oh, perfect.
So, like anything you'vealready submitted, you could add
it.
Glen Benjamin (23:48):
Submitted either, even if you hadn't won it.
And you lost it, that's okay.
Chris Baker (23:52):
We upload.
Glen Benjamin (23:53):
So the more you put in, the smarter that starts
to get.
Yeah, it makes sense, okay,okay, I don't want to cover
letter.
Okay, you could do that.
Another point Okay, perfect.
Chris Baker (24:02):
Okay.
Glen Benjamin (24:02):
So now, I've taken that letter, I've taken
your description.
Yeah, go ahead and now go aheadand click generate.
All right, and I'm also goingto show you.
There were multiple AIs builtinto this.
Now you see how fast this went.
It went faster than the uploadright.
Chris Baker (24:17):
Oh yeah.
Glen Benjamin (24:17):
It is now spitting out a lot of
information and we're going tocome back in a second and it's
designing your budget.
It's breaking it apart.
My fingers don't leave my hands.
I haven't done anything.
Nothing is predetermined.
I took the minimum amount ofinformation.
So if you had given me a wholelot of stuff, this would
probably still be running anddoing more.
(24:39):
It's a fake company.
Lot of stuff, this wouldprobably still be running and
and doing more.
It's a fake company.
But what I'm going to go backand show and it's a touch screen
, thank god, uh, dude, okay, soyou know, if you want to, if you
want to, just run that withyour finger, there you go.
He's using the right fingerthis time and it will start
formulating ideas.
Okay, mission and alignment.
I just kind of made all this up, sure, but the funding request,
(25:00):
because he purposes it'salready done this and you
probably hadn't thought of it,and I know you, you're an ai
junkie, like I am, so we knowhow to do this, but this is
taking it for a person or acompany that has no formal
training we're taking that out.
Chris Baker (25:16):
You've already created the model for them to
just upload and use, right, nothave to go.
Oh, I need to go train it andteach it and give it the code,
basically to say this is what Iwant you to do, right, so okay,
so now we're at the bottom, butwe're going to try something
else.
Glen Benjamin (25:32):
See, on the top right corner.
There there are 12 AI programsthat this uses.
If you like this one, great.
If you want to try some otherones, pick one.
I don't care, it's your choice.
Chris Baker (25:42):
You've got.
Glen Benjamin (25:42):
Google, which is Gemini.
You've got Meta Now you'regoing to see.
It's about a five or 10 seconddelay generally, but this is
going to come in a differentlanguage and you can copy them
all.
Chris Baker (25:56):
Try them, see what works and see how it looks and
how it generates the content andagain, there's no coding
involved, and the reason we'redoing this is to simplify.
Glen Benjamin (26:02):
You can look at this and go wait a minute.
If this is so automated, I canuse multiple language.
I can reallocate work of otherpeople to do things that are
more important in my company,but the point is we have a few
programs built for nonprofitsand a whole bunch of programs
for for-profits Sure.
Because we don't have time.
Chris Baker (26:23):
No, we don't have time.
Yeah, If you want to learn moreabout this and this application
and how they can actually getaccess to it so tell us how they
contact Land Info Tech and howthey get started.
Okay.
Glen Benjamin (26:37):
So you could certainly do it by two tin cans
with a string in the middle.
Chris Baker (26:41):
That's easy to find me.
Glen Benjamin (26:43):
I knew I could trick him up.
If you can't find me, thatmeans you're not trying.
You could hit me up an email.
That's a simple one.
What's your email?
Gbenjamin, G-B-E-N-J-A-M-I-N atL-A-N-I-N-F-O-T-C-H.
Find me on social media.
I'm typically at Glen Benjamin1N in Glen.
(27:03):
You can actually call me.
I actually occasionally answermy phone, Okay.
Chris Baker (27:09):
Right, well, I screen it.
I don't recognize you Okay,954-560-3974.
Glen Benjamin (27:17):
Again, social media.
You can WhatsApp me.
There are a variety of waysthat, unfortunately, I answer
and you have to.
I mean, the world has changedright.
The world has changed the worldhas changed and find me, call
Chris.
Chris can find me Definitely.
Chris Baker (27:33):
I can definitely connect you.
Glen Benjamin (27:35):
And we do a lot of work in the nonprofit and
for-profit space.
We beg and implore you to havea plan.
You've heard me now say thatseven or eight times.
Just don't go out there and tryto wing this stuff.
And, by the way, if you want touse AI, we're fine, but we're
going to do an assessment beforeyou take this internally.
We're going to make sure thatthis stuff doesn't leak out,
(27:57):
because there's another thing wedo within AI, called Microsoft
Copilot those of you that knowit great.
But the great part of Copilotis it knows all your information
already Fantastic.
So it knows your email, yourSharePoint, your Teams, your
OneDrive.
And I'm missing something notimportant, but all you would
have to if you're using aCopilot, for example, like that,
(28:20):
you would just say, hey, giveme a quarter over quarter
projection on my top sponsors,how much they're generating, and
create a report, do it in Word,do it in PowerPoint and within
about the same amount of timeyou'd have all that written out.
We have to make sure that whenyou do it and you save it, it's
protected, it doesn't leak out,because your proprietary data
(28:43):
would be floating out there,probably on the dark web, and
they're selling that for pennies.
You don't want to give up yourintellectual property, so our
job is to do the assessment soit stays inside your confines,
your tenant, and doesn't leakout.
So these are the things.
We have to have reallyimportant conversations.
You got to tell us what youwant this, so you know.
Chris Baker (29:06):
I think we've run out of time so again, thank you
so much for being on Visual Eyes, where we collaborate and we
work with nonprofits to helpthem succeed and excel.
So thank you again, GlenBenjamin, for being on the show
today.
Glen Benjamin (29:20):
You need the badge.
I do need the badge, apparently.
Chris Baker (29:23):
And we look forward to having you on again.
Glen Benjamin (29:25):
I appreciate it and we will be back, yes, in 25.
Chris Baker (29:32):
Perfect.
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A huge thank you to everyoneout there listening.
Until next time, remember,collaboration fuels change and
your connections can inspire theworld.
Welcome to Visual Eyes, the podcast where
collaboration fuels change.
I'm your host, chris Baker, andeach week we'll explore
incredible connections betweennonprofits, businesses and the
community.
This is a space where wehighlight inspiring partnerships
, uncover strategies forcreating meaningful impact and
share stories that show howworking together can make all
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the difference.
Whether you're a nonprofitleader, a business owner or
someone just passionate aboutbuilding connections, this
podcast is for you.
So today, really looking attrying to build connections and
collaborations betweenfor-profits and nonprofits,
nonprofits, non-profits andnon-profits Any way we can build
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a collaboration effort, that'swhat we're trying to do here on
Visual Eyes.
So today I have Glen Benjaminfrom LAN Infotech, who has a
wealth of knowledge, especiallyin the IT realm.
So, glen, tell us a little bitabout you.
Glen Benjamin (00:59):
Thanks for having me.
Chris Baker (01:00):
Thank you, Momo, for recording.
Glen Benjamin (01:02):
Thank you, momo, for recording.
So.
Glen Benjamin, atlanta Infotechthat's the day job where we are
primarily managed serviceprovider, which means we take
care of companies, business,information, the infrastructure,
we protect it.
We look at cybersecuritybecause, somebody's got to.
Not many customers we deal withare really protected.
(01:24):
We're also a Microsoft partner,but the reason you have me here
today is a big piece of ourbusiness which is really growing
is in the nonprofit space.
Chris Baker (01:34):
Yeah, that's actually how I met you Initially
.
I was introduced to you throughCarol Boston, but then the
first thing thing we I met youat like I think in person was a
nonprofit fundraiser andChristina DeSilva was there and
she had a table, and then I gotto actually see your space.
Um, so it was a really goodintroduction.
(01:54):
And here we are some threeyears later for you.
Two years, two years, two years, exactly there we are, yeah.
Glen Benjamin (02:03):
And because of what's happening in technology
in general.
This is escalating faster thananybody could have ever imagined
.
Chris Baker (02:11):
So wait, what is escalating faster than anything?
Glen Benjamin (02:14):
Well, it's this famous four-letter word we talk
to about.
Chris Baker (02:17):
AI.
Isn't that two letters?
It is.
Glen Benjamin (02:38):
But if you don't do it right and you don't have a
plan or a process, you couldscrew this up pretty badly.
Don't worry, you're never goingto deal with it.
And about a month later after Istarted, when people realized
where I landed and they knewwhat Michael Goldstein, the CEO,
had set up, they were asking mequestions.
I'm like I have no idea whatyou're talking about.
And here we are, five plus yearslater going.
(02:59):
I get calls a couple of weekson what can we do to generate
money, sponsorships, how do weget sponsors?
And again, this big work calledgrant funding we'll get into in
a little bit.
Chris Baker (03:12):
Oh yeah, One of the next pieces that I wanted to
cover is some of thecollaboration highlights that
you actually got to work with.
What nonprofits stand out inyour mind?
That land, infotech, and youpersonally have worked with.
What have you done?
You know where are those andhow much time are you giving me
here?
I mean not forever, but give mea good story.
Glen Benjamin (03:33):
So the ones that we're collaborating on a regular
basis.
You mentioned Christina.
That was when she was withHands On South Florida, I think
it's the new name right, that'sthe new name.
Yeah, she's now at FlightCenter and hi.
Chris Baker (03:47):
Christina, if you're watching.
Glen Benjamin (03:49):
We do a lot of work with Neighbors for
Neighbors, which is Katie Marr.
Those are two of many.
And then we have affiliationswhere a, in fact we are an
affiliate of Nonprofit.
First they're in the Palm Beacharea.
We do a lot of work there.
We've met lots and lots ofnonprofits and we are trying to
(04:10):
get them to understand one.
You got to have a business planfirst, so important.
Chris Baker (04:15):
Like every business you have to have a business
plan, got to have that exitstrategy.
You need to have all of thesethings lined up so that it can
live on and it can build alegacy, but more importantly,
you're not going to get any ofthe grant funding, you're not
going to get cyber insurance.
Glen Benjamin (04:31):
You're not going to get a lot of things.
And I know we don't have timeto talk about everything but
you're not going to get thosekinds of things unless you have
a plan put together.
Chris Baker (04:39):
And I know cyber insurance is extremely huge
right now and I know that whatI've been hearing is now all
nonprofits are required to haveit, so you have to kind of build
out that.
Is that correct?
Glen Benjamin (04:49):
I'll speak for Palm Beach County.
It will eventually permeateBroward Miami-Dade.
Chris Baker (04:56):
Martin and all that .
Glen Benjamin (04:57):
But Palm Beach County put their foot down
earlier, in 2024, even late 23,.
That says you're going to havea plan, you're going to train
your employees to understandcybersecurity and they need to
be tested, and that informationneeds to go back to Palm Beach.
Chris Baker (05:14):
County.
Glen Benjamin (05:15):
So we're an affiliate of Nonprofit First.
We already have that mechanismin place.
If you're not doing it, forgeteverything else we're talking
about.
If somebody hacks your data,whether it's your list of donors
, your sponsors and such- youcould actually be out of
business.
And if you don't have what Icall cyber insurance to help
(05:37):
cover or remediate those costs,this conversation I'm having
with you is useless becauseyou're not going to be around to
do anything about it.
Chris Baker (05:46):
That's true.
So one of the things we weretrying to talk about is
collaboration.
This is actually a good segment.
This is something you actuallyhelp train the nonprofits on.
Yes, you also help them findthe access to get them what they
need, to get them the cyberinsurance that they need to
continue.
Glen Benjamin (06:03):
We will get you the right resource.
We are not allowed to providecyber insurance.
Right, you need somebody elseyeah you have to be a licensed
insurance company and because ifyou don't do what you're told
to do and something happens andyou have a hack, your cyber
insurance just tripled orquadrupled for next year.
Here we are at the end.
(06:24):
We're middle of December as werecord this, so in just a few
weeks you may have your renewalcoming up, and if you didn't do
what the professionals told youto do, you're going to have a
really bad day.
Chris Baker (06:36):
Any cyber attack without any type of insurance.
It can wreck a business, anonprofit, easily, in seconds.
So how do you go about trainingand giving those classes and
information to nonprofits Right?
Glen Benjamin (06:50):
So we're up at a nonprofit first on a regular
basis.
We also do some work with theFlorida Association of
Nonprofits.
They shortened it I think it'sFlorida Nonprofits officially
and I train Florida nonprofitstwice a year.
Usually it is February and July, if I remember the dates.
They have a whole series andwe're at Nonprofits First,
(07:14):
probably every other month, andit's starting to queue up even
faster because, again, peopledon't understand this.
I don't expect them tounderstand all the intricacies.
This is not speeds and feeds.
This is again what is yourbusiness prepared for?
Let's have a plan and I'm goingto give you my real title.
Most people do not know what Ireally do.
(07:34):
Besides the cyber and otherthings.
I'm a certified businessresiliency manager.
I've had that title for years,so I'm definitely wired
different.
And when I talk aboutresiliency, how do I keep your
business running regardless ofan incident?
And I'm not defining it as cyber.
I'm not saying COVID, I'm notsaying anything specific.
(07:55):
But what would you do ifsomething happened?
And the questions, and it's areal simple conversation how
long could you tolerate beingout of business?
In other words, your businessis shut down An hour, two, three
, four.
Can you handle that?
Yeah, maybe.
But if your business was down aday, a week, a month, what
would you do to keep it runningand survive?
(08:15):
We're not going to get intothat conversation.
We can't yeah, but I want peopleto start thinking about what
he's talking about and no, I'mnot just talking about hurricane
.
We've proven, in fact.
The day we're recording this, Iwas swimming across Sunrise
Boulevard to get in here.
Only one lane of traffic worked, so I ran a little late.
(08:36):
But the whole point is what youhave in your business plan that
has been well thought out,documented, and you've taken it
to the next step, which is whatwe would normally do is you'd
have a three ring binder sittingbehind your desk.
There would also be digitalthat says if this happens, go
here, what's?
plan B, c and D, yourcontingency plans laid out in a
(08:58):
perfect plan, right and, by theway, that's where some of the
cybersecurity plays, because ifyou don't have that and you
don't have a plan and this andthat, you're ultimately going to
fail.
And we don't want that, becausewe want to keep everybody
healthy, happy.
We don't want to lose membersof our organizations, we don't
want you getting shut downbecause you missed a little part
(09:19):
.
Chris Baker (09:20):
So what motivates you to help nonprofits?
Let's go back to thecollaboration part.
Glen Benjamin (09:26):
Now that's a great question.
Five and a half years ago, whenI joined the organization Land,
I had no idea what they weretalking about.
Fair enough, and because I'mreally a community advocate,
that's the title we publicizeright, I'm out there.
I work in groups of communities, whether it's chambers.
I work with nonprofits.
I am on the board of somenonprofits, advisory or direct
(09:49):
board so I know what theyexperienced I had again.
I'd never done that before, butas I got deeper into the role
and, by the way, six monthsafter I started, we had this
thing called COVID, so we hadnothing else to do other than
sit on Zoom calls all bloody daylong.
There were days I was doing 10or 15 of them at one time.
(10:10):
But I got to connect, meetpeople.
Again, it was virtual T-shirt,shorts, pink bunny slippers
different motif than today butto at least understand, because
we had nothing else to do.
We weren't selling anything.
We're trying to connect, keepour brand out there, try to help
people.
And during that process Istarted to do as nothing I never
(10:32):
would have thought in mylifetime that I would do.
I started doing these Zooms orit was on Teams or other
platforms Remo was one of them.
I started to do virtualfundraisers for nonprofits, had
no idea what I was doing.
The first one I did was, youknow, it wasn't great.
And then we did one for,actually did a couple for
(10:56):
Gilda's Club, okay, right herein Broward, and that's Kim
Prytano I'm giving her a shoutout.
We had no idea how to do it.
It was March of 2020 when weall went to the shutdown.
Her event that she was going tohost at Nova Southeast got shut
down for a virus we figured wasgoing to last a couple of weeks
(11:16):
.
Chris Baker (11:16):
It went a little further right, it went a lot
further than we actually allanticipated.
Glen Benjamin (11:21):
So, yes, I wound up sitting in my house with a
bunch of computers and a bunchof volunteers from guilders.
We put on her event because itwas critical to the community,
especially healthcare, becauseshe was giving, as part of the
program continuing education,units or credits.
So if you're a, nurse, apractitioner, a doctor Very
(11:43):
important, yeah, and this wasthe first one I'd ever done and
I'm like I have no idea what I'mdoing, but I understand the
need, because she had hundredsof people that were going to
come to.
Nova Didn't work out, so we didit virtually.
I had a bunch of volunteersfrom Gilda's Club and did they
know what they're doing?
No, this was we're flying bythe seat of our pants Sure.
(12:04):
But the issue or why it wasimportant is, hey, these people
need the education.
She lined up like 12 doctors, abunch of staff and whatever
that we're going to present.
I did a bunch of staff andwhatever that we're going to
present.
I did a bunch of training orpractice sessions and the
doctors or their assistants thatdid not show up for those
sessions.
I guarantee you, when we did it, live was not great.
(12:26):
That was the first one and wegot better and better.
I've done some for Urban Leagueof Palm Beach County and we did
some of these.
I did some for South FloridaInstitute on Aging.
They made the most money ever.
In fact, when we did thevirtual one, they made more
money that day than they had theprevious four years combined
(12:47):
Combined because there was nocost right.
Chris Baker (12:49):
You're not running a hotel.
Glen Benjamin (12:50):
There's no food and beverage and if you were
hungry, leave your bedroom, makea left, go to the kitchen, you
go fed yourself.
But we figured out real fast,wait a minute, this is
productive right, and I know,today, here, whereas we walk
into 2025, the issue of workingfrom home, working at an office,
that debate will go on forever.
It will.
(13:12):
And yeah, I'm not going to picksides but I like working at home
t-shirts, pink, bunny slippersbut then I'm out in the yeah,
I'm not going to pick sides, butI like working at home t-shirts
, pink, bunny slippers but thenI'm out in the community, I'm
out at chambers, I'm out ofthings, and that's the way we do
our business.
We understand the value of achamber or an organization.
Chris Baker (13:27):
That went a long way, but hopefully that answers
your question.
Yeah, I think it helped alittle bit.
So the next question I reallywanted to touch base on is what
challenges have you encounteredworking with nonprofits and how
have you addressed them?
Glen Benjamin (13:41):
lot of people at risk.
You've got clients, you've gotpatients, depending what you are
.
Chris Baker (13:44):
We have to do this correctly.
Glen Benjamin (13:58):
You've really got to have an assessment of what
you have and where you're tryingto go, which is no different
than any other business, startup, for-profit doesn't matter
where you're going to go.
You can have great passion, youcan have a great idea, your
value proposition is wonderful,but that doesn't help, right?
We have to figure outcollectively what you're trying
(14:19):
to do and what you're.
At the end of the day, you knowwhere is it you want to be and
what group of people are youhelping.
Because we have to make surethat this does not fail, Because
if you're going to take peoplein you know you've got to be
able to sustain.
Chris Baker (14:35):
Yeah, and I mean we're making a like.
Nonprofits are making a hugedifference in the community and
we want them all to succeed.
You know, and this is one ofthe reasons that we started this
podcast is because I want tohelp them understand different
ways that they can collaboratewith for profits or for with
other nonprofits, so that theyhave a little bit better
structure, they can buildfurther and hopefully leave a
(14:58):
legacy that's going to continuebeyond them, because if it's
just them and they don't havethat plan, it'll end with them,
and that's kind of the sad truth, right, and I don't want that
to happen.
I want them to look beyond andI want them to make a bigger
impact, and that's the goal.
It is the goal.
Glen Benjamin (15:17):
To the original question why we do it.
We love to help in thecommunity Nonprofits.
They're relatively simple.
They're typically smaller thanthe customers we deal with, but
they have the same challengesand we just have to.
It's an awareness that, no, youshould not do that.
Let's put a plan together andthere are plenty of nonprofit
(15:41):
consultants listening, hopefully, and there's an opportunity
here for you to sit down anddetermine what the next steps
are, and you're not going tosolve this in a day.
This is a phased approach.
You start here and you workyour way through that.
Chris Baker (15:58):
Right, and that's one of the biggest challenges is
we need to help educate them toget them to that next stage,
and I think us, as for-profitcompanies Land Infotech Visuals
by Momo we have something thatwe can teach them and we can
help them, and I think that'sone of the most important and
most impactful ways that we cando as business is to help and
(16:21):
help these nonprofits thrive.
So what is your future visionor impact that Land Info Tech is
going to be giving to the world?
Glen Benjamin (16:30):
Wow, that's a really broad question.
I'm buying time, so I couldanswer that.
Now so again, we're about thecommunity.
You know, I don't carry asalesperson's title.
I am a community accountdirector, right, and we're
trying to help, we're trying toeducate.
There are so many things thatwe see that we just can't share.
You know, a lot of what we dois through an organization
(16:53):
called InfraGardI-N-F-R-A-G-A-R-D.
There's no U in there, org orgov I forget which one, probably
org where it's the FBI, secretService, homeland Security.
We get information that isreally confidential I can't
share, right, I can talk in aprivate setting.
But, generally speaking, we cando so much and we see things on
(17:17):
the security side you don'twant to know about.
But in a group setting, whereit's private, we can have those
kind of conversations where howyou protect yourself, protect
your organization, protect yourfamily, some of us still work at
home when we morphed from thepandemic, those of us who went
home and went I'm moreproductive at home.
(17:38):
Boss says fine, I know that'sanother topic.
That's a whole episode on itsown.
But how do you protect family?
Because a lot of us work athome on the same cable network
as our kids and our family.
Chris Baker (17:52):
How do you protect yourself?
Glen Benjamin (17:54):
And where I'm going, which is a really
difficult conversation.
We will not get into it heretoday, but we've got to start
thinking differently because ourworld has changed.
You know, whether you acceptthat or not, it literally is the
parents understanding what yourkids are doing for 10 or 18
hours a day just going, or youknow, with their thumbs.
So we'll stop there.
(18:15):
But it's all about how do weimpact and protect the community
.
Chris Baker (18:18):
That's our role.
You don't know who's on theother line unless you can see
them face to face, you don'tknow who's on the other line.
Glen Benjamin (18:24):
And that's not true either, because you can
also and I'll say the word againAI on a Zoom or anything else.
You may think that's Chris, butthat's really some type of
avatar that looks exactly likehim.
Again that's another episodefor a different time, but we're
telling people listen to whatthe experts say.
Chris Baker (18:43):
Yeah, we're living in a different age and actually
one of the things that we didwant to bring you on here is for
a special treat for the wholeentire audience to learn a
little bit about something thatI really think that Land Info
Tech is going to leave as itslegacy in some ways.
Glen Benjamin (19:01):
I'm getting verklempt already.
Chris Baker (19:04):
So Glen here is going to open up his computer
and he's going to show yousomething that LAN InfoTech has
put together that's going tohelp nonprofits amazingly move
forward in the next coming years.
You know for the future.
Glen Benjamin (19:18):
And, by the way, if you're going to ask me for a
projection on that, no you know,if you're going to say well,
what's this going to be like infive years?
Chris Baker (19:25):
Who knows?
Glen Benjamin (19:26):
We don't, because this is escalating beyond what
anybody thought.
Chris Baker (19:30):
Yeah, there really is.
Glen Benjamin (19:32):
There are advantages for nonprofits that
at least take a look at it, tryit.
You know you don't have toinstitute anything, get us back
involved.
But in a minute here we'll goon and show people, wow, how
fast they could potentially findfunding that they had never
thought of.
Chris Baker (19:49):
All right, so we're going to pause here for a
moment and then we'll get set upand then continue the show.
So now that we're set up, we'regoing to talk a little bit
about what we're discoveringhere.
So what is this program?
Glen Benjamin (20:02):
okay, before we go into the program.
Okay, I had to build somethingfor this demo yes okay, and we
made up a fictitious company runby by chris and momo.
In the background wave, chris,and and momo um, you know, so I
took some of your principles.
Yep, I used AI.
I have no problem with anybodyusing AI, as long as it's done
(20:24):
safely and securely.
Chris Baker (20:26):
Correct.
Glen Benjamin (20:26):
I will be talking to a school later today and
that's the way we areapproaching it.
Kids, students, people areusing it.
Are they doing it the right way?
I'm not sure.
Chris Baker (20:37):
Sure.
Glen Benjamin (20:41):
And what we want at the end of the day with AI is
critical thinking.
You could spend again the 18hours doing AI, but when I ask
you a question, you need to knowwhat's right or wrong, and I
don't need you to look it up.
I need you to tell me here'swhy it is or isn't, and tell me
why yeah, okay, all right.
So all I did was set up a verysimple, fictitious company.
Chris Baker (20:59):
This is completely fictitious Right, visual Grants,
foundation Right Not a realcompany Right and there was no
drinking involved when wecreated this.
Glen Benjamin (21:08):
This was completely sober.
So we believe every nonprofithas a story.
I'm just going to show you.
I made this as minimal aspossible.
For a reason, okay, because Iwant what we're going to show to
take over.
Okay, all right, I'm going toshut the document down.
Yep, I'm going to do this asbest I can live, and if
something happens, we blame theinternet.
Chris Baker (21:30):
We'll blame the internet, if anybody has a
problem.
Glen Benjamin (21:32):
All right, so I'm okay.
So now this is a proposalmachine.
Let me get rid of that.
So, proposal machine, let meget rid of that.
So this is something Land InfoTech has partnered with, a
company called Hats AI, workingwith them for months and months.
We released this just a fewweeks ago.
But, here's my first live testin front of an audience that's
(21:52):
going to be broadcast I have noidea where.
Okay, so this is the system,the application.
So I'm going to hand this toyou now.
I want you to tell me how muchfunding you're going to need,
and get as crazy as you want,ask for the moon, I don't care,
because this is not really goingto go anywhere but, it's going
to produce something for Chrishere and he's going to go.
Chris Baker (22:15):
All right, so I'll put a number in there.
I got a quarter of a million inthere, okay.
Glen Benjamin (22:18):
Go crazy, make it a million.
Chris Baker (22:20):
Make it a million.
Make it a million, go ahead.
Glen Benjamin (22:21):
Because, again, we're not going to submit this,
because us two goofballs wouldgo.
Chris Baker (22:26):
All right, one million Put a million.
Glen Benjamin (22:28):
Now I want you to write in one sentence that's
all I want what you would dowith it program, whatever Chris
wants to do.
Chris Baker (22:39):
All right, so I'm going to create a program that
educates nonprofits on videomarketing nationwide.
Glen Benjamin (22:51):
Okay, okay, and then here I'm going to upload
that document.
Okay, it'll give us somethingand I'll tell you why this is
all important as we pass thecomputer back and forth.
Chris Baker (23:01):
So I'm going to upload that document, so this is
the Word document that Icreated, the created.
So basically you would alreadylike, as a nonprofit, they'd
already have this information,kind of like, laid out like this
is our company, these are ourvalues, this is what we do and
that's what you're uploading,correct.
Glen Benjamin (23:18):
And if this was real, I would take multiple
documents.
Chris Baker (23:22):
Gotcha.
Glen Benjamin (23:22):
As nonprofits request this type of grant
funding.
We could put more in there.
And then this is an LLM, alarge language model that begins
to learn Sure.
In this case, I made it up.
Chris Baker (23:35):
It's all for fun.
So this one is very simple.
Glen Benjamin (23:38):
It's only one document, but you could add and
it was like a paragraph right.
Chris Baker (23:42):
Right, could you add old?
Glen Benjamin (23:44):
grants yes.
Chris Baker (23:45):
Oh, perfect.
So, like anything you'vealready submitted, you could add
it.
Glen Benjamin (23:48):
Submitted either, even if you hadn't won it.
And you lost it, that's okay.
Chris Baker (23:52):
We upload.
Glen Benjamin (23:53):
So the more you put in, the smarter that starts
to get.
Yeah, it makes sense, okay,okay, I don't want to cover
letter.
Okay, you could do that.
Another point Okay, perfect.
Chris Baker (24:02):
Okay.
Glen Benjamin (24:02):
So now, I've taken that letter, I've taken
your description.
Yeah, go ahead and now go aheadand click generate.
All right, and I'm also goingto show you.
There were multiple AIs builtinto this.
Now you see how fast this went.
It went faster than the uploadright.
Chris Baker (24:17):
Oh yeah.
Glen Benjamin (24:17):
It is now spitting out a lot of
information and we're going tocome back in a second and it's
designing your budget.
It's breaking it apart.
My fingers don't leave my hands.
I haven't done anything.
Nothing is predetermined.
I took the minimum amount ofinformation.
So if you had given me a wholelot of stuff, this would
probably still be running anddoing more.
(24:39):
It's a fake company.
Lot of stuff, this wouldprobably still be running and
and doing more.
It's a fake company.
But what I'm going to go backand show and it's a touch screen
, thank god, uh, dude, okay, soyou know, if you want to, if you
want to, just run that withyour finger, there you go.
He's using the right fingerthis time and it will start
formulating ideas.
Okay, mission and alignment.
I just kind of made all this up, sure, but the funding request,
(25:00):
because he purposes it'salready done this and you
probably hadn't thought of it,and I know you, you're an ai
junkie, like I am, so we knowhow to do this, but this is
taking it for a person or acompany that has no formal
training we're taking that out.
Chris Baker (25:16):
You've already created the model for them to
just upload and use, right, nothave to go.
Oh, I need to go train it andteach it and give it the code,
basically to say this is what Iwant you to do, right, so okay,
so now we're at the bottom, butwe're going to try something
else.
Glen Benjamin (25:32):
See, on the top right corner.
There there are 12 AI programsthat this uses.
If you like this one, great.
If you want to try some otherones, pick one.
I don't care, it's your choice.
Chris Baker (25:42):
You've got.
Glen Benjamin (25:42):
Google, which is Gemini.
You've got Meta Now you'regoing to see.
It's about a five or 10 seconddelay generally, but this is
going to come in a differentlanguage and you can copy them
all.
Chris Baker (25:56):
Try them, see what works and see how it looks and
how it generates the content andagain, there's no coding
involved, and the reason we'redoing this is to simplify.
Glen Benjamin (26:02):
You can look at this and go wait a minute.
If this is so automated, I canuse multiple language.
I can reallocate work of otherpeople to do things that are
more important in my company,but the point is we have a few
programs built for nonprofitsand a whole bunch of programs
for for-profits Sure.
Because we don't have time.
Chris Baker (26:23):
No, we don't have time.
Yeah, If you want to learn moreabout this and this application
and how they can actually getaccess to it so tell us how they
contact Land Info Tech and howthey get started.
Okay.
Glen Benjamin (26:37):
So you could certainly do it by two tin cans
with a string in the middle.
Chris Baker (26:41):
That's easy to find me.
Glen Benjamin (26:43):
I knew I could trick him up.
If you can't find me, thatmeans you're not trying.
You could hit me up an email.
That's a simple one.
What's your email?
Gbenjamin, G-B-E-N-J-A-M-I-N atL-A-N-I-N-F-O-T-C-H.
Find me on social media.
I'm typically at Glen Benjamin1N in Glen.
(27:03):
You can actually call me.
I actually occasionally answermy phone, Okay.
Chris Baker (27:09):
Right, well, I screen it.
I don't recognize you Okay,954-560-3974.
Glen Benjamin (27:17):
Again, social media.
You can WhatsApp me.
There are a variety of waysthat, unfortunately, I answer
and you have to.
I mean, the world has changedright.
The world has changed the worldhas changed and find me, call
Chris.
Chris can find me Definitely.
Chris Baker (27:33):
I can definitely connect you.
Glen Benjamin (27:35):
And we do a lot of work in the nonprofit and
for-profit space.
We beg and implore you to havea plan.
You've heard me now say thatseven or eight times.
Just don't go out there and tryto wing this stuff.
And, by the way, if you want touse AI, we're fine, but we're
going to do an assessment beforeyou take this internally.
We're going to make sure thatthis stuff doesn't leak out,
(27:57):
because there's another thing wedo within AI, called Microsoft
Copilot those of you that knowit great.
But the great part of Copilotis it knows all your information
already Fantastic.
So it knows your email, yourSharePoint, your Teams, your
OneDrive.
And I'm missing something notimportant, but all you would
have to if you're using aCopilot, for example, like that,
(28:20):
you would just say, hey, giveme a quarter over quarter
projection on my top sponsors,how much they're generating, and
create a report, do it in Word,do it in PowerPoint and within
about the same amount of timeyou'd have all that written out.
We have to make sure that whenyou do it and you save it, it's
protected, it doesn't leak out,because your proprietary data
(28:43):
would be floating out there,probably on the dark web, and
they're selling that for pennies.
You don't want to give up yourintellectual property, so our
job is to do the assessment soit stays inside your confines,
your tenant, and doesn't leakout.
So these are the things.
We have to have reallyimportant conversations.
You got to tell us what youwant this, so you know.
Chris Baker (29:06):
I think we've run out of time so again, thank you
so much for being on Visual Eyes, where we collaborate and we
work with nonprofits to helpthem succeed and excel.
So thank you again, GlenBenjamin, for being on the show
today.
Glen Benjamin (29:20):
You need the badge.
I do need the badge, apparently.
Chris Baker (29:23):
And we look forward to having you on again.
Glen Benjamin (29:25):
I appreciate it and we will be back, yes, in 25.
Chris Baker (29:32):
Perfect.
Thank you for joining me onthis episode of Visual Eyes.
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