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Jim Key: So welcome
back, Jonathan Rogers,

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for another GA Talk.

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Come on, Jonathan.

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Jonathan Rogers: Thank you, Jim.

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Hello again.

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My name is Jonathan Rogers.

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I'm the program coordinator
for young adults

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at General Assembly.

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And I'd like to tell
you a little bit more

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about GA Talks initiative,
with its inaugural happening

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here, these last
three days in GA--

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in specific, the ones in Rhode
Island Convention Center Hall C

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that the young adults at General
Assembly have been putting on.

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I'd like to call your
attention, just for a moment,

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to the unique nature of the
ones that have been happening

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over there, that are
different in their staging,

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in the length of time
that we're giving

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to those ideas, and in
particular, in the fact

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that we will be
video recording them,

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or we have been video recording
them Thursday, Friday,

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and Saturday.

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Those video recordings
will be going up online,

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and you can find them
later this summer

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at the youth and young
adult Blue Boat blog.

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So please go check that out.

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You can see the ideas
that have been shared here

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at GA, through GA Talks.

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And you can spread them--
help them to go viral.

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If you were able to join us in
Hall C over the last few days,

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you were able to join us in
singing "Building a New Way,"

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as we built a new way.

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If you were swept
away by the stories

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in the dynamic presentations
that we had going on in there,

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then you know what a
dynamic initiative this was.

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When we first came
up with the idea,

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last year, we knew that
there were so, so many voices

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within Unitarian
Universalism, that

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would fit this
format, that would

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rise to the occasion
of the venue.

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But seeing and hearing them
all come together this week

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has been more inspiring and
rewarding than any of us

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could have possibly imagined.

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There were so many
moments, so many peak

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experiences that came out of
bringing these amazing speakers

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onto the big stage.

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I found myself, many, many
times over the last few days,

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recalling what Moderator
Key described about GA Talks

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on Wednesday evening,
in this space,

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saying that they were
ideas worth spreading.

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And what would happen would
be that one of our presenters

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would go up and give an
encapsulation of the idea

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behind their project, whether
it was Reverend Erik Martinez

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Resly talking about putting
the style in lifestyle

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and how that's helped to
shape the sanctuaries,

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or yesterday, Hilary
Allen and Sue Phillips

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talking about how their process
of developing Faithify, the UU

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crowdfunding website,
has in and of itself been

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an example of the kind
of experimentation

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that they're trying to promote
with that website, of the kind

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of initiatives that they want
people to be able to have

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the resources to take on
within our faith movement.

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And what would
happen-- they would

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give a kind of a poignant
moment with that,

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and someone in the audience
would tweet it using #gatalks.

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And I would be getting,
collecting all of those tweets,

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to be able to share up on stage.

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But they would have a 140
character encapsulation

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of what had just been shared on
stage that then was going out

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into the world for folks
who were not with us.

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You can go, and at twitter.com,
do a #gatalks search

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and see the hundreds of
those kinds of moments

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that we've been
able to encapsulate

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with GA Talks, Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday.

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You can just jump over and see.

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We had people quoting our
presenters again and again,

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asking them questions,
engaging with their ideas.

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So I very much-- I encourage
you to connect with us that way.

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Just do a Twitter
search for #gatalks.

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You'll see the many, many
moments that came out of it,

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and you'll be able to,
again, see those videos,

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maybe getting an opportunity to
look at them online once they

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are posted-- again,
later this summer.

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You'll be inspired to go and
see what was said in the moment,

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on Twitter, with #gatalks.

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Just like with the Ted
Talks, we want the videos

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that come out of those to be
well produced and to be shared.

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And we are going to be working,
after the conclusion of GA

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and throughout this year
and into the next GA,

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to put ourselves in the best
position to be able to do that,

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again, well, next year,
and hopefully even better.

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So I very much encourage you to
check out those videos online

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and to take a look, again,
next year, here at GA.

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I know-- I know that some
midweek evening, between now

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and next June, when you're
looking for an uplifting

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reminder of who we are as a
faith movement, of what it was

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like either to have
been here at GA

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or to have watched the
awesome live streams online,

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and when you're looking
for that moment,

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I encourage you to head
over to the Blue Boat blog

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and check out our
GA Talks videos.

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You'll probably be able to
do a YouTube search for them,

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once we've got them up.

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One way or another,
you can find them.

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You can pass them along and bask
in all of the Facebook likes

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that you'll get for
sharing the link there.

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And it'll be, you
know, a small sliver

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of having been back here.

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So once again, please check
those videos out online.

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Please join us again,
next year, for GA Talks

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which will, once
again, be sponsored

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by the young adults
at General Assembly.

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And thank you so much for
your support this year.

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