ThinkTech Host Zoom Meeting on November 13, 2020

Aloha ThinkTech Hosts,

Here is the video of November's Host Zoom Meeting.

This was the agenda:

• Schedule for Xmas
• Xmas Awards Ceremony
• Positioning and framing
• Zoom tips and tricks
• Green screen and lighting
• Openings and closings
• Formulating questions
• Handling interruptions
• Audio troubleshooting
• Broadband failures
• New playlist system
• Supershows and Webinars
• Climate Change movie

Thank you all for coming.

ThinkTech Host Zoom Meeting on August 21, 2020

Aloha ThinkTech Hosts,

Here is the video of the August Host Zoom Meeting.

This was the agenda:

• Carol - Report on Fund Drive
• Melissa - looking your best
• Melissa - how to use cellphones
• Jay - using blurred backgrounds
• VoLo Environmental Grant
• ThinkTech platforms promo 
• Survey Monkey results
• Blogs and commentaries
• How to promote your shows
• Adequacy of show information
• Color Correction Software
• Emulating a teleprompter
• Lower thirds for names / titles
• Graphics, formats and sequence
• Light, height and framing
• Communicating with hosts
• Questions and answers
• Bells, chatbox, warnings
• Equipment tips and tricks
• Know your guest's bio
• How to do a book review
• The need for interruption 
• The power of silence 
• The power of listening
• Repeating Threads, repeating guests
• The arc of relevance, titles, subjects
• Update on Webinar Super shows

Thank you to all who could attend the meeting.

ThinkTech Host Zoom Meeting on July 17, 2020

Aloha ThinkTech Hosts,

Here is the video of the July Host Zoom Meeting.

This was the agenda:

• Hayley’s new movie - https://youtu.be/ibX7lqlIn4o.  "Here’s to You, ThinkTech.”  It worked out great.  Thanks so much to all the hosts who appeared in it.
• Host checklist for best production values, gestures, light, windows, distance, height and position of computer, standing up
• Looking good, background, clothing, equipment suggestions
• Tips on zoom, audio controls, use of phone, muting, chat box
• Selecting show content, issues and guests
• Handling the evolution of the discussion
• Production of the 2020 Prosecuting Attorney Candidates Debate
• Development of our new 60-minute SuperShow format
• Host awards program coming soon

Thank you all for coming.

ThinkTech Host Zoom Meeting on June 19, 2020

Dear Hosts:

Here is the video of the June Host Zoom Meeting.

Speakers

• Promoting your talk shows - Rusty
• Current streaming platforms - Eric
• Lighting and framing, gestures  - Melissa
• Show info timing and flash messages - Hayley
• Subject management and questions - Jay

Remote broadcasts

For the time being, broadcasts will continue by remote. Thank you for adjusting to our remote broadcast format. Because of you, ThinkTech has never stopped producing new and relevant shows.  Your content has been so responsive to rapidly changing health, economic, political and social issues. 

Summer 2020 Fund Drive

In light of the pandemic, ThinkTech cancelled its Spring Fund Drive.  However, we’re planning a Summer 2020 Fund Drive during July with an abbreviated time frame and a reduced goal of $12,000.   As you know, we are entirely donations and volunteer driven and can’t survive without your support.  We continue to seek underwriters and grants though these resources are more competitive than ever.  Please support our upcoming fund drive, every dollar helps keep us on the air. 

Resources

Here are links to sites where you can get green screens or ring lights:

• amazon.com search for Collapsible Green Screen or Ikan Ring Light
• bhphoto.com same search

If you have questions on the subjects we discussed, please contact us. Thanks for coming.

ThinkTech Host Zoom Meeting on May 22, 2020

Aloha Hosts,

Thanks to all who joined our first Hosts Zoom Meeting! Here is the meeting video: 

Chat questions and comments:

1. Mute - please mute unless you are speaking. Background noise affects everyone’s audio. 

2. Q. Is there a particular time you need the questionnaire/ info form before the show?

A. By the day before your show.

3.   Q. How do we send in the media?

A.  Email as attachment to shows@thinktechhawaii.com.  Max 15 images. Don’t use images with a lot of text, impossible to read on the screen.

4. Q. Will the bell be audible on the stream?

    A.  No.

5. Q. Can we have a blank box with a time counter not seen by the public but help host keep time?

A. Use your phone using the App “Count Down Timer” or time or stopwatch functions. Or use another monitor or screen or clock, like Katharine does.

6.   Q. Best way to tell viewers to submit questions?

A.  Viewers should submit questions by email to questions@thinktechhawaii.  Engineer will post in host’s chat box, with one chime to remind host to look at the chat box. Host can read, rephrase, ignore or delay dealing with a question.  If the host does pose the question, he/she should thank the viewer.

7. Comment for next meeting “How about coaching on not fidgeting.”

A.  Ok, we will.

Great to see so many of you. Be well.