Sunday, September 25, 2022

Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of September 25, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

Host Bulletin, Week of September 25, 2022


Legal Chicken, Legal Egg

Last week to register! Please spread the word and register for "Burning National Issues: Legal Chicken, Legal Egg" this Friday. If you can't attend, register anyway and we'll send you a link to the recording. Learn more about our panelists Kimi Ide-Foster, Chris Marvin, Richard Wallsgrove, Sylvia Albert, Jeffrey Portnoy, and Avi Soifer through their interviews and bios below. Thank you for supporting our projects to increase public awareness and promote community engagement.


Dates

Don't state the date during the show unless the content is date-sensitive. Avoid announcing a date so your episodes will remain timeless. Also avoid announcing the day or the week during your intros and closings, since your shows are aired the following day and it may confuse viewers when we play them as encores.


Eye Contact

Look directly at the camera throughout the show. Avoid looking at another screen, or down at your table or desk, or off to the side. Place the Zoom window on your screen as near as possible to your camera so you can maintain continuing eye contact with the audience. If you have notes, put them in a small word-processing or notepad window also as near as possible to your camera.  You’ll look so much better that way.


Fund Drive

As we ramp up to our Fall 2022 Fund Drive (which starts on November 1), we will ask that you record short promos after your show.  The engineer will guide you through the process. Click here to view the short scripts, which we will put in your chat box. Your promos will be streamed through the Fund Drive on all our platforms. Thanks for helping us promote the Drive, and thanks also for contributing to the Drive to help us stay on the air.


Promotion Tip

Have trouble getting views on social media? Try collaborating with and inviting guests with large social media followings - they'll share your show among their many followers. This tip comes from Kuhio Ave. Food Hall owner Mike Palmer, on an episode of Restaurants of Hawaii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifiLw6Z2jIM&t=811s


Please regularly review past Host Bulletins and other resources - it leads to better shows.


Questions, contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

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Sunday, September 18, 2022

Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of September 18, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

Host Bulletin, Week of September 18, 2022


Legal Chicken, Legal Egg

Hosts, please register for our important webinar on Sept. 30! If you can’t attend, you will receive a link to the program after the event. "Burning National Issues: Legal Chicken, Legal Egg” analyzes and connects critical topics in a thought-provoking way.  Help us increase registration by sharing the links below with your networks and social media following. Thank you!


Framing

Make sure you and your guests are centered and keep your head 3/4 the way up in the frame throughout the show. Find a comfortable position and hold it though the show.  Don't lean back and forth or swivel in your chair - this creates video artifacts, causes framing issues, and deteriorates your audio. Change chairs if necessary.


New Shows

Welcome our two new ThinkTech Hosts! Erica Muller is host of "Vacation Rentals are the Future", a study of vacation rentals, real estate activity, regulation and investment around the U.S. and overseas. Peter Rosegg hosts "The Two-Wheel Revolution", a look into opportunities, benefits and controversies of advances in two-wheel transportation. See their bios at https://thinktechhawaii.com/thinktech-hosts/.


Engineer Opening

We are looking to hire a part-time studio engineer. If you know anyone who might be interested, please send them our ad, which is at https://storiesofthinktech.blogspot.com/2022/09/is-recruiting-yes-were-looking-for-new.html. The new studio engineer will join our current team including Michael Pangilinan, our Station Manager who records and edits some of your shows, Eric Kallander our chief studio engineer and Hayley Ikeda, our Program Manager - you get a lot of emails from her. You can contact us about this by emailing shows@thinktechhawaii.com. 


Promotion Tip

Join local and national community groups to expand your network and thus your viewership and potential guests.  If your show is about surfing, for example, you can join and post to the world surfing community on Facebook. This tip comes from esports professional Adam Donarski, a guest on The Wide World of Esports: https://youtu.be/hGK-HtrGhq4


Please regularly review past Host Bulletins and other resources - it leads to better shows.


Questions, contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

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Sunday, September 11, 2022

Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of September 11, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

Host Bulletin, Week of September 11, 2022


Distinguished Guest Election/Survey

Voting is open! Thanks to everyone who made nominations. Click here to cast your ballot for ThinkTech Distinguished Guest. Vote only once, but feel free to share the link.  Last month's winner was David Larson, nominated by host Chuck Crumpton of "It's Time for Responsible Change". We also appreciate your response to our Current Events Survey. Voting closes on September 17 and we'll announce the results in our email advisories on the 20th.


Legal Chicken, Legal Egg

Join us for a timely ThinkTech Hawaii webinar on Friday, September 30. "Burning National Issues: Legal Chicken, Legal Egg" will examine critical national issues: abortion, gun violence, climate change, voting rights, and the insurrection. Featuring panelists Kimi Ide-Foster, Chris Marvin, Richard Wallsgrove, Sylvia Albert, Jeffrey Portnoy and moderator Avi Soifer. Please spread the word and register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qIlgPBHrQMW_vKtOIGbUxg.


Quiet Spaces

It may seem obvious, but it is dangerous to do a show in a car. Make sure you and your guests pre-select quiet, indoor spaces to record the show. Ask others around you to keep quiet and set all devices to Do Not Disturb. You may need to move to a more isolated space if there is too much noise.


Phones/Tablets

It's best to join Zoom from a computer/laptop instead of a phone or tablet. The former have more functionality, stability, and better video and audio quality. For more Appearance Guidelines: https://thinktechhawaii.com/remote-shows/


Promotion Tip

Before your show airs, promote your upcoming episode through email, phone and social media. We stream your shows on ThinkTechHawaii.com, YouTube.com/ThinkTechHawaii and Vimeo.com/ThinkTechHawaii. Encourage people to sign up for our email advisories at https://bit.ly/join-thinktech to view the shows of the day. They can also subscribe and click the bell on YouTube.com/ThinkTechHawaii so they receive a link whenever your show is published.





Please regularly review past Host Bulletins and other resources - it leads to better shows.


Questions, contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

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Sunday, September 4, 2022

Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of September 4, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:
Host Bulletin, Week of September 4, 2022


Distinguished Guest Nominations Are Open

Click here to nominate a guest from one of your August shows to be selected a Distinguished Guest! Only the first 10 nominations will make the ballot. Nominations close this Wednesday, September 7 and voting will begin on the 10th. Election results will be posted in our email advisories on September 20. The winning candidate for Distinguished Guest will be profiled in a short video for our livestreams and social media.  Last month's winner was David Larson, nominated by host Chuck Crumpton of "It's Time for Responsible Change".


Paul Chung Lecture

Tom Cooney of General Motors will join Jay Fidell next Friday, September 16 to talk about exciting innovations in the auto industry. "Transformations in Transportation," is this year's Dr. N.H. Paul Chung Memorial Lecture sponsored by PAMI at UH's Shidler School of Business and starts at 10 am HST. Please register for this informative webinar and circulate this promo among your network.


Labeling Graphics

Unless you're presenting a slide deck, please label each graphic with descriptive words as requested in our Graphics Guidelines. This helps our engineers know when to put them onscreen. Note that we will display graphics only when they're relevant to the discussion -- otherwise, they will confuse and distract the viewer. Also note that if you don’t properly label your graphics (e.g. IMG_9821) we won't be able to accept them.


Form Exceptions

Some graphics do not need permission forms. Please send shows@thinktechhawaii.com book covers, album covers, DVD covers, and movie posters for the media you'll discuss so we can display them during your episode. Permission forms are not necessary for these graphics.


Promotion Tip

Do your colleagues know you host your own show? Send your favorite episodes, and even the link to your show playlist, to your friends and associates! Our content is meant to be shared as widely as possible. They may be very impressed with your work, and may share the videos of your shows with their own networking communities.


Please regularly review past Host Bulletins and other resources - it leads to better shows.


Questions, contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

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