ThinkTech Host Zoom Meeting on March 5, 2021

Aloha ThinkTech Hosts,

Here’s the the video recording of our March 5 Host Zoom Meeting.

This was the agenda:

• Make sure to get the guest name right
• Lower third titles, no honorifics, PhD,MD, ESQ, etc.
• Hosts please use Hayley’s form, new items
• Using share screen for graphics  How to do it.
• Teleprompter techniques
• Ceilings and lighting - testing with free Zoom
• Sound, sound, sound - we listen to chit hat
• Host equipment, lights, mics, cameras
• Looking at camera - teleprompter techniques
• Two at a time on the camera?   
• Interesting topics - newsworthy, news hooks first
• Openings and closings
• Framing a question
• Interruptions

 

These are our new shows:

• The Creative Life - Phyllis Blees
• America Finding its Way - Jay Fidell
• What Now America - Tim Apicella
• Figments: the Power of Imagination - Dan 'Fig' Leaf
• Staying Young at Heart - Maria Mera
•  International Hawaii - Cindy Matsuki
• Work ReImagined - Ruby Menon
• Cooper UNion - Joshua Cooper

All the best to all of you.

ThinkTech Host Zoom Meeting on February 5, 2021

Aloha Hosts / Regular Contributors,

Here's the video for February's Host/Contributor meeting.

This was the agenda:

• Show information forms
• Contributors
• Webinars and webinar memo
• Video and framing quality
• Sound quality
• Equipment issues
• Openings
• Closings
• Solo shows
• Recruiting other guests
• Copyright issues
• Using long videos

Thank you all for attending.

ThinkTech Host Zoom Meeting on January 8, 2021

Happy New Year, ThinkTech Hosts!

Thanks to all of you who attended the Host Zoom Meeting on January 8.  Here’s the video.

This was the agenda:

• New shows - History is Here to help
• Also - China and the US parallel universes
• Closed captions, free, yes or now
• Melissa and Hayley review checklist
• Framing privative show titles
• Download new Zoom version
• Adjust for low light settings
• Email graphics v. Share screen
• Subjects for the new year - Sacred Cows
• Covid, Reopening, Democracy, Foreign relations
• Getting great guests
• Going to the mainland and abroad
• Blog place to post, clips from episode
• Update on show promotion
• Promos and Newsy clips
• Prompter techniques
• Calling in with questions
• Sending articles to other hosts
• Status of Covid movie

Great to see all of you. Thanks for coming.