Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Show and Host Information, Webinar and New Graphics

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

For this week's Host Bulletin, we'd like to inform you of some important developments we're working on to improve for the new year.

Show Information

Reminder that show information is due the day before the show. We need that information by 10pm the night before the show. If you submit information after that time, we may not be able to produce your show. In that event, you may have to reschedule the guest for a later episode. In any event, when you don’t submit on time it's very hard on the staff.  Please help us maintain the broadcast schedule, and make sure you submit by this deadline. It’s important to send your show information on time so we can send your guests the information they need.

Host Bios

We're creating a page about our various ThinkTech Hosts on our website thinktechhawaii.com. Please send us a 100-word bio and a headshot you like so we can include you on that page. You can add your own website or contact email if you'd like. Please submit these materials within the next 10 days. If you don't get back to us, you will not be included on our Hosts webpage. This idea was suggested to us through our End-of-Year survey, and we'll be sending you a report in next week's Host Bulletin.

Webinar

As you may have seen in our ThinkTech Daily, we're hosting a webinar titled "Evolving Crisis: The Escalating Threat of COVID and Climate Change." It builds upon our recent documentary film, Spiraling Crisis: The Alarming Convergence of Climate Change and Pandemics. Please register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DXCsTFCLSLSCudwAnRnsFQ if you haven't already done so.

Title Pages

Our staff is currently working on making title pages that will play at the opening of your shows. We're doing this to improve our production values and better identify your shows.

Thanks so much for your cooperation on these things. If you have questions, please contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Survey, Schedule and Guides

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

We hope you’ve had an enjoyable holiday break. For this week’s bulletin, we want to remind you about our EOY survey and provide you with our 2022 schedule and guides.

Survey

Please complete our short end-of-year survey by today, January 2 at https://forms.gle/kvS2q5VemnP8tFqu5. Many thanks to the 17% of you who have completed it so far.  We'll take your suggestions into consideration as we move into the new year.

2022 Broadcast Schedule

Regular schedule:

Monday, Jan. 17 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Monday, Feb. 21 - Presidents' Day

Monday, Oct. 10 - Columbus Day

Closed (building holiday):

Monday, May 30 - Memorial Day

Monday, July 4 - Independence Day

Monday, Sept. 5 - Labor Day

Thursday, Nov. 24 - Thanksgiving

We'll announce the dates of our winter break later in the year.

Guides

Please review our various guides on the ThinkTech Hawaii website and ThinkTech Hosts website. We made revisions to several of them to prepare for the new year. The most useful guides are:

Appearance Guidelines https://thinktechhawaii.com/remote-shows/

Graphics Guidelines https://thinktechhawaii.com/graphics-guidelines/

Script Suggestions https://thinktechhawaii.com/hosts-guests-2/script-suggestions/

Host Guide https://thinktechhawaii.com/hosts-guests-2/host-guide/

Prerecordings

If you want to pre-record an episode, make sure to secure approval from Jay first because it doubles our expenses for the episode. We recommend that you try using backup hosts and/or guests or reschedule the episode first. Our instructions for pre-recordings can be found here: https://thinktechhosts.blogspot.com/p/pre-recording-episodes.html.

Thanks so much for your cooperation on these things. If you have questions, please contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - End-of-Year Survey

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

For this week's Host Bulletin, please take our short end-of-year survey designed to help ThinkTech improve in 2022: https://forms.gle/kvS2q5VemnP8tFqu5

The 5 questions will only take a few minutes. Please complete it by Sunday, January 2. The results will guide us to make things even better for you and our audience for next year.

To access past Host Bulletins and other ThinkTech Hosts resources, please visit https://thinktechhosts.blogspot.com.  These are searchable, so you can use this link to research what you want to know about.

Thank you for all your hard work this past year in contributing to our unique platform to raise public awareness and promote civic engagement.  We appreciate you taking the time to complete the survey to improve our content and increase our viewership.

If you have questions, please contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

Happy Holidays, and a better New Year.  Every day better.