Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of January 30, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

Host Bulletin, Week of January 30, 2022.

New Staff

Introducing Max High-Cuchet, our new engineer-in-training! He'll be joining us in the studio starting Tuesday.

Max is a French-Japanese-American videographer and music producer. With years of experience as a freelancer in New York City, Max is passionate about contributing meaningful video content to Hawai’i. In his free time, you might catch Max skateboarding around Honolulu - ask him to do a kickflip!

Burning Issues

Join us for a ThinkTech Hawaii webinar this Tuesday, February 1. "Burning Issues 2022" will examine critical national issues: our insurrection, democracy, society, pandemic, and perspective. Featuring panelists John Waihee, Neal Milner, Louise Ing, Roopmati Khandekar, Jon Davidann and Tim Apicella. Please spread the word and register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1JCMWJbYRvizH-wCq_eqNQ. 

Atherton Grant

ThinkTech has received a small grant from the Atherton Foundation to conduct an Impact Project to increase viewership, contact and engagement in the community. Funds will support staff time to further develop and promote media presence, our publications, community outreach and more. The success of the project depends in part on hosts participating in promoting their own shows. More to come!

Questions

Viewers can submit questions to questions@thinktechhawaii.com. Watch your Zoom chat for them and make sure to thank the viewers. More viewers are sending questions, and we want to encourage their engagement in your shows.

Questions, please contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of January 23, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

Host Bulletin, Week of January 23, 2022.

Cameras

Place your device on a flat, stable surface to prevent camera shaking. You can use a stand or tape to hold it steady. To improve your video, consider getting a USB webcam. We recommend the Logitech C920S, but there are many others that will do the job:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/logitech-c920s-hd-webcam/6321794.p?skuId=6321794

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/webcams/c920s-pro-hd-webcam.960-001257.html

Clothing

Avoid wearing white shirts/tops - they can change your video color or blow out the image. If you use Zoom's Blur background, please wear something that distinguishes you from the background and avoid white or seersucker clothing.

Mics

Don’t accidentally cover your microphone with your notes or anything else. It creates a muffled audio. Clutter can be distracting and noisy, so keep the area around your microphone clear.  Mics will also pick up even light table taping causing background noise.

Hosts Page

Check out our new host photo and bio page on our website https://thinktechhawaii.com/thinktech-hosts/.  Thanks to those who have contributed.  If you have not, please send them to us as soon as possible. This is a great resource for guests who’d like to know more about you as host. 

Questions, please contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of January 16, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

Host Bulletin, Week of January 16, 2022

Host Bios

Reminder: please submit your bio (max 100 words) and headshot by Wednesday  to hayley@thinktechhawaii.com. We'll post them on our Hosts page on thinktechhawaii.com and make videos to promote you and your show(s) throughout the day.

Quiet Spaces

Select a quiet, indoor space 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 others are too noisy. For more Appearance Guidelines: https://thinktechhawaii.com/remote-shows/

Webinar

Our first ThinkTech Hawaii webinar was a success with over 200 registrants! You can watch Evolving Crisis: The Escalating Threat of COVID and Climate Change on our livestream on Friday, January 21 at 10 am or on demand at https://youtu.be/8SKixr3oUdM. Thank you for supporting us throughout this important project.

Survey Responses

These included some helpful ideas, such as suggestions for new shows in the arts, science, communications, economics and books.  If you have ideas for hosts that could organize these shows, please let us know. There were also some suggestions re production values, such as better sound (which we are always working on), adherence to start and end times, and minimizing opening introductions. There were suggestions about reducing restrictions on infringements, but that’s a matter of law and liability, and we can’t do that. Finally, there were some suggestions re the website, and we have been working on that anyway, but we don’t have the resources to make wholesale changes.

Questions, please contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.