Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of May 8, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

Host Bulletin, Week of May 8, 2022

Fund Drive

We need your and your guests' help to keep us on the air and produce your shows. Please donate to our 2022 Spring Fund Drive through this link or send a check to ThinkTech Hawaii, 1164 Bishop Street, Suite 603, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813. We greatly appreciate your contributions.

Memorial Day

Memorial Day on Monday, May 30 is a building holiday, so there will be no live shows that day. Please let us know if you'd like to reschedule your show. See our list of observed holidays at https://thinktechhawaii.com/2022-holidays/ and https://thinktechhosts.blogspot.com/p/faq.html.

Deliverables

Email us sooner rather than later if you're having trouble with deliverables such as show information, graphics, and permission forms. The links to our Show Information Form and Graphics Guidelines (which includes the permission form) are always the same, so we recommend bookmarking them and submitting whenever possible, even before requested. All deliverables are due 10 pm the night before your show.

Beverages

We'd like to keep our productions professional, so if you need to sip your beverage during the show, please wait until you're offscreen. The engineer's Zoom window shows you the live broadcast. If your face is not there, it means you’re offscreen and thus free to sip your beverage.

Promotion Tip

Have you shared the link to your last show? You can text and email the YouTube and Vimeo links to your network - family, friends, coworkers, colleagues, and anyone else who would be interested. Feel free to use our template for sharing show links: https://thinktechhosts.blogspot.com/p/email-template-for-sharing-links.html

Questions, please contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of May 1, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

Host Bulletin, Week of May 1, 2022

Questions

It's very important to keep your Zoom chat open and answer any questions that may come in. It increases viewer engagement and makes your show more topical. Make sure to acknowledge and show appreciation to those who submit questions; otherwise they may be discouraged from viewing your show and sending future questions.

Pre-Show Checklist

The pre-show checklist will be onscreen when you join the Zoom meeting for your show. The engineer will help you run through it, but we encourage you and your guest(s) to go through the checklist when you enter the meeting.

Graphics

Want graphics for an upcoming episode? You can download free stock clips and graphics from the following sites. When you submit graphics from these sources, use our permission statement and fill in  "[  ]  The Works are in the public domain and came from [FILL IN WHERE THE WORKS WERE FOUND]."

   • Pixabay  • Pexels  • Mixkit  • Coverr  • Unsplash
   • Burst  • Kaboompics  • Stocksnap  • Canva

You can buy stock clips and graphics from the following sites. Please keep the receipt and/or license from your purchase.

   • Depositphotos  • Pond5  • Adobe Stock  • Alamy
   • iStock  • Shutterstock  • Getty Images  • 123rf

Distinguished Guest Nominations

Click here to nominate one of your guests from one of your April shows to be a Distinguished Guest! Only the first 10 nominations will make the ballot. Nominations close next Saturday, May 7 and voting will begin on May 10. The results of the election will be posted in our email advisories on May 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 Anthony Chrisco, nominated by host Wendy Loh of "Taking Your Health Back".

Promotion Tip

Help us help you! Tag ThinkTech Hawaii in your social media posts so we can share them with our viewers and followers. Type the “@” symbol and then start typing our page's name:

Facebook - @ThinkTechHawaii
Twitter - @ThinkTechHI
Instagram - @ThinkTechNews
LinkedIn - @ThinkTech-Hawaii

You can share our posts with your followers as well.

Questions, please contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of April 24, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

Host Bulletin, Week of April 24, 2022

Fund Drive

Thanks to everyone who has made donations, recorded promos, and otherwise promoted our Spring 2022 Fund Drive. Please continue to promote the drive; we've been posting about it in all our advisories, livestreams and social media. To make a donation through PayPal or with a credit card, please click here. Or send your check to ThinkTech Hawaii, 1164 Bishop Street, Suite 603, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813. Thanks so much.

Graphics

We have designed a new automated Permissions Form for all photos, graphics, video clips, audio files and live music (excepting host and guest logos and headshots, websites and graphics from our staff) you want to use in your shows. You can find the form at http://thinktechhawaii.com/graphics-guidelines/.  The permissions on the form will help us minimize the risk of infringement, appeal from claims of infringement, and allow us to use these materials on other productions.  

Zoom Update

Zoom recently updated to version 5.10.3. Please install it by (a) clicking on your profile picture in the Zoom app and clicking on Check for Updates, or by (b) downloading Zoom Client for Meetings at zoom.us/download.

Troubleshooting Video and Audio Problems

Please keep your chat box open and check it regularly. The engineer may message you about production issues.  You may need to take a 1-minute (or longer) break to resolve them. Here’s a script suggestion for breaks: https://thinktechhawaii.com/hosts-guests-2/script-suggestions/. If we have to edit the show afterward, it will take longer for us to upload it and distribute the links.

Promotion Tip

Use our resources! ThinkTechHawaii.com is our most valuable resource and is full of information about our platforms and productions. You can send potential guests a link to our Hosts page to let them know about you, and you can send them a link to our Press Kit to let them know about ThinkTech Hawaii.

Questions, please contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.