Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of May 29, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

Host Bulletin, Week of May 29, 2022

Fund Drive

Our Spring 2022 Fund Drive: Finding Clarity in an Uncertain World ends tomorrow! Thank you to everyone who has contributed thus far. If you haven't yet, please donate through this link or send a check to ThinkTech Hawaii, 1164 Bishop Street, Suite 603, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813. Please spread the word about our fund drive to your networks as well. We greatly appreciate your continued support.

Memorial Day

Reminder: Memorial Day is tomorrow and itʻs a building holiday, so there will be no live shows. The next building holiday is Monday, July 4, 2022. See the broadcast schedule at https://thinktechhosts.blogspot.com/p/faq.html.

Distinguished Guest Nominations

Nominations for the next ThinkTech Distinguished Guest will open on Tuesday, June1. We will send all hosts a link to nominate one of their guests from May. The slate of candidates will be the first ten nominations made. Please make sure to inform your nominee of the nomination and that we will make a short video showcasing the winner for our livestreams and social media platforms. Our Distinguished Guest for last month was Theresa Y. Wee, who appeared on "Taking Your Health Back", hosted by Wendy Loh.

EWC International Media Conference

ThinkTech Hosts are invited to the 2022 East-West Center International Media Conference at the Hawai‘i International Conference Center June 28-30. Outstanding speakers include Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and the head of Facebook security policy, and several hundred journalists from all over the Indo-Pacific. There are in-person and virtual registration options. Please let us know if you'd like a press pass for one or multiple days enabling you to participate without charge in almost everything.

Promotion Tip

Please publicize your shows in your newsletters and websites. You can also encourage guests to add links to your episodes in their newsletters and websites. This will increase the visibility of your shows and raise awareness about your content. Here are some examples of ThinkTech Host newsletters and websites showing their episodes and playlists:

https://mailchi.mp/cloudwellhealth/cwh-american-heart-month
https://sites.google.com/view/rustykomori/home
https://hawaiicouncil.org/condo-insider/

Questions, please contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of May 22, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

Host Bulletin, Week of May 22, 2022

Distinguished Guest

Our new Distinguished Guest is Theresa Y. Wee, President/Owner of the Wee Wellness Center. She appeared on "Taking Your Health Back" with ThinkTech host Wendy Loh discussing how to get back on track to better mental and physical health. Thanks to those who nominated guests and voted in this election.  Our Distinguished Guest program is going well.  Nominations for our next DG election will open on June 1.

Zoom

Try to join and have your guests join the Zoom meeting 15 minutes before the show, not only to compare notes on content, but to work with our staff to deal with any number of production issues that may arise.  We do need that time with you to prepare all participants for the show and to get decent production values.

Virtual Backgrounds vs. Blur Background

The blur background function looks very professional with its special depth-of-field effect, and it helps viewers focus on you instead of what's in the room around you. If you prefer a virtual background, then be sure to have a green screen to avoid distracting video artifacts.

ThinkTech Stats

To help promote your shows, we've created a ThinkTech Stats page at https://thinktechhawaii.com/thinktech-stats/ which will be periodically updated.  You can also use the information on our website pages:

About ThinkTech
A Brief History of ThinkTech
Press Kit

Promotion Tip

ThinkTech is for everyone! You can send the links to your show to family members—siblings, parents, kids, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc., and others you may want to stay in touch with. They will presumably like watching you and catching up with you, and share the videos with others in the family and their own networks.

Questions, please contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of May 15, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

Host Bulletin, Week of May 15, 2022

Distinguished Guest Election/Survey

Voting is open! Thanks to everyone who made nominations. Click here to cast your ballot for our ThinkTech Distinguished Guest. Vote only once, but feel free to share the link.  Our Distinguished Guest for last month was Anthony Chrisco who appeared on "Taking Your Health Back", hosted by Wendy Loh.  We also appreciate your response to our Current Events Survey. Voting closes on May 17 and we will announce the results in our email advisories on May 20. 

Joining Zoom

If you see one of the following messages when you join the Zoom call, leave the window open and wait for the engineer (the meeting host) to let you in. You can email shows@thinktechhawaii.com or call (808) 784-3426 if you have any trouble connecting.

"Waiting for host to start the meeting.” (Our engineer hasn’t started the meeting yet.)

"The host has another meeting in progress.” (The participants from the previous show are still chatting.

"Please wait, the meeting host will let you in soon.” (You are in the Zoom waiting room.)

Graphics

Graphics from social media and search engines are not necessarily in the public domain, so please do not assume they are ok to use.  Works in the public domain are usually labeled as such. Let us know if you have questions about a third party graphic. If it is not in the public domain, we need permission to use it.

Holidays

Mark your calendars!

ThinkTech’s 2022 Holiday Party and Annual Awards Ceremony is returning to the Laniakea YWCA for an in-person event (subject to changes in public health) at 5pm on Wednesday, December 7, 2022. We look forward to seeing you all there - it’ll be a great reunion. 

Here is the schedule of our holidays through the end of the year:

We are open and operating on Monday, Oct. 10 - Columbus Day
We are closed and not operating on the following days:

Monday, May 30 - Memorial Day

Monday, July 4 - Independence Day

Monday, Sept. 5 - Labor Day

Thursday, Nov. 24 - Thanksgiving

We are closed and not operating during our ThinkTech winter break:

Monday, Dec. 19 through Thursday, Dec. 29

Our regular operating schedule resumes on Monday, Jan. 2, 2023

Promotion Tip

Popular guests make for more popular shows, so reach out and try to get them on your show. Well-known guests tend to have larger followings. You can use the ThinkTech image (see below) in your email signature to impress those you want to recruit.

Questions, please contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.