Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of November 6, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

Host Bulletin, Week of November 6, 2022

Distinguished Guest Nominations are Open

Click here to nominate a guest from one of your October shows to be selected a Distinguished Guest! Only the first 10 nominations will make the ballot. Nominations close tomorrow, November 7 and voting will begin on the 10th. Distinguished Guest Election results will be posted in our email advisories on November 20. The winning candidate will be profiled in a short video for our livestreams and social media. Last month's winner was Cyber Bunny, nominated by host Wendy Loh of "Taking Your Health Back".

Testing Sound

Single words or short phrases are not enough for testing audio before the show, so make sure to talk with your guests and our engineers so they can get enough sound to check the audio. The engineer may ask you a question (e.g., "How's the weather?") to help you along. Please answer in some detail, and keep on talking until the engineer asks you to stop.

Clothing

Clothes that are white, striped, seersucker or have small patterns like checkers or dots can create distracting video artifacts around your head and shoulders, so please avoid them. Instead, wear clothing that distinguishes you from the background.

Introducing Your Guest

Try to keep guest introductions to 1-2 sentences each. A long, detailed introduction is always boring and loses viewers. Tell your viewers who you are, connect your episode to your series, and then briefly introduce your guests and get to the point asap with your first question. See our script suggestions at https://thinktechhawaii.com/hosts-guests-2/script-suggestions/. Then, as the show unfolds, weave the guest's background into the conversation.

Promotion Tip

Use business cards to create a good impression as a ThinkTech Host. You can visit or email Professional Image to print 100 cards in one day. The current price is $27. VistaPrint.com prints 100 cards for a current price of $18. You can use the design from host Peter Rosegg's presentation as a template. Make the suite number 603 if you include the address. If you ask them to overlay a “PRESS” watermark, that will be even better.

Please regularly review past Host Bulletins and other resources - it leads to better shows.

Questions, contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of October 30, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:

Host Bulletin, Week of October 30, 2022

Fund Drive

Our Fall 2022 Fund Drive, Video with Vision: Always Learning, starts Tuesday! Please spread the word amongst your networks. Thank you to everyone who has recorded promos, promoted our drive thus far and made an early donation. You can donate through the button below, or send a check to ThinkTech Hawaii, 1164 Bishop Street, Suite 603, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813. We appreciate your help and support.

  DONATE  

Time Changes

Daylight Savings Time will end next Sunday, Nov. 6, 2021. Hawaii time stays the same, but clocks for most other time zones will move an hour back, so the time difference for them will be 1 hour less. Reminder to reconfirm times for your shows if you or your guests are on the mainland.

Graphics

As a ThinkTech Host, you are more familiar with our Graphics Guidelines and resources than any guest. For that reason, you are responsible for completing the permission form and ensuring that all graphics for your show follow the guidelines. If you have questions or need help, please let me know at hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

Playlist Views

Have you checked your playlist views? As host Martin Despang pointed out during this year's Host Meeting, you can see them when you click the link to your show's YouTube playlist. use your show playlist see the number of times people viewed your show playlist. Please note that this is different from total video views: https://tubefluence.com/how-does-youtube-count-playlist-views/

Promotion Tip

Submit your episodes to online media platforms, such as local news sites and organization newsletters. For example, you can write an article for Civil Beat's Community Voices and include related information from your shows. This tip comes from Peter Rosegg, who presented on this topic during the Host Meeting. See his article at https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/09/a-two-wheel-revolution-is-happening-on-oahu/

Please regularly review past Host Bulletins and other resources - it leads to better shows.

Questions, contact hayley@thinktechhawaii.com.

Bulletin to ThinkTech Hosts - Week of October 23, 2022

Dear ThinkTech Hosts:
Host Bulletin, Week of October 23, 2022

Thanks to all who joined this year's Host Zoom Meeting! In case you missed it or want to see it again, watch the video below.

This was the agenda:

1. Creating shows (finding and prepping guests, gathering information and graphics) - Host Kathleen Lee
2. Sending show information and graphics (titles and tagline, forms, schedule, deadlines, cancellations) - Hayley
3. How to look and sound good (equipment, software, location, computer and Zoom settings) - Michael
4. Show content (subjects, opening/closing, introductions, framing questions, interruptions, content flow) - Eric
5. Promoting your shows (email, social media, personal networking and other publicity techniques) - Host Peter Rosegg
6. ThinkTech planning directions (format, coverage, viewership, fundraising, future projects) - Jay and Carol
7. Dates for your calendar: no show recordings Thanksgiving Day 11/24; Annual Awards Ceremony 12/8, 5-7:30pm; no show recordings during Holiday break 12/19-1/1/23 - Jay and Carol

The presentations are available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19FPuf63Ql2OuWEiH6LJuBxOJL1TJRa-Q?usp=sharing.

If you have any questions about the discussion, please let us know.

Note that our 2022 Fall Fund Drive is about to begin.  Please contribute as much as you can to keep us going.

Thanks so much, everybody.  Great to see so many of you.  Looking forward to “meeting" again next year.

Best,
Hayley