How To Submit Your Question To ThinkTalk.com

By on December 22, 2008

This blog was written by our ThinkTalk Tech-dork Tony. Tony is the post-production coordinator for ThinkTalk Networks (he edits the show and creates all the graphics). He is a native of Washington DC, born and raised, and attended Emerson College for his liberal arts degree in Video Production. His parents raised him with healthy helpings of video games, music and cartoons. If you have any questions, you can email Zack Sherwood, ThinkTalk host extraordinaire at zack@thinktalk.com.

So you want to submit a question to ThinkTalk eh? Well, it’s easy as 1, 2, 3, 14 (damn you Bono!)

Obviously your first step is to navigate your way to ThinkTalk.com and register to become a member of the ThinkTalk community. Do this by clicking the “Join Now!” button at the top of the page next to the login box. Once you have your new login and password go ahead and sign in.

At this point you will need to browse our upcoming guests section on the video tab at the bottom of our home page, and choose the guest you will be engaging with. If you navigate to the guests profile page you will be provided with links to their respected works, as well as articles they have also been featured in. This should provide you with enough background information to formulate a stimulating and engaging question.

Once you know what you want to ask all you have to do is record it. This is the hard part, because you are going to have to use your own equipment to record your question. However, the nice part is that ThinkTalk will accept any file format you give us, just as long as it is:

• < 3 minutes in length
• < 100mb in size
• Formatted NTSC (for international students only)

Formatting in NTSC simply means you are using a video camera or device that was purchased in the United States. Anywhere else in the world and your format follows the PAL system. This only applies to video recording equipment and not to image recording devices like digital cameras. Sounds kinda funny right? Get use to this inefficiency...the world enjoys not making any sense.

So, if you have a digital camera lying around that takes videos…or if you can manage to get video off your phone…or you just so happen to own a $20,000 film camera…I think you get the point. The fact is YOU have to record yourself asking the question and we will incorporate it into the show.

When you are ready to upload your question just navigate to the guest’s page who you are directing your question toward, and click “ask a question”. The following page will provide you with an area to upload your question. That’s it!

Once you are done we will review your question. If your question makes the cut then you can expect it to be featured in the show when it goes live on our website. I hope this helps you with any problems you might have incurred while submitting to Thinktalk. If you have any further technical questions about submitting a question drop Zack a line zack@thinktalk.com.