[vcf-midatlantic] VCF East 2024 videos

[Christian Liendo]

Hi.. No I wasn't your mic runner.

I'm not trying to place blame or anything ,but trying to address an
issue that needs to be addressed.

Both speakers and volunteers want this to work out and in the moment
of execution things fail and we just need to figure out what to do.

Presenters are just trying to get through their presentation, they
have a lot on their mind and I get that.

We just need to work together to ensure it goes smoothly and as
professionally as we can.

I think volunteers and presenters should meet before to go over things
prior to the speech

I think there needs to be a written best practice for the presenters
and runners , so they understand each other and can work together.

I don't see more mic runners happening as getting volunteers is difficult.


On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 11:10 AM Crawford Griffith
<h.crawford.griffith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Christian,
>
> Yes, I was definitely part of the problem!
>
> 1. I encouraged spontaneous feedback/questions
>
> 2.  I did not identify the questioner.
>
> 3. I did not wait for the mic to get to the audience member before answering.
>
> Sorry for all of the above, and especially sorry to you personally if you were stuck with my presentation.  Looking for a way to make this better without making it harder on the show volunteers ...
>
> Maybe we suggest that the speakers bring an additional mic runner person with them to help out?  More mics? And ask the audience to pass them?
>
> Or how about making the presenters volunteer as a mic runner *before* their presentation?
>
> -Crawford
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2024, 10:31 AM Christian Liendo <cliendo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was a mic runner. And honestly it was very difficult because the
>> speakers wouldn't work with me.
>>
>> I would search for people to raise their hand and be there with the
>> mic and the speaker would pick someone else and I would try and run
>> there but it wouldn't be in enough time.
>>
>> I did a pre-presentation talk but it didn't help.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 10:23 AM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic
>> <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > 1) Get mic runners to ask people to speak into the microphone.
>> > 2) Remind speakers to repeat the question.