What do you need to prepare a Toastmasters’ hybrid meeting?

We have been asked around because, in our group, we do meetings hybrid. Although in-person events are always preferred, we have found that they have some more advantages than disadvantages.

• When you can attend, but cannot make it in person, due to time, sick children, tired, sick, .or you are on a trip 3000km away, and you want to come….you name it.
• Guests from all around the world can come and will enrich the meeting, especially if they do a General Evaluation of the meeting!

How to set it up?

The minimum is a laptop, with a webcam and a microphone. You can use a mobile phone with zoom installed as an additional microphone or camera and microphone. The other microphone might be necessary to put it closer to the speaker. The laptop can also act as a screen and also microphone! This probably isn’t helping you at this time… but bear with me.

There should be another person with a laptop for the timer. Some resources here https://tampere.toastmasters.fi/resources/ that I copy-paste in this post.

Download backgrounds -> [link] [General INFO: click here]. I found a cool web for timer [here], and this one that can remove the countdown [here], and this other one can add the names [here].