Women’s Leadership Conference
We are always thinking about good uses of the “Virtual Space” where we are spending so much time. While virtual events began as a necessity, they are showing true staying power. There are some advantages to virtual events like a widespread reach and more enthusiastic...
How Lime Crane Survived the Pandemic and Adapted to Change
The COVID-19 Crisis Changed Everything a Year Ago. Here’s How Lime Crane Adapted to Change.Friday, March 13, 2020. That date is etched into our collective memories as the day when everything changed. Only days before, the novel coronavirus affecting other countries...
Secrets of the 15 Minute ‘Tech-Check’
How Lime Crane Ensures Your Virtual Presentation is Ready for PrimeTime One of the hallmarks of our service is how amazing we make our clients look and sound during their virtual presentation. They are often beyond surprised with how professional and polished our...
How To Pull Off a Seamless Virtual Graduation
Lime Crane recently had the honor of producing a virtual graduation ceremony for a nationally recognized arts school in California. Here’s what we did to make the event a resounding success.When it comes to significant milestones for young people, perhaps there is...
How to Personalize Your Virtual Conference
Is Your Company Pivoting to a Virtual Conference This Year? How to Recreate an In-Person Conference Experience. There’s nothing like acquiring those face-to-face business connections like the ones you make at an in-person industry convention, but in-person gatherings...
Is Microsoft Teams Good for Online Meetings? It Depends.
Are you thinking about subscribing (or resubscribing) to Microsoft Teams this year? You’re not alone. This team communications platform was built for Office 365 users. It has many desirable features that any remote worker would love. But when it comes to hosting...
What’s Your Internal Communications Strategy for 2021?
How to Launch a Successful Internal Communications Strategy for the Year Ahead 2020 has been a wild year for most businesses, leaving internal communications managers scrambling and looking for alternative ways to communicate with their workforce. We don’t have a...
A Lime Crane Virtual Town Hall Success Story!
How Lime Crane Helped an Insurance Company Make a Seamless Shift to Remote Communications Lime Crane is known for our diverse range of corporate video communications services, but perhaps it’s our signature turn-key virtual production service that makes us stand out...
CEO’s Holiday Message
Corporate Leaders Can Boost Employee Morale with a Thoughtful Holiday MessageThe way you choose to support, motivate, inspire, and engage your employees right now will set the tone for the new year ahead. 2020 has been a doozy, and many corporate employees feel...
Very Merry Gift Guide
This holiday gift guide will enhance the WFH virtual meetings of everyone on your nice list. We bet you have friends or someone in your life who is working from home and spending a lot of time in virtual meetings. So we've put together this gift guide with some...
Get to Know Lime Crane Lead Editor, Julie van Jaarsveld
"The tricky thing with production is that there is always more to know. It's this unusual intersection of art and technology that forces you to be creative and technical simultaneously. I think that's what I love most about it and what's kept me inspired all these...
How to NOT Look Like a Ghoul in Your Next Virtual Meeting
Follow these Pro Tips to Look and Sound Your Best in Your Next Virtual Meeting The shift to video conferencing has resulted in a lot of cringeworthy virtual appearances. Our own video production team has received countless inquiries asking for advice on how to...
Still Virtual After COVID
How COVID Has Changed In-Person Events & Meetings Forever "Even when in-person events resume, virtual and hybrid formats will remain a go-to…Event technology will become the connective tissue between in-person and virtual attendees, serving a critical and...
Get To Know Lime Crane Director, Michael Hamilton
“Lots of communication, calm, and quick decision making are what makes every show a success. The key is relying on your team. You have to trust that everyone will do their job and be their best.”- Michael Hamilton If you don’t already know, the award-winning team at...
Why You Need Drone Photography In Your Corporate Video
If you want to create a unique corporate video that stands out from the rest, we have two words for you: drone photography. There are a number of reasons you’ll want to consider adding drone photography to your corporate video marketing strategy, but here are just a...
Key Differences Between Webcasting & Video Conferencing
Virtual meetings and webcasts are having a real "moment" in history thanks to a growing remote workforce. Business communicators have had to learn lots of new tools all at once, and it’s no wonder there’s confusion about new terms and technology. We want to help....
How to Create Video Content That People Actually Want to Watch
You’ve heard the term “a picture is worth a thousand words”- imagine how many words an engaging video is worth! Marketers already know that video content is among the most valuable digital marketing tools available. According to a recent marketing report, video beat...
Five Virtual Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits
Social distancing requirements continue to cancel in-person events, making virtual events more important than ever. All event organizers must rethink how to do things, and fundraisers are no exception. The good news is that, with a little creativity, most in-person...
5 Pro Acting Tips to Make Your Webcast Pop
William Shakespeare once wrote "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” In reality, we are all actors to some degree. Whether it’s interacting (see what we did there?) with others in day-to-day situations or communicating with team members...
How 2020 Political Candidates Are Embracing Virtual Campaign Events
Election season is here and that means there has been a significant uptick in town halls hosted by politicians running for office on a local, state, and national level. Townhall meetings are an essential component of American democracy and an important opportunity for...
Webcasting Tips from the Pros
New to webcasting? You’re not alone. In a matter of months, the COVID-19 crisis has fundamentally changed how we conduct corporate meetings, events, conventions, town halls, and more. Expecting hundreds if not thousands of people to gather in one place is no...
Large Virtual Meetings and Live Video
Savvy corporate leaders who communicate with remote team members know that live video is much more engaging and interactive than audio conferencing. While working from home, leaders must find a substitute for in-person town halls and all hands meetings. Leaders need...
Successful Virtual Meetings
Under the best of circumstances, as soon as one or two attendees “dial in” to any meeting, productivity starts to suffer. There’s a long list of reasons. Attendees often interpret virtual meetings as a license to multi-task. Meeting organizers tend to be less careful...
How a Virtual Town Hall Works
Lime Crane's unique webcasting solution enables clients to stream live town halls and panel discussions with every employee in their entire organization - even while all speakers, staff, and production crews are working remotely. We integrate our webcasting technology...
Prepare for Your Remote Webcast
A webcast provides the immediacy of important messaging, the personable feel of a face-to-face meeting, and interactive engagement with employees. You can use webcasting to host meetings between management and staff members in remote locations - think of it as a...
Plan the Perfect Webcast
Webcasting is a collaborative endeavor between you and your audience. And while a webcast is presentation-based, it should not be a one-way street. The best communicators don’t approach their presentation as a linear experience. Good hosts allow each presentation to...
Your Webcast Needs Professional Crew
Webcasting an event for your company is a fantastic idea. You can reach a large audience, with little interruption of employee schedules or downtime in productivity, and much less of an impact on leadership's time. It’s also one of the most complex events to produce....
Working from Home with Webcasts
Worries surrounding the threat of COVID-19 have resulted in unplanned travel restrictions and cancelled the traditional quarterly town hall. It can be tempting to put a hold on corporate messaging because of these restrictions and employees working from home, but in...
Corporate Uses for Webcasting
Web broadcasting is simply broadcasting over the internet. Webcasts can consist of either pre-recorded video or Lime Crane's signature service - an interactive live stream of projects currently in progress, or time sensitive announcements. Here are some of the many...
Webcasting vs. Live Streaming
"Webcasting vs. live streaming, what's the difference?"If you’ve ever had this thought, you are in good company. A combination of new media, technological terms and hybrid words has fueled misunderstanding. We're going to clear up any confusion you may have...
Tips & Tricks for Trick-or-Treat Pix
Tired of the dark, blurry photos you get while trying to capture the cuteness every Halloween? If your family chooses to trick-or-treat this year, you will rule social media with a dizzying array of your photogenic kids, in all their crystal-clear glory. Here's the...
To Teleprompt or Not to Teleprompt? Answering Your Questions
We shoot a LOT of talking head messages at Lime Crane. Several times a week, we have a client that needs to record a short 5 minute message about a new initiative, give an update on long term goals, or make an appearance in an orientation video. Because of their tight...
Take Great Stadium Selfies
This photography post is brought to you by fall sports. Football and baseball games are prime opportunities for entertaining out of town guests and clients alike. Grab this opportunity to post a selfie with your client having a great time at the game. To snap a good...
Watch-Worthy Travel Videos
Whenever you go on vacation, you take lots of videos on your camera or cell phone, right? Don’t wait to look at them for two years when you are trying to free up space on your camera roll. Make something with them! Share with everyone. Let's go one step further and...
Getting those adorable doggy pics
Puppy Dogs are the absolute cutest, but have you ever wondered why the pictures are often blurry and disappointing? Our own Dr. Claudia went out this week with her brand new 3 month old plott hound, Aurora (named for Sleeping Beauty - she loves naps as much as her...
Can I just Skype in?
When Executives don’t want to travel, remote presenting is... easy? One of the best benefits of live streaming is that you can speak directly to your employees without having to fly them all in. With this thinking, it makes sense that you could do this for VPs...
Your Q&A Session is BORING
Avoid the same old, same old phrases that everyone says after every meeting. "And now it’s time for our Q&A session…" These words can spell death (or life!) for your quarterly meeting. When we are watching the statistics for viewership on a live stream, it’s at...
Pro Tips to Make Your iPhone Video Rock
We have shot on a hundred different cameras from cheap to expensive to OMG expensive. Everyone has a phone all the time, so being able to grab a clip and use that video is a great addition to your arsenal. Here are a couple of tips to make your videos rock! For video:...