Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Video Added
We have a new 16 min video on club roles and responsibilities on our Helpful Videos page.
If you’d like to view it directly, go to Club Roles.
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Supercharged Commenting
Fellow Toastmasters,
I saw a couple of cool new features and went ahead and installed them. The first is called KeywordLuv. It allows you to put the keywords of a site of your choice in the name field to improve your SEO. If you have a personal or company website, you can include the keywords with [...]
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
“Jackie Robinson” Meeting Recap 4/23/08
This meeting theme was UNPRECEDENTED!! Jackie Robinson just broke yet another barrier.. a PERSON can be a theme now. Next week, I propose the theme be “Eric Peterson” in honor of his Toastmaster skills this week.
Louis knocked table topics out of the park with incredibly on-topic yet fun to answer questions. As [...]
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
“The Big Screen” Recap 4/16/08
Extras, Extras!
Our meeting this week STARTED with a standing ovation for Stuart’s well-performed invocation. But Rey was the (really bright neon green) star of the show as Toastmaster. Or was it Maria, who dramatically acted out scenes from Titanic, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and more to introduce her table topic questions.
Brenda, a previous [...]
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Capital City at the Division L Area Contests
Capital City Toastmasters shine at back-to-back Area Contests!
Keith Smith did a terrific job as Toastmaster of the Area L-40 Contest yesterday. He was polished as well as entertaining. Most attendees did not realize how hard they were going to laugh at 9:30 in the morning.
Reynetta Deveau did us proud by taking home a trophy from [...]
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Tips from Al Gore’s Speechwriter
Fellow Toastmasters,
There was a fairly good post on The Blog of Timothy Ferriss yesterday. It was tips from Al Gore’s Speechwriter. It covers the essentials very well and even has Tim breakdancing at SXSW.
From Al Gore’s Speechwriter: Simple Tips for a Damn Good Presentation (Plus Breakdancing)
Enjoy!
Louis
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Time waits for no one Recap 4/9/08
Our last-minute toastmaster volunteer Louis was second to none in this timely meeting. And with just one speaker time was definitely on Sheena’s side today, waiting patiently for all nine table topic-ers to answer her questions. Eric, Gene and Carol were at the top of the hour: They went on a wild adventure from San [...]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Opening Season Recap 3/02/08
Hey batter-batter-batter-batter…
Ace hitter Brendan Owens stepped up to the plate as today’s Toastmaster and wow - if I knew how to use the term “wheelhouse” correctly in a sentence, I’d be doing it right now.
Table Topics Master Maureen McReynolds threw out her best sinkers, sliders and spitballs. Wendy showed us her CURVE, Corky corked his bat, Jason [...]