http://www.capital-city-toastmasters.org Welcome to Capital City Toastmasters of Austin, Texas! Thu, 08 May 2008 16:35:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Capital City Friends, Can a theme make a meeting or what? Toastmaster Jason Callendar chose "Music of the 80's" - an AWESOME theme that seemed to resonate with everyone: from love songs (think Lionel Richie and Journey) to inspirational anthems (think Survivor and Queen) to Disco hits (Donna Summer) to ... http://www.capital-city-toastmasters.org/music-of-the-80s-recap-050708/ 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. http://www.capital-city-toastmasters.org/video-added/ 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 ... http://www.capital-city-toastmasters.org/supercharged-commenting/ 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 ... http://www.capital-city-toastmasters.org/jackie-robinson-meeting-recap-42308/ 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 ... http://www.capital-city-toastmasters.org/the-big-screen-recap-41608/ 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 ... http://www.capital-city-toastmasters.org/capital-city-at-the-division-l-area-contests/ 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 http://www.capital-city-toastmasters.org/tips-from-al-gores-speechwriter/ 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 ... http://www.capital-city-toastmasters.org/time-waits-for-no-one-recap-4908/ 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, ... http://www.capital-city-toastmasters.org/opening-season-recap-30208/ He already gave a table topic as a guest, and is signed up to give his icebreaker next week!  We voted him in unanimously based on his 3 answers: fav color:  Orange fav cartoon: Beavis and Butthead?! AND he knew that Bob Denver played Gilligan!  bonus! Welcome, David! http://www.capital-city-toastmasters.org/new-member-david-jorgensen/