Category: Club News
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Jim Barber Wins the 2023 Humorous Speech Contest
Congratulations to our contestants #1 Jim Barber #2 Andriy Smolenko #3 Kim Leaming The video below is just the 3 speeches and the awards ceremony. Here’s the complete replay, including Table Topics and an additional speech.
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Replay: Jim Barber Wins the 2023 Online Presenters Webinar Contest
Online Presenters member Jim Barber won the club’s 2023 webinar contest, an unofficial contest format the club created to test skills specific to speaking online (learn more). Online Presenters will also host a June 12 event featuring members of other clubs as the contestants (details). Graham Cairns placed second, and Andriy Smolenko placed third. Club [Read More]
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Webinar Contest Update and Advice to Competitors
We’re looking forward to our “invitational” webinar contest on June 12. Toastmasters from other clubs wishing to register to compete in our June 12 please register here. Or sign up to attend as a guest. The June 12 contest will be only for invited guest speakers. You can see a replay of the club’s own [Read More]
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“Understanding How Online Speaking is Different,” David F. Carr, DTM
Online Presenters founding President and current VPE David F. Carr delivered this collection of tips accumulated from years of speaking at and leading online events at a recent Bell Noon Toastmasters open house event. It features clips from an interview with and presentation by Mike Carr, the 2020 World Champion of Public Speaking (no relation [Read More]
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The Webinar Contest Returns for 2023
Online Presenters will host two editions of its homegrown webinar contest this year, including a June 12 “invitational” contest where the contestants will be invited guest speakers. To attend, please fill out this RSVP form. The club’s own webinar contest was held on May 8 (watch the replay) and won by Jim Barber. While the webinar [Read More]
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Replay: Yoodli’s Sharan Jhangiani on the AI Speech Coach
Yoodli Head of Product Sharan Jhangiani was a guest speaker at the February 27 meeting of Online Presenters, showing how the artificial intelligence speech coaching tool can help you improve your word choice and ah-um-free delivery. Yoodli provides feedback based on a video clip dictated into the system, captured from a Zoom session, or uploaded. [Read More]
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Guest Speaker from Yoodli (AI speech coach) on Feb. 27
This coming Monday we’ll be joined by Sharan Jhangiani of Yoodli, the company with the artificial intelligence speech coach tech you’ve been hearing so much about, offered to Toastmasters free through Toastmasters International. Jhangiani, who is head of product at Yoodli, will speak toward the end of our regular Monday meeting — and he will [Read More]
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How to Do Hybrid Right: Workshop Replay and Resources
Toastmasters leaders need to know how to do hybrid right and fully understand both the benefits and the challenges of holding meetings and events, including contests, with mixed online and in-person participation. This workshop can help. Workshop leader Graham Cairns shared his own experiences but also interviewed Alexandre Matte (2nd place winner in the World [Read More]
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Oct. 24 Workshop: 2nd Place World Championship Winner Alexandre Matte on Being a Virtual Participant in a Hybrid Contest
For our upcoming workshop on “How to do hybrid right,” we will be joined by Alexandre Matte, who finished second in the World Championship of Public Speaking as a virtual competitor against others who were in person at the Toastmasters International Convention in Nashville. If you haven’t seen his speech, we’ve embedded it here. along [Read More]
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Worth Watching: Darren LaCroix, Mark Brown, and Mike Davis on What Made the World Championship Speeches Work
I stumbled across a LinkedIn version of this speech critique series and thought it was worth sharing. Darren LaCroix and Mark Brown, both former World Champions and speech coach Mike Davis talk about what made the top 3 speeches work — and how even these winner’s circle competitors could have made their speeches better. Perhaps [Read More]