Category: Club News
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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]
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Tutorial: Video Editing Basics for Toastmasters, using free software for Mac and Windows
Here is how you can trim a video, for example, to extract a specific speech from a full-meeting Zoom recording. For this tutorial, I demoed video editing principles using the Lightworks software that’s available for Mac and Windows. The free version is perfect for doing basic editing, including adding titles and transitions as shown here, [Read More]
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Survey Results: The Future of Online Toastmasters
Survey Results Following a workshop on The Future of Online Toastmasters, we got 40 responses to our survey asking about issues raised during the discussion. See also the responses received via email and the reflections by the workshop organizers. Some of the survey prompts are mutually contradictory, but participants were asked to choose the one [Read More]
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Using PowerPoint Effectively on Zoom
As experts in public speaking, Toastmasters should use PowerPoint effectively if they are going to use it at all — and there are a few additional tricks to master when using it on Zoom. This 5-minute video tutorial updates and expands on one of the most important tips I covered in a previous blog post, [Read More]
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Replay: the Future of Online Toastmasters Workshop
The video of our workshop on the Future of Online Toastmasters is included below, along with information about the participants and the results of a survey we conducted of attendees and early replay viewers. Our Panel Moderator: Marianne Grady has spent more than 20 years as an HR executive. Of late, she is providing coaching [Read More]
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Angela Heath Wins the Online Presenters Webinar Contest for 2022
Online Presenters member Angela Heath just won the 2022 edition of our club’s webinar contest. This is an unofficial contest format we invented — and encourage other online Toastmasters to try — as a way of testing skills specific to engaging with an audience online. Five top speakers from participating clubs will be invited to [Read More]
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Join Online Presenters for its Webinar Contest
Online Presenters will hold its webinar contest on Monday, and you’re invited to join us to see how it works. This is not an official Toastmasters contest, but it is an opportunity for our members to test skills specific to delivering an online speech or presentation. The winner from our contest will go on to [Read More]
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Angela Heath, Video Speech Contest Winner at Online Presenters
Angela Heath’s speech, The SOAR Card, will be submitted to Toastmasters International to be judged against other competitors in the Video Speech Contest for undistricted clubs. The second place winner was Marty Sandler with his speech, “Six.” Here is the full contest and meeting replay.