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PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:25 am    Post subject: effective introductions Reply with quote
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John Sleigh
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:25 am    Post subject: Re: effective introductions Reply with quote
Gene and Joy agreed that
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The most effective introductions are written by the speaker.

I also write my own intros, as do many others that have posted on this
topic.

Just one word of warning - writing an intro is no easier than writing a
speech. In fact it is a part of writing of the speech.

As Rod (and the basic manual) point out, it should contain
Why this speaker?
Why this subject?
Why this audience?
Why this occasion or time?

Fitting that into less than minute (read sixty words) is not easy.

I would keep the manual objectives separate from the intro. These are about
what is in it for the speaker, rather than what is in it for the audience. I
agree that they should be read out as part of the educational role of
Toastmasters. Similarly, times should be announced somewhere. Neither of
these fit into a well written introduction. Between them, they add about
half a minute to the time between speeches. It is also desirable to have a
statement from the Toastmaster that links the speakers.

So now the agenda looks something like this:

Timing of all speeches by timekeeper - 30 seconds
Introduction of meeting theme or overview of manuals by Toastmaster - 1
minute
Call to lectern of first speaker - read objectives while moving up - 30
seconds
Introduction of speaker (Try doing it well in under a minute. See my sample
below. It has sixty words.)

Leading applause at end of speech
Brief (very brief) acknowledgement by Toastmaster
Call to lectern of second speaker .... and so on.

If Gene was following Joy, this is how I would do it:

Thank you Joy. You certainly have provided some interesting insights into
posting on newsgroups.
Next Gene will be recalling his experiences in another communication
setting - being introduced at conferences.
Rod will be evaluating this from the advanced manual - Say what you mean.
What can we expect, Rod?

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Objectives read
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Gene has spoken at conferences for the past five years, an opportunity many
of us aspire to. He has told me that the introduction can contribute as much
to the presentation as the first ten minutes of the speech. I am sure we can
all put his insights to immediate use.

Ladies and Gentlemen -
Gene with You're on before you're on!

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It's not easy to write your own intro, and like good speeches they are often
made more valuable by what is omitted.
You don't have to tell them everything you know, just something that they
didn't.

John
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John Sleigh DTM
Sydney, Australia
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For summaries of solutions offered by members on this newsgroup,
visit http://toastmastersfaq.blogspot.com/

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Joy
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Web53Master
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:25 am    Post subject: Re: Toastmasters WikiCity Reply with quote
It is working today. the URL changed but both the old and new should
work.

Try it again
Please visit
http://toastmasters.wikicity.com or
http://toastmasters.wikia.com/
and lend a hand and share the knowledge.
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C
Guest
PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:25 am    Post subject: Re: The Seminar Solution Reply with quote
John Fleming, DTM schrieb:

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On 9 Apr 2006 19:21:20 -0700, while chained to a desk in the
scriptorium, "rich.hopkins@gmail.com" <rich.hopkins@gmail.com> wrote:

$Y'know, I've never found a club willing to take that much time out of a
$meeting to make the discussion manual, and a few others, viable. 20-45
$minute presentations just don't make sense in a one hour setting.
$
$If it weren't for TLI's and District Conferences, I don't know if I'd
$ever get any of these done.

Visiting a low membership club provides some possibilities as well.

When I did "Discussion Leader", that's how I completed a couple of the
projects.

For the panel discussion, as long as you do some serious advance
planning, you can get that into a lot of regular club meetings. Key
thing to remember is the panel discussion needs at least three
panelists, and each panelist can use the speech portion of their panel
activities as a manual project. That way, you could kill at least four
birds with one stone--you getting credit for piloting the panel and your
three panelists each completing a manual project.
--
John Fleming, DTM
Edmonton, Canada

Attitude Boosters Toastmasters (7022-42) - Member
Chamber Toastmasters (5594 - 42) - Immediate Past President

A scientist can discover a new star but he
cannot make one. He would have to ask an
engineer to do it for him.

- Gordon L. Glegg



Hello I am still stuck on page 8 of the manual the Discussion Leader
It says:
That the groups should have only one minute each to wrap up


Point one says that they have five minutes for the buzz session and
point 7 says that they will have 6 minutes to dicuss the problem. I
know that I am missing something simple and would be grateful for any
help.
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Erich
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:25 am    Post subject: Re: Toastmasters WikiCity Reply with quote
Our district, District 74, is gearing up for a year of growth next
year.
I want to spearhead that growth. We want to grow by 12% in the first
year, and then by 20% in the four succeeding years.
If anybody has any tips on how to do that, please will you share them
with us?
We are posting our plans / experiences at
http://toastmasters.wikia.com/wiki/District

regards
erich viedge
(I hope I've posted this to the group, and not just to you, Roger!)
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Robert Smith
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:25 am    Post subject: Re: club web site contest? Reply with quote
I've come into this thread a little late and my thoughts may not be timely.
However, I don't like the "freebie" hosts sites and looked long and hard to
find a host who charges $6.25 per month for registration and hosting. I try
to take care of 4 different web sites through this host and have nothing but
praise for them as such. My home club is now taken care of by someone else
and I think he has done a good job at it. He will be updating it soon. If
you care to look at it plug in the following: http://www.prescott104.org I
guess I should mention that we are a dues paying club of 35 members and have
a little more $$ than some clubs.

Bob Smith DTM, VP Membership, Prescott TM, Prescott, AZ
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Colin William
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:25 am    Post subject: Re: club web site contest? Reply with quote
"Robert Smith" <Lrsmith@cableone.net> wrote
Quote:
I've come into this thread a little late and my thoughts may not be
timely.
However, I don't like the "freebie" hosts sites and looked long and hard
to
find a host who charges $6.25 per month for registration and hosting. I
try
to take care of 4 different web sites through this host and have nothing
but
praise for them as such.

I haven't looked at teh free hosting sites. But there are many paid hosting
companies out there that do good work for fairly little money. I use 1&1
internet for hosting my personal site, and it's $5 a month; I think they
might have a promotion right now that includes two domain names, so two
clubs could share a huge amount of bandwidth with personalized URLs for
$2.50 each per month. One can also do up to 10 subdomains, so if you could
do a general URL and then subdomains for club names you could divide up the
cost even more.

(My site is drcolin.net; there isn't much there of mine right now except
that I use it for posting web pages of our child to share with relatives at
http://aidan.drcolin.net).

Colin
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Guest
PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:25 am    Post subject: Re: club web site contest? Reply with quote
There are lots of choices for low-cost web hosting without ads. Our
club uses pays just $24/year for hosting plus about $8/year for the
domain name: less than $3/month for a very good, ad-free site.

Our club's website: http://www.starsearchtm.org
The hosting service: http://mymarkdown.com

On the other hand, if you need LOTS of storage space, check out
Bluehost.com. Our Toastmasters TV show, www.toastmastertime.com,
transferred to this service a few months ago to get 15GB for under $100
per year! We are showing over two years of past programs, and expect
to put up many more.

Geiorge Marshall
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John Fleming, DTM
Guest
PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:25 am    Post subject: Re: Awesome! Reply with quote
On Fri, 19 May 2006 03:57:49 +0100, while chained to a desk in the
scriptorium, "Knowledge" <knowledge@world.net> wrote:

Quote:
$ 100% Reliable!

I agree.

The Edmonton Oilers took a one game series lead against the Mighty Ducks
of Anaheim in the National Hockey League Western Conference final.
Another three wins and they are off to the Stanley Cup final. (Of
course, Anaheim could still win four of the seven games. )

--

John Fleming, DTM
Edmonton, Canada

Attitude Boosters Toastmasters (7022-42) - Member
Chamber Toastmasters (5594 - 42) - Immediate Past President

A scientist can discover a new star but he
cannot make one. He would have to ask an
engineer to do it for him.

- Gordon L. Glegg
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John Fleming, DTM
Guest
PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:25 am    Post subject: Re: The Second Great Depression Starting 2007 Reply with quote
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:25:13 GMT, while chained to a desk in the
scriptorium, goldtrader@smartinvestor.com wrote:

Quote:
$Believe it or not, the Second Great Depression is right around the corner !!

A guy named Ravi Batra was saying the same thing would happen back in
the early 1990s. I even have a copy of Ravi's book somewhere. And he
is not the only one who has made these kinds of predictions.

Now, give this is a Toastmasters newsgroup, perhaps an evaluation of the
audio clip is in order . . ..
--

John Fleming, DTM
Edmonton, Canada

Attitude Boosters Toastmasters (7022-42) - Member
Chamber Toastmasters (5594 - 42) - Immediate Past President

A scientist can discover a new star but he
cannot make one. He would have to ask an
engineer to do it for him.

- Gordon L. Glegg
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RICHARD MJR HAYS
Guest
PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:25 am    Post subject: Re: Ignorance Sucks! Reply with quote
This looks and sounds like a tremendous opportunity for
http://www.toastmasters.org/ or all of Toastmasters International. These
folks can educate themselves; improve their communication, leadership and
speaking skills; plus learn to become good citizens all at the same time. It
is indeed worth the effort and never too late to get started. DO IT TODAY BY
LOGGING ON ABOVE, VISITING A NEARBY CLUB, THEN GET INVOLVED. You'll be glad
you did!!!!!

Richard M. Hays, Jr. ATM-B, CL

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Richard M. Hays, Jr. aka "Rick from Mt. Washington"
1-412-512-9564 cell phone
1-412-481-0728 home phone
hays7@verizon.net home email
http://edgewood.freetoasthost.com/ Home Edgewood Toastmasters District 13
Club
http://www.d13tm.com/ District 13 Toastmasters online
http://www.metro-cities.com/ Metro Cities Communications Company. I do
podcasts on their podcasting outlet as RICK MARTIN
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of
enthusiasm." Sir Winston Churchill


<fartabulous@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1153250054.009523.90370@35g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
Quote:
http://www.ignorancesucks.com
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John Fleming, DTM
Guest
PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:25 am    Post subject: Re: Ignorance Sucks! Reply with quote
Q: What's the difference between ignorance and apathy.

A: I don't know and I don't care.
--

John Fleming, DTM
Edmonton, Canada

Attitude Boosters Toastmasters (7022-42) - Member
Chamber Toastmasters (5594 - 42) - Immediate Past President

A scientist can discover a new star but he
cannot make one. He would have to ask an
engineer to do it for him.

- Gordon L. Glegg
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betsy_in_va
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:19 am    Post subject: Re: Accepted as Distrct and Region Conference Presenter! Reply with quote
Congrats on being accepted as a District and Region Conference
Presenter! Which Conferences will you be at? If you're in Region 7 or
8, I may just be able to catch your presentation.


BTW, how did you get this opportunity? I've always wondered how people
are chosen to make the Regional Conference presentations.

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My overall topic is regarding table topics / impromptu speaking - how
to get better at them, succeed at contest, & apply to daily life.

My husband had a particularly hard time with table topics. We used to
practice them while taking long walks. The add benefit was that it gave
us something new to talk about on our walks. We also used to write down
table topics we heard at meetings that intrigued us, or we felt we
could have answered better. We put them in a bowl and then periodically
would practice in front of a video camera. That helped a lot, but we
didn;t do it very often--too much effort I guess.
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rockyromero@att.net
Guest
PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:40 am    Post subject: Re: Accepted as Distrct and Region Conference Presenter! Reply with quote
Synapse wrote:

Quote:
1) Would you want to greater focus / more time spent on general
improvement, contest, or daily life?

The short answer is yes, yes and yes.


For each of us, we need to discover a compelling reason to speak
intelligently on any given topic. For some, it may mean that their
everyday life improves simply because they exercise their mind and
their curiosity in diverse areas. This earnest curiosity may come from
a decision to be life long learners. Table Topics simultaneously
stimulates that curiosity and also creates a personal challenge to
speak elegantly.

A contest then becomes a strong reason for improving in impromptu
speaking. It's a short term, challenging goal. Contest results give
us immediate feedback to compare with our personal expectations. For
those that satisfy or exceed their expectations in a contest, they will
use that experience to continue to learn and keep discovering as much
as possible.

I have enjoyed impromptu speaking at the club level and contests, and I
am continuously challenged (as recent as yesterday) to maintain the
mini speech structure that it requires. I also set a personal
challenge to give a message daily that I record and post on
www.THANKandTHINK.com

I have noticed that the world now has embraced a video medium to share
their 2 minute messages. YouTube has a limit of 5 minutes, whereas
Google video is unlimited in length. We have all become TT talkers!

We will probably notice the craft of organized speaking becoming more
popular around the world because many now have uncovered a stronger
purpose for sharing their message effectively on this newer stage.


Rocky Romero
www.PowerVoices.com
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John Sleigh
Guest
PostPosted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:13 am    Post subject: Re: Accepted as Distrct and Region Conference Presenter! Reply with quote
Synapase has been invited to present at District and regional conference on
table topics and sought ideas.

Quote:
1) Would you want to greater focus / more time spent on general
improvement, contest, or daily life?

These are three different presentations, albeit with some overlap.

Any one of them on their own would make a great presentation. All three
together may possibly dilute the content.
I have a strong preference for sessions which involve the audience.

Are there likely to be a lot of people who intend to compete in the table
topics contest? If so, in what ways does it differ from other contests, and
in particular the international? Not just the rules, the preparation! My
first reaction to that is that you prepare for the international, while you
train for the TT contest. For the International I imagine you perfect one
(or three) speeches. For table topics you need to be able to respond to a
left field question on a wide variety of topics. This is very different and
would require a totally different approach.

Some ideas to improve your skills
- answer every question silently.
- expose yourself to a wide variety of TT masters, so maybe visits to other
clubs have a different focus - for International, it is to be evaluated. For
TT it is to hear the questions.
- When you see TV talk shows or news interviews answer the questions
yourself.
- Create a series of questions and draw them randomly from a hat. Tape your
replies.

To show the techniques at a conference, I would spend less than five minutes
explaining the principles and then move to an interactive exercise.

Prepare a PowerPoint show with about thirty very different questions and
divide the seminar into groups of about 5. Display the questions for about
thirty seconds and have one person from each group answer it to their fellow
team members. Sounds chaotic, but it works.

The thirty seconds is to get started. The feedback from the group is just
yes or no - did you start fluently on topic?

Next task is to continue. Often table topics respondents start OK but they
run out of steam.

Put up one of the topics you have already used and call for a volunteer from
one of the groups to respond to the topic so that the whole seminar can hear
it.

Back to the groups now - a member is to continue but change the focus
without repeating what has already been said, except to refer back for
support.

This would create a noisy, fun, participative session and allow you to
summarize it with the main learning points:
Get started
Keep going.

You could then call for volunteers to respond for the full two minutes to a
question that has been used, but this time, they must start, change and
conclude.

To change the pace, this time they speak to the whole seminar.

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Handouts?

I have a sample handout on my website at
http://www.johnsleigh.com.au/Resources/Tricks/handout.PDF

I usually make up a double side double sheet folded handout, with short
bursts of content on the outside and space for note taking on the inside.

Feedback has been that these are more appreciated than just a copy of the
slides I use or a transcript of my presentation. Having prompts for filling
in information adds to the interactivity.

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Expectations of conference sessions?

Participation, interaction, involvement.
Stuff I can use immediately.
Stuff I cannot get somewhere else, with links to resources in the handout.

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Lots of luck and have fun

John
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John Sleigh DTM
Sydney, Australia
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For summaries of solutions offered by members on this newsgroup,
visit http://toastmastersfaq.blogspot.com/

"Synapse" <dwindham@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
Just thought I'd get some ideas from the wealth of experience here on
the newsgroup as I'm working to cater the content to conference-goers.
I'm very glad to be able to present at this level - and would
appreciate any suggestions.

My overall topic is regarding table topics / impromptu speaking - how
to get better at them, succeed at contest, & apply to daily life.

Given the topic:


2) What do you like to see in handouts?

3) What are your expectations overall of District / Region
presentations?
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