Share Your Voices

Video Conferencing

Introduction of Video Conferencing for use for Officer training,
Advanced Club Meetings, and anything else cool we can think of.

Have any of you used this technology?

Rich Hopkins
www.richhopkins.net

Audience? Credibility or Position? or Delivery?

Would MLK's "I Have a Dream" be as good a speech if it was delivered by Bob Jones, middle class white guy, to a small group of people in Minnesota?

George Bush has the Position, and the built in Audience, but does his Delivery diminish his impact? Was Clinton's great Delivery hindered by his failing Credibility in the wake of Lewinsky?

Rich Hopkins - ATM-G

www.richhopkins.net

Coaches Who Speak & Train

What's in it for you when you join this community?

You will:

*find speakers and trainers from around the world sharing real world information in a collaborative atmosphere to help you build your skills--and your business

*get in on the ground floor of this SIG, so you can take a leadership role in creating the future

*have the opportunity to present on a call to share your expertise

*access to a toolbox of "best practices" for coaches who speak & train.

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Date: First Monday each month
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rich.hopk...@gmail.com wrote:
> One thing I learned over the summer is that
> you can never have too many sources for opinion - you simply have to
> learn to distill them effectively.

Videos on TM TV

About video file sizes and emailing them ... here in D57, we have a Toastmasters TV show (www.toastmastertime.com) with a need to distribute video.  Each month, we have a couple of guest speakers, and they generally want to see their speech.  Since the district is much larger than the cable system that our show plays on, we need to get the show video out to a ditant audience.

George Marshall

http://www.toastmastertime.com/videos.html

Video Recording speeches

This of course could be another benefit of joining your club. Build skills and experience using a video camera. You may find a group of people who want to do both - improve their speaking and improve their photography. They may also bring their own cameras to give a multi camera shoot. As long as the speaking stays the focus then it could become an interesting club - special interest in a way, not advanced in the normal meaning of the term but
certainly within the TI definition.

It could also become a service club for guests or dual members from other local clubs, for members who want to rehearse speeches, for contests, work, weddings, or just plain interest.

The down side is that it requires a lot of work outside meetings. Just editing the head and tail and putting in some credits like date and title then emailing or cutting to disc would at least double the amount of time that you allocate to a normal club meeting. Everything has to be done twice.  Record, then review / edit. Again if this was spread over the membership, or a portion of it, it could work well.

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John Sleigh DTM
Sydney, Australia
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Ask the "tough" questions

If we accept what the data tells us, that half of members drop out within 12-18 months of joining Toastmasters, as mentioned in multiple previous threads, it seems to have a significant impact.

I'm a person that naturally believes in following the data. If we have a near-50% attrition rate annually, somewhere we are missing the mark - either in our own goals or in execution.

- Is the average Toastmasters club over-promising and under-delivering?  If so, how can we do better?

- What can we offer members in a 12-18 month period?

- Are our "customers" leaving satisfied with their experience after that 12-18 months, or do they feel like they wasted their time/money?

- Are time constraints that people have in their lives making it so that cost is a less-relevant factor?

- Is the 12-18 month drop a sign of seeing no value in the advanced program beyond the CTM/CC level?

Just gotta ask the "tough" questions....

- DW in Austin

Speakers Development Sessions

Basic, Intermediate, Advanced topics on Communications & Speaking Skills

Starting on Wednesday 1/3, 1/10, 1/17  at 1pm EST, 12pm CST

Conference call at 605-772-3001, pin 534137

http://powervoices.com/sessions/index.html

Enjoy,

Rocky Romero

http://www.extremetoastmasters.com/

ps. "Ideas without action are
worthless." -- Harvey Mackay

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From: rich.hopkins@gmail.com Date: Sun, Dec 17 2006 9:14 pm Email: "rich.hopk...@gmail.com" <rich.hopk...@gmail.com> Groups: alt.org.toastmasters Not yet rated Rating:   show options This is a cool idea Rocky. Who will be hosting and participating in leading the sessions? Will you be recording these calls? Rich.

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