HSC Toastmasters

11/01/2017

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween! We had our first Table Topics meeting in a while, and all attendees had a chance to speak, including our guests, Acham and Michael. Costumes, candy, and the colour orange--oh my!

See you next week, and don't forget to sign up for roles early.

10/19/2017

Congratulations Sean who placed 2nd in the Evaluation Contest (that is Thecla receiving a certificate on Sean's behalf) and Richard for 1st place in the Humorous Speech Contest for Division F!
Way to go!! Richard will be competing at the District 64 Speech contest on Saturday October 28 at the Holiday Inn South. We should all come out and support him!

10/12/2017

Congratulations Sean and Richard on winning the Area 64 Evaluation and Speech contest!! Good luck at the Division F contest

10/04/2017

Lots of great stories today, from the drunken marathon to the half-naked groom and metabolic shock workouts. I'm never disappointed by the energy and hilarity of our group! See you next week, where Carl will be giving us his second speech.

09/26/2017

Great open house today. The cookies and Timbits were especially appreciated. Thank you all for your contributions and enthusiasm!

Don't forget to sign up for roles next week. Everything besides Speech Evaluator is still open. Check your leadership manual and see what you can check off, or snap up that opportunity to be the Toastmaster. It's a huge opportunity to mix prepared speech elements with improvisation. If you feel overwhelmed, you can always ask for support on our private Facebook group.

HSC Toastmasters Login to Sign Up for Roles Tuesday October 3, 2017 12:05 PM Toastmaster of the Day: The Toastmaster of the day welcomes everyone and introduces the theme of the meeting. Grammarian: Introduces their role and the Word of the Day for the meeting. Speaker: Speaker delivers a prepared s...

09/21/2017

Congratulations Richard and Sean for completing your Competent Communicator Manuals!

09/05/2017

Hello, fellow Toastmasters!

Thanks for another great meeting today. Having done the Facebook and Wordpress stuff for a while, I've concluded that each platform has strengths: Facebook is better for frequent updates, while the Wordpress blog is better suited to a newsletter where we can have longer pieces on significant events. For example, we could do a piece on our upcoming open house, or Richard's completion of the first manual as of today (congratulations!). Twice-monthly or monthly are good intervals for that. I also want to all members to know that they are welcome to write something for the blog. You can even post it without attaching your name to it, but still use the platform to share relevant information. It's simple enough to do: either send me what you want to post, or I can change your user permissions so you can do it on your own. Hope everyone has a great week!

Sean

P.S. Excellent job taking roles and RSVPing! We're in the groove now and it's great. If want a reminder on managing your profile and basic functions, follow the link below to the 12-minute orientation video.

This video covers the basics of how you change your password, set up your profile, and start signing up for meeting roles. Related blog post: Video: New Member Orientation for WordPress for Toastmasters

09/03/2017

We filled so many roles last meeting, but don't forget to sign up online! Let's also start thinking of ideas to drive some traffic to our open house in late September so more people see how fun we are.

Table Topics Meeting Posted on September 3, 2017 by Sean Carlson Gotta love these meetings. All in all our Topicsmasters Carl and Richard did five Table Topics questions, versus our typical two. A couple of our speakers got to do multiple questions, and adeptly applied the feedback they got on the p...

08/23/2017

One more meeting left of the summer season :( Because we'll all be busy taking advantage of the last week-- if it doesn't keep raining-- we'll have a relaxed Table Topics meeting. Be sure to take a role and RSVP, ideally by Friday!

“Fake News and Other Mythology” Posted on August 23, 2017 by Sean Carlson Although it was a bit smaller today, Matt had us thinking critically today about what we thought we knew (turns out Einstein was, in fact, really good at math as a child). Our word of the day was “Folklore”, which suited the t...

08/15/2017

Epic meeting today. To save us from having to double up, please claim roles early and ensure that you also RSVP "Yes" on the sign-up sheet. Meetings are scheduled up until October 31; be accountable to yourself and sign up well in advance!

“Basements” Posted on August 15, 2017 by Sean Carlson Summer must be coming to a close as vacationers return and our meetings get bigger and bigger. The theme of “basements” led us into Anisa’s creative Table Topics questions about building foundations, and the objects we choose to keep in our (freq...