I met with Passion into Action fellow presenter (and fellow Toastmaster) (hey, she’s a fellow bicyclist, too, except that she actually bikes regularly)Robin Mallery today. We shared ideas for the workshops we’ll be leading. She’s a step ahead in that she already has her presentation together. I, on the other hand, want to talk about [...]
In each Toastmasters meeting, we are asked to answer a question for our introductions. On Tuesday morning, the question was: “If you could only grab one thing before evacuating your home, what would it be?” This question came from our club President whose home is 4 miles away from the Yuba fire (as reported on [...]
Here’s the speech I gave at Toastmasters on Tuesday. I wish I had recorded it that morning, but alas, did not. The rush of adrenaline when speaking in front of people pushes me to be more spunky and on the ball. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Or download here. References: Wikipedia’s entry on [...]
After a major rewrite of the speech done for the TV meeting, I presented my speech for our club-level International contest. My 2nd place win got me a picture (that’s me on the right) on our news source Yubanet.com. Am I withholding… ? I haven’t posted the video of the televised nor have I recorded [...]
Camera crews Originally uploaded by maxintosh One of my fellow Toastmasters, Ruth Schwartz, had the brilliant idea of a win-win-win. Our local Toastmasters clubs would get exposure in our community, The local TV station, NCTV, gets content to run, and The few of us who are on the public speaking track get experience speaking on [...]
For a small community, my little town rocks. A couple hundred people showed up this morning at the Miners Foundry in Nevada City for the live broadcast of Barak Obama‘s first official day on the job. A bunch of us don’t have TVs so watching the inauguration at home wasn’t even an option. But there [...]
Last week when we were reviewing the list of folks who had volunteered to be in today’s Evaluation contest, the list seemed awfully thin. The contests are more fun when there are a bunch of contestants, say at least 5 or 6, so I switched my job from “Counter” to “Contestant”. The proof is in [...]
