Lessons Learned

District 30′s own Mike Raffety, who just finished his term as International Director from Region V, reactivated his website earlier this month as he is making a run for Second Vice President of Toastmasters International for the 2011-2012 year.  As International Director, he was told by TI two years ago to deactivate his website as [...]

I posted the following on my Facebook page the day of the District 30 Nominating Committee meeting which was March 27th: The District 30 Toastmasters Nominating Committee meeting is held today at the Bensenville Library. Be interested in finding out who is running and if there will be any contested races for the Top 3 [...]

After paying attention to the issues surrounding Proposal A the last five months and commenting them on LinkedIn and my Facebook page, I’m sure you want my opinion of this.  I’ve been reading both the pros and cons of the issue, hearing from those who have criticize the proposal as well as those from Toastmasters [...]

I did attend the Friday night and Saturday night portions of the District 30 Spring Conference held this past weekend.  During the day on Saturday, I was at Broken Arrow in Lockport playing a round in my singles golf group, with no plans of finding out who won the D30 elections that morning until I [...]

As mentioned in the previous post, the contested races in both District 30 and in International seemed to interest me.  It is great to see competition as the voters do get to decide who would be serving us, so it is up to the candidates to get their messages across and listen to those who [...]

For a while, I’ve resigned to the likely possibility that District 30′s Lt. Governor of Marketing Blagojevich (not his last name, but no different from the ousted Illinois Governor in many ways – appearance, style and even ethics) will be the District 30 Governor in two years.  I was looking at some options in the [...]

Being part of an organization devoted to public speaking and leadership, it’s basically a given that there are Toastmaster members who have ambitions of serving in public office and confident that the skills they learned in Toastmasters would guide them through their campaign and through their term if elected. Here in District 30 we have [...]