Lessons Learned

My 11th year in Toastmasters should be an interesting and challenging one, at least when it comes to my skills.  Here are some plans I have for this year:

Submit a proposal for the upcoming District 30 Spring Conference to present a session on Social Media, in particular how LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter can benefit Toastmaster [...]

Well this is Tim Bolger’s finest hour, over 12 hours of video from last weekend’s District 30 Fall Conference can be viewed here.  Most notable include both the Evaluation and Humorous Speech Contests, won by Rahsaan Brown of South Suburban #5534 and Bob Chikos of Crystal Lake #2724 respectively.  Many of the educational sessions can [...]

As mentioned in the last post, I was considering using Twitter to give my updates when I was at the Fall Conference.  Turns out that the conference committee was encouraging using the social media tool, asking us to use the hashtag #TMD30 when we send our “tweets” (click here for the most recent tweets).  During [...]

With the Fall Conference taking place next weekend, here are some things I’m thinking about as I look forward to some of the festivities:

Looking forward to seeing many old friends and new faces as the last District 30 event I attended was the Spring Conference (I was out golfing during the Summer TLI).
Definitely will be [...]

Tim Bolger, who has been our video cameraman for some of the District 30 events the last 3 years, has put some recent videos online at Motionbox.  Events include the last District 30 and District 54 Spring Conferences (the D54 one has a visit from then-International President Jana Barnhill), the last D30 Summer TLI and [...]

Not long after the District 30 Spring Conference, it appears work is now under way for the Fall Conference coming up on November 13th and 14th.  After last Thursday’s North Suburban meeting, one member who was on the Spring Conference committee mentioned that he will be the Publicity Chair for the Fall Conference.  He also [...]

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 [...]

After a year and a half absence from District 30 conferences, I did attend their Fall Conference this weekend.  Unlike previous times when I attended the entire conference, I decided this time to only take part of select festivities so I can try to be more selective as to who I want to be there [...]

About this time of the year with Area and Division contests taking place comes publicity for next month’s Fall Conference.  I’m not sure how much work has been done to promote the conference as I’ve only attended one Area Contest, but I’m sure some clubs are announcing this as often as possible.  The Club President [...]