Category: News
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“The Elements of Online Presentation Style,” David F. Carr, DTM
David F. Carr, DTM, shares practical tips from his own experience and from experts in online presentations, including 2020 World Champions of Public Speaking Mike Carr and 2022 2nd place winner Alexandre Matte. David is a past president of Club Awesome and the founding president of Online Presenters Toastmasters, where members practice skills for delivering [Read More]
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Hybrid Work is Hard. Learn Skills for Doing it Better at Toastmasters
If you’ve attended work or professional meetings conducted in a hybrid format — with some people online and others in person — you’ve probably experienced bad ones, plagued by poor preparation and technical glitches. You can learning how to improve the meetings you run in the new world of work through Toastmasters, the public speaking [Read More]
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How local professionals practice hybrid online/in-person meeting skills through Toastmasters
If you’ve attended work or professional meetings conducted in a hybrid format — with some people online and others in person — you’ve probably experienced bad ones, plagued by poor preparation and technical glitches. These are some of the issues the members of Club Awesome Toastmasters work to overcome at their weekly Friday morning meetings, 7 [Read More]
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Upcoming Crouton Challenges
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Celebrate Our Croutons!
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New Weekly Awards for Online Meetings
One thing we’ve missed in our online and hybrid meetings is the opportunity to hand ribbons to speakers who have won weekly awards such as best speaker or best Table Topics impromptu speaker. Thanks to VP of Membership Tricia Jervis, we now have new virtual certificates to share. Here they are, along with Tricia’s explanation [Read More]
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Hybrid Meetings Workshop with Club Awesome’s David F. Carr, DTM
This District 47 workshop was presented by Club Awesome past president and production manager for our hybrid meetings, David F. Carr. Club Awesome is now holding its regular Friday morning meetings with a combination of in-person and online attendance. The workshop was based, in part, on our early experience and also David’s research for the [Read More]
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Storytelling: a Compelling Story Makes Any Speech Better
A compelling story makes any speech better. Lorraine Campbell shows how it’s done. About the Speaker Lorraine Campbell currently serves as an active board member for the Customer Involved Government Committee with the City of Coral Springs. She has served on the board since 2005 and has been a member of The Youth Voting committee [Read More]
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The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback (Replay)
“Feedback” is so much more than that special section of our Toastmasters meetings where we receive an immediate evaluation of our speech. If only it worked like that in “real life” too! Throughout both our personal and professional lives, we are often faced with giving, as well as receiving feedback. At work, for instance, you [Read More]
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Replay: Let your voice (and your accent) be heard in your next speech
Thanks to Edith Oliva of Communicating Cultures, a former Club Awesome President, for this program on how those who speak a second language can learn to communicate more effectively. This was a Club Awesome community event held March 20, 2021. An interruption in the program caused by technical difficulties has been edited out.