Toastmasters District 62
Saturday March 26, 2022 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM
ALL DIVISIONS International Speech Contest
Event Listings
Founder of Online Presenters and of the WordPress for Toastmasters project. Past President and member of Club Awesome in Coral Springs, Florida. Also former Area Governor, District Social Media Director. Outside of Toastmasters: writer, editor, and digital marketing consultant. He currently works as a Senior Insights Manager for Similarweb, the digital intelligence platform. Formerly an editor at publications including InformationWeek, Baseline Magazine, Internet World, and WebWeek, and a contributor to VentureBeat and The Enterprisers Project.
Areas 2, 9, and 17 Virtual Speech Contests
Saturday February 26, 2022 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
SAVE THE DATE for Areas 2, 9, and 17 Virtual International and Evaluation Speech Contests. The number of contestants will determine the end time.
Contestants: Please send the following information to the Contest Chair by February 19, 2022: Contest Chair: Lock Lyon locklyon@gmail.com
- For each contestant (International and/or Evaluation) a “Speaker’s Certification of Eligibility and Originality”, TMI form #1183
- The contestant will need their Club Number, Member Number, and District Number (62), date of Area Contest (02-26-2022), and, for the International Contest, the Speech Title
- A single “Speech Contestant Profile”, TMI form #1189
Toastmasters International forms are available on the toastmasters.org website by searching for the form number (e.g., 1183). Download the appropriate form, save it on your device. It is now an editable PDF that can be submitted to the Contest Chair.
Workshop Replay: Create a More Powerful Club Website
Sign up at toastmost.org to try the WordPress-powered club website service demoed in our workshop (replay below).
Building on the foundation of WordPress, which is used by major publications like The New Yorker and marketing organizations like Disney, Toastmost provides clubs and districts with rich multimedia publishing tools — more ways of dramatizing the value of the Toastmasters experience. The Toastmasters-specific extensions demonstrated in our workshop allow your club to manage its agenda and take advantage of digital methods of doing business, such as a web-based membership application that offers new members the option of paying online.
“This allows us to step our game to the next level of professionalism”
Carol Prahinski, Past International Director, on the value of the WordPress-powered Toastmost club website hosting service.
In this excerpt, Carol Prahinski addresses the issue of why you should consider Toastmost over free options like Free Toast Host.
The new 62toast.com is hosted on Toastmost, and adding the videos shown above was as easy as pasting a link from YouTube into the WordPress editor.
Additional documentation is at wp4toastmasters.com, including a complete course with short video clips on each phase of the website setup process.
If you have questions that were not addressed in the workshop, you can write to david@wp4toastmasters.com and include “District 62 workshop” in the subject line.