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• It's Conference season

Click here for details of District 74's "KammaCon" conference on 7-9 October and to see how you can use a wiki to add value to your district's conference! Please help expand stubs. Links in red are blank pages. Please add something to those, too.

About Toastmasters

• How to join a Toastmasters Club
• Start here at OKTM's excellent FAQ: http://oktm.ca/page6.htm

Bear in mind, though, that clubs do things differently in different parts of the world. For example, in South Africa there are very few lunch or breakfast clubs and most meetings have at least one (if not three) formal toasts. (In Canada there seem to be more lunch clubs and fewer toasts).

But the FAQ is excellent and covers the main points. The place to find a club is on the official Toastmasters website http://www.toastmasters.org

• What's the Etiquette of a Meeting
• What to expect -- The Ideal Program
• Who's who -- what the club's Office Bearers do (and why they have funny names)

Be a better speaker

Click on Speaking for information on:

• How to choose a topic for your speech

Click on the above link (choose a topic) for the titles of other people's speeches. That may give you some inspiration!

• How to structure your speech for your audience
• Specific Tips Per Assignment
• Visit our library of Quotations links
• Using humour in speaking
• How to win competitions
• Get a mentor. You'll be amazed at how effective it is! For more information...
• How the mentor / protégé relationship works.

Be a better leader

Click on the Leading link for more information on

• Running a better club
  • Questionnaires, membership, theme evenings
  • Doing meeting roles well -- tips on being
    • Toastmaster
    • Timekeeper
    • Evaluator
    • and much, much more
  • Being a better club officer
  • Having a fabulous club program
  • Collaborating with clubs around the world

... And much more

AND

• High Performance Leadership
• Being a brilliant Area Governor or Division Governor

All this here: Leading

The Larger Toastmasters World

Toastmasters is present in many countries. There are two conferences in every district every year. Click on Wide World to learn more about

• Speech competions -- how to find one, how to win one (see also Speaking
• Global initiatives (club twinning, cross-border High Performance Leadership programmes)
• Gavel Clubs

External links / resources

• Visit and take your time with the official Toastmasters International site, it has so much that is useful - dig around and find some jewels: Toastmasters International official site
• If you need timing lights, here are some web-based ones. They work brilliantly -- even on my Mac! http://www.geocities.com/speechmakersclub/VirtualSpeechTimer/timer.htm
• Get District 74 news and the District 74 Calendar here: Toastmasters southern Africa

• The best little blog on the web: http://ah-um-er.blogspot.com/ now has a podcast!

• Toastmasters mailing list

• The District 74 (southern Africa) Yahoo Groups site is worth a visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dist74dg/

• Free and easy to use toastmaster website hosting: http://www.freetoasthost.org

• Useful Toastmasters downloads: Toastmasters Resources

This Wikicity started as just a District-74 resource. But the original WikiCity creator, User:Erich Viedge, thought it would be better to have a global WikiCity covering all 200,000 Toastmasters, not just those in southern Africa.

The business of Toastmasters

Click Admin for info about

• Being a better Division Governor or Area Governor
• motivate clubs to achieve their goals
• coach office-bearers to do their jobs better
• Marketing resources for VPPRs and District PROs
• Club admin

About this site

On this site's FAQ you'll find info on:

• What's a Wiki? Click here and find out.
• How your district site works together with the Wikicity
• Some ideas of how the Wikicity can work for your club, area or district

disclaimer

The names "Toastmasters International," "Toastmasters," and the Toastmasters International emblem are trademarks protected in the United States, Canada, and other countries where Toastmasters Clubs exist. Unauthorized use is prohibited.