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There are 510 articles on this site-- more if you count the short ones.
This site is a sort of "Encylopedia of Toastmasters" written by the Toastmasters of the World.
Consult the site. If you have experience that isn't here and can be added to the Encyclopedia of Toastmasters, please add your experience. Click here to get started.
What the Toastmasters Wikicity Is and Is Not
Site Map
- If you are new to Toastmasters or for tips on protocol, check out: Etiquette of a Meeting, Join a Toastmasters Club
- If you are a new club, check out: Ideal Club, The Ideal Program, Leading (for links on meeting roles), Themes, Table Topics and Sister Clubs
- If you are a new committee member, Area Governor, Division Governor, then check out Admin, Leading and Wide World (especially for hints on running conferences and competitions.
- If you're a speaker, go to Speaking and check out the Speaking Hints as well as Tips Per Assignment and Toast (Table Topics
- If you've been given a job but don't know what to do, check out: Leading for tips on being theToastmaster, Timekeeper (aka Timer), Table Topics Evaluations
- If you are an experienced club, check out Ideal Club (you'll be amazed at your results and how much you can improve), Table Topics, Themes, Mentors and Mentees as well as Sister Clubs
- If you're an experienced Toastmaster then you're looking for club coaching see under Leading or HPL projects (also Leading; you may be looking for up to date judging forms (which are not on this site as they are subject to copyright -- somebody may have one salted away for just such an emergency);
About Toastmasters
- How to join a Toastmasters Club -- USE THE NEW FORM with the new rates on it: you can download it from the Toastmaster International website.
- 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). When in doubt, consult a district site or club site for specific details.
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:
- Common speaking hints (Do I say "Thank you after I'm done?")
- 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.
All this here: Speaking
Be a better leader
Click on the Leading link for more information on
- Running a better club -- look under Ideal Club
- Hard-won tips and hints that actually work (and aren't in the manual) also under Ideal Club
- Solving common club problems -- deciding on whether to get a club coach in Club Remedies
- Questionnaires, membership, theme evenings -- Themes
- Warming up a slow meeting
- Doing meeting roles well -- tips on being
- Toastmaster
- Timekeeper
- Evaluations
- and much, much more
- Being a better club officer
- Having a fabulous club program -- ideal program and Table Topics
- Collaborating with clubs around the world with Sister Clubs
... And much more
AND
- High Performance Leadership
- Being a brilliant Area Governor or Division Governor
All this here: Leading
The Larger Toastmasters World
For all this and more, click on Wide World
- Sister Clubs Connect Toastmasters worldwide, sharing information and ideas through Sister Club relationships.
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
All this here: Wide World
External links / resources
- Connecting Toastmasters Worldwide With Sister Clubs
- 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!
- Titusville Toastmasters has a Podcast aka, the Toastcast covering all matter of subjects relating to Toastmasters. This podcast includes speeches from members. http://www.titusvilletoastmasters.org/ You can find Toastmaster Podcasts by typing in Toastmasters in iTunes in the search field when in the Podcast mode.
- 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
All this here: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
- Rules of the WikiCity project:Policy
Please help expand stubs. Links in red are blank pages. Please add something to those, too. All this here: FAQ
disclaimer
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