How can technlogy make me a better speaker?
Have you ever wondered how blogs, wikis and podcasting can help you be a better public speaker? Toastmasters all over the world are trying to find out. Blogs can be used as ways to share news, experience and knoweldge with people in the world and podcasts can be used to do the same and use your public speaking skills. Wikis can become encyclopedias of knowledge on one subject. Blog Carnivals and Squidoo can be used to organize various things going on electronically. MySpace, Friendster, Facebook and LinkedIn can be used to connect you socially or professionally with people who are your interests. All these tools are designed to increase your awareness and your connection to the world around you, just in a virtual setting. They help you develop and share your expertise and improve your comfort with communication.
This lens shares some of the best ways Toastmasters are using the web to connect with their fellow members and share their knowledge of the organization, public speaking and various other topics.
Toastmasters in the News
Who is mentions Toastmasters?
- Bismarck Toastmasters Meeting
- The mission of a Toastmasters Club is to provide a mutually supportive & positive learning envir...
- On the Move
- Toastmasters with Attitude, noon. Freedom Mortgage building, 10500 Kincaid Drive, Fishers. Comings a...
- Group aims to help Brazilians with their English
- To help them, Debra Cartier is trying to launch a Toastmasters International club for Brazilian immi...
- Toastmasters helps make better speakers
- You can join the Suffolk Toastmasters, a local chapter of an international organization that helps p...
Blog Posts from Google
What are the Blogs Saying?
- Carlow Toastmasters
- Toastmasters was also featured in Saturday's Irish Times. Toastmasters is an organisation that I k...
- Media Mixer Meeting concept
- Here is the idea for Toastmasters.... What if the VP-PR for a Toastmasters club invited a specific r...
- Change of Time for 8th Oct 2008 Meeting
- Dear All, There would be a change of time for our 8th October meeting to give way to our test speake...
- Toastmasters Conference reminder - Create your Map for Life
- Don't forget that the annual Toastmasters District 74 spring conference will be this month in Durban...
Del.icio.us!
Toastmasters webpages that rock
Del.icio.us allows you to store your favorite web page bookmarks and store them on the web. Not only do you store them, but you can set tags to describe them, share them with friends and see other people who have added that page as well. Check out all the most popular bookmarks tagged as Toastmasters. Also, on the right side of this page you can click the link that will allow you to add this lense to del.icio.us.
- Welcome to Toastmasters International where we are"Making Effective Communication a Worldwide Reality"
- Toastmasters International - Home
- 50 Ideas For Table Topics - Northrise Toastmasters
- Why You Need To Be A Toastmaster - lifehack.org
- Table Topics Tips
- Free Webhosting for Toastmasters Clubs
- Scott H Young " Why You Should Join Toastmasters
- Speech Timer
- How to Cut Crutch Words When Giving a Speech - lifehack.org
- http://www.freetoasthost.org/A_Quick_Guide_to_Public_Speaking.html
- Toastmasters Wiki - Toastmasters International
- Toastmasters International - Members Site
Flickr
See photos tagged as Toastmasters on Flickr
We all take pictures and we can share and tag our pictures through Flickr. Toastmasters around the world are doing this and sharing pictures of their club, district and international even photos. Check and see the pictures taken by members of Toastmasters
Humorous Speech Cont...
Evaluation Contest
Guru and Me
Jim Sandler
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Presenter Gina Nevin
Mike & Yvonne wi...
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Dr. Morgan McArthur...
YouTube
See Toastmasters Videos
Sara's Favorite Web 2.0 Technologies
- Google Reader allows you to read all your favorite blogs through their RSS feeds. This way you just check your Reader account and it lets you know which blog is updated.
- Blogger is where I host my blog and their newest version allows for so much more flexibility. I especially love that I can tag my entries to organize them.
- iTunes is my favorite way to subscribe and listen to podcasts related to Toastmasters. There are more and more Toastmaster podcasts all the time and iTunes will download them for me when they are added.
- Flickr to display my photos for my club, district and related events. I also like to see what pictures other Toastmasters take.
- The Toastmasters Wikia is where Erich (from South Africa) and a few of us are trying to create the ultimate Toastmasters Encyclopedia.
- MySpace to connect to my fellow Toastmasters- if only I could find my fellow Toastmasters on MySpace
- Squidoo is the service I used to make this page, or as they call it, lense.
- del.icio.us is where I store all my bookmarks for my favorite Toastmaster pages.
- YouTube is where I go to see videos of speech by my fellow Toastmasters.
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Toastmasters Technology Links
Beyond A Webpage
- The Toastmasters Google Group
- When the web was born people connected with each other in Usenet groups. An early version of the current bulliten boards, they still exist today and Google makes it easy to access them through Google Groups. The Toastmasters group is still very active with many of the organizations virtual leaders engaged in conversations about Toastmasters.
- Yahoo Groups Director for Toastmasters
- The Yahoo Groups program allows you to do something very similar to Google, but groups are created and run by us. Many Districts use the mailing list feature of the groups to communicate with members and allow the members to communicate with each other. Find your district or club with this directory.
- Toastmasters Wiki
- Depsite the controversy always surrounding Wikipedia, the wiki tools are fantastic ways to collect knowledge in one virtual encyclopedia. The Toastmasters wiki hopes to collect our knowledge of the organization in one place. Everyone can participate and improve the increasingly popular encyclopedia.
- MySpace
- If you think MySpace is nothing but teenagers then you are missing a great resource to find fellow Toastmasters. You can collect friends from within the organization and join the groups related to the organization to engage in another conversation.
- 43 Things
- What are the top 43 things you want to do? List them here- especially the Toastmaster related goals. Then see how many other people are working on their DTM, AL-B and other speaking goals. You can encourage them and share your experience with others.
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I love your lens. I am both an active member of Toastmasters and addicted to podcasting. The podcasts I listen to include a couple that are related to Toastmasters.
Posted April 07, 2007
