Redwood Ramblers Toastmasters

Hello–

- This week’s Toastmaster is Lawrence. Please send an email to let the Toastmaster know if you will be at the meeting and fulfilling your duties.

- On March 7 we’ll have a special guest speaker–Richard Stockton. You can also see him perform his comedy act at Kuumbwa Jazz Center on March 9, but for us he’ll talk about how to use humor to enhance your presentations and get over your fears.

- The Area contests will be March 22 at Aptos Academy. Help support our members who will be speaking – Stephanie and Melanie. (And volunteer as a ballot counter or timer or judge). It’s fun too.

- Please check each week’s schedule carefully. Frequently there are changes, and sometimes you’ll have TWO jobs at ONE meeting. (Do the math.)

- Invite a friend, neighbor, amanuensis or co-worker to our meetings.

Here are the Upcoming Redwood Ramblers Toastmasters Meetings and Roles!

- Since our club barely has enough members to fill all the jobs at each meeting it is important that EVERYONE email the Toastmaster before the meeting so the TM can write up the agenda.

- Please send an email to let the Toastmaster know if you will be at the meeting every week. When you are the Toastmaster, you know the panicky feeling you get when, on Tuesday evening, you haven’t heard from all the players, especially the speakers.  So be kind.

- Thank you all for participating in our International Speech and Table Topics contests the last couple of weeks, and special congratulations to all who spoke. In August we’ll have our Evaluation and Humorous speech contests. Think about participating.

- The Area level (Santa Cruz County) contests will take place March 22 at Aptos Academy. Please attend and help support our members who will be competing – Stephanie and Melanie. (And volunteer as a ballot counter or timer or judge) — especially if you’ve never attended a higher level contest before.

- Invite a friend, neighbor or co-worker to our meetings! Remember, our meetings are open to the public, and anyone is welcome to visit as a guest.

Welcome to the February 21, 2007 edition of carnival of public speaking, hosted by Redwood Ramblers Toastmasters. Redwood Ramblers Toastmasters is a Toastmasters club in Scotts Valley, California. We meet every Wednesday at noon. Our newsletter-blog, with public speaking tips and information is available online at http://www.redwoodramblers.org/newsletter.

Jane May presents Career Ramblings » Blog Archive » Speaking Capital is an Asset posted at Career Ramblings.

Naomi Rockler-Gladen presents Public Speaking Class Resources: Public speaking class tips for persuasive speech topics and more posted at College/University at Suite101.com, saying, “This is an index of articles on my site to help students with their public speaking classes.”

Charles H. Green presents Some Principles of Presentations and Pitches posted at Passion, People and Principles, saying, “Make sure you address the audience’s needs, concerns, wants – not yours. They will give you back what you want if you serve them first.”

Charles H. Green presents Trust Tip 13: Hard talk about a soft skill posted at Trust Matters, saying, “The power of listening — and how to be an ideal audience member.”

Anna Farmery presents How NOT to present change posted at The Engaging Brand.

Charles H. Green presents Trust Tip 45: The Three-Second Rule posted at Trust Matters, saying, “Speaking coach Patricia Fripp’s “Three-Second Rule” for starting presentations is guaranteed to grab your audience’s attention — in any situation.”

Brian Kim presents How to Give a Great Speech posted at BrianKim.net.

Debra Moorhead presents Eliminating Uh’s, Um’s, and Ah’s from Your Speech posted at Debra Moorhead.com.

Barbra Sundquist presents Top Five Places for Small Business Networking (HomeBusinessWiz.com) posted at HomeBusinessWiz.

Scott Schwertly presents My Favorite Presentation Resources posted at Presentation Revolution.

John E. West presents An experiment with the “Lessig Style” posted at The Only Trait of a Leader.

Jack Yoest presents Pick a Publicity Shot posted at Reasoned Audacity, saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words.

We are updating Charmaine’s pub shots. Following are two. We need to pick one.”

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The February Newsletter is now available. You can download it right here, from the newsletter blog:
February 2007 Redwood Ramblers News

[Note: As in the blog, email addresses in the newsletter are mangled to prevent harvesting by spammers.]

And now for some bonus materials and resources from our newsletter, available only here on the website:

• From the “Tips for Remembering Names” article: Meeting Tip: Learning Names
• From the “Make a Good Impression with Visual Aids!” article:
  • Kinkos in Santa Cruz
    
  • Business with Pleasure in Scotts Valley

• From the “Blog Carnival” article:
  • The Blog Carnival Index
  • Our Blog Carnival Info Page
  • Submit to our Blog Carnival

Finally, the winners of the Table Topics Contest are Steve and Melanie! Congratulations to both of you!