You Can Now Contribute to Toastmasters-Networking.org
Posted by Alex S. Brown, DTM PMP on Friday, November 9th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Toastmasters is all about community involvement and taking leadership. Laurent and I have been writing all the articles on this site, but we decided to offer a way for everyone to contribute.
If you have an announcement, tip, or other article on the topic of on-line networking for Toastmasters member, please write and post it here. Here are the instructions:
- Register on this site as a new user. You will be asked for your user ID and e-mail address. The link is http://www.toastmasters-networking.org/wp-register.php
- Log on with your new user ID (you can do this as part of the registration process)
- Create a new post.
- E-mail one of us at moderators@toastmasters-networking.org to let us know that your post is ready for review and approval.
Here are some important things to know about posting articles:
- They will NOT immediately appear on the web site
- A moderator will review the article before publishing it to the whole site
- We might change or rearrange information in your article, editing it for clarity
- Your e-mail address must be valid for you to register and to post. No exceptions. No phony e-mail addresses allowed.
- If you write articles that are commercial, self-promotional, or offensive, the moderators will not publish it. The moderators might delete your contribution without contacting you for revisions. The moderators might disable or delete your user ID on the web site. The moderators might delete or remove your name from previous posts to the web site.
- By submitting your article, you are giving Alex S. Brown and anyone he designates the right to publish this article or any modified version of it on toastmasters-networking.org, any related web site, and any print, on-line, or electronic format. You still retain copyright to your own article, but you have given us the non-exclusive right to publish your article.
- The moderators have full right to edit, modify, delete, publish, or not publish your article at their own discretion.
- Do NOT post anything here that is already copyrighted by someone else. If you wish to repost an article already on the Internet or in a printed magazine here, get permission first.
- If you cannot get rights to reprint material here, feel free to submit a short announcement or summary that includes a link to the material.
If you have an article idea, but do not want to write it yourself, feel free to contact us at moderators@toastmasters-networking.org. We can help write up your idea, or publish your article anonymously on this site.
Also, if you want to upload pictures or files along with your article, then you will need our help. Please contact the moderators and we can add the pictures and other uploaded files.
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:47 am
Some thoughts on Toastmaster TV and the Toastmaster logo
Being new to this Toastmasters networking thing (Xing aha!), a great initiative b.t.w. I checked out Toastmasters TV. A great idea and the speech given (by whom? When, Where?) was very funny. However, I would not put it on my website perse.
Why not?
I think it has to do with the ‘vomiting’ part. The vomiting played a big role in the story. And although it may be funny for the audience, who presumably knows the speaker and his sense of humor, it might actually deter people from joining toastmasters because they do not share this particular sensibility.
I would much prefer a Toastmasters TV film with a more ‘neutral’ but still strong and funny speech that would show off the skills in public speaking of the presenter without restoring to bodily functions.
On another note: Although I have never liked the toastmasters logo ( I find it somewhat old-fashioned en very conservative) I suddendly saw it as two hands on a steering wheel of a car. A vintage car! And yes, come to think about it, the logo has a definite vintage quality to it, so perhaps that makes it überhip rather than old-fashioned.
In this age of super stylized modern and postmodern logo’s the Toastmaster logo actually stands out through its vintage feel.
So yes, here we have two hands firmly in touch with the steering wheel - in control - implying that by joining Toastmasters you can safely and securely negotiate the entire world.
Toastmasters will help you get wherever you want to go.
And of course this is true. When you can speak with ease and confidence in English, the entire world is available to you. So maybe, after all, that logo isn’t as cheesy as I thought it was.
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:05 am
Hi Yolande,
Thanks for the feedback about our Toastmasters WebTV
I forward your message to Niko Viramo, who manages this collaborative service.
Feel free to see with him some adapted solutions for improving it.
Best Regards,
–
Laurent J.V. Dubois
VP-PR of the amazing Parisian Club Lutèce 75
http://www.lutece75.org
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:45 am
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