October 2013 was a month of exposure for District 25 members in the Toastmasters magazine. Jamie Pickering scuba dives in the Columbia Deep Reef in Cozumel, Mexico. Flashing a copy of the March Toastmaster magazine, she tries to get the turtle to attend a meeting. You might remember this photo of District 25 Division Governor...
Category: <span>Public Relations</span>
My Day with the RA
Linda Williams Linda Williams, Region 3 Advisor, paid us a visit last month. A Region Advisor (RA) oversees several districts’ worth of Toastmasters clubs, providing support and advice to district officers mostly by phone, but also making one visit in person each year. Since these visits are so rare, it’s important to make the most...
Time to Dust Off Your Club’s Website!
What does your club’s website look like? Is it an asset? Does it work to bring in prospective members to your meetings? Do visitors say “I found your site and your club looked appealing, so here I am?” Flagship Speakers won the Club Website award at the spring 2013 conference. If the answer is yes,...
The Most-Frequently-Asked Question about FreeToastHost Websites
“We don’t know the administrator password for our website. How can we find out what it is?” FreeToastHost provides for the problem of lost passwords or departed website administrators. First, make sure that your club’s TI Find a Club page has the correct contact email address. To check this, search by club number. If the...
Get a Quick Response with a QR Code
Do you know what a QR code is? Maybe not by name, but you have surely seen them, especially on printed material, and if you have a smartphone, you’ve likely used them. These odd-looking pictures are actually 2-D barcodes. However, they can store much more information than the familiar UPC barcodes that are on your...
Communicating With Members
An important part of our district’s well-being and success is including and engaging all our members. We want to keep everyone informed and up to date on what is happening, what needs to happen and the opportunities that exist for them. This begins our interactive public relations blog, which will provide a forum to ask...
Website Madness: What to do and how to get there
How do I add a picture to our home page? Can I link to articles on the district website? How do I capture a potential visitor’s attention? Can we upload meeting minutes to our website? No one knows the admin password, what do I do? The April 22nd installment of Membership Mondays will answer all...
Talkin’ ‘Bout Toastmasters — On the Radio!
I had the best time talking about Toastmasters on Nina Tan’s “The Help Radio Talk Show” on March 19. (Nina is a member of ARBOR Toastmasters.) At the beginning, I felt that I might be a tad nervous, but then when the producer asked me to state my name into the mic for a sound...
Marketing Your Club with Social Media
This was part of the “Mysteries of Club Public Relations” presentation made on the Feb 25th Membership Monday conference call. You may listen to the call in its entirety here. Social media is a relatively new phenomenon and many of us are still trying to figure out just how it works. When used correctly, it...
Corporate PR Ideas from FAA Toastmasters
This was part of the “Mysteries of Club Public Relations” presentation made on the Feb 25th Membership Monday conference call. You may listen to the call in its entirety here. FAA Toastmasters puts their meeting information right at the top of the page so it is quickly and easily found. Suggestions for Public Relations/Marketing in...