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What can Toastmasters do for me? How to run a Table Topics Session
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Resources for SpeakingStart with your Toastmasters New Member Kit - compact and proven in action by speakers like you. It covers planning your speech, controlling nervousness, your speaking voice, gesture, evaluation, and includes the Communication and Leadership manual with ten project speeches and much more. Included with every new membership. The Elements of Style by Strunk and White will help you hone your writing and speaking to razor edge. Online at www.bartleby.com, or you can buy the new edition through any good bookshop or at Amazon. Bartleby have many classic references online, from dictionaries to quotations to Roget's Thesaurus to Gray's Anatomy. Great quotes and whole speeches at http://www.quoteland.com/ and a few great speakers are here. Influence: Science and Practice, a book by Robert Cialdini will give you the principles of gaining agreement from your audience and help you construct a powerfully persuasive message. It will also help to prepare you for the tricks of manipulators. Online, see www.influenceatwork.com and Steve's Primer of Practical Influence. Tim van Gelder's Critical Thinking on the Web is a treasure trove of essays and resources for clear thinking. It looks way beyond the pre-digested ideas we normally hear. A few minutes on this site will give a dozen challenging ideas for speeches. For unusual speech topics from history, art, literature and academia, check out Arts and Letters Daily, "the Internet's most intellectually nutritious search engine". They link to the cream of newspapers and journals, and daily hunt down choice articles for you. ANY SUGGESTIONS? Please email me with your best WWW resources for speakers - thesaurii, dictionaries, sites with quotations, performance-enhancing ideas! Some suggestions for this website: hit counter, Toastmasters jargon and abbreviations, a Members area with password access and a web update of the Assignments file for members; word and speaking games - e.g. Scrabble, Pictionary, Taboo; mind mapping / pattern notes; TOC thinking processes; dirty tricks of rhetoric and thinking) More Useful LinksToastmasters International (TMI) has an index of clubs around the world and an online shop for TMI publications and promotional items. They have recently added the capability to accept club semi-annuals over the Web. Australia has three TMI Districts; Western Australian clubs are in District 73 along with South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. Membership form is no. 400F. You will need Acrobat Reader. Durack, the great club from which we were founded, meet at the same location as Terrace EVERY THURSDAY at 7:00 am. JustTalk is a dynamic new club in the Department of Justice , which we helped sponsor. Other WA clubs are listed on the Division website here.
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