Category Archives: District Award/Incentive

Win The Smedley Award: Only 5 New Members!

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The first 20 clubs that add five new, dual, or reinstated members with a join date between August 1 and September 30, will receive a $50 TI gift certificate. (Members must be registered and paid by September 30, 2018, and cannot be included in any other incentive

After your club has added five new members by September 30, click the button below to request your certificates.

CLICK TO REQUEST
SMEDLEY AWARD MONEY

AND THAT’S NOT ALL!
Get more from Toastmasters International
https://www.toastmasters.org/leadership-central/club-officer-tools/membership-building/membership-building-programs-for-clubs

Accomplish this goal and you’ll qualify to receive a ‘Smedley Award’ ribbon, named in honor of Ralph Smedley, which you can display on your club’s banner. Qualifying clubs can also earn a special discount code for 10-percent off their next club order. (The discount code expires six months from the date of issue and is not valid with any other offer.)

District 1 Clubs Must Submit Directly to TI for the TI Incentive Applications and payments for members with a join date between August 1 and September 30 must be received at World Headquarters or online no later than September 30. The addition of transfer and charter members does not count toward ‘Smedley Award’ credit.
The winning clubs will be revealed online within a few weeks of the submission deadline. Winning clubs should allow up to 10 business days to receive their award if they are located in the United States, and up to 21 business days if they are outside of the United States.”

Congratulations Storymasters for Winning the District Video Contest!

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Congratulations to Storymasters for having the most votes for the June of the “Speak About Public Speaking Challenge”. Check out the video with club member Debbie Kenneybrew at https://youtu.be/UDufeKRp6m4

StoryMasters has a reputation and it is a great reputation. If one listens to the Toastmaster International World Champions of Public Speaking they have a story or two interwoven into their speech.  StoryMasters has been a go-to club that the District 1 contest winners of the Area, Division and District practice their speeches.  Debbie Kenneybrew came to StoryMasters to practice her International speech and then joined.  She is a shining example of our club. Evaluations at StoryMasters help speakers improve and excel at the art of storytelling. Like Debbie, when she shines, all our members shine.

The club meets second Sunday of every month from 3-5pm.  For more information go to https://storymasters.toastmastersclubs.org

Catherine Magruder

President and a Proud Member of StoryMasters

The Speak About Public Speaking Contest

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Enter the campaign!

What’s the best way to inspire new people to join your Toastmasters Club?

By showing them how the Toastmasters organization is hugely benefiting current members with their speaking and leadership skills.

In an effort to help individual clubs recruit new members, District 1 is launching a district-wide club video contest challenging existing members to share inspirational speech videos about their own public speaking journeys—and how Toastmasters has helped them.

Not only will each video act as a mini Toastmasters “commercial” that can help promote individual clubs to potential new members in social media, but each contest period between April and June the club that receives the most votes will win special recognition on the Toastmasters website/social media and at the Toastmasters awards banquet on August 11th, AND get to participate in a special district Facebook Live event. (At the Banquet, the Best of the Best video of the three monthly winners will be unveiled based on a vote by the 2017-2018 district leadership.)

What the club will do:

Step 1: For each contest period, have at least one club member give an inspirational speech, any length/any format, highlighting their own public speaking journey—and how Toastmasters has helped them. This can be done in a regular club meeting, but doesn’t have to be (i.e., members can video record a speech on their own time as well, and submit on behalf of their club).

Step 2: Video record the speech.

Step 3:  Upload the video to the club’s Facebook Page or YouTube Channel.

Step 4: Link the video link to the District 1 Website

Step 5: Clubs immediately share their contest link in their club’s/members social media pages to request votes (Note: Clubs must share their contest link on the District 1 website, NOT the video on their Facebook/YouTube Page).

Additional Details

  • Participating members may only submit one video per contest period, but clubs are allowed to have multiple members submit a video.
  • District leadership is prohibited from submitting a video.
  • All videos from the previous period can be re-uploaded each for the next period or a new video can be submitted.
  • Clubs are allowed and encouraged to promote the contest link for their video on their website and social media (and are encouraged to have their members share this as well).
  • Votes are not limited to District 1 Members or Toastmasters.

Key Dates

 April – May Period

  • All videos can be submitted between April 1 – May 21 (final submission by 11:59 pm)
  • Voting starts as soon as the video is uploaded and ends on May 27th
  • Announcements will be made on May 28th

June Period

  • All videos must be submitted by June 1-15 (final submission by 11:59 pm)
  • Voting starts as soon as the video is uploaded and ends on June 22
  • Announcements will be made on June 25th

Questions?

Contact District 1 Public Relations Manager Sonya Vasquez at pr.manager@district1toastmasters.org

#SpeakAboutPublicSpeaking

Check out these tips on creating great videos: 
https://www.toastmasters.org/~/media/D9E20A0337C546CCB796E781EC311320.ashx