Yesterday was at the Annual Toastmasters International Finals for District 70.
This is where the best speakers in NSW and ACT compete to go to America.
There were two educational's as well and they were great value.
Can't wait to use them when I do my next speech.
One was done by an actress and she spoke/presented about adding presence to your speech.
Couldn't get enough as she was so fluent and practical with her advice that the following presenter had a very hard act to follow.
The Dinner was quite a formal affair.
Nearly everything to do with competitions requires you to wear a suit or business attire and the Dinner was a Gala Dinner which translates not as a Festive Dinner (which is what Gala translates to) but as a Black Tie event in some circles.
So I wore my black tie with the little grey elephants!
The Winner had tried to perfect his speech for three years!
I'd better start making up my speech now...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Thursday, May 03, 2012
Off to the Toastmasters Annual Conference in Sydney in two weeks time.
After just missing out in the last set of competitions, I've decided to go along and check out the one's who've made it through a few levels and also go to a few educationals.
This is in two weeks time. So watch this space for more.
My speaking needs some tweaking. A bit like what I do with software! :-)
Need to add more flourish, annecdotes, livid comparisons and more structured and focused speeches.
Oh well more work but it's all worth it.
The President of our club asked me the other day, now I've done the first lot of 10 speeches, which advanced ones will I do?
Will pick a few so I can pick and choose the most appropriate.
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This is in two weeks time. So watch this space for more.
My speaking needs some tweaking. A bit like what I do with software! :-)
Need to add more flourish, annecdotes, livid comparisons and more structured and focused speeches.
Oh well more work but it's all worth it.
The President of our club asked me the other day, now I've done the first lot of 10 speeches, which advanced ones will I do?
Will pick a few so I can pick and choose the most appropriate.
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Developing Word versus Excel
Had to tweak some word applications this week.
Now I know why word developers use select all the time.
It's the only way they can do things.
And what about how you cannot loop through processing pages easily unlike in Excel where you can loop through worksheets.
Now we have to come up with the ultimate document splitter.
Because there are so many massive merged documents which need splitting and renaming based on references in the first page.
Will have to publish some of my utilities soon.
Now I know why word developers use select all the time.
It's the only way they can do things.
And what about how you cannot loop through processing pages easily unlike in Excel where you can loop through worksheets.
Now we have to come up with the ultimate document splitter.
Because there are so many massive merged documents which need splitting and renaming based on references in the first page.
Will have to publish some of my utilities soon.
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