Comments on Ah, Um, Er... A Toastmaster's Blog: Making videos

Our club still does the roster in Word. We have a ...

2009-05-22T15:08:09.153-04:00

Our club still does the roster in Word. We have a freetoasthost site but it seems the diversity of membership makes only an online roster difficult. I dunno. I might try again next year as VPE ;)

If our meeting site had wifi, I'd bring my laptop to meetings and have people sign up that way. I filled in for our VPE last night and brought my cell phone to show the list of what people had signed up for. The text was too small for some. And I had zoomed in even.

Hi Arthur,Thanks for the feedback. As technology ...

2009-04-06T15:45:00.000-04:00

Hi Arthur,
Thanks for the feedback. As technology increases, the need for technology training increases as well. I know the technical aspects are not there, but I think its pretty decent for a first attempt. I would love to see what other people do. I am waiting to hear from Bo Bennett (the owner of freetoasthost) about it.
My club, Twin City TM, uses the duty roster in a very similar way. It is helpful for the CL manual to make sure people fill the roles they still need for their requirements.

The VideoGreat work. We need more of this sort of...

2009-04-01T10:51:00.000-04:00

The Video

Great work. We need more of this sort of training, and we need it to be accessible to our members. Perhaps right on our Free Toast Host club site (!).

In a short video, you show the newbie how to access the Duty Roster, how to claim a meeting role, and how to give the role up. As extra information, you tell how to proceed if the user has forgotten his password.

You do not try to cover too much ground in your video. There is a lot more to know about using the Duty Roster, but you avoid the pitfall of trying to cram in that info.

Technical aspects of the video could be improved. That's all right, because with more people contributing to the effort, these aspects will get fixed. Your work is a great point of departure for further work.

How our club utilizes the Duty Roster

In Orangebelt Toastmasters, we no longer track club meeting roles any other way. Between webmaster me and my assistant (who happens to be club president), the website duty roster is maintained, and the information from the worksheets we bring to the club meeting is used to promptly update the site.

That said, our club members have not all bought in to using the website duty roster. The key person to buy in is the club vice president of education. If she does not, one cannot go further. In our case, the VPE has difficulty using the FTH software, so we webmasters step in to make up the difference.

In our club, use of the website dates back only 8 months or so. Established members are still adopting its use. But new members see the website as normal-normal and buy in right away.