Latin Leaders - Toastmasters Club #583774

Cristina is back! Now I know there is hope. Also back to visit were Jorge and Susie. I expect to see our visitors become new members next week. Yes, this meeting was about renewed hope, as we begin this year on the inauguration day of our new U.S. President, Barack Obama. We had a very full meeting with three speeches. Marian started with a story she wrote for the storytelling project of the Advanced Communicator manual. I always love hearing her stories. Except for the cell phone going off, it was a very somber period as we listened to the story about a little girl in 1951 dealing with moving to a new home. I gave another speech in my series about Getting Things Done, one of my favorite personal productivity books. Delfino finished with his 9th speech on perseverance.

We now have a clear leader in the Best Table Topics category, as Marian did it again. I don’t know how she does it. Next week we will be conducting our “Moments of Truth” meeting so everyone should be there to participate and help define our goals for this year.

I have made a few new enhancements to the web site. Now added is the “Club Goals” menu button which will display our Distinguished Club Program progress. I have also added more member activity statistics so you can get a much better idea how you are doing in the club. You can view this by clicking on the “View Activity” link on your member profile page. This is not quite finished yet, I will be spending some more time to make it a little prettier. The best thing that I’ve added now is the ability to auto-fill the agenda for future meetings. This will save the VP Education a lot of time in preparing the agenda so that more time can be spent on more important tasks.