{"id":279,"date":"2009-03-23T11:59:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T10:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2009-03-23T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T10:59:51","slug":"toastmasters-in-tyneside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/toastmasters-in-tyneside\/","title":{"rendered":"Toastmasters in Tyneside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toastmasters.org\/\">Toastmasters<\/a> is a global brand after all and it had to happen eventually!  I&#8217;m going to go along to the inaugural meeting tonight (at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancecity.co.uk\">Dance City<\/a> for good pragmatic reasons) this evening (Monday 23rd March, 2009) to see if I can help out&#8230; not because I&#8217;m a particular fan of Toastmasters (as regular readers will know!) but more because some of the people setting it up are reasonable friends of mine.<\/p>\n<p>I love the idea of Toastmasters, really I do.  I love the fantastic idea that you get peer reviewed and therefore grow in skill and confidence as a public speaker.  I do, however, have a hesitation about it, too&#8230; in that you only get peer reviewed &#8211; and if your peers aren&#8217;t up to the job, the review you receive won&#8217;t be much use, either.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is, I&#8217;ve seen some really bad advice given to speakers at Toastmasters (eg: drink plenty of chilled water when you&#8217;re presenting) and that just takes the edge of the great idea I think it could-and-should be.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you know how things go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Toastmasters is a global brand after all and it had to happen eventually! I&#8217;m going to go along to the inaugural meeting tonight (at Dance City for good pragmatic reasons) this evening (Monday 23rd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-blog-related","category-reviews-case-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}