VPPR Collaboration Call July 14

Welcome new (and again) Club VPPRs to another exciting year!  For those who were not VPPRs last year, the District's Public Relations Officer began a series of monthly calls on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 7:30PM to highlight items the District wanted to get the word out about, and also to provide a collaborative forum to share ideas, obstacles, and ways to overcome them.  I believe this is such a valuable forum that as this year's PRO, I've opted to continue with them.  The calls are scheduled to last for one hour and are voluntary.

So as not to inundate your inbox, you will receive one email notification around one week prior to the call.  The email will also be posted to our VPPR Collaboration Blog site, which I encourage you to register to, or at least check back every week or two.  If you have an RSS reader or use a mail program with an RSS feature, you can subscribe to it.  I will be posting information pertinent to VPPRs on that site.

The URL is: http://d27vppr.blogspot.com/

The conference call dial-in information is:

Free Conference Call
 Conference Dial-in Number: (641) 715-3200
 Participant Access Code: 471185#

 Free Conference Play Back
 Playback Number: (641) 715-3413
 Access Code: 471185#

AGENDA

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PRO Highlights

   TLI

   Smedley Award

   Contest Season

   October is Toastmaster Month

What Are You Working On?

Anyone Encountering Obstacles?

Don't Know Where to Start?

Other Questions

Adjourn

Please note that if you are receiving this email, you are registered at Toastmasters International as one of your club's VPPRs.  If this is incorrect, please alert your club President to have them update your club's roster.  Our mailing list is based off of TI's officer list.

District Website Updated for 2010-2011 Year!

I am happy to announce that there have been some changes and improvements made to our District 27 website to coincide with the start of a new Toastmasters year!  In the vein of our new district theme, "Let It Shine", we've brightened up the homepage with some new colours and a little more pizzaz to make things a little more appealing, and to provide more easy-to-find information.

All District Officers now have their own pages with content specific to them.  Please check out the Public Relations page for the latest TV show, newsletters, district logos, and PR document resources!  Improving the website is a high priority for us this year, so please check back on a regular basis as we add content.  If you are RSS-savvy, just about every page and list on the website allows you to subscribe to them so you receive the most up to date content alerts in your RSS reader (hint: if you use Outlook or Mac Mail, RSS feeds can appear as mailboxes for simplicity).

I encourage you all to check out the changes and to leave feedback either to the webmaster, myself, or as a comment to this post.

Mike Kerr
D27 Public Relations Officer