On Saturday 7th January 2012, we will first hold our Club Officer Training (COT) in the morning, and then continue with our joint New Year’s Party of Nanjing Alcatel Lucent Smart Speakers, HROP and No. 1 Toastmasters Clubs.
Our Club Officer Meeting is not only for our officers, but is open for all Toastmasters members. And our joint New Year’s Party is even open for families and friends!

Location:
The Fuze Lounge
No. 400 South Zhongshan Road, Cinnalane No. 17 (Metro Line 1, Sanshanjie Station Exit 2)
中山南路升州路熙南里街区17号 (地铁1号线， 三山街站，2号出口)

Time:
- Club Officer Training 9:45 – 12:45
. Joint New Year’s Party 13:30 – 16:30

Cost:
- No cost for Club Officer Training
- 30 RMB entrance fee for Joint New Year’s Party (2 soft drinks are included)
- All party participants shall furthermore prepare a gift of up to 20 RMB for our gift exchange

Highlights:
- Focus on experience exchange between the Toastmasters Clubs in area Q3 (all Nanjing clubs, Hefei, Zhenjiang)
- Performances from our members and friends
- Exciting games with gifts waiting for the participants
- Gift exchange
- Last but not least, a big cake of course!

For any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact Annie (dingyueru@126.com, 13951083541) or Helen (back in China from holidays starting 4th Jan. helen.reumann@gmail.com, 18795857542).

First, we will hold our semi-annual Club Officer Training (COT) in the morning, in which club officers of all Toastmasters Clubs in Area Q3 (all clubs in Nanjing, Hefei, Zhenjiang) will participate. But not only them, all members are welcome to join! Then in the afternoon, we will have a joint New Year’s Party with all Toastmasters Clubs based in Nanjing!

So please note it down right now! More details will follow.

This time, on Saturday, 16th July, 2011 Nanjing was the host city for the Club Officer Training. The training took place at the venue of our club.

Officers and interested members of the clubs of the Area 3 (Hefei, Zhenjiang, Nanjing) shared with us their ideas and experiences about how to successfully run their clubs. Highlights were:

• Achieving Club Success (Distinguished Club Program), Yingdan Liu, immediate past governor of District 85 (Greater China, Hong Kong and Macau)
• Motivation In Toastmasters Clubs – Deng Li, Nanjing ALcatel Lucent TMC
• Key Weapons to Achieve Success as a club VPE – Katie Zhang, Nanjing No. 1 TMC
• Growing Nanjing No.1 Membership, Annie Ding, Nanjing No. 1 TMC

All in all, it was a fruitful session for all of us. Here is the summary of the training. We look forward to the next training for another successful exchange between toastmasters clubs!

And this year, guess how many people attended? 1000! Let me repeat, ONE THOUSAND! During 13 – 15 May 2011, on the campus nearby a beautiful Beach in Xiamen, wonderful speeches were held throughout the entire event. From prepared speeches in the contest to conversations between members all around China, the whole meeting provided a harmonious and friendly atmosphere to improve English speaking and to learn from each other. Amongst the interesting and insightful workshops, Rory Vaden, a VIP speaker, taught the members to apply the “A.L.I.V.E.” rule to keep any audience awake during their presentations. “A.L.I.V.E.” refers to “Attentive”, “Laugh”, “Interested”, “Vulnerable” and “Engaged”. All in all, it was a memorable experience for everyone who attended the meeting.

Don’t forget our heroes who bring the honors to our club! Jerel was one of the judges of the Toastmasters International Speech Contest on District Level and Tina was elected to become the Division Q Governor.

Missed this meeting? Don’t worry! The next Winter Conference will be in Hong Kong and the next Spring Conference even around the corner in Hangzhou. Be prepared and maybe you can be one of the champions!

• Speech Contests of District 85 (Greater China, Hong Kong, Macau) amongst the best of the best speakers
• Fantastic Workshops from International Speakers, amongst others from VIP guests Rory Vaden (winner of toastmasters international speech contest worldwide in 2007) and George Yen (2nd Vice President Toastmasters International 2010 – 2012)
• District 85 Business Council meeting and election
• A lot of networking opportunities and social activities

If you are interested to join, please check out the details here.

Joint meeting means that members of both clubs will take over roles in the meeting, while they will be hosted in the Shanghai club locations. The clubs we had joint meetings with are the Shanghai Pudong Toastmasters Club and the 5A+ Shanghai Toastmasters Club.

Our first started already at 10 am with the Pudong club. It was a meeting full of joy and great experience. After having lunch with some of the Pudong members, we moved on with the next meeting at 4 pm.We then had our next joint meeting with the 5A+ club in the Jing’an area of Puxi. After another nice dinner and intensive networking with the 5A+ members, we all caught the evening train back to Nanjing.

Sounds good to you? Stay tuned for our next events / joint meetings with other clubs!

We had amazing weather, a lot of fun and good food, but also a lot of people surrounding us, too! But it did not matter too much. At the end, we found a quiet place to relax and play cards and had a wonderful time. Check out the nice pictures we took and come join us in our next event!

On February 22nd and 23rd, the International Speech as well as the Mandarin Speech and Table Topic Contest 2011 of our Nanjing No. 1 Toastmasters Club took place at our usual meeting venue. In total, 6 contestants were competing against each other for the International Speech Contest title, 4 contestants for the Mandarin Speech Contest title, and 5 contestants for the Table Topic Contest title. The 1st Prize winner of each of the contests will go to Wuxi on March 20th to represent our Nanjing No. 1 Toastmasters Club to fight for the area level award. While the Mandarin and Table Topic winners will not go further then to Xiamen, where the Greater China Contest will take place this May, the winner of the International Speech Contest will even have the chance to go to the United States for participating to the global Speech Contest! How exciting!

All in all, we had two wonderful nights full of joy, excitement, and surprises (see also Events/Gallery -> Club Speech Contest 2011). Please join us congratulating the winners of our Club Contest:

1) International Speech Contest: 1st Prize – Jerel Bonner, 2nd Prize – Katie Zhang, 3rd Prize – Tina Li
2) Mandarin Speech Contest: 1st Prize – Katie Zhang, 2nd Prize – Wenbin Liang (only two prizes for Mandarin Speech Contest)
3) Table Topic Contest: 1st Prize – Leinie Zhang, 2nd Prize – Tina Li, 3rd Prize – Wenbin Liang

And good luck to all the 1st Prize winners for the Area Speech Contest in Wuxi!

With close to 40 people, we had a fantastic, fun and fruitful time with laughters, celebrating our success with gifts and live performances. Thank you very much to everyone for the support and participation in this successful event!

You can find the photos of this event in our Events/Gallery section. Look forward to having many more of such joint events in the future!