Nanjing No.1 Toastmasters Club

Distinguished Club Award 2010/2011!

August 3, 2011 in General by VPPR Team

Great news for our club – within the Distinguished Club Program of Toastmasters International, our club has earned the “Distinguished Club Award” for the year 2010/2011!

This is a recognition program of Toastmasters International to encourage toastmasters clubs of all over the world to actively follow the toastmasters mission. May it be to have members achieving their goals of becoming competent communicators or competent leaders, or in gaining new members, or having officers participating in club officer meetings etc.

As a recognition of achieving the “Distinguished Club Award”, we will receive an award ribbon, which will be attached to our club banner to demonstrate our club success.

Thank you very much to all of you members to make this happen! Let’s work together to continue this success and commitment to excellence also this year.

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Club Officer Training 16th July 2011

July 15, 2011 in Events by VPPR Team

Twice a year, the Toastmasters Division Q Area 3 Club Officer Training (COT) will take place.

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

Club officer training July 2011 in Nanjing

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!

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SUCCESS – the LARGEST joint meeting we ever had!

June 18, 2011 in General by VPPR Team

After several days of raining, we finally had a sunny day on June 26th!! That’s the day of the largest joint meeting of the Nanjing No. 1 Toastmasters Club with a subsequent barbecue event. The joint meeting was held together with the Shanghai 5A+ Toastmasters club and the Nanjing Alcatel Lucent Smart Speakers Toastmasters Club. Want to see the pictures, please have a look into our gallery!

The whole meeting was amazing. The qualities of all speeches were beyond imagination, which were full of humor and wisdom. The evaluation and suggestions given were sincere and effective. However, the highlight of the meeting was certainly the game section! Mugs with the Nanjing No. 1 Toastmasters Club logo (as the host club) have been ordered to serve as prizes. Everyone really tried their best to get the logo mug. If you could have been there, you would likely also have been infected by the harmonious and happy emotions.

Speakers of the joint meeting

The meeting was a wonderful communication platform, not only through the major aspects of providing high quality speeches and evaluations, but also through the small details such as the newly designed badges to acknowledge all role-takers.

Highlights of the meeting including the cute badges and the most wanted logo mug

After the hard work, it was time to relax! All club members moved on to have a joint barbecue at Gulin Park in Nanjing, which was as wonderful as the meeting in the morning. Not only the ladies, we were surprised by our male members’ cooking skills as well! We shared our food together and could taste the different cooking and marinating style of everyone!

Loads of barbecue fun in Gulin Park

Overall, it was a successful meeting and an afternoon with delicious meal. Come and join us next time and make your own experience!

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by Helen Reumann

Meeting location change starting 14th June 2011

June 9, 2011 in General by Helen Reumann

As our members grow, we need a bigger meeting venue, which is now even more convenient to reach by public transport. Please note that from the meeting of 14th June 2011 onwards, we will be holding our meeting in our following new location:

Room 1507, Wuxing Nianhua Building, No. 139 Hanzhong Road (Exit No. 1, Shanghai Road Metro Station, Metro Line 2)
汉中路139号五星年华大厦1507, 地铁2号线上海路站1号出站

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New Member Orientation 15th June 2011

June 9, 2011 in Educational by VPPR Team

Do you always struggle for a topic when preparing your speech?

Do you want to know the secret skills to deliver a fantastic table topic speech?

Do you want to know whether the evaluation you gave and received is good / effective or not?

There is no need to longer struggle with these challenges. Come to our New Member Orientation Event on June 15th, 2011 from 7 to 9 pm. Thanks to Nanjing Youth Olympic Toastmasters club, who provides the venue as follows:

Huayi Education, Floor 8, No.2 Honjiaqiao, Metro line 2 Shanghai Road, Exit 3
白下区侯家桥12号8楼, 地铁2号线上海路站3号出口下，向莫愁路步行400米

What will you get from this New Member Orientation Event?

Jerel Bonner, founder of Nanjing Toastmasters Community and Competent Communicator, will share with you his secrets of delivering a table topic speech at any time on any topic!

Helen Reumann, Vice President Public Relations of Nanjing No1 Toastmasters Club and Competent Leader, will share with you on “How to select topic for speech?” !

Katie Zhang, Vice President Education of Nanjing No1 Toastmasters Club, Competent Communicator and Competent Leader, will share with you her experience of giving and receiving evaluations in Toastmasters world!

Don’t miss this rare and excellent opportunity and come join us on 15th June!

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Welcome back to our heroes from Xiamen!

May 26, 2011 in Events by VPPR Team

After exchanging valuable experiences from other excellent toastmasters while enjoying wonderful seafood, three members from our club Katie, Tina and Jerel came back from the Xiamen Spring Conference 2011. The conference is held twice a year for the Toastmasters District 85 – this means Toastmasters members of Greater China, Hong Kong and Macau.

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!

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by Helen Reumann

Xiamen Spring Convention 13 – 15 May 2011

May 5, 2011 in Events by Helen Reumann

With more than 190 clubs and 5000 members, Toastmasters China conducts an annual conference very Spring. This year, this conference will be held in Xiamen, from 13 – 15 May 2011. What is in for you in this conference?

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.

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by Helen Reumann

Division L Contest on 23rd April in Shanghai

April 18, 2011 in General by Helen Reumann

Our excellent members Jerel Bonner, Katie Zhang and Leinie Zhang represented our Nanjing No. 1 Toastmasters Club to fight for the Division-level awards in Division L Speech Contest on April 23rd 2011 in Shanghai. Although Jerel actually won the 2. Place of the International Speech Contest. But according to the contest rules, they all cannot proceed further for the District Contest.

In any case, you certainly all agree with me that they are all winners already indeed passing our club contest and the area contest, right? So please do join me giving them another applause over the web!

If you are interested in some comments on the Division Contest, please have a look to our Nanjing No. 1 Toastmasters’ Blog.

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by Helen Reumann

Shanghai Joint Meetings on 24th April 2011

March 28, 2011 in Events by Helen Reumann

In order to widen our horizon and look at how other clubs are doing, we had two joint meetings in Shanghai on Sunday, 24th April 2011!

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!

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by Helen Reumann

Meeting on 5th April 2011 canceled!

March 24, 2011 in Events by Helen Reumann

Dear members and guests, please note that due to the Qingming Festival (Tomb Sweeping Day) bank holiday, our meeting on 5th April 2011 is canceled. Thank you for your attention and sorry for any inconvenience!

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