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The Value of Online Meetings

Eldred Brown, DTM - Club Growth Director

accustomed to meeting online, I doubt that we’ll in-person-only. A club can even switch back

ever see online meetings as the bugaboo we once and forth multiple times. The decision to
did. Many of our clubs will probably even want switch must be made by a vote of a quorum
to remain open to online participation. Here are of the club’s active members.
some things to think about as you decide whether • More than half of the members of a blended

to continue permitting online attendance at club must still meet in person at a physical
your meetings as a blended club or even form location.
an online-only club.
What to Do If You Want to Meet Online
Blended and Online-Only Clubs (either during or after the Coronavirus crisis)

Definitions: District 7 has made ten Zoom accounts
• An online-only club is a club that meets available for club meetings. If you haven’t
entirely online. scheduled your weekly meeting on any one of

• A blended club is a club that meets in person these ten channels, please contact Emilie, PJ, or
at a physical location but allows online me via email so we can share the account names
participation. and passwords with you. My email addresses
• An in-person-only club is a club that meets are eldred.brown.tm@gmail.com and cgd@

in person at a physical location and does not d7toastmasters.org. I look forward to hearing
allow online participation. from you soon.
Rules:
• An online-only club must form and charter

as an online-only club. Once chartered, You are invited to join the online panel
an in-person-only or blended club cannot discussion, Should District 7 Become a
become online-only, and an online-only club Blended Club District, hosted by District
cannot become in-person-only or blended. 7 Toastmasters on May 24, 2020 at

Online-only clubs are also not assigned to 11:00AM - 12:30PM. Register here to
districts. obtain the link to the meeting. The link
• An in-person-only club can become will be sent out closer to the event.
blended, and a blended club can become

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