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FROM THE DESK
A Year of
Jim Robison, DTM - Program Quality Director
As I ready myself to serve District 7 next year send a message to someone and don’t
as your District Director, I think back on what see a response, a follow up phone call
I learned (or reinforced) when I served as can ensure they get the information.
Club Growth Director and Program Quality Also, if you are asking for a decision of
Director, and how to make the best use of some kind, or asking for volunteers to
those lessons moving forward. help, for example at a contest, a phone
1. Call people. It is very easy to write call is far more likely to get a response
up an email, hit send, and assume than an email.
that the recipient not only received 2. Information posted online stays there
the email but read it in detail and and needs to be updated. It is surprising
fully understands what you were how many times I have looked up
expressing in the email. Unfortunately, meeting information for a club only
email is a highly unreliable means to discover that the information I
of communication. Yes, when you found was outdated and inaccurate. If
exchange information with others, you have ever wondered why visitors
and everyone reads the emails, it are not finding your club, try doing
can be very efficient. As a means of an online search to see what comes
communicating and coordinating up. It is possible that an old Meet-Up
between individuals it can work quite listing still shows up with old meeting
well But, if you send a blast of messages information, or maybe the listing
to a large number of people, you can on toastmasters.org needs to include
bet that a portion of those people do missing details. I have surprisingly
not even get the email. The email found clubs where their own webpage
might be blocked by the mail server. has conflicting information about
The email address being used might be where or even when they meet. If any
wrong. The email might get screened details about your meeting change, you
out to a SPAM folder. The recipient will need to do a thorough scrubbing of
might just not recognize that the email places where your meeting information
is important and leave it unread. If you appears.
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