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FROM THE DESK







 A Year of













 Jim Robison, DTM - Program Quality Director



        3.  Provide multiple paths                                   Contest Chair ensured that we had a
            to your information. My                                      successful contest season. Phyllis

            most frequent answer to                                       Harmon did a tremendous job
            many questions is “It’s                                       coordinating the District Annual
            on the District website.” If                                  Conference. Bill Hernendez made

            you want someone to find                                     certain we would have successful
            information about your club,                                Toastmasters Leadership Institutes.
            your meeting, or anything                                    I also need to mention Bob Hall as
            else, you need to make it easy to                             our Webmaster, Ayu Anantya as
            find, and consider multiple ways                               our Education Committee Chair,

            that people can find it. For District                          and Eldred Brown leading the
            events, it is not enough to have the                    Tech Tuesdays. Not to mention, those
            event listed in the Events Calendar, and                people who work in the background

            to have the event posted in a banner at                 supporting all the others. People
            the top of the website, we need to also                 like Leanna Lindquist. Getting great
            provide big buttons for people to click                 people to take on tasks relieved me of
            on from the home page and put links                     a tremendous amount of stress and
            in social media and in emails that are                  ensured our District members received

            sent out. Even with that, someone will                  great support.
            say they can’t find it. The point is, just          I look forward to making use of these
            put it in as many places as you can.             lessons to help support District 7 in the

        4.  Recruit great people! I was extremely            coming year.
            fortunate this year to have many
            people volunteer to take roles who
            were extremely capable. Ellen Ino as
            the District Zoom Master provided

            outstanding support to the entire
            district. Tamsen Corbin as District
            Chief Judge and Patrick Locke as




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