Ron Fredericks writes: Blue Cube Toastmasters Club recently held an open house to attract new members: Blue Cube Makes a Movie. The agenda for the open house was to make a movie. I directed, produced, and published this movie as a demonstration of what Blue Cube Toastmasters Club is all about.

Watch this movie to:

• Learn about Toastmasters International,
• Demonstrate how Toastmasters’ self-help public speech and leadership training works, and
• Show potential future guests and experienced Toastmasters what makes Blue Cube unique as a club worth visiting/joining.

Blue Cube Toastmasters Club presents: the movie

Background Notes

LectureMaker hosts the Blue Cube Toastmasters Club in its conference room. LectureMaker owns a professional video studio down the hall from its conference room, so it was only a matter of time before the club members got together to make a club movie.

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Ron Fredericks writes:

LectureMaker’s video studio captures audio with highest quality. Each audio source is recorded on separate tracks because audio is so important to a high quality video or podcast. I hope this overview helps my clients and prospects see just how serious I am in recording the very best audio for my live event video capture projects as well as my in-studio projects.

For hardware, I designed my audio capture platform around a PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2 analog plus digital 16-track recording system that includes mic pre-amps, dynamic audio correction, and both analog and digital mixing. For software, I use Adobe Audition 3 (AA3) for multitrack capture, recording, and final post production mixes.

Here is a photo of LectureMaker’s studio setup:

Figure 1 – LectureMaker’s audio system managed by PreSonus StudioLive system

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Ron Fredericks writes: Blue Cube Toastmasters Club is having a very special open house. Let’s make a movie! The event is also a membership drive to attract guests and experienced Toastmasters to consider joining Blue Cube Toastmasters for its special relationship with LectureMaker’s video studio. Blue Cube club members can use up to one hour of LectureMaker’s video studio time (at LectureMaker’s desecration) to capture, produce, and publish video to the Internet and DVD. As a demonstration we plan to make a Toastmaster movie during this open house event – and you’re invited.

LectureMaker has donated several hours of video studio time to Blue Cube Toastmasters club in its ongoing support and hosting of the club meeting in LectureMaker’s conference room.

“Blue Cube Toastmasters Club – Let’s Make a Toastmaster Movie – event”

Discussion

If a picture tells a thousand words, imagine what video can do at 30 picture frames per second. In fact, we don’t have to imagine… online video published around events, news, and business has sky rocketed. See this report for more details.

Now Blue Cube club wants to make a movie. Sign up to become a Blue Cube Toastmaster and join in the fun during our open house event too.

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Bill Copeland writes:

BP is trying to salvage the leaking Deepwater Horizon oil well, not plug it.  I believe it’s possible to stop the leak very quickly, if we, not BP, choose to kill the well.

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Over and over we have heard from BP that the long-term objective is to drill relief wells to reduce the pressure.  This is so they can go back in and start harvesting the fruits of their $600 million investment.

On April 20th the blowout occurred at 5,000 feet and the emergency relief valve, rated at 450 tons of pressure, failed.

Remember ‘Top Hat’?  In late May, a complex system of equipment was assembled on the floor of the Gulf with pipes from a surface ship to pump heavy mud down on the leaking wellhead. Pumping from the surface requires some of the most powerful pumps in the world.  They didn’t have enough mud.  Top Hat failed.  So has every other effort.

Most everyone in media, industry, government, and the scientific community has bought the BP point of view.  But there’s a much easier solution: kill the well. Drop something on the wellhead that weighs more than the 450-tons.  A large empty oil tanker ship might do.

References

Bill Broadcasting Photo

news.blogs.cnn.com

www.theoildrum.com

www.cosmicswan.com

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Ron Fredericks writes: the video presented here is the polished version of Nitesh Jain’s humorous speech during the division C humorous speech contest Friday October 23′rd 2009. Nitesh was representing his Toastmasters R Us club, having already won first place at the area contest.

LectureMaker filmed the video and hosted the video as part of this blog page. I’is a demonstration of LectureMaker’s video and audio event capture techniques. LectureMaker offers global reuse of events by filming at remote sites, then hosting the video with exeptional quality on its web site.  Contact LectureMaker when you need to:

• stream high quality webinars,
• create a video to enhance your sales, brand, or talent,
• host a high quality video, track viewers with analytic reports, or leverage the value of social media or search engine optimization,
• launch a new product,
• produce Internet TV,
• submit an ad to TV or radio stations, or to
• create a product, service, or technology demonstration.

LectureMaker presents A Walk In Muir Woods, a humorous speech by Nitesh Jain the video

Email this video Link to this video Embed this video Video Player support page References What is a humorous speech? Link to District 4 Toastmasters site Find a Toastmasters club in your area Use the comment feature below to share your thoughts with Nitesh.

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Ron Fredericks writes: I attended my first District level contest over the weekend. I will be adding more notes here over time. But for now, take a look at the growing number of photos I took during the event as one of two official photographers for this event.

Event Photos

The photos located here have been selected by a visitor to this page. So I have taken the time to enhance them and share them with you here. Take a look at the complete photo gallery below, and let me know what your favorite photos are too. Maybe I will have the time to highlight them in this section.

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Event Photo Gallery

These photos form a complete record of the event as I experienced it with my SLR camera. If you like this format, perhaps you too would like to use LectureMaker’s photography service at your next event.

I used a monopole to help frame the images so there are several sequences that blend together as you watch the slide show unfold.

Use this post’s comment feature below to vote for your favorite photos. I will consider posting your favorites in the Event Photos section above. If you find photos you do not like, I am willing to remove them. Just let me know.

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Sunnyvale’s Blue Cube Toastmasters Club Presents…

“Avoiding Identity Theft – registration closed”

Discussion

Ron Fredericks writes: Did you know that over 10 million people were affected by identity theft in 2006? Over $15 billion was stolen from individuals in just one year alone.  Blue Cube Toastmasters club is fighting back with its 3-member presentation team.  During the seminar you will learn more about identity theft and several practical steps you can take to avoid it.

Seminar on Avoiding Identity Theft

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About this Contest Planning Blog Post

Ron Fredericks writes: I was asked to be the event chair for this District 4,  Division C, Area 5 contest. This blog post will act as a living document so our clubs can work together as we plan the event for October 2, 2009. Look to this post for meeting minutes, plan, participants, and time line. 

Area C5 clubs participating in this event
email	Area C5 Governor Vish Pattanashetty
2943	Orbiters Toastmasters
4648	Talking Heads Toastmasters
6115	Blue Cube Toastmasters
587637	Toasters R Us
1029428	Securely Speaking

Evaluation Toastmaster Evaluation Contest Homorous Speech Toastmaster Humorous Speech Contest

Overview “We are holding the C5 Area Humorous and Evaluation Contest at Synopsis in building 2. The address is 455 N Mary Ave, Sunnyvale, CA. The Date of the contest is Friday October 2nd. It will start at 7.00pm. Please fill the form below to register for the Area contest. Please come at 6.30pm to enjoy the refreshments. The fee is $7 if you register by Sept 29 and $9 at the door.” — C5 Area Governor, Vishwanand Pattanashetty   Registration form   Contest flyer   Contestant Forms Each contestant should bring a copy of these two forms to the registration table. Contestant Bio Certificate of Eligibility   Functionary Forms Each of the contest functionaries can use one or more of these scripts Conducting a Speech Contest Contest Script   Chief Judge Briefing Checklist  Tally Sheet  Timer’s Report   Evaluation Contest Rules Evaluation Contestant Briefing Evaluation Judges Ballot Evaluation Judges Guidelines Evaluation Tiebreaker Ballot and Guidelines   Humorous Contest Rules Humorous Contestant Briefing Humorous Judges Ballot Humorous Judges Guidelines Humorous Tiebreaker Ballot and Guidelines

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