Ron Fredericks writes: Well it’s that time of year again at Toastmasters International – the annual Humorous Speech Contest for clubs and their local areas.

Read the rules for detail on the format of this type of meeting: rules (as PDF document)

Two key points from the Toastmasters rules for humorous speech contest:

• Speech should be from 5 to 7 minutes long
• A humorous speech is not usually a funny speech with jokes, it’s more likely to be a serious speech told in a humorous manner.

But for those of us that find telling jokes or contemplate what is funny – this next section may help.

Helpful tips for adding humor to your next speech

Timing is one of the most important aspects. Here is one article on how to master the art of humor with effective timing along with some examples from famous comedians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_timing
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Welcome to Blue Cube

The Blue Cube Toastmasters Club members meet regularly in a business-like environment to develop and improve their public speech and leadership skills.

The club meets at LectureMaker LLC’s office every Tuesday from 5:30pm to 6:30pm
830 Stewart Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94085

Figure 1 – Ron Fredericks is hired as a technical marketer and public speaker, Moscone Center, thanks to skills learned as a Toastmaster.

Who can participate

• Guests are welcome
• Visiting Toastmasters from other clubs are welcome
• Toastmasters officers from area, district, and beyond are welcome
• Adults 18 years or older may apply for membership
• Blue Cube Club officers reserve the right to refuse individual participation at its sole discretion

Benefits to Jointing Blue Cube
The main benefits to joining any Toastmasters club revolves around public speech and leadership training.

One special benefit of LectureMaker’s sponsorship of the Blue Cube Toastmasters Club is that members can request their speeches and evaluations be videotaped and published. Some of those videos are posted here.

Contact Ron Fredericks to learn more about LectureMaker’s sponsorship of Blue Cube Toastmasters Club to:

• Request a password to access members’ only videos
• Learn how to become a club member
• Create blog posts for the club’s benefit
• Get more information on meeting agenda or membership

Best regards,

Ron Fredericks
Phone: 408-390-1895
Email: RonF@LectureMaker.com

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Ron Fredericks writes: Screencasting is an easy way to document your activities on a computer. Its a digital recording of computer screen output, opten containing audio narration.

During a recent poll, I found very few  people were aware of  screencasting . Watch my online lecture on the subject to learn how to:

• Express your ideas as a screencast on the web,
• Embed them within documentation instead of screenshots mixed with tedious explanations, or
• Use them as visual aids to enhance your next public lecture, as I have done here.

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Ron Fredericks writes: Have you ever wanted to include math equations in your blog posts or lecture materials?  Here is an easy and slick way to get the job done.  Use Embedded Components new WordPress plugin called WordPress Math Publisher, or wpmathpub, for short. 

As an example, when I embedded the wpmathpub [pmath size=xx] tag into my blog post — like this:

I get the following mathematical equation displayed in my blog post:

where:
is defined as a
is defined as b

 You can learn more from the plugin’s wiki-like documentation on wordpress.org site itself from here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmathpub/

You can post questions or comments on this plugin from here:

http://www.embeddedcomponents.com/blogs/2008/03/wpmathpubsupport/

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