If you have a special event to promote, be sure to let me know. Starting next Sunday I’ll be sending out a weekly calendar of events from the Toastmasters world — with one featured event getting star billing at the top of the list.
This will be a separate newsletter email list from the WordPress for Toastmasters one and potentially serves a larger audience. You can sign up for the email list and browse through events for the next few weeks at calendar.toastmost.org. Each event’s start time is adjusted for display in your local timezone, as well as the timezone of the club or event sponsor. Online and hybrid meetings make it possible to attend meetings and events anywhere in the world, but this display makes it easier to see how events from clubs far away align with your schedule.
As of now, what you will see are event listings pulled from club websites hosted on Toastmost.org. However, clubs who promote themselves through another website hosting service, or through Facebook, are invited to post their events directly to calendar.toastmost.org.
Although I’ve taken the liberty of adding Toastmost club websites as a way of jump starting this service, participation is optional. Clubs who use the WordPress for Toastmasters software can add or remove their club event listings on the Site Sync On/Off page.
Each week, I’ll pick a different club or event to feature at the top of the newsletter that goes out on Sundays. In the mockup below, that’s the Your Featured Event Here slot. The event listing that follows covers events occurring in the next week.
The newsletter version does not include the timezone conversions (which don’t work in email) but links back to the website for this information. You’ll get a version of the newsletter shown above as a welcome email when you sign up for the mailing list.
Sign up at calendar.toastmost.org
There is no charge for this service, but I would be interested in hearing from potential sponsors or advertisers. In part, it will serve to promote the Toastmost.org club website hosting service.