Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Would You Like to Break a World Record?

Fellow Toastmasters, a unique opportunity has come our way.  District 47 is organizing an attempt to set the world record for the longest, non-stop speekathon and we have been invited to be a part of the effort! Wouldn’t you like to hold a world record?

This will be a great way to publicize Toastmasters (hint, VPPR), sign-up new members (hint, VPM), gain experience in front of other audiences (hint, all members), etc.

Beginning Thursday 6/10 going through Sunday 6/13, we will be going for a target of 80 hours!

Here are some details:

We need to have someone speaking at all times during the attempt with no more than 30 seconds between speakers

All speeches must be at least 5 minutes long; that includes evaluations.  Speeches can be longer than that, way longer if you want an can.  This is a great opportunity to give some speeches from advanced manuals but, you don't have to do a manual speech.  You could give a training class, seminar, sales pitch, etc.

While you can give the same speech more than once, you can not give it more than once every 4 hours.

All speeches have to be logged in our official log book - speaker name, speech title, time

All speeches will be recorded with video to document the attempt
2 timers with stop watches must be present at all times

We need volunteers - speakers, evaluators, organizers, coordinators, promotion, publicity, etc. We need shifts of independent witnesses who are neither participating in giving speeches at all nor are related to anyone involved.

What I want from you:

Let me know right away how much you will contribute to this effort. How many speeches, how long, how many hours you can sit as an audience member.

If you are going to speak, we ask that you also contribute your time in another capacity. Remember that we need to go round the clock so, expect to be speaking and working sometimes in the wee hours of the night and early morning.

I suggest that we break this down a little and see how many hours we as a club can commit to and then fill them any way we can. We will need to be able to jump in if something happens and a speaker cannot go on (think looong table topics).

I am personally ready to provide several hours of speaking on a range of topics that I teach.

More information will be coming out shortly but, time is short and I need to know who is interested. Get back to me right away.

John Schneyer
VPE

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