{"id":61,"date":"2008-09-21T05:14:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T05:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-09-27T05:31:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T05:31:22","slug":"district-visit-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/21\/district-visit-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"District visit schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The district visit schedule has been approved.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be going to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>D11, Merrillville, IN, Oct. 10-11<\/li>\n<li>D30, Elk Grove, IL, Oct. 24-25 (home district)<\/li>\n<li> D8, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 14-15<\/li>\n<li> D54, Champaign, IL, Nov. 21-22<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited about D11 being my first official visit, as it was also my first-ever Toastmasters district conference outside my home district, and the first visit during my campaign year.\u00a0 They&#8217;re all in driving distance too, so no airport hassles this time.<\/p>\n<p>As part of each conference, I will present a keynote based on International President Jana Barnhill&#8217;s theme for the year, &#8220;Toastmasters: The Courage to Conquer&#8221;.\u00a0 Every ID makes up their own speech; I&#8217;m going to structure mine around conquering each of the four critical success factors.\u00a0 And I&#8217;ll make it a manual speech too!<\/p>\n<p>At most conferences, I&#8217;ll also lead an educational session, something appropriate for each district, like staying distinguished, the DCP, club coaching, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most important part of each trip is the marketing visits.\u00a0 This typically involves meeting with executives from companies thinking about sponsoring a local Toastmasters club.\u00a0 It can also include media visits, like television or radio or print.\u00a0 And it can also include presenting an award to companies that have s history of strong Toastmasters support.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is FIVE marketing visits for each district.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to see every district achieve and even exceed this goal!\u00a0 Getting new clubs started early in the year makes the whole year go much more smoothly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The district visit schedule has been approved.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be going to: D11, Merrillville, IN, Oct. 10-11 D30, Elk Grove, IL, Oct. 24-25 (home district) D8, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 14-15 D54, Champaign, IL, Nov. 21-22 I&#8217;m excited about D11 being my first official visit, as it was also my first-ever Toastmasters district conference outside my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-conference","category-international-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}