Cole Harbour Toastmasters
320 Flying Cloud Drive Dartmouth, NS, Canada

Want to join us for a virtual meeting? Email us at [email protected]

Adaptability is the call of these times and Cole Harbour Toastmasters is doing well at this! This week, because we are now utilizing the on-line platform of Zoom for our Monday night meetings, we were able to have one of our members currently working away in Iqaluit, Nanavut! It was fantastic to see Sunday Thomas with us this week!! ... Hope to see you every week! Stay safe up there Sunday!! Guests are always welcomed to join our weekly meetings and with Zoom it makes it even easier to do so! This week Jim Murphy and Karen Caldwell "zoomed in" to join our meeting! If you would like to test out a meeting and zoom in please contact VP of Education,Jennifer Bonnevie, at [email protected] we are only a mouse click away! The Jim Abriel Award -an award for the Best Table Topics Speech- an impromptu 2- minute speech on an unknown topic, is opportunity to practice speaking skills! It's fun,exciting and keeps a speaker on their toes! This weeks award goes to Jennifer Bonnevie presented by Table Topics Master of the evening VP of Membership, Debi Campbell Congratulations Jennifer! Please join in on the fun next Monday night at 7 PM! Reach out and Zoom In!

"Going with the Flow" Cole Harbour Toastmasters had their first online meeting tonight with great fun and success! Although the events and affects of the Covid-19 Virus Pandemic has affected many normal, daily & weekly practices for our Toastmaster members, it has been decided collectively to continue our weekly meetings using the online platform of Zoom!... Tonight, our Cole Harbour Toastmasters gathered together from across the HRM and will continue to do so each week until we are able to resume in-person Club meetings It was great to see everyone in one "room" again! Pictured is tonight's Table Topics Winner of the coveted Jim Abriel Award, Aimee Brown and award presenter Jennifer Bonnevie Congratulations Aimee on being the 1st Online Table Topics Award winner of the Cole Harbour Club! Fellow Toastmasters who attended our 1st Online Meeting all agree it was a great meeting and Welcome You next week to join in! We welcome all Guests who would like to "visit" our virtual Club and attend this new meeting format to contact our VP of Education, Jennifer Bonnevie at [email protected]

To all Current, and Future, Toastmasters Due to the in person meetings being suspended, using existing technology and some innovating Toastmasters, an on-line way to stay connected is being tested! It's working wonderfully according to Cole Harbour Toastmaster Jennifer Bonnevie who has participated in an on-line meeting! See her comments below!... "I wanted to reach out and share my experiences this week with online Toastmasters meetings. Monday night I attended The Maine Thing's meeting with Andrew Lennark. Andrew was picked for a Table Topic!.There were 60 people online trying to learn about online meetings. Wow!! The meeting went very well! Everyone was enthusiastic and participated! They used cards for timing and had an agenda ahead of time. There were 2 speakers, table topics, evaluations, just like we do in person! Tonight was a smaller group. Schooner Toastmasters hosted a group of 22 people during their FIRST online meeting. In "group format" on ZOOM you could see all of your fellow toastmasters in little squares. Like the Brady Bunch! There were 2 speakers and Table Topics. I was picked this time! My point of sharing my experiences is: it's new, it's different, but WE"VE GOT THIS! I'm looking forward to our group learning the new skills needed to run and participate in an online meeting." Fantastic review!Thank you Jennifer!This on-line platform will be utilized successfully until in-person meetings can be resumed! Great work everyone!! See you at the next meeting!

Hello Everyone, Mounting concerns around the Coronavirus outbreak, and its quickly spreading trajectory over Canada,Nova Scotia and the world, has prompted Cole Harbour Toastmasters to take seriously the advisories and cancel our in person Monday night meetings until further notice effective today March 16, 2020. Please reach out for information regarding meetings which may be done via video conferencing or via on line platform yet to be determined.... It is Cole Harbour Toastmasters sincerest wish that all reading this notice remain in good health

Sharon Forbrigger!!!! Look!!! The word is getting out