Archive | October, 2007

Toastmasters Table Topic Ideas for Impromptu Speaking – A Long Story

29. October 2007

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Instead of having just a handful of table topic speakers, why not involve your whole club? Try having a group story where everyone takes part in the story by contributing a line or a paragraph to the story. Start at one end of the room and progress to the other end. You can choose to [...]

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The Increasingly Connected World – The Power of Mobile Technology

28. October 2007

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I’m going to make a prediction – just like how the mobile phone has penetrated our lives, the laptop is going to do so as well. Make no mistake about it – all the signs are there – people are going to get connected. With mobile broadband getting cheaper as well, and free wireless hotspots [...]

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Toastmasters Table Topic Ideas for Impromptu Speaking – Years of Our Lives

24. October 2007

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One Table Topic Idea could be to bring little pieces of paper with certain year numbers on them. The idea is to get the Table Topics speaker to come out, pick a year and talk about something that happened in the year, or something that they were doing during that year. Tags: Public Speaking

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Toastmaster Table Topic Ideas for Impromptu Speaking – Aunt Agony

24. October 2007

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Instead of the Table Topics Master coming up with the table topics, instead open it up to the floor to come up with an “Dear Aunt Agony” question to pose to the table topics speaker. The speaker’s table topic speech will then be to give their advice. Alternatively the Table Topics Master can set the [...]

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Change Fat Wallets To Super Thin and Slim Wallets – A Review

20. October 2007

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Do you have a fat wallet overflowing with stuff that you wish you just trim down? If you have watched the episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza goes on about his wallet problems, you know what I mean. A fat wallet gives you back problems by pressing on your nerves (literally!) when you sit on [...]

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Why Backing Up Your Information and Data is so Important

18. October 2007

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I just talked to a friend and found out that he survived a HDD crash. Luckily he got his data back, but we should always backup, especially since information/data is so critical to us. You don’t think so? Imagine if you lost all your photographs, all your contacts, all your documents, etc — that’s how [...]

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Free ZenCart Templates / ZenCart Themes / Zen Cart Skins

18. October 2007

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If you’re thinking of creating an online ecommerce store, then you’ve probably seen the exorbitant prices that web design firms charge for creating a customised ecommerce shopping cart system. Well, the good news is that there are really powerful open-source (read: free) software available that can do a good job. That’s right – not just [...]

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