Sometime in the past few months, the page listing online only clubs that used to exist on toastmasters.org got taken down. Apparently, the folks at headquarters decided they didn’t have time to update that badly outdated list.
As a volunteer project, I’ve set up a directory that online club leaders are invited to add to — posting their meeting time, a few details about their club, and a link to their club website. You can find it here: https://toastmost.org/online-clubs-directory/
The initial listing includes several clubs I’m familiar with because they use the Toastmost website hosting service, but the listing is not limited to Toastmost member clubs. You can put in your Free Toast Host website, or Easy Speak site, or your Facebook page, or wherever people can find you. The point is to make it easier for potential members to find you.
I think this listing could be a lot more useful than either the old listing on toastmasters.org or the Find-a-Club feature (which revolves around search zip code). You can search by schedule or by keywords in the club name or description and display the club schedule relative to your own time zone.
For example, Buddies follows the UTC time zone, and I can see what that equates to for me in the US Eastern time zone:
Check it out and let me know what you think. We’re looking for volunteers to help contact online club leaders and ask if they want to be included in this new listing.
Thanks to the Linda Isaacs and Rodney James of Virtual Professional Speakers for alerting me to this issue and volunteering to help address it for the entire community of online clubs.
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