 Good morning, everyone. My focus today is the Toastmasters website and the amazing resources that we will find there. As mentioned by the MC, my name is Kajutan Barreto. I am a distinguished Toastmaster. Besides that, I'm a certified trainer and these are some of my social media channels, especially my YouTube channel where I create a lot of content for Toastmasters on my channel, Tech for Toastmasters. To check it out, do put your queries in chat and let me explain to you my learning objectives for today's session. I want to talk about the Toastmasters website and it has three parts. The part that is accessible to anybody, whether you are Toastmaster or not. Anybody can go to a Toastmaster website and get so much insight even without joining Toastmasters. We call that the public access and there you can get the resources, you can get magazines, you can even shop. As a member, you can get certain kind of access where you can go to your profile. You can go and manage your education as shown by a previous presenter. You can get discounts when you go to the shop. I hope it is up. It has been having some problems recently because of the change in the ERP system that they have. You can get your magazines delivered to you, physical magazines and you can subscribe to them and you can control what we call your privacy. Very important in these days when your information is sold around the world and Toastmasters is what we call GDPR compliant. I don't know how many of you know what GDPR means. It's an initiative by the European Union. It means general data protection regulations. So to control our information, who can access our information? And finally, there is a section for offices. If you are a club officer, if you are an area director, division director, district director and so forth, they have certain information to manage their area. I will be focusing mostly on the public access and members. The Toastmaster website is a powerful resource for all of us. You have just become a Toastmaster. You have paid your dues. This website should not be your first resource. Toastmaster website is one of the resource. Nothing can take away from the core that is your mentor. Once you join the club, make sure your club has assigned your mentor that you can go out and have a cup of coffee, sit down and understand exactly what you will get out of this program that you are paying every six months. Then your club officers, the president, the vice president, they should also be sitting with you explaining to you the benefits and finally your club members that you meet regularly. That is your first resource. But once you start learning to fly and you want to spread your own wings, then you can say, why don't I learn more? Why don't I go to the Toastmaster website and see what is there? And let me tell you, there is a lot. Not only will all the information be available here, but at the end of the day, you can even reach out to the Toastmaster staff and they will respond to you with the query. And sometimes depending upon the time, you can even chat with them directly. Let me first talk about the public resources that are available. I am not logged into this website and want to understand a little more about what is this website all about. The first thing, of course, is that you will find that we have this education program, the pathways education program, and you can learn a lot about it even before without joining Toastmasters. You can see what is this program all about? What can I get out of it? Every month, Toastmasters publishes magazines. So you can check out the various magazines that are available, read the articles. They're all free. And then you have a section here called resources. For example, you have resources on branding. What is Toastmasters brand all about? You want to learn more about speech contests. Everyone is talking about hybrid meetings and you could say, what is this hybrid meetings all about? You can click on it and you will get some wonderful resources on hybrid meetings. Let's say you talk about technology for hybrid meetings. You click on it and you can see there is a full article on the technology that you need to conduct a proper hybrid meeting. And you may say, who has written this wonderful article? And you might see, oh, that name sounds familiar. This is one of my contributions to Toastmasters. These are the type of resources that any person on earth basically who has internet access can come, explore, and find information. You want to know how many members are there in Toastmasters. Even before you join Toastmasters, you can say, oh, is it really a good organization? How many clubs do they have? How many members do they have? You can come here under this leadership central and you can click distinguish performance reports. And remember, I'm not logged into this website. I can see all the information about members. How many members are there? How many new members they have? How many renewed? And if you want to know more about, let's say, oh, this District 20 you are talking about, Kuwait and Bahrain, what is it about? You can click on District 20 and you can see how many clubs are there. We have around 124 clubs as a base and as of now 105. If you want to really dig into the different resources that are available, whether it's on online meeting, on speech contest or public speaking tips, it's all free. You can go and read this information even without paying a single fills. Then you might ask me, okay, then why am I paying? You're paying because you are getting that experience to sit with members, deliver speeches, get feedback in real life, not in a virtual space as a website. You can also go and shop things. E-commerce website here. This service has been sort of offline for the last three or four months because Toastmasters is currently in the process of upgrading the E-commerce website. Also, there are magazines that you can download and read. They're all free. Even you can download the entire month's magazine and it can download it as a PDF file and you can put it on your iPad and read it at your leisure. And the good thing about Toastmasters is that it is not something one way. You can also contribute. When I showed you the article on hybrid meeting, I contributed. Whenever you are going somewhere, take the magazine with you, take pictures in an exotic location, send them to the magazine and you will be featured. I took it where it has never been before in Sharma al-Sheikh underwater. This is also an article that my wife, who's also a distinguished Toastmaster, contributed and you can see that it is featured in one of the magazines. So it's not all just learning. It's also fun. It's contributing. It is networking. That's what the website is all about. Next, I will like to spend a few minutes on showing you, as a member, what can you get out? So this is so far, whatever I've shown you is information that is available to the public. What can you get as a member? Now, as a member, you first need to login to the website. And so you have a login section here, username and password. I already have the password so I can log in because now I'm operating this website as a Toastmaster. And the first thing I did when I got my profile is I clicked here on the profile and I made sure a nice picture of mine is updated here. In fact, this is quite old. Let me change it. So I just have to click here, choose a file from my computer. It shows me that I'm currently enrolled in one path and then I can jump to that path and continue my education. It also shows me all of the education awards. I have accumulated over the four years that I've been in Toastmasters. So as you can see, these are the various awards that I have accumulated. You can also see if you have helped other clubs. I've been a coach. I've been a mentor. I've been a sponsor and so forth. You can also see the offices that you have held, the leadership positions because remember Toastmaster is not just about communication. So as you can see, I've been a division director, different club roles. So all of this is in your profile. If you have ordered stuff from Toastmasters and I do a lot, then all the order history will be here. So these are the various orders that have been placed. So this is where you as a member can access your profile. You can jump straight to the education section. You can purchase stuff. If you are a club officer, then you can access what we call as Club Central. I am a VP Education as mentioned by the emcee of Kuwait Challengers Toastmasters Club. If I click on Club Central, here we can manage the club. I can submit payments for my members. I can check who are the members. I can submit education awards. There are various things, but because this is a new member orientation program, my role is not to explain today all of this. This will take more time. I'm just telling you if you take up the role as a club officer, then you have tools here to manage your club. Let me go to my profile. You might want to check your information about current password. If you want to change the password, you can do that. You can change the contact information and a question will ask, can we change up email address? Yes, we can change because remember, email is not permanent. You can change your phone number. You can even change your name. By the way, while registering, if somebody made a mistake, spelling mistake in your name, you can come here and say edit and you can give your correct name. Similarly, the GDPR is very important. You can tell Toastmasters how you want your information to be processed by Toastmasters. Do you want to receive emails from Toastmasters? I have said yes. You could choose not to. And if you say no, they will not send you emails. So that is the level of GDPR that Toastmasters complies with. Third party, that is when you, if you want to order through the online store, then you need to agree to share that information with the third party so they can ship the products to you. What about a phone? I have, as you can see, I've already said it to know. I don't want to receive phone calls from Toastmasters because it will be first of all from US and they might call me at a time when I'm sleeping. So I just said I don't want. Do you want your name to be shown in some of the reports that they publish? You may not want to. And if so, you can say, no, I don't want my name to be shown anywhere in any public reports. And you can then update the privacy. And that is your GDPR. You have your address. That is as far as the website is concerned, the resources that are available. And as I said, for me, when I want to search something, if I know where it is within the sections, okay, I will go and search for it. You can search different resources by category. Let's say club meeting roles. And then you can search for different types of files. Then I will get all of these tools to ensure that I have a R counterscript, general evaluator checklist and so forth. You can download those resources and start using them. Most of the time I find it much easier to just open a new tab, type Toastmasters, and then type my query. And I'll end up in the same website. By the way, I'll get what I want immediately. For example, I want to know meeting roles. What are the different meeting roles? And you can see, for example, club meeting roles. It's on the Toastmaster website. I open it and you will get all the information about the different meeting roles. You want to know, for example, what is this table topics everyone keeps talking about. Click on it and it will give you information about table topics. If you want, for example, to learn more about the R counter role, then even it has a script and a log, a very useful resource. I hope whatever I have said has been of some use to you and you will be able to use this resource in your journey, whether you're a new member or whether you're a seasoned Toastmaster. There's always something to learn on the Toastmasters website.