How to Join Toastmasters? How to Improve FAQ on the toastmasters International Website?

 On Facebook I am on a forum page about Toastmasters International. Somebody asked if we trust the management. It turns out that there are members of the Board, who we vote in, and consist of directors of each region, elected every year, which are distinct from the website and admin of TI based in the headquarters in the USA and managing the website through a website construction and maintenance company.

If you are a president or VPE of a club, you can go to the AGM of your region, hear the candidates and vote for them, as well as hearing praise and thanks. You might also hear heated discussions, and accusations of inaction or misappropriation of funds. o they can get an instant response. Like many organizations, the TI FAQ ends with was this helpful yes/no, but it may have helped in one point but not another point which would have solved your problem. Giving you a useful answer, and actually solving your problem are two different levels. For example, how to join tells you to find a local club. But what if you have a job which takes you around the world, or you are working from home and cannot get to physical meetings? It should mention online clubs. I am a member of an online club and our prospective member who has already attended two meetings wants to join and cannot get the right information. She wants to know whether she can join through the TI website. TI should be telling us the TI joining fee and explain that it is in American dollars and charges may be made fro converting currency and using credit cards - and say how much extra or direct you to a website which tells you the changing figures. TI should have an up to date list of the extras which each club charges and what this money is used for (eg a physical venue hire, physical equipment such as lecterns, advertising such as facebook ads, meetup ads, a street banner, website for sign up for meeting websites, ribbons and certificates, gifts to committee members who complete the 6 months or one year). That way you would know in advance if you can join a cheaper club, or a bigger club, a club with experienced members, and if you have the funds you can join a bigger club or join a cheap club and sponsor some gifts or equipment or a physical venue.ast, present, future The treasurer, and mysteries of financial accounts, forecasts being more optimistic, or pessimistic, or realistic, and financial accounts not yet supplied because the year has not ended, amounts are still to be paid out, or still to be paid in.

The website has FAQ. they can get an instant response. Like many organizations, the TI FAQ ends with was this helpful yes/no, but it may have helped in one point but not another point which would have solved your problem. Giving you a useful answer, and actually solving your problem are two different levels. For example, how to join tells you to find a local club. But what if you have a job which takes you around the world, or you are working from home and cannot get to physical meetings? It should mention online clubs. I am a member of an online club and our prospective member who has already attended two meetings wants to join and cannot get the right information. She wants to know whether she can join through the TI website. TI should be telling us the TI joining fee and explain that it is in American dollars and charges may be made fro converting currency and using credit cards - and say how much extra or direct you to a website which tells you the changing figures. TI should have an up to date list of the extras which each club charges and what this money is used for (eg a physical venue hire, physical equipment such as lecterns, advertising such as facebook ads, meetup ads, a street banner, website for sign up for meeting websites, ribbons and certificates, gifts to committee members who complete the 6 months or one year). That way you would know in advance if you can join a cheaper club, or a bigger club, a club with experienced members, and if you have the funds you can join a bigger club or join a cheap club and sponsor some gifts or equipment or a physical venue.