Importance of Grammar

Yesterday's toastmaster session was a bit special because most of the roles were done by our own club members and they did a fantastic job of it as well. There was a project speech and the evaluation was done by the guest speaker and there were few good points to be taken from that evaluation.
The guest speech was done by Mr.Yukthi Gunesekera and it was about "Achieving your goals through language" , it was a great speech and really pointed out how we neglect pronunciation when we are speaking. He also pointed out how improper use of grammar can ruin your credibility. The thought that immediately came to my mind was those blogs with poor grammar and spelling mistakes. It doesn't matter how good your content is if the reader can't read it in a proper manner you are going to loose the reader. With spell checks and lots of other tools to help you out there can really be no excuse to have spelling mistakes and grammatical mistakes in your blog posts.

Starting a niche website

Niche website is a very valuable online property. The trick is to find a market that is not crowded but have enough audience to earn some money. Only way you can succeed this way is by doing research research and more research. I'm testing out a new blog which is about Yeast infection in dogs. There seems to be a decent amount of search for those words so maybe I'll do pretty well in that one. Results will be shown in another blog post.

Another lens in squidoo

Squidoo is a nice place to add your expertise on different subjects and also a nice place to get some traffic to your blog. It is especially useful if your blog is covering one niche and you are dying to write about some other thing that you know of. I know a bit about adding a favicon to a website so I decided to create a squidoo lens about it. Check it out and let me know if you like it. How to add a favicon to a website.

Evaluation contest

Today we had an evaluation contest and a humourous contest in the Toast master meeting. I also particapated in the Evaluation contest and one thing I learned is that two minutes is a long time when you have deliver a evaluation in front of an audience. Other than that I think I wasn't prepared enough for the evaluation , sure I read the articles in the web and the pdf files , but I havent't thought of specific suggestions and so on. Well hopefully I can do better the next time.

The event as a whole was a great success , the humourous speach part was especially good and there were few very nice topics.Learned a lot from them and maybe I can do better next time.

Another great toast master session

Last Mondy attended another Toast Master meeting. I was the ah counter for this meeting and was a bit nervous about it. But it wasn't that hard but I have to make sure I prepare a nice introduction next time. The guest speaker was Mr.Niranjan Silva and he gave an exellent speech about public speaking and evaluating others. It was full of information and I learned a lot from that speech. I'm beggining to like this Toast Master club very much , after all its friends helping friends.