Selamat Hari Raya.

I would like to take this golden opportunity to wish all our Muslim members Selamat Hari Raya. Maaf Zahir & Batin. Will see all of you soon.

Shawn Narcis
DvG

The Leaders Letter (TI Version)

GOOD Day! Happy Day to All!

Greetings from the DvPRO Desk,

On 7th August 2012, I believe every members in the family should have received an email all the way from the state, reminding us on what to do and deadlines for the month. This is one way for TI to help remind us on urge task due to our day to day hectic schedule. 

Worry NOT, I am not going to repeat everything from the email to bored everyone to sleep. I just wanted to hand pick what is relevant to the club & division to help keep track of what's concern us. Here goes (Obviously I am copy & pasting):

Division & Area Governor News

Club Officer Training by August 31   

Clubs whose officers regularly attend training are more successful.That's why twice-annual club officer training is one of the Distinguished Club Program goals. Please complete the first round of training by August 31, and submit reports through District Central by September 30.

Division and Area Governors Training Report Due September 30

Please submit your Division and Area Governors Training Report bySeptember 30 to meet the prerequisite for the Distinguished District Program.

Area Governors: Support Your Clubs Through Visits

Each district must establish and maintain positive, supportive relationships with their clubs. Area governors play a critical role in creating this relationship through club visits, which are required twice a year. To meet one of the qualifying requirements of the District Recognition Program, please submit an Area Governor's Club Visit Report (Item 1471) for at least 75 percent of the clubs in your area. Please begin visiting clubs, and use Serving Clubs Through Visits: A Guide for Area Governors (Item 219) to help you prepare for an effective visit.

Club News

Clubs: Show Off Your Brand

The first of six winners of the "Clubs: Show Off Your Brand!" contest will receive worldwide recognition this month! Take a photo of your club members with your newly branded Toastmasters materials and email the photo to brand@toastmasters.org by the end of August for your chance to win. For more information, please visit www.toastmasters.org/

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Is Your Club Difficult to Find?

Help prospective members find your meeting by updating your club information online. Confirm that your club's meeting location and contact information is current, and include a regularly monitored phone number and email address.

Assign Your Club Proxy 

Toastmasters clubs hold the most important voting power in the organization. In May, proxies for the Annual Business Meeting at the International Convention were emailed to all 2011-2012 club presidents and secretaries. New club officers: Please make sure your club has decided who will carry your club's vote at the meeting. District governors: Please encourage club leaders to designate their proxies.

Public Relations Training Webinar

Toastmasters International will hold a live webinar for public relations officers and vice presidents public relations on September 18, 19 and 20. The informative session will provide helpful tips on how to create and communicate the latest news about Toastmasters to your audience. More information will follow.

It's Time for the Smedley Contest

Help your clubs prepare for this year's round of the original membership-building contest named in honor of Toastmasters' founder, Ralph C. Smedley. The Smedley Award competition started August 1 and ends September 30. For more information and contest rules, visit www.toastmasters.org/

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I hope everyone will be reminded again on the deadlines which concern you. Let's achieve a greater height because Together We Can Achieve Greatness. 

P/S: If you have not received any news as per above, kindly update your email with TI's system and let's us know' / area governor to forward you a copy for more details on the what's happening in TI.

By the way, the picture above is NOT me... =)

Cheers,

Shane Ho

DvPRO

A Fantastic Kick Off!

Hello Division K Members! How's everyone been doing for the past one month? I believed everyone is all-excited with what has installed to make our term 2012/2013 a Fantastic term!

The division has started off pretty awesome, don't you think so?

For Example(s):

1. The Division K has a whole new Blog! Facebook page and more... Twitter! It's time to be overwhelmed with Social Media! Get your members, friends, guest and start liking US! We are so loveable, aren't we? Hehe...

2. Installation of various clubs in the Division with:

• Lahad Datu Toastmasters Club taken the lead by becoming the 1st in the division to host their Installation before the new term start on 30th June 2012 and was held at Executive Hotel, Lahad Datu, with Guest of Honor being District 87 LGET Datin Grace, DTM 

• Sandakan Mandarin Toastmasters Club's 15th Installation held at Sabah Hotel, Sandakan with Guest of Honor being YB Mr. Au Kam Wah, Assemblyman for N. 49 Elopura 

• Tawau Toastmasters Club's 16th Installation held at Belmont Marco Polo Hotel, Tawau with Guest of Honor being Division K Governor Shawn Narcis, ACB, ALB

• Tawau Mandarin Toastmasters Club's 14th Installation held at Emas Hotel, Tawau with Guest of Honor being Toastmasters International President Elect Dr John Lau, DTM

3. District Officer Training... Every new term, district officers will be trained in advance before they start taking charge of their duty in full force and our Division K Governor was there too and he is already equipped with the required skill to lead the division to a whole new level. Good Luck to him and the whole Division K!

4. Facebook News on the Go...

• New term & new club is being charted! What a Great Start for the division indeed! Toihaan Toastmasters Club (Club#: 2577298) Welcome them to the big family of Division K!
• The new District Governor congratulated our Immediate Past Division K Governor Hanaa Wong for successful achieving the select Distinguished Division for the term 2011/2012. Well Done! 

5. Toastmasters International President Elect had made his appearance in Division K! For everyone info, Dr John Lau, DTM is the 1st Malaysian to be the International President Starting from August 2012. As mentioned earlier, he was at the Tawau Mandarin Toastmasters Club's installation. What a lucky one! 

6. The first TLI (Toastmasters Training Institute) was successfully held at Politeknik Kota Kinabalu Auditorium ULPL, Sepanggar on 29th July 2012 & it was organized by chairperson is the Area K1 Joanna Liew, ACB.

There were around 96 members coming all over Division K to make this event awesome with Training covered by Division K Governor, ACB, ALB with the topic Club Success Wisdom from Homer Simpson & LGET Datin Grace, DTM with the topic Attracting New Member - Using Word of Mouth Marketing.

Apart from that, our District Governor too, has delivered his District message to the whole Division. Right after the training was over, all the clubs leaders are break into groups during the Breakout Session. The whole session ended at around 2.00pm. 

Well! That's one whole lot of examples to start with... phew... 

There will be a SUPER Surprise coming up at the end of August 2012! Do stay tune & watch out for what we have installed for you. A song that will touch your heart & soul. I know it has touched mine. =) 

As your DvPRO for the term, I would like to thank everyone for the time and the efforts in all ways in helping us in building a whole new division social media from zero. It's because of you that it has materialize, our division is now has a social media system in place.

e.g.: Email, Blog, Facebook Page, and a Twitter account. (Click Here for info)

The team from the division is dedicated to help every club to grow as a whole and one of the steps is to get every club in the division to be exposed to the world via the World Wide Web. This is a place where we can help you to do just that. Send in all the info required to be publish, and the team from the division will do our best to get it up and published.

Let's start Growing ourselves from within and the Division will soar high for you!

Division K Public Relations Officer 2012/2013 Shane Ho, CC, ALB

p/s: Pictures courtesy from Richard Gontusan, DTM & Lee Chye Ewe, DTM