There's a great new video that was posted on Toastmasters International's Youtube channel about selecting a speech topic:

Making fun of people isn't really my style.

...but I do forward newsworthy articles, so here's one titled "Michael Bay needs to attend Toastmasters" (in reference to him freaking out on stage at CES when he went off-script, the teleprompter operator couldn't find him, and he walked off stage only a minute into his presentation)

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/01/07/video-michael-bay-needs-to-attend-toastmasters/

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Most seasoned Toastmasters will tell you that you should speak about what you know.  But perhaps you wonder, like I did recently, do I have enough to talk about to speak 10 times for 6 minutes each and keep people interested?  or, can I come up with enough content to fill at least 5 minutes of time?  

Here are some ideas:

• Toastmasters Magazine has lots of ideas.  For example this month's cover story is about how technology haa changed public speaking.
• Wikipedia is as great a resourxe for little known facts as it is a source for speech content
• Perhaps...
  
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