We are now celebrating the 10th anniversary of easy-Speak club management system.

It was on the 4th May 2005, at a meeting of Bicester Speakers in the UK, that I first presented a very simple version of what we now know as easy-Speak.

Like most Toastmasters, I led a busy life and felt there must be a better way to organise meetings without a flurry of panic phone calls the night before, and the inevitable disruption caused by last minute changes. So, planning a two week Christmas break in 2004, I borrowed a book on programming from my local library and...

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Have you ever felt like throwing up when doing a presentation for business, an association?   I was that way, my butterflies were dancing all the way to the toilet!  I could not get them to do what I wanted.  I joined Toastmasters and thought it was a ready made way to fix my fear!  Boy was I wrong! I had to talk without ums, ahs, and my favourite "so"!   

The more I talked the more the toilet felt good to be close to!  I figured do not eat before talking is a good method!! Finally one Autumn day I saw the Butterflies flying in formation like the birds and thought I will do that before each speech!...

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