When you have your regular meeting schedule set up in the RSVPMaker system, with agendas for upcoming meetings projected out weeks or months in advance, what happens when you need to notify website visitors that you are NOT meeting on a given date. Here is how I handle that situation at my clubs. First, if…

Thanks to Podmasters Advanced Toastmasters and interviewer Edith Orenstein for inviting me to speak side-by-side with Pete Baumgarten, an Ambassador with Free Toast Host. Tell me what you think of this conversation. Pete was very gracious, even when I couldn’t resist being aggressive/competitive about the virtues of Toastmost.

One hidden feature of WordPress that can be very valuable if you have content that needs to be repeated in several places is to define reusable content components, or what WordPress calls “Synced Patterns.” My example is the directions to the meeting location of my home club, Club Awesome, which changed recently. I have it…

I hate seeing outdated information on the home page of a website, by which I mean promotions for “upcoming” events that happened two months ago. It looks unprofessional. And while Toastmasters websites are supported by volunteers, we’re a professional organization that wants to present a professional image. One tool that’s available to you as a…

I’m currently looking for a new project, a new challenge, a new opportunity to put to work everything I’ve learned about WordPress development, support, and customization. I recently spoke with a District Trio member who was inclined to rebuild his district website on Wix or Canva or another commercial tool instead of WordPress. In a…

This video combines the Digital Tools for Club Growth presentation I delivered at the 2025 Toastmasters International Convention (follow-up webinar version) with an introductory demo on how to create and begin customizing a Toastmost.org website. If you’re just getting started with Toastmost, or need a refresher, I hope you’ll find it useful. Please share it…

For club leaders working to fill their agenda, Toastmost provides multiple ways of getting members signed up for roles, including a mobile app for iOS and Android. When you’re logged into the club website, you can sign yourself up, assign roles, suggest roles for specific members by email (with one-click signup links), or send the…