desplainestoastmasters wrote: Steve's original comments said: "This shows the current officers in the left column, and includes a Toastmasters masthead image, but drops the meeting description from the layout for the sake of space"
I can't wait to use it!!! I used to transfer the FTH info into a hand-generated Excel spreadsheet arranged like the new TI format before I began using the FTH agenda format.
Our club uses 3 basic agenda formats: a Regular meeting (3 speakers/evaluators, table topics, ... functionary reports ); a speech contest; and an Open House format (similar to Regular meeting but with 1 speaker/evaluator, now a Pathways presentation, table topics, Keynote guest speaker (10 minutes) but no functionary reports.
I would have liked to have the option of customizing the "Meeting Agenda" to allow a prefix (Regular, Contest, Open House) if TI approves. Or can you suggest an alternate place I can define the type of meeting?
(If the masthead was behind text, one could add text in the white area below the blue band to right of the TI logo, since it is "dead" white background space. I insert club name/number sometime in this "free space" on flyers or business cards headers.)
Thanks for your comments... I still may put back the meeting description text if I can make if fit without looking bad... I understand it could be put in the blank space, perhaps as an option. I figured that I would get some feedback and then "tweak" it a bit.
Now that I have the template file for the layout, making changes is not too difficult. I also considered adding the club website address under the officer names, but then I discovered that the website address would likely be too wide for the column and wrapping it would not look good.