That’s Art Byrd, Area 13 Governor for District 10.  Art and I had a discussion a while back – this is part 2 of that recording, where Art talks about how his club, Youngstown Executive Club 408 uses video to to help guests find their club.  Art’s got some great ideas about how simple it is for Toastmasters with even a cell phone to add a new dimension to the club’s Internet presence.

Have you ever had a secret… and it was burning a hole inside you to not tell?  I’ve had a secret now for a couple of weeks, so stick around to the end to hear some exciting news.

Kim Krajci: Art Bryd, how are you today?

Art Byrd: I am very, very good. How about yourself?

KK: I'm doing well, thank you. You are doing a yeoman’s work at Toastmasters. This year you are an area governor, and you are a club officer. How do you make that balance work?

AB: Well, I tell you what. I've come from a thing of probably of being simple, and trying not to, to knowing what the club needs. I have, one of the things I try to find out is what, what do we need? What do we need? And I write it down, and then I just try to check off certain things, I try to have at least one goal a month that I'm trying to get to. And that's what the area governorship and also V.P. Of public relations, I just try to really know that I can't do it all, I can't be the Enjoli man, and cook it up in a pan and fry it-all that stuff. I just really try to find out what exactly do we need because sometimes you can do over too much but nobody wants to tell you that we didn't need all that. So, I've seen that before. And so I just asked them, what's something that we need? Okay, we need publicity for the open house, or publicity for the club contests. And plus, what I also do is at the meeting, I also videotape the speeches, and then I talk with the speakers afterwards. How'd you do your speech, why'd you do your speech? That kind of thing. So I do a lot of the media, the video editing and doing those kind of things. Because I think it adds something, and then posting it to youtube, so people can see the speeches and also the public relations people can see what they're doing. So, I take pictures at the meetings, I do the videos. Then I try to put it together where the people can access it.

KK: That is an amazing PR job, you're going to make me look bad doing mine.

AB: No, it's basically because of my background. People don't have background in doing media. I worked in a television station, and also I was the chairman of a film crew. So, learning how to get the word out is sort of something that I've fallen into. An capturing moments. I'm really good when there's anything capturing moments. And we had a situation yesterday where we had one gentlemen, he told this great story about being a coach of a loosing team, and that moment would have been lost, but now it is preserved on video tape, or flip camera, and people can see it. And sometimes I think with Toastmasters people do speeches, great speeches that move people, inspire people, but it's all gone. So, I also try to do an audio recording if I can, just to give it to them a little bit later and something along that line, add some value to what we do as Toastmasters.

KK: Have you done the communicating on video manual?

AB: I have not done that. That's probably something because I do it. I probably wouldn't do it. I'm basically doing it already and that kind of thing but there to help if anyone else is doing it. I don't think anyone else is our club has done that.

KK: I was talking to another DTM who had finished that book as part of his 6 book requirement. And he said that if he were ever to do it again he would consider doing it with the team because there is so much involved in having somebody do the video, going-making sure it works, can do the editing, can do the posting,