Hi All,

Please check the January post for unfilled events, because as of this writing, there were still events left unfilled.

For this month, in addition to our recurring events, we add the Beat the Mid-Winter Blues booth presentation to our lineup.
Remember to check back to this post for vacancies as the month develops.
There is a short note to our speakers at the end of this post. Go there now.

 

February 10 — Salvation Army’s Mens Residential Treatment Program

Mens’ Group information session. This is an hour long Public Information session, with a Q & A at the end, and has room for one speaker and two shadows.

This event requires a PI speaker.  ** went vacant **

February 11 — I.M.P.A.C.T. Edmonton

It begins at 12:30 PM, is a half hour PI presentation, and has room for one speaker and two shadows.

Linda C has booked to be the PI speaker for this event.

Reg A has booked to shadow this event.  

February 18 — Elizabeth Fry Society

This goes from 1 – 2 PM, and is an hour long PI presentation with room for one speaker and two shadows.

This event still requires a PI speaker.

February 21 — PI/CPC Committee Meeting

This is our regular monthly meeting held at the Alano Club.

February 27 — Alberta Health Services Public Information Session

Reg A has booked to PI this event.

Derek B has booked to shadow this event.  

This begins at 7 PM and goes until 8:30 PM.  It is a 15-20 minute PI presentation with room for two speakers and two shadows.  Great to get your feet wet.

---

Since the turn of the year,

several individual information sessions were held to further inform our committee members in the use and versatility of this website.   As a result of this, feedback is beginning to come in.  Further information sessions are possible, for you, and any others interested, but a date is not set at this time.

From actual web-help that stepped forward from the speaker workshop in the form of long time member Kimberley P., to the several new members who have come to join our committee, 2018 is shaping up to be a year with the wind at our back.

I, personally, have not forgotten the trials and tribulations you, our speakers, have been through over the past few months as we dealt with domain name changes, prohibitive passwords, confusing layout, etc… These “features” were part of our growing pains, and are now a thing of the past.  Speakers now only need only log in at the top right to be able to volunteer, and streamlining layout and usability is forefront on my mind.

Now, among other things, I will try to re-focus attention on the thirty or so speakers that signed up at our workshop, in the midst of all this confusion, and work to bring you into the service you volunteered for.  If you see any of our committee members in your travels, please approach them with your questions, as they will now be better able to answer you, should you have any.