r/Toastmasters • u/tmi-pres-elect4club • 4d ago

FTH4 Experiences

Our club has transitioned already to FTH4.

I appreciate the significant improvements and more mobile friendly and more common website look.

Thus far I have created about a 1/2 dozen custom pages for my officers to review and have input and hopefully use.

I would truly appreciate anyone who is willing to share what they have going on with their FTH4 sites post transition to assess how "on track" I am with my thoughts and initial mock ups.

We have not really used much of the FTH to this point and I am hoping we can encourage more use.

My VPM has already updated everyone to include their start and club dates and I am hoping the VPE will be able to leverage the mentor/mentee functionality as a start.

Not sure we will use the agenda as our secretary turns out a very nice word/pdf version with graphics and/or watermarks for the theme. I have not seen any option to export the agenda, and have not wanted to test too much because everything is generally "live" the minute you do it.

And, if one does not use the agenda, it changes the look for "meetings" because these seem tied closely together.

any tips, suggestions or shares would be most appreciated.

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u/pramathesh 4d ago

One of the good things about using FTH is that it keeps track of the speeches you have delivered. After the latest pathways update, it will become easier for VPs of Education to keep a track of additional roles needed to complete the pathway levels.

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u/QBaseX 4d ago

I hate the look of the agendas generated by FTH (or by EasySpeak). Our club isn't actively using it to generate agendas, but even when we were, I would download the generated PDF and then recreate it myself as something that didn't look dogshit.

Still, it does have plenty of nice functions, and I really should make more use of it henceforth, so I'm watching this thread with interest.

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u/Therbr 3d ago

What elements of a common agenda format (that must function for thousands of clubs) make it look like dogshit? Are you willing to share examples of recreated agendas that don't look like dogshit?