It is a fact of life that we need to learn enough to get ourselves into trouble and be smart enough to find a pathway back to safety. Every Rotary Club must be able to run its Club and get across its stories in a digital format to match our modern online world. We are all environmentally responsible people now, so no more printing on paper. The real game is out there on the cloud. 

 

Young or old, there are many that don't understand computers, HTML, the cloud or cyberspace. Then there are people who know that the old ways of paper and faxes, while sufficient in their time, just don't work effectively now days.

 

For Rotary and many Clubs in our District, it is about mastering Clubrunner. Clubrunner is a multi-dimensional tool to run a Rotary Club. It encompasses Member management, Website presence, Events and Bulletin publication on a broad sense but it also does a whole lot more. As a past District IT representative, I have seen many examples of Clubs forging a Hydra of online presences (web, newsletter and Club management) only to find it all dramatically unwind when the "Key" person leaves through resignation or untimely death. While Clubrunner can be seen as a financial burden when looking at it as just a web page, when taken as a complete package with people who can run the components, it is more than adequate and its functionality is improving over time. Currently, the Clubrunner developers are working hard to remodel some less than practical components into more user friendly ones just because users around the world are asking for them.

 

 

As part of our District's ongoing Learning and Development we are inviting all Rotary members to a webinar about using ClubRunner to get the most out of their Rotary activities, whether keeping their member database crisp with accurate information, communicating with members or getting a story out to the public.

 

ClubRunner is our District's preferred database that links Club information to Rotary International. Many clubs use Clubrunner for their Websites, Events, Bulletin, Internal communications, Record Keeping, Document storage, and more. As Clubrunner has it all on the web, this creates "Back to Base" references for other platforms such as Facebook and Instagram so that consistent messages about our Rotary Journey can be created in one space and shared from that source.

 

Presidents, Secretaries, Club admin, Bulletin/ Newsletter editors are all encouraged to attend.  This is relevant for every club in the District, even if your Club doesn't use Clubrunner.

 

 

Join us on Wednesday 5th October for an entertaining evening viewing a special pre-release of the film "Ticket to Paradise' starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney.  The movie was made in Australia and will not be released for general viewing until Friday 21st October.  Filming locations included the Whitsunday Islands, the Gold Coast, Brisbane, as well as Mt Tamborine and Tangalooma Island Resort on Moreton Island.

 

 

The story involves a divorced couple that team up and travel to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.

 

 

This event is a fundraiser organised by Peake Real Estate and the St John of God Hospital.  All the proceeds will go towards the new mental health service to be provided at the Langmore Centre in Berwick.

 

Great news!