GUIDELINES FOR ROTARY CLUBS Rtn. C.J. Singh . District 3080 Public Image Coordinator 2011-12
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Share your club’s activities with the World!
Get OnLine! In the age of emails, internet, Web2.0, sharing your club information with the world is very easy. You can be a publisher, designer, reporter, writer, photographer, etc rolled into one, and in a few minutes reporting and sharing the information with large number of audience.
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Create your own Club’s website. Register a domain name and buy space on web-hosting server at a very nominal annual fee, and get going. Any web designer in your town can help you out with this. A number of resources are also available on the net to guide you on creating your own website. Rotary.org is the best example of Rotary International’s website. Start a blog. Go to blogger.com or wordpress.com, and follow the online tutorials to set up your own blog. The process of mailing it to your specific groups, and sharing it through various other social sites can be learned online. Get onto the Social Network. If you can manage it regularly, go to Facebook, or LinkedIn and create your own club’s group and invite Rotarians to join it. Rotary International also has an impressive Facebook presence. Connect with your friends. In case you already have a facebook/twitter account, you can insert links on your blog itself to share your blog entries with your friends, by simply clicking on facebook, or twitter icons in your blog. This makes integration very easy. Create an eBulletin. Just prepare your club bulletin in MS Word or any other word processing software, convert it into pdf document using Adobe PDF, or PDF995 (available as a freeware for downloading from the net), and attach it to your email, and send it. HTML eBulletin: Those of you who are more trained with high-end softwares like Coreldraw and Photoshop, can create much more colorful professional-looking layouts, convert them into HTML format, and through a mass emailing software place it inside the text box, and send the exciting design through email. The reader will not have to click to any attachment, and would be able to read it right there in the email body only.
Online Resources for Rotarians Rotary International website Rotary International on Facebook Rotarians on The Internet (ROTI) Rotary History