February 3, 2011: Rotary Log

Log editor Jon informed your speaker/webmaster that he'd be boycotting today's meeting, probably for good reason, so in the spirit of multitasking, here are brief notes about "Snow Recovery Day" at Redhook.

Announcements: Golf tournament is Friday, June 24 at Pease, 9AM start. David Splaine is heading up the committee, assisted ably by John Pratt and John Pappas. Contact them to volunteer your energy and resources.

Lynn McLaren reports the first "Rotary University" for new members will be held on February 17 at 5PM, location to be announced.

Sara Treacy reports the club will do six soup kitchens this year, with the first occurring on March 30. Volunteers needed, please contact Sara to sign up. You're needed from 4:00 until 6:15 on that date.

Ted Alex reports the Discovery Channel's "Disappear" on February 7 at 9PM will include information about the Jeremy Alex disappearance; Ted thanks the club for their continued support, and wanted all to know of this upcoming program.

Today's program was from webmaster Dave Underhill about our new ClubRunner website. Rather than report on what was actually said, here's the outline I used in making the presentation, along with a postscript or two.

Communication system....not just a website!

Membership changes and attendance directly linked to RI

Member can update information anytime

Newsletters, e-bulletins, documents and more

Member-protected features (Christmas tree schedules, board minutes)

Links to District 7780 (they can now email us)

Start the tour for Rotarians

portsmouthrotary.org

log-in and password

Change your profile

Upload your photo

Access club directory/photo directory

View club documents: board minutes, financials, how-to memos, old e-bulletins

"My attendance" (reminder -- only since November 1)

Home page tour -- top rail (explain "home" button)

Calendar

Stories

Speakers

Report a makeup

Home page tour -- side rail

Site pages:

Attendance, makeup, club locator, regional meetings, online makeup

Committee pages -- international service - intl projects - NID Ethiopia

Event pages -- Polar Bear -- download forms and registration module

Paul Harris fellows

Request for funds (document downloads)

Photo albums Senior lunch photos

Club documents on home page (World peace dinner registration)

Club vision tab (member only access pages)(shows only if logged in)

Facebook link

My committees, my commitments

Other talking points:

Ease of learning how to do specific tasks -- democratic, "horizontal" structure in which many members now input data and news regularly, including:

Photographers -- Ken, Sara, Jim

Log writing and editing -- Jon, Aileen

Creating web site pages and photos -- Bob Herold

Updating speakers, calendar, events -- LynnDel

Posting documents to site and emailing -- Lisa Mills

Automatic reporting to RI - Peter Grace

....and many more

Q&A game with Neal: Stump the webmaster!

Postscript:

This is the same way Congress amends their record to include things they should have said. I skimmed by the "sponsor" tab and forgot to go back to it. Portsmouth Rotary is grateful for its many web sponsors, who now receive more value than ever before. Sponsors get:

Buttons on the home page that link to their own site or email

Sponsor pages accessible from those buttons if desired, and from top-rail

Custom built ads or downloads on request

Sponsor buttons on inside pages

Sponsor ads on every e-bulletin, 200 impressions weekly, 50x per year

Want more info on any of this? Email or call me. Thanks! Dave