Your minutes secretary apologises for the paucity of prose in this week's minutes. Fortunately most of the action is captured in Daniel's Presiden's Message above. The minutes secretary pleads that he was busy with chairing the meeting and taking part in the refreshingly active discussion around the table. And he wrote the minutes on time but the dog ate them.
Chair for the meeting was Mark Williams. There were 7 members present and Robyn Burridge, who has submitted an application for membership. Apologies were noted as being received from Stan Francis, James Delahunty, Don O'Donoghue, Denise Schellbach and Michael Stephens.
There being no guest speaker, PP Keith Watts took the opportunity to call an impromptu Membership Committee meeting with all present invited to contribute. Discussion was lively and good ideas were aired.
Mark Williams took a spot to describe the functionality of the clubrunner club management platform. This week's bulletin is once again produced using the clubrunner platform. Clubrunner is a suite of integrated cloud applications including:
- eBulletins: This alone is estimated to save a couple of full-time weeks per annum in reduced editing time, but also has an intuitive story editor that will allow any member with editor access to write stories for inclusion in the buletin and indeed on the home page if the Clubrunner web page functionality is utilised.
- Event Management. Publicity, registrations, collecting money - all in an integrated application. Sort of our own trybooking site with the ability to publish to bulletins, websites, social media and custom EDMs in one package.
- Volunteer management. Collect signons for project tasks *and* give personalised reminders in the ebulletins.
- Attendance and participation tracking. Saves the secretary time in keeping track of attendances, leave of absence, makeups etc. Also has customisable participation metrics to capture the contribution of those who might not be able to make all meetings but nevertheless actively participate in the life of the club.
- Integration with Rotary International database. Only need to maintain membership information in one place. Members can manage their club profile, selected portions of which can be pushed to the RI database and the club directory. Each member can control which info gets published through privacy settings.
- If the Rotary district uses Clubrunner, the ability to puish club events into the district calendar and pull district events into the club calendar. (Aside: District 9630 uses clubrunner to manage the district - but not the website functionality - and strongly encourages clubs in the district to use clubrunner. Several other districts in ANZ also use Clubrunner.)
- Single repository for club calendar and upcoming speakers for automatic publication in bulletins and potentially on the website.
- Free website hosting and nice widgets for pushing club info to the website if we choose to use it.
Someone won the raffle but did not draw the joker. Jackpot is now up to 25 Mundubbera timeshare units.
President Daniel close the meeting with the singing of the national anthem at 1350 hours.
