2017 11_02 Meeting

 
 
 
Public Relation Committee
 Our Website and Facebook
 
 
 
President Dan is back, announcing that his cancer is in complete remission.  Wonderful!!!  We introduced Art's guest Mason Beasley, who recently joined Sommerset Senior Living and is interested in Rotary membership. Richard and Stan announced their birthdays and we sang Happy Birthday to them. 
 
Dan announced that the 5th Tuesday will be a social event.  More information and a signup sheet will be available next week. The Annual Christmas party will be on the 3rd Thursday of December at Turkey Creek. Kris announced that the Interact Conference is November 11th, for Interacters and Interact leaders.  Kimberly volunteered to help Kris with the driving. 
 
Kimberly and David announced that we would be helping with the Annual  Lincoln Firefighters Turkey Drive on November 16th.  They will provide more information later. 
 
Kris and her team encouraged all to sell tickets for the upcoming November 18th Cow Chip Bingo, saying "ya gotta have a sense of humor, it's an act of nature." 
 
 
Art Deardorff was the speaker, introducing the PR committee members as himself, Joann, Ana, Bryan and Marc.  Bryan has started the meeting by handing out new Rotary Brand magnetic pins to all members.  Wear them with pride. 
 
Art started by providing the PR statement from our 2014 Vision document: "The club maintains actively updated website and social media presence combined with periodic publication of club activities in printed media. All club activities include consideration of public relations with an action plan for public outreach to keep our community aware of the good things we do and to attract new members." He encouraged all who have events to make sure that we tell our community what we are doing.   
 
To support PR for the club, we are:
  • Maintaining an active website + have websites for the Winefest and Tour De Lincoln
  • Hosting an active facebook page + one for Blood Drives and Wine Fest and will have one for Tour De Lincoln soon
  • Have had several articles published in the Lincoln News Messenger
  • Distributed the Rotary Brand Pins
  • Working with other service clubs to determine what to do with Service Club signs for Lincoln (including what to do with the old one on 193). 
  • Providing appreciation certificates to those in Lincoln who are a major supporters for fundraisers.
Are quickly went through our Website and Facebook pages.  He encouraged all to take pictures and provide them to him for use in our web presence. The presentation he made is included in the link at the end of this eBulletin.  
 
 
Art agreed to give further training on Facebook - to be announced.  This will probably be done during the hour before some of our normal club meetings; Art and Dan will work on it.
 
Kris, Kimberly, Art and Claire (and some spouses) attended the the Axiom Benefit Dinner on Friday night. Recall that Rotary was one of the initial donors to get the Axiom going in 2015.   Carlos Campiz who is the main person dealing with the kids gave a great presentation about how they are affecting a core group of about 20-30 kids in Lincoln, preparing them for being productive adults.  See their website at www.theaxiom.org.  Consider making a donation.    
 
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