Your Voice, Your Solution for promoting Rotary

Rotary International News -- 3 June 2011

Participants take part in a workshop at the 2011 RI Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Rotary Images/Alyce Henson

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Y ou have been named the new public relations committee chair for your club. At the 2011 RI Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, you attended several workshops, including “Making Public Relations Grants Work for You: A PR Grants Clinic” and “Using Social Media to Promote Rotary.” Your head is swimming with new ideas.

Where do you start? What is some of the best advice you gleaned from the convention for promoting Rotary?

Rotary International's monthly problem-solving forum asks Rotarians for their strategies to address the challenges they deal with every day. Please use the comments section below to share your solutions to this month's problem. Comments may be used in abbreviated form in other RI publications, including the Rotary E-Learning Center.

Past problems and your solutions:

4 Comments:

At 2:35PM on 13 June 2011, Bill Clotere wrote: I feel that the PSA's sent to U.S. radio stations are wrong for the American market! The announcer, with heave English accent, sounds like a POMPUS ----, and gives the averge guy or gal the sense that he is talking down to then! I recommend regional PSA's be cut for the U.S> so we don't even have a cowboy selling to a New Englander or a southerner pitching Chicago!

At 10:27AM on 13 June 2011, Lynn wrote: One of the best ways to promote Rotary is by making people aware of how the Rotary helps and works with the community. I don't think alot of people realize how far reaching this organization is, I know I didn't prior to joining.

At 9:00AM on 10 June 2011, kushan wrote: i wont join club

At 9:13AM on 6 June 2011, Rtn.Sanjay Salvi, RC Poona Midtown wrote: Social network like facebook, orkut, linkedin and otheres r good means to elaborate about Rotary. Giving informations on local cable tv channels, local newpapers can also work good.

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