Our club was recently invited to speak at the Rotary Fall Leadership Conference about club websites. Here is my slidedeck and some notes/links from the session.
Time to Improve Your Rotary Website
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- If you’re not borrowing ideas from other sites, you’re doing it wrong.
- Members will dig deeper than non-members. No need to put all club content on the homepage.
- Not everyone knows what Rotary is or what we do. Talk about your projects.
- Address whether it’s invite only or guests are welcome. This is a great video for a homepage.
- Feel free to borrow social media from the higher-ups.
- Use pictures. Ask permission to use photos that have rights reserved.
- RI has your back - Rotary Logos and Web Ads, did you see their youtube channel?
- WordPress.com provides free websites. I really like this feature. And you might want to consider this $17/yr upgrade.
If you have any questions, or just want to brainstorm ideas for your site – please speak up in the comments below! We’re happy to help.
Hi Phil,
I was at your presentation on Sunday and told my club webmaster about the day. I cannot seem to locate the video from RI that you showed on Sunday after looking on what I thought was the right page. Could you help me with this? I would like to show it to him. He doesn’t believe RI would make a short video for the websites.
thank you!
Machel Considine
D5510 Rotary Youth Exchange Chair
Hi Machel,
Here is a link to the Rotary International youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/rotaryinternational
And this is a direct link to the video I showed: http://youtu.be/3F1j6W1d77w
Let me know if you have any other questions!
Thanks,
Phil