Welcome All the Presidents of the Brampton Rotary's

Welcome to your new Blog everyone!

Please make a post on any topic you would like - as I see the posts start to come in, I'll start pulling the post threads into category topics to keep track of it all.

If you look to the right hand side of the Blog, you can click on the quick links to go to our shared Calendar - feel free to add in your fundraisers, meetings, or whatever significant dates you think would be interesting for other Brampton Rotary Presidents & PE's.

There is also a shared Documentation repository where you can put up presentations, spreadsheets or Word documents and anyone registered to the Blog can input to the documents so we can co-create some great stuff together.

If we cant all make a meeting, we could easily use the Google Talk (Instant Messaging) feature or if you click on the Google Homepage, you will see that I have added Skype. Skype is a voice/Video conferencing platform. We can video or voice conference together for free. Click on the Skype Widget (bottom left hand collumn) and sign up for an ID, get a microphone for your computer and voilla - we are conferencing together without having to be face to face. If you use this feature together with the shared docs, you dont even really need to be face to face (although it is nice to get together face to face - this is the next best thing)

This is your collaboration toolset for us to work on joint initiatives and generally just keep up to date with each other. It is much more powerful than ClubRunner because EVERYONE can input to the Blog.

Enjoy ..... Shane

PS: If you have any technical difficulties, send me an email to shanejohnston@rogers.com and I'd be happy to help. ...SJ

Rotary Stones YouTube Video

Check out this YouTube video of the "Rotary Stones" performing 3 spoof songs from the Stones to raise money for Polio.

...Shane

Herding Cats Video

Calandar & managing documents

I have been testing out a few different options for us to share calandar appointments and submit documents or spreadsheets for member contribution. At first I was considering a static solution but a more dynamic solution is available called Google apps.

We would all have to have a GMail email account to use it but it seems to be relatively easy to set up. We would each have an email like shane@herdingcats.com

Has anyone ever used Google apps before? It also has built in IM (instant messaging) and free voice conferencing so if we cant make a meeting in person we could set up to talk virtually online.

More to come later ...Shane

Welcome to your new BLOG fellow Brampton Cluster Rotarians

Here it is guys! This is the beginning of your new collaboration platform. It's yours to do with whatever you please. Use it to ask questions of your Area Governor (or was that Assistant Governor -I can't remember) or post your ideas for a new simplified grant project, or just ask questions of your peer Presidents -whatever floats your boat.

I'm here if you have any technical questions about how to use the site. Remember, the BLOG is yours to utilize so the more input you provide the better it becomes.

Good luck and happy blogging!

Shane
PE Brampton Heart Lake Rotary Club