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R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S W E E K L Y B U L L E T I N Number 34 11 March 2013

Next Meeting

THURSDAY 14 MARCH

NO MEETING

DISTRICT CONFERENCE

THURSDAY 21 MARCH

SUSAN DE BOLFO

TOPIC; NEW MEMBERS TALK

CHAIR; TONY MCKENNA

CASH DESK; LARRY JACKSON & CHARMAINE JANSZ

AV; ROY SEAGER

HOST; MARY SEALY

VICTORIA GOLF CLUB 6:30 FOR 7:00

THURSDAY 28 MARCH

FELLOWSHIP RMGC GOLF AND BBQ

ROYAL MELBOURNE GOLF CLUB

CHELTENHAM RD, CHELTENHAM

GOLF COMMENCES 4.00

BBQ AT ABOUT 7.15

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PRESIDENT’S COMMENT

Our guest speaker, Peter Marcus, gave us an insight into how businesses can connect with social media to improve their bottom line. How we can apply this to the Rotary Club of Beaumaris (RCOB) for our fund raising is the issue for us. Peter has offered to come up with a few pointers on how we can get results with our web based dona-tion scheme by using social media – we look forward to getting some ideas as to how we can make this hap-pen. Kerrie brought along a Rotary guest from Malaysia who she had met on her recent GSE trip – President Gnanasambanthan (Gunna for short!) from the Rotary Club of Greater Kuala Lumpur. President Gunna was visiting two of his children who are studying in Melbourne – it was a pleasure to have him attend one of our meet-ings whilst in town. We had another “International Rotarian” join us – Jim Clarke from the Rotary Club of Marlow in the UK, a guest of Geoff Stringer. Jim is a former Member of Beaumaris, so I trust he felt quite at home amongst old friends! It was also a pleasure to have Honorary Member Brian Kimpton and Chris D’Arcy join us again. We are hopeful Chris will be joining our ranks very soon, as he has ap-plied for membership of RCOB. I am sure that all our members are fully aware that your Board is working hard to ensure RCOB is being kept “in good working order”, and that when we meet monthly we aren’t just having a nice social chat about how our golf game is going over a few glasses of wine! (well we may have one or two glasses to help us get through the meeting). I believe we are very fortunate to have such a

Contents 1 President’s Message 2 Notices 3 Project Details / Footy Tipping 6 This Week’s Speaker 7 Club Structure / Sight of Week

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dedicated and hard working team of directors. Here are a few items that we discussed at our recent board meeting on 4 March that I would like to share with you:-

• We will be contributing to 2 new projects outside our normal club projects. One is to donate $500 to an international project in Timor Leste, and the other is a $500 contribution to Hampton Rotary’s Peace Pavilion and Garden project for the Resilient Aspir-ing Women, a refugee support group founded by a former refugee Miriam Issa (see inside for more in-formation on both these projects).

• New Gen director Rob Fenton is following up with Mentone Girls Secondary College (MGSC) to check the status of the establishment of an Interact Club at the school. It is important that one of our members is prepared to take on the role of oversee-ing the running of this Interact Club, otherwise we will not be able to proceed with the project. MGSC ex-pect this to be a female member, as it is an all girls school.

• RCOB have qualified for grants through Future Vision, thanks to the hard work by PE Bob and David Greenall. International, Community and New Gener-ations directors are to advise PE Bob of potential projects that may be candidates for grant applica-tions.

• A donation of $500 is to be sent off to Polio Plus.

• Susan De Bolfo has been a director for a very short time, but she is doing a great job and already has a lot happening on the Fund Raising front. As well as Jim O’Brien’s Mayoral golf day coming up in a few weeks (looks like being one of our most suc-cessful to date thanks to Jim’s efforts, and the help from his team), the People’s choice community lottery is well under way, we have a sausage sizzle at Bun-nings in June and a film night is being organised for late May.

• Community are busy with their many projects,

including the 2 day Mental Health First Aid Work-shop, Sandringham post-natal support facility and the Gazebo Reflection Garden projects. Considera-tion is being given to assist Evolve “keeping kids on track” program. The board believe this is an excel-lent organisation - remember we had Andrew Peach from Evolve come and speak to our club last year. As we will not be proceeding with the Sculptures by the Bay project, Adrian’s community team are look-ing at a possible alternative project that will involve discussions with Bayside Council.

• Our Sabu projects have received a great boost as a result of donations from RC of Feldbach and RC of Brighton North, and also from private donations. RC of Seminyak is considering making a donation towards mosquito nets for Sabu Island also. The board have arranged for the funds in the RAWCS Kupang hostel account to be redirected to another project for teacher and student accommodation on Sabu Island. This project is already underway. We have seen very little progress with the Kupang hostel project to date, and it is becoming increasingly more difficult to effectively utilise the donated funds for this project. Membership milestones will be recognised for 5, 10, 15, etc years of RCOB membership, with acknowl-edgement of the milestone at meetings – and a pos-sible fine as well! Next week we will all be off to Wangaratta for the 2013 District conference! I understand there will be close to 40 attendees – well done to James and Me-gan for a great effort in organising. Because of the conference there will be no meeting this week, but we will be back at VGC on 21st March. Stay safe and have a wonderful week President John

Hocking Stuart Sandringham 62-64 Station Street

Telephone: 03 9521 9800

TRAILER AVAILABLE TO RCOB MEMBERS A “6X4” steel box trailer is availa-

ble to all RCOB Members for casual

use. It has a 7 pin round plug, lights

etc. . Please contact Geoff or Kerrie

if you wish to borrow it. No regis-

tration / insurance; all responsibility

with the user.

OVERSEAS MODEL

Note; As part of our arrangement with Hocking Stuart discounts on agents fees are available to

RCOB members.


Remember tickets are $2 each and the buyer must fill in their name, address and a contact phone num-ber. We have from 1 March to end May to sell the tickets. Each member is to complete the front page of their books and that front page is to be returned with their books. Please put the money in an envelope with your name on the front and return to Susan or Tony

As President John mentioned RCOB has donated $500 towards this district project. This is a Summary of the proposal; UNICEF estimates that 65% of children in Timor Leste suffer some form of abuse. The majority of vic-tims are girls. There is a great need for sustainable long term care and healing for girl victims of sexual and physical abuse (aged between 3 to 18 years of age). The objective of this project is to construct the first of four Children's Family Homes to accommodate the needs of the girls in a safe, caring and family cen-tred environment. Each Family Home will be devel-oped in three stages: Stage 1: Build foundations, water and sanitation sys-tem; Stage 2: Construct the building to lock up; and Stage 3: Complete internal building "fit out".

It is proposed that the Box Hill Institute building ap-prentices will complete Stage 2 of the project, build-ing one Family Home to lock up stage over a period of 2 weeks in May or June 2013. The project fits under the current Federal Govern-ment guidelines for providing humanitarian assis-tance to Timor Leste and would also enable trade trainees from trade training schools in the Timor Leste to gain the construction experience they des-perately need under the supervision of experienced Australian professional tradesmen in the Yooralla – BHI - Rotary construction team.

The ball is about to be bounced on the 2013 AFL season.

Increase the excitement by participating in the

RCOB Tipping Contest.

Excellent Prize structure.

Log on at http://www.footytipping.net.au/cgi-bin/hone/

join.cgi

Another Winner Joy Lea won one of the two Judges prizes at the

“SCENE AT THE BEAUMARIS CONCOURSE”

Art Exhibition. This show was run at the Concourse last Saturday week and exhibited at Beaumaris Art Group during the week. Her entry “Sizzle” repre-sented the heat of a hot Friday evening at The Con-course Catch fish and chip shop.


This Weeks Speaker; Peter Marcus Topic; Social Media; Business and Relation-ships

From the Internet; Pete Marcus has more than 30 years experience in small business. In that time he has built eight successful businesses from scratch, while helping many other businesses to achieve suc-cess. At the age of 22 he sold his software business to MYOB for seven-figures and semi-retired.

His client list in Australia includes Telstra, Medicare Australia, BHP Billiton, NAB, ANZ, Department of Im-migration, Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman, S.A. Police, Red Cross Blood Service and The Phar-macy Guild of Australia. Pete is a talented inspirational speaker and has won more than 6 International awards including Best Speaker. He will show you some very practical but extremely powerful techniques you can implement into your business today so you too can experience a signifi-cant increase in productivity and profits. “I would love to come and speak to your members about "Business and Relationships", a topic I am very passionate about. Especially in the current global and domestic economic climate were small business owners are experiencing intense competition, falling margins and increased costs.” Peter describes himself as a “Social Media Evanga-list” and that is what he undoubtedly bought to the meeting. Peter described how he gained his grounding in small business fundamentals from the age of 10 on his parents large poultry farm. There he saw the ups and downs of the business cycle and learnt first hand the importance of customer relations. This early grounding gave him the ability to spot op-portunity gaps in the market place. And while he purports to not be technical himself he does claim to be good at employing people with the right skills to

create technical solutions which monetise business op-portunities. The biggest of those opportunities now is Social Media, in all its forms and variants. While particular applications, like Facebook, may come and go, the facilities they provide are here to stay. With more than 5 billion smart phones around the world people have never had the opportunity to be more connected with the people and goods they “like” and the information they need. Increasingly they are turning away from traditional advertising as a source of information and relying on more di-rect and personal references from information sys-tems they trust. If business does not recognise and participate in this communication revolution they will be left behind. YouTube has become the most used online source of information and has over one million new uploads every day. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has stated that every two days now we create as much infor-mation as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. That’s something like five exabytes of data, he says. “The real issue is user-generated content,” Schmidt said. He noted that pictures, instant messages, and tweets all add to this. Naturally, all of this information helps Google. But he cautioned that just because companies like his can do all sorts of things with this information, the more pressing question now is if they should. Schmidt not-ed that while technology is neutral, he doesn’t be-lieve people are ready for what’s coming. “I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be hap-pening to them soon,” Schmidt said. Peter’s company Social Media Profit System pro-vides a bridge in knowledge, understanding and technology to allow small businesses to use Social Media as a key business strategy. They provide structured business support packages at varying cost levels which take the mystery out of this area by em-ploying specialist technicians and other staff within a framework which ensures a business focus. Peter has offered a package of strategic infor-mation (worth commercially about $2000) to RCOB to assist us in finding our way into this Brave New World.


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Don Cullen's 2013 Tibetan calendar - Cost is $15 each The Calendar shows selected pictures from Tibet in a desk unit with it's own stand. Proceeds go to his Tibetan Village Project, which he spoke to our club about some time ago.

BEAUMARIS ROTARY 2012-13 CLUB STRUCTURE

BOARD CLUB SERVICE

President John Manks Director Bob McArthur

PE, VP, Exec Sec Bob McArthur Auditor Tony Phillips

Secretary Roy Seager Program David Hone

Treasurer Richard Shermon Meeting Attendance Greg Every

Foundation Richard Jones Newsletter Editor David Lea

International Fred Hofmann Fellowship Heather Chisholm

New Generations Rob Fenton Sergeant Tony Phillips( David R.standby)

Membership and Marketing Trish Smyth Webmaster David Lea

Community Adrian Culshaw Photographer Greg Every

Fundraising Harry Roberts Almoner Harry Wolfe

PP and On to Conference James Glenwright Host(s)/Cashiers Roster

ARH representative John Beaty (non board) Youth Protection Officer Malcolm Parks

Vocation Coordinate with program

TEAM MEMBERS

International Community New Generations Fundraising

David Langworthy Malcolm Sawle Chris Martin Geoff Abbott

Geoff Stockdale David Greenall Glenda Laughton Kerrie Geard

Ross Phillips Martin Fothergill Heather Chisholm Charmaine Jansz

Tony McKenna Greg Every John Beaty Roy Seager/James G. (Golf park-ing)

Zillay Batool Mary Sealy John Van Dyk

Larry Jackson Mike Hede Geoff Stringer

Ken Mirams Geoff Stringer Greg Every

Mal Parks Susan De Bolfo

Ken Mirams

Judi Hall (TBC) Membership and Marketing Golf Day

Peter Flude (Marketing) Jim O'Brien

Police car project Antony Nixon Peter Flude

Roger Frewen Tony Phillips

Rob Fenton (Banker)

Arno River, Flor-ence Photograph by Heather Anne Campbell This photo was taken on Christmas in Florence, Italy. Very few people were walking around, and the air was very still.

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