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IN GEARIN GEARIN GEAR

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 intohow businesses can connect with social media to improvetheir bottom line. How we can apply this to the RotaryClub of Beaumaris (RCOB) for our fund raising is the issuefor us.

Peter has offeredto come up with afew pointers onhow we can getresults with ourweb based dona-tion scheme byusing social media – we look forwardto getting some ideas as to how we can make this hap-pen.

Kerrie brought along a Rotary guest from Malaysia whoshe had met on her recent GSE trip – PresidentGnanasambanthan (Gunna for short!) from the RotaryClub of Greater Kuala Lumpur. President Gunna wasvisiting 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 – JimClarke from the Rotary Club of Marlow in the UK, aguest of Geoff Stringer. Jim is a former Member of

Beaumaris, so I trust he felt quite at home amongst oldfriends!

It was also a pleasure to have Honorary Member BrianKimpton and Chris D’Arcy join us again. We are hopefulChris 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 yourBoard is working hard to ensure RCOB is being kept “ingood working order”, and that when we meet monthlywe aren’t just having a nice social chat about how ourgolf game is going over a few glasses of wine! (well wemay have one or two glasses to help us get through themeeting). I believe we are very fortunate to have such a

Contents1 President’s Message2 Notices3 Project Details / Footy Tipping

6 This Week’s Speaker7 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 recentboard meeting on 4 March that I would like to sharewith you:-

• We will be contributing to 2 new projects outside

our normal club projects. One is to donate $500 toan international project in Timor Leste, and the otheris a $500 contribution to Hampton Rotary’s PeacePavilion and Garden project for the Resilient Aspir-ing Women, a refugee support group founded by aformer refugee Miriam Issa (see inside for more in-formation on both these projects).

• New Gen director Rob Fenton is following upwith Mentone Girls Secondary College (MGSC) tocheck the status of the establishment of an InteractClub 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 willnot be able to proceed with the project. MGSC ex-pect this to be a female member, as it is an all girlsschool.

• RCOB have qualified for grants through FutureVision, thanks to the hard work by PE Bob and DavidGreenall. International, Community and New Gener-ations directors are to advise PE Bob of potentialprojects that may be candidates for grant applica-tions.

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A donation of $500 is to be sent off to PolioPlus.

• Susan De Bolfo has been a director for a veryshort time, but she is doing a great job and alreadyhas a lot happening on the Fund Raising front. Aswell as Jim O’Brien’s Mayoral golf day coming up ina few weeks (looks like being one of our most suc-cessful to date thanks to Jim’s efforts, and the helpfrom his team), the People’s choice community lotteryis 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 andthe Gazebo Reflection Garden projects. Considera-tion is being given to assist Evolve “keeping kids ontrack” 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 bythe Bay project, Adrian’s community team are look-ing at a possible alternative project that will involvediscussions with Bayside Council.

• Our Sabu projects have received a great boostas a result of donations from RC of Feldbach and RCof Brighton North, and also from private donations.RC of Seminyak is considering making a donationtowards mosquito nets for Sabu Island also. Theboard have arranged for the funds in the RAWCS

Kupang hostel account to be redirected to anotherproject for teacher and student accommodation onSabu Island. This project is already underway. Wehave seen very little progress with the Kupang hostelproject to date, and it is becoming increasingly moredifficult to effectively utilise the donated funds forthis 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 the2013 District conference! I understand there will beclose to 40 attendees – well done to James and Me-gan for a great effort in organising.

Because of the conference there will be no meetingthis week, but we will be back at VGC on 21st March. Stay safe and have a wonderful week

President John

Hocking Stuart Sandringham62-64 Station StreetTelephone: 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 HockingStuart discounts on agents fees are available to

RCOB members.




Remember tickets are $2 each and the buyer mustfill in their name, address and a contact phone num-ber. We have from 1 March to end May to sell thetickets.

Each member is to complete the front page of theirbooks and that front page is to be returned withtheir books. Please put the money in an envelopewith 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 Summaryof 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 sustainablelong term care and healing for girl victims of sexualand physical abuse (aged between 3 to 18 years ofage).

The objective of this project is to construct the first offour Children's Family Homes to accommodate theneeds 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; andStage 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 periodof 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 tradetrainees from trade training schools in the TimorLeste to gain the construction experience they des-perately need under the supervision of experiencedAustralian professional tradesmen in the Yooralla – BHI - Rotary construction team.

The ball is about to be bounced on the 2013 AFLseason.

Increase the excitement by participating in theRCOB Tipping Contest.

Excellent Prize structure.

Log on athttp://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 Concourselast Saturday week and exhibited at Beaumaris ArtGroup 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 MarcusTopic; Social Media; Business and Relation-ships

From the Internet;

Pete Marcus has more than30 years experience insmall business. In that timehe has built eight successfulbusinesses from scratch,while helping many otherbusinesses to achieve suc-cess. At the age of 22 hesold his software businessto MYOB for seven-figuresand semi-retired.

His client list in Australia includes Telstra, MedicareAustralia, 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 wonmore than 6 International awards including BestSpeaker.

He will show you some very practical but extremelypowerful techniques you can implement into yourbusiness today so you too can experience a signifi-cant increase in productivity and profits.

“I would love to come and speak to your membersabout "Business and Relationships", a topic I am verypassionate about. Especially in the current globaland domestic economic climate were small businessowners 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 themeeting.

Peter described how he gained his grounding insmall business fundamentals from the age of 10 onhis parents large poultry farm. There he saw the upsand downs of the business cycle and learnt first handthe importance of customer relations.

This early grounding gave him the ability to spot op-portunity gaps in the market place. And while hepurports to not be technical himself he does claim tobe good at employing people with the right skills to

create technical solutions which monetise business op-portunities. The biggest of those opportunities now isSocial Media, in all its forms and variants.

While particular applications, like Facebook, maycome and go, the facilities they provide are here to

stay. With more than 5 billion smart phones aroundthe world people have never had the opportunity tobe more connected with the people and goods they“like” and the information they need. Increasinglythey are turning away from traditional advertisingas a source of information and relying on more di-rect and personal references from information sys-tems they trust. If business does not recognise andparticipate in this communication revolution they willbe left behind.

YouTube has become the most used online source ofinformation and has over one million new uploadsevery day. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has statedthat every two days now we create as much infor-mation as we did from the dawn of civilization upuntil 2003. That’s something like five exabytes ofdata, he says.“The real issue is user-generated content,” Schmidtsaid. He noted that pictures, instant messages, andtweets all add to this.

Naturally, all of this information helps Google. But

he cautioned that just because companies like his cando all sorts of things with this information, the morepressing 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 notready 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 SocialMedia as a key business strategy. They providestructured business support packages at varying costlevels which take the mystery out of this area by em-ploying specialist technicians and other staff withina framework which ensures a business focus.

Peter has offered a package of strategic infor-mation (worth commercially about $2000) to RCOBto assist us in finding our way into this Brave NewWorld.




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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 HoneTreasurer 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 FundraisingDavid 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 BeatyRoy 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 HeatherAnne Campbell

This photo was taken onChristmas in Florence,Italy. Very few peoplewere walking around,and the air was verystill.

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