KIWANIS CONVENTION 2011

Marcia Ford

Jeanette Harris

Kiwanis # 1 Delegates

• What is Kiwanis?• How to market your club• Planning your club’s success• How to use social media• Conflict management• Making the most of your convention experience • Club experience• Our leadership brand• New club building—new resources, new strategies• Best practices for lieutenant governors• Online reporting 101 & 102• Club websites• Find what you’re looking for on KiwanisOne.org• Panel discussions• The Eliminate Project• Clubs with great impact• Amendments and resolutions• Meet the candidates• Make your meetings sizzle• Recruit and retain your members

WORKSHOPS

HIGHLIGHTS• Getting to know KiwanisOne.org • An Introduction to achieving club excellence • Club Website• Internet marketing 201: Developing an online strategy• Celebrating Kiwanis’ 100 year anniversary• ELIMINATE• Dame Jane Goodall• Actress Jamie Lee Curtis• Alan Penn, President-elect

GETTING TO KNOW KIWANISONE.ORG

• KiwanisOne.org is the public site

• Members can register and log on to access Member sites

• Keep meeting location updated on KiwanisOne.org

• Have new members register on induction day

AN INTRODUCTION TO ACHIEVING CLUB EXCELLENCE• Achieving Club Excellence is a seven step process• Define Excellence• Assess Club vitality• Evaluate the results• Plan your clubs success• Share your story• Inform members• Enhance Member Experience

CLUB WEBSITE

• Website template is available from Kiwanis International• Website will be in sync with KiwanisOne.org• Coordinate events and volunteer positions• Tasks can be listed with signup sheets• PayPal is set up in the template• Can generate / upload newsletters• File manager is available• Can also track attendance

INTERNET MARKETING 201: DEVELOPING AN ONLINE STRATEGY

• Social Media is about relationships

• Online strategy allows for new ideas and creativity, Web presence, traffic generation, conversation and measurement

• Club twitter account , i.e. the Eliminate project has a twitter account

• Can Tweet to call for volunteers

• Real time updates at events

CELEBRATING KIWANIS’ 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

• Past President Paul Palazzolo led

• Solicited ideas on ways to commemorate 100 year anniversary

• Website coming 2015@kiwanis.org

• Decision on 2015 convention will be made in October

OPENING REMARKSDAME JANE GOODALL

OPENING REMARKSDAME JANE GOODALL, BRITISH PRIMATOLOGIST, ETHOLOGIST,

ANTHROPOLOGIST, AND UN MESSENGER OF PEACE.

“Reason for Hope and the Way Ahead”

•Nature can regenerate

•Wonder of the human brain- we can talk about the past and use that knowledge to remake the future

•Roots and Shoots, an organization in which she works with youth to globally make humanitarian changes through volunteerism

•http://www.rootsandshoots.org/

ELIMINATE• New world wide service project

• By 2015, eliminate maternal neonatal tetanus in 38 countries by partnering with UNICEF to raise $110 million

• Tetanus doesn’t just kill – painfully kills newborns and mothers

• Clubs are asked to educate themselves and communities and raise money

• http://sites.kiwanis.org/Kiwanis/en/theELIMINATEproject/home.aspx

• http://sites.kiwanis.org/Kiwanis/en/theELIMINATEproject/MNT/doyourpart.aspx

CLOSING SESSIONJAMIE LEE CURTIS

ACTRESS, WRITER AND NEW KIWANIAN

JAMIE LEE CURTISLIVE WELL, LOVE WISELY

• Mantra is how she lives her life

• Words about Princess Diana and impact on AIDS victims and her courage to leave a loveless marriage and to love her boys

• Homage to Betty Ford and her courage to speak on social issues

• She was presented World Service Medal for her work with children and given Kiwanis membership pin

ALAN PENN INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT

ALAN PENN

• Ohio District, Medina Breakfast Club

• Educator, School Administration

• Son of missionaries

• Member Medina Untied Methodist Church

• Married to Jeri

• Ohio State graduate

SERVICE TIME IN GENEVA

NEW ORLEANS 2012

• Registration starts October 3, 2011