Club Forum - ClubRunner etc - 2012-02-22
Posted by Lawrence Reddaway
on Feb 22, 2012
Led by Robert Ball and Ian Warren
Robert showed us an insight of what ClubRunner (our current web system) can do for us. He urged me (and each of us members) to access My ClubRunner (that part of ClubRunner that deals with me) and see what’s there, correct what’s wrong, add what’s missing, and think how I could use ClubRunner’s features.
Here’s my understanding of how to access My ClubRunner:
- Access our club’s web site at www.hawthornrotary.org
- At the top right hand corner, click Login
- Your User Name probably comes up automatically. Or, enter your User Name (mine is reddawayl).
- Enter your password. Or click on “I forgot my password”, and it will come to you by email (“from Robert Ball” – but actually purely automatic!).
- And you should see several panels with headings My ClubRunner; Website Manager; etc
- Under My ClubRunner, click on whichever heading interests you. (But, if the heading is grey rather than black, then you are not authorised to access that area.)
- Easy!
Ian told us that, for Rotary to survive, we need to get new, younger members. And these people will only be attracted via Social Media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc etc) I don’t see that I have to do anything about this, except to support efforts by Rotary to get into this realm.
I, as bulletin editor, wish to point out that everything (yes, absolutely everything) that appears in the bulletin comes from the ClubRunner system. So, if someone asks me to “put this in the bulletin”, I check it out, edit it, put it into the system and indicate that the item should be included in the bulletin. So, in the ideal world, other people can put factual stuff (like roster names) onto our ClubRunner system (ask Robert or Ian how to do that!); and in order to produce the bulletin I would only have draw the relevant stuff out of our ClubRunner system, and tell ClubRunner to create the Bulletin and send it off.
Sounds easy!
By Lawrence Reddaway
Robert showed us an insight of what ClubRunner (our current web system) can do for us. He urged me (and each of us members) to access My ClubRunner (that part of ClubRunner that deals with me) and see what’s there, correct what’s wrong, add what’s missing, and think how I could use ClubRunner’s features.
Here’s my understanding of how to access My ClubRunner:
- Access our club’s web site at www.hawthornrotary.org
- At the top right hand corner, click Login
- Your User Name probably comes up automatically. Or, enter your User Name (mine is reddawayl).
- Enter your password. Or click on “I forgot my password”, and it will come to you by email (“from Robert Ball” – but actually purely automatic!).
- And you should see several panels with headings My ClubRunner; Website Manager; etc
- Under My ClubRunner, click on whichever heading interests you. (But, if the heading is grey rather than black, then you are not authorised to access that area.)
- Easy!
Ian told us that, for Rotary to survive, we need to get new, younger members. And these people will only be attracted via Social Media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc etc) I don’t see that I have to do anything about this, except to support efforts by Rotary to get into this realm.
I, as bulletin editor, wish to point out that everything (yes, absolutely everything) that appears in the bulletin comes from the ClubRunner system. So, if someone asks me to “put this in the bulletin”, I check it out, edit it, put it into the system and indicate that the item should be included in the bulletin. So, in the ideal world, other people can put factual stuff (like roster names) onto our ClubRunner system (ask Robert or Ian how to do that!); and in order to produce the bulletin I would only have draw the relevant stuff out of our ClubRunner system, and tell ClubRunner to create the Bulletin and send it off.
Sounds easy!
By Lawrence Reddaway