It took nearly a month for the Times Union to publish our news release and photo, but on Monday, July 4th, we made it onto the newspaper’s website, and today we made it into print in the local news section. Hooray!
Category: Media
RadioRotary powered by our neighboring district
Are you familiar with RadioRotary? If not, you may want to tune in to see what the weekly program is all about. Hint: It’s never the same thing.
The weekly series of 30-minute interviews is sponsored and presented by our neighboring Rotary District — 7210, covering Columbia, Greene, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan and Ulster counties.
Professional radio hosts Sarah O’Connell (a member of the Millbrook club) and Jonah Triebwasser (Red Hook club) chat with Rotarians and non-Rotarians alike, people who live by Rotary’s motto, “Service above Self.”
As RadioRotary explains it, “Guests are humanitarians who work on many levels in programs that address such important issues as poverty, education, health, the environment, and employment and vocations. Each interview provides timely information that focuses on improving the quality of life for everyone, both here and abroad. Our guests’ stories of their humanitarian work are uplifting, showing how caring people strive to do good in the world.”
This weekend’s program is “Solar Power for Your Home.”
RadioRotary is accessible through a number of platforms each Saturday, with replays on Sundays. The lineup:
• WTBQ 93.5 FM and 1110AM Saturdays at 11:30 a.m.
• WTBQ.com on WBPM 92.9 FM Sundays at 7:25 a.m.
• WBPM FM and on Real Country 1260 and 1420 AM Sundays at 9:30 a.m.
• Real Country HV.com
• anytime on RadioRotary.com
• by iTunes subscription
July Rotarian magazine looks ahead and back
The 2016-17 Rotary Year, which begins on July 1, will have a distinctly American look to it.
The annual Rotary International Convention will be held in Atlanta, GA. The Rotary Foundation, which was created by an American — RI President Arch C. Klumpf, will celebrate its 100th birthday. And, an American will become RI president for the first time in many years.
The current issue of The Rotarian magazine, which should have reached your mailbox in recent days, is tracing a major chunk of Rotary history with a fascinating timeline on the Foundation and what it has accomplished over the decades; is providing a look ahead in its cover story on John Germ, the Tennessee Rotarian who will become president; and, is presenting a lot of other interesting articles, photos, and reports.
Introducing our latest tech addition: Dropbox
Are you familiar with the symbol shown here? It’s that of Dropbox, which the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club just joined.
Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by Dropbox Inc. of San Francisco. It offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. Using it, individuals or organizations are able to create a special folder on their computers, which Dropbox then synchronizes so it appears to be the same folder (with the same contents) regardless of which device is used to view it.
Files placed in this folder also are accessible via the Dropbox website and mobile apps. Dropbox uses a “freemium” business model, wherein users are offered a free account with a set storage size or paid subscriptions for accounts with more capacity. Initially, at least, we are using the “freemium” model to see how much use we will get from our Dropbox.
We’ve already done some work with Dropbox to help create our new “Program Presentation Archive” on the club website. (That’s its logo on the left.) Two different members and one guest were able to drop copies of the PowerPoint shows they have presented to the club into the SRC Rotary Dropbox. From there, we were able to easily extract the slides/images we wanted, converted them to PDF documents, and placed them in the archive.
It is the hope of the club’s “techie worker bees” that this addition to our lineup of methods of communication — email, website/blog, Facebook, and Twitter — will continue to help us grow and share news and information with each other and the community at large. Please feel free to make use of the SRC Rotary Dropbox account.
Are you on Twitter? If so, do you follow us?
One of the ways to keep up to date with what’s going on with the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club as well as Rotary International is to follow us on Twitter. We’re @SRCrotaryNY so it’s quite simple to sign up.
Of course, we’re also here on our own website/blog, plus we’re on Facebook, and we provide regular email messages, so we’re always there for you. We hope you’ll take advantage of all these paths to staying informed and involved.
Are you using our new URL?
No matter how you got to this website, we’re glad you’re visiting and hope you make a habit of it.
However, we have simplified how you can get here, no matter whether you use a personal computer, tablet, or cellphone.
The new URL that links you to us is a simple one:
SRCrotary.org
(Please be sure to use “.org” rather than “.com” or you will be directed to an outdated version of this website.) For quickest access, simply add this address to your bookmarks folder, and that should enable you to get here with a single keystroke.
If you use multiple devices to visit, you’ll notice the appearance varies. The most expansive way to view it is on a PC screen, but we have built the website to automatically conform to smaller devices as well for peak viewing at all times.
So, whichever you use, come back soon. You’ll find new and interesting things every time.
Rotary founder pays surprise ‘visit’ to RI Convention in Seoul, South Korea
Here’s something you don’t see every day. A personal “appearance” by Paul Harris, the founder of Rotary back in 1905. Enjoy!
New page provides tech data for our speakers
The latest new page on our club website, which went live today, should go a long way toward making our after-dinner speakers’ presentation setups go smoothly.
When you schedule a speaker, all you have to do is provide them with this Internet address — tinyurl.com/hym5yba — and they can go directly there for all the setup and other technical data they need.
A special thanks to Roberto Martinez for shepherding this cooperative guide to fruition.
Go here to take a look at it. The link also is part of our website’s “Inside Information” lineup.
Do we have your complete contact information?
Dear SRC Members:
We are in the midst of updating our member-contact information. However, we are missing some phone numbers, addresses, work info, email, etc. The cooperation of everyone on the roster in filling in the blanks ASAP is requested.
Once fully updated, the information will be put into a password-protected page on the website for the perusal of all members. You will note it already has a use-prohibition note at the top.
Please take a moment to check the list to be sure your information is current and complete. Just go to “INSIDE INFORMATION” here on the website and click on “MEMBER CONTACT DATA.” Any additions or changes can be sent to the club email account at SRCrotary@gmail.com — the sooner the better.
Thank you,
Bill Dowd
The way we were
This portion of an 1891 map of Rensselaer County shows the area that 125 years later is served by the Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club.
Notice some differences? What happened to the hamlet of Greenbush and the neighboring village of Bath? They, along with a piece of western East Greenbush, constitute what began as a one-square-mile parcel of land that through annexation became today’s City of Rensselaer.
Note, too, the map serves as a sort of census, listing the locations of various homes and farms, and businesses.
Southern Rensselaer County Rotary Club 