This evening we welcomed Roger Northwood's wife Ann. We were also very happy to see our Exchange student Daniel!

Our President Elect Rob Waine did a great job hosting this meeting, and he shared the following messages.

 

                * Request for a Interact Advisor from our club-Joan Ryan (Past Pres. of Downtown Club) was inquiring. They meet at                      3:30 on wednesdays and Lynne immediately volunteered!  Thanks Lynne

                * Wellness Fair on Sunday Nov 1st at Bowen Park Complex - one of the speakers is Mayor Bill MacKay

                * Youth Exchange Meeting coming up-  Rob and Paul are going.  Topic is What will the level of financial support 

                   needed and are we budgeted.  If you are interested in attending contact either of them.

                * Rotary Day of Dialogue- Nov 21st- Presented by Chris Offer in Vancouver.

                * Code Brew - We are enjoying our meal and meeting fellowship here this evening.Looks like Jim is really going to 

                   enjoy his "Doggy Bag" ! Actually he had missed out on dinner, so this was his first round!

Tonight we enjoyed listening to Reed Botwright whom is a Social Media Guru.  Reed is originally from Shawnigan Lake and attended VIU from 2000 to 2003.  He has 3 beautiful children and is the Applications Analyst at City of Nanaimo and he is the Chief Socializer at Nicely Done. Reed has a smashing webpage to check out at www.reedbotwright.com.  Reed shared with us the Seven Rules of Social Media.

                  1. Choose your poisons and commit. Its not advertising or sales.

                  2. Be you on your day off.  Be real.

                  3. Treat Social Media like support not sales.

                  4. Use the tools ie. Hootsuite, IF, Buffer.  (All new to me!)

                  5. Sandbox - DO- Try it, Test it. 

                  6. Be the Human, Not the Turtle or the Hare

                  7. If you are not having fun with it, neither are they!

Thanks to Reed for an interesting and really informative presentation, I am sure many of us learned a few new things! Many thanks to Suzanne for great questions!

Ian Thorpe has a birthday coming up and we sang to our new member Toni Wheeler! It was wonderfully awful!

Ed is back from his trip and it sounded wonderful- he showed us an Apron that was presented to him for helping out at 

a Harvest dinner.  

Suzanne proudly shared that she won 2nd prize at the Dingy Docks Triva night!

Rob and Barb are back from their amazing 4 and 1/2 week trip, sounded wonderful including the train trip thru Switzerland to Vienna!  Also really nice that Rob connected with a friend that he hadn't seen since 1976!