Yearbook 2012 - The Rotary Club of Bangkok South
Yearbook 2012 - The Rotary Club of Bangkok South
Yearbook 2012 - The Rotary Club of Bangkok South
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COMMUNICATIONSANNUAL REPORT 2011-<strong>2012</strong>RAKESH SODHIACommunications DirectorIt was actually quite late in the lead up to the 2011-12 year that Iwas asked to head up the Communications Committee (ComComas it is known), when Rtn David Armstrong had to leave the clubdue to work commitments outside the country. But I was extremelyfortunate to inherit a Committee that was not only substantially thesame as that for 2010-11, but which had put in an awful lot <strong>of</strong>groundwork under that year’s Director, Gareth Marshall.Tim Cornwall continued his sterling efforts in producing ourmagazine, the <strong>South</strong> Wind, week in and week out. <strong>The</strong> publicationis fully self-funding from ad sales, and Tim looks after the contentand layout in what can only be called a labour <strong>of</strong> love. Tim has verykindly agreed to continue in this role in the coming year. <strong>The</strong> <strong>South</strong>Wind now has over 2,400 issues to its credit. It issues electronicallyeach week and is sent to all members and those non-membersregistered on our mailing list. A small number are printed each weekand are available at our Friday luncheon meetings.Our <strong>Club</strong> website has continued to develop, with the addition<strong>of</strong> pages on Matching Grant Projects as well as a functioningcalendar plug-in. We can now add and amend events so that theyappear in very brief form on a small calendar on the Home page,with more details <strong>of</strong> each contained on the Events Calendar page.Rtn Gary White has been keeping this up-to-date and, <strong>of</strong> course,like any database or calendar, it is only as good as the informationgiven. <strong>The</strong> same goes for the website itself – it is a huge andnever-ending job trying to keep it current. We do rely in part onmembers to let us know <strong>of</strong> anomalies or items that need updating. is now working on a register <strong>of</strong> passwords and log-in details forthe club’s ever-expanding portfolio <strong>of</strong> s<strong>of</strong>tware systems and socialmedia sites. This will be copied and stored in several safe placesreview and up-date, and several are now on the website, along withthe 2010 and 2011 <strong>Yearbook</strong>s. Our sincere thanks to Veritas for theirdonation <strong>of</strong> artwork and layout services for many <strong>of</strong> these.We have continued to up-date and circulate quarterly a list <strong>of</strong>member contact details (mobile/email), but we are reliant uponmembers to keep us up-to-date with their current details.Committee Members:Our <strong>Club</strong> Member database has also been transferred to Bentos<strong>of</strong>tware after the old <strong>Rotary</strong> International one started corruptingdata – and <strong>Rotary</strong> no longer supports its old Secretarial andFinancial systems.Another area needing attention this year (and next) is our <strong>Club</strong>Photo library. This is kept on Flickr, but had not been up-datedfor some time. Major events were there, but not weekly meetingphotos and lesser events. A mechanism was put in place to tag,catalogue and upload all photos onto Flickr, but has not workedout. This needs the concerted attention <strong>of</strong> the incoming ComComteam to get it working properly.External communications this year have been probably thebest in years, if perhaps ever, thanks in great part to the efforts<strong>of</strong> President Mark Butters, who has cultivated relations withpublications like the <strong>Bangkok</strong> Post, the Pattaya Mail and TV, andBig Chilli. Events like Coins, the Paul Harris Dinner and Kids Outhave received extensive coverage, and President Mark himselfwas the subject <strong>of</strong> an extensive interview (focussing on the <strong>Club</strong>,not himself, I should add) in the <strong>Bangkok</strong> Post. Many thanks t<strong>of</strong>ormer member Gareth Marshall for arranging this. Soon to be IPPMark has kindly agreed to continue with this job on the incomingComCom Committee.<strong>The</strong> <strong>Club</strong> <strong>Yearbook</strong> for 2011 was put together by former RtnDavid Armstrong and Rtn Gary White, and published by Rtn Ravi’sSehgal Group. It was very well received and was one <strong>of</strong> the morecomplete and extensive ones we have done. This year’s book isbeing done by Rtns Morgan Perkins and Gary White, and is againpublished by the Sehgal Group. Our thanks to Rtn Ravi for his andhis staff’s sterling efforts in doing that.And this report would not be complete without mention <strong>of</strong> the<strong>Club</strong>’s 50th anniversary History Book, whose production wasoverseen by a team led by PP Maarten Worp and published byRtn Jim Fowler’s Veritas. Our sincere thanks to them, and RtnDean Outerson, for all the work they put into making it such anexcellent publication.Nor would it be complete without my sincere thanks to all theComCom team: PE Nick Pisalyaput, Dean Outerson, GarethMarshall, Gary White, Ian Morris, Tim Cornwall and, latterly forthe <strong>2012</strong> <strong>Yearbook</strong>, Morgan Perkins. Our best wishes to incomingDirector Junior Shaw and his team for another successful year.NickPisalyaputDeanOutersonGary WhiteIan MorrisTim Cornwall<strong>Rotary</strong> <strong>Club</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Bangkok</strong> <strong>South</strong> <strong>Yearbook</strong> <strong>2012</strong> 23