“ROTARY TODAY”
Participate in an on-line discussion with
Rotary International Vice President Michael K. McGovern

Fresh from the RI International Assembly and the RI Board meeting, Vice President Mike McGovern will be on-line in the International Computer Users Fellowship of Rotarians (“ICUFR”) to discuss “Rotary Today” and to answer your questions on any Rotary topic.

A lot of changes are taking place in Rotary today. Because of membership shifts over the past 15 years, the RI Board was been wrestling for the past few years with making representation on the RI Board more equitable. At it meeting which just concluded, the RI Board has adopted a re-zoning of the entire Rotary world. For incoming, current and past District Governors, the re-zoning may change a lot of things, including long time relationships between district. The Vice President can layout the changes for you and respond to your questions.

The re-zoning topic is just one of an infinite number of issues you may want to discuss. The ICUFR has generously agreed to once again make its “Community Forums” Internet site available so that Rotarians around the world can get their questions answered by one of the most knowledgeable Rotarians.

The on-line discussion with Vice President McGovern will take place over a 51 hour period beginning at 6:00 P.M., EST, on Wednesday, February 6th and ending at 9:00 P.M. EST on Friday, Friday, February 8, 2008. This informative, and perhaps provocative, discussion with Vice President McGovern will take place at the web site http//www2.icufr.org. (Please note the “www2" in the address.)

To ask Vice President McGovern questions and to participate in the discussion, Rotarians must register in the Forum. To do that, go to the website and click on ‘Register’ at the top section of the opening page of the Community Forums (http//www2.icufr.org) . A ‘Terms’ page will next appear and, once you accept the terms, you will automatically go to the ‘Registration’ page. Please complete all ‘required’ information. When you register, please make sure you make a personal, private record of the ‘User Name’ and ‘Password’ you decide to use when registering in the Community Forums. It will be necessary to add your club name and district, and additional information in the profile, if you wish.

After you “register”, you will receive a confirming email from an ICUFR volunteer confirming your registration. After receiving the confirming email, you must post messages and participate in other services on the web site. Registering for the Community Forums carries no obligation, and you will not be placed on an email list as a result of registering.

PLEASE NOTE: If you have previously registered in the ICUFR Forum, you do not need to do so again. Just log in by entering your “User name” and “password.”

You also may enter the Forum as a ‘guest’ and read the discussion in the Community Forum but you will not be able to ‘post’ without registering.

We suggest you go to the ICUFR’s Community Forums now, register (unless you already have done so) and then look around for a while to get a ‘feel’ for the Community Forums. Post a message or two in any of the sections and topics, make some friends, and be ready for the discussion with Vice President Mike McGovern. On Wednesday, February 6th, on or after 6:00 P..M. EST, you can log into the ICUFR’s Community Forums, and be ready to go. Scroll down to ‘HOT TOPICS’, click on ‘General Talk About Rotary’ and then click on ‘Discussion with Vice President McGovern”. Then fire away with your questions.

We sincerely will appreciate you passing this message along to other Rotarians. Please post it on your district or club web site, publish it in your district and club newsletter, and forward it to all Rotarians in your email address book. In the meantime, if you have any questions, you can ask them in the ICUFR’s COMMUNITY FORUMS in the ‘Computer Help and Ideas’ section under the topic of ‘Help Using this Forum’, or, alternatively, write to me at dwm@mooers-law.com and I’ll help with your questions.
See you on-line on Wednesday, February 6th.

Dan Mooers, PRID
Director, ICUFR

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