President’s Report for 2018-2019 – Bulletin, Website and Social Media Committee

Director-in-charge: Rtn. Mehul Sampat

Chairperson: Rtn. Satyan Israni

Vice-chairperson: Rtn. Abhinav Aggarwal

Committee Members: Rtn. Rhea Bhumgara, Rtn. Jamshyd Vazifdar

Number of Committee meetings held: The work is done by coordination through WhatsApp, emails and telecons. Meetings are held strictly on a need basis.

Objective: To widen the reach and disseminate information regarding work being done by the Club through print and digital media.

Status of planned projects with number of beneficiaries: The Club’s website has been updated and upgraded. We also have a payment link to the website to enable members to make Rotary-related payments.
That link is under testing at the moment.

Status of on-going project with number of beneficiaries: RCB now has an active presence on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Linkedin.
More than 2000 tweets and counting. 300 plus posts on Instagram, Facebook and Linkedin each. Uploaded several videos on Youtube.
Every week, our social media posts are reaching approximately 35,000 people around the world
We have followers from all over the world – Brazil, Italy, USA, Bangladesh, Australia, United Kingdom, Pakistan, Singapore, etc. including big names like the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Rotary International and Aaditya Thackeray.
Rotarians and non-Rotarians from different countries have taken the opportunity to connect with us through our social media posts, some of them being Rotarians from USA, Australia, different cities of India, Trinidad, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Turkey and Bangladesh.
The Club Bulletin is published on a weekly basis with the aim of covering maximum Club projects in a meaningful way.

Action plan to carry out the planned project: Viraf’s team at Spenta Media assists us in updating the website regularly.

We have been successful in speeding up the timelines for the printing and postage of the Club’s Bulletin. We are ensuring that, in most cases, the printed copy of The Bulletin is with a Rotarian before the weekly meeting. The digital copy is out, well before, on Saturdays.

We would like to publish regular data on patients treated at all our medical facilities. The aim is to publish these on a weekly basis. We have begun with monthly data and hopefully will streamline the receipt of data in a manner so that weekly data can be published.

How can the Board can help to expedite the planned projects?
Like, Follow and Share all the posts that are being put up on social media. Invite friends to Like, Follow and Share all the posts.