Have you ever tried to network?  Haven’t the first clue as to how to start?  Well, if you attended last week, Julie Gallher from Get on the Map told us just how to best work with LinkedIn.  These days with over 50% of people getting their news from Facebook, we need to be more connected if we are going to get the word out about business and especially about the Rotary Club of South Sacramento.  No longer is it acceptable to use an emailing list that is more than 12 months old, since over half of those email addresses will be no good.  One of the best ways to connect is with Facebook.  People will keep up their Facebook profile, including a new email address more than worrying about notifying people that their email address has changed.

 

These days what is it that you do when you don’t know someone?  You Google them, and here’s where using LinkedIn is an effective tool.  If you have a LinkedIn profile, when you are googled, it is the first item that comes up.  Additionally, Google will take the first line of the LinkedIn profile and put it in the Google list.  So you can get your message out easily.

 

If you have a small business or know someone who does, have them contact Julie Gallaher to get on the map, as she says.  She can be reached at http://GetontheMap.us or http://sacramentosocialmediabizschool.com or http://linkedin.com/in/juliegallaher or http://twitter.com/juliegallaher or more conventionally at 916-265-2521.

Well, at this time next week Denise and I would have been cruising the Atlantic on the Queen Elizabeth II, if it had not been for my doctor’s keen hearing.  As you know, my internist found a heart flutter, which turned out to be a valve rupture.  After seeing the cardiologist, I am scheduled for two procedures at Mercy General; a transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and a cardiac catherization.   What this will do is see the extent of “damage” to the heart valve and point to the procedure to correct the problem.  I won’t be at the next meeting, but I expect to return to the helm on September 3.

 

Many thanks to JR, Michael and Anne for volunteering to be on the Membership Committee and thanks to everyone for the adoption of the Plan.  As I said at the meeting, this is a Plan that will involve ALL club members.

 

We also have completed the Satellite Q&A sheet to be used in attracting potential members to the new satellite club that we are starting.  If you have someone in mind, and have not already let me, or the Membership Committee know who he or she is and please provide one of us with the contact information.