Lions Club Training

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A Lions Tasmania training session was held this Sunday at the Penguin Lions Centre. It was my first time to attend one of these, and I was most impressed. More of us really need to attend such sessions, if only to meet the fellow Lions of neighbouring Clubs. Amongst the speakers alone we had Zone Chairman John Medwin pictured above!

The session focused on Membership Categories, Communication and Lions on the Internet.

Some points that are interesting include the membership categories available other then a regular member. If members or potential new members are able to partake and volunteer with our club but not able to attend all meetings there is still space for them. What if a member gets a job that requires them to be in Singapore for half the year, or if a member is over-commited at work and cannot regularly attend the meetings but would like to remain a Lion. Click <here> for some of the available membership options and their associated responsibilities.

Also of note was the importance of communications, and that we should have different channels available from telephone to Internet and everything in between. Learning to speak is important too as we are the leaders of tomorrow and we may need to share the knowledge we gain over time with others. We learn to communicate by being Active Members!

Maurice spoke to us about the great world of the wobbly wobbly web and showed us how the Internet has everything to offer us from downloading forms to buying pins, from watching Lions activities on YouTube to local representation of Tasmanian Clubs on the net. Walter (me!) showed the session how a blog can be very useful to a club and how everyone can participate in a blog and how a domain name allows for everyone to have an easy to remember email using an email alias.

Website that were mentioned were (click on them to go there):

Lions
on YouTube
LionNet
LionNet Australia
Windmill Hill
City of Burnie
Australian
Lions in the week's news
Lions Clubs of Tasmania
Australian Lions
Lions Club International

More links can be found here: http://www.lionstasmania.org/links

Note that these links are also noted on the right hand side of this blog if you scroll down to the end... Easy as 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510.

NB Did you know the entire Administration Manual for Lions Clubs in Australia (2MB pdf file) is on the Internet? It includes the majority of information you may need to run your club - including duties of Club Officers for instance. Consider getting it and keep it on your computer and refer to it when needed. Open it and press Ctrl F to find the bits you are looking for! And by the way... don't even think about printing it all!

Lion Walter---