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I Love My Rotary Bling
This an auspicious post for RFA as it is the 100th post since I started the blog a year and half ago on October 27, 2013. This experiment in building a Rotary audience with entertaining content...
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Thoughts about Rotary Club Foundations
You won’t find a lot of words written about Rotary club charitable foundations. Perhaps because donations to our club Foundations are thought to compete with contributions to the Rotary Foundation? I...
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Warren Buffett’s Take on Rotary….(kind of)
Since the Four Way Test applies here at RFA, I should start by disclosing that I have no idea if Warren Buffett, probably one of the best known investors in the world, has any opinions about Rotary....
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The Two Most Powerful Words in Rotary
Surprise. This isn’t where you are going to find my post about “The Two Most Powerful Words in Rotary.” To find this post you have to go to My Rotary and look it up under Rotary Voices, Stories of...
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DG Bill’s Master Class on How to Use Video to Promote Rotary
If you get the chance to hang out with District 7620 District Governor, Bill Fine, you will quickly find that he is 1) passionate about Rotary, 2) one of the funniest humans on the planet, and 3) one...
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Good News, Bad News, Good News!
GOOD NEWS: I just had a chance to look over District 7620’s year-over-year Annual Program Fund giving comparisons through the month of April. The good news is that we are currently ….wait for...
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If It Ain’t Broke….Break It!
NOTE: Today’s post was supposed to be about the recent District 7620 District Conference. Unfortunately Ready, Fire, Aim editorial deadlines must be met so the Conference blog will be up next week...
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The Star Spangled District Conference is an Amazing Success!
Frederick Rotarians were determined to put on a great show for the rest of District 7620 when they hosted the District Conference this year. They wanted to brag on their historic and beautiful...
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Chillin at the Congressional Reception for Polio Eradication Champions
Mike McGovern, Rotary Trustee and Chair of the Polio Plus Committee, Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the CDC, Senator Lamar Alexander, and John Germ, RI President-Elect, at the reception to honor Rotary...
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A World Peace Conspiracy Revealed at One Rotary Center
No matter how many times you count them, you won’t come up with 19 floors. Trust me….there is a 19th floor, and you won’t believe what goes on there. I have been asked, on more than one occasion, to...
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In Search of the Perfect Caipirinha
Your Ready, Fire, Aim editor busy with research for this post. Cachaca is an alcoholic beverage made from fresh sugar cane juice that is fermented and distilled. If you cut a fresh lime and add...
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It’s Time to Install our New Club Presidents
I thought I would write about installing new club leaders this morning, and then I remembered that more than a year ago I wrote a RFA post about installing new club members. And guess what? The...
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Lunar Rainbow at Iguazzu Falls
If you happen to travel to Brazil you should definitely take a few days to check out Iguazzu Falls. What a breathtakingly beautiful place. If you are lucky enough to stay at the Hotel das Cataratas,...
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I mean this in the nicest way…but YOU’RE FIRED!
I have been privileged to go around the District over the past two weeks in order to fire current Club Presidents. It’s not that they did a bad job or anything like that, and I’m sure they didn’t...
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Rotary Peace Centers – A “Stellar” Program of the Rotary Foundation
Unless you are on the District Leadership Team you don’t get to attend Council of Governors (COG) meetings. The COG is comprised of District 7620’s Past District Governors. Four times each year the...
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RI President Ravi answers the question about the Rotary Chicken (new members)...
RI President KR “Ravi” Ravindran live tweeting a picture of his audience at the RYLA NA Conference in Washington, DC. I was privileged to host RI President Ravi Ravindran and his wife, Vanathy, for...
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The Elephant in the Room, A Letter about Rotary Engagement
The topic of Rotary Engagement versus Rotary Attendance seems to be at the top of everyone’s list of Rotary conversations of late. Last week’s RFA post, The Rotary Chicken and the Rotary Egg, took on...
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The Toughest Role Play in PETS Training – Engagement Part III
Back when dinosaurs walked the earth I used to serve the District by training club President- Elects. My thinking for the decade that I volunteered to do it was that Rotary Club Presidents have...
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ROTARY S.W.O.T. Analysis in District 7620
Ask any Past District Governor (as I have) about the best part of being a DG, and they will, without exception, talk about how great it is to visit the Rotary clubs in their District. Now that I’ve...
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Rotary Sales 101: Selling “small” versus selling “big.”
It may be my particular curse to think that success in life, in Rotary, in just about everything, comes down to sales and selling. I know. I know. There are a lot of important ingredients to...
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