Put Your Club Online

Many of you have noticed that the Edmonton Dinner Optimist Club has recently published a new website.  We are preparing a set of tutorials on how that site was created.  The tutorials are organized into collections called modules, each with a set of lessons.  The plan is to publish one lesson per day (except Sundays) so there will be six lessons published per week.  We added lessons back-dated to start December 1st, 2010, so there are now 26+ lessons published.

If you want to get a look at the outline plan for the entire "online course", we invite you to look at "Build a Club Website With Blogger".

We are going to add a blog feed in the right column that will display the 5 most recent lesson titles so that you can open a new lesson as they are published.  Each lesson has comments enabled, so if you have a question or would like to comment on a lesson, we invite you to participate.  Lessons will get revised and corrected based on reader feedback in the comments.

A Friendly Incentive for Your Club

Fellow Optimists,

Optimist International is excited to announce a new incentive that helps Clubs stay healthy and help more kids in their community!

From January 1 - June 30, Clubs will be rewarded for making new Friends - Friends of Optimists that is.

Clubs that add 3 Friends during the second and third Optimist quarter will receive 3 rewards!

• The addition of a new traditional Member at no processing charge.
• Waived dues for that Member until September 30, 2012. 
• A special Club banner patch.

 We want to see your Club succeed!  Go to www.Optimist.org/FindSomeFriends for helpful Friends recruiting tips!

Good luck!

P.S. Keep an eye out for a Friends application in the next issue of The Optimist. 

Optimist International Awards/Recognition Survey

Fellow Optimists

Your International Board of Directors is seeking your input as we review, evaluate and possibly update the International Awards/Recognition program for our organization.

We ask that you please take a few minutes to complete this survey. Your ideas will be extremely valuable as we move forward.

Upon completion of the survey, you will be entered into a drawing for an exclusive Optimist prize.

Thank you in advance for your participation.

Yours in Optimism,

International Board of Directors

Optimist International

Edmonton Dinner Optimist Club Is Now Online

Welcome to the Edmonton Dinner Optimist Club who have just published their new website.  They invite you all to come and take a look and leave a comment.  Thanks go to District Web Services who helped to design and launch the website.

We have also just published a "Clubs Online" page listing the webpage and facebook page links to clubs that have online resources.  We ask all clubs to check this page and confirm that we have you correctly listed.  If your website has changed, or if your club is not listed, please contact our District Web Services Chair - Opt Gord.