Storytelling: Secrets to Being Effective
Meeting for the week of January 25, 2021 - January 31, 2021
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: Storytelling: Secrets to Being Effective
Speaker: Chris Cochrane
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from our Club President
Welcome, everyone, to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
This is a special week for us. Since we received our club charter on January 30th 2015, we have been actively making a difference at home and around the world. As you reflect on past accomplishments, I ask you to continue to lead Rotary into the next century of service. Take pride each day in the decisions you make and the actions you take, because these choices are determining the course of Rotary for us all.
In this week's meeting, we'll learn more about visual storytelling from Chris Cochrane. About 65 percent of people are visual learners, meaning for most of us, the message is more likely to stick if we see it. Good storytelling examples will always be the ones that 'get us'; the ones that make us laugh or cry or get angry or make us think - or at least make us want to watch till the end!
Don't forget to fill out the attendance survey, leave your questions or comments in the Disqus section at the bottom of the page, and consider contributing the cost of a meal to The Rotary Foundation or the service projects our club is putting in motion by way of celebrating our 6th anniversary.
Enjoy the meeting!
Yours in Rotary service,
Raquel D’Garay-Juncal
President, Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley
president@siliconvalleyrotary.com
P.S. Members, a very quick reminder that club nominations are this week! Please be sure to check your emails!
Guests, we are happy to have you join us this week!
As we see it, our flexibility as an online, asynchronous club allows a special type of service to Rotarians around the world: we make it easier for anyone to strive for and maintain 100% attendance. That keeps you engaged with Rotary's events and ideas, and provides a moment of inspiration for devoting your creativity, talents, and resources to good causes.
You are certainly not required to pay anything in order to attend our meetings. However, if you would like to make a small contribution to our service efforts, you are welcome to do so in our secure Happy Dollars section down the page. This could be what you normally pay at your own club's meetings for lunch, for example. Any amount is welcome, but first and foremost, we're happy you've joined us, and hope you will share with others who we are and what we do to help inspire Service Above Self.
And don't forget to fill out our attendance form so you get an email you can pass on to your club's secretary!
The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Weekly Funny with Shags.
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Steven "Shags" Shagrin !
Online Platfoms Merging!!!
One day YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook will merge...
It'll be called YouTwitFace.
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
Another share from 2016 to round out the January highlighting of some favorite videos from the Inspiration section is this video about a lamp. Lesson learned? Be the light, not the lamp.
World of Rotary
Every week we will focus on a particular story that tells of our organization and the work of Rotarians in the world.
Through a Rotarian's Lens
Sometimes a photo can capture an amazing moment. In this section Member Keith Marsh shares his incredible photography!
If you'd like to submit a photo for this section please contact Keith.
On a San Francisco Bay cruise in 2016, I took these two skyline photos. Each has a unique composition and appeal in a black and white format. Can you find the upper photo in the pano at the bottom?
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and aims to teach our members and guests something new, fun and useful! If you have any ideas on a fun trick or skill you'd like to share please contact Shags.
Someone Had Time on Their Hands!
I came across this video and was just amazed at the level of attention put into the simplest of things to create such a magnificent piece of art in many forms. Enjoy!
Service Report
Tell us about service you’ve done recently in your community.
Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
On the first meeting of every month, we feature service reports from club members for the previous month. Thanks for your service everyone!
Week of Jan 24th - Read the Rotary Magazine, find an article you like, and post it on Slack and Facebook Don’t forget to take a selfie or a screenshot and post it to the #52-ways-to-be-a-more-engaged-rotarian channel!
Club Announcements
Haven't joined the conversation on Facebook yet? Consider joining the conversation by signing into our club members-only Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/rotarysiliconvalley/
Service Project Information
Club members, if you are participating or have previously participated in a service project as part of our club, could you please complete the following form:
https://forms.gle/jxfpHHiKBv7P5YXy5
Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! This section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
Past Events:
Upcoming Events:
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
District 5170 Events
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
More events coming soon! All events are open to guests, unless otherwise mentioned. Feel free to join us! If you ever have questions, please email inquiries@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Happy Dollars: Do Good by Sharing Something Good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)
Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated on the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
Unusually cold these past few days. My cats have spent more time with me than usual. Purrr!
Program: Storytelling: Secrets to Being Effective
Speaker: Chris Cochrane
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others.
The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley seeks to explore perspectives on service from across the world. The views of the speakers in our programs are their own, and unless stated otherwise, are not necessarily reflective of the views of our eClub nor Rotary International.
If you have an idea for a cool speaker, please feel free to reach out to them directly or submit THIS FORM so our Program Committee can contact them!
Chris Cochrane was one of the charter members of the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley. He is an award-winning (Emmy, Gemini, and Virgin/British Academy of Television Arts) producer, director, and cinematographer.
In addition to Chris's professional work as a digital storyteller, he has helped with many Rotary causes, including as a producer of Rotary's "This Close" video and image campaigns. He is a member of the District 7040 Passport Rotary Club and Chair of Online Images/Videos, Technology & Conferences for District 7040.
In this program, Chris will introduce us to techniques and issues related to telling stories visually.
Members and guests, please welcome Chris Cochrane!
Learn more at:
Effective Videos, Cochrane's personal reel. http://www.cjcochrane.com
Upcoming Program Recording Schedule
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
Our online video conference room link for these recordings is always http://zoom.siliconvalleyrotary.com/. You are welcome to join us! Please note the timezone listed for all recordings is US Pacific Time (San Francisco, California, USA).
If you can’t join the live recording, please send your questions for an upcoming speaker to programs@siliconvalleyrotary.com.
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