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Microsoft 365

Microsoft Teams Meetings, chats, channels, and file sharing. Outlook Email, shared inboxes, and contacts. SharePoint Shared files, documents, and committee sites. OneDrive Your personal cloud file storage. Calendar Schedule meetings and manage events.

For clubs

For Clubs Set up and secure your club's own Microsoft 365 tenant.

District Systems

DACdb District and club database for member records and reporting. Tools Document signing and the compliance register lookup.

Online Forms

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Youth Exchange

Youth Exchange Program Guides for students, host parents, Club Counsellors, YEOs and the YEP Committee, plus the YEP portal, SOP and training.

Public Image

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Training Videos

Training Videos Recordings, slides and handouts from the district webinar series.
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Local Media

Getting your club into the local paper, radio and community newsletters.

Local media

Local news still reaches the people social media doesn't.

31%
of members in our survey want help telling their club's story in local media
District PI and IT survey, as at November 2026

What makes a story news

Rotary International lists what journalists look for (Brand Center, public relations). The more of these your story has, the better its chance.

New
Newsworthiness: tied to current events, trends or observances
Now
Timeliness: tied to this week
Near
Proximity: in their readers' town
Known
Prominence: a well-known person or place
Human
Human interest: people and how they were affected
Visual
Visual impact: a strong photo
Proof
Supporting data: numbers that show the result

Anatomy of a media release

Keep it to one page, written in the third person (Rotary International's advice).

  1. Headline. The result, in plain words. For example: "Rotary club grants $3,000 to seven local groups" (example figures).
  2. First paragraph. Who, what, when, where and why. If the editor reads nothing else, this is the story.
  3. One quote. From a person who was helped or a member who did the work, not a list of thanks.
  4. The detail. Numbers, partners, what happens next. No Rotary jargon.
  5. Contact. A name and phone number that will answer that day.
  6. Photos. One or two action shots, attached as files, with a caption naming the people (who have agreed to be named).

Working with your local media

  • Get to know your local journalist or editor before you need them.
  • Offer the photo opportunity before the event, not only a write-up afterwards.
  • Lead with the local angle: the people helped, the local partner, the young person who won.
  • Letters to the editor: under 500 words, no Rotary jargon (Rotary International's advice).
  • Templates: Rotary South Pacific's public image resources include a media release template and a media planning sheet, and the Brand Center has customisable news release templates.
A story bigger than your town?

The district Public Image team includes a Media Liaison, PDG Brian Beesley. Email publicimage@rotary9660.org.au and we'll help with the release or pass it on.