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Getting Started

Getting Started Sign in, set your password, and set up MFA.

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

Online Forms Every district form you can fill in online.

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

Canva Design posters, social tiles, and branded materials. Public Image Everything a club needs to be seen: social media, photos, Spotlight, your club logo and more.

Training Videos

Training Videos Recordings, slides and handouts from the district webinar series.
FAQ Answers to common questions. Meet the Team Who's behind the help portal. Request Support Can't find what you need? Get in touch.

Photos and Video

Light, tight and bright. Six habits for better phone photos, and what makes a photo tell the story.

Photos

Show Rotary, don't sell Rotary.

A good photo does more work than anything you write. Most people decide whether to stop on a post in the half-second they spend looking at the picture.

Rotarians at work alongside students at a science and engineering challenge

Tells the story. Light, tight and bright: members in action.

Three people in formal wear lined up in front of a Rotary banner

Fine for the album. A line-up in front of a banner tells a stranger nothing. (That's the district PI Chair in the middle.)

Better photos in sixty seconds

  1. Get close. Fill the frame with faces and hands. Step in, don't zoom.
  2. People doing things. Action, not line-ups. Catch the moment, not the pose.
  3. Light on their faces. Stand with the light behind you. Never shoot into a window.
  4. Landscape or portrait? Landscape (sideways) for the website and Spotlight. Portrait (upright) for reels and stories.
  5. Hold still for video. Two hands, elbows in, 10 to 20 seconds a clip. Wipe the lens first.
  6. Ask first. Get people's agreement before you post. Avoid posting children or young people where they are prominent and identifiable, including Interact members and Youth Exchange students. If one does appear, get a parent or guardian's signed consent first. See privacy and consent.

Light, tight and bright

Light
Outdoors, or near a window with the light on their faces. Dim photos look worse again once Facebook compresses them.
Tight
Get close. Faces big enough to read an expression.
Bright
People smiling and doing something.

Rotary International asks for the same thing: photos that "tell a genuine story", taken documentary style with people who aren't posing (Rotary Brand Center, images and videos).

  • Take lots: before, during and after. Choosing from fifty is easier than rescuing one.
  • Ask one member to be the photographer at each event, so you can enjoy it too.
  • No photo of your own? Use Rotary's People of Action photos from the Brand Center rather than generic stock images.

Video

  • Short works best. Reels under 90 seconds; for Spotlight, two minutes at most, in MP4.
  • Upright for reels and stories, sideways for everything else.
  • Show, don't tell: people doing the project, not someone reading a speech.
  • Rotary's own 30 and 90-second videos can be customised with your club's details at the end (Brand Center, images and videos).
Send us your best shots

Two to four action photos and a few lines on what happened: we do the rest. Spotlight: districtnewsletter@rotary9660.org.au. District social media: socialmedia@rotary9660.org.au.