The 1st Rotary Global Swimarathon worldwide Podcast!

39 days to go. Today marks the launch of our week long publicity campaign to try and reach every corner of the globe and share our story with every conceivable media outlet in the process.

Wonderful to see the Rotary Club of Faisalabad City one of the newest clubs in Pakistan as our 48th official registration and the 15th country now represented. As one of the few remaining countries where cases of Polio are still being discovered, it is particularly heartening to receive this entry and we are very grateful for Rotary Regional secretary and Polio Plus commitee member Mubashar Butt for registering his club.

Closing in very rapidly on 50 clubs officially registered. There are 2 new sign ups imminent in D9550 for Kurunda and Mossman Rotary clubs completing an astounding full house of all 7 Rotary Clubs registered for Global Swimarathon for Assistant District Governor Ida Portella in D9550 - huge credit also to Susanne Rea and Marcel Mcleod - extraordinary work from all of you. Added to that we expect to confirm Rotaract clubs in Romania and China as well as many more new enquiries being received every day.

Now as some of you will know, I've been actively campaigning and drumming up interest for Rotary Global Swimarathon for several months now and it occurs to me that for all the messaging and sharing, for all the emails and posts, nearly every single person who has supported us on this journey has never even spoken to me in person (except Susanne who I managed to meet in London!!)

Well thanks to the efforts of Chad Waldo of the Lee Summit Sunrise Rotary in D6040 , Missouri , USA , who via his http://www.itsrotary.com  has set up a global podcasting service to spread news of Rotary projects around the world , here's your chance to hear my less than elegant vocal tones in action!

Last week we got together via skype link and here's the results - please do listen and share with your contacts - in the spirit of media and communications week, we need your help to spread this message as far and wide as it can possibly go!!

Here's the podcast file directly http://www.itsrotary.com/storage/Show019-Swimawhat.m4a or you can go to the website, click on the show 19 - swimawhat link and listen in - any standard media player should be able to play it.

Thanks for listening as well as reading - here's to those 50 clubs by tommorow!!



It's particularly good timing for this media publicity week that thanks to the great efforts of Chad Waldo of the Lee Sunrise