To demonstrate the true potential for widespread club participation, in the space of around 2 hours yesterday afternoon UK time, we had no less than 4 separate sign ups and one other attempted registration!
First we were joined by the Rotary Club of Ramsey , District 1280, located on the Isle of Man here in the UK, thanks to Peter Whiteway. Swiftly followed by 2 sign ups from Rotary Clubs in Peterborough District 1070. As I mentioned in my blog entry a couple of days ago, in actual fact there are 4 separate Rotary Clubs combining to stage the event, all being co-ordinated by our District Communications chair Graham Walker. Great to see Rotary Club of Deepings listed as a club entry and Rotary Club of Peterborough Werrington listed in the World Record attempt.
Next came an entry from further afield - a most welcome 4th sign up from the United States from Robert Hanna of the Rotary Club of Lake Placid - now there's a famous name from Olympic history!!
Adding in other clubs around the world that we know are definitely taking part but for whatever reason have not yet completed registration and we have well and truly achieved the 50 club markGlobal Entrants Map latest
As I mentioned, we were contacted by Chris Watts from the Rotary Club of Brackley about an issue he had during sign up.
The error in question is something that has come up before so it's probably worth me explaining the cause and resolution here once again to avoid others having the same issue.
Basically if you go straight to the website, and look at the links on the left side of the front page - you will see a link "Enter your club " under event so the temptation is to go straight to that link. If you look closely at the error message details on screen, you will see the cause - you need to be logged on
For website security reasons, only users who have created an account and logged on to the website will be able to enter their details.
If you look at the "Start here" section at the top of the page, it has step by step easy to follow instructions listed out for you.
In summary
1. Go to Member Login - select create a user - enter user name and password and email
2. Check email - click on the link in email , then log in with user name and password you created
3. Go to "The Event" select "enter your club" and fill in the details
4. Go to "Guinness World Record - click on "enter your club for the record" and fill in the details
Steps 1 -4 should take no more than 5 minutes to complete , and that official registration completion, means that we are notified via email automatically and can send you the event information pack.
Any problems encountered, any time of day or night - please drop us a note to rotaryglobalswimarathon@gmail.com or contact us on the facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/rotaryglobalswimarathon and we'll be happy to help you sort it out
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