MY BUSY WEEK AT COMPUTERPALS - August 2013

Wow, this has been a busy week for me.........the weekend and Monday was taken up with reconciling the bank balance against the computer provided Register balance, and then printing out and emailing pdf files of five reports to each Committee member.

 That task completed, I attended the local bank following earlier rollover of the Clubs Interest Bearing Deposit of $15,000 to successfully sort out and increase payment of interest as at the maturing date, when it was 3.55%.

Followed on Tuesday by attending the monthly Management Committee meeting and presenting the Financial Report, and fielding questions. 

I reported to Committee that our Honorary Auditor Kerri was retiring as Auditor at the AGM.

 Keri has been our Auditor since 2008 and has given freely of her time and experience and help to the previous Treasurer Hazel and myself - thanks Keri, you will be missed!

Wednesday I was back to assist Trainer Jon at our week three of the Managing Your Digital Photographs five week course.

 After the course finished Jon and I opened Skype and contacted this months members meeting guest speaker, Marti of Photobooksrus, to carry out a visual and sound test. Photobooksrus is located in Melbourne and Marti works from home on the Queenslands Gold Coast, so I decided to try and make technology work for us.

All went ok, so hopefully our live broadcast of Marti's presentation on how to make a photobook will be successful next week.

 This is a first for our Club, a guest speaker who is not at the meeting. Will the technology work...Jon and I hope so!

 Today, Thursday....back to the office to collect monies and deposit at the bank.
 Then into the Training Room for our regular Film Making Special Interest Group meeting, conducted by John, with members Judy, Yvette, Michael and 2 Johns attending.
 We discussed the club's use of recently purchased Adobe Premier Elements 11, a powerful and easy to use movie editing software that will let our members organise, enhance and edit videos.

Trainer John looks at some benefits of using Elements 11........







.........and Michael, Judy, Yvette and Tom relax during the presentation

 

Breaking news......our 8 new computer monitors with big 21.5 and 23 inch screens arrived today and will soon be installed to our training room computers!

While we were in the Training Room, our Secretary Margaret was out alone in the office entering new members into the member register...she is hard-working and a real treasure!

I'm glad this week is over!

John L