First Thursday Social - Head Cam Video

First, I realize that this is not a Community Service Project, however it was relevant to the infrastructure of our Club pertaining to Membership - and everything in Rotary starts with Membership!

Our Socials in the past were not well attended.  One of the reasons why - there was no consistency on when we would get together.  My Tina came up with the idea of "First Thursday Social".  This way everyone would remember the Day of the Social. 

Even then - sometimes you are given one chance in life when you are trying something out.  So, I attempted to create excitement and fun with something completely nuts by by putting a bicycle helmet on my head, putting a go-pro camera on top of my helmet, and calling  it, "Head Cam Video".   This idea came to me at PETS when I listened to Gordon talk about committing to change that might make people feel very uncomfortable, but watched him stand next to a Porta John in a video during his presentation.  So, he was walking the walk and and setting a good example.

I advertised this stunt and I had many in my club interested in seeing if this knucklehead (me) would actually put this helmet on in a nice place in public.  While the attendance and buzz was a success and we a had larger crowd than ever before, it was too hard to interview someone without shaking your head and having the camera move.  However, I did get a few laughs when I showed this video at a meeting.  And -- the attendance was great!

In the end, Head Cam Video was a failure in being able to get a clean video, but also a success that helped propel us with more attendance at socials.  More importantly - it created an energy we had not experienced and members were able to let their hair down. 

Please see the video of this event that we presented at our Club Meeting.