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Easier volunteer rostering with Sign Up Genius

September 22, 2015 By Ben Ramsden

We recently calculated that a major 2-day meet requires 1,000 hours of volunteer time to run. That’s an average of 2.5 hours for every single swimmer entered. We owe it to ourselves as organisers and other volunteers to make things as easy and time efficient as possible. One particular challenge is rostering officials and other […]

Filed Under: Carnivals, Technical Officials, Websites

Carnival panic solved by International Quadratics

August 15, 2015 By Ben Ramsden

Swimming Carnival without Timing System like Credit Card without PIN. Useless! Confucius   Tomorrow is our annual carnival – when we hope to raise the majority of our club funds. We have a full program, most events are full, fingers crossed everything will go well. 4pm this afternoon we meet at the pool to set […]

Filed Under: Carnivals

Technical Officials’ Sunday School

July 30, 2015 By Ben Ramsden

“What is Sunday School” I once asked my parents when I was little. “It’s where people go on a Sunday to learn about God” came the reply. “We learn about God at school, why do they also do it on Sunday?” I wondered. Fast forward 40 plus years and I had a similar feeling when […]

Filed Under: Technical Officials

Super easy club night registration using your website

July 21, 2015 By Ben Ramsden

Organising swimmers and volunteers for club nights has always been a challenge for us. We used to do this using a grubby piece of paper in the pool office (which sometimes went missing, often contained difficult to read writing, and everyone regularly forgot to fill it in whilst they were at the pool). Then we […]

Filed Under: Websites

Whitsunday Islands

June 30, 2015 By Ben Ramsden

Confident swimmers can see some wonderful stuff. Beware of the stingers during the summer months.

Filed Under: Venues

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