2018 PRO Role Vacant - Role Description

Hi all,

I stepped down as PRO at the AGM. I have a good year. But I have other goals that need my full attention.
There wasn't a replacement, so it was proposed that I post the Role Description here, in the hopes that someone would step up.

Towards the end, I seen the role more as Club Historian for 2017. The main example of this was Brian Ahern's Man of the Rás 2004 article, where he reflected years later that he beat Mark Cavandish. We'll have to go over the recent ras stage results to see if we had a rider beat Lukas Pöstlberger.

The role involves:

• Interaction with the prospective members via e-mail and Facebook messenger.
• Publishing articles, most of the content will come from the article author, or in the case of a club event it can be copied and pasted from previous years (changing the date).
• Posting the Club's Events, Important Forum Posts and Articles on Facebook, Leisure and Racing WhatsApp groups (as needed) and Twitter. In the case of events, expanding the sphere of influence to the Cycling section of Boards.ie and the Facebook Cycling Groups
• It needs a tiny bit of HTML editing for the Articles. Setting the width, height and thumbnail images.

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• Some work with images (cropping, auto-enhance of poorly lit images). Basic features of Instagram, Google Photos, iCloud Photos and Windows Photos.
• Contacting Photographers to get their permission to use the photos in the articles.
• I monitored the Racing Results to get publish them on the 2017 Racing Banter thread.
• Asking members for articles, as I would like to see the successes and ...stories... to be heard by all members. It eases the awkward silences at the Social Nights.
• Going to committee meetings in Dundrum, once a month, taking notes. (and settling meandering conversations with my iPad).

This year, I let the ball drop on the "5 Minutes with Series", as I forgot to get candidates.
I made an extra effort on the Women's Crit League results, making Eurosport-esque results photos (to empress Declan Quigley :D ) as promoting Women's Cycling is a big goal for this club. The content of the reports was provided by Ciara and Yvonne.
I moved most of the spreadsheets to Google Docs, to make updateable by the owner in real time.

It can be a bit hectic in April and May when the Women's Crit League and Randonee (and formally the Noel O'Neill) were all publishing content together. It'll be pretty tame until then, unless you want to get some "5 mins with" articles on the go.

I can give an on-going handover, plus the previous PROs are good for advice.
It's a very important role and one that needs filling.

well done on 2017, Luke.

Yes Luke, fair play. Hopefully someone with similar IT or Twitter skills might volunteer.

You don't need similar IT skills - putting articles up on the site is very straightforward.

I think just enthusiasm for the club and for wanting to let members know whats going on is whats needed in a volunteer

Echoing the lads shout out above to fill this position.

If you are Facebook savvy, a bit of a tweeter, well then the rest can be picked up with a bit of practice.

All support is very much appreciated. Please, please give it ago ;-)