Subject: Rotary International Rotary News Basket 761 - 5 June 2002

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Rotary News Basket 761 5 June 2002

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The Rotary News Basket is published weekly and it offers information on activities, events, programs, and people of Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation. The News Basket also is available on the World Wide Web and on RI’s Faxback system. Editors of Rotary club and district publications are welcome to reprint all or part of any item. News Basket contents may be distributed to public news organizations without special permission.

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Contest organizers name winning Rotarian Web sites

Rotary’s presence on the Web continues to grow exponentially, with more clubs, districts, and other Rotary-related groups establishing home pages each year. To recognize some of the most user-friendly and best-designed of these Web sites, the International Computer Users Fellowship of Rotarians (ICUFR) and the Fellowship of Rotarians On The Internet (ROTI) sponsored the 2002 Best of the Rotary Web contest. Recently, the two groups announced the winners of this competition, the fifth since its inception.

Roger Siddle of the Rotary Club of Preston Guild, Lancashire, England, who claims to have uploaded the first Rotary-related Web site in June 1994, originated the contest, which showcases the best Rotary, Rotaract, and Interact web sites at the regional, district, and club levels during a given year.

Typically, more than 200 entries are received by a panel of judges comprising webmasters of the best sites from the previous year, as well as members of ICUFR and ROTI. In a preliminary process of elimination, the number of entries is whittled down to the top 10 sites in each of seven winning categories. Then, members of the panel cast their ballots to determine the top winner in each category.

Siddle recently posted the Best of the Rotary Web 2002 contest winners and runners. The following is the list of this year’s best sites:

· Best Rotary/Rotaract regional Web site - Mundo Rotário Brasileiro (www.rotarybrasil.com.br);

· Best Rotary district Web site - District 4530 (http://www.rotary4530.cjb.net/);

· *Best Rotary club Web site - Rotary Club of Erenkoy Istanbul, Turkey (www.rotary-erenkoy.org);