10/08/2026
What a room at the Rotary Club Zephyrhills today.
I started with a number: we had AI review 122 Facebook posts from Central Florida Rotary clubs. Only one was written for someone who wasn't already a member. Most looked backward ("great meeting today, thanks to everyone who came") instead of forward ("Hey Zephyrhills friends, come join us").
Rotary has made a humongous impact, polio being the obvious one. The work isn't the problem. Telling the story is.
AI doesn't replace you. It removes the two excuses: "I don't have the time" and "I'm not a writer." I believe the more we use AI, the more human we'll get.
This group did not sit quietly. We got into authorship, safety, data centers, kids growing up isolated, and whether AI should be anywhere near your taxes. I had to keep pulling us back to the slides, and I loved every minute. We never even got to the social media prompts, so a part two may be coming.
Thank you to Steve, Lance and Eric for the invite, and to everyone who drove in, some of you for over an hour.
Didn't make it? The free slides and AI prompts are at https://rotarygrowth.com