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Yearbook committees – yay or ney?

by david ~ January 30th, 2009. Filed under: Tips and Tricks.

Hello, and welcome to radio yearbook! Or something. We had an email today asking about getting a yearbook committee together, and it brings up the question – how essential is the traditional yearbook committee? With our online yearbook creation system to gather information and create your member pages, a lot of the work is already [...]

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Teacher contacts please

by david ~ January 5th, 2009. Filed under: Tips and Tricks.

Hello everyone! Still more tips – we’re going to be getting a LOT of customers this year, so we want everything to run smoothly. Here’s a spark of wisdom from last year: this is for everyone – get yourselves a teacher contact at the school! If there’s one thing that can delay a book getting [...]

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Starting off 2009 on the right foot – a few tips

by david ~ January 2nd, 2009. Filed under: Tips and Tricks.

Back in the office for the start of 2009, and it seems a good time to put together some help from the things we’ve learned since the new version of our online yearbook creation system got running. If everyone starts off well, making yearbooks will be even easier and even more fun So, things that [...]

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Site Development – Part 1: The live chat

by david ~ December 12th, 2008. Filed under: Features and Ideas, News, Tips and Tricks.

It’s site development season! The last few months in Jake and Jamey’s room haven’t just been about increasing monitor volume. While Nic and I keep on top of everyone’s needs, they’ve been programming like demons. So what’s new? There’s even better security and backups for the online information and enough server capacity to support all [...]

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Getting people involved and getting members into the book

by david ~ October 10th, 2008. Filed under: Around the Office.

We’ve noticed that a lot of people are setting up a new yearbook online, with themselves as editor, and even getting together the form groupings for the members, but not actually getting members to sign up for the book. Obviously it’s still early in the year, but the sooner members get involved, the more time [...]

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Spam vs Blog, Blog beats Spam – Please read our Blog

by david ~ October 10th, 2008. Filed under: Around the Office.

There’s a bit of a debate going on in the office just at the moment – or at least in the non R&D part of the office – about the best way for us to make sure people are getting on ok when we haven’t heard from them for a while. Point one – big, [...]

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New resources for editors

by david ~ September 24th, 2008. Filed under: Features and Ideas.

From having worked a fair bit – mostly in moments between manic emailing, yearbook activity and big session stamp-licking – on making, amongst other things, PowerPoint look pretty (not an easy task, ladies and gentlemen), it’s nice to finally see the products up and available online. For anyone who doesn’t know what I’m talking about, [...]

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The speed of code

by david ~ September 5th, 2008. Filed under: Technology.

No photo’s of our workspace today. Nic’s got a day off, and the place looks a mite spartan without her flowing clothes and gekko tattoos. On the other hand, I did just want to note the handiness of that far left screen covered in code. I asked Jake a good … oh … three minutes [...]