From the monthly archives:
It’s been a busy week since Kick-start Your Sales was released last Tuesday and I wanted to make sure you haven’t forgotten about some of the helpful items that will greatly benefit your 2011 yearbook sales.
Now, I know you’ve spent this entire last week thinking about what strategies you would like to take for back-to-school/school registration (wink wink), but a few more minutes couldn’t possibly hurt!
When the yearbook staff at Highland High School in Anderson, Ind., started on their 2010 yearbook back in the fall, they settled on the theme “Faces of Highland.”
That plan changed, and the staff’s job became a bit more daunting, when their local School Board voted in December to turn their school in to a junior high beginning with the 2010-11 school year. Highland High School would be no more, and the 2010 yearbook became the “Final Edition.”
This week’s Yearbook Video of the Week comes from the guys at the Salesianum School in Wilmington, Del., and it caught our eye mostly for its slightly different approach.
Apparently at Salesianum, the yearbook will take matters into its own hands and track down the non-buyers! Hey, whatever works…
Anniversary yearbooks can be a fun, yet challenging, task for a yearbook staff. What about a school celebrating its 100th anniversary?
As this article from the Durango Herald shows, the Toltec staff from Durango High School in Durango, Colo., has really gotten into the spirit of celebrating their school’s 100-year history.
In this week’s Yearbook Blog journey through the Twitter universe, we learn that it’s always a good idea to have a plan for picture day and sometimes your classmates might choose to vote an interesting title for you in the yearbook. You just never know.
@croonanoona: I have to take photos for my school yearbook tomorrow but my hair looks like an albino oompa loompa. This is when a hat collection is useful.
Yearbook editor Anne Malbon from Frank Cox High School in Virginia Beach took the time to chronicle one of her long days at last week’s CSPA Convention for the Yearbook Blog.
The day included an early flight, making her way through the NYC traffic, both attending and teaching a session, and capping the evening off by attending a Broadway show with the yearbook staff. Just another day at CSPA!
Between the fantastic weather (no coat required!), yummy food, culture, plays, shopping and the CSPA conference and great company – I’m dying to go back to New York! Miami is great, but the heat really does not compare. It’s tough going from spending 4 days in New York to going back home to spend Sunday doing a biology experiment.
What’s nice is I’ve already been able to start trying to incorperate things I learned in New York – my yearbook staff has decided to do a chronological yearbook next year, we were inspired to give it a go. I’m not quite at liberty to divulge our theme, but it’s epic if I do say so myself!
I have to say, CSPA was incredible. I will never forget the font classes my editor-in-chief had me go with him to – Steve Kent is absolutely brilliant – where he opened our eyes to the differences in fonts and perspective, how it could make or break a spread.
He was a fun and informed speaker who deserved attention from the audience. I think I went to every single one of his sessions.
As I descended into Miami, all I could think was how much I enjoyed and learned at this year’s CSPA conference. I’m actually excited to return to school on Monday, just to open up my yearbook spreads and apply what I learned, no matter how geeky that may sound.
I feel that because of the CSPA conferance, my position as editor-in-chief of Gulliver Preparatory’s Raider Yearbook in 2011 will not only make a more organized and efficient yearbook, but also one that the student body will enjoy so much more.
My second day began with an exciting session with Steve Kent on the use of fonts. He was by far, the best speaker yet.
The class was so entertaining that I stayed for his next one on Design and left with a new sense of how to make your own style and use magazines only for inspiration. His quick and clever way of speaking, and ability to engage the audience was unparalleled.
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