From the monthly archives:
We spent some time earlier this week in the Yearbooks Blog talking about how much work yearbook staffs get done at the summer workshops they attend all over the country. But the summer camps are also good times!
Don’t just take our word for it. Take a look at this video below from Connor Brady, Chelsee Hill and Maria Richardson from Southwestern Randolph High School in Asheboro, N.C. They’re vets of Walsworth’s summer workshop in Myrtle Beach, and I think it’s obvious they enjoyed it.
Many of the yearbook staffs heading off to workshops this summer will be spending a lot of time brainstorming and developing a theme for their 2011 yearbooks.
The creative process behind a yearbook theme can be a fun one, but also a challenge. Fortunately, we’ve got some online resources that can help get you started.
Our trip around the Twitter-verse this week shows that yearbook signing parties are still raging.
Lessons learned include: be careful what you sign since you never know what the reaction will be and it never hurts to aim big – even with a potential future husband.
For those whose yearbook is still on the way in the weeks ahead, here are some more helpful tips to keep in mind when you hit the signing party.
This article from the website ehow.com emphasizes that the messages are best when they are heartfelt and funny.
What’s one of the first things you flip back to look at when you dig out your old yearbooks? Your picture? Sure. But most people I know first go back through all those signatures from their friends to see what hilarious words of wisdom were etched on the pages for posterity.
In this article from the Issaquah Press, Stacy Buell from Washington’s Skyline High School reminds readers that getting creative with your signature is important. After all, “How do you say goodbye, tell people you love them and summarize all of high school in one little note?”
The yearbook staff, and all the rest of the students, at Kalamazoo Central High School got to experience one memorable graduation ceremony this week when President Obama spoke at the school’s festivities – an honor the school earned for winning the White House’s Race To The Top High School Commencement Challenge in May.
The ceremony was held on the campus of Western Michigan University, and included an appearance by NBC’s “Today” show host Matt Lauer.
The Yearbooks Blog would like to send out congratulations and good luck wishes to adviser Kenneth Henderson from Florida’s Tarpon Springs High School, who is retiring this year after 31 years as a yearbook adviser.
This article from the St. Petersburg Times recaps some of Henderson’s career highlights, and quotes some of his former students on the impact Henderson made on their life.
Another great way to generate buzz around your yearbook is through email marketing. Emails are an easy and free way for you to communicate with your school community with minimal effort. And emails have generated amazing results for schools just like yours!
A good time to send yearbook emails is during the week before your Back-to-school/Registration information is distributed, or your Back-to-school event takes place. That is why the time to start thinking about using email marketing is now.
It’s a guideline mentioned often in yearbook circles, but it’s a valuable one usually worth mentioning again – your staff should feature as many different students in the yearbook as possible. Every student featured is more likely to buy.
The yearbook staff at Mount Zion High School in Mt. Zion, Ill., really takes this principle to heart according to this recent article from the Herald-Review.com.
The weekly stream of Tweets from those receiving their yearbooks continues at a fast pace. Yearbooks are definitely still a hot topic of discussion.
@mtish27: I love how everyone is talking about yearbooks! So funny how it always comes up at end of the year.
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