Yearbook staffs from Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kan., and Emporia High School in Emporia, Kan., won the Yearbook Theme Competition at the Missouri Summer Workshop last week at the University of Central Missouri.
The Theme Competition was new to the Missouri workshop this summer. Staffs had the opportunity to enter a theme package into the contest, even if working on one was not part of their workshop plans. Both Blue Valley Northwest and Emporia won a $200 Visa gift card for their yearbook program.
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For generations, the yearbook has been a valued item at Renton High School in suburban Seattle.
In an article from the Renton Reporter, the collection manager of the school’s history museum said back issues of the yearbook are “easily the most requested resource.”
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Chocolate cookies were part of the opening session of the Missouri Summer Workshop at the University of Central Missouri Wednesday.
Similar to the “Minute to Win It” TV show, a staff member from each school put a cookie on their forehead and had one minute to get as many cookies into their mouths as possible. Byron Williams of Hillcrest High School in Springfield, Mo., ate two cookies to win the prize basket of goodies. Maybe his basketball skills helped him, as Williams was a member of Hillcrest’s Missouri Class 5 State championship team in 2010.
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Last week in the Idea File area, we began a new feature called “Why didn’t I think of that?”
Throughout the upcoming school year, this will be the section you can visit to get quick, practical tips and strategies on how to market and sell the yearbook. And the tips won’t just come from us, but from the yearbook staffs out there actually creating their own campaigns.
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The size of your school will only affect the yearbook if you let it – that was the message from David Zinsmeister on Wednesday afternoon during his “Small School – Big Impact” session at Walsworth’s Adviser Academy.
Zinsmeister knows what it is like to produce an award-winning yearbook in a small school. He is adviser of a 160-page yearbook at Manchester High School in North Manchester, Ind., a school of about 400 students.
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Sometimes reunions with old friends happen when you least expect it.
I’m not a yearbook adviser. I didn’t come to the Adviser Academy this week expecting to sit in sessions and learn all about theme, or design trends. I’m a writer in Walsworth’s Marketing Department, so I’ve been here as an observer for the Yearbooks Blog.
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If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound? Or, in yearbook terms… If you spend a year of long hours and hard work on a yearbook and no one buys it, was all that time wasted?
The Yearbook Marketing sessions at the Adviser Academy this week offered a great opportunity for advisers to learn creative ways to sell books to students and parents.
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Walsworth’s Adviser Academy moved into its second day on Tuesday with half of the group in attendance making the bus trip up the road from Kansas City to Marceline/Brookfield, Mo., for a tour of Walsworth’s Printing and Bindery facilities.
The rest of the advisers stayed back at the Plaza Marriott to dive into more educational sessions. Topics on the morning agenda included classes on InDesign, Walsworth’s Online Design program, photojournalism and a round table for yearbook critiques.
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Chronological yearbooks. Yearbooks with zero to seven sections. Yearbooks with only feature stories and photos.
These were some of the current trends in yearbook mentioned in the Adviser Academy’s Tad of Fad session on Monday afternoon. Led by Susan Massy, adviser at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Shawnee, Kan., and David Zinsmeister, adviser at Manchester High School in North Manchester, Ind., the session showed and discussed examples of new and timeless design trends.
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Yearbook advisers at Walsworth’s Adviser Academy got some valuable tips on ways to keep the staff motivated on Monday afternoon in the session “Yearbook = Fun… or at least it should be.”
Walsworth sales rep Keith Hughey, a former yearbook adviser for seven years, outlined some strategies to help keep the yearbook students energized throughout the course of the year.
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