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New blog design launched

January 22nd, 2012

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We’ve updated the blog design and layout to better match the recently re-designed home page for TeamPages.  We’re hoping you find this version not only easier on the eyes, but much easier to navigate and search for older (and still useful) content.

In addition to the updating design, we’ll also be posting more frequently about product updates, how-to’s and interesting things we notice in the world of sports administration and new media.  So stay tuned and let us know what you think about the new site by commenting below.

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Top 5 Reasons Why I Love the Holiday Season

December 23rd, 2011

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Here’s what I love most about the holiday season:

  1. Reconnecting with the family back in Toronto
  2. The copious amounts of home cooked awesomeness, particularly my mother’s beef welllington
  3. Watching the NBA on Christmas Day
  4. The opportunity to bring joy through small gestures
  5. Reflecting on the highlights of the past year and getting stoked on the great things to come in the new

Thinking about the past year at TeamPages, we’re pretty excited to have released our new Online Form Builder, and we hope that you all enjoy it too.  Also, to date, the TeamPages family has grown to  60,000 strong, including teams, clubs, leagues and associations. We’ve had a good year, and look forward to the awesome things to come in 2012 – there is already some buzz around TeamPages going mobile so stay tuned!

From the TeamPages family,  we wish you all a happy holidays to you and yours!

What do you love most about the holiday season?

(P.S.  For more on TeamPages’ Online Form Builder check out our Online Form Builder FAQ)

Best,

Mark

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Customizing your Site Navigation using Menus and Pages

December 23rd, 2011

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Strategic content management and simple navigation are essential in ensuring that your members and website viewers get the information they need with the ease of a few clicks of the mouse.

TeamPages Menus and Pages allow club and league administrators to customize their website navigation as they see fit and allow them to manage website interaction, specifically the desired  action path of their users.  As a sports club/league, communicating your information efficiently to your members and the general public is paramount – Menus and Pages gives club and league administrators the freedom to design the flow of information of their TeamPage and how it is received by their target audience. With this navigation tool you’re able to customize your top and side navigational areas with the ability to create categories and drop-down menus, giving you the power to efficiently sort and communicate your content as needed.

Check out how the Bishop Eustace Prepaptory School has customized their site navigation to suit the needs of their rowing membership, and manage the general user experience.

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Looking for advice on how to best manage the content of your site and to learn how you can customize your website navigation?

Shoot us an email at support@teampages.com to schedule a short webinar and consultation for your TeamPage with our one of our dedicated account managers.

Best,

Mark

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TeamPages and LeagueMVP – Scheduling Solutions for League Administrators

December 7th, 2011

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Rolling out your schedule for your league is one of the most critical tasks when it comes to managing your  league online. Our friends over at LeagueMVP have created a sweet scheduling app that use can use with your TeamPage that will ensure your scheduling is done right and with incredible ease. Check out our feature blog post by our friends over at LeagueMVP and start your free trial!

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“Running a league is often a thankless juggling act that requires an administrator to wear many hats from treasurer, negotiator, facilitator to organizer. Once all teams have been signed up, players registered and fields booked, the onerous task of preparing a schedule that will keep everyone happy awaits. Scheduling is a difficult process in of itself with many factors to account for: field availability, even match-ups, multiple divisions, team preferences and distribution of the schedule. We’ve launched LeagueMVP to help league administrators quickly create schedules that address these issues in a reasonable amount of time with a lot less effort than a mountain of paper drafts. Additionally, we’ve been able to integrate with your TeamPages account to be able to both jumpstart the process of creating a schedule and subsequently import that schedule into your league account. The best part of LeagueMVP is that trying it is free – you don’t pay for a schedule until you are happy with it and ready to publish it to PDF, Excel or TeamPages export format. Scheduling needs vary from league to league and we’d like to help as many people as possible with their specific scheduling scenarios. We encourage you to give us a try today and provide your feedback on the site if you see something we haven’t accounted for. We’d like to thank the guys as TeamPages for their generous support and assistance in integrating with LeagueMVP and for allowing us to address their users via their blog”

Thanks, LeagueMVP!

Let me know what your thoughts on LeagueMVP and their scheduling app!

Best,

Mark Aquino

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Great Ways to Showcase your TeamPage with Style

December 6th, 2011

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I came across the site www.photosnack.com about a week ago while trying to find a great photo slideshow app/widget for one of our clients, and I have to say I’m a HUGE fan.

Photosnack is a super easy way to create your own slideshow  that you can embed into your TeamPage.  They offer up 24 great slideshow templates to choose from, all of which are visually impressive.  The best part is,  no coding is necessary! You literally select the photos you want, choose your template, then copy and paste the IFrame code into your TeamPage as a custom widget.  That’s it! Photosnack is an awesome way to highlight those amazing plays of the year and to showcase your sponsors with visual flare. Did I mention that this is absolutely free to use?

Check out the slideshows I created for my TeamPage below and view it in full affect at:  www.marksbaseballteam.teampages.com

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But wait… it gets better!

Photosnack is a web app offered by Snacktools that provides a simple way to create and publish rich media widgets that you can use for your TeamPage. Try creating your own banner and even your own video playlist/reel!

Check out www.snacktools.com and add some dynamic visuals to your TeamPage to give it professional finish that will engage your members and make your website more sticky.

Here are some ideas on how to use Snacktools to give your TeamPage a face-lift.

  • Create a slideshow to showcase your sponsors and those game winning moments
  • Create a video reel/playlist of team highlights, sports drills, and bloopers
  • Create a team banner to give your site a professional look and feel.

(Adding custom widgets like the above require a TeamPro account, another great reason to upgrade now!)

And in case you need a refresher on embedding widgets:  http://blog.teampages.com/2010/05/tutorials/how-to-embed-a-widget

And in spirit of the Season, the first 5 people to shoot me an email about this blog post will receive  a TeamPage consultation and face-lift using Snacktools!

Email me at mark.aquino@teampages.com

Best,

Mark

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Update: Photo Uploader is Fixed… and it’s Faster too!

October 13th, 2011

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You’ll be happy to know that the photo uploader has been fixed with some added improvements. You may have noticed some time delays with your photos appearing in the album after the initial upload; now you can view your photos almost instantly!

Now you can get back to uploading your photos and sharing all your great highlights/moments with your team, family and friends.

Thanks for your patience all!

Sincerely,

The TeamPages Fam