With the changing of seasons, the TeamPages crew is uprooting from the quaint city we’ve called home for the last two years and taking the ferry over to Vancouver, British Columbia.

As excited as we are to open a new chapter in the TeamPages saga, it’s sometimes difficult to leave behind so many memories that are intrinsically tied to Victoria; the excitement that was bringing TeamPages online, as well as the coziness of Mike’s one-bedroom apartment that doubled as a cramped office for the first year, are a just a couple of things that we won’t soon forget.

Another difficult thing to leave behind is the local sports community here in Victoria.  Without their amazing support and feedback, TeamPages would not be what it is today. It’s our goal to continue growing these relationships while also beginning new ones with many of the local Vancouver leagues and clubs.

All of that said, this summer promises to be an exciting one full of product releases and getting to know our new neighbors.  With a new user interface on the horizon, and a premium service scheduled to be released shortly there after, we’re going to be hard at work in the new office to ensure the transition is both smooth and seamless.  I also know that each of us are searching for new leagues, teams and groups to join.  So if you’re looking for an extra mid-fielder, a climbing partner or someone to trek through Squamish on a mountain bike with, drop us a line because we’re always game.

We recently received an email asking about photo sharing on TeamPages. With many of the changes we’ve been making to personal profiles, it seems that photo sharing and uploading got lost in the confusion. We’d like to point out that in order for your teammates, friends and family to view your personal photo albums, you must make sure both your account settings allow for it and you are displaying the photo panel in your profile.

In addition to the account setup process, this email sparked some more discussion here in the office about photo sharing. The main points that were brought up were:

1. Do we need photo tagging?
2. Do we need to make it easier to publish existing albums and photos from profiles to team pages?

Photo sharing is a features many of our users enjoy, so we feel that our community could help guide us in further developing it. If you have a minute or two, please let us know how you’re using photos (and hey, why not send us a picture of your team in action) as well as anything else TeamPages could do to make that experience easier and more fun.

This past week, the team here ventured out into the cold and battled the elements to host a BBQ for the University of Victoria Intramural program. You wouldn’t think the rain, wind and temperature would play much of a factor in the middle of June but as you can see from the picture below, we were forced to find other ways of staying warm…

This event was the first of many we are planning for the summer.  So if your club is in the greater Vancouver area and has an upcoming tournament or event, send us an email or give us a call and we’ll supply the hot dogs and refreshments.  Until then, make sure to pack some extra layers, because you never know when you’re going to get blind sided by a hail storm (even if it is the middle of June).

This past week we improved the multi-game scheduling tool for league administrators. The most notable new feature is the versatile schedule importer. This tool allows you to upload an entire season to the multi-game scheduler, then provides the flexibility needed to make final changes before posting it to the league page. Click the link below and take a look at a screenshot:

Schedule Uploading Tools

I may be biased but it is much easier to use. I hope you like it too.

If you’re not a league administrator with TeamPages yet, and you would like to try out this new TeamPages feature, give us a call at 1-800-500-7203 or email talk-to-us@teampages.com.

We apologize for the temporary site outage earlier today. All of our hosting services were down, but our IT group worked as quickly as they could to get it back up . We apologize for any inconvenience it caused.

With our much anticipated launch of the new look TeamPages fast approaching, we want to hear from you, our members. So, to encourage more of the great feedback we’ve been receiving recently, each week for the rest of the summer we will be randomly selecting one feedback comment and sending the contributor a customized TeamPages t-shirt.

Don’t know what the write about? Not a problem! Visit our forums at www.teampages.com/forum and comment on one of the many topics we’ve already created. You can also send us an email to talk-to-us@teampages.com or call our toll-free support line at 1-800-500-7203. No matter how you contact us, we want to hear from you…and give away some free schwag at the same time.