It feels as though we just released the new-look TeamPages (I guess it was only a month ago), but our development team has done it again!  They have been hard at work making TeamPages Pro a reality and since our beta release last night, we are overwhelmed with the feedback and support we’ve already received.

TeamPages Pro is a result of the many emails, messages and phone calls we receive daily from our community requesting features, reporting bugs and working with us to make TeamPages even better.  Many of you who read this blog regularly, contribute to our forums and contact us with suggestions, might notice your accounts have been upgraded automatically to the Pro version.  We hope you enjoy your free 1-year subscription and continue to update us with your success stories.  If you’re reading this and wondering where your free upgrade is, please contact me at derek.story@teampages.com as we’re giving away free upgrades during the first week.

Some of the new features now available with TeamPages Pro include:

• Custom header colors
• Custom pages and links
• Sponsor show case section
• Sub-domains (also available on TeamPages Basic)
• Unlimited photo and document uploads
• Printer friendly rosters, schedules and game sheets

If you haven’t already checked out the new TeamPages Pro, click here to see how it compares. Still not sure? We enjoy talking on the phone too, so feel free to contact us at our customer support number 1-800-500-7203.

Thanks and keep playing,

Derek at TeamPages

 We’d like to say thank you to all of our members and all the great feedback we’ve received.  Based on much of your feedback, our designers and developers have been hard at work creating a fresh new look for TeamPages that will help everyone navigate the site more easily.

All the features are still there (schedules, announcements, rosters, site admin, message boards, etc.) but some will have a more modern look and feel.  Let us know what you think about the new design by taking a short survey:

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB2283F6CTQKN

To learn more about the changes we’ve made to TeamPages, check out our updated Tour section for select screen shots and detailed functionality.

Even though we’ve just released TeamPages 2.0, we’re always interested to learn what you would like to see TeamPages do.  Find the Forum we’ve dedicated to TeamPages feature requests where each week we’ll be holding contests and giving away cool TeamPages shwag for people who post suggestions and feature requests.

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 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.

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.

Many of our members have asked for this after testing out our soccer, basketball and hockey stats. Give baseball stats a try and let us know what you and your team think; we’re always eager to hear about ways to improve our features, especially the newly released ones.

Our forums are a great place to post your comments and let others build on them. This often generates great ideas that we’ve never heard or thought of. So what are you waiting for? Get your ideas heard, and let’s make TeamPages easier and more fun together.

We’ve recently added the ability to enter player stats on TeamPages!

Where to find them:

The first sports to try out this new feature include soccer, basketball, hockey and lacrosse. Baseball and Softball are in the works, so look out for them sometime this month.

How to use them:

To edit or add new game statistics click the “edit scores and statistics” link next to recently played games. Once entered, you can view all player stats for the season by clicking the “stats” link located in the player section of your TeamPage. Here is a screen shot of what you’re getting.

In addition to statistics, we have made a few tweaks and added more functionality to your TeamPage. These include:

• printable views of schedules and roster lists
• event photo albums that automatically link to your TeamPage
• easier ways to find your friends on TeamPages
• the ability to delete teams

It’s our goal to continuously make TeamPages more fun and useful, so if you have any feedback about these or any other features on TeamPages, please don’t hesitate to send us an email to support@teampages.com or call us directly at 1-800-500-7203.

As I prepare for the launch of the new TeamPages Blog, many questions run through my head. What makes a good blog? How do I engage the readers? What should I write about? I read blog after blog searching for the eternal blog truth, the blog of all blogs, the answer to the question of blog life and yet I still feel as though this answer is nowhere in sight. Then I come across a book called The Corporate Blogging Book by Debbie Weil and I try and absorb as much helpful information as humanly possible. Some of the tips tell me to write a blog entry as if I was writing to my mother, some tell me to be informative and introduce topics that will spark a discussion, some tell me not to use puffery or PR and to just be myself.

Well world here I am, the community development manager for TeamPages, and gosh darn it I intend to develop the TeamPages community. As Babe Ruth once said “don’t let the fear of striking out get in your way.” So here is the epiphany I have made for this blog entry. The answer to the eternal blog truth is YOU!

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