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How Lake Forest Academy Uses Social Media to Steward Alumni at CASE/NAIS

Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by Angela Marinelli.

Bring your stewardship efforts to the right places If you’re attending this year’s CASE/NAIS Conference don’t miss Jeremiah Stevens, Director of Alumni Relations from Lake Forest Academy, presenting with Travis Warren, President of WhippleHill, on how to use the latest and greatest social media features to steward alumni. The key? Go to where your alumni/ae [...]

A-Z Navigation in Four Easy Steps

Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by Melissa Lavallee, Marketing Coordinator.

How do you create a site visitors dive into? How do you avoid a high bounce rate? A knock ‘em dead home page, you say? While certainly a factor, pulling visitors into your site is a different strategy. Smart, easy-to-use, intuitive site navigation ensures that visitors find what they sought out. It also helps them [...]

Wanted: Your Input on Assignment Notifications

Posted on 23. Jan, 2012 by Jackie Christensen, Product Manager.

Text and email alerts members of your school community can subscribe to as of today: Announcements News Athletic Schedules Updates (Athletic Groups required) Athletic Practices Updates (Athletic Groups required) Alumni Class Notes (Alumni Groups required) What’s Next? For schools who use Academic Groups, wouldn’t it be fantastic if students and parents could be alerted when [...]

4 Reasons Not To Miss Travis’ Video Workshop at CASE/NAIS

Posted on 17. Jan, 2012 by Angela Marinelli.

1. It’s Hands-On. You Participate. Watch a PowerPoint? No thanks. In this video workshop, it’s hands-on learning. With small group instruction you’ll learn how to: Record an alumni interview via Skype; process it, edit it, and post it Produce shot videos Use your phone to make great videos Set up Live streaming Repurpose old alumni [...]

How Notifications Can Impact a Teacher’s Life

Posted on 16. Jan, 2012 by Mark Sargent, Product Owner.

The bottom line is this: Notifications and their potential for impacting a teacher’s school life is limitless. As the Product Owner for the Student Information Systems, certain enhancements make me reflect on my time as a teacher and I think, “’Boy, it would have been nice to have that functionality when I was teaching.” What [...]

How to Use Video to Train Your Community

Posted on 10. Jan, 2012 by Melissa Lavallee, Marketing Coordinator.

Check out how Cheshire Academy does it After years of printed training materials and Web site orientation sessions, Cheshire Academy added video tutorials at the start of the 2011 school year. You’ll want to add this practice to your 2012 New Year’s Resolutions. Step 1: Pick Your Most Important Video Topics and Record Using the [...]

A Quick Tutorial of the News Notifications Release

Posted on 09. Jan, 2012 by Jackie Christensen, Product Manager.

Mark your calendars for Monday, January 9th That’s when this release goes live! We are kicking off the new year with fabulous new features for notifications. Features of this Notifications Release: Logged in members of the school community can subscribe to receive e-mail and or text alerts when news stories are posted to your site. [...]

Do You Need the Save Button as a Security Blanket?

Posted on 03. Jan, 2012 by Mark Sargent, Product Owner.

Like Computers We Run on Auto Pilot THIRTY TWO. That is the number of times I attempted to turn on the lights in my house when the power went out back in November. I can’t be the only one who does that. You know the power is out. Yet when you walk into the room [...]

Giving on the Go: Linking Mobile and Online Giving

Posted on 28. Dec, 2011 by Melissa Lavallee, Marketing Coordinator.

“Young alums want everything on their smart phones!” Says Hiram Cuevas, Director of Academic Technology at St. Christopher’s School. While WhippleHill envisions the addition of a mobile-optimized version of online giving pages as a future project, St. Christopher’s decided to take matters into its own hands – now. The school added online giving to its [...]

3 Simple Steps to Set Up Reminders on Sign-In

Posted on 27. Dec, 2011 by Jackie Christensen, Product Manager.

A Reminder to Use Your Built-in Reminder Feature Podium comes with a neat little feature that I suspect many schools forget exists. Ironically, the feature is a fantastic way to remind your parents, students, teachers, staff and alumni to do stuff! Do you need to remind: Employees to turn in their health insurance enrollment forms? [...]

3 Re-SEO-lutions to Start 2012

Posted on 20. Dec, 2011 by Francis McGovern, SEO Manager.

Your School May Close, but Your Website Never Sleeps As 2011 ends and we take a break to celebrate the holidays, many schools shut their doors and close down for a short time. Remember, your website never sleeps. It can be working all the time for you, leading new prospective parents who want to find [...]

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