How do you create a yearbook cover for a 6.8-inch screen?
But wait, why would you want to do that? Isn’t a yearbook cover typically 8 ½ x 11 inches big? Well… yes, but things are changing, the world has gone digital, and so has your yearbook. There are all kinds of new things to think about, like adding videos to your content, taking more pictures […]
My Yearbook May Be Gone, But Yearboxx is Here
The yearbook is a collection of pictures and text that celebrates a very important year in the life of students. In June of 1890, Central High School, in Minneapolis, delivered to their students, what was at the time, a very new product… a yearbook! The concept of preserving school memories took off, becoming a beloved […]
Searching for a DIGITAL YEARBOOK
Do a Google/Bing/Spotlight search for – Digital Yearbook – and you will get ten pages of search results. Of course, keep going past page ten and what I will be discussing below just keeps occurring. I ran out of steam at page twenty-two, so I’ll focus on the first search page. Who typically goes past […]
Will your students be safe using a Digital Yearbook?
NYC is VERY SERIOUS about students’ online security! To work with any of the 1600 schools in NY, acompany must go through the most comprehensive certification process in the nation. It took us eightcomplicated months to achieve this certification.YearBoxx is also VERY SERIOUS about student security. How serious? AWS (Amazon Web Service) hosts our backend. […]
When was the last time I saw my yearbook? Um…
‘Where’s your yearbook?’ I have asked hundreds of people. Top three answers: Let’s agree that most print yearbooks are currently in a box. A few years from now, were that question asked an aging Gen Z’er, the three top answers may be: Okay, we have established why someone may want two yearbooks. One, apparently to […]
Unlimited Pages… Unlimited Memories… Full Inclusion
A number of years ago I was visiting with one of my advisors when a yearbook staff member came over and asked her if the sewing club was going to be in the yearbook this year. My advisor winced. This young woman had asked the same question last year. Ms. Kelly’s uncomfortable response was “Not […]
An Ode to Yearbook Advisors
A kinda sad fact… many Yearbook Advisors have to be coerced into being the Yearbook Advisors! “How could this be” you ask? Well, let’s parse this. Taking on the yearbook is like running a small business. Here are a few of the things to do list for a Yearbook Advisor: If you were aware of […]
Why Hasn’t the Print Yearbook Industry Created a PROPER Digital Yearbook?
Let me answer that with a personal story. As has been addressed in at least one other blog, I have been in the print yearbook industry since 1976 as a Sales Representative. That’s a long time to be in one job. Why didn’t I ‘move up’ or even ‘move over’ to a new job? Because […]
No Deadlines
WOW… no deadlines… REALLY? Most of my schools missed their print yearbook deadline, some by a lot. Deadlines are the most stress-producing issue for yearbook staff and especially for our beloved yearbook advisor. When deadlines are missed, bad things happen. From sleepless nights as editors/advisors try to figure out how to catch up, to doing […]
The Yearboxx Video
Question: How can you ‘watch’ your Yearbook? Answer: By embedding video in it! Ok, I am presenting a somewhat unfair comparison between a YearBoxx and a Print Yearbook. To get a short video into a print Yearbook, the only way to do it is using a QR code which will require the user to take […]