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How to Avoid Procrastination with Your Committee During the Holiday Season

The holiday time is exciting! It is a time for parties and gifts and upcoming vacations. It’s also a time when most of us like to “loosen our belts” and tend to lose focus on everyday tasks and goals. That includes the yearbook committee. So how can you keep your...

16 Dec

Why a Yearbook is Still Important in the Digital Age

Yes, with Facebook, Instagram and the internet many think that a yearbook isn’t a necessity for students anymore. They think all their moments and excitement during the school year can be captured and looked at within a social network on a mobile device. While that is...

8 Dec

Creating a Yearbook Without a Big Team or Committee

A yearbook is a keepsake that every student will cherish for the rest of his or her life. That is why it is important that a lot of thought and teamwork is put in for making it great. Unfortunately though, not every school has a volunteer yearbook committee to design...

24 Nov

Determining Your School Yearbook Title

While the theme and content make up the most important parts of the class yearbook, a title is still very important. That is because in many instances the book won’t be referred to as the class yearbook but by its title. So what makes for a good title? Here are some...

19 Nov

Yearbook Writing Assignments for Students

A major part to the body of the class yearbook is writing stories. These stories are important as they first-handily talk about experiences and memories that occurred during the class’s graduation year. Unfortunately though, not every student is a chatterbox and...

12 Nov

Tips for Conducting Great Interviews for a Yearbook

A major part of a class yearbook is the interview section. It is here where the yearbook committee selects various students, perhaps the valedictorian or class president, and asks them a series of questions that will then be published in the yearbook. As a yearbook...

3 Nov

The Benefits of Infographics in Yearbooks

Did you know it takes humans just 150 milliseconds for a symbol to be processed and 100 milliseconds to attach a meaning to it? All of us, including students are visual people. Infographics are graphic visual representations of data that are intended to present...

27 Oct

Where to Find Inspiration For Your Class Yearbook

When a yearbook committee comes together to create your class yearbook a lot of decisions needs to be made. One very important element that can help dictate the overall outcome of the book is where the inspiration is found. So where do you turn to find that lasting...

22 Oct

Using Facebook To Sell Yearbook Advertising Space

Looking for advertisers can definitely be a challenge at times for any yearbook committee. Who should you reach out too? How do you get in front of the decision makers? Will it be awkward? Remember, yearbook staff members aren’t professional salesmen and women. They...

13 Oct

How To Keep To Yearbook Deadlines

While creating a yearbook is a long process, before you know it the school year could be coming to an end and it is time to hand out your class yearbooks. There is nothing worse than it being “hand out day” and your book isn’t ready. That is why it is extremely...

8 Oct