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Don't miss out on our valuable webinar series on fundraising topics!

Fundraising 2.0: Quick & Easy Ways to Attract Online Donors

The recording and presentation slides – plus the Fundraiser’s Guide – from our Webinar, “Fundraising 2.0: Quick & Easy Ways to Attract Online Donors” are now available online. This Webinar is focused on how your school or district can easily create an online presence to:

• Reach more donors willing to support your fundraising efforts
• Maximize the reach of your current fundraising programs
• Create new avenues for local businesses to provide financial support
• Automate donations and reports

You’ll learn how simple it can be to leverage readily available online tools to create a Web site for collecting donations and promoting your school or district fundraising programs. You’ll also hear success stories and suggestions for maximizing your efforts to improve your school’s bottom line.

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Did you miss our previous webinars? You can view them on-demand by following these links:

Drive New Revenue for Your School & District with Partnership Marketing
Through the implementation of partnership marketing strategies, cities, communities, schools and universities are effectively managing their budget issues. At this Webinar, you'll learn how the City of Long Beach, CA, leveraged its access to the private sector to raise critically needed funds through a partnership with Coca-Cola, and how schools and districts like yours can create fundraising partnerships with long-term benefits.
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How to Boost School Funds, Fitness and Community Support
This webinar focuses on how your school/district can partner with athletic events to:

• Raise funds to supplement your school budget
• Promote fitness and an active lifestyle to your students and faculty
• Enhance morale and unity among staff and faculty
• Partner with local businesses to drive both participation and financial support

You’ll learn how simple it can be to build relationships with non-profit and corporate partners, promote participation, raise money and awareness, and develop community outreach.
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Featured WebStore of the Month

Tesoro High School, Santa Marguerita, CA

Check out our featured WebStore Tesoro Shop!

New WebStores set up in the last month:

Lindhurst High School
Natomas Park Elementary
Lompoc High School

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Featured WebStore Administrator

Tesoro High School, Santa Marguerita, CA
Jim Paulos & Candace Woodson

Congratulations to Jim Paulos and Candace Woodson at Tesoro High School for being the October WebStore of the month. This duo of Activities Advisor and Activities Clerk have worked together to make their WebStore a huge success at their school. In October, they used their store to collect donations for their Tesoro Tech program and have raised over $4,000 in online donations. They also used their store for their Homecoming Dance ticket sales. Here’s what Jim has to say about his WebStore experiences thus far:

Main Benefits:
“Our ActiveEducate WebStore has been a strong, tangible tool that we’ve utilized throughout the year to help deliver our Tesoro High School brand to our local community. Our community was asking for the option to pay by credit card for certain school events and items and now we are able to meet their needs and increase school awareness.”

“I did not fully realize the potential of our WebStore until a unique opportunity presented itself months ago. After sending my ActiveEducate contact, Julie Halladay, roses to celebrate the great success of our WebStore during our school's 2009 registration, a revelation was realized. I found comparisons to the roses and our WebStore. Both the roses and WebStore provide a gratifying overall experience to the end user and both enhance the end user's perception of the message that is trying to be delivered. What are the differences you ask? Unlike the roses, your ActiveEducate WebStore will never die, wilt, or fade away — it will be working for you 24/7 in order to get the attention of your target audience while doing so with tact, class and respectability.”

Building Awareness:
“In 2008, we were able to win an online domain name auction to secure the web address TesoroShop.com which we had strived to get since our school first opened. This investment has allowed us to not only promote the stand alone WebStore but rather gave us the opportunity to develop a brand name on and amongst our campus. Instead of saying, "Go online to buy at the WebStore" our students, parents and staff just refer to it as "TesoroShop or TesoroShop.com." This brand is pushed online via our other websites, on the school's marquee, our school's news broadcasts and during school–wide presentations such as Freshmen Orientation and Back To School night.”

WebStore Potential:
“Everything from transportation fees, testing, tickets, donations and spirit items have been added to our WebStore. We are always in the process of expanding our product base. Make sure you are getting the most out of your investment when it comes to using the WebStore. There are many hidden features and possibilities that are just waiting to be tapped into. Make sure that your WebStore and roses count!”

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Technical Support News

New Training Video: Account Creation

One of the most frequently asked questions we hear concerns how WebStore accounts are created. We hope to make this easier for you and your users by offering a helpful new video tutorial, Account Creation, to teach you all about how student logins and parent accounts are created.

You can view this new video by going to your Tracks software then clicking Management – WebStore – Video Library/Resources – Video Library.

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Technical phone support will be taking a break this Thanksgiving, and only limited emergency support will be available on Thanksgiving Day (November 26) and the day after (November 27). Our normal business hours will resume on Monday, November 30, 2009.

Our offices will also be closed from December 21, 2009 – January 1, 2010. For emergency support, customers may call the same regular support line at 1.888.490.1555 and you will be given an option to reach emergency support. Selecting that option will forward you to our answering service, which then contacts one of our staff on-call.

Additionally, the ActiveEducate Account Management offices will be closed over the Thanksgiving weekend, and will be closing for the holidays December 21, 2009, through January 1, 2010. Please contact your Account Manager with any time-sensitive issues before December 18, 2009.

If you have any feedback on your Technical Support experience, your wait-time, or our new support queues, please email Support.BlueBear@activenetwork.com.

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Give Me a Shortcut! Series Part 3 – Tracks Settings for the Work Screen

Give Me a Shortcut! Series Parts 1 & 2 - SchoolBooks Settings

We hope you’ve had a chance to visit our blog. We’re posting new information weekly and monitoring the blog daily so we can reply to any questions or comments you post. Visit The Blue Bear Blog at http://bluebearsoftware.blogspot.com/.

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Team Member Spotlight

Jennifer Mitchell, QA Analyst

Jennifer is a QA Analyst for Blue Bear software products at ActiveEducate. Her role involves testing new and modified Blue Bear programs to ensure that the functions are working properly and according to customer requirements. Not only does Jennifer demonstrate initiative and competence, she has fast become one of the most respected and productive team members in just the few short months that she’s been a part of the Active family.

Just for fun: When she’s not perfecting software programs, Jennifer can be found cooking, practicing yoga, playing video games or just relaxing at the beach. Thanks for all your hard work, Jennifer!

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