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Unless you are hosting a one time event or tournament every organization has some form of “seasons”. In the class and event space we might call them sessions. Our next webinar shares best practices recommendations for how to easily and simply build your next season.

Some of the topics we’ll be covering include:
-Determining key dates and prices before you start
-Copying from last last season or session
-Archieving prior seasons or sessions
-Website clean-up and update
-Webstore clean-up and update
-Using newsletters to generate demand

This new webinar series focuses on the best practices “how to’s” that are more about process than features. Please join us for a discussion and demonstration of some best practices that we’ve learned from helping thousands of different organizations over the past 10 years. We know these can benefit your organization today.

The format is about 45 minutes reviewing the items then about 15 minutes answetring questions. We promise it will be a good use of one hour of your time!

Date: Wednesday December 15, 2010
Time: 12pm PDT
Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/510642849 
Space is limited.

Game and practice scheduling is a difficult job. Get it right and someone else might volunteer to do it next year. Get it wrong and 237 unhappy people will call, text, email and facebook you. As the scheduler you know that mother nature is not your friend so when she decides to rain out your weekend you need tools to help. Scheduling is also getting more complicated with many sports competing for limited fields so maximizing the use of every available slot is key. And fields get more expensive every year so only renting what you need is super important.

There are many ways that Rainier helps schedulers. First, we have a Schedule Builder that allows you to quickly and easily schedule practices, games and other events. Set the season, the number of games per week you want to play, the order of your preferred fields and push a button. You can keep tweaking the settings iuntil you get what you need. Second, you can import schedules using Excel. For inter-club play this is the typical way schedules are received. And of course it’s easy for you to export your own schedules to others using Excel. Both ways will ensure fields and coaches are not double booked. Third, we provide a number of tools such as field use reports, drag and drop rescheduling including notification and settings to conduct more than one practice on the same field.

Once schedules are completed one mouse click sends them out to all coaches and players and another publishes them to the appropriate Team Pages. Schedules can be reprinted from the Team Pages so you don’t have to resend them constantly. And the schedules include maps with driving directions.

I gave this webinar on June 9, 2010 and recorded it so you can replay and share it with others. Here is the link to the recording https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/213833553. Please post your comments!

Terry Drayton (http://www.linkedin.com/in/terrydrayton)

Being a coach or team parent is hard work! Managing your teams practices, games, snack schedules, supplies, volunteers and players is a daunting task. And parents are really understanding when something goes wrong. Some weeks just making sure enough players show up at the right field to play is a herculean accomplishment.

It takes a tremendous amount of time that stresses even the most understanding spouse. Well it doesn’t have to be that way! Rainier Team Pages are great as they do most of the administrative and communications work for you. That frees you up to actually spend time coaching! Team Pages are another first, best or only (“FBO”) feature or service from Rainier.

Team Pages include the following features:
-reprintable rosters (including ability to email individual or all)
-reprintable schedules (including maps and driving directions)
-a team message board
-a listing of all the coaches, etc.for all the other teams (with contact info)
-team photo and video upload and display
-team document upload and reprinting (eg, snack schedule)
-team scoreboard

There are also automatic Team Page notifications that are sent out each week to all your team members (volunteers, players and parents). These include any games, practices or other events scheduled for the upcoming week. They include locations with maps and driving directions available.

So instead of answering 20 calls and emails each day, printing rosters and schedules for re-distribution each week your team can do it all themselves. And then your spouse will stop cheering the other team on to win the end-of-season tournament – so you’ll be DONE and can come home!

I gave this webinar on June 23, 2010 and recorded it so you can replay or share it with others. Here is the link
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/117968056 

Please post your comments so we can improve the team pages.

Terry Drayton (http://www.linkedin.com/in/terrydrayton)