Yale university reaches partnership with YearBookAlive

December 7^th, 2009 – Vancouver, Canada – YearBookAlive is proud to announce a partnership with one of the world’s most prestigious educational institutions, Yale University. Yale, the famous Ivy League school whose alumni includes five U.S. Presidents and nineteen U.S. Supreme Court Judges, have chosen YearBookAlive as the exclusive yearbook publisher for the Master in Hospital and Healthcare Administration (MHA) program at Jimma University, which was established by the collaborative efforts of The Yale School of Public Health, Jimma University, and the Ethiopian Ministry of Health

The MHA program, part of Yale’s Global Health Initiative, is an executive program that aims to improve the management capacity of hospital administrators in Ethiopia, Africa and improve the quality and efficiency of its public hospitals. It’s the first graduate degree-level program to train health care managers in Ethiopia, an establishment that is paramount to improving the health care system in Ethiopia and on the African continent.

YearBookAlive gives the program’s students a multimedia experience that captures their training and education in a fun and interactive way. By using YearBookAlive to document things like events, projects and thesis work, director of the MHA program and Professor of Public Health at Yale Elizabeth Bradley, Ph. D. believes it’ll heighten “levels of networking and knowledge-sharing between students and the entire health professional community” and “allow for students to highlight their personal achievements and the progress made in their respective hospitals.”

YearBookAlive founder and CEO Ruthy Navon stated, “I’m very pleased and proud to have reached a partnership with such an esteemed institution. We’ve worked with hundreds of highly respected schools to produce quality yearbooks, and Yale is certainly the most renowned. We look forward to a long and mutually satisfying partnership.”

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Budget cuts force schools to get Interactive

November 16^th, 2009 ­– Vancouver, Canada – YearBookAlive (www.yearbookalive.com), the worldwide leader in digital yearbook software, has launched their newest software release in an effort to aid ailing school budgets. Cuts to education budgets across North America have forced schools to look for new and innovative ways to raise funds and avoid grave deficits. Without supplementary funding many schools each year have to cancel programs, lay off instructors or close down entirely. The newspapers are full of heartbreaking stories about schools that have had to make tough decisions in order to save some money:

• In Wisconsin, Crestwood High School can’t afford to bring their cheerleaders or band along for out of town football games.

• In California, Desert Hot Springs High School has had to take its school buses off the road, leaving some students with a two hour walk to school.

• In Michigan, some teachers have been asked to pay more for their health insurance.

• In Hawaii, Molokai High School has had to shorten its school year to save money by closing its doors every other Friday.

• These are only some of the stories that are appearing in our newspapers everyday.

Traditional fundraising events like bake sales, walkathons and car washes are attracting fewer and fewer donations because people are holding onto their money more tightly during the current economic instability. And the problem extends beyond the public school system. Colleges and Universities across the continent are finding it increasingly difficult to operate at a profit. Recently, Baruch College in New York declared that it couldn’t even afford to have yearbooks printed for their graduates. They currently owe their yearbook publisher, Jostens, $17,200, an amount they simply cannot afford.

With so many obstacles to overcome, forward thinking schools are looking to technology for ideas and have found that publishing memories in the form of photos, video and music through digital yearbooks and scrapbooks is a fun, interactive way to raise some significant money.

YearBookAlive has partnered with over four-hundred schools from the United States, Canada, UK, Hong Kong, Australia, Hungary and dozens of others countries and helped them raise funds through their annual yearbook. Recently, the New York Military Academy as well as US Military forces based in Iran have partnered with YearBookAlive to preserve their memories of training and fighting for their country.

Traditional yearbooks are expensive to produce. Not only is printing costly, but the time and effort required to compile and format a yearbook is significant. Digital yearbooks are much cheaper and easier to create. With YearBookAlive, schools pay an annual licensing fee of $499 USD and are free to produce as many copies of their yearbook as they like. Consider this example: after factoring in the cost of software and CD’s or DVD’s, a school of 900 students selling the yearbook for $15 each, would make over $12,000 in profit! So not only are schools saving money by cutting out the exorbitant printing costs of a traditional yearbook, they’re also raising money by selling their new digital yearbooks for a much higher profit.

YearBookAlive founder and CEO, Ruthy Navon, started the company in 1999 when her children were still in school. "As a mother of three children, I have always been involved with helping schools raise money. I noticed that printed yearbooks captured only a fraction of what really happened during the entire school year. Thousands of pictures and videos were archived, but there was no way to share them. With YearbookAlive, schools now have an easy to use solution that captures more memories and helps them raise money at the same time."

Where some schools are really cashing in though, is by not only using YearBookAlive to create their annual yearbook, but also as a way to create and share other events throughout the school year that may interest their students. Big events like class trips, dances, academic achievements or sports championships can all be captured on a disc and sold to students as a way to preserve memories while raising funds. The same goes for clubs, sports teams, or any other special interest group. Anything and everything associated with the school year is acceptable for use. Essentially, the potential for fundraising is limitless. And because there are no strict publishing deadlines with the software, schools are able to capture events late in the school year, like exams, prom and graduation and include them in their yearbook.

Despite the upside, some schools just aren’t ready to fully break from tradition and begin adopting digital yearbooks altogether. Some of these schools have found success in producing a yearbook that includes a digital supplement. Publishing a pared down yearbook and accompanying it with a CD or DVD of photos, videos and music that ensures memories are saved and production costs are minimized.

Using YearBookAlive is very simple and intuitive. Schools can choose from a variety of professionally built style templates or a custom template with their own school logo and then add thousands of photos and hours of video and music to create unique, stylish yearbooks that can be copied to CD or DVD. In fact, YearBookAlive is the only yearbook company that gives the schools the power to create and publish their own yearbooks, whereas other companies charge a fee to produce the CD or DVD copies.

Since launching in 1999, YearBookAlive has established itself as the leader in digital yearbook software. YearBookAlive is a smart, simple, stylish way to keep your cherished memories alive. Headquartered in British Columbia, Canada, YearBookAlive is on the web at: www.yearbookalive.com.

If you’d like more information about YearBookAlive, please contact Ruthy Navon by phone at 1-604-277-7759 or email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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YEARBOOKALIVE UNVEILS LATEST SOFTWARE, WORLDWIDE LEADER

IN DIGITAL YEARBOOK SOFTWARE

Software Offers Ideal Solution for School Fundraising Efforts During Trying Times

September 22, 2009 — Vancouver, Canada — With school now in session, YearBookAlive (www.yearbookalive.com), today released updated software providing a simple digital yearbook solution for teachers and students to keep all their treasured photos and videos taken throughout the year. Used by schools around the world, YearBookAlive was originally created as a supplement to a printed yearbook to reduce publication costs and to provide a simplified way to save all of their digital memories.

YearBookAlive is a valuable tool to raise money for schools and organizations. Fund raising is easy with YearBookAlive multi media projects because there are no royalty costs and it requires only a single annual license. Digital yearbooks provide a less expensive way to save and share memories. Rather than spending thousands of dollars on expensive printed yearbooks, schools can raise thousands of dollars with minimal effort.

"As a mother of three children, I have always been involved with helping school’s raise money. I noticed that printed yearbook memories were only a fraction of what really happened during the entire school year. Thousands of pictures and videos were archived but with no way to share them,” commented Ruthy Navon, YearBookAlive founder and CEO. “With YearbookAlive, schools now have an easy to use solution that captures more memories and helps them raise money at the same time."

In only three simple steps, students and teachers can create multimedia projects, such as digital yearbooks, school sporting events, school fairs, etc. Given the wide variety of software solutions for digital yearbooks on the market today, YearBookAlive is the easiest and quickest software to implement with no technical training or costs.

Users purchase the software for $499 and can use it as often as they wish and for as many projects as they need for one year. The new software includes increased functionality of their traditional yearbook:

• Import thousands of pictures, hours of video and music;

• unlimited interactive multimedia projects;

• unlimited categories names;

• a variety of professional designed templates

In addition, YearBookAlive re-launches its website, YearBookalive.com. The site features a new layout and design which allows users to easily navigate and also provides helpful fundraising ideas for schools and organizations.

Cost:

· Free full feature download available at www.yearbookalive.com

· Retail price: $499 no royalty charge for CD/ DVD’s

About YearBookAlive:

Since their launch in 1999, YearBookAlive remains a leading digital yearbook software company. YearBookAlive is a smart, simple, stylish way to keep your cherished memories alive. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, YearBookAlive is on the Web at: www.yearbookalive.com