sponsor-ed reaches 100 schools

On the morning of June 29, not long after school number 99 went live, Box Hill High School was bestowed the honour of being sponsor-ed's 100th.  And as with all milestones, there was an award and an excited recipient, Kate Mitchell Principal pictured here receiving a digital camera kindly donated by Richard Robertson MD of Ted's Camera's

(left to right Denis Masseni sponsor-ed, Susan Cooper Business Manager Box Hill High, Kate Mitchell and Eamonn Rimmer of sponsor-ed) more....

I am sponsor-ed's Communication Manager and my role is to help schools get the most out of their website to best connect schools with their communities. We think schools are a great resource to help foster the relationship between people and the new digital frontier. Renée has a dedicated page on the sponsor-ed corporate website 'OK Renée'. It has articles, advice on how to get the most out of your website and lists of useful web links. Click here to find out more.
 

I started writing articles in preparation of the first sponsor-ed newsletter back in April - I know, I've been avoiding it. I wanted to write about Twitter the micro-blogging site that was and still is all the buzz. Well back in April with around 15 million users worldiwde I thought we were going to see our first high profile social networking fizzer. I was very skeptical regarding its actual utility and purpose, I found the notion of knowing what people were up to kind of irrelevant more....

Denis Masseni - Director

The revenue you generate is a function of the number of visits to your website. One of the easiest ways of growing your pageviews is to ask your community to make the website their homepage. All people have to do to make this happen is to press the big orange button found in the top right hand corner of the school site (an extra step may be required for browsers other than Internet Explorer). That’s it!

We are very pleased to announce that sponsor-ed has in fact become a sponsor itself – sponsor of the Victorian Principals Association. The strength of membership of the VPA will certainly help propel our message right across the state. We also see a great opportunity to work with people in the VPA to help us keep across issues effecting schools advising us on how our web solution can play a role.

Our sponsorship of the VPA is a commitment to our investment in the education sector ensuring schools has the best communications tools available in the digital arena. We see that this sponsorship will benefit not only the VPA and sponsor-ed, but the entire school community including parents, teacher and students.

Almost all sponsor-ed schools have moved to an online presentation of their newsletters. Our pilot schools suggested we implement an email reminder to go to parents informing them that the newsletter was now available on the school website. You can see a sample of this at Wattle Park Primary . The email reminder has proved very successful in ensuring that important school news is not missed.

Online newsletters are a huge cost saver. Some preliminary figures suggest that it costs anywhere between $5,000 to $10,000 a year in staff time and printing costs; not to mention the environmental impact. One school we’re working with calculated that they consumed 250,000 pieces of paper per year printing their newsletters.

Go online and save trees - lots of them.

From Monday August 3, 2009, we will have a help desk operating to answer all your technical support issues.

You can email at helpdesk@sponsor-ed.com.au or call 1300 755 010 (follow the prompts); available during business hours.