 Thank you for joining the Online Chairs/Online Event Managers Group. Use this group to post blogs about your Relay Online experiences. How is your website doing? What are you planning for your website? Do you need help?
You can also start discussions so that other Online Chairs who are members of this group can give you their input. This is a valuable resource that will help you to make your Relay For Life fund-raising website the best it can be.
To create new blogs, forums, etc. just use the tool links in the RIGHT-HAND NAVIGATION bar (should appear above the "In the Spotlight" button).
An entire page full of "how-to" documents for Relay Participants is available
right here: http://www.relayforlife.org/relay/relayonlineresources
I have a participant that registered online and linked her Facebook page. She then went into register another participant and used her information. Somehow her 2 registrations have gotten crossed. She has raised almost $200 so far but it is not showing the right total on her FB page. Got any suggestions as to how to reverse this problem?
Heather Shrewsbury
Online & Team Recruitment Chair
Relay for Life of East Gaston
www.relayforlife.org/eastgaston
hgs137 – March 4, 2010 – 2:55pm
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what is wrong with the forums? I am unable to post responses to any posts. I seems I can post new ones but not responses.
jontjack – January 30, 2010 – 1:25pm
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i was wondering if anyone had more instructions on the lap bead fundraiser.. how many necklaces did you make , how much stringing material and how many beads?
thanks ,
tammy
hillsboro ohio
tmarie514 – January 22, 2010 – 1:09pm
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When I send out coaching emails I always send out the test emails. I send them to a hotmail address read through Windows live and a yahoo email read in the yahoo web email version. The yahoo version drops the line breaks between paragraphs. To overcome this my first thought was to add another line break. Well this does work for yahoo but I end up with an extra break in other email readers. Has anyone else run into this or similar problems.
I thought I had discovered a way to fix it using html last year but can't remember it now. My new work around is to format each email as a table of one column and many rows. I just leave a blank row between each paragraph and don't format the table in anyway. This seems to work but is a little tedious.
Thanks
Jon
jontjack – December 4, 2009 – 10:42am
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If your Relay team puts out a regular newsletter can you send me the site so that I can see it? Thank you so much, Pam
proach1015 – October 23, 2009 – 1:29pm
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In the past there is a team from ? in Pennsylvania that has had a wonderful website year after year after year. Of course I can't remember who it is. They usually have their own site with great music that goes along with the theme that they have chosen. Thank you all! Pam from Grand Rapids Michigan
proach1015 – October 21, 2009 – 11:47am
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I am the Co Chair for my local Relay, I also participated in another Relay a few months ago. The other Relay had a Facebook Application that added the themometer to your facebook Page. My Local Relay when I log in we don't have that option. Anyone know if there is somewhere the online chair needs to go to turn on that option?
Robin Shannon
Co-Chair RFL Lake Elsinore
rrshannon – August 30, 2009 – 12:43am
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i see that most of the relay homepages have the button for the relay store. i recieved the mailer today about how shopping through that button can get more money donated to your event. my site does not yet have this shopping button. is this something that the staff must do or is this something i can do through the emc? if it helps, i am eastern division.
lah1032000 – June 15, 2009 – 6:50pm
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Picture this...Relays taking place all around the world on the same day, sharing their experiences together. Celebrating Survivors, Remembering those we've lost to cancer and Fighting Back against the disease...together!
relaydivajuli – June 5, 2009 – 5:36pm
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-- 9 Days Until Relay --
Visit #2... and Beyond!
I was watching "Ghost Hunters" the other night. You know the show... two Roto-Rooter guys who search for spooks when they ought to be unplugging toilets. They were stumbling around an old sanitarium in upstate New York in the middle of the night, and to tell the truth, not much was happening. They had a couple of "spooky feelings" and heard a creak or two, but other than that it was snoozeville. I was about to exercise my channel-changing thumb when one of the younger helper-guys gets a frightened look on his face and says "Gaaaa!!
jonnymac – June 3, 2009 – 3:08pm
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-- 15 Days Until Relay --
It's the tree falling in the forest thing. We spend time and energy building the site, but will anyone show up? A cool site that no one sees would be frustrating.
Think about web sites you regularly visit... what got you there in the first place? Why do you keep going back? I don't know about you, but unless I'm using a reference, the reason I return to a site is to see something new. If I go there and find the same thing as before, it's unlikely that I'll go back... at least not anytime soon. On the other hand, if I return to a site and discover new and interesting things, and that happens the next time as well, then I'll probably return.
The same is true for our Relay sites.
jonnymac – May 28, 2009 – 8:52pm
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-- 17 Days Until Relay --
We're going to Relay in a little over two weeks... it's hard to believe!
I described the "Recent FUNdraisers" Greeting page section in my previous post, so this is probably a good time for a few thoughts about fundraisers. I seems to me that promoting fundraisers to the public and to the teams is a key function of the Relay web site, especially during the extended fundraising period leading up to the Relay event (I think I called this the third phase in an earlier post). Because of their importance, I try to promote each fundraiser in four ways: on the Nav Bar, on the Calendar, on the main canvas, and via email.
First, as soon as I learn of a fundraiser and get the basic info, it gets an entry under the "Fundraisers" section on the Nav Bar. I arrange entries in descending order by date, and only remove it once the fundraising event has occurred.
jonnymac – May 26, 2009 – 4:35pm
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Hi All,
I've been experiencing an issue when switching between the WYSIWYG and non-WYSIWYG editors. I'll send this to our community rep tomorrow, but I wondered if anyone else is running into the same thing.
Essentially, changes made via the HTML (non-WYSIWYG) editor are lost when switching back to WYSIWYG. For example, every time I make a change to the Greeting page via WYSIWYG, I must then re-insert YouTube embed code via the HTML editor. I've had the same problem with code inserted for a PhotoBucket gallery.
Has anyone else seen this? Am I using the wrong procedure, or is this a bug? I've experienced it on two different WinXP machines, and on three different pages. The procedure listed below reproduces the issue.
Thanks for any help!
jonnymac – May 25, 2009 – 9:05pm
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-- 19 Days Until Relay --
Now that the foundation is in place, it's time to do some framing.
Visitors land on the Greeting page, so that page deserves appropriate attention. I decided that each of the main groups that would (I hoped) be coming to the site needed a focal point... something that said "Hey! This spot's for you!". The default Nav Bar sections provide focal points for the public, including "Event Information" and "ACS Programs". To this I added a "Mission" section to house information presented by our Mission Delivery Chairperson at the monthly Relay Rallies.
jonnymac – May 24, 2009 – 11:17pm
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-- 31 Days Until Relay --
The Relay was progressing, our team members were out there in web-land, but they had no compelling reason to come to our site. Pretty much the same was true for all the groups I mentioned earlier. It was time to give them what they needed...
Ya gotta have tools, and ya gotta know how to use them. So, after Convio training delivered by Elise (our outstanding ACS Community Rep) I immediately created a "Forms" section on the Navigation Bar, uploaded some forms to the Event Library, and set about hooking them up.
jonnymac – May 12, 2009 – 10:22pm
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-- 38 Days Until Relay --
I've got to admit that when I first got involved in this, I didn't know how this Relay thing really worked. As I noted earlier, my company's team is very active throughout the year with various fundraisers and mission activities, so I was at least familiar with what I thought was the overall idea. Turns out I had only glimpsed the whole picture...
The 2008 Relay fell in a period between Debora's major surgeries, so we were able to attend our first Relay event in June, and we were very impressed. People were having a lot of fun, but they were also passionate, respectful, and obviously dedicated to the idea that every person can contribute in their own way to removing cancer from the human condition. The Relay obviously capped much previous effort and activity.
jonnymac – May 5, 2009 – 9:37am
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-- 39 Days Until Relay --
One of the first conversations I had with Tom and Nicki, the Relay Committee co-chairs was "what is the purpose of the web site?" What's it for? What's it supposed to do? Who's it for? We looked at each other in bemused puzzlement and discussed it a bit, and decided on several documents to make available. This got me thinking, and I eventually sat down to work on a list (as I am prone to do).
It seems to me that it's not a simple matter. Ultimately, the purpose is to help in the fight against cancer... but how would this web site help in that effort? In its own small way, what is its role?
jonnymac – May 4, 2009 – 1:56pm
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-- 40 Days Until Relay --
Hello! This is Jon Reynolds in East Tennessee... I'm the Website Chair for the Relay For Life of Greene County. We live in the foothills of the Southern Appalachians, near the intersection of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. It's a pretty place... please stop by and visit us at www.relayforlife.org/greenetn !
It's now just 40 days until Relay, and I thought that it's high time to introduce myself and share some thoughts about my experiences this year as the Relay's website chair.
On top of my mind is how I got involved in all this.
jonnymac – May 3, 2009 – 8:19am
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Our "Top Teams" totals on the website haven't updated since sometime on Friday. Is there some kind of known issue that's causing this? Our event is www.relayforlife.org/mecklenburgcounty. Thanks!
Cheryl Mittman - Online Chair, Relay For Life of Mecklenburg County
cmittman – April 27, 2009 – 9:39am
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Hi, I'm the website chair for Greene County, TN. Visit us at www.relayforlife.org/greenetn!
Is anyone else experiencing problems with www.quickanimation.com? This is used for creating the rolling sponsor image. After submitting the files to create the GIF, I receive the following error: "
Fatal Error, no source image file found to process
This worked fine for me 2 weeks ago. I tried this on two different machines... so maybe it's not a security issue. Anyone tried this tool lately? Any help is appreciated!
- Jon Reynolds
jonnymac – March 31, 2009 – 11:09am
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Is there a possibility of utilizing PayPal to solicit donations? If so, how would we incorporate this into the website?
outofthefire – March 4, 2009 – 3:05pm
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Does anyone know of a way to attach a .pdf file to send out a newsletter to participants in our Relay event? I'm having trouble using Convio for that purpose...
outofthefire – February 25, 2009 – 1:06pm
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Hey!
How can I embed a blog created by blogger into my local event website?
Thanks,
Missy Martin
Online Event Manager
Relay For Life of Cross County
Wynne, AR
mamartin4279 – November 14, 2008 – 10:20am
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When I registered for 2009, none of the 2008 information was set up - do we need to contact the help desk to get it all uploaded, or were we supposed to back up our lists from last year before the sites went down?
outofthefire – November 6, 2008 – 2:03am
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Is it possible to make someone else a team co-captain? For example, I have two committee members who are not team captains, but might as well be, and have asked to be included in the team captain e-mails. I can certainly do this off-site, but it would be so much easier if there was a way to do it within Convio. Any thoughts?
outofthefire – June 4, 2008 – 4:16pm
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Hi All,
I wanted to suggest that rather than Blog about an issue it's probably easier to create a Forum Topic about it. And we'll probably get more responses.
When you create a Forum topic, your topic shows up under the New Forum Topics in the Right Navigation Bar below the Support Relay badge, above your list of group memberships. Only those groups you check off when you create your topic will actually see it in their list, so it won't show up for Everyone, unless you check for it to.
But there is no tickler for the Blogs. You, the reader has to check each group you belong to individually to find the blogs, which makes them harder to find.
For both Forums & Blogs, if you go back in to Edit your forum or blog, you will have the choice to make that specific item available to more than just the one group you created it in.
Anyway, so there's my suggestion. Blog about experiences, like a diary. Create Forum Topics about issues, frustrations and suggestions.
relaydivajuli – May 31, 2008 – 12:09am
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We've discovered that when you export contacts from Yahoo and choose the Yahoo.csv file format, it will create your file with many fields. Go ahead and leave them, even though you only want the First Name, Last Name and Email.
When you import your file into your Participant Address Book, choose the Yahoo.csv option. It should import the file for you.
However, if you remove the extra fields, you'll get an error that the file is likely formatted incorrectly.
relaydivajuli – April 18, 2008 – 7:14pm
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Hello I am a myspace user and Dedra http://www.myspace.com/pondmermaid I just added her as a friend and she is looking for a relay in her Area in Washington vancover /camas area! Thanks for the help Relayers!
bc_rfl – March 21, 2008 – 10:30pm
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Is it possible to set something up to allow a team captain to sign up for a campsite by clicking on a map of the site? If so, is this a feature that is available currently, or would we have to find a programmer that would be able to generate code for such a page?
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Shaun B
Relay For Life Polk Metro (IA)
outofthefire – March 10, 2008 – 12:58am
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Does anyone have any input as to using a listserv such as a googlegroup or Yahoo! group for communication within your Relay committee? We have tried a Google group with limited success.
outofthefire – February 13, 2008 – 12:32am
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Hey y'all I just wanted to talk about our Relay In Blount County, I got wrangled I guess is how you state it to help with Relay, in 2005 which was the 10th year Celebration I believe. Which makes this coming year our 13th, Most would say 13 is UNLUCKY but not me I was always number 13 on the Team. Any who, we are starting off on the Right Foot, Our Date is set for April 28th, 2008 and Location has not changed, Our Kick-off is soon approaching and we have set our Theme "Reason's To Celebrate". I came in as a Team member and then quickly got on the Committee and Chair of Activities in 2005, Committee, Team Caption with my own team, Activities Chair 2006 Committee TC of WWJFAC Lum Chair online Chair 2007 & then Committee TC Online Chair 2008 ( photographer & website builder). Looks like I have been busy!
Relay On!
Vanessia Lancaster
main.acsevents.org/goto/WWJFAC
bc_rfl – January 9, 2008 – 2:19am
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Have any of you created RFL online challenges and/or incentives? If so, do you have any posters or flyers that you would be willing to share?
AngelaR21 – November 21, 2007 – 5:23pm
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Does Anyone that relays also do for "light the night" just wondering because I would like to get it going in Blount County Alabama as well as Relay for Life!
bc_rfl – November 2, 2007 – 11:26pm
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I have a Local challenge going on but I would Like to pass it on to The Relayers! I have challenged the teams of Blount County Relay to see how many states you can get to donate to your relay effort. Last year I borrowed it from the Purple Monkeys online and I had 26 states donate to WWJFAC. This year I already have 3 states I know of. Just want to pass it along!
bc_rfl – October 25, 2007 – 8:25am
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Something good to put on your site is a link to the Relay Online for Teams page (housed here on RelayForLife.org).
This will help your team captains and team members to have access to help-files regarding your local Relay For Life website.
Jeff Montegut – October 24, 2007 – 12:43pm
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Just wondering were you get your Relay For Life items to re-sell?
I have used Relay Gear. com and rflstore.com any others out there?
bc_rfl – October 17, 2007 – 10:17pm
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Our Relay has a plan To Do Reasons to Celebrate! as our over All Theme
I Want to do A Graduation Theme but am stuck on tie it in with cancer or Relay!
Thoughts were :
1.)graduation party
2.)No Diploma For Cancer
3.)Mortarboards off to Cancer
Which do you think or do you have a better ideal for me, Thanks!
bc_rfl – October 14, 2007 – 11:30am
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I need help I have an Ideal to Build a Trackless train has Anyone Done it Before For Relay?
And I would like to Build a Mini PuttPutt Golf Ribbon for a "Tee Off the Cancer"
Thanks
Vanessia
Blount County Alabama
bc_rfl – October 1, 2007 – 1:19am
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Ahh yes - the age old question. I'm tired of the generic default text that was on my home page when I got my site. I want something new and exciting to put on my home page. What are some of the things that can go on Relay For Life home pages? Not just text...but what other things can I put? Things like:
- Upcoming Team Captain Meeting Information
- Next big Fund-raisers
- Feature the Relayer or Team with the best looking page
What else?
Jeff Montegut – July 20, 2007 – 8:34pm
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Online Chairs: Please use this forum to share any HTML codes that you use on your site that you feel would help out someone else with their site. You can share any kind of code (but try to avoid sharing links b/c if they get broken, sites will look incomplete).
Here's a good purple color code: #2B0171
Jeff Montegut – July 20, 2007 – 8:30pm
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So, we only have 1 1/2 months left of the 2006-2007 Relay season. If you participate in Online Fund-raising, then you will probably want to read this blog carefully.
Over the last couple of years, you've been able to import and manage your email contact list within your local event's website. When all of the 2008 Relay For Life fund-raising websites are published, you will have the opportunity to register your team, just like you have done in years past. This time, you will need to import your address book. Stop right there. Catch your breath. It's not as bad as it seems. Why? Because we are going to provide you with as many online "how-to" tools right here on RelayForLife.org.
Getting started with our first tool, I am going to give you (free of charge) a detailed, easy-to-follow, document that will walk you through the steps of how to transfer your Relay Email address book from your 2007 website to the 2008 website.
Jeff Montegut – July 17, 2007 – 9:28am
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