YearBookAlive created ready-made YearBookTemplates for Interactive digital yearbooks. The designs templates are completely customizable and ready to use immediately.

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What can you do with YearBookAlive?

• You can - Create your yearbook as a team - Multi user enabled.

• You can - Create as many digital yearbook projects as you want.

• You can - Add thousands of pictures, hours of video, music and text.

• You can - Choose fifteen professionally designed style templates.

• You can - Copy the finished yearbook to (CD or DVD)

• You can - Sale your digital Yearbook!!!

Create your yearbook as a team - multi user enabled.

YearBookAlive is a very simple tool, we helps schools, clubs and military groups keep memories alive....

The interface is user friendly and incredibly intuitive, it has been designed to be accessible for any age group with limited computing experience.

• In Wisconsin, Crestwood High School yearbooks online 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 middle school yearbook 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.

YearBook Alive has partnered with over four-hundred schools from the United States, Canada, the UK and dozens of others countries to help 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 YearBook Alive 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 YearBook Alive, 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.

Where some schools are really cashing in though, is by not only using elementary school YearBook Alive 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.