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MyTeamCaptain – Team Management and Organization Made Easy

This is another great Web application from Teamr.  MyTeamCaptain is geared towards sports teams, such as Little League or Chamber of Commerce softball teams.  It’s a true sports organizer for team captains, coaches, and league managers.

You can track the team roster, game schedule, stats, and a lot more using MyTeamCaptain.  You can send mass-emails to team members, other coaches, and more plus set up forums and special meetings to keep the team together off the field or away from the court.

All kinds of useful stuff is on this app, all aimed directly at keeping teams active and well managed.  Set up events and automatic reminders of them on the team calendar, make a website for the team so their fans can visit them online, and even build an online store to sell team gear and merchandise to help fund the game!

In fact, if you have seasonal or periodic billing for team contributions (for uniforms, park fees, and such), you can set that up to automatically bill and send reminders through MyTeamCaptain too.

Got a big game coming up and want to make sure everyone knows and get a roster of who’ll be there?  MyTeamCaptain also does mass emails to team members and automated RSVPs so that you don’t have to ask individually.  That saves a lot of time!

Fun items on the site include Trash Talk, which lets teams send messages to rivals’ websites on MyTeamCaptain.  Got a big game coming up against your biggest competition yet?  Win on the morale front by letting them know what kind of butt whoopin’ they got coming.

Many other little things like that are on the app, making it great for keeping the team together and fighting hard to win.  Plus, with today’s busy schedules, other great bonuses like the ability to download calendars in popular formats that work on the Palm, Google Calendar, etc. are also there.

If you’re a team member, coach, captain, or league manager then this app is definitely for you.  And it’s free!

Managing and Organizing Non-Profits: My Charity Manager

MyCharityManager.com is a free, web-based management tool for charities and not-for-profit organizations to use for volunteer tracking, scheduling events, tracking donations, and more.  Think of it as a collaborative enterprise solution for charities.

The application allows you to conduct online schedule management for both public and private meetings, for calendar events, and more.  If you can think of something for it to track for your charity, it probably does.

You can even build an event calendar to showcase on your website and sell products and set up donations too.  You can also track individual donations for events and so forth, which lets you set up an event and ask for donations specifically to fund that event.

Public photos, videos, and other media from the charity can be offered in a central location for easy download and use by charity members or the public at large too.  This makes for easy media management for your public relations and press kit needs.

You can also manage volunteers for events, ongoing tasks, and other needs through the site.  Sending mass messages, getting RSVPs, and a lot of other tasks related to this are much easier with MyCharityManager.

Even forums and other outreach and constant-contact items are available through this app.  This includes surveys and project management needs as well.  Did I mention newsletters?  Yep, you can do those here too.

As I said, everything you can think of for the management of your charity’s outreach and events is here.

MyCharityManager is from the team at Teamr, who make several versions of their software specific for various types of organizations.  If your charity is a scouting group, you’ll love MyScoutLink.  Teachers?  Try MyClassHelper.

Definitely worth checking out.  Plus, it’s free!  Are you using MyCharityManager or one of Teamr’s other apps?  Drop us a line in the comments below and let us know what you think!

Organizing Classroom Events, PTA, Teacher’s Groups, and More – MyClassHelper

Keeping track of schedules, RSVPs, volunteers, and other classroom-related events is not always easy.  Often, it involves a lot of people and a lot of coordinating.  MyClassHelper.com can help with that.

It’s a web-based tool with a lot of great management options for keeping track of every event related to your classroom, school, PTA, etc.  You can easily coordinate single or multiple events involving a few or many people.

Best of all?  This website is free!

Here’s a good example of how this can work for the busy classroom.

A teacher has a field trip coming up in two weeks and needs parental permission forms, volunteers to help chaperone the students, and needs to keep the PTA and school administration informed of the event plans.

She could create a huge email list with everyone on it and send out email blasts to everyone regarding everything to do with the field trip.  This won’t likely make it easy to track who’s going to be helping with what and most people aren’t very excited about getting a lot of email traffic like that.

The task becomes simpler if she uses MyClassHelper.com instead.  She can set up her account to manage the event (or multiple events), have it send email invites to parents, other teachers involved,  school administration, and the PTA members involved.  She can then organize these people into sub-groups so that information relevant to one group isn’t sent to the other when it’s not needed.

Now, she can get permission slip reminders automatically sent to the parents so they won’t forget, she can have emails asking for RSVP to volunteer include an easy one-click link so that people can affirm they want to volunteer, and more.

Multiple events can be put into the calendar so that everyone involved in the class knows about every event happening.  These can be imported into popular calendar software and printed for handouts as well.  Even donations and payments can be managed through MyClassHelper.com.

There are literally hundreds of ways this site can save the busy teacher or classroom event organizer a lot of time.  Plus, not only does it keep parents and others informed about events, but it saves them time and headaches too, since they only get the information they need and don’t need to sift through piles of emails to get it.

MyClassHelper

Online volunteer schedule management for all types of events
Automatically remind parents and volunteers of upcoming events via email and/or text messages
Request items for students to bring for events
Encourage communication among volunteers with the Forum
Define events in your calendar once and share them with your class
Manage donations and payments for your activities
Sell items and receive donations through your online store
Upload permission slips for parents to download, print, sign and send in

Definitely a site worth checking out or showing to your favorite (overworked) teacher!

Scout Troop Collaboration Online – MyScoutLink.com

If you run or are closely involved with a Boy or Girl Scout group, you know that collaborating meetings, events, activities, etc. can be a real pain.  You need to involve the scouts, their parents, and probably some relatives as well as the coordinators themselves.

It’s likely that you’re doing so with an email distribution list, but this can fast become clunky and hard to manage with everyone sending everyone else replies that may or may not be relevant.

Now, there’s an online solution that’s meant specifically for the needs of Scout Troops!  MyScoutLink.com allows scout leaders to build an account for their troop (or even multiple troops).  Each person involved can then log in and not only give input where appropriate, but also update whether they’ll be able to attend, perform a task, etc. quickly.

These tools not only help the organizers get everything together quickly, but they can be targeted towards specific members of the group.  So if a specific ceremony for, say, the Life Scout achievement is being held, those Scouts who are to receive the new merit can be isolated into a specific sub-group to be given information only they really need.  This saves miscellaneous information that the rest of the group doesn’t really require from clogging up the info stream.

There are also Scout-specific tools like Advancement Tracking to track where your Boy or Girl Scouts are and track their advancement through the ranks.  These can be customized for troop-specific titles or achievements as well as include the standard ranks within Scouting.

Other great tools allow for alerting the whole group or individuals within the group (or sub-groups) about specific events, changes, or other things they’ll need to know.  Plus it’s automatic!

Individuals within the group can log in and do different tasks according to their assigned management level and everyone can choose how they prefer to be contacted: email, phone, SMS/text, etc.  One, some, or all of those contact methods can be employed so that those involved are always in the loop.

Schedules can be downloaded into most popular calendar software (Outlook, Palm, Google Calendar) for easy integration with existing software.  This also makes for easy printing for meeting handouts and group agendas.

Headcounts and other tasks are easily built-in so that if you send out an automated email alert or reminder about an event, you can have a quick-link in the email for the group member to click on to instantly update their RSVP as to whether they’re going to be there.

• Manage who is in each Troop or Pack and reach them by email or SMS text
• Track advancement, badges and ranks for all of your scouts
• Automatically send out event reminders
• Set or request items for your Scouts (or their parents) to bring to events
• Encourage communication among Scouts with the Forum
• Define events in your calendar once and share them with your Scouts and parents
• Store files, pictures, and video online, and control who has access to them
• Create a public website about your Troop or Den for everyone to see
• Manage payments and billing for your events
• Sell products for fundraising with your own online store

MyScoutLink.com is extremely useful, professional, easy and best of all: it’s free!  Check it out.