How to Manage Your P&R Agency Better, Faster, and Easier
Building a healthier community is the ultimate goal for a parks and recreation agency. But in the past few years, budget and staff cuts have made it harder to focus on that goal given the time spent on...
View Article6 Great Community Organization Websites You Can Learn From
Source: nichewebsites.com A website should be the centerpiece of your marketing communications. For all you hear about social media or the amount of money you spend on print materials, all marketing...
View ArticleManhattan Beach Parks & Rec Switches to Web-Based Software
Manhattan Beach is a coastal city in Southern California with about 35,000 citizens. The Parks and Recreation department recently switched from a client-based solution (Class®) to a web-based software...
View ArticleTop 5 Things You Can Pickpocket from e-Retailers
As a recreation professional, you may be wondering, “What does my website have to do with Amazon and eBay?” Although you probably won’t be selling billions of dollars online, you share the same...
View ArticleWhy You Need The City of Calgary Recreation’s Thank You Page
When a customer registers for a program or books a facility online, what happens? Do you thank them? Do you recommend other similar programs or point them to your Facebook page? Don’t squander this...
View ArticleHow Apple and Starbucks Can Improve Your Customer Experience
A few weeks ago, hundreds of customers came down to San Diego for ACTIVE World, our customer conference. One of the keynote speakers, Tim Sanders, is the CEO of Net Minds and founder of research firm,...
View ArticleCanton Commits to Community Wellness with ’100 Days to Health’ (GUEST POST)
This is a guest post from Jessica Levine, Marketing Coordinator at Canton Leisure Services in Canton, Michigan. _____ The figures are staggering: More than one-third of American adults and children are...
View ArticleWe’re Giving Away $500 at General Assembly for YMCAs
General Assembly for YMCAs is just two weeks away! Are you heading out to Philly for the exhibition? A few of us from ACTIVE Network will be there and we’re excited for the networking, sessions,...
View ArticleTop 70 YMCA Twitter Accounts to Follow (and Imitate)
However you feel about the little Twitter bird, it’s not going away any time soon. Hundreds of millions of users access it everyday for information, and a lot of them could be your members and...
View Article37 Parks & Recreation Goals to Keep in Mind
No matter what field you are in, sometimes your job simply gets in the way of your job. All of the day-to-day tasks or paperwork can blind you from your ultimate goals or mission. It’s the same at a...
View ArticleRipple Effect: Powering the Events that Pay It Forward
Here at ACTIVE, our ultimate goal is to make the world a more active place. To make good on this goal, we provide the technology that powers literally thousands of events and activities across the...
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