When the face of an individual is more prominent in an article, you'll draw more people in to reading the story. In the past we would make sure we centered a photograph of someone, leaving plenty of space at the top and bottom. The photo would be balanced, but rather static.

Now the trend is to crop more tightly, putting focus on the face. Cropping…

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Obviously there is a wealth of great information available online that we want to share with our site visitors. However, the Internet is an environment where people quickly scan copy instead of carefully reading, so it helps your visitors if you…

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Hey, it's me again, Schoolwires Users!



Jeff Adams, our Schoolwires rep, contacted me today and asked if we thought we might be interested in holding another User's Group meeting this spring.



I can easily handle reserving conference rooms and arranging for food and beverages at Kalamazoo RESA's Service Center. However, I'd like to know if anyone is interested in helping decide what training sessions would be helpful and/or volunteering to lead a short… Continue

Greetings! I'm excited that we now have the capability to blog on our Schoolwires web sites, and can see a lot of opportunities for this to be a great communication tool between our departments or districts and the community. Businesses are blogging for various reasons and some of them could benefit non-profits as well. Below are a few considerations:



Customer Relationships

Blogs are a way to foster a more personal relationship between you and your customers or community.… Continue