Category Archives: Odds and Ends

Zumba – It’s HOT!

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It seems that Zumba is catching on like a wildfire across America. Recreation organizations all over are offering these Latin dance party classes. Are you?

Unusual Gifts You May Not Know About

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Here are three items that can be purchased online that I think make great gifts, for yourself or others.

7 Rules for Employees to Live By

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There used to be a great magazine called Motto. In one of the issues it highlighted the company Cranium. The article was very cool as is the company. One of the neat things that was in the article was Cranium’s 7 rules that their employees live by. If you’re a recreation professional I think you’ll appreciate these rules. I know I do.

Summer is Over

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Summer has come to an end, as well as my month long vacation, but my favorite time of the year is approaching, fall – time to resume my writing.

5 Recreation Programs for Tourists

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Summer means traveling for many people. When out-of-towners come to your city do you have any recreation programs available for them?

Sharing (and Selling) Your Camp, Special Event and Program Photos

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Last year we, by the request of parents in our community, we began selling photos that we took at our ballet recitals. We have always taken photos at all of our big events, at camp and during our after school programs, but they were only for promotional purposes. We would use the good photos in our activity guides, our flyers and on our website.

Submit a Guest Post to RecreationGuy.com

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Do you want to share your experience and expertise with others in the community recreation industry? I am currently accepting guest posts.

What Are Your Biggest Community Recreation Programs?

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I’m currently working on our fall activity guide, and that means it’s time to reconsider what programs to keep around, toss out and add. So as we looked back on the past year we found that some of our biggest programs (had the most participants) were a bit of a surprise.

Random Thoughts and Ideas – Awards

And the winner for most creative programming goes to…

Random Thoughts and Ideas – Birthdays

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Do you send out birthday cards to your customers. Let’s take it one step further, shall we?