Company/Corporate Name

Happy Independence Day! And a special Thank You to all who have served and those who are serving to protect our freedom! I hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th!

Looks like some of you are well on your way to building your Team for 2011. Way to go!!!!

I wanted to explain a new feature to the online registration: Company/Corporate Name. Although any and all of you are welcome to use this feature, the main reason we added this is for organizations who wish to have multiple teams within their organization.

Examples:
Mount St. Mary's has several teams and compete with each other. Last year they had to keep up with the members manually. This year they can have several Teams under their Company.

For some reason, the guys at SPP don't exactly appreciate the team name: SPP Power Puffs. I just don't understand that. :o) Well, now the women can have their Team and the guys can have their own Team while we can count all of them under their Company.

There are also several teams with multiple locations. If they need to have their information separated, this is the perfect option for them.

If you have already started your team, didn't use this feature and want to, contact Shawna and Laurie at teams@komenarkansas.org. And contact them with any of your other questions/issues/comments.

Thanks for your support and dedication!

Happy 4th,
Jill

Registration now OPEN!!!!

Yes it is!!!! We are so excited.....We already have over 18 teams registered!!! Remember if you have any questions, please feel free to contact myself (Shawna) or Laurie at teams@komenarkansas.org. We can't wait to see everyone's team shirt designs this year....Have you started thinking about the design or color??? Better get started because the race will be here before you know it!!!!

Have a great week!!!

Shawna Long

Registering Multiple People

As most of you know, there is a feature in the online registration so that you can register family members without having to start all over in the process. However, some of you are trying to use it to register team members. Although this works, you need to be aware that the system will time out. If this happens, you will lose all of the information you have already entered.

I know this can be frustrating, but it was designed to register a few people at a time, not an entire team. And we have no control over the time allowed for this.

You are welcome to use this to register team members, but if you time out and call us, all we can offer you is our sympathy. Sorry.

Everything else ok out there?

Thanks,
Jill

Blast Off

Yikes, it's time to register. What do I do now?

The Team Captain Party has come and gone. Wow! It was great to see so many smiling faces yesterday! What was even better was seeing old friends, meeting new ones and finally putting faces with some names. We must have the greatest group around! You are all amazing! I hope you liked the new format.

Some of you are still asking, "What in the world do I do now?" It's all out there, but this might help a little.

1. Go to www.komenarkansas.org


2. Download the Team Captain Kit here (from above, click on Race for the Cure, Race Information and Team Information)


3. If your company is paying the registration, contact Jill at ar.rftc.teams3@gmail.com


4. Register (Form a Team)


5. Click on My Race Center, check everything out, set up your Because I Care page and ask friends and family to support you


6. Tell your team members to register (Join a Team) and set up their pages


7. Sit back and enjoy

If you happen to still be registering offline, you'll also need the spreadsheet. We're having a few technical difficulties with that, so you'll need to contact Jill at the present time for it.

Also for offline entries, the Team Entry Form is available by itself here.

For those who missed the party, you also missed the big announcement. We are the 4th largest race in the Komen series!

Well, I have pictures to share, but I'm having slideshow problems, so I'll post those later.

Thanks,
Jill

Online Registration

If you have registered online in the past, it may be a little crazy this year. Please bear with us and be patient. We will help you and your team members through the problems.

Several of us have been busy as little bees this year cleaning up the online database to get it ready for a conversion that recently took place. The database has been “under construction” since the 2005 Race and one or two people have signed up anew each year so that they had up to four profiles. And one or two more registered friends, neighbors and family all under the same email address.

For the conversion to take place, we had to try to get it down so that there was only one of each person, and each and every participant had to have a unique email address. We had to make some hasty decisions as to whether Jane Doe at this address in 2005 was the same Jane Doe at that address in 2007; was Joe Smith born on this date the same as Joseph Smith born on the same date; or was Janice Brown at this address with no birth date the same as Jan Brown at the same address. If we determined that they were the same person, we merged their records together so they would only have one profile.

Because of the lack of information on some and the fact that it was humans working on this project, there is the possibility that some people got merged incorrectly and we now have at the wrong address, wrong birthday or completely merged with another person.

And because everyone had to have a unique email address, we had to make some up. Again, we sometimes had to make a guess as to the true owner of the email.

Oh, and many user names and all passwords were changed with the conversion.

Because of all of this, it is going to be a little difficult for some people to retrieve their user name and password. In some cases, you will be able to have them emailed to you. Please try this avenue first. Go to www.komenarkansas.org and click on Sign In. Scroll down and you will see Email me My Password and Email me My User Name.

If this does not work, please email ar.rftc.teams3@gmail.com. We will work with you to obtain your user name and password and those of your team members.

Once you have accessed your account, please review the information to make sure that everything is correct before registering.

We apologize for this inconvenience. Believe me, we weren’t happy about everything, but it will be wonderful when it is all said and done. And it is a one time event.

Thanks for understanding,
Jill

p.s. In case you haven't received the email I sent this afternoon, the website is active, the Team Captain Kit is available under Team Information, and registration is open. Hope to see you Sunday!

Why?

Why would my team members want to register ONline?

1) It's quick and easy.

2) Race t-shirt and bib will be mailed directly to the participant at the address they use when they register.

3) T-shirts should be received sooner than those for OFFline team registrants. (Although shipping does not begin until about the first of September, ONline registrations are processed pretty much in the order that they are received. We will not begin processing OFFline teams until after the middle of September.)

4) Chances are better to get the correct size t-shirt as processing begins for ONline first.

5) Your team member can register for Train for the Cure at the same time. (This is limited to the first 500 who register.)

6) If a child is interested in registering for Kids for the Cure, they have a better chance by registering ONline early. (There will only be 3000 Kids for the Cure t-shirts available.)


Why do I want my team members to register ONline?

1) For all of the above reasons.

2) Easier on you. Once they have registered, you can pretty much sit back and relax other than arranging for a team t-shirt or any special events or treats if applicable.


Remember that the Team Captain Party is Sunday, July 19, and ONline registration should open the same day. Even if your team registered ONline last year, you will need to register yourself and set your team up so that your team members can join the team. Personal information carries over from year to year but team information does not.

Thanks,
Jill