"Signing of the times"
By Linda Fantin
Salt Lake Tribune, June 9, 2004

...With a disk, there is no extra charge for color photos -- a budget-buster for most yearbooks. By clicking on a portrait, students can access all photos, video and audio clips pertaining to that kid -- even less popular students often missing from traditional yearbooks.

..."You can fit 1,800 class portraits, 30 video clips and 300 color snapshots on a disk," says Brandon Briggs, who helped produce Riverton High's first CD-ROM yearbook in 2000. "And it only takes up one-third of the capacity."

...The software is free; schools pay only to have the CDs reproduced -- about $5 to $10 each depending on volume. Students can use the software's yearbook template or invent their own.

..."Some schools have offered kids the ability to record their own personal messages," says Hunter High yearbook adviser Jeff Sillito. Singlehanded (YBI) has a lock feature that requires principals to approve and secure the content before mass production.

...Briggs doesn't worry. Singlehanded (YBI) has doubled the number of yearbook clients each of the past five years, he says, and now has 1,500 schools signed up. This year, the company is releasing an elementary school version, and the CD-ROMs are a big hit at scrapbooking conventions.

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