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Our Contest Winners

Our Contest Winners

SignUpGenius is thrilled to announce the winners of our Real Life St. Nick holiday contest! We received many great and inspiring entries, which made selecting a winner a ...

Are You in a Safe Place?

Are You in a Safe Place?

Sometimes I think that in January we should all wear badges that say "I survived the holidays." Each Christmas our family loads up the minivan (2 adults, 4 kids, ...

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Are we allowed to say that? Cause I went to my daughter's high school choral concert last night and based on the songs they sang, we are in the midst of ...

New Christmas Themes!

New Christmas Themes!

We've just added some new themes to help with your ho-ho-holiday organizing! Use one of our new looks or select from over 350 other professionally designed themes and get ...

Congrats to Our Winner!

Congrats to Our Winner!

SignUpGenius would like to congratulate the winning team of our End-of-Season Team Party Giveaway! The Grand Prize goes to The Aces soccer team in La Crescenta, CA. The nomination ...

Holy Upgrades, Batman!

Holy Upgrades, Batman!

Halloween may be over, but we've got so many new features being released… it's downright scary! So put away your Katniss Everdeen costume (we know you wore one) ...

40 New Themes!

40 New Themes!

Wanting a fresh look for your fall sign up pages? Try one of our 40 new themes and get your event organized today! With 365 total themes to choose from and the ability to ...

We have a winner!

We have a winner!

Please join us in congratulating the winner of the SignUpGenius Back-to-School "Favorite Teacher" Giveaway, Rachael Ongaro, as well as her Favorite Teacher nomination, ...

Look Who's Talking!

Look Who's Talking!

Guess who's talking about SignUpGenius? This month, SignUpGenius was featured in an article in FamilyFun Magazine. The article spotlighted technology that made organizing ...

Fatherhood Redefined

Fatherhood Redefined

Father's Day is a bit of a joke. Sometimes it seems like nothing more than a way to peddle more ties and t-shirts to guys that need neither. Our stores even use the term ...

SignUpGenius Serving in Liberia

SignUpGenius Serving in Liberia

In 2007, just about a year before I launched SignUpGenius, my wife and I traveled to Liberia, West Africa to bring home two children via adoption. The kids were living in ...

Building a Slideshow

Building a Slideshow

Everyone needs to go to a funeral now and then. Particularly one of someone your own age. I went to a memorial service this week for the relative of a friend of mine. I ...

You are an artist

You are an artist

You are made to be creative. We all are. I bet you started strong. There was undoubtedly some refrigerator art and play dough sculptures and possibly even some crayon on ...

SignUpGenius Joins the Pinterest Craze

SignUpGenius Joins the Pinterest Craze

Ask anybody how they're doing these days, and the most common response you'll get is, "Busy!" So who needs another social network to join, right? That was our first ...

Look Who’s Talking… about SignUpGenius

Look Who’s Talking… about SignUpGenius

It's always a little scary when you go to the mailbox and pull out an official-looking government envelope that is addressed to you. Not that I have anything to hide… ...

My Favorite Sound in the World

My Favorite Sound in the World

I remember sounds. The tape-deck that is my brain seems to record them. Sometimes I like to roam the archives, replaying the tracks in my life like a playlist of favorites. One ...

Announcing Our Contest Winners!

Announcing Our Contest Winners!

Here at SignUpGenius, we love to shine the spotlight on people who are making their corner of the world a better place. That's why our recent "Real Life St. Nick Contest" ...

Thanks to YOU!

Thanks to YOU!

As we flip the calendar to 2012, we're so thankful for the many volunteers that gave of themselves to help others last year. Whether you signed up to bring meals to a frazzled ...

Life Lessons from the Suburban Battlefield

Life Lessons from the Suburban Battlefield

Six years ago in March, we moved to the suburbs of Charlotte from a little condo next to a highway in Los Angeles. I remember walking outside at night and standing in the ...

50 New Themes Released!

50 New Themes Released!

Fall events are in full swing and we've got some brand new themes to add some extra pizazz to your sign ups! Why settle for a plain looking sign up? Now with over 275 professionally-designed ...

Lessons on Work from Sand Castle University

Lessons on Work from Sand Castle University

It started on a baking hot summer day in 1977. I was 5. My dad had this group of fraternity brothers from his engineering school that would get together with their families ...

To the Cloud!

To the Cloud!

The busy fall planning season is coming soon and we've been "bulking up" to handle the load. This past weekend we upgraded our web servers and moved to a new cloud-hosting ...

Delivering Customer Service WOW.

Delivering Customer Service WOW.

SignUpGenius is proud to announce the release of our brand new HELP CENTER for customer support! If you've ever contacted us with a question, you know that we are fanatical ...