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Latest Announcements EMS-RMT Online Registration Tool Now Available to Member Organizations Online Demo/Tutorial Now Available [ click to watch ] On April 13, 2009, USA Hockey launched a new addition to the EMS: the EMS Registration Managment Tool (EMS-RMT). The EMS-RMT allows local Registrars and Webmasters a browser-based online solution for creating and managing local online registration. The EMS-RMT integrates with USA Hockey's Web Confirmation Service, the service that provides local programs an interface to our national database, to provide a full-service online registration solution. The advantage of the EMS-RMT is that  the technical integration is already built in, meaning local organizations simply have to fill in some fields and publish the URL to their registration on a web page or in an email. To integrate with Cyber Sport, the EMS-RMT produces and exportable file formatted to Cyber Sport specifications, ready to be uploaded directly into the Cyber Sport interface. More information is available by clicking the menu button to the left, including instructions on how to get plugged in to the EMS-RMT.    Other Updates September 15, 2009 - ONLINE TRAINING VIDEOS Recently, our online instructional webinar recordings expired, and we have begun replacing them with video tutorials that offer instruction in basic site administration. These are a work in progress, and we continue to add to them. You can access the online tutorials by clicking on the menu item to the left. November 17, 2008 - ADD A GOOGLE CALENDAR Would you like to have an updateable calendar on your site? You can embed a Google Calendar on your webpages by following the instructions located under the "How To..." section under the menu to the left. June 25, 2008 - FIREFOX 3.0 RELEASE The CMS 400 does NOT support the new Firefox 3.0 release. Firefox 3.0 worked in Beta form, however the actual release does not work with our system. Ektron is currently troubleshooting the problem. May 13, 2008 - NEW USER MANUALS ON THE WAY We are currently working on a rewrite of the online user manuals. We hope to have those posted here sometime in the next several months. The current user manuals are still available on these pages, however portions of them are significantly outdated because of the many changes and updates made to the sytem since its launch in June 2007. May 1, 2008 - THE OLD SITE HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SERVER The old USA Hockey website is now history. Any URLs pointing to the "edit" location are no longer functional. All information on those pages is now gone. April 30, 2008 - EMS OVERHAUL PART I NOW COMPLETE We have now completed the initial overhaul of the EMS Tournament Tool. Part I included those items we felt were necessary for the EMS to function acceptably for normal tournament and season administration. We are now working through the list of features we consider to be enhancments, and we hope to have those completed in the next several months. We trust you will see a marked improvement in the EMS since it was launched last June 4. October 31, 2007 - WEBMASTER FAQ UPDATE Please be sure to keep an eye on our Webmaster FAQ (on the menu to the left). We are posting answers to the most frequently asked questions and issues encountered by our member webmasters.

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Microsoft Open License Charity Program USA Hockey organizations, you may be eligible for big savings on software from Microsoft. The Microsoft Open License Charity program allows eligible nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations to acquire multiple software licenses at greatly reduced prices. The program works through a matching funds system, so for example, if an individual or company donates $100 to USA Hockey, USA Hockey receives that $100 donation. Microsoft then matches that donation with a $100 credit that USA Hockey uses to purchase product according to the prices found in the product list (see attachment). If, say, you wanted 20 copies of Office 2007, they are listed at $5 each. Using your $100 credit to purchase, you end up receiving $100 in cash and 20 copies of Office 2007. Below is the link to the Microsoft Open Charity program, as well as the product list detailing the software eligible for matching contributions to 501(c)(3) organizations.  http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/programs/open/opencharity.mspx  Microsoft Product List (pdf)

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Post-Launch Update (11.13.07) We continue to troubleshoot bugs within the system, with some fixes more apparent than others. We are still handling a significant number of support requests, and we continue to solve those problems one-at-a-time, as they come in. We recently held an on-site weekend of Webmaster training for Affiliate Webmasters, and the ovewhelming sentiment was to simplify the system. To that end, many of the "bugs" we are currently working with are geared toward making the system simpler to understand and work with. We have simplified and stabilized the Menu creation and editing process. We have also fixed the "Quicklinks" functionality within the CMS, and you are now able to add files to your folders and link to them using Quicklinks. There have been many premissions-related issues left over from the migration, and we continue to fix those. Each week we see more websites coming into focus, and we appreciate all our Webmasters who have committed their time and patience to this project. We know it hasn't been easy for any of you, but we are encouraged by the progress we see in both the continued improvements to the system and the content going up on your websites. We will continue to post updates to the training site.

Attention Webmasters: Wednesday Night Site Maintenance   We have recently designated every Wednesday, 12am midnight ET as the hour-long window for performing maintenance on our site.  The good news is that we use this time to push bug fixes live into production, so hopefully your worlds are a little better on Thursday mornings.  The bad news is the site is slow to load and sometimes inaccessible during this window of time.  We are attempting to limit the maintenance window to this one hour a week, but cannot eliminate it entirely.  If you can avoid using the site during this time, you will avoid any unexpected loss of data, or at the very least, turtle-slow load times.

Webmaster Email Updates We continue to provide email updates and instructions as we troubleshoot the new web platform. If you administer a USA Hockey website, and would like to be included on our Webmasters' email list, please email Eddie (eddieo@usahockey.org) to have your address added.

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