Fred Sommer of Sommer Sports Receives 2025 Alan Jones Timer of the Year Award
Fred Sommer of Sommer Sports Receives 2025 Alan Jones Timer of the Year Award
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Category: Use Cases
2024 RaceTrends “Instant Podcast” (and Using Information Summaries as a Race Director)
After we released the 2024 RaceTrends Report yesterday, VP of Development Bruce Kratz shared a quick and easy way to digest a summary of the information: an AI podcast! To get this podcast, Bruce used Notebook LM’s Podcast feature to have AI…
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Inside the Timer Education Summit
The 2025 Timer Education Summit, held on January 28-29 at the University of South Florida Health CAMLS facility in Tampa, brought 120 timers from across the nation together for two days of education, innovation, and connection. With diverse education tracks tailored for…
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Bring Back My Fundraising Team
Bring Back My Fundraising Team makes it fast and easy for team captains to recreate their team from the previous year. Earlier this month, we released Bring Back My Individual Fundraiser. This same functionality is now available for fundraising teams. GiveSignup makes…
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Medical Tent Check-Ins and Outs
For mid-size and large events, RunSignup’s RaceDay CheckIn app streamlines the medical care process on race day. It offers an efficient, centralized solution for tracking medical tent activity, accessing participant data, and retrieving emergency contact information. Efficient Medical Tent Management The RaceDay…
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Bring Back My Individual Fundraiser
Signing up to fundraise is even easier with GiveSignup’s newest release – Bring Back My Individual Fundraiser. When your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Event renews, GiveSignup makes it easy for fundraisers to return by automatically carrying over their previous year’s settings to their new…
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Founder’s Corner – Competitive Bandits
Part of Bob’s continued ramblings. A couple of months ago we wrote a blog about why Free events are Free on RunSignup. We also wrote about some of our philosophy around why we offer so many free features and tools like Free Email,…
Read MoreGuest Post – What Timing Technology is Right for Your Race
This is a Guest Blog from our friend Tony Sapp of Negative Split Productions. Accurate race timing is fundamental to the success of any event, ranging from small community fun runs to large-scale marathons and ultra-endurance challenges. With technological advancements, race directors…
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2024 Top 100 Largest Races
We assembled a preliminary list of the 2024 top 100 largest races that were timed. We have been accumulating this list for a couple of years (see 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023). A few notes: 2024 Top 100 Largest Races List Large…
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2024 GiveSignup Product Recap
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2024 Year in Review, 2024 RunSignup Product Recap, 2024 TicketSignup Product Recap, 2024 Infrastructure Report, 2025 Company Strategy, 2025 RunSignup Roadmap, 2025 GiveSignup Roadmap, 2025 TicketSignup Roadmap. These will come out incrementally between end of November and early 2025. Our GiveSignup 2024…
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