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I can remember my Friday nights when I was an adoption coordinator with a local Humane Society.  I would spend about 3 hours creating a flyer or poster for each adoptable pet for the Saturday and Sunday adoption events that weekend.  It was a lot of copying & pasting, and printing and reprinting.

More recently it seems like everyone is printing a kennel card from one of the adoption listing websites, or even the Print Summary from RescueGroups.org.  It may be tough to find a format that works well for you, and it still involves a lot of copying & pasting.

Once you find a format you like (or create one yourself), you still have to pay for the paper and toner and printer maintenance to print a page for each animal for each event.

It seems like a big waste with disappointing results.

That's where the Pet Adoption Kiosk can help.  The Kiosk is a new service that is available to all RescueGroups.org users.  The Kiosk is a desktop application that can be installed on any PC or Mac (typically a laptop that you take to your offsite events) that provides a list of your adoptable pets, along with their information and pictures.

The Kiosk installs in minutes, downloads all of your pet information and pictures with the click of a button, and doesn't include any advertisements or "powered by" logos.  It's just another service that we provide for the sole purpose of helping you work effectively to save pets.

We just started the Kiosk project a couple of days ago, so there's a lot of work that still needs to be done.  However, we wanted to get it to you as soon as possible!

To download and install the Kiosk, login to your RescueGroups.org account through the Manage website and go to More > Pet Adoption Kiosk.  The instructions on that page will step you through installing the application and getting setup.

We'd appreciate it if you would try it out, and let us know what you think.  We need your suggestions and ideas on how to make it work for you!

RescueGroups.org Users,

We've added two new ways you can control the email you receive from RescueGroups.org!  You can now opt-out of the weekly Tracker emails, and opt-in to receive information about Beta testing opportunities.

To control your email subscriptions, login to your RescueGroups.org service through our new Management website and go to your Options page:

• Go to https://manage.rescuegroups.org
• Login with your RescueGroups.org account
• Click "my settings" from the upper-right menu
• Click "Alerts & Email"
• Change your email subscription settings

The first new option is to disable the weekly Pet Adoption Tracker emails.  If you do not want to receive these emails change the option "Email me this organization's weekly tracker report."

The second option is to receive emails concerning Beta testing opportunities with RescueGroups.org. If you want to receive information about new features you can test yourself, change the option "Email me RescueGroups.org Beta test opportunities."

Hello,

Recently we've been working on adding the ability for any organization to upload their own CSV animal data file to us.  We're almost ready to start beta testing the new feature!

We've drafted the documentation for the import.  We're starting really simple, and we plan to add functionality as necessary to meet the needs of the community.  You can view the draft documentation in the Animals > Imports section of the User Guide.

If you would like to help us beta test this new feature, please contact us.

Thank you!