CampusLive Incorporated is a great example of the blending of the way information is shared and presented using technology. CampusLive is a company that was founded by several former University of Massachusetts Amherst students. The boston.com article describes how the young founders of this company have received financial and legal help in expanding their enterprise. Their idea was to create what is essential the perfect homepage for a college student. They would then sell advertisements on those homepages for local restaurants and businesses.
It is in my opinion a very intelligent and convenient proposal. A website that would provide the college student with links to their school’s blackboard.com pages and email along with video chatting, weather, news, to-do lists, and local restaurant menus. When on the Loyola University Maryland page, the first toolbar you see provides links to Loyola.edu, inside.loyola.edu, Loyola’s email, Blackboard, Loyola’s radio station, Loyola athletics, Loyola’s library, and even a map feature. The homepage itself is customizable with news updates to areas of your interest. For example, a business major can have current business articles on their homepage right next to their facebook.com feed. The Food Finder feature provides a list of restaurants local to the university and whether or not they are currently open, deliver, and links to their menus. This is a major selling point when considering areas of revenue for the website. It is certainly the place that a college restaurant wants their information.
As a Loyola University Maryland student, I recently received an email announcing that CampusLive Inc. has expanded to include my university. The email itself focuses on the video chatting capability through which CampusLive will connect you in a video chat with other random college students anywhere in the United States of America. This anonymous chatting feature resembles the chatroullette.com setup but seems to be a bit more controlled with regard to who you chat with and it displays the name of the university that your chat partner attends. Chatroullette.com has been a worldwide craze recently and by adding this technology to their website, CampusLive Inc. is sure to attract college students to their website. Another way that CampusLive is attracting students is by offering raffles for items such as BestBuy gift cards for spreading the word about CampusLive on social networking sites.
CampusLive Inc. uses the internet to create a homepage that brings together information from many sources. It adds periodicals with facebook.com events, ESPN updates, and Market Watch stock tickers. Mashable.com says that CampusLive, “There’s no question that this service does provide useful information for student in a timely manner.” Additional praise for CampusLive Inc. and its founders comes from BusinessWeek, Fortune, and ABC. CampusLive Inc. uses Information Technology to provide college students with very useful and timely information that touches all aspects of their lives, academic and social, all in one centralized location.
"Amherst-based CampusLive Gets Angel Funding to Build Start Pages for 600 Schools - Innovation Economy -." Boston.com. Web. 24 Mar. 2010. http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2010/02/amherst-based_campuslive_gets.html.
"Best Young Entrepreneurs, Class of 2008: CampusLive - BusinessWeek." BusinessWeek Slide Shows and Multimedia. Web. 24 Mar. 2010. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/10/1009_alums_roundup/8.htm.
"CampusLIVE Gives Students Real-Time News They Can Use (Video)." Social Media News and Web Tips – Mashable – The Social Media Guide. Web. 24 Mar. 2010. http://mashable.com/2008/10/06/campuslive/.
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I think that CampusLive is an excellent source of social networking for college students. It provides students with all the resources they would need to stay connected to other students as well as news around campus. As a user of CampusLive it is a very useful source of information regarding things around Baltimore. It gives all the numbers to local restaurants as well as any recent news from all the major networks.
ReplyDeleteCampusLive is an interesting development for College students. I found out about CampusLive from this blog and I am excited to start using it. It will be helpful to college students around the United States and lead them to start learning more and creating more opportunites by being able to chat with students at different universities. It is also helpful for incoming students because they can find out what there is to do in their free time at college or how their radio station works. I like the feature that helps me create a to-do list and look at the greyhound. I also like that from this website I can get to so many Loyola applications such as Live webmail, Inside Loyola, blackboard, WLOY, greyhound sports, library, maps and an index from a to z.
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