Here are new improvements to come and our progress made on different projects for this week:

Design:

• Our new Mobile App graphic design was completed and next week, we will start skinning our beta app.
  
• We are moving forward with our new school feed design and we also completed the design of our new widgets.

Bug fixes & new features:

• We implemented a way to block certain user profile fields for a certain type of users while keeping them editable for other types of users.
• We improved the Captcha mechanism on public Contact Forms.
• Access to the statistics pages for clubs has now been restored on the Dashboard menu.
• The new upload of group logos and banners was not working properly but it has been fixed this week.

Performance:

• This week, we continued to make progress on the migration of CampusGroups. This new version will be up and running at the end of May.

Thanks and have a great week end!!!

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Here are new improvements to come and our progress of different projects for this week:

Design:

• We worked on design improvements around events and RSVPs, our goal being to make it as easy as possible to RSVP and to see what events are coming up in your groups. We have very exciting changes coming up!

• We are still working on our new photo slider and bringing more UI improvements.
• Also, CampusGroups is working on an update to its current logo! Coming up soon!

Performance:

• This week, we completed a migration project. This is a very important architecture change which will be tested for the next 2 weeks. The result will have a very positive impact on the performance of the platform and will allow us to code even more effeciently.

Mobile App:

• On our Mobile App, we made progress on the "Groups" module. We are now linking from the list of officers to the profile of each officer.
• Also, we are now displaying photo albums in the "Photos" module for the logged on user.

Improvements & new features:

• More small feature changes took place this week:
  • Parent/child group restrictions have been modified to allow child group events to RSVP non-members to events open to everyone (even if you are not a member of the parent group).
  • Various Google Chrome and IE diplays fixes

New website

• The new NYU Stern GMA site is online, check it out: http://nyustern.campusgroups.com/gma/

Thanks and have a good week!!!

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Title: Sales Representative
Location: New York City (Manhattan)
Salary: Competitive with high performance incentives

You may be asked to be involved on the marketing and sales of new products to be launched by our company.

Key aspects of the position

• Set quantifiable objectives to measure results
• Identify and pursue aggressively sales opportunities with existing and prospective clients
• Develop relationships with potential clients
• Understand client needs and market trends
• Recommend changes to the product and the sales strategy based on prospects/client feedback
• Develop the internal CRM tool
• Maintain an effective performance reporting
• Contribute to build a performance-driven culture in the company
• Help grow the sales team (recruiting interns or junior sales staff)

Profile sought

• You have had a previous successful sales experience (1 or 2 years) in a technology driven company
• You graduated in a business or science major from a US university
• You are passionate about online social networks, software and online services
• You have demonstrated strong selling skills and interpersonal qualities
• You are able to adapt to new environments and be autonomous and proactive
• You are a focused, goal-oriented and disciplined person
• Ideally, you have shown an interest in non profit activities, whether charitable, sporting or
• professional

An English native speaker is sought for this role. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Send your application and resume to eleonard (at) campusgroups (dot) com

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Here are the new improvements to come and the progress of our different projects for this week:

Design:

• School feed design is progressing with the implementation of a new Event Post including easy ways to RSVP and to download the event to your calendar.
• We had our final stage of the new Home page ("News" page) design as well this week.

Improvements & new features:

• We have a new RSS feed with the list of public events, additional data and filtering options (please contact our support if you need to use it!)
• We also developed a new Score Card with 3 new statistic reports: "Group email, membership, collected fees and event stats sorted by group", "Event registrations by group" and "Membership and event stats by type of user".

Performance:

• We improved on the email delays alerts.
• On the performance front, we are currently migrating our database to a larger server.

Mobile App:

• We are now able to keep users logged on. Plus, we are progressing on the design of the news feed and we are displaying a splash page while the application is loading. Go live in beta is planned for end of April.

Thanks and have a great week end!!!

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Here are the new improvements to come and the progress of our different projects for this week:

Mobile App:

• On our new Mobile App, we completed the school feed module and are now able to skin the application with the colors of CampusGroups.
• The Mobile App will be available in beta end of April for a selected number of users across all schools.

Design:

• This week, we have made some progress on the re-design of CampusGroups around our photos module, the navigation and the site-wide search box.
  
• The school feed's design has been modified and is currently being implemented.
• We also updated the new News Page (current Home page) with additional widgets.

Performance:

• On the performance improvement front, we found a few more slow queries which we fixed this week. We also tuned our mySQL server and continued to monitor slow pages.

Bug fixes:

• We fixed the resizing of photos (when a user wants to include a photo in a new blog post).
• We fixed a few bugs on the new photos slider.

Thanks and have a great week end!!!

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Here is a quick update on the development of our new Mobile Web App.

The screenshots below show the Inbox module of the application allowing a logged user to access group emails.

We will get you posted on the development of each module. We plan to release at the end of April and we would be glad to get your feedback!  

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Here are the new improvements to come and the progress of our different projects:

• We are working on a new site-wide search box (to go live end of April).
  
• We will soon reduce the school feed status bar. Here is a quick preview: 
  
  
• We are also working on redesigning our main school Home page.
  
• We are designing more Web site themes for MBA student clubs, here is a preview of the NYU Stern GMA site:
  

• We are using New Relic to profile the performance of CampusGroups. We will use Apdex as an industry standard for measuring the satisfaction of a user of an application or service.
  

Thanks and have a great week end!

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It is always a pleasure to read great feedback from happy users. Here are a few emails which made us smile over the past few weeks:

Jacqueline, school administrator at USC Marshall School of Business, sent this email to all student leaders:
"It’s hard to believe that a full semester has passed since we launched Student Organizations for USC Marshall using the CampusGroups platform. We are so excited to see your creativity and collaboration at work, and hope you've found this new system to be beneficial to you and your membership. We believe this platform shift has been both a positive change and a rousing success."

As we trained Lindsay from NYU Stern School of Business on Exchange Students management:
"Thank you for speaking with me today; it was very insightful, and I look forward to using Campus Groups to communicate with students."

"Awesome. Thanks! " - From Diana, school administrator at NYU Stern School of Business

As we updated an NYU Stern School of Business custom assessment:
"Thanks so much for working on the queries and getting our tool in such great shape." - Allison

As Rhonda (administrator at Cornell University Johnson School of Business), tested the Auto-Promotion feature of the CampusGroups Events module:
"Our users have begun using CG for our workshop registrations, and the Auto-Promotion feature will be very helpful when they hit their caps. We are getting good feedback from students that the registration process is better than the old one!"

"Thank you - this will be helpful." Alana from Kellogg School of Management

As we helped Lee, student leader at NYU Stern School of Business, on the design of the Stern Private Equity Conference Website: http://nyustern.campusgroups.com/sternpeconference/
"Thank you so much for this.  The site looks great.  We very much appreciate your quick turnaround and hard work."

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

The CG Support Team

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Here are new improvements and a few bug fixes for this week (all these changes will be pushed to all servers next Friday).

Improvements & new features:

• Photos: We upgraded the photo slider to allow easier/faster navigation.
  
• Feed: You can now watch a YouTube video from the feed. To post a video, just insert the YouTube video link into the "Link" field of the post and click post.
  
• Feed: We now have just 1 button to upload one or several photos to the feed.   
  

Bug fixes:

• Members: The "Import members" was fixed and will work fine now.  
  
• Photos: You can now add or delete tags assigned to a photo from the slider. Besides, there are no more issues when viewing photos from the feed.
• Events: When you delete a flyer associated to an event, the photo does not appear next to the event anymore.  
• Events: You can now see the list of attendees for an event.   

Thanks and have a great week end!!!

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Here are the new improvements for this week (all these changes will be pushed to all servers next Friday).

Improvements and new features:

• Groups: In addition to being able to access the list of all the groups of your school by clicking on "Join groups", you can now also manage the groups you are an officer of from the "Groups" menu.  
  
• Members: If an officer does not have the permission to manage members, the "Edit" link in the "Membership" section does not appear anymore.   
  
• Groups: On the list of groups, the names of the groups are now linking to group websites. 
  
• Members: You can now see which member is an officer and what is his/her position in the list of members.   
  
• Email: When you upload an attachment in an email from the "Files Already Uploaded" section, only the name of the file appears in the dropdown list and in the email.
  

Thanks and have a good week end!!!

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Here are the new improvements and few bug fixes for this week (all these changes will be pushed to all servers next Friday).

Improvements & new features:

• Photos: When you view your photos, it is now possible to navigate from one to another just by sliding the scrollbar and clicking on the preview photos of the bottom menu.    
  
• My inbox: The Emails display has changed. The blue background now takes all the space and turns to white when the email has been opened.  
• My inbox: You can now delete an email from your mailbox, just by clicking on the cross on the top right of the email.  
  
• Support: In order to avoid any confusion, we have taken the additional "Email us" link from the Contact Us section of our Support Center.
  
  

Bug fixes:

• Control Panel: When you download the events via the "All events" link, all events between the 2 dates selected are now in the excel file. We deleted the "Number of attendees" column in the excel file because it was not used.
• Photos: When you view the untagged photos in the Photos Album space, you now see just the untagged photos not every photos (tagged and untagged) from your account.   
• Emails: In the "Check live email delivery status" page, we deleted some test information which had been left there by mistake.   

Thanks and have a great week end!!!

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Here are the latest improvements and few bug fixes for this week (all these changes will be pushed to all servers next Friday).

Improvements:

• Calendar: The month selector used to only list 12 months, it is now listing 24 months. If you click on the last month in the list, the followgin 12 months will be displayed.
  

Bug fixes:

• Email: When you click on the "Delete" link of an attachment, it will only delete the attachment connected to this link, not all the attachments.
  

• Members: Expanding and collapsing account types used to be stuck when the type would include special characters.  We fixed this, you can now display or hide them all.
  
• Email: Just after adding an attachment, you are not redirected to another page anymore. You remain on the compose email page.
• Members: There are no more display problem (overlapping, formating) for long account types.

Thanks and have a great weekend!!!

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We are very excited to announce that we have started working on a newer version of our CampusGroups mobile application. The second good news is that the application will be multiplatform and available on iPhone, Android and Blackberry phones.

It will allow you to access the main features of the CampusGroups platform such as your school feed, events, groups, inbox and your profile…

Here are a few mockups showing what the new app will do. We are still working on the main navigation.

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Here are few bug fixes and the lastest improvements for this week (all these changes will be pushed to all servers next friday).

Improvements:

• My profile: We simplified the resume module.  To add a resume, go to "My profile", then click on "Edit Resume". You don't have to to upload a resume file on your profile anymore.
• Website: Access rights of each Web page of your website are now easier to read and navigate.
• Website: We added new confirmation messages to the website editor tool.

Bug fixes:

• Photo: The display of the "upload photos" iframe has been fixed on IE.  There was a blue background on Internet Explorer, it's now white like on all other browsers.
  
• Privacy: On the Privacy/Access pop-up, when an Account Type is too long, there is no display problem anymore.
  

Thanks and have a great week end!

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Check out the CampusGroups 4L Trophy team and their preparation!

https://all.campusgroups.com/4ltrophy/web_blog_comment?club=4ltrophy&url_...

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Here are few bug fixes and the lastest improvements for this week (all these changes will be pushed to all servers by Friday Feb 3rd):

Bug fixes:

• Members: We fixed a cross browser issue which was preventing users to sort the members list of a club on IE 8 and Chrome.
  
• Profile: When you delete a photo in your profile, it does not appear in your profile anymore.
• Feed: When you delete a photo in the feed, it does not appear on the feed anymore.

Improvements:

• Useful Links: In Useful Links form, size of "Url link" and "Comment" parts are now more adapted.
  
• Groups settings: In Group Settings form, size of "Mission" and "What we do" parts are now more adapted.
• User interface: When new members have been added, a message is now displayed.

Thanks and have a great week end!

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We love to hear great feedback when we do our best to support our users.  Here are a few emails which made us smile over the past few days.

As we were making changes to a custom Assessment Tool for the Office of Career Development at NYU Stern School of Business: "Wow! You are amazing! Thank you so much! We look forward to reviewing the changes." - Allison, and "That is great!  Thanks." - Tammy

"All sorted out now – Thanks for the quick response everyone!" - Aditi from University of Michigan Ross School of Business

As we found out that a school administrator at Fuqua did not have the right account type and could not access private posts on a discussion board: "Thank you for your quick reply.  It does look like that fixed the discussion board issue. Many thanks! " - Ruth from Duke University Fuqua School of Business

As we helped out with the layout of a club Website (https://cua.campusgroups.com/centerstage/about/).  "Thanks so much, it looks fantastic! " - Britt from The Catholic University of America

Thanks for your feedback!

The CG Support Team
http://support.campusgroups.com 

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Here are the lastest improvements for this week (all these changes will be pushed to all servers by Friday Jan 27th):

• Events: We added a "Create Event" button straight on the calendar to allow officers to create events in just 2 clicks instead of 4.  Also, the calendar now has 2 views: the Month view and the Agenda view (list of events).

• Emails: You can now open an email by clicking anywhere on the email line not just on the email title.
• Navigation: Click on Groups in the top menu will allow you to see all your groups, not all the groups at school.
• Events: Quick description is not a mandatory field anymore and will contain the name of the event if left empty.
• Website: You can now customize the URL of any given page (not just the name and browser title).

• Navigation: When switch into another group you are an officer of, you will land to the same page you were on (ex: Edit Website page).
• School Admin: As a school administrator, you can now see an event registration page, even if it has not been approved yet.
• Events: To accelerate the loading of Upcoming Events, the list of event topics will be displayed in read-only mode (without the dropdown to edit them).
• RSS feed: Event names will not include the group acronym anymore.

Thanks and have a wonderful week end!

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Here are the lastest improvements and a few fixes for this week.

Improvements:

• Events: we adjusted the ICS cache-control header to allow Google Calendar to update calendar feeds more often (last test showed that Google refreshed within a few hours, which is not ideal still). A known issue with Google Calendar prevents external calendar feeds from updating when a change is made to one of the events (updates only occur once a day).
• Performance: we merged several JavaScript files into one.  To reduce requests to the disk, we changed the way we check if a Website favicon is present, and we removed the web page background verification. 
• Performance: we set up a new prototype with a new .NET business layer, and profiling bench
• Performance: club logo and banner URLs are now saved in database to reduce requests to disk.               

Bug fixes:   

• Officers: when an officer is deactivated, if a custom position was entered, it will be displayed next to the name of the officer.
• Profile: officer positions are displayed on Student Profiles even when the officers are no longer active.
• Website: it is now possible to add line breaks in the bio and role on the officer widget.

Have a great week end!

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Here are the lastest improvements and a few fixes for this week.

Improvements:   

• Events: We can now download the list of people who were invited to an event but RSVP’d “no”, or the list of people who were invited to an event but RSVP’d “yes”.
• Performance: We optimized the caching of static files (CSS, JS, images, etc) to accelerate navigation on CG.
• Profile: We now allow you to download your LinkedIn summary into CampusGroups as your profile bio.
• Privacy: "School community users only" privacy setting will not grant access based on the user email address anymore, but on his/her account type.

Bug fixes:   

• Profile: We fixed the import resume from LinkedIn feature.
• Profile: We fixed Facebook Connect under Edit My Profile.
• Photos: When uploading several photos on the school feed and clicking on one of them, the photo slider would not allow you to see the other photos. We fixed that.

Have a great week end!

Claire

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