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Rockstar Video Contest Winner: CSULB!

Posted by on Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

We are excited to announce the winner of our Rockstar Video Contest: California State University, Long Beach! Congratulations to the awesome team at CSULB. They have won two registrations to OrgSync Connect and will be invited to present at this year’s conference. When assessing the videos, we ranked each one across four categories: content, creativity, [...]

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OrgSync Rockstar Video Contest Finalists

Posted by on Friday, April 26th, 2013
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Not too long ago, we announced the OrgSync Rockstar Video Contest, a competition for our campus partners to create a video showing us how they use OrgSync on their campus. The response was overwhelming and confirmed that we have some pretty talented folks in the OrgSync family. We narrowed the submissions down to four finalists [...]

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The Key to Culture: 3 Steps to Creating a Positive Departmental Culture

Posted by on Monday, April 22nd, 2013

Culture is something that, as higher education professionals, we try to cultivate within our organizations and across the student body. We request student organizations provide Mission Statements to help them define their purpose. We then provide these organizations with resources and support so they can better define their organizational culture; but what about our own [...]

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OrgSync Reaches 2 Million Users!

Posted by on Thursday, April 4th, 2013
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On Thursday, March 28, OrgSync hit another remarkable milestone: 2 millions users! Our 2 millionth user came from Minnesota State University Mankato. In April 2012, we reached 1 million users. It took us nearly 5 years to reach this major milestone and less than a year to reach the next million. We are extremely excited [...]

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9 Weeks of OrgSync at Midwestern State University

Posted by on Friday, March 29th, 2013
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Two weeks ago we provided some best practices for the 9 Weeks of OrgSync initiative. This week, we’d like to highlight the campus who originally developed the idea. Matthew Park, Associate Vice President of Student Affairs at Midwestern State University shares his thoughts on his campus’ implementation. An Associate Vice President’s Perspective We developed the [...]

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Congratulations to NASPA Winners!

Posted by on Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
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Congratulations to our Campus Partners who won awards at NASPA this year! We are thrilled to see so many Campus Partners on the winner list this year. Here at OrgSync, we love our Campus Partners, and we know they are fantastic–it’s great to see so many earn accolades professionally, too! EXCELLENCE AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING PROGRAMS [...]

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Selling Students on Greater Involvement

Posted by on Monday, March 11th, 2013
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Implementing “The 9 Weeks of OrgSync” on your campus I always wished my graduate program offered a marketing class. As higher education professionals, we are constantly charged with “selling” programs and services to various stakeholders within the institution. As one of OrgSync’s Campus Consultants, I’m often asked how our Campus Partners can market the platform [...]

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What’s Your Major? The 3 Most Significant Areas of Growth Impacting Your Education

Posted by on Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

Back in the day, the “name” of your college was the driving force in setting you apart from your colleagues when it came time to get a job. In fact, it didn’t even really matter what kind of a degree you received: if you could say you graduated from a top-tier or prestigious school, you [...]

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Most Desirable Workers Have Out-of-Classroom Experience

Posted by on Monday, March 4th, 2013

A joint survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education and Marketplace found that the most important qualifier for a recent college graduate isn’t grades, major, or even where they went to school, but whether or not the student participated in internships. The survey found that two-thirds of employers require a bachelor’s degree and would never [...]

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7 Tips to Improve Elections with OrgSync

Posted by on Friday, March 1st, 2013
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Increase voter turnout by using OrgSync for your student elections! How do you do it?  1.    Use Online Nominations and Applications Using the forms feature, create a nomination or application form for your election, putting all potential candidates in one easy online location. Have students fill out explanations for their nomination; for example, “John Smith [...]

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