As the semester winds down and the holidays are upon us, I’m sure you are taking some time to reflect on the past semester and plan for the next one. We at OrgSync are doing the same. The fall 2008 semester was a very exciting one for OrgSync.
We attended eight conferences: ASGA National in Washington, D.C., TCCIL in Austin, NACA Mid-Atlantic in Lancaster, PA, NASPA Western Regional in Long Beach, CA, ASGA Southwest in Dallas, NASPA Region 1 in Cape Cod, MA, ILA National in Los Angeles, and AFA Annual Meeting in Denver. We have enjoyed attending these conferences and sharing in the professional development and networking with various associations. It’s always a great feeling when folks approach our booth because they have heard so many wonderful things about OrgSync. We genuinely appreciate the associations’ willingness to let us participate and we love working with and building strong relationships with all of the folks on the conference committees.
We have also developed new relationships with 11 campuses: Bowling Green State University (OH), California State University- Bakersfield, Fort Valley State University (GA), Glenville State College (WV), Northeastern Illinois University, Ohio Wesleyan University, University of Texas at Austin- College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin- McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Dallas, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, and Victor Valley College (CA). We are so excited to have the opportunity to work with amazing professionals from so many different campuses.
It is our goal to build and maintain very strong relationships with all of our clients across the country. In an effort to achieve this, we have developed a Client Services team, being led by a higher education veteran, who speaks the student affairs language and works with our campuses to achieve effective implementation and adoption of OrgSync. One of our main initiatives continuing into 2009 is to help campuses with implementation by offering on-site training. We visited five different campuses for on-site training this semester: Dixie State College, North Carolina State University, Owens Community College, Sacramento State University, and University of San Francisco. The on-site training has been extremely successful and has helped the OrgSync adoption rate by getting more students and departments across campus using OrgSync to meet their specific needs.
We also began hosting regular webinars this semester and will continue this in the months to come. We hold these webinars to stay connected with our schools and present relevant OrgSync updates, to educate our clients with important changes and news in the higher education community, and to listen to questions and feedback from our users. This also provides administrators a chance to network with each other and also to have an opportunity for sharing best practices for OrgSync. Corey Seemiller, from the University of Arizona, presented a webinar on the LINX leadership program, which is hosted on the OrgSync platform, while Frank Lojko, from Dixie State College, presented about how to use OrgSync for assessment. We will continue the professional webinar series in the spring, and also start a webinar series for student leaders. We are interesting in your ideas for interesting topics and presenters, so please contact us with comments, ideas and suggestions.
In addition to these exciting events, we have added several new members to our growing team. These team members all possess various talents and interests that add a whole new dimension to our organization. We are very proud of our many accomplishments over the fall semester and are looking forward to continuing to grow and expand over the spring semester and for many semesters to come. Look for many new exciting updates this spring from your friends here at OrgSync.
Happy New Year!
