GroupTable.com

GroupTable has made Huddlemind’s Top 10 Best Classroom 2.0 Applications List.  Huddlemind  is a specialist social-media education and eventing company. They also own and operates a Social Network of Educators and Organizational Development practitioners at huddlemind.net.

Here’s Dave Duarte (Co-founder of Huddleminds) list:

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1. Udutu: Easily author and publish courses online

2. Engrade: Web-based tools for educators - including tools to keep track of marks and publish assignments

3. Haiku LS: Easy, elegant learning management system

4. Grouptable: GroupTable is a web-based software and success network developed specifically to help student groups improve document management, project planning and communication.

5. Edufire: Learn online with live video

6. Global Classroom: Create elearning centres to train staff or clients.

7. Adobe Connect Pro: Host classes live via the web

8 . Schoolrack: Manage class mailing lists, calendars and assignments in one place for both teachers and students.

9. Studeous: enhance courses with tools like live chat, discussion boards, podcasting, and text messaging.

10. Edmodo: Free private micro-blogging (like Twitter) for teachers and students.

Thanks for including us in your list Dave Duarte!

How much do you and your group like GroupTable?  Now’s your chance to tell us and win some cool stuff in the process.  We will be having two contests from now until December 1st.  Below are some of the prizes we’ll be giving out and how you and your group can win.

NHL 2K9- xBox 360 game

How the Individual Contest Works

1. Create a video discussing the following
   • What you like the most about GroupTable
   • How GroupTable has helped your group
   • A short message convincing others why they should use GroupTable
2. Upload your video to youtube
3. Post the video on your Facebook profile
4. Become a Friend of the GroupTable Groupie by clicking This Link
5. Message GroupTable groupie through Facebook with “Game Contest” notifying us that your video is posted on your profile

On November 21st the contest will be closed to entries and we will select the top video to win the game.  We’ll announce the winner on December 1st…Good luck!

$60 Gift Card to Darden Restaurants

Darden is the owner of Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Bahama Breeze and other fabulous restaurant chains.  Encourage your group to participate in the contest and you may win a free lunch on us.

How the Group Contest Works

1. Create a funny video showing the hardships of group work without GroupTable.  This can include:
   • Distractions at a meeting (people talking about desperate house wives/football/ bf or gf etc)
   • Schedule conflicts making it hard to meet
   • How inefficient communication is bc of too many repetitive phone calls or long email threads threads
   • Anything else you can think of is fair game.
2. Then show how great group work can be once your group is using GroupTable.
3. Become friends with “GroupTable groupie” on Facebook by clicking: This Link
4. Message “GroupTable groupie” with “Group Contest” in the subject line indicating your video is posted on a group members facebook Profile.  Also include the link to the profile so we can view the video.

On November 21st the contest will be closed to entries.  We will pick the best three videos and notify the group through Facebook on December 1st.

We also encourage all of you to become a fan of GroupTable on Facebook.  You can do this by visiting our Facebook Fan Page Here.

We hope you guys have fun with this contest!

Attention All,

Lend me your ears

I proclaim that Labor Day, 2008 be forever remembered as “Landing Page Replacement Day!” Put it in the history books…

A small step for GroupTable, a giant leap for our conversion rates.  Sorry Old landing page…you tried, but your timid and uninformative ways didn’t drive enough action.  The old must let go and move aside to make way for the new.  Also tell your friend “YouTube GroupTable Demo May edition” that we no longer need his services.   Landing pg V2 will be a good page…The New and Improved Landing page- The sugar and the spice, the plate of chicken wings with just right amount of hotsauce (That ones for Carl), the super sundae with rainbow sprinkles…I apologize where was I…Oh yeah

Effective 1:00 pm your contract is terminated and you will be replaced.  We don’t care where you go, but you gotta get the hell outta here.

Deepest sympathies…The job market is tough

As for you GTV2 Landing page…you’ve been training hard, now is the time to shine… Lace up your boots your up!

Old Landing Page

ps…Feel free to leave your comments for GroupTable’s old landing page or words of encouragement for Landing page V2

Visit  http://www.grouptable.com to see the replacement landing page…Book mark this post if it made you laugh

So if you haven’t heard, we are creating a new version of GroupTable that we have dubbed “GTV2″ (I know we’re sooo creative).  We have been working hard on GTV2 based on your feedback and visions we have as well.  GTV2 will have an enhanced design, additional features, better usability and a stronger backend.  Today we had a very productive day and some great progress with GTV2.  Here’s a picture of Zach & Carl discussing Geek stuff.

Our design is nearly complete and Zach & Carl were discussing how they plan on bringing GTV2 to life.  Scott was in South Florida building relationships with organization heads and introducing them to GroupTable, but spent some time conferencing with me about cool things we are adding to our strategic plan.  In addition to that I worked on creating content for certain pages that will be used on GTV2, as well as putting a time-line together for certain initiatives.

After our meeting we decided to celebrate a day well spent and went to grab some grub & drinks at Chilli’s…MMMM

Anyways, we look forward to sharing everything we have been working on for GTV2 with you guys in the Fall…Your gonna love it!

Cheers

With the help of several professors, the GroupTable staff has put together a list of tips that we hope will help your group project team this upcoming semester. Here they are:

We’re working hard to enhance GroupTable for all of you and hope these tips combined with our software will help you save time and get better grades. See you in the Fall!

Today an article about GroupTable was published in the Central Florida Future by Jillian Krotki. The article discussed our promotional event, upcoming enhancements to the site and some future plans. You can read the article here: GroupTable Article

Here is a snippet from the article:

GroupTable.com is an online collaboration tool created to assist student groups with document management, communication, organization and project planning. It was founded by UCF students David Brim, Carl Henderson and Scott Wall.

Being business majors, these students quickly learned how difficult it is to bring groups of people together to work on projects and group assignments when everyone is running on a different schedule.

“It’s a challenge to bring everyone together, and often times when you do there are a lot of distractions and nothing is accomplished,” Brim said, the co-founder and product manager for GroupTable.com. The statewide launch of the product will take place this fall and by spring the team plans to spread nationwide.

On the site, groups are able to create to-do lists and share ideas through messages and chat rooms. Files can be uploaded and shared and deadlines can be assigned for different aspects of the workload to ensure that everyone is doing their part. All of the files and folders are stored in one location, which allows all members of the group to stay organized.

To read the full article click here

Stay updated…Lots of good stuff coming

Hello everyone…I haven’t been updating this blog as much as I’d like to recently, but we haven’t forgot about you…The GroupTable Staff has been very busy working to enhance GroupTable and are very thrilled to announce that the release of “GTV2″ will be sometime in the Fall Semester.

GTV2 will have all of the same features as GroupTable version one and a lot more.  We were pleased to receive so much positive feedback during the summer semester and are working hard to integrate a lot of these suggestions into the new version.  We are also in the process of re-designing our site.  The new design will look much more appealing, be easier to use and will give us a foundation to expand our site’s features to better fit your needs.

All of this will make your GroupTable experience even better….As I said “GTV2″ is still in the works, but here is a little sneak peak of the mock up of our landing page…

We look forward to seeing all of you Fall Semester!   We hope your as excited as we are  

I was just glancing at GroupTable’s stats and noticed a decent amount of traffic was going to GroupTable from UCF’s website. I explored the issue further and sure enough noticed they posted an article about our recent promotion. You can see the article here: UCF GroupTable Article

Overall the article was not bad, however it still seems that the writers don’t quite get exactly what we do. GroupTable is a collaborative software that is tailored to fit the needs of student group projects, study groups and organizations. It facilitates group collaboration, communication and organization and helps them to work more efficiently.

The article says that we are a student networking and document sharing site. Though students can network somewhat through GroupTable we are not what I would call a networking site. In addition to that sharing documents is only one aspect of our site. We also offer task management, online chat, discussion boards, file organization and more.

We are in the midst of enhancing GroupTable even more for the fall semester…Stay tuned!