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Hey All

Collegespeaks has received a nomination for being one of the coolest startups for the year by NEN!!! That’s yet another milestone for Collegespeaks and gives us all the more reasons and motivation to work harder.

Thanks to all our Collegespeakees and to Akshay, Chaula, Deepak, Varsha and Aarti, our team who have made it possible. The activities, suggestions and feedback that we constantly receive from our Collegespeakees have been a boost to us and now we need to gear up to prove how strong a community we are.

We need your votes to help  make Collegespeaks the coolest startups for the year. So start voting by logging on to http://www.hotteststartups.in/viewandvote.do?method=fetch&businessFn=viewandvote&startupId=59.

The journey so far has been a pleasure and an exciting one just because of the support from our members and again, only with your support can we go further. Good luck to all of us and thanks in advance for all your votes…

Vidya

Hiya

Everyday we get tons of requests of courses and colleges which you want to add to Collegespeaks. It’s an excellent sign for us as it shows an increasing acceptance and enthusiasm for Collegespeaks.

We look forward to all your requests and will be glad if we could add every college, irrespective of its size, location and discipline, to Collegespeaks. Although we keep adding on to our database by making use of all known resources, but nothing better than coming straight from our members who are right there pursuing these courses.

One thing that I would like to add here is, please provide the complete name and location of the college, so that we can give you a quicker response in getting it added. You can also be a little extra nice by giving us some further information too, and you may never know we could be including a new addition to our points feature and start giving bonus points for that extra bit of information, the condition being it has to be right. Well, that’s only an idea which has struck me just now and there’s nothing official about it yet. But you guys, keep sending your college and course requests and don’t forget to reply back to those emails that we send for clarifying certain things about your requests.

Campus Reps is the opportunity which helps you chisel your networking and communication skills, something most in demand these days for your career progress.

A Campus Rep is the point of contact for Collegespeaks for that particular college. As a Campus Rep, you will bring a steady inflow of members to Collegespeaks and enhance the activities on Collegespeaks by regularly posting Quotes, Grades, Announcements etc. Both the Campus Rep and the members have their share of rewards based on their activities.

To become a Campus Rep, one needs to be a member of Collegespeaks. It is also important that as a Campus Rep, you have your profile complete with your picture (ideally your own picture), a brief description of yourself and some Quotes posted for your college.

Once selected, you will receive a starter kit with our tee-shirt, bag and other handy things. You will now come up with interesting ideas to evoke your campus people to join Collegespeaks, tell them how they can earn points and convert those points into rewards. You will verify members from your campus, distribute freebies and thus encourage them to re-visit Collegespeaks. All the way, we will support you wherever you need, either with the freebies or any other technical assistance. As a Campus Rep, you will be a part of the Collegespeaks Team.

Your targets will be to bring at least 50 members from your campus and contribute at least 1000 quotes through the members. Any member who agrees, disagrees or wants to take further a Quote posted by another member is free to do so by posting comments against Quotes. This way an outsider would get a complete overview of your college.

Even after achieving your target, you can continue bringing more members from your college, so that you can participate in the lucky draw for the best Campus Rep of the year, who wins a laptop. You will realise that during this whole process, you have given an edge to your CV with real life experiences to support your leadership, networking and negotiation skills, which will be very helpful irrespective of what career you choose.

If you think you have the enthusiasm and energy to take up this challenge, apply now to become a Campus Rep for Collegespeaks. All the very best for your endeavour!!!

I thought this would be a better way of addressing the queries that we get through our contact sections and other websites. New users keep asking us- ‘Now that we have registered with Collegespeaks, what next?’

Unlike social networking sites, where a user’s arena extends to everything from making friends to expanding professional network, Collegespeaks caters to this niche segment where a user can find everything about Indian campuses.

Your identity on Collegespeaks is therefore associated with the college(s) you have attended or are still attending. It is extremely important that you be a part of a campus that you have actually been to because only then you will be able to share your campus experiences and also stay connected with your campus even after passing out. Sharing campus experiences will then become a trend that will be carried on by your juniors. You will be verifying your immediate juniors and the others whom you can recognize from the time you were in college. You can even guide your juniors or any other prospective student, who is interested in joining your college, about the future career prospects after passing out from your alma-mater.

Once this chain is established, you will always be able to keep track of the changes your college has gone through - you can see how your annual function is now celebrated, the professors who are still teaching or some of your batchmates who have turned professors and many more interesting facts. So keep posting…..

Hi all!!! You now have more reasons to visit Collegespeaks. The points feature, of which we spoke recently, is now there on the site for you. I know there is an enthusiatic lot there among you, who already know of it and have already become more active. And I also acknowledge being a little late in informing you of this new feature.

But what many might not know, is we also have an Announcements section, where you can post the latest campus-happenings, birthday gatherings, farewells, fees deadline and anything under the sun that you can think of. The only condition, it has to be related to your campus and campus people.

So stop reading and find out more on how to earn more points and win freebies.

In fact, we always had this on our minds, but took some time before introducing it. There were so many other things which have kept us occupied…You guys must be knowing what start-ups have to go through….Besides working on new features to the site, beautifying it and making navigation easier for our users, we have also been trying to give you a fun ride on Collegespeaks…believe me, without even those tiniest glitches ,which I know, you come across at times.

Moral of the story is -you will soon be able to see yourself earning points for all your hard work. In the meantime, please continue dropping in and sending in your queries and feedbacks. Any word from you is an incentive to work harder. Once we’re through with the changes, we’ll soon be back with the details of the new feature.

Thanks a lot and keep visiting!!!

Collegespeaks.com is gaining popularity, evident from the recent press coverage it has received in the local news papers. We’re happy to announce that article covering the website have been written in Nai Duniya, Indore, Hindustan Times (HT), Indore and Times of India (TOI), Indore.The articles recognise the excellent information platform that Collegespeaks offers for students, alumni and school-goers, while they also emphasise on how easy it makes having and updating a website within Collegespeaks for colleges. We’re happy, but will be happier still when we hear from you. Here are scans of some of the articles…do let me know what you think of them.And hey, continue to spread the word    

Collegespeaks as a website and as a concept has also been listed on allthingsweb2.com. The response and the ratings received have been very encouraging and thanks a lot for rating us popular. We look forward to more of such feedbacks.

Firstly, tonnes of thanks to all those who have sent in their valuable feedbacks to our review on Alootechie.com. Of course, we keep boasting of our concept and layout, but it’s fantastic to see all those positive reviews and suggestions. Keep them coming so that we keep providing you a better experience with the site.

We’ve now been receiving feedback on a problem with yahoo ids not receiving authentication mails upon registration or being received after some delay. I would like to apologize for this and also like to assure that we’re working to resolve this problem. For those using gmail, hotmail or rediff ids, there isn’t any problem. So go on with your registrations and please don’t hesitate to send in your feedbacks on the site. And needless to mention, pull in your friends by inviting them to the site.

 Thanks for your feedbacks so far.