GroupTable

The following is a guest post from David Brim, Co-Founder of GroupTable, a startup that provides group collaboration software for students. David is also the director of premium blogger relations & market research at IZEA, a social media marketing company. He writes about entrepreneurship and his experience starting GroupTable on his blog, "Filled to the Brim" at DavidBrim.org.Continue Reading...

Wiggio is an all encompassing group management platform for college students that includes everything from document management to bulk text message reminders. It was created by Cornell Seniors to literally have all necessary functionality in one application instead of using, 5 different websites for 5 different features, bouncing countless emails to schedule meetings, using list-serves and phone trees to remind people when those meetings are, keeping track of who does what and where those revisions are kept, and having a single location to track deadlines and collaborate online when no one wants to roam into the winter cold to meet on the other side of campus in up state New York. Group projects in school are a straightup pain. Wiggio helps make group collaboration easy.

Startups that aim to tackled "pains" with actual solutions tend to fair better than those just trying to create a cool app just for the sake of it. This is likely part of the reason why they managed to raise nearly half a million in seed financing and captured the attention of students who are using it at 286 different campuses.

The platform literally streamlines the whole group process. But, they aren't trying to recreate the wheel by building their own applications; instead, they are leveraging applications already built and packaging them into one system. Below are some of the features that you can use to manage your group:Continue Reading...

Group projects in school are usually instituted to facilitate group collaboration, delegation of work, and promote efficient use of time. However, the opposite is usually occurs, resulting in free loading slackers and countless hours wasted procrastinating and attempting to delegate and plan for the next meeting. These inefficiencies and frustrations have led to the creation of GroupTable, an application that "allows students to participate in their study groups, group projects, and organizations online as if they were sitting there together." GroupTable can be thought of as a BaseCamp for college students, eliminating the need for bouncing emails back and forth and in-the-flesh meetings, and satisfying the need for a central location to store and edit documents. I wish this type of application launched were available (and free) when I first entered college. In addition to the social features you would expect, such as profiles, groups and messaging, the group chat is what really makes the application a value-add. It works just like an AIM chat room in real time, but automatically saves the conversation for future reference. A central location for saved conversations and versions of documents makes collaborating on projects far more efficient than today's standards. Dave Brim, one of the co-founders, explained thatContinue Reading...