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It’s official. The semifinalists have been announced. Who will be crowned 2008 Zinch Sweet Diggity Dawg? You decide.
Next week voting begins. March Madness Zinch style. It’s gonna be fun. In light of that, here’s a Friday funny.
This month is gonna be fun….
-Mick
Last year, we made our second appearance at the NACAC National Conference, held in Austin, TX. A few presentations stand out. Mary Chase- Assistant Vice President for Enrollment at Creighton University was not only engaging as a presenter, but she shared some terrific insight into Creighton’s embrace of Web 2.0. Many schools look to Creighton as one school that has successfully crossed, or who is successfully crossing, the chasm. I chatted with Mary this afternoon…
I’m talking about $20,000 dollars. Who wants this scholarship? The madness. Who wants free money to pay for their education? Yeah, we know you all do, but this is tough. So many great students to choose from. Seriously. We’ve gotten your many letters telling us why you deserve the scholarship. Letters from students, from parents and from your counselors. For this big scholarship, though I admire the hustle, brown nosing isn’t going to work:)
Zinch is approaching its birthday (we’re 1 year old) next month. Without letting the cat out of the bag, I will say we have some long anticipated releases that will coincide with arguably the best month of the year. We’re hoops fans over here :)
So what do we have to show? 300,000+ users, almost 500 colleges, yeah, yeah yeah… You want results, right? Well, we do too. We’ve heard from many students and colleges about successes they’ve had using Zinch. A couple days ago I pinged Brad Ward, Electronic Communication Coordinator (their web dude) at Butler University. Butler has seen some great results. Let me share…
Kristen from NJ was the third person in as many weeks to ask about Tutor.com and how it compares to other sites like it. The answer? Well, I'm still not completely sure.
I did a bit of research and, after sorting through a pile of blog articles, found this really good story from the New York Times a couple weeks ago.
It talks about a few of the different online tutoring sites that are currently out there, and ultimately claims tutor.com was (or at least seemed to be) the easiest among them.
I think the next step for me is going to be checking out their free trial offer. 25 free minutes is certainly enough to get a feel for it, and I'll be reporting back with my progress. I wonder if they can help me with my Zinch homework…
In the meantime, have any of you tried it or any of the other online tutoring companies? If so, what did you think?
As many of you already know, today is Super Tuesday, which refers to the fact that 24 states are holding presidential primaries.
Now, I talked to a girl yesterday that asked "What's so "Super" about this Tuesday, the Superbowl is over?"
Don't be that girl.
Here is a picture of the United States. Blue means only Democrats are voting, Red means only Republicans, and Purple means EVERYONE is voting.
And for those of you who struggled with middle school geography and still can't quite find your state on the map, Here is the list of states voting:
Almost all colleges find and recruit students through standardized test scores. Zinch allows
students to be seen for what they are -- not just numbers, but people.
With more than 800 schools and over 1.9 billion in scholarships, Zinch has quickly become the standard for helping student succeed.
Zinch is now 2 million plus students and growing fast.
