May 2011
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Philanthropy Spotlight: Phi Kappa Tau at Chapman...
Philanthropy is a cornerstone of Greek life and we at ChapterBoard always love hearing about the fantastic work our chapters do.
Last month, the Phi Kappa Tau chapter at Chapman University hosted the Orange Community Festival benefiting the Hole in the Wall Camps Association. The Association is an international family of camps and programs that provide support and life-changing experiences to...
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Recent Grads & Greek Life: Now What?
We’re almost to those delicious carefree months of summer, but before we get there we have to celebrate our graduating seniors and all they’ve done! Whether your chapter celebrates with emotional senior send offs, pub crawls or alumni initiations, in the back of our minds we all worry about one thing: will our graduating friends still be involved in the chapter?
For many grads, sadly,...
March 2011
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New Features & Improvements!
Just because it’s officially spring doesn’t mean the ChapterBoard team has been slacking at all! We’ve been hard at work listening to your feedback, integrating your ideas, and tailoring ChapterBoard to the specific needs of the Greek system.
We’re very happy to announce some great new additions and tweaks to the ChapterBoard system. First up, the ChapterBoard Calendars!...
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ChapterBoard App Reaches 600 iTunes Downloads!
Thanks to all our users who have been sharing ChapterBoard with their friends in other chapters! In just over 2 months we have reached 600 downloads of our official ChapterBoard app in the iTunes Store. Not only are we getting a lot of downloads, but it looks like everyone is really enjoying the app as well. A 4.5 out of 5 star rating is pretty impressive considering its our first attempt at...
February 2011
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User Surveys
Over the course of the past 6 months we’ve gone from just friends of friends using our site, to over 300 chapters nationwide. With that kind of growth we have to be doing something right! (Ya I know, humor us.) Anyways, we want to know from you, just how well our site addresses your chapter’s needs.
So, starting this week you’ll periodically notice a one question survey...
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Updated Chapter Dashboard
Just a quick note to let you guys know that we updated the dashboard so that you see which forums the recent topics belong to. This should help make navigating the forums a bit quicker from your dashboard.
Enjoy!
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Chapter Spotlight: Pi Kappa Alpha at Southwestern...
We love hearing success stories from our chapters. This week we’re spotlighting the Pi Kappa Alpha chapter at Southwestern University for their excellent winter recruitment.
Since implementing ChapterBoard’s recruitment tools this January, their chapter was able to bid 21 new members. That’s more than double their previous year’s and larger than any other fraternity...
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“This site has made our chapter function on a whole new level thanks!”
– Thanks Cameron from Morehead State!
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Chapter Photo Gallery Update
Just a short announcement letting everyone know that you can now leave comments on all your favorite photos in the chapter photo galleries. You can also like the comments, just like in the forums (no pun intended!).
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Private Messaging Improvements
Just a quick update to let everyone know that we recently launched some improvements to the ChapterBoard private messaging feature.
We’ve enabled sending messages to groups on ChapterBoard, so if you have a message for all your pledges or exec members it’s much easier to send them a quick note.
In addition, we’ve implemented email replies for private messages just like the...
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Printer Friendly Member Balance Report
Just a quick update for chapter Treasurers and the finance oriented bunch. You will now notice a “Printer Friendly” link in the “Dues” section on the member balances screen. We’ve included each member’s phone number to make follow up phone calls more convenient.
Here’s to collecting more dues for your chapter!
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Chapter finance updates!
We’re really excited to announce support for multiple bank deposit accounts. Housing Corporations, feel free to shoot off that bottle of champagne!
Now, when you assess charges to your members you’ll be able to choose which bank account you want us to deposit the money into. Dues and assessments go to the chapter account, rent goes to the housing corporation account, simple as...
January 2011
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Printer Friendly Calendars
We’ve also just launched an update so that your calendar’s appear all pretty and clean when printed.
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Community Service Hours: Add notes
Just a minor update that we added a new feature to the community service section. When you record your hours you may now record a note to share additional information.
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New Year. New Features.
We’re excited to announce all the great work we’ve put into ChapterBoard over the holiday.
Photo Galleries
Study Bank
Chapter Files Cabinet
Automated late fees for dues
There’s a lot more in store as well. Good luck to all our chapters on winter/spring recruitment! And, as always, let us know what you think about our new features.
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November 2010
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“This website has so far astounded me in simplicity, function, and design. I feel...”
– Beta Chi Theta at University of Minnesota
October 2010
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Chapter Spotlight: Pi Kappa Alpha at Arizona...
Let’s face the facts: ChapterBoard chapters are freaking awesome! This past summer time meant convention time, and it was great to hear that so many of our chapters took home national awards and recognitions this year. Among them, we’d like to give a giant congratulations to the Pi Kappa Alpha brothers of the Gamma Delta chapter at the University of Arizona.
Gamma Delta garnered multiple awards...
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Chapter Spotlight: Pi Kappa Alpha at UC Irvine...
With the new school year beginning and Greeks across the country back in the swing of things, we thought it’d be nice to spotlight one of the ChapterBoard chapters and their recent accomplishments.
Chartered only six years ago in 2004 the brothers of Lambda Lambda have become a house to be reckoned with and a chapter with definite staying power. On campus at UC Irvine, Lambda Lambda has...
September 2010
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August 2010
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New Features Launched
Today we’re announcing a few new features that we’re really excited about and hope you are too:
Recruitment Tools
The problem with recruitment? You have opinions about potential new members but between recruitment retreat, the start of school, and actually going to recruitment events, there’s no time to share! Enter, ChapterBoard and our awesome developers. For every potential new member...
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ChapterBoard featured on KillerStartUps.com!
Is ChapterBoard a killer start up? We all like to think so! Check out our feature on KillerStartUps.com, and if you think ChapterBoard is a killer start up, vote for us! The voting is more for bragging rights than anything else, but hey, who doesn’t like to brag?
Click here to read the feature
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$250,000.00 processed
We always get really excited when we hit milestones that prove we’re building a product that people find useful. Recently our online dues collection services have started to pick up momentum. As of last week we have successfully processed $250,000.00 in dues collections for our chapters. Here’s to the next quarter million in online collections!
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June 2010
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Congrats 2010 grads!
A big shout out from all of us at ChapterBoard to the graduating class of 2010! Whether you took four years to graduate or six (no judgment), we hope you enjoyed your college days and nights. Congratulations!
May 2010
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Moving to Seattle
We’re really happy to announce that we just finished moving to Downtown Seattle! It’s been a pretty hectic couple of weeks for us but we’re really glad to be in our new spot downtown. And now that we’re all settled we look forward to working on some of our big ideas that will be released at end of summer… can’t wait!
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Pi Kappa Alpha at Arizona show their philanthropic...
A quick shoutout to the Pikes at Arizona - Gamma Delta chapter - for their work with the Tucson Fire Department and Ambers of Hope Foundation. Gamma Delta raised over $3,000 during their week-long philanthropy despite being chartered only nine months ago. The Arizona Pikes are avid users of ChapterBoard (since the chapter rechartered) and we’re very proud to have them in the ChapterBoard...
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New Server
Last night we spent some time moving our application to a brand new server. Everything went super smooth and we’re really happy to see that more chapters are enjoying ChapterBoard.
April 2010
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ChapterBoard Mobile!
ChapterBoard Mobile is live! Now you can use your iPhone, Android, or BlackBerry smart phone to stay in sync with your chapter on ChapterBoard.
Visit m.chapterboard.com on your phone.
February 2010
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September 2009
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Chapter Spotlight: Pi Kappa Alpha @ University of...
Congratulations to the Lambda Lambda Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha. This summer they were awarded their third straight Smythe Trophy (awarded annually to the top 5% of Pike chapters across the nation).
The Lambda Lambda chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha is also celebrating just its fifth year since chartering in 2004. While still a young chapter in many respects, the brothers of Lambda Lambda have proven...
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Follow us!
Yes, we’re now on Twitter! We’ll be keeping our followers updated with new ChapterBoard related announcements as well as cool things we see happening in the world of Fraternity and Sorority life.
Click here to follow us on Twitter.
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New Feature: Announcements
We’ve just released a new feature that will allow chapter admins and exec board members to send out email announcements to all members or groups of members. We’d like to thank the Pike chapter at Lehigh University for sending us the suggestion.
Do you have ideas on how we can make ChapterBoard better? Send over your suggestions to team@chapterboard.com.
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Welcome
Welcome to our blog. We’ll be keeping it updated with news and announcements about the fraternity and sorority world.