Thursday, October 8, 2009

theCampusCenter.com









theCampusCenter.com  - About Us

theCampusCenter.com is a multi-dimensional SaaS/Web 2.0 environment. It acts as a social network that is major centric for students around the world. It has a research center that contains validated, peer-reviewed links that aid students in doing their research while also diminishing the time it takes to find relevant, qualified research. Students & faculty can also contribute research links by sending them to us.

Class Forums and Study Forums
There are class forums and study forums that can be customized for each class. We have portal capabilities that can also be customized to look and feel like any school.

SaaS/Web Applications
You can do your research in our Research Center, add to MyLinks and then add to MyNotes. You can add audio and video clips to MyMedia. Once you’re finished collecting your data you can then create your paper in MyPapers – research notes, citations, links, audio, images, video, whatever you need and save it to your profile and send it via email to your professor.

Dynamic Content
We provide up to the minute news, sports, games, entertainment and RSS feeds. You can also chat with friends in Mychat or just check your Weather. We have a section for you to post your Resume and a Job Search area for you to find or post a job.

Supplies
Also we have a full Amazon powered College Store for all your needs. Anything Amazon.com carries we have as well. And every time you order from our store it helps your school create donations, scholarships and much needed revenue to help keep costs in line with these tough economic times.

Reward Coupons
We reward students for using the site with a point system that is redeemable at many vendors and retailers. All this and it helps in revenue generation for the institutions that use it.

Safe, Free, Revenue Generating
theCampusCenter.com is a no cost, safe, academic student portal that features eight different streams of revenue sharing for academic institutions. Today we need to fund academia at all levels. Tuition has topped out, endowments have been hurt by the current fiscal crisis and fundraising is at a standstill. Educational institutions are in desperate need of new alternative revenue streams. We provide those streams at no cost to these institutions and alleviate some IT and LMS demands. theCampusCenter.com affords those revenue streams through a simple model based on open source code and non-proprietary backend.

Starting Clicking
Please use the site and see how it can be customized it for your school or institution so they can start benefiting from the revenue sharing. Everything is here for your daily needs as a student or faculty. It is just finding the right source that usually is tough. We make it easier, quicker and more reliable.

theCampusCenter.com - FAQ's

Why use theCampusCenter.com?
Simple! Today colleges and universities are spending time, money and resources building student portals that have no return on investment. They are re-inventing the wheel. We provide a customizable, no cost, revenue generating solution to this need, with e-Learning modules, and all supported by e-Commerce that we share with the colleges and universities that use our service.
It is totally customizable for the look and feel of your school and we host it for free and provide on-site administration help in the form of campus representatives that are on our staff. Simply put you spend nothing and make revenue.

Can we access it from anywhere?
Yes. The site can be accessed anywhere with any Web enabled device, laptops, desktops, iPhones, iTouch,or  any Web enabled device.

Can it be invisible?

Yes. It will be invisible to the user. It will look and feel like your school and be connected to your resources. You will have total admin capabilities and can review any profile or content you wish.

How do you monitor the usage?

Simple. Each college or university will have its own VPS (Virtual Private Server) that is setup specifically for them. You can use your school email or better yet get a Gmail account. We will create a database from registration forms when you sign up and when that user logs in they go directly to their school’s portal.

How do we construct the LMS?

Simple! We have pHp forums setup that faculty and students can input data. Users can then access the proper course from our search listing and set up a MyClass Forums structure. Faculty and students can use this structure to conduct online classes or simply point to a URL of there choosing.

Why are there no photos or media?

You can have photos n your private profile if you wish. However due to many issues arising today such as future employers reviewing these sites, you can keep what you want private and only show a base “virtual” profile.
You can embed any media you want and use it in your papers section. Then send that to your professor in email format. No more printing of papers and professors can reply via email with comments and grades. You don’t build a web page we do it for you through MyPapers. And it is all stored in your profile for you to print or retrieve or edit at anytime. It is Software as a System.

Can we read eBooks?

Yes. You can download any e-Book as a .pdf or simply click on a link to a number of eBook sites right from your computer.
You can also access your school’s library resources by logging in to them through our site. It will pop up the page and you’re in.

What about your research center?

Our research center is built on peer-reviewed, pre-qualified links sent in from faculty and students. Soon we will be adding a submit button to the center so that you can get Reward Points for every valid link you provide. These points will be redeemable at a host of vendors.

Can we add friends?

Yes. You can add friends from anywhere around the world. You can also add MyMajors – friends that are studying in your major. Form study groups and discuss topics.

Can our friends share information with us?

Yes. If you friend someone they have access to MyNotes and MyPapers. But watch it because your professors also will have access so no plagiarism. It will get you expelled.

Can we upload music and video?

Yes. But it must be copyright free. Soon all Digital Rights Management issues will be resolved and this problem will go away. But for now watch what you upload.

What about job opportunities?

You can post your resume and submit it to our job search database. Employers have access to search based on major. Include your email but we would really suggest no address or phone number unless you want. Most contact today is done through email.

Search Less. Find More. – theCampusCenter.com

Patrick Aievoli, Founder – patrick@theCampuscenter.com



Friday, March 28, 2008

44-52

I want to know who is going to give me back my last eight years. What a complete waste of commodites, resources, not to mention lives. 8 years of total waste - from surplus to deficit. From a strong economy and boom, a strong world presence to a beyond deflated dollar to being despised wherever we go. Is it one man's fault? No it is every one's fault we let it happen. And we can't let it happen again. I miss my forties. I wanted them to be a good time they weren't. They were a dreadful time. One of war and terror. One on fear and loathing. A time for fear integrated deep into our hearts. Fear of everyday being a disaster. Not good.
Now maybe it is time for a change. Now maybe we can make that change happen. It is just 9 more months to a re-birth. 9 more months of gestation until a new America starts to reshape itself. I can't wait to get my $600.00 check so I can fill my gas tanks. Thanks, Dick.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Will Print Survive the Next 5 Years?

Ziff Davis announces bankruptcy! Time, Inc lays off 297 editorial workers and makes reference to its future laying on the Web. Tribune, times Mirror, etc.... all announcing cutbacks on staff. Print advertising not keeping pace with growth of online advertising. Microsoft buying online ad networks, along with Google and other giants. where do we think this is all headed?

If oil has reached $112 dollars a barrel and printing presses need energy to run and paper needs oil to be made where do we think that this is all going? Surely there are enough print readers left but what about Kindle? Why did Amazon develop this product? Why make a prototype for $399 available on your home page if you do not want or foresee the inevitable use of such devices? Why make over 100,000 titles available for download, why make it wirelessly connect to the Internet? What is going on here? You know when I see my neighbor painting and fixing up his house I kind of figure he is looking to sell.

Does Amazon see the future as eBooks? The development of eBooks has increased 56% from 2006 to 2007. Will kindlelike products be the textbook and magazine/newspaper reading devices of the near future? There's gotta be a reason why Google is building server farms the size of Rhode Island? Something is going on here? Maybe it's just me?

Monday, March 24, 2008

Getting Started in this Culture

It's been about 9 years of attempting to get this start up going. On and off due to the economy and such things but finally we are making some head way. It is a great idea and one with huge profit potential it is just that the market is not really there completely yet. There are so many possibilities. The millennial are getting to just the right age... or as I like to call them Gen-i. Generation interactive generation immediate, itinerant, isolation , Internet and such. they are a new breed one that looks at life differently then us boomers and like. Some have actually said to me that they don't want careers they just want to be famous and have money. they don't care how they get it just as long as they can have MTV crib like homes. A friend remarked that we have no culture today. He is a historian of civilizations and I have to admit that he is right. What is our culture 112 dollar a barrel oil and a seven year war with 4000 dead. What is our culture - re sampled music that takes tracks from nursery rhymes and makes them into hits. I'm not complaining I'm simply stating facts.
iI mean what do kids have to look forward to $500,000 dollar mortgages and jobs that are being outsourced. An economy that is crumbling under sub prime voodoo and the fact that their $120,000 college bill can't get them a $50,000 a year job. It is not funny and nobody is doing anything about it. Get started! Knowledge management is the new career for these kids. But knowledge of what? Will we all be just marketing geniuses? We need to find products that we actually need. The Web is simply the greatest tool ever created. It connects the world. We need to start teaching these kids about bits not atoms. We need to get started!