CampusTap is a communications and calendaring platform that enables
students and student groups to share ideas and information across
campus. With CampusTap, students can keep track of events and campus
discussions and events through a customized homepage linked to their
friends and groups. Members of the university contribute content and
share their ideas with the university community and the general public
through personal blogs and participation in group blogs.
CampusTap is a virtual mirror of your physical campus. It takes all
of the information that members of the Harvard campus create and
consolidates it for other Harvard students to read.
CampusTap is grounded in three major principles:
Get Informed: we want information to be convenient
CampusTap lets you see the latest news from all of your favorite student
group blogs and your classmates' blogs right on one convenient homepage.
You'll also see your daily schedule, popular topics, and new posts about
you. This is your life, organized.
To keep track of life beyond the gates, we created My Interests.
With My Interests you can read all favorite blogs from off campus, get
your G-Mail, monitor the weather, and browse Flickr feeds.
Get Inspired: we want to make it easy to share ideas and information
Every CampusTap user has a calendar. Every CampusTap blog has a calendar.
When you subscribe to a blog, you can have its calendar automatically
integrated into your personal calendar. So, if there's a meeting on
Thursday, one person adds it to the calendar and everyone else sees it.
Simple.
But why stop with events? CampusTap makes full use of tags to
identify, categorize, and filter information. Our Campus Chatter
feature lets you instantly see the most popular tags across the whole
campus. You can even tag other users and see who's really the most
talked about person at Harvard.
Get Involved: we want to eliminate the hassle of discussion
Huge email lists and list-servs are incredibly inefficient and messy ways
of communicating. CampusTap fixes all the problems of a list-serv by giving
every group its own blog. Blogs are perfectly suited to discussion since
they are structured as a topic post and a series of nested comments.
Moreover, blogs archive everything and are fully searchable.
Just in case you really like list-servs, CampusTap can send every post
and comment right to your inbox (or send a daily digest), as well as let
you create new posts or comments via email.
Groups aren't the only way of communicating on CampusTap. Our service
makes it easy to find friends' blogs and share your own ideas and thoughts
on a personal blog.
