Introduction: We'll use this blog to keep our community up to date
Keep an eye on this blog for information on new features, use tips etc. We will use our community blog to capture relevant Q&A. We are in alpha mode and so we welcome all feedback (more the better). Please send us feedback through the link on our site.
Following is a brief introduction to our site:
SchoolParentNet is a social network for parents, teachers and administrators, and leverages the school system to create a secure online environment. The site enables families to make/strengthen connections around real world communities - their local schools and other interest groups such as soccer clubs, mothers clubs, etc.
Use this site to exchange information and organize events with the school community in a secure and controlled manner. Our simple blog/sign-up sheet feature will provide an efficient, time saving, convenient method to manage wish list/party items, volunteer tasks and fund-raising activities. Use our friend, interest and school group capability to share referrals with local, relevant and trusted users.
Learn about this site by taking a tour. Please click here to see screenshots of how you could use our blog/sign-up sheet feature to create an online “welcome packet” with information about key activities and events, sign-up sheets for things like school/class supply wish lists, parties, etc.
Come join our free PreK-12 network - users from across the country (300+ schools from 35+ states) have already signed up! Please click here to sign-up. After you join the network, you can help win money for your school by inviting others.
SPN Fact – looking under the hood
The basic concept behind our site is based on the six degrees of separation theory (you may be familiar with this concept through the Kevin Bacon game!). Our site is built on the idea that if parents, teachers, administrators invite their friends, relatives, neighbors, co-workers, etc., and they in turn invite others then we can build a useful social network around our own school communities. In order to make the site more relevant to users, the software behind our site, groups users based on the school information they provide when they sign-up. Users are grouped with others at multiple levels from the district/city, to the school and even down to a classroom. So users just need to invite others they know and trust and let the site make relevant connections. This mechanism shifts the challenge of network building, creating contact lists, etc. from individuals or organizations (such as PTA’s) to all network users. In this way, we can help each other grow our own local networks - for example, one users co-worker may be a school parent group member for another user. Grouping users by their school information also allows us to create security-screening mechanisms as well as to help increase relevance of content presented to each user.
Company name, Domain name
Internet companies like to be creative with their names - it's "in" to create a word and hope it becomes part of our daily language. We thought we'll be more practical (we are parents after all!) - so we just named ourselves after what we do - a network built around the school system with emphasis on parents.
As for domain name - we were at the mercy of squatters who occupy domains and hope to make a buck. We looked for schoolparent.net/com but could not get it. We were able to capture www.schoolparentnet.com and so used this domain. Subsequently we have been able to get www.schoolparent.net and this too links to our site.
Following is a brief introduction to our site:
SchoolParentNet is a social network for parents, teachers and administrators, and leverages the school system to create a secure online environment. The site enables families to make/strengthen connections around real world communities - their local schools and other interest groups such as soccer clubs, mothers clubs, etc.
Use this site to exchange information and organize events with the school community in a secure and controlled manner. Our simple blog/sign-up sheet feature will provide an efficient, time saving, convenient method to manage wish list/party items, volunteer tasks and fund-raising activities. Use our friend, interest and school group capability to share referrals with local, relevant and trusted users.
Learn about this site by taking a tour. Please click here to see screenshots of how you could use our blog/sign-up sheet feature to create an online “welcome packet” with information about key activities and events, sign-up sheets for things like school/class supply wish lists, parties, etc.
Come join our free PreK-12 network - users from across the country (300+ schools from 35+ states) have already signed up! Please click here to sign-up. After you join the network, you can help win money for your school by inviting others.
SPN Fact – looking under the hood
The basic concept behind our site is based on the six degrees of separation theory (you may be familiar with this concept through the Kevin Bacon game!). Our site is built on the idea that if parents, teachers, administrators invite their friends, relatives, neighbors, co-workers, etc., and they in turn invite others then we can build a useful social network around our own school communities. In order to make the site more relevant to users, the software behind our site, groups users based on the school information they provide when they sign-up. Users are grouped with others at multiple levels from the district/city, to the school and even down to a classroom. So users just need to invite others they know and trust and let the site make relevant connections. This mechanism shifts the challenge of network building, creating contact lists, etc. from individuals or organizations (such as PTA’s) to all network users. In this way, we can help each other grow our own local networks - for example, one users co-worker may be a school parent group member for another user. Grouping users by their school information also allows us to create security-screening mechanisms as well as to help increase relevance of content presented to each user.
Company name, Domain name
Internet companies like to be creative with their names - it's "in" to create a word and hope it becomes part of our daily language. We thought we'll be more practical (we are parents after all!) - so we just named ourselves after what we do - a network built around the school system with emphasis on parents.
As for domain name - we were at the mercy of squatters who occupy domains and hope to make a buck. We looked for schoolparent.net/com but could not get it. We were able to capture www.schoolparentnet.com and so used this domain. Subsequently we have been able to get www.schoolparent.net and this too links to our site.
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