Why Regroup?

• Regroup has its genesis within the college milieu; it was started by students at Stanford and has been tested in colleges across the country by over 50,000 users since 2006.
• Regroup homogenizes the most essential components of institutional communication, including email, forums, message boards, social media like Facebook and mobile/SMS.
• Regroup reduces the noise ratio and increase the attention students will pay to messaging by a) providing senders non-spammy options like a university forum and Facebook integration, b) allowing recipients the ability to manage their email frequency, and c) categorizing messages by group type
• Regroup provides, in a single dynamic package, offerings that are often sold separately for many times the price.
• Regroup can be implemented simply, by any department virtually without the involvement of IT staff or resources.

Why Software as a Service (SaaS)?

• Server maintenance resembles a proverbial iceberg, with the initial cost floating peacefully above the surface. Lurking beneath the calm sea, however, lies the hassle of maintenance, energy, storage, and hosting.
• Regroup is 100% hosted, with no hidden costs for hosting or data.
• Our SaaS model allows you to provide unlimited data usage to unlimited users in unlimited groups across your constituent base of prospective, current or past faculty members, staff and students.

Why Groups?

• User-generated groups are more relevant to your prospective, current and future students
• Groups lend current students and alums the capability to create their own group that can be as specific as "first year students living on the 2nd floor of their dorm who have a passion for running"; "2001 Marketing Alums living in D.C.", ensuring there will be a stronger, more personal degree of engagement compared to the alternative of being on a nameless Alumni Affairs, Housing or Student Affairs email list where students and alums are subjected to general information that they often find to be of little or no relevance to them.
• Students from your school have already begun to form their own groups on social media. Schools benefit from offering a school-provided platform by being able to bring the school community back to the campus, allowing administrators to assure parents that their students are functioning in a safe environment, both on- and offline.

Solutions

Students Affairs and Student Governance

Managing the approval of budgets for multiple student-based organizations and clubs requires fast and secure communications. Without the requisite school- provided platform, your club leaders are likely to focus their communications efforts on third-party platforms. Platforms such as Facebook are efficacious for announcing events, but fail to provide a venue for a vibrant multi-directional conversation. Furthemore, these distant platforms place students more out of touch with the administration. With Regroup SGA and Student Affairs can:

• Engage students over media which they are unlikely to disregard, as they do school-sent emails
• Manage and also recruit new group members to their ranks by having their messages post to the "news feeds" of their members and members' friends on social media such as Facebook.
• Harness the power of broadcasting to multiple media during the political campaign season in a completely democratized space where ideas flow freely.
• Increase mind-share towards Student Government with incoming students by engaging them online before they arrive on campus. By answering their questions about campus life during this transitional period you are effectively improving their student experience before it begins.
• Grow student engagement by targeting them where they live (Social media and SMS) with information about groups and messages that are germane to them.
• Offer a repository of knowledge through Regroup's searchable archive of asked and answered questions and messages from students who have successfully navigated the first year of college life.
• Provide a central locus where summer jobs, internship opportunities, work study and study abroad programs can be posted.
• Solicit candid feedback, foster open discussion and respond to constituent needs by making available important messages to all students in a public, online forum.

Alumni Affairs

No office on a college campus better understands the value of maintaining meaningful communications with its constituents better than alumni affairs. To find demonstrated the need of your alums to communicate and interact within their own user-defined groups, you need to go no further than Facebook or other third-party platforms. These former students are congregating by class year, major, and sport played. What they are not doing, in all likelihood, is communicating with your office. Since communications in these forums are often limited to fleeting comments and wall posts, the value of the interaction, if any, is greatly diminished. With Regroup your office can:

• Empower engaged alums to generate their own groups and communities on the more robust, school-provided Regroup platform, while maintaining their institutional presence and complementing their existing social media, profiles and groups.
• Achieve broadcast efficiency by merging email marketing campaigns to your social media plan and web presence with the click of a button.
• Easily bridge the transitional gap for graduating students as they move to alum status, by updating them through Regroup Alumni groups on job opportunities and best practices as they launch into their professional lives.
• Provide a searchable online directory on a secure network that is available only to your alums.
• Link to your existing CMS, CRM and other legacy databases.
• Save data, hosting and web development costs by enjoying our stable and secure Software as a Service offering.
• Share registration, giving and other collateral or documents with your alums through our easy group file uploader.
• Allow for the broadcasting of new career opportunties, both by your office and fellow alums, providing a valuable medium for alum networking.

Admissions and Recruiting

More important than first impressions generated by the initial meeting incoming students have with one of your officers is the level and quality of the contact your office maintains with these new students. With your resources spread thin, Regroup offers a unique solution: we provide an efficient, easy-to-use yet powerful tool for your representatives to maintain and cultivate these valued relationships. We achieve this by allowing your offices to communicate with new students through media and platforms they understand and use regularly. With Regroup your office can:

• Save time and money by reaching out to prospects en masse, as appropriate to their stage in the recruitment and admissions processes.
• Provide checklists, applications and registrations online.
• Notify students of their acceptance in real-time, through SMS, Email, and Social Media.
• Remind prospects of upcoming deadlines or events.
• Grow your prospect list by piquing the interest of friends of existing prospects through "News Feeds" that automatically lead back to your office's web presence.

Athletics

Regroup's reach can extend to the field of athletics as well. With Regroup Athletics can:

• Enable fans to more clearly see who, when and where teams are playing.
• Empower players to establish groups for their fan-base to congregate and engage with them through multiple platforms like Facebook.
• Increased attendance by broadcasting up-to-date info on events through facebook and SMS.
• Engage potential team members during the recruiting process by keeping them up to date on all of the communications platforms they use.
• Give strength and training coaches the ability to keep their teams at peak fitness during the off-season by sending out "suggested" workouts of the day a la CrossFit® via SMS

Auxiliary Services

Students Centers are probably the most recognized and widely used buildings on campuses. With Regroup Auxiliary Services can:

• Notify students of events taking place in the center, new policies of the center, or even utilize the discussion features to get constructive student input on improvements.
• Post meeting room schedules
• See the latest headlines from the students newspaper
• Post info about student government meetings or election news and results

Engagement

Regroup helps your school focus on engagement by giving you the tools to engage your students and alums where they are on the web: email, SMS*, and social media like Facebook.

Email

• Regroup has at its core an email list management platform, allowing your students, administrators and alums to easily and expeditiously create and email to their own email list of students or alums from their school.
• When new messages have been posted to Regroup-based groups, the group members will receive the full topic in the email account of their choosing. This eliminates the need for them to go to another web destination to see what has been communicated within their group(s).
• From the convenience of their email group members can see the full topic, whether it be text, a URL or an embedded photo or video.
• Group members can then respond from their email to the person who posted the topic or respond to all group members, thereby initiating a discussion about the topic.

Web

• Students and alums can log into their group page from the web simply using their Facebook credentials or by using their own self-generated credentials.
• Through your school's Regroup network users can search for faculty, students and alums.
• In addition to searchable messages, all groups and organizations associated with a school are searchable through the web interface.
• The school's network is secure and open only to constituents of the network.
• The Regroup web interface is readily embeddable on your school's existing web page or portal and is easy to use, for those possessing all levels of technical savviness.

Social Media

• In only seconds a student or alum can link to their Facebook identity directly from your school's group(s). This functionality will allow them to create new groups and messages and publish them to your multitudinous alum and students through their Facebook newsfeed. Such capabilities exponentially increase your school's reach into the community.
• Hyperlinks to your school's groups and messages will be broadcast across the Facebook feeds of every one of your group members, maximizing opportunities for them to engage in a Facebook "comment conversation" within their Facebook network.
• As an alum or other school-based organization, it is just as easy to link a group to a Facebook "page", where messages and the promotion of upcoming "off-line" events can be advertised.

SMS Group Alerts and Emergency Text Messages

• Increasingly offices are encountering difficulty in dynamically interfacing with their students through email.
• Students at all levels spend more time sending text messages than emails.
• Regroup Group Alerts technology harnesses the power of mobile and provides your school and student-based groups with the ability to broadcast information and interact in conversations with their constituents over what has become the preferred means of communication for undergraduate students.
• Group members have the ability to opt-out of receiving SMS messages from all groups other than those administrations that reserve their messages for Emergency Alerts.