Thank you for your very well-written post regarding your concerns about OrgSync. We at OrgSync appreciate and welcome your feedback. While I obviously am unable to speak to or address your concerns with the administration or Student Government, as the OrgSync representative who visited your campus a few weeks ago, I wanted to address the concerns you have mentioned specifically regarding OrgSync.

In the training sessions, we discussed the capabilities of the system. I am confident that if you had been able to attend one of the sessions, you would have seen that while Blackboard does a great job of managing your academic records, OrgSync has been designed by former college student leaders specifically to provide you with a centralized platform to manage every aspect of your organization. Some of the features include, but are not limited to, the ability to create a public organization website and update it with content generated from OrgSync, RSVP and attendance tracking, community service hour tracking, checkbook tracking and the ability to collect online payments and donations, an online store, individual profiles with an online social network feel, the ability to connect with Facebook, online forms, polling, file/picture/video sharing/storing, mass text messaging, task management and delegation individual/organization/campus calendars, video streaming, chat rooms, involvement tracking and co-curricular transcripts, and the list goes on and on. Most of the guys in the training sessions were excited about the abilities and potential of the system. While OrgSync shares some of the features with Blackboard, keep in mind that Blackboard was designed specifically for the management of academics and grades, while OrgSync was designed with the involved student leader in mind to empower you to better manage your organization and communicate with your members.

I would be happy to set up an online/over the phone training session with you so I can show you the many features of OrgSync. This way, you can gain a better understanding of the system and perhaps a better understanding of why the Student Government chose to spend money on OrgSync when another system is already available. After seeing a full overview of OrgSync, I would love to hear your feedback on how we can make OrgSync work better for you so we can continue to design the site to meet the needs of our users. You can contact me directly at leanna@orgsync.com and I look forward to hearing from you, Bryan! Happy Friday!

~Leanna Laskey
OrgSync, Inc.