Hello everyone, my name is Colm Shalvey – the newest member of the OpenStudy Team. The name is pronounced Col-um (like a row and a column). This is how I start all of my conversations, and that’s what this is for me: the beginning of a conversation with you, the OpenStudier. Because OpenStudy, at its [...]
Not everyone on OpenStudy is a teen with 10 opposable thumbs! It may seem that way on the chat rooms at 2 am, but when we chatted with one of our loyal users, we were amazed to hear her story. “I am a stay-at-home Mom,” she said. We heard, “OpenStudy RockStar!” So we asked her [...]
Pokemon posted this on our Feedback site and silenced the whole team for a moment for a collective, “Wow, we are doing something right!” moment. Here is Pokemon, in his own words… “I remember when I first started doing math in elementary school. During the first year of elementary I knew I had a [...]
Today, I’m incredibly excited to announce OpenStudy’s first official Ambassadors! What is an OpenStudy Ambassador? Well, clearly, we consider all of our users to be ambassadors of OpenStudy, but we realized that as we grew bigger and better, we needed some awesome users to help us out! Our new Ambassadors will welcome and guide new users [...]
Dear Future Interns, I’m Neha and I’m a Global Marketing Intern. I know many of you are wondering what this internship is all about, so I wanted to share a few of my experiences as an intern to tell you why I decided to take this fabulous opportunity – and why you should too! As [...]
We are pleased to announce that OpenStudy has been nominated for the 2012 Edison Award – Honoring Innovation and Innovators! OpenStudy has been selected for its “game-changing” work in bringing people from anywhere in the world – regardless of academic institution or geographical location – to give help and get help from a global [...]
Hi everyone, I’m Laura Perkowski, OpenStudy’s new Marketing Intern. I’m really excited to be part of OpenStudy’s new West Coast team, and especially to get to meet all of you OpenStudiers, and to get to know all of you. So treat this as our introduction, and hopefully you’ll get to know me a little [...]
Hi OpenStudiers! Ready for the party to kick off another great semester? You are invited to the OpenStudy Back to School Party on Jan 15, 19.00 GMT (11:00 am Pacific Time). Its online – of course. How to get ready for the party. 1. RSVP: Official Party Room and RSVP and register in the link there [...]
How global are we? Try this. Where else can you find someone from Australia chatting with someone from Tanzania while users from Pakistan and USA join in for a quick Swahili lesson? That is Global with a capital G! TranceNova comes to us from Australia and speaks some Swahili, and when she is not doing [...]
Sasogeek posted this note in OpenStudy Feedback and we were really excited to read it. Preetha then blogged about it and we reached out to him and asked him to tell us his story. He wrote us an open letter and we wanted it to share it with you all. Today he has entered his [...]
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