Each fall thousands of freshmen arrive on a new college campus.  These students are often lost, confused, and turned around when they are trying to locate their dorms and classrooms.  From an administrative standpoint, you can have a senior escort them around the campus for an hour or so, but beyond that how can you ensure that these students find their way around?  How convenient would it be for them to have an interactive campus …

Interactive maps don’t have to always be of the campus. Really, they can and should highlight everything that’s different or outstanding about your school. Here is a fun example that might get your ideas tickling: Ohio State put together an interactive map of their latest recruits, including position played, weight/height, ranking, and origin. Though simple, it quite likely has been a much-visited map because of how essential the information is to the identity of the …

It has already been proven that the use of interactive campus maps really boosts the image of your school in the eyes of parents and prospective students alike. And with the great variety of styles and types of campus maps available, you can customize yours to truly fit your campus’s unique image. However, have you gone a step beyond image and asked yourself if your interactive campus map really helps your school to stand out …

A little while back our friend Georgy Cohen wrote a thoughtful post about aligning offline and online content.  The new world of marketing requires a seamless transition between offline content and the growing world of online content. These two marketing strategies must mesh seamlessly to provide one continuous experience for people interacting with your campus. An interactive campus map is a powerful tool to align these two marketing strategies and bridge the gap between the …

3D campus maps are a great way to give a prospective student a more realistic view of where they might be walking around every day in the near future. But what is different between the designs? To give you a better idea, we’re going to expand a bit on the primary differences between vector and raster designs. Vector Images The vector campus map design is one of the most popular and affordable map designs. And …

Does it seem like whenever you buy a new software tool designed to “save you time and money” it actually does neither? There’s always just one more feature upgrade, a few more hours of a costly technician’s time, or this and that feature not included in the initial package. Why aren’t companies harnessing the same power companies like Wikipedia and Facebook have utilized to follow through on the promises of saving time and money? At …

Here at nuCloud we’re thrilled to be able to begin offering, through our partnership with AllofE, a new online catalog and bulletin management system called CatalogM. Managing an online catalog can be a daunting and labor intensive process, not to mention many existing platforms, while platform, can be confusing and difficult to use. We’re going to help you solve these problems and determine how to make the business case to your administration for moving on …

Cloud computing is an emerging technology that seems to be taking off. From the growth of mobile technology such as smartphones and tablets, to the changing scopes of businesses and their employees doing more and more work online than offline, the ability to access our information from anywhere in the world has become a surprisingly refreshing and popular idea. While prevalent in our personal and professional lives, these Service as a Software or SaaS Solutions have also …

Think those interactive campus maps are not so useful? Step with us for a moment into the life of a typical first year college student. The first days of school are never easy, especially when you’re a newbie or freshman. More seasoned students can give tips on how to survive those first days, adjust and blend in. Tips like get involved, join a student society,  know the campus and how to dress to not stand …

The new class of university freshmen will begin moving into dorms and onto campuses in the coming weeks marking an annual tradition of teenagers beginning their lives as independent young adults. But before parents and students made the final decision about what college to attend, they spent the summer visiting schools. And before they began visiting schools, many of them took virtual campus tours of these schools. A recent informal survey by The New York …