For our first education-related post, a link to a story about Liberty University’s new snowpark, which is located in Lynchburg, Virginia, a city that might get a few inches of snow in a really cold year. This one’s listed under Bloggable, Education, and Uncategorized… because we’re not really sure what to do with this.
Populi Blog
Archive for August, 2009
Liberty University has a Snowpark
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Visible puts the API to good use
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009Shane Flynn of Visible School just put the College Calendar up on their website using Populi’s API (Application-Program Interface). It’s a smart way to distribute some pretty important info to the folks who need to know about it.
In past years—that is, pre-Populi—important, college-wide events (Add-Drop Dates, Orientation, Student and Staff Hang Out Time (more…)
Zendesk: Goodwill in a Business Model
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009A bunch of new stuff with Zendesk, the SaaS helpdesk we use as our online help system, this past Monday the 17th. In addition to some new features, a redesigned website, and $6 million in new VC cash, Zendesk debuted a new pricing scheme. To sum it up in their words, “Previously you had to allocate agents in lumps. That’s history.”
Zendesk’s former pricing gave you access to the first support agent for free, and after that charged $19 per agent; however, agent access couldn’t (more…)
Simplicity
Monday, August 17th, 2009Our tagline reads, “College Management Made Simple”… because we believe simplicity in software is a virtue. Simplicity doesn’t necessarily mean that things are just left out; it has more to do with what we include and why. If we’re considering a feature that everyone will use all the time contra some feature that a few users might use some of the time, our development decision is pretty simple to make. “Feature bloat” has bogged down many an otherwise fine program that, (more…)
Trouble Logging In?
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Some of our customers had trouble logging in yesterday. We fixed the problem, and everyone should have no trouble today. But, in case any Populi users experience any login problems today, we have an article up in our help system that tells you about some settings you can change in your browser. Just log in to support.populiweb.com with your regular Populi login information, and the article will make itself plain to you.
We’re really sorry for the hassle this has caused, and we thank you for your patience.
New Populi Release: Multiple Tabs, To-do’s, Admissions Enhancements
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009The Populi Development team is pleased to announce that the new release went live last night. Now you can use Populi in multiple browser tabs–a tremendous leap forward for day-to-day usability. Additionally, users now have built-in To-Do lists–assign tasks to yourself or others, complete with due dates.
In Admissions, new enhancements include (more…)
