Here are just a few of the customers
using WebBoard as a community solution:
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Harvard Business Review |
| The popular Harvard Business Review Forum, powered by WebBoard 4.0, is the place to join authors, editors, and readers in discussing Harvard Business Review articles. The Forums include boards for the current and most recent issues of the Harvard Business Review, as well as archived issues. |
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Red Cross |
| The Bay Area Red Cross has been a user of WebBoard since 1997. Use of the software contributed to timely communication between Red Cross staff, volunteers, government entities, and media during the El Nino flooding. WebBoard is integrated into the Red Cross' Smithsonian-nominated web site, DisasterManage.org. The application can serve as a prototype for organizations wishing to provide their employees, business partners, and media with access to vital information during any kind of emergency, and sharing up-to-date files and adjustments to previously-created response plans. Boards can be configured for each work group within an organization, for communication and sharing of files during an emergency. Currently, the Technology Committee is using WebBoard for collaborative editing of the organization's future Technology Strategic Plan. |
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Timeslips, Inc. |
| Timeslips is the world's leading provider of time billing software for professional service firms. Timeslips uses WebBoard 4.0 to provide user-to-user support and an ongoing commentary about the Timeslips product. In the Timeslips Discussion Forums, users post ideas about how to use Timeslips, questions for other users, and questions or comments for Timeslips staff. |
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University of California, San Diego |
| UCSD has been using WebBoard since fall of 1999 and on average hosts 75 boards and 6,000 users per quarter. It is used among many academic disciplines. Computer Science & Engineering students use WebBoard to work through programming assignments. This offers them greater access to faculty and teaching assistants as well as an opportunity to learn from other students. Economics students use it similarly to discuss assignments and tests, but also as a forum for recent news and magazine articles pertinent to each week's topic. WebBoard has also been used for events unrelated to course offerings such as UCSD-hosting scientific conferences. Committees have used it to plan college curriculum and community-based physician-faculty groups use it to extent their time for steering committee issues. The University of California San Diego (UCSD) currently enrolls 20,212 students and occupies 1,200 acres of coastal woodland along the Pacific coastline. |
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Wesleyan University |
| Since its introduction Fall 1998 semester, WebBoard has become an important
pedagogical tool at Wesleyan University. WebBoard permits courses to have
private asynchronous discussions--so participants can read and post
messages at whatever hour of the day they're most productive (for students
this is often after midnight!). At Wesleyan, where discussion is central to
the learning process, faculty find that WebBoard encourages all students to
have a voice, even those who shy away from public speaking. Moreover, since
it's easy to use, students begin participating with WebBoard right away.
WebBoard is used by various campus committees and academic organizations
such as Women in Science, the Hughes Program in the Life Sciences, the
World Wide Web Committee, and Academic Computing Services. |
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