Organizations log on to progress
Mark Taylor II
Issue date: 9/17/07 Section: News
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The new web application on http://rattlerlink.org allows students the convenience of doing several organizational tasks online.
Tasks such as registration, membership, management and document uploading are just some features that will be on the new site.
"It's a Web site for centralizing student organization information so that all of the paperwork for club certification and student organization certification can be online," said Aaron Severs, president of the Collegiate Link, the company that created the software. "This provides a way for everyone to be able to see what student organization and involvement opportunities are available."
Other perks include RattlerLink's ability to track each person's activities, which can make it easy to go back and print out records for resumes.
Thinking back on the 160 organizations registered last year, Felecia Barnes, coordinator of student activities, said she is glad for the technological upgrade. "The old process was tedious," Barnes said.
The former director of student activities initiated the concept of online processing because she felt there was too much paper involved.
Previously, students had to attend welcome back week and complete the certification checklist.
"It had to be checked off by hand with each organization," Barnes said.
Barnes said she believes that RatterLink is user friendly and will help out with the leadership transition information.
"When someone graduates and leaves nothing behind, we can go back and get the information," Barnes said. "Sometimes alumni build up the organization and take everything with them."
At an introductory session of RattlerLink, Severs mentioned that it provides a master calendar for all student organization events registered.
Concluding the session, students were generally optimistic about the software.
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