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08 Oct, 2009

Facebook Coupon Code for TutorVista

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We get lots of questions about online tutoring, and we always point to the folks at TutorVista as the best tutors online in any subject. Our long-standing relationship with TutorVista means we’re able to share some special stuff with the U Sphere Community. So here goes: For a limited time, if you visit the Facebook [...]


13 Sep, 2009

Area 224 and Real SMM

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A message for fans, friends and supporters of U Sphere. Thanks for visiting this site. Right now, we’re focusing on different services and industries — you can visit the team at Area 224 and Real SMM. We’ll be back in touch with you soon, and we invite you to check us out on Twitter too.


Those are the two sites we’ve been working on the most. Area 224 is strategic communications advisors to emerging brands. Social Media Realty Pro is a joint venture helping real estate people connect with social media tools.


12 May, 2009

U Sphere goes “underground” for a little while

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Just a quick note — in case you haven’t noticed the lack of content, tweets from @usphere and other stuff…. U Sphere is going underground for a little while.  No excuses — time to take a break and re-tool for next fall. We hope to be back in late summer; a new management team will [...]


05 May, 2009

Earn extra income with Facebook

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Buy and Sell Facebook Fan Pages at http://www.fanswop.com


Editor’s Note: Ann Landers used to do this all the time — get a request and re-run a column that might have been older than dirt. In this case, well, a blog post from 2006 is actually older than dirt in Internet speak. But we’re sharing anyway…this message makes sense (even if we’re beyond “rankings” [...]


If you’ve been following the firestorm on one family’s decision to accept the University of Connecticut over Northeastern University — here’s where you can see it on the U Sphere site — you know that there’s been quite a bit of discussion and back-and-forth from a number of sides of the college admissions equation.  Parents, [...]


Our good friend Paul Lloyd Hemphill, a private consultant at Video College Coach, has sent us this letter from one of his clients — it’s a must-read about that shows that parents might actually be in the driver’s seat in the college admissions game these days. We have removed any last names and addresses from [...]


13 Apr, 2009

Video Portal from U Sphere

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Our Video Portal is still here — it’s in Beta and we’re working out some of the kinks.  But you can look at some college videos here. Bear in mind this is not the YouTube EDU portal — we like YouTube, but their mission is more mass-market videos.  So here you’ll find videos that fit [...]


11 Apr, 2009

U Sphere Presents our New Front Page

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Brand New Front Page – Meaning more connections for you! We’ve listened to feedback and we’re delighted to tell you about our new front page.  Same stuff from U Sphere — connections between students and schools worldwide.  But there’s a lot more in our network and we hope you’ll take a look!