My name is Vered DeLeeuw. I am Community Director and Blogger with UpToUs.
Have you ever felt that being part of an online network would enrich your life, enable you to maintain important social connections and create new ones, yet looked at the current solutions and felt that you just don’t belong in any of them? MySpace is for teens, Facebook has a drunken-college-frat feel, and LinkedIn is clean and professional to the point of BORING.
Enter UpToUs.
UpToUs is a new, free, online network for parents. It is private and clean, yet personal and fun. It is a place where you can create and join communities that center on your real-life communities such as your kids’ classroom or sports team. You can upload your photo if you wish and tell the other parents about your interests and hobbies. UpToUs enables you to connect between the faces you see at school and the names on the classroom roster. It enables you to find other parents that have similar personal and professional interests.
In addition to connecting parents, UpToUs offers advanced tools for helping parents organize their kids’ daily activities. Current solutions are frustrating because they are scattered over many different platforms and websites (Yahoo groups, email, Google calendar, photo sharing websites, evite). UpToUs offers all of these tools and more in a single place. The UpToUs tools include a community calendar, volunteering and potluck forms, homework exchange, carpooling, event manager and photo sharing.
To learn more and to start using the service, please sign up at UpToUs.
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Another great thing about UpToUs is that it the most comprehensive tool for organizing classrooms’ and sports teams’ activities. It is way beyond just getting to know people - it makes our life simpler and easier.
It is all for free and organized in one place - team calendar, announcement system, photo sharing, homework sharing, discussion panels and volunteering management tool.