June Updates from K12Leaders

K12Leaders is growing in membership as well as capacity. We have some exciting new features we’d love to share with you!

– Ambassador Program. Are you already a raging fan of K12Leaders? We’d like to reward you with swag and other rewards. A new contest will be coming up soon!! Be sure to check out co-founder Carl Hooker’s article here .

Banner for K12Leaders Ambassador program.

– Real-time Video and Chat- We’re all familiar with the mainstream platforms, and we’ve all relied on those for years. What’s been missing, though, is a way to “keep the conversation going” after the video conference ends. Any text chat are lost when the meeting ends.

We’ve solved that by creating a persistent chat within your Groups and Communities that will maintain the text, inks, and media that you may have shared during your video conversation even AFTER the video ends. So tomorrow or next week you can come back and pickup right where you left off!!!

Want more than one conversation thread? No problem! Go ahead and create a “Child Group” to house that as well!

Here’s a quick video intro, and we’ll be scheduling some regular “water cooler” meetups here too to help you get familiar with how it all works.

– Better Event Management for educators, coaches, consultants, and our solution partners. This gives you:

– Formatting control over event details

– Ability to include an event image

– Assign an event to a Community you organize so it appears in your group’s Event menu, and keeps it private from the global calendar.

– Control over your event locations… Choose an existing venue (New Orleans Convention Center) or add your own, or assign an online destination like Zoom, or your own chat room.

This new process also makes it MUCH easier for our team to review and publish your event to the calendar.

– “Subscribe” to Group Updates . Groups on K12Leaders are buzzing – don’t miss a post or a reply when you use the new Subscribe feature!

– Course Builder Launched. Are you or your organization looking to host an online course? We now have the tools you’ll need! Feel free to check out the courses we are already offering as well here!.

– Mobile App Changes . We have updated our K12Leaders app to look and respond much like the website. Be sure to discard the pilot app and then download this new, more responsive one!

Then, invite a friend to download the app and join you on K12Leaders!

– Hashtags . Have you noticed the trending hashtags on the K12Leaders’ home page? You can add hashtags to your posts to gain more visibility and interaction.

– New, improved searching capabilities !

We have designed a comprehensive search engine within the K12Leaders site. When you search, you will see results for people, articles, posts and more! Give it a try and see what you can find!!

So as you can see, we have many new features on the site, with more soon to come. Feel free to reach out if you have suggestions or feedback. We value the ideas of our members!!