Try out our new UI and let us know what you think.
Friday, August 27, 2010
New Event UI + Google Map Integration
Try out our new UI and let us know what you think.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Qlubb Instructional DIY Videos
But still many of you have been unable to make these webinars and wanted some type of quick tutorial to help them get started.
Well, your wish is our command. Today, we are releasing Qlubb DIY videos. Each video is less than 3 minutes long and quickly goes through a different aspect of the Qlubb service.
The first five DIY videos are:
1) How to create a Qlubb
2) How to create an event and sign-up sheet
3) How to create a recurring task and event
4) How to create a poll and copy a task and its details
5) Volunteer reports and basic Admin settings
Check them out and let us know what you think!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
New Help Community
We have received so many cool ideas in the past year through our help@qlubb.com and feedback@qlubb.com, we felt it was a shame not to share it with the rest of you.
So as of today, our http://www.qlubb.com/qlubbs/help now gets redirected to our Get Satisfaction page. If you have a question, please check Get Satisfaction first. If you can't find the answer, post a question and we will answer it online.
However, if you have an issue that is specific to your Qlubb, your email ID, etc... please send it to help@qlubb.com - we want to keep your info private!
Friday, August 6, 2010
Qlubb Experts Speak: 5+1 Room Parenting Tips
We recently asked our 60,000 users to share their room parenting experiences and we were overwhelmed with the response. For most of the surveyers, being a room parent exceeded their expectations and a large number of Qlubb users have been room parents more than 5 times!
With so many experts in the Qlubb community, we thought we would share some of their best tips on being an effective room parent.
Communicate regularly with the teacher - meet weekly to plan out upcoming events and volunteer needs.
Communicate regularly with other parents - keep parents in the loop and informed on how to help.
Use a centralized website to coordinate activities and to reduce email traffic (www.qlubb.com)
- Coordinate thoughtful group gifts - they don't have to cost money but can be homemade gifts your class make together (e.g., cookie basket, jar of notes).
- Start and plan early - give parents the opportunity to plan their volunteering into their busy schedules
AND
- Smile - everyone appreciates a positive, can-do attitude: teachers, children, and parents (even the difficult ones!)
Room Parenting Made Simple Evening Webinar
Many of you have wanted to attend our regular Room Parenting Made Simple Webinars but couldn't make the mid-morning times. Well, we are listening and we are scheduling our new webinar to be next Monday at 7pm PDT (10pm PDT). Register here
Monday, August 2, 2010
Welcome Center'd Plan users
- Thursday, Aug 5 at 10am PDT https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/781032921
- Wednesday, Aug 11 at 10am PDT https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/896793784
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Sometimes When Sh*t Hits the Fan, All You Can Do Is Sit Back and Avoid the Splatter
Though the service appeared to come back mid-morning, it was temporary. Our team discussed potentially redirecting our domain to a different DNS host provider. Though straightforward for simple websites, moving to a new DNS host provider mid-day was likely to introduce even more problems given the integrated way Qlubb's functionality is all tightly integrated with the DNS (e.g., mail server, our domain mapping functionality, other Qlubb services). So we decided to stay put, hoping that mydomain.com would quickly re-stabilize their services.
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten hours later... we are finally up. I apologize that Qlubb was unavailable today as I know thousands of you rely on our service to organize your group activities. However, rest assured we are planning to deploy a secondary DNS server to avoid this type of scenario (though rare) in the future.
Looking back, I am glad we did not attempt to move to another DNS service provider as it would have opened a whole new can of worms. But it certainly wasn't comfortable watching the sh*t hit the fan...
Good night.


