LOS ANGELES (MMD Newswire) August 26, 2010 -- Just in time for the back to school season, there is a new website that brings the entire college experience together and puts a fresh face on Internet social media while extending international reach. Today's launch of CollegeConvo at www.collegeconvo.com allows prospective college students, current college students, alumni and staff from nearly 12,000 campuses worldwide to meet in one place to connect in a vast array of ways to share ideas, meet new friends, network with alumni, find a roommate, even share videos and pictures or delve into any other aspect of college life.

"CollegeConvo is the best place for college students, alumni, college faculty, staff, parents, guardians and the surrounding college community to connect and get together for back to school and beyond," said CollegeConvo President and Chief Executive Officer Kishore Mamillapalli. "Our site presents a feature-rich robust offeringtruly more than just a social networking site for colleges and universities all over the world. One of the many goals we have accomplished in designing this website is to connect everyone globally."

In our richly diverse world this will provide a wealth of opportunity for all of our users to connect with others throughout the world. Embedded into our site is cutting edge technology such as geocoding and a 50 language translator which will enable our users to access other countries and understand the conversation or information being shared with others across the world.

There is a myriad of tools available on the site to upload videos and pictures; buy and sell locally for free; exchange textbooks; set up study groups; catch up on worldwide news, network with other local alumni and much more.

"Whether you are looking for a new person to meet, a chance to connect with an alumni to help you prepare for a job interview, form a study group, complete assignments or enjoy any other aspect of college life we have it all at CollegeConvo," Kishore said. "Our site is thedestination to live college life online. Development of a mobile application for popular Smartphone platforms and an SMS feature that will allow users to send free SMS from this web site is currently being developed."

CollegeConvo also makes it easy to use popular social networking platforms to connect online in one simple place. One of the greatest features of the site is the ability to simultaneously use Facebook Chat, Twitter, AIM, MySpace IM, Google Talk and Meebo all online at CollegeConvo. We also have our very own chat system where you can chat with your friends on CollegeConvo, plus our users can handwrite a virtual message, draw a picture, or even play a game against other CollegeConvo friends.

"Instead of having to login to a many different sites to network with all of your college friends, CollegeConvo is the onewebsite to visit for all of your online conversations," said CollegeConvo Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Doug Haustein. "We make it easy to connect with friends using all of the different social networking technologies available."

"CollegeConvo is also a great place for advertisers to promote their products to the college community in their area," Haustein said. "Everyone loves to save cash and our advertisers can offer a variety of services and special promotions reaching out into a large college community base. Our advertisers have a self-serve system which allows them to manage their ad campaigns at the touch of a finger. Local revenue will undoubtedly increase with businesses utilizing CollegeConvo.com to advertise and offer discounts and special promotions to local college communities. "

Best of all, registration at CollegeConvo is free. For more information about thisnew site, or to get started meeting new students or alumni at your school, please visit their website at www.collegeconvo.com and all inquiries send it to prrelations@collegeconvo.com

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