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uSphere Rolls Out Parent Portal

uSphere, the Evanston-based company whose platform exposes Colleges to Students and Students to Colleges via proprietary matching technology, has been delving deeper into the information side of things lately as evidenced by the roll out of their parent portal.

They’ve used the information they’ve gleaned through building their business to provide parents with a pretty comprehensive guide to the process from a parent’s perspective; everything from planning for college, to paying for college, to finding the right schools and choosing between them.

We think this is a pretty important feature to highlight here as its a great example of what companies with web-based services can do to provide more value to their users and bring more people into the site. The line between content site and webapp is blurring and the companies that are combining both are finding out that it works pretty well.

(uSphere Company Profile)

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