DubMeNow Brings College Mobile Networking Platform to American University

DubMeNow, the developer of the mobile business card, is expanding its platform to mobilize online management portals for associations, events and universities. The first university, American University in Washington, D.C., is launching this month. dcTechSource caught DubMeNow’s Chris Hopkinson on his way back from SXSW 2010 and asked him about what’s next with the company.

By Avery Fellow | March 25, 2010

Mobile company DubMeNow is launching its college app platform at Washington, D.C.’s American University this month. The Vienna, Va.-based company, which developed the conference app for last week’s SXSW 2010 in Austin, Texas, plans to bring its mobile app platform to hundreds of associations, conferences and universities this year.

The university apps will be distributed through a partnership with Datatel, which provides technology services to colleges and universities. The apps will allow students to view campus news, a university map, their course list along with the syllabus, assignments and past class presentations and campus contact info. The company is currently developing apps for 800 universities.

"Everything you are used to getting online you can now get on your phone," said DubMeNow marketing director Chris Hopkinson.

When DubMeNow started in early 2009, the company was looking for distribution channels and realized that their product was ideal for built-in communities, such as college campuses. Then they partnered with Datatel.

"They do the selling. We provide the mobile platform," Hopkinson said. Now that DubMeNow has built out its platform, it can build a mobile app for a university in hours or days.

DubMeNow realized they could use the same modules designed for a student population for associations and event attendees. Each group benefits from DubMeNow’s map, event listing and contact features.

DubMeNow currently has partnerships with Higher Logic and The Social Collective, among others, and will continue partnering with companies over the next few months to add more capability to its app platform. Hopkinson said the company hopes to add features allowing mobile payments, response polls, and crowdsourcing.

"It’s moving five times faster because it’s mobile. But it doesn’t feel fast enough," Hopkinson said.

"People are calling ahead of the game," Hopkinson said. "We just got a call from someone who wants to create a mobile platform for resorts."

DubMeNow is slated to come out with a revolutionary mobile address book uniting contact information and social media feeds in early summer.

The company’s mobile business card is nearing one million users.


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