01/21/2019 on Blog Talk Radio: Life Lessons Network
…Keeping track of all of the good works of those students in order to know what is happening in our area and the overall impact is not easy…Read full article here.
By Michele Pitman
01/21/2019 on Crain’s New York Business
…We can reward initiative without burdening schools or service providers. Mobile, cloud technologies allow students to find, schedule, confirm and reflect on service experiences with their smartphones. Schools and community groups can verify hours in one touch…Read full article here.
By: Wayne D’Orio
12/08/2018 on Getting Smart
…Howlett remembers how students would dispute hours and her secretary would constantly be chasing down slips of paper from forgetful teenagers. Now, she and Loew both use x2VOL, an online platform to not only mark service hours but also collect reflections. Students can pull their service transcripts and records from the site and submit the information for college applications, Howlett says…Read full article here.
By Michele Pitman
08/15/2016 on The Edvocate
Educating the whole child and developing character goes beyond the core subjects being taught each day. Many school districts recognize this and have instituted programs encouraging or requiring students to give time in service to their community and peers. Read more here.
An effective service-learning program can help students learn important Christian values. But service-learning programs often have many aspects to manage, making them challenging to oversee.
Read the article in Christian School Products magazine.
BATON ROUGE, La. — December 12, 2014 —Dunham School is teaching a lot more than the core curriculum to their students. Dunham School students give a minimum of 100 hours in community service before they graduate which enriches the students’ lives and helps others in need. Dunham’s service program and how they manage it with x2VOL from intelliVOL is chronicled in a newly released case study available now. Click to Tweet.
DALLAS — December 4, 2014 —District Administration editors have again picked x2VOL as a Readers’ Choice Top 100 Product for 2014. Each December, the magazine highlights the top products enhancing learning in districts nationwide. x2VOL from intelliVOL was nominated by schools which use the product to make community service programs for service learning or student service easier to manage. Click to Tweet.
Read full release here 
x2VOL Simplifies Management and Reporting of High School Community Service Programs
DALLAS — October 29, 2014 — Pearson School Systems has added x2VOL by intelliVOL to its list of Independent Service Vendors. x2VOL solves the problem schools have in managing the community service and volunteer hours their high school students give to nonprofits. x2VOL simplifies management, verification and reporting for student service programs, making hours submission and verification a turn-key process. Administrators and students can also easily generate reports as needed for scholarship and college applications. Click to Tweet.
Read more on Businesswire.
DALLAS — September 9, 2014 — A new partnership between x2VOL by intelliVOL and AdmitHubwill give students a better chance to get accepted by the college or university of their choice. x2VOL manages and tracks the hours students give to community service, which is critical for college acceptance. AdmitHub offers expert advice on the admissions process to college applicants.
Congratulations to my clients for the Readers’ Choice Awards 2014! Fifty education products selected by teachers/administrators for their effectiveness.
x2VOL by intelliVOL (Honorable Mention)
Read the full article here
The Positive Impact of Service on College Applications: Digital Record Keeping
Date: May 22, 2014 (live webinar) at 4:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. ET
Who: Educators, teachers, counselors, and administrators in private and public schools
Cost: Free to NCEA members and non-members
Register: http://www.ncea.org/events/impact-service-college-application-how-make-tracking-service-hours-digital-your-students
“This will be a great way to learn how to efficiently manage student service hours in public and private schools,” said Michele Pitman, CEO of intelliVOL, which developed the x2VOL tracking and reporting system.
See the full article by Michele Molnar about SXSWedu popularity after only 4 years.
Most ed-tech companies attending the South by Southwest education conference last week would probably love to grow at the rate the conference itself has experienced: 650 percent since it began four years ago. “It’s a reflection of the community’s hunger for these kinds of conversations,” said Ron Reed, SXSWedu’s executive producer, explaining why more than 6,000 participants were converging for the four-day conference and festival.
EdTechDigest announced finalists in their awards program. J Harrison Public Relations Group has been picked as a finalist for the Best PR Firm in edtech! It is nice bit of recognition for nearly 25 years of work in this market.
Adding to the honor is having three clients picked as finalists for the Cool Tools award as well:
See all the finalists and categories here.
