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Organize Yourself This Semester with BAND!

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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at ASU chapter.

With summer break over (insert crying emoji here), that means Arizona State is back in session! Being the busy collegiettes that we are that means taking on new classes, catching up with friends and leading multiple student organizations on campus. But, since we are only human, our patience and organization skills are bound to get tested. So, to help you begin the new school year hassle free, we wanted to share with you our new favorite app: BAND!

Incorporating BAND into Your College Lifestyle

What’s so amazing about BAND is that you can use it for almost everything group-related! It focuses your attention on the people who matter and cuts out the hundreds of “friends” you don’t need to stay up to date with. For example, when you have your first sorority meeting of the year, get your sisters on BAND so you can plan events, write shared-to-dos, take polls, share pictures, etc. Also, members don’t have to worry about taking their social media accounts down during rush – only your sisters can see the private conversations/shared info.

BAND definitely helps busy collegiettes like us keep up with important group activities we are a part of on campus. From Greek life to sports teams to organizing a study group, videos, gifs, PDFs, Dropbox files and tons more can be shared within BAND.

Why Use BAND If I Use Facebook Groups and GroupMe?
 
With Facebook Group, your message fights for a tiny spot on each member’s Feed filed with celebrity news, baby photos and Buzzfeed articles. What’s worse, your group is buried on the side menu making your announcement barely audible. Communications through SMS and Emails do not get very interactive. If they ever do get interactive, people quickly get annoyed by the notifications and endless threads that are difficult to keep track of. In the end, no one knows if the message was heard and how it was received by individual members.
 

While GroupMe puts everyone together, its job ends there – in a crowded chat room that can easily be overseen in the midst of conversation that quickly jump from one topic to another. BAND, by virtue of being your group-only space, clearly delivers each message to the captive audience. Comments facilitate real-time conversations among the entire group, allowing everyone to know how each one feels about the topic you posed. Even when someone checks your message late, the conversations can easily be found and even searched. Unlike all other services, BAND provides a full package of group-essential functionalities to deliberately help your group stay on the same page effortlessly!

Now does this sounds cool or what?! But if you need more of a visual aide to understand BAND more, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJtyBA7wXwg.

Download BAND for free and test it out! We’re sure you won’t regret it!

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Caroline Ortiz is currently a senior at Arizona State University majoring in English Literature with a minor in Film and Media Production. She co-founded the ASU Her Campus branch at her university in the spring of 2013 and is very happy to be a part of the Her Campus team! Apart from being involved with Her Campus, she is the Chief of Staff for ASU's Programming and Activities Board (PAB), a student run organization that strives to give their student body the best Sun Devil experience, Secretary of Las Hermanas of the Hispanic Mother Daughter Program, a club striving to provide a supportive and encouraging environment to University Latinas, a Trendspotter for MTV Insights, and was previously a Cosmopolitan Magazine Campus Representative! When she is not busy studying Literature (which requires reading endless amounts of Norton Editions) participating in PAB, Las Hermanas or crewing for a film, she enjoys her time off reading YA novels, magazine, shopping and brainstorming new and exciting things for HC ASU. Her ultimate goal is to move to a metropolitan city and become an Editor-in-Chief for a publishing house or crewing for a feature film!
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My name is Alejandra Guillen and I am a junior at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and at Barrett, the Honors College. As most people do, I enjoy sleep, food (especially of the breakfast, gravy and meat varieties), and Ryan Gosling.