CampusLIVE.com, "The Home page for College Students," has recently re-launched its Sacred Heart University page.

Though Sacred Heart has had a small presence on the Web site for about a year, the original page was only a crude first version set-up to see if there would be a student interest in the site.

According to the Web site's "About Us" page, the mission of CampusLIVE is "to introduce you to your online college community."

The mission statement continues by explaining that though the Web site was "originally shaped to serve as a gateway to local restaurants, bars, and business, CampusLIVE has become your access point to anything academic, athletic, social and everything YOU in your online college community."

"Our campus specific home pages serve as the one-stop-shop for college students. It's everything a college student needs," said Sasha Grosman, director of marketing for CampusLIVE, Inc.

"Our goal is to improve students lives by simplifying them. As a student there are so many resources you need to be aware of, and many more that could help," said Grossman.

"Instead of having to browse the internet to get your life together, we've put it all together for you."

Jared Stenquist, Boris Revsin, and Jeff Cassidy founded the Web site in 2006 out of a University of Massachusetts dorm room.

What started as a private experiment began getting a lot of attention from both students and advertisers.

Grosman said that was when they realized this was something " worth sharing with more than one campus" and made the decision to expand.

"The Web site is widely used at 60 different college campuses around the country and is planning on an additional 500 in the upcoming months," said sophomore Brian Flumere, who is an intern for CampusLIVE.

Since its expansion, the Web site has achieved high recognition, including it's founders being recently named third in Business Week's "2008's Best Entrepreneurs 25 and Under."

Although it's new to campus, the site is getting positive reviews from both students and staff.

"I think the Web site is cool; it's an easy and modern compare to Blackboard, because it's appealing to the eye," said junior Jessica Giat, an intern for CampusLIVE.

Nancy Boudreau, director of web content management at Sacred Heart feels that the recent addition of CampusLIVE to the "MYSHU" page of Sacred Heart's Web site is complimentary.

"We think the CampusLIVE Web site complements our existing site by providing us with a place for information that students want, or might be interested in, but that doesn't necessarily belong on Sacredheart.edu," said Boudreau,

"At the present time, we have a basic page but there's a lot of potential to expand."

Boudreau said they've spoken to the developers at CampusLIVE. about seeing how other schools are using campusLIVE to keep students. prospective students and alumni connected and informed. They are also interested in adding the athletics schedule to the Web site.

Currently the CampusLIVE team is working in conjunction with their two interns at Sacred Heart to set up a link from their home page.

This link will serve as an online directory of every club and organization on campus.

"Our goal with this new platform will be to help all the different groups on campus effectively promote their events via a useful online presence. It's launching over the next few weeks," said Grosman.

Those working on CampusLIVE are hopeful that it will become a useful tool to Sacred Heart students in the coming months.

"CampusLIVE has had a great deal of success at many other schools across the country and I feel that they will have the same success here at Sacred Heart," said Flumere.