FOLIO BY EPORTARO OPENS TO RAVE REVIEWS AT ANNUAL NASPA CONFERENCE

Washington, DC -- March 30, 2003 -- Attendees of NASPAs Annual Conference, held in St. Louis last week got a full introduction to the electronic portfolio revolution hitting higher education. NASPA, the Association for Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, ePortaros first association client made Folio by ePortaro available to its members as an enhancement to its JobsLink service for both recruiters and job seekers.

Integration of Folio by ePortaro provided graduate students in Student Affairs degree programs the ability to build ePortfolios to document and showcase their career achievements, employment experience, academic qualifications and personal interests. ePortfolios provide an interactive way for students and others to share appropriate items with prospective campus employers.

Employers found the ePortfolio useful from a variety of perspectives, particularly the ability to build and reuse custom search queries which return the electronic portfolios of matching NASPA job candidates.

Students using the system for career purposes quickly started to recognize how electronic portfolios would help with academic requirements as well. Folio by ePortaro offers me the opportunity to demonstrate my work in a variety of concise, well-organized presentations. The potential for showcasing graduate students academic accomplishments is limitless," said Patrick Biddix, graduate student at the University of Mississippi.

Gwendolyn Dungy, Executive Director of NASPA said "I was very pleased with the reaction to including Folio by ePortaro as a feature in Career Services during the NASPA Conference. Job candidates loved the easy ability to add files that employers could view. This is a great way for candidates to get noticed in the job process."

Additionally, ePortaro presented two separate sessions about the electronic portfolio revolution. One presentation described the future of career planning and placement using ePortfolios as tailored communication channels between job seekers and hirers. This joint NASPA/ePortaro presentation also described how NASPA was leveraging Folio by ePortaro for the benefit of its members.

Academic Uses of ePortfolios" was the topic of the second presentation. Describing how portfolios can positively impact the learning process through collection, projection, and collaboration; the session also reviewed best practices from the Folio by ePortaro implementation project at Drexel University.

The ePortfolio revolution in higher education is gaining speed as more universities find more ways to use electronic portfolios. Higher educations killer application", ePortfolios promise to improve the educational experience and to allow students and faculty to take advantage of the Internet to easily demonstrate learning, accomplishments and skills to third parties.

About ePortaro, Inc.
ePortaro, Inc. gives organizations and individuals the ability to organize diverse artifacts, events, data, and efforts, and to present and share them collaboratively over the Internet. Folio by ePortaro supports the collection, reflection, and assessment of an individuals efforts in both standards-based and ad-hoc formats. More information can be found at www.eportaro.com .

About NASPA
NASPA, the leading voice for student affairs administration, policy and practice, represents 8,500 student affairs professionals, including deans and vice presidents in leading colleges and universities. NASPA is the nationally recognized leader in providing cutting edge professional development, addressing critical issues, and promoting exemplary practices and research that improve the quality of college students' lives and promote responsible citizenship. In addition to providing continuing professional development, a major function of NASPA is to identify cutting-edge resources for student affairs professionals to use in their campus work. More information can be found at www.naspa.org

For More Information Contact:
Kevin Kruger
NASPA
(202) 265-7500 x3017
kkruger@naspa.org

John Judd
ePortaro, Inc.
(703) 220-6902
judd@eportaro.com