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The Daily Jolt is a network of student-run college websites focused on local campuses. Each website provides useful things for college students like menus, a message board, event listings, news, weather, as well as on-campus, local, and national job listings. Amit Gupta began the first Daily Jolt website at Amherst College, with a second started at Brown University by Mike Goelzer. Amherst College is an independent liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. It is the third oldest college in Massachusetts. ...
Brown University is an Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ...
Some time after spreading to a few more schools, specifically in the Five Colleges area of Massachusetts, the Daily Jolt became a business, and by 2000 was at 20 schools. Amit and Mike ran it for awhile, bringing on several new people as venture capital started flowing. By the end of 2000, The Daily Jolt employed over a dozen full time employees, as well as over 200 college students as part-time employees to run the school-specific websites. The Five Colleges are affiliated colleges in the Connecticut River valley of western Massachusetts, belonging to a consortium called Five Colleges, Incorporated. ...
After the dot-com bubble burst, things were tough for the Daily Jolt and forced some scaling back, but it has since stabilized its business and slowly begun to expand again, buoyed by the raging growth of Internet advertising sales. Dot-com (also dotcom or redundantly dot. ...
The company currently maintains an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts with 6-7 full-time employees and some part-time help. The number of schools with Daily Jolt websites ebbs and flows as some sites fade away and new ones launch, but it generally hovers around 100. Several new programs were launched as offshoots of The Daily Jolt over the past few years, including Yarn, JoltCamps, and Area Guides. Yarn is a collaborative story-telling system where users can collaboratively develop choose-your-own-adventure type stories. JoltCamps was launched to provide a way for summer camps in need of staffing/recruitment to access the Daily Jolt's large college student viewership. Area Guides are localized paper guides published in several of the Daily Jolt's markets, and given away free to college students. Cambridge City Hall Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ...
The Daily Jolt recently launched a new sister site, "Jolinko," that seeks to "feed all your online addictions simultaneously." The site features blogging, photo albums, events, friends, groups, discussions, stalking, etc. A similar offering for high school students has been launched with partners Bolt, RateMyProfessors, and RateMyTeachers.
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