GroupSpot

Cannon Music Camp at Appalachian State University had our inaugural year using GroupSpot this past summer, 2025. Over the 57 years of camp we’ve certainly invented and re-invented many ways to communicated and support our music campers during the three-week experience. We found that GroupSpot, had many features that worked tremendously well for our communication needs. The feed experience, the ability to share photos, and the ability to reach out to students via the app without utilizing their personal numbers was exceptional. For our purposes we created a daily announcement slide on Canva and linked it a a news feed update. We also liked the ability to add our concerts to the calendar and be able to upload photos to each event so that we have a much better way to sort through photos post-camp to use for promotion in social media. The attendance features of GroupSpot were also helpful for us in many ways. The very best part about using GroupSpot was the exceptional support we as a staff received from John and how GroupSpot is really listening to suggestions for improvement or update that can help make the app work even better for a summer camp as opposed to an athletic program or school music program.

I am the team parent for both Boston University men’s lacrosse and Cornell men’s lacrosse. I was introduced to Group/Spot by one of the BU parents when I mentioned I was looking for an app would help organize our games and communicating with the team in an easier manner. This app does that plus 100 times more! It not only shows game schedule, it send reminders leading up to the game if you want, can easily communicate with your whole team, groups of parents or individuals. Privacy seems to be their number one priority. You approve members before they can be a part of the group. No person can join without your approval to let them into your group. When you first go into your group on the app, it’s similar to Facebook in the sense that it is a feed with all the information you want everyone to see and follow along with. We post all of our pictures from tailgates, team meals, game pictures… Easy to take it from there and do a slideshow for end of year celebrations. Everything is all in one place - no need to have everything in multiple places. I used to send out weekly emails to both my teams but now I put everything in the app. Again - everything in one spot! I loved it so much that I added two of my other kids, high school sports teams! It’s a winner for sure. Never a need to search for another solution for anything - this literally has it all! Name it, it probably does it.

Initially, it was hard to imagine how this tool could replace other group applications like Facebook or TeamSnap, but, after using it for 6 months, it is clear Kohort is so much simpler and effective - it has all the tools you need to communicate with a group on one platform. It keeps everything in the same place - no need for tracking down emails, evites, signup geniuses, google forms, etc. - all of those functions are available on one dedicated platform. Best of all, there are no ads and your information is only shared when you want it to be. Privacy is prioritized. This app is flexible and just simply works for group organizers and participants. Our community has adopted this app for youth and high school sports and activities. Our coaches post schedules for practices and games. Our kids have taken responsibility for monitoring schedule changes because they receive direct notifications and it is easy to use. There is a chat feature where they can communicate with their teammates and coach. Parents and grandparents are able to stay on top of schedule changes, game addresses, roster details, etc and our group organizers post action photos that are shared with the entire community. These photos can be easily downloaded and saved to your own digital photo library. Everything is stored in one place and serve as a terrific memoriam for past seasons. The applications for this app are endless (family keepsakes, memoriam, celebrations, etc). We plan to setup a group for our extended family. We don’t need thousands of people viewing and commenting on our family activity - just us!