The Ellipse Group - "...more than just websites®" Supporting over 1450 Multifamily websites in 42 states, Ellipse Group, Inc., active since 1999 making us the oldest and the nation’s largest provider of Apartment Websites.

Ellipse releases FISH! program guide for Employee Motivation
12/08 - Ellipse’s Go Fish! program is a successful incentive program that we have developed using the books Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen, and Ken Blanchard and Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big by Bo Burlingham. This program inspired us as a company and we hope that it will inspire your organization as well. To download the Go Fish! graphics from our first incentive program, please click here. To download the graphics for the Got Fish! program from our second incentive program, please click here.
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Turbulent financial times call for cost effective websites
10/08 - Ellipse is proud to offer our Better Than Competitive^SM websites as an economical solution for communities’ branded online presence. This website development program supports a low threshold expense for budget strapped communities, while providing access to our core management tools like our Apartment Toolbox^® and great customer service.
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Ellipse donates $9,000 to the National Center for Victims of Crime
9/08 - Ellipse would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the attendees of the 2008 National Apartment Association (NAA) Annual Education Conference and Expo for their donations totaling over $2,600 and Linda Hoffman of Multifamily Professional Magazine who provided Ellipse a $500 check. With their assistance, Ellipse was able to donate $9,000 to the National Center for Victims of Crime in memory of Steve Swan and Matthew Butler.
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Multihousing Pro includes CEOs latest blog
9/08 - Ellipse’s CEO stresses the importance of finding your organization’s key players and encourage them to create impressionable, sustainable value. She encourages management associates to recognize and nurture the true talent that makes up this industry, and find the time to thank them personally for their hard work and dedication.
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Ellipse receives MHN 2008 Technology Choice Award
8/08 - The Ellipse website says “Mark our words, 2008 will be the year of Ellipse!” - and sure enough, we’re making it happen. Ellipse is the recipient of the Multi-Housing News 2008 Technology Choice Award for Marketing Websites.
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CEO at it again, new commentary published in Multihousing Professional Magazine
8/08 - Ellipse’s CEO shares a special thank you with employees and clients. She also remembers Steve Swan and Matt Butler.
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Ellipse Communications, Inc. now Ranked in the Inc. 5000
7/08 - Inc. magazine announced its 2008 edition of the annual Inc. 5000 ranking of the fastest growing private companies in the country. Among these top entrepreneurial companies, Ellipse Communications, Inc. celebrates its first admission into this prestigious list of rising corporate communities.
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Ellipse Remembers Steve Swan and Matthew Butler
6/08 - At 1:30 am, Thursday June 19, 2008, two young men were violently and senselessly murdered in front of their recording studio in Garland, TX. These energetic, bright and caring individuals were Matthew Butler, the sole child of Ellipse’s Executive Assistant, Theresa Butler, and father of two young children, and Steve Swan, Senior Security Engineer at Ellipse. Though our hearts and minds are with their families at this time of deep sorrow, members of our own corporate family will not let them have died in vain as we turn attention to what happens after a tragic crime. In their memory, Ellipse is accepting donations for The National Center for Victims of Crime (www.ncvc.org). View the Ellipse Ambassador for Victims of Crime press release.
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Ellipse continues to support Breast Cancer Awareness in 2008
4/08 - Ellipse continues to support breast cancer awareness with a $2,500 donation to the Dallas Chapter of the Executive Woman’s Golf Association’s (EWGA) Rally for the Cure Golf Tournament supporting the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation. Wendy Walker also received a $1,000 donation for her Breast Cancer 3-Day team. Walker says, “Breast Cancer had not really touched me personally, until a friend and neighbor was diagnosed with it in October 2007. This young mother of two had a double mastectomy in November, has undergone chemotherapy and now radiation. I wanted to do something to give back…in her honor, so I started a team of walkers in our hometown of Prosper, for the 3 Day Walk benefiting Susan G. Komen.” Read our latest edition of Tech Solutions for more of the latest news on Ellipse.
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MFE Technology supplement includes CEOs Blog
4/08 - Ellipse’s CEO highlights key elements of Ellipse’s history, tech concepts for multifamily and key client relationships in our latest advertorial designed for industry publication. "So ready or not, we will be using this supplement as our ’ technology blog’. How lucky for you!"
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Ellipse files suit on trademark infringement of Snaptshot^SM
3/08 - Ellipse’s lawsuit against Keith Caven and his company, Snapt, Inc., alleging trademark infringement of the product Snaptshot(SM) is featured in the March/April edition of Multihousing Professional. The article is entitled "Intellectual property suit filed in Texas".
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NAA features Ellipse in Technology Desk Top Reference Guide
3/08 - Ellipse’s advertorial delivers a punch with real insight into our company and industry placement. The tongue and cheek humor comes through loud and clear with our new "What’s your technology IQ?" ad campaign.
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New Project Pet Website Launched
2/08 - Ellipse is proud to annouce the launch of the all new Project Pet website. Tracy Johnson, Director of Operations of Project Pet says, "We love our website! The new design has allowed us to communicate our mission in a much more effective and engaging way allowing us to grow our support base and increase adoptions. We can truly save more lives! Thanks for a job well done, Ellipse!"
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Steven D. Bell chooses Ellipse
2/08 - Steven D. Bell & Company chose Ellipse as the branding and marketing campaign provider for their recent $1.7B acquisition of 86 apartment communities. Ellipse will provide a branded public presence and Apartment Toolbox^® content management system, including EllipseNet^SM data integration with RealPages SDE system. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to support such a high profile organization!

Capture Your Market with the Ellipse Group Inc.
11/07 - The Ellipse Group in a strategic partnership with Capture the Market is proud to present the latest in online video technology, a 60-second streaming video clip featuring your community and the surrounding neighborhood.
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Click to Increase Communication
11/07 - The Ellipse Group in a strategic partnership with ProVista Solutions Inc. announces the availability of Click to Chat and Click to Call contact center solutions as an addition an existing web presence. The contact center solutions are the latest in online communications, presenting your online traffic a way to interact with a live person via your web page, helping to bridge the gap between online viewers and onsite staff.
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Kim Cory’s Video Testimonial at NAA!
6/07 - Thanks Kim Cory, Director of Marketing, MGI Communities for sharing your thoughts on Ellipse and our suite of services. Quite a reference, considering what an incredible marketing success you are!
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Ellipse builds custom Relate 24/7^SM system for AMLI Residential
5/07 - AMLI Residential asked for a custom Relate 24/7^SM system tailored to their business needs and Ellipse delivered. AMLI’s personalized system provides their onsite teams with unlimited custom On Demand and Campaign Messages. Find out how you too can have a customized Relate 24/7^SM system.
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Introducing Ellipse Symphony^SM
2/07 - Ellipse Symphony(SM) provides a centralized suite of tools to manage existing Ellipse products.
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Buck Up and Wear It Success
11/06 - Ellipse raises $25,252.43 for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
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Ellipse Launches Lincoln Property Company Intranet
10/06 - Nineteen months and over 9000 labor hours invested, Ellipse delivered its Apartment Toolbox^® Platinum application to over 3,300 users at Lincoln this month. Valued at over $750 thousand dollars in intellectual development, this dynamic system delivers a robust integration platform with Yardi and their Ceridian payroll system.