This blog will be discussing Best Practices surrounding Alumni Engagement Strategy. I received an inspiring email this week from Erica Yaeger.
This blog will be discussing the Alumni Engagement Matrix and how it can be applied to your institution. If you are being really honest, how would you score your institution’s level of on-line alumni engagement? More importantly, do you understand why you are achieving the alumni engagement levels that you are? Alongside being easy to […]
This blog will be focusing on why schools must be focused on alumni engagement and our top tips for doing so. Once upon a time, there was a former student who approached the Dean of his old school for some advice on engagement. ‘’Nice to see you’’, said the Dean. ‘’If I am not mistaken, […]
When it comes to alumni engagement, we often get lost in the detail. To be more precise, we often get lost in the alumni engagement metrics. There is the big question about what to measure that will capture both the ‘Fund-raising’ and ‘Friend-raising’ nature of alumni relations.
Most professionals working with alumni for an educational institution understand that you probably need to have in place three things to effectively engage your alumni on-line.
This blog post will relate President Clinton’s famous quote to the current state of Alumni and graduate engagement. A Senior Alumni Relations Director spelled it out for me as follows: Daniel, there are only two basic rules of fundraising… firstly, make sure you have for every potential donor a working phone number to call. […]
Try asking your alumni relations team the following question. Hypothetically, how much would an average alum be willing to pay to be an alum of your school and how much does an alumni value being part of that school? Quantifying the value of engaging alumni
What makes the education industry unique and amazing, is its ability to share best practice with so called ‘competitors’. At the end of the day, we are all on the same side of wanting to improve the quality of and access to education everywhere and to create a foundation for alumni engagement post studies.
This blog will be discussing the notion of digital water cooler moments, how they can drive Alumni Engagement and how we can harness them to our benefit. At the most recent Global Leaders Summit, I had the privilege of hearing four world-class speakers present break-through ideas and. Each idea was driven by technology and social media, […]
Ever wondered whether there is a correlation between the level of how much a school invests in engaging alumni and donor participation rates?
