The role of alumni affairs professionals is multidimensional as well as multifunctional. It includes planning and implementation of programs and projects that are strategically designed to engage alumni, and provide tangible benefits to alumni, current students and other stakeholders of their institutions. The details can include planning various anniversary celebrations, engaging alumni group using social media, managing volunteers and analyzing alumni engagement data and much more!

Serving as an ambassador for the institution, the Alumni affairs professionals are charged with:

-Securing timely commitments from the alumni to provide professional consulting expertise and volunteer service

-Collaborating with colleagues in the administrative offices including:

• Admissions
• Development
• Public Affairs and Student Affairs

-Serving as a liaison between the Alumni Association Board of Directors, academic leadership and administrative support

With so many links in picture, communication and collaboration become factors of paramount importance. Building a strong community of enthusiastic individuals willing to pay back to their Alma Matar and facilitating internal as well as external communication are primary challenges for the alumni affairs professionals.

We at Sanmita know how all this can be achieved with the help of technological advancement. Technology has revolutionized the way people interact with each other and get their information. Technology has helped alumni affairs professionals accomplish their aforementioned goals by providing high quality functions conducive for networking and advance information management services.

Our solution for Alumni Affairs Professionals

We have helped alumni affairs professionals provide their alumni with an environment, wherein the alumni themselves could contribute content and participate more actively than they would on a standard informational site. This way, they feel much more engaged with their Alma Matar with a sense of belongingness. Through our consulting and development services, we have helped Alumni affairs professionals:

• Qualify the fundamentals that could be applied to a wide range of successful alumni relations programs.
• Develop a clear understanding of alumni relations, its role within advancement and its impact on your institution and alumni community as a whole.
• Develop online infrastructure for programs and services that will engage alumni through all the stages of alumni life cycle.
• Cope up with present and future technological trends with special emphasis on social media and other constituents of integrated web marketing. 

We do it all the Open Source way! Drupal and similar Open Source technologies seem to be the best fit for such needs as providing a fun and meaningful tool to an institution’s alumni and associated stakeholders. These platforms support modules or plug-ins for blogs, RSS feeds, file uploads, comments, messaging, and many such community-focused functionalities. These platforms provide robust and well-documented APIs that allow the users to add additional functionalities later on, and customize existing modules to suit existing needs. With these platforms, new features can be added incrementally.

 

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