Author Archives: Alumni Channel

Online communities get stronger when managers learn to delegate | Community Building

A great way to get members passionate about your community is to empower them. You’re the community manager but that doesn’t mean you should be doing everything. The more responsibilities you give your members, the more dedicated and committed they’ll become.

Online communities get stronger when managers learn to delegate | Community Building.

Social Media and Mobile Marketing Webinars for Nonprofit Organizations and Small Businesses

Social Media and Mobile Technology Webinars for Nonprofit Organizations

Heather Mansfield, owner of DIOSA Communications, gives webinars on how nonprofit organizations can successfully use social media and mobile technology. Her webinars focus on practical how-to advice and demonstrate in real time, click-by-click best practices that Heather has learned from spending more than 40 hours a week on social media sites for the last four years.

On Tuesdays :: 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern

  • November 2: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Facebook and Facebook Apps :: Beginner and Intermediate
  • November 16: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and Twitter Apps
  • November 23: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Facebook and Facebook Apps :: Advanced

Please Note: DIOSA Webinars are packed with practical, how-to information and do take the full 90 minutes.

NJ Annual Conference for Education Foundations

Join fellow NJ education foundations and visit us at the New Jersey Education Foundation Partnership Inc. (NJEFP) Annual Conference on Saturday, November 13, 2010 in Princeton.  Learn how local education foundations can provide important educational programs and resources to local schools.  This conference will offer existing, new, and emerging education foundations resources to help education foundations reach their goals.

RSVP Feature Available for Upcoming Events

Customers using the Upcoming Events feature will be pleased to notice they can now offer to their members an RSVP for each event.  Simple to use, the RSVP feature allows members to indicate ‘Yes’, ‘No’ or ‘Maybe’ for an event.  This information is then available to community administrators via a download report.  We hope this feature will go a long way in keeping alumni engaged and online longer at each of our customer communities.

New Organizations join Alumni Channel

Alumni Channel would like to welcome an accounting firm, an education foundation and a Catholic high school to our network of online alumni communities . . .

For over 49 years, students have been coming to Santa Fe Catholic High School to grow academically, spiritually and personally. Santa Fe Catholic High School, a coeducational institution of the Diocese of Orlando, was founded in 1960.


Berkowitz Dick Pollack & Brant Certified Public Accountants & Consultants, LLP, was established in 1980 and has offices in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton. They are one of the largest public accounting firms in South Florida.


The Ann Arbor Public Schools Educational Foundation was established in 1991 and has distributed more than a 1/2 million dollars in grants to the Ann Arbor Public Schools. With their online alumni community they will reconnect with alumni from across five different high schools.

For a complete list of our customer sites, please visit alumnichannel.com.

Enhanced File Manager Now Available

A new version of our file manager has been made available to all client sites.  The updated Ajax file manager works right within the web browsers, so there’s no software to download or FTP to deal with. Its simple interface makes it intuitive and quick to learn for all kinds of users. The new features include drag-and-drop file moving, as well as an image resize plugin.

How often should you tweet?

How often should you tweet?

This is a common question for those new to Twitter . . .

First off….. There is no “right” answer. I tweet 50+ times a day, others tweet once every day or two. There is no magically correct number. Your “right number” depends entirely upon your personal, business, or agency goals. Here are some rough guidelines that I have come up over the course of my 20K+ tweets.

Coleman Catholic High School joins Alumni Channel

John A. Coleman Catholic High School of Hurley, NY is building an online community with Alumni Channel to launch on September 12. Coleman Catholic is located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The school contains grades 9 – 12. It was established in 1966 and since 2001 has operated independently from the Catholic Archdiocese of New York.