Tracy Corace (Kueny), of Lenape High School, suggested the alumni sites allow for more than one gallery, such as for the pictures for her upcoming reunion. Other suggestions have been to allow a gallery per class, or allow each member to create a gallery.
Both the “Admin Manual” and “Success Plan” have had minor updates. You can find the latest versions on the left navigation of your site once you are logged in as administrator.
The photos in your home page gallery appear on your computer after being saved to your computer’s browser cache. This means that a copy of the gallery is being displayed each time you visit your web site. The same is true for each of your visitors. Therefore, any changes you make to the gallery will not be visible until each person viewing the gallery clears the cache on his/her own computer. To get around this, the web site will force a refresh of the gallery every seven days to ensure all visitors see your latest changes.
I am pleased to announce that the Massachusetts Hospital School Alumni Association has joined with The Alumni Channel to promote and build their alumni association. Since 1907, the Massachusetts Hospital School, of Canton, Mass., provides medical, rehabilitative, recreational and educational services to children and young adults who are physically disabled, assisting them to achieve their maximum level of independence in all aspects of life. MHSAA is also our first site to use the new .ws top-level domain instead of .org or .com.
Visit: http://MHSalumni.ws
Several months ago the Camden Catholic High School Alumni Association began accepting payments online for their 120th Anniversary Celebration. Over 300 tickets were sold in total, with 94 being sold online. The CCHS Alumni Association is using “Click and Pledge” to manage their online payments. Click and Pledge is just one of dozens of options for collecting online payments. We at The Alumni Channel have found their set up (none), fees (4.5%), and interface to be a good match for our clients.
New York Times (September 19, 2007) – Events originating in Warren E. Buffett’s rejection from Harvard Business School have led to a gift to a Quaker private school that dwarfs some college endowments. Read more >
The Alumni Channel was recently featured in the online newsletter of Canadian FundRaiser, a newsletter that has been updating nonprofit managers twice-monthly on news, trends, tips and analysis of developments in the fields of fundraising and nonprofit management.
August 15, 2007
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New York Times (April 15, 2007) — an article about university fundraising which states that Britons give less money to charity than Americans.
American fund-raisers are helped by the ineffable thing that is school spirit. Not so in Britain, where superiority is supposed to speak for itself. Indeed, the joke at Oxford is that the only students who wear school sweatshirts are the Rhodes scholars. Read more >
From Idealware . . . These days, most event participants expect to be able to register online for events. Luckily, there are lots of tools that can help with that, from simple to sophisticated to multi-functional. We asked 11 nonprofit technology professionals what online registration tools have worked for them. Read more >
Illinois State University conducted a survey how many E-mail messages seems reasonable to alumni. The answer may be surprising. The two highest responses were “2 or 3 per month” and “No limit.” Read more >