Author Archives: Alumni Channel

Comprehensive Look at Community College Alumni Relations Programs Reveals Growing Pains | CASE

Community-CollegesA groundbreaking survey shows that community colleges are likely to experience an increase in giving when they track and engage their former students. However, data indicate that two-year institutions have made minimal investments in staffing and resources to develop alumni relations programs.

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education recently conducted a survey of 133 community colleges in the United States and Canada representing a broad range of demographic profiles. This included enrollment size, geographic area and alumni base.

Benchmarking Alumni Relations in Community Colleges is a new CASE white paper analyzing the results of the survey. It is CASE’s first comprehensive look at the state of community college alumni relations programs, many of which are nascent and remain small in scope.

via CASE.org.

Community colleges expand outreach to alumni | Inside Higher Ed

Two-year colleges are typically not known for their alumni relations. But as state cutbacks leave many of them with major shortfalls, more community colleges are turning to alumni outreach to make up the difference.

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/06/community-colleges-expand-outreach-alumni#ixzz2a4aTEkIG
Inside Higher Ed

How To Rock Social Media In Just 30 Minutes A Day [INFOGRAPHIC]

Social media comes with a pretty steep learning curve and, certainly for brands and marketers, if you’re not careful it can quickly consume an enormous amount of your time.

Enter Pardot, and their slick infographic below, which provides a workable guide as to how you can rock Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and Google+ in just 30 minutes each day.

How To Rock Social Media In Just 30 Minutes A Day [INFOGRAPHIC] – AllTwitter.

28 Statistics Show Growth in Mobile Email | Mass Transit

Since our first look at mobile email marketing statistics last April, we’ve seen tremendous growth in mobile email adoption by smartphone and tablet users. The rise in which email recipients have taken to accessing their email on mobile devices has been remarkable. Within months, mobile went from being for “early adopters only” to leading both webmail and desktop platforms in email opens.

via 28 Statistics Show Growth in Mobile Email | Mass Transit.

A Fresh Look at Alumni Relations: Connect to Improve Fund Raising

Revolutionize your Fundraising by Turning Your Development Effort On Its Head

Have you ever thought of your alumni relations activities as the preeminent part of your school’s advancement effort? Or do your colleague have an “I-suppose-it’s-important-but-I’m-not-really-sure-what-they-do” mentality about your staff? Far too often, alumni relations is seen as a second-class citizen in development, sort of a simple minded cousin that the family lets hang around.

A Fresh Look at Alumni Relations: Connect to improve fund raising.

– http://fundraisingcoach.com/free-articles/a-fresh-look-at-alumni-relations/

10 Excellent Online Payment Systems | sixrevisions.com

In this article, we’ll be reviewing my top 10 online payment systems for accepting payments on the Web. While many of the companies on this list have been available to online merchants for years, many are also now getting into new areas of online payments such as social commerce and in-store online card reader systems.

10 Excellent Online Payment Systems.