Category Archives: Alumni Channel News

New Service: Data Import into Online Communities

In an effort to help clients get better use of their community we are announcing a new data import service that will drastically reduce the amount of time and effort to get new records (e.g. graduates) into our online communities each year.

The “Data Import” Service:

  • Send us a file
  • We upload it
  • Passwords are automatically generated
  • Newly imported members get a welcome e-mail with login information

We anticipate this service will be most useful for organizations that have recurring new members on an annual basis and might have had trouble in the past getting these members to sign up on their own.  This service will now avoid any uncertainty regarding if, and how many, new members will register on their own.

  • File must be in specific format
  • A template will be provided
  • Each file can contain any number of records
  • Cost for service is $200 per file imported

Contact us for more information, then start collecting name, address, phone, and e-mail addresses.  Once you have your data ready send us the file and we’ll work with you to get it imported.  That’s it!

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.

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.

New group for former Champlain Valley Catholic school students

New group for former Catholic school students

Local Catholic school alumni gather to save history

PLATTSBURGH, NY — For years, the Champlain Valley was the home to multiple Catholic high schools.

Though Seton Catholic Central (formerly Mount Assumption Institute and St. John’s Academy) is the only one left, alumni of all the former institutions now have a home with the Champlain Valley Catholic Schools Alumni Association.

The association decided to start a website through alumni networking site the Alumni Channel, helping organize its efforts to reach out to the nearly 5,000 alumni from 19 different countries that attended Catholic high schools over the years in the Champlain Valley.

“I want it to be a site where any alumni of Catholic schools in the area can be involved in,” Recore said.

The website’s administrator, he said the site includes classmate lists and discussion groups that can be useful for reunion planning. He also wants to include pictures, records and other memorabilia from all the former high schools on the site.

“Creating this website with the use of the Alumni Channel, it gives us a place where historical and contact information is available,” said Don Moore, the board’s treasurer. “For the older schools, trying to maintain contact was difficult, but this site is easier because all alumni can help us.”

Site accessible at:  http://maialumni.org/

Read more of the article at:  New group for former Catholic school students » Faith & Spirituality » Press-Republican.

Newest Communities – April 2010

Five new online communities launched with Alumni Channel over the last several weeks. We welcome the Champlain Valley Catholic Schools Alumni Association (of Plattsburgh, New York) at http://CVCSalumni.org/. CVCS has uploaded 4000+ alumni records and their community is utilizing a new module to allow alumni to claim profiles where an e-mail address is not on record.

We also welcome Phi Gamma Nu (National Business Fraternity) at http://PGNalumni.org/. PGN is utilizing expanded employer listings to help alumni network professionally. Baptist Academy (Lagos, Nigeria) Alumni Association of the Americas at http://baaa.us/, and Brownsville Area Schools (Brownsville, PA) at http://BASalumni.org/, launched in March.

Alumni Channel is pleased to offer free trials for three new schools: Danubius University (Romania), Independence University (Salt Lake City, UT), and Trinity University Alumni Association for Health Care Administration (San Antonio, TX).

Latest communities – March 2010

We are pleased to begin working with a number of new organizations including: Parchment High School (Parchment, MI), Phi Gamma Nu (National Business Fraternity), Baptist Academy Alumni Association of the Americas (Lagos, Nigeria), Brownsville Area Schools (Brownsville, PA), and SS Philip and James Elementary School (Exton, PA).