At your university, you probably have thousands of alumni who you want to be able to keep in touch with and keep engaged. However, well over 90% of graduates change their contact information within the first two years after graduation. You risk losing out on several valuable connections and a thriving alumni network.
To keep your alumni engaged, you need a better system to manage your alumni contacts. That’s where alumni management software comes in. But how do you find the right solution for your alumni database? Here’s how!
You know how it is: It is becoming increasingly difficult for your university alumni office to track and engage with your graduates, and the level of engagement continues to fade over time. Graduates start losing touch with each other,
In fact, 70% of alumni organizations say their top goal is to increase alumni engagement, but 27% of those have no strategy to boost engagement.
At the same time, a strong alumni network increases the value of your university, and alumni donors can have a big impact on your university’s funding. In the end, letting these alumni connections disappear into the void and not keeping them engaged can have serious short and long-term consequences for your university.
That’s why an alumni management software is a key to managing and re-engaging your alumni. This is what our own tool, iDenedi, can help you with. Here’s how it works.
iDenedi works as an organized, live, alumni directory. With iDenedi, your university can easily set up groups representing each graduating class and year.
Alumni can join their respective groups where they can comfortably, and privately share as much contact information as they would like with your university and their peers.
This way, your alumni will stay in touch and continue networking, sharing opportunities, mentoring younger graduates, as well as keeping connected to your university.
Wondering how iDenedi for Alumni works? Here are the most important features you can use to quickly connect your alumni connections on iDenedi.
Today, more and more people simply ignore emails. And why shouldn’t they? Their email inboxes are crammed.
Many alumni admit to checking their alumni emails only once or twice a month. This often makes them miss important events and notifications.
In the alumni groups on iDenedi, university alumni offices have the opportunity to keep up a lively conversation with their graduates - notifying them of job opportunities, alumni events, fundraising efforts, and so much more. These announcements are not only easy to make but will be willingly received through mobile devices by alumni themselves as notifications.
Not only is iDenedi invaluable for keeping up with your alumni, but this alumni management software can also be used to generate recruitment opportunities for your university’s fresh graduates. You see, universities can create dedicated groups where their new graduates mingle with alumni. This opens up both job and mentorship opportunities. In this way, new graduates on the lookout for jobs get a unique channel to find jobs through your alumni network.
To connect alumni, you will need to set up a group in iDenedi. Fortunately, you can do it with a few clicks. Here’s how it works:
Once you have your alumni group up and running, you can start offering all the benefits that an active alumni network has to offer. Group communication is simply smarter with iDenedi!
That’s it, now you know how an alumni management software like iDenedi can help you create a more active and engaged alumni network.
Ultimately, your university can benefit from such a network in several different ways, including higher alumni donations and more job opportunities for your students and graduates.
Want to learn more about how iDenedi can help your university connect with its alumni? Read more here.