Like most of us, your alumni community is undoubtedly spending much more time on their mobile devices than emails. You may feel challenged by this trend, wondering how you can effectively communicate for alumni engagement in this era of instant mobile messaging. Your alumni are right now probably networking with one another on social media, and you have so little visibility because it is happening on platforms outside your purview. e2s Connect is guaranteed to change all that with one master stroke with our institution-branded mobile app for alumni connect – with your institution and other alumni anytime, anywhere.
Mentoring
Alumni play a crucial part in current student mentoring. The university advancement team creates mentoring programmes with goals and duration, streamlines registration, and populates alumni profiles. Students register in the appropriate mentoring group or alumni community for guidance, support, and networking. e2s alumni management software automatically matches mentees with shortlisted mentors for skillset and industry preferences, and upon staff review and confirmation, notifies the finalised mentors and mentees. Mentee progress and action items are tracked via mentor notes and other parameters.
Alumni Giving
This is an efficient tool for the university advancement team to collect alumni contributions by setting up causes, funds, and campaigns. The alumni data, such as gift amounts, payments, and anonymity preferences, through an online form, is available to alumni through the alumni mobile app/portal or website and for the staff through the alumni profile data already housed in the e2s alumni management software. Donations are tracked in the e2s platform for the individual alumni and the specific fund, with the automated receipt and thank you email generation.
Volunteering
The university advancement team establishes structured volunteering programmes and plans a list of events for the alumni on a calendar for opportunities such as guest lectures, teaching programmes, event organising work (roles such as sponsor, organiser, peer supporter), etc. Alumni connect by picking events and sessions they wish to participate in and register through their mobile app/portal, subject to approval based on their credentialled proficiency (for example, knowledge of Spanish to be a Spanish instructor). Alumni attendance, engagement with the volunteering coordinators, recognition, awards, and feedback can all be recorded and tracked.
Alumni Rewards
Overall, alumni engagement is vital for effective participation in institutional initiatives. e2s Connect facilitates a comprehensive rewards system for alumni participation. Award them gift vouchers and custom badges for tasks completed. University advancement staff can create new rewards and associated badges for different tasks on demand. Manage alumni rewards using an intuitive interface. Alumni complete their tasks, earn eligible badges, and can also view potential awards such as gift vouchers.
Communities
Create alumni communities based on graduation years (Class of 2021, etc.), interests (sports, science, etc.), or business/career focus (banking, entrepreneurship, etc.). Create both public and private communities (those available to join only by invitation). The mobile app will be the best tool for alumni to connect to their network on the go, engage in wall chatter, and share interests and memories. As engaging communities blossom in time, more and more lost alumni will come into this valuable network through individual referrals. The Alumni community platform is an incredible way for lifelong alumni engagement.
Events
Run successful events, be it virtual or on campus, or in offsite venues, to bring the alumni community together! Manage the entire event lifecycle - specify sponsors, sessions, and speakers, choose the alumni invitee list based on persona, run campaigns, send reminders, alerts, and meeting content, manage event registrations through manual and QR Code based solutions, get event feedback and seamlessly move interested event attendees into e2s alumni CRM as fundraising prospects. Our alumni management software integrates with payment gateways for paid events.
Campaign
Run effective alumni campaigns using a comprehensive content management system with a library of templates and campaign materials for active alumni connect. Send out emails, text messages and mobile notifications to persona-based target alumni groups. Your campaigns may be one-off or recurring with automated drip campaigns set up ahead of time with triggers based on date, event, or response. The university advancement team has the power to engage the alumni community by meaningful and timely messaging!
Job Board
Job Board is a smart platform for the alumni community or hiring organisations to post jobs for alumni as well as for newly graduating students. A smart match enables the best fit for a job description. Job seekers can also search the job board by skills, location, etc., and get notifications whenever new jobs are posted for those keywords. The "Apply Now" feature lets them easily submit their resume. People in the alumni community can set reminders, receive notifications, and pursue other functionalities to embark on their careers via feature-rich, intuitive interfaces.
Alumni Networking
The alumni community can build peer networks by connecting to other alumni with shared interests, backgrounds, or experiences. Send out ‘connect’ requests and evaluate such requests received from other alumni to either ‘accept’ or ‘decline’ those. Use filters to get a list of like-minded peers and use privacy settings to allow limited viewing of profile information. This is a powerful closed campus LinkedIn for efficient alumni connect and also a solid measure of much-needed alumni engagement.
Empower alumni with mobile apps and portal for lifelong connections!
Social media Sign
Typically, institutions use AD login
credentials or alumni ID to access the alumni management software. However, over time
Persona-based Outreach
‘One size doesn't fit all' in communication
with your alumni community. Create groups based on alumni persona
Dashboards and Reports
e2s Connect generates plenty of useful
data on alumni communication, interactions, activities, polls, mentoring,
Service Desk
Alumni may raise issues or queries on the Service Desk
via their mobile app, anytime, anywhere. Save university advancement
Polls / Surveys
Proactively pulse, engage, and understand your
alumni by polling, and use their responses to build meaningful
Campus News
Create and share custom content and RSS feeds with
alumni on their mobile app and portal. Content such as inspiring alumni
Real-time Alumni 360 view
University advancement staff, based on roles and
access rights, get real-time 360 alumni view with issues raised and responses,
Experience e2s and you'll wonder how you got by so far without it…