Alumni and all the Nostalgia

It is said that best days of our lives are school days.

We remember all the great times that we had when we were kids when we meet our old friends. It’s Reunion time. Organizing a reunion has always been a tricky affair – mainly because we never get to everyone in our batch, let alone the entire school/college.

Then, there are those who receive invitations very late because most of these invites are passed in a chain format and on general purpose social networks like Facebook.

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The Alumni Portal’s sleek new backend design

The Alumni Portal gets a shiny new backend.

This backend not only provides visual appeal and simplicity but also helps speed up the routine tasks that an Administrator has to do.

Check out the screenshots.

As always, this portal is ever-improving.

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Why it is good to join Alumni Community

Students these days have got immense pressure on themselves and therefore there arises a need of a community where the entire group of Students can come together and share and explain the problems which they come across during their academic year. Joining student communities is not only beneficial in terms of solving the problems related to their College projects during the academic year, but it may also be helpful for the students in organising some creative events or extracurricular activities for themselves where the students can have an opportunity to showcase their talents not in only in front of their seniors but also to the entire college faculties. Every University has a Alumni Association in it where the head of the association plays an important role in taking major decisions regarding the Benefits of the students. The year 2012, we witnessed a major chaos amongst the students where one of the Question papers got leaked and the university now has decided to take a re-examination of the leaked paper. Here in this case the entire Students committee came together in filing a petition to the university against re-examination.

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Find old friends using The Alumni Portal

The best things in life come in threes; like friends, dreams and memories, someone once observed.  And how true has been this observation. The thing about old friends is that we get so used to them being around, we get so comfortable with them that we do not notice their flaws any longer.  Our memories with them always bring joy to our hearts and smiles on our faces.

These friends can be from our school or society or your colleges.  Fate can at time be cruel to us and make us get separated from our friends.  Our buddies become distant friends and our interactions may now get reduced to ‘liking’ or ‘commenting’ on their status updates and wishing them on their birthdays.  In this age of technology, physical space between two people may be anything but that in digital space is only that of a click.  So our tweets and posts manage to convey our feelings to one another to some extent.

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When Alumni become course designers

There is an explosion of management institutes in the last decade all over the world.  The reasons are many, some of them being the unrestricted access to knowledge sharing by industry experts, social networking opportunities, industrial visits,  multiple job offers and considerable higher pay.  Aspiring management graduates get to know in a regulated and simulated environment what the corporate buzz is all about.

The curriculum is also evolving in these management institutes to include more contemporary subjects such as entrepreneurship, creativity, talent management, microfinance as well as modern technology such as ERP, virtual technology and the like.  Most of the management institutes have industry experts, subject matter experts and university officials on their board of studies who review the curriculum periodically and propose relevant changes.  A good idea would also be to include some of the alumni of the institute on such a alumni community to propose changes in the curriculum.

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Alumni Software in Cloud – The Alumni Portal on Cloud 9

When clients talk about Alumni Software or Alumni Website, they often talk only about features. One of the most important things is how this power is delivered to you.

Any website or software with tons of features needs great servers to keep it going and delivering exceptional user experience. All this would cost more than the software itself.

But thanks to our team, we have worked overtime to take The Alumni Portal on cloud.

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Why not Facebook Page/Group?

Points of comparison between The Alumni Portal and Facebook:

Exclusivity:

The Alumni Portal Facebook
Yes No

This is the biggest drawback. No one thinks about their school/college when they are on Facebook.

Event Calendar:

The Alumni Portal Facebook
Yes Yes

Facebook has an events.

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