Alumni Associations: Leveraging Intangible Assets

Saviance Technologies has announced its next Alumni Leadership MasterClass to be held on 23rd August, 2012. This class focuses on various topics that will help the attendees set up an alumni office for their institution and successfully run its operations. The most important thing that these associations must remember is that alumni of an institution are always ready to give back to their almamater but all they need is a right channel to contribute. Taking this into consideration one of the topics to be covered in the MasterClass will showcase how alumni associations can harness the power of “Social media”, as a channel of engagement.

This blog briefly highlights how various Universities/Institutions are engaging their alumni using social media. There have been various studies and surveys conducted in the past and following are some of the common conclusions drawn, when it came to Universities and use of social media for alumni engagement.

•    Connecting and Collaborating with students
•    Reaching alumni where they are
•    Providing mediums and channels for information distribution
•    Alumni generated content
•    Guiding and helping alumni get jobs
•    Marketing Alumni Associations
•    Fundraising

Ever evolving Technology has definitely changed the way how communicate and social media is one-stop-shop for alumni association that help them connect, communicate and collaborate with their alumni.

Alumni Leadership MasterClass

Thursday, 23rd August, 2012

The Palms Town & Country Club, Gurgaon

Understanding and Leveraging Your Alumni Today

Alumni engagement is being seen as an emerging trend across universities, colleges, schools and corporate houses in India. We as pioneers and innovators in providing technological automation of the alumni relations office and having seen the growth in alumni engagement, believe the Alumni office as a core function of an Institute in today’s global environment. The focus of this MasterClass will be to effectively highlight the benefits of leveraging & engaging with your institute’s alumnus on a day-to-day basis.

Facilitators

Kaushik Bellani

Chief Executive Officer, Saviance Technologies – Alumni of DPS and IMT Ghaziabad

Joseph John

Advisor, South India & Sri Lanka, Saviance Technologies Graduate of CASE Alumni Relations Institute, INSEAD, Singapore

Key Take Aways

Unique MasterClass providing descriptive sessions on:

•Managing the alumni planning & engagement activities

•Benefiting from technology in communicating with global alumni of an institute.

•Sessions by faculties who are graduates of an Alumni Relations Institute organized in Singapore and who have an in-depth understanding of handling alumni office as well as supporting the technological needs of the office.

•To better utilize the existing relationship with your alumnus and how should you engage them actively on a regular basis.

•To gain a holistic view on building a strong and influential alumni network by running a fully functional alumni office in an institute.

•Integration with social media.

 

 Who Should Attend?

•Directors / Deans of Educational Institutions

•Alumni officers / faculty facing challenges in engaging their alumni on a routine basis

•University / College / School faculty planning an Alumni office in the near future

•Alumni relations staff who would like to maximize their relationship with the alumni and are facing challenges in engaging them pro-actively.

 

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