Showing posts with label Alumni Community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alumni Community. Show all posts

Thursday 16 January 2014

How to start an alumni community?

Are you interested in starting an alumni community? Well, starting or creating an alumni community is not difficult but managing such community where members are equally knowledgeable and experienced is really challenging. Alumni management is as important as starting an alumni community for your organization. But the question is why and how to start an alumni association.

For starting a successful alumni association, it is important for organizations to have a clear vision and purpose as to why they want to have one. Generally, organizations want to start an alumni community for the purpose of nurturing the spirit of loyalty among the members, their professional development and to strengthen ties with the alumni for future business objectives. An alumni association supports organization to achieve intangible aspects of business and strengthen relationship among alumni, the community and the organization.

There are some basics steps which should be followed while starting an alumni community:

  • Form a group of like-minded alums- for that you have to informally meet with alums to obtain names and directly ask for their interest in participating in the association.
  • Communicating with the interested alumni, inviting them to join the community and requesting them to spread the word among their contacts.
  • Getting organized by preparing By-Laws for the steady progression of the community.
  • Arranging finances for a newly built community- it is sometimes difficult to arrange finances but there are several ways through which it can be done, like collection of dues/donations, annual membership fees, capital fund raising campaigns, and others.
  • Engaging members through various activities like, blogs, forums, newsletters, events, meetings etc.


Monday 17 September 2012

Top Management Institutes prefer Saviance’s Viburnix as Alumni Network Solution

Strengthening bonds with alumni results in more and more referrals to your institute, but this alumni management can be costly and time-consuming effort. Understanding the significance of alumni network management, Saviance Technologies brings its flagship product – Viburnix for institutes that wish to leverage their Alumni Network. Viburnix – alumni management software offers the most critical features that your alumni need to be in constant contact with one another, and presents to you a platform to communicate key information to them. This alumni system helps you create value for your institute as well as for your alumni community online.

Social networking, alumni database and donations are amongst some of the numerous benefits that Viburnix has to offer. Some of our successful implementations of Alumni relationship management solution in the past include: Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), The Harvard Club of India, The Global Wharton India Mentoring Network and The British School to name a few. To highlight: Our recent client acquisition includes Premier Management Institutes of India.

All of these institutes had the same yet a unique goal when they came to us and that was, ‘A comprehensive alumni portal to reach out to their entire past and current student community and engage them with the current updates and happenings at their Alma mater.’ We provided all of our clients with many Social Networking features like Blogs, Discussions, Photo Galleries and Events. We created an Alumni Portal design as per their requirements using our Alumni Product – Viburnix. The successful implementation resulted in substantial benefits for both the alumni and the institute.

Many more such success stories have made Viburnix the best solution when it comes to “alumni” and any association with it. 



Tuesday 26 July 2011

Viburnix – One-shop-stop for Alumni Association


An Organization’s alumnus association is one of its most valuable assets in terms of its potential financial, strategic and social contribution towards the integrity and longevity of the institution. This can be achieved only by being connected to its alumnus. Understanding the importance of staying connected to each other, we at Saviance Technologies have structured alumni portal software which is well equipped to let organization’s connect, build credibility and expand upon alumni associations.

Viburnix – alumni community offers a sea of options, including an advanced alumni directory, participate in discussions, post articles, request for guest lectures, ask for mentorship, post for jobs, collaborate with alumni chapters, organize an event, update contact information, share pictures and many more. The most famous features of this alumni software are the Facebook Connect and Data Visualization.

Facebook Connect allows alumni to share their posts, event details, pictures and videos on Facebook with a unique ‘connect’ feature. Data visualization is a graphical representation of information. The main aim of this module is to display the location and information of alumni members across the globe and information about their engagement on the alumni portal.

With Viburnix – alumni portal, every alumnus has one-click access to the events and news that are of interest to them. This alumni software recreates the ties between alumnus and their Alma Mater. Based on the principles of communicate, collaborate, socialize, control and giving back, the alumni portal software is living upto all of these and many more.