IDenedi, Alumni management software | 2 min read
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.
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Originally published Jul 2, 2019 5:03:11 PM, updated July 15, 2019
Topics: IDenedi Alumni management software
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In today’s digital world, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to control communication as an organization. Employees and customers are bombarded with literally thousands of messages daily from multiple channels.
Research has shown that only 70% of employees open up organizational emails, making this once-reliable method of communication less than ideal. Of the 70% who click on the email, only 30% actually read it. With organizational email numbers so low, is it any surprise that marketing emails that go out to customers have an open rate of less than 20%?
Why is This Happening?
In today’s world of Vines, memes, and tweets, the attention span of the average human when perusing communication is about 8 seconds. If it takes you more than that time to get your message across, then you very likely missed. Not only that, we now live in a world of push notifications. Employees and customers are no longer interested in seeking out news and updates on portals or websites. If it is important, it will come to them.
Our internal solution was iDenedi. What started out as a directory of people for new and existing employees, soon turned into an announcement platform to get out the organizational message in a way that was swift, secure, and came to the employee on their phone no matter where they were.
We noticed the difference immediately – read rates for internal messages went up to 80%, half of those within 20 minutes of sending out the announcement. In addition to an increased read rate, interaction with internal messages increased. Where two years ago, very few people responded to emails from management. Today, we have employees liking and commenting on organizational announcements in a way that shows an actual conversation is being had.
It took us only a couple of months to realize that iDenedi had potential beyond internal announcements. Finally, we were able to get through to over 400 employees and 25 partners with information about our mission, vision, the changing scope of the company (we were transitioning from a services provider to a software company), and our products. How could we maximize this experience and take it to our customers?
External Awareness Through Sharing
We soon introduced ‘public announcements.’ By default, group announcements are private – meaning only the members of a particular group can see and interact with them. However, when making an announcement, we gave the option to create ‘public announcements.’ These were announcements that we wanted to circulate beyond the group. They included information about product enhancements, offers, company achievements, etc. and when the announcement is made, they include links for social media sharing.
The results were immediate – with a group of over 400 employees if only 10% of them share the announcement on social media (with the typical social media user averaging around 500 contacts- often more), our outreach was a staggering 20,000 ‘consumers.’ And these were actual people – potential customers and partners.
iDenedi has definitely been a game-changer in cutting through the noise.
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Is your privacy a part of your online security? After all, it’s getting harder than ever to keep personal information secure and private. And if the wrong people get a hold of your information, you could even risk things like identity theft.
If you want to learn the best way to protect your privacy, read on. Here’s how you do it easily with a simple tool, iDenedi.
Your contact details are used for online access. Most of the apps now ask you to use contact number or email to log in. Just think about it: How many apps do you have on your phone? How many services do you use online? That’s right, quite a few. And you’re using either your mobile or email to access these applications.
As your contact information is becoming your credentials to log in to many applications, privacy is becoming more and more vital.
Those who know how to protect their privacy, do it. But the rest of us? We continuously find ourselves exposing our contact information to many different parties on a daily basis when we register for any offline service or buy any item. Willingly and loudly we provide our contact information to registration desks and cashiers.
When you visit a physical location such as schools, hospitals, and shops, you are requested to give your mobile number and email address. This exposes your information to everyone within hearing distance.
Make no mistake: Strangers can access this information, which exposes you to everything from inconvenient telemarketing to online hacking to impersonation.
And the problem isn’t just service providers or app developers who get access to our information, it is also stranger and unauthorized parties who might get access to your contact details. Alternatively, they might not keep your information as secure as you’d like to, which makes your personal information vulnerable to security breaches.
Here’s what you’re risking if you don’t protect your privacy:
Your information can be used to target you with annoying marketing campaigns. Telemarketers often buy personal information they wouldn’t otherwise have access to.
Even worse, your information can be used to impersonate you. Just think about the damage this can cause. And not just for your credit card bill. Your identity can be used for many nefarious purposes.
So, what can you do to protect your privacy? That’s what we’ll look at next.
How do you make sure your information stays private?
There are two alternatives.
First, the hard way.
If you’ve ever looked into privacy protection, you know it’s a jungle.
To sign up for services you need to use, you need to give up your personal information. Setting up complicated systems to protect your data just doesn’t feel very doable.
But there’s an easier way.
When you register for our tool, iDenedi, you get a personal ID. This ID is a virtual public number that can be used for all of your registrations.
It’s incredibly easy to start using iDenedi: Download the app, register, obtain your ID and begin using this ID whenever you fill in a registration form. Plus, we’ve made iDenedi IDs easy to remember, using the below format:
The first letter is I as in “individual”.
The second two letters stand for a country code
The last 8 numbers stand for a date
Once you have your ID, you can use it whenever you sign up for a new service. The ID protects your information, so you can feel secure it won’t get in the wrong hands.
Now, you might be thinking:
“All of this sounds good… But what about my kids? How do I keep their information safe?
Good question. With iDenedi, you can create an account for your kids. Just go to your own profile and create a child account.
When you have an account set up, you can create an ID for your kids. Simply go to your profile and create a child account to generate the ID.
There you have it. Now you know why you should protect your privacy and how to do it.
The easiest way is to use a tool like iDenedi. It protects your identity in a simple way.
Want to get started? Get iDenedi here.
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Want to get more visibility for your company? But you know how it is… You don’t have the social media follower counts to get more social media engagement. And anyway, most of them are irrelevant contacts.
There’s a simple strategy you can use right away to improve engagement and get more leads. Let’s find out what it is.
Want to learn more? Sign up for iDenedi, the simple social media engagement tool.
80% of social marketers say their key strategy is to increase engagement.
And yet, here’s what most companies do:
They hire someone to post on their social media in the attempt to create more followers and connections to spread the message, create a digital presence, and maybe generate marketing leads. However, what happens? Most of these companies won’t move the needle and the reason is simple.
They don’t have a following. No one sees, reads, or engages with their posts.
The money they spend on their social media management strategy? It goes down the drain.
But there’s a simple strategy you can use to get those leads. Here’s how.
What if I tell you there is an easier and guaranteed way to create your digital presence in a short time by just using the power of your team?
If yes then continue reading...
People started using social media way before businesses.
And if you look at your team members’ profiles, you’ll see that they have hundreds of connections and followers on social media like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
It makes sense, right? Your team, just like you, have social circles.. And those social circles trust and are happy to share their content.
Now imagine:
What if your team would share your message with their connections?
What would the impact be?
Let’s do some simple math.
A company has 500 employees and each employee has 400 connections.
If your team shares your message with those connections, you could reach 200,000 connections immediately.
And guess what?
When your team (that is, people) shares your message, the impact is totally different than when your company shares it.
Why?
Because it's coming from someone trusted. It doesn’t feel like a marketing message for a company.
And so people will like, share, and act on your team members’ posts about your company.
But how do you get your team to share your message so you get more social media engagement?
For your team to share your post or message you need to:
How do you do that, though?
iDenedi is a private secure communication that will connect your team.
With iDenedi, you can connect your entire team in one place to share your social posts with them.
When team members share your posts with their connections, we calculate how many connections they share them to. We then convert that teamwork into social currency that can be used internally to reward those shares or in other ways celebrate that your company is meeting its social media engagement goals.
Using iDenedi is your fastest way to spread your message in the digital world.
There you have it. That’s how you get more social media engagement.
And not any social media engagement, but engagement that converts to leads.
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In today’s digital world, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to control communication as an organization. Employees and customers are bombarded with literally thousands of messages daily from multiple channels.
Is your privacy a part of your online security? After all, it’s getting harder than ever to keep personal information secure and private. And if the wrong people get a hold of your information, you could even risk things like identity theft.
Want to get more visibility for your company? But you know how it is… You don’t have the social media follower counts to get more social media engagement. And anyway, most of them are irrelevant contacts.
