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How to Turn Your Alumni into Brand Ambassadors
Influencing the influencer: Building a culture of advocacy amongst your alumni – a UK perspective. [...]
How to Support Your Alumni Journey
Mapping the journey from students to alumni – what does that look like and how [...]
World Class Alumni Relations
What does it mean to be world-leading in alumni relations? Aluminati was proud to [...]
Study: The Impact of COVID-19 on User Engagement Levels within Established Aluminate Platforms
A study of 144,933 users, April-August 2020 vs 2019 Baseline user adoption holds [...]
Creating Connection Roundtable #8: The Positive Impact of Mentoring Programs on Employability
Introducing the topic and spotlight speaker, Helio Flores SPOTLIGHT: Helio Flores, Data Analyst - Alunimat [...]
Too important to ignore – How mentoring improves employability.
“I’d be dead without it”, reads the headline of this compelling Guardian article on the [...]
Mentoring Improves the Employability of University Graduates
The Effects of Mentoring on Employability is a fascinating study that draws conclusions from [...]
Creating Connection Roundtable #7: Lessons from Industry – How Community Engagement is the Next Marketing Revolution
Introducing the topic and spotlight speaker, Catherine Coale SPOTLIGHT: Catherine Coale, Community Specialist - Telstra [...]
Creating Connections Round Table #6: Running a Successful 1000+ Participant Online Event
Our sixth Creating Connections Virtual Round Table took place on Tuesday, 21st of July 2020. [...]
ACS International Schools Community Builder Platform: A Q&A with Melanie Gordon-Hughes, Senior Development Officer
Can you tell me something about yourself and your school? I am the Senior Development [...]
IDPE Aluminate Product Showcase 2020
At The Institute of Development Professionals in Education (IDPE) Live Conference, Poppy Scale introduced Aluminate [...]
Aluminate Community Builder: A Platform for Changing Times
This year has shown how quickly the world can change... The education sector [...]
University of Bath finds online Alumni Ambassadors programme doubles chances of postgraduate offer holders converting into students
Chris Tickell, International Alumni Events Manager at the University of Bath shared the phenomenal success [...]
Creating Connection Roundtable #5: Welcoming the Class of 2020 in unusual circumstances
This Virtual Roundtable was held on the 18/June/2020. University engagement professionals from 20 institutions [...]
Creating Connection Roundtable #4: Managing International Alumni Communities
This Virtual Roundtable was held on the 27/May/2020. This session focused on the management [...]
Creating Connection Roundtable #3: Responding to a world in crisis – leveraging your community in hard times
This Virtual Roundtable was held on the 13/May/2020. A number of university engagement professionals [...]
Creating Connection Roundtable #2: Student Recruitment and Retention in a crisis
This Virtual Roundtable was held on the 30/Apr/2020. A number of university engagement professionals [...]
Creating Connection Roundtable #1: HE Community Engagement vs COVID19 – Challenges and Responses
This Virtual Roundtable was held on the 15/Apr/2020. A number of university engagement professionals [...]
A Letter from Daniel, Managing Director: Aluminati’s COVID-19 Response
In an unbelievably short period of time our lives have been dramatically transformed. In the [...]
Even Heroes Need Mentors: The campaign that got 10x more students signing up to the University of Wolverhampton’s mentoring programme
A Q&A with David Wedge, Alumni Relations Manager at the University of Wolverhampton In [...]
8 Takeaways from CASE Development Services Conference 2020
1: Target Audiences Using Pop Culture Targeting different generations of Alumni with pop culture really [...]
10 Takeaways from CASE Working With Volunteers 2020
As the UK leave the EU, this year’s CASE Working With Volunteers event took an [...]
Aluminate Launch Webinar
Over 100 Alumni Relations, Careers, Advancement and Community Managers joined our webinar from all over [...]
Why Online Community Platforms MUST Change (And a Big Reveal!)
Over the last few weeks, I have written a series of blogs, starting with ‘Should [...]
UWE Bristol observes that community platform members are 225% more likely to give back
Following on from my previous article about using technology to build capacity, I am [...]
