tomorrow's donors are using social media tools to conduct their daily lives. Sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are the places where, increasingly, communication happens these days. This represents a complete change of mindset when working out how to reach people with your fundraising messages.
"Using server log data from approximately 140,000 newcomers in Facebook, we predict long-term sharing based on the experiences the newcomers have in their first two weeks."
Although this year's event is billed as the first, the concept for the reunion weekend was shaped in part by last year's University of Delaware Forum. That event culminated in Harker introducing the school's new strategic plan and detailing efforts to stake a claim for UD as one of the nation's best colleges.
schedule features a series of "showcases" for several colleges and departments on campus and a noon picnic on the campus Green.
a survey was sent to about 30,000 alumni asking what they wanted to see and do over the course of the weekend. About 5,000 people responded
why would I want to create yet another account for another social media site
I look at our own U and I see where the attempts for the niche alumni association social media site have gone. We've already been through 2 software systems, and yet I seem to get connected to more alumni via Facebook than through the "official" alumni association site.