AlumSys is a powerful alumni community builder which will greatly enhance your alumni relations at minimal cost. AlumSys adds numerous useful features to your institution's existing alumni web presence, or creates an instant online alumni community from the ground up. You can customize AlumSys to the needs and graphical look of your alumni association. AlumSys can interface with your existing development database. AlumSys gives you the ultimate online alumni network.

   AlumSys will improve both the quality and quantity of your alumni data -- information that can be vital in fund-raising efforts. With AlumSys, your alumni have both the ability and the incentive to keep their contact information current, and to share a great deal of information about themselves. AlumSys can interact with your college or university's database to keep your alumni files fresh and relevant.

   AlumSys is a rich online environment that facilitates social and professional exchange among alumni, students, and friends of an institution. AlumSys will help your students and alumni turn casual contacts into lifelong, productive relationships. AlumSys is a superb networking tool that increases alumni loyalty through a sense of connectedness. An alumnus who feels connected is a more enthusiastic ambassador and a more generous donor.

   AlumSys can automate many routine tasks that may currently be performed by paid alumni staff, freeing them for more productive use. Since it is web-based, AlumSys lets students and alumni find their own friends, update their own addresses, and keep their own resumes current. Employers can post their own job listings and search through resumes interactively.

   AlumSys will improve the efficiency of your alumni relations through state-of-the-art communication tools. Students and alumni talk among themselves with a very popular messaging system. Alumni can donate online. The institution can selectively target bulk emails by profession, hobbies and interests, geography, etc.

   Through AlumSys, alumni enjoy staying connected with their alma mater and with each other. Extensive cross-linking is possible between AlumSys and your various other websites. Like an online class ring, AlumSys gives your graduates a positive, attractive, exciting reminder of their college affiliation. In the powerful online community AlumSys provides, interest groups form and evolve quite naturally.

   The personal networking ability which AlumSys provides your alumni is unsurpassed by any other online directory on the market today. At the click of a button, alumni can find friends and contacts using any search criteria they choose. Each alumnus of your college or university can build an individual, easily updated, comprehensive personal profile which may include photographs.

   The "Career Connection" tools in AlumSys help your students and alumni build effective professional networks. Alumni can publish and update their own resumes online, which can be viewed by potential employers and by other alumni. Useful career contacts can be found in the alumni database. AlumSys allows employers and alumni to post job opportunities and consider your alumni first when looking for qualified applicants.

   An advanced online messaging center will increase the interaction among your alumni through easy online communication. Similar to and optionally linked with an alumnus' external email account, this is a secure, private messaging system just for your online community. That means no spam, no spoofing, and no risk of viruses. AlumSys helps your alumni become lifelong friends.

   AlumSys includes a sophisticated feature called "Business Yellow Pages." Your alumni can share expertise and advertise their business or professional services. Yellow Page listings can be valuable to current students or alumni, helping them form commercial or professional relationships.

   Progressive privacy controls built into the AlumSys package let members of your online community decide for themselves who can view the various elements of their personal profile and contact information. Users fall into four categories: Public, Site Guests, Students, and Alumni. With a simple click, alumni can grant or deny access to their private data.