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25 reviewers had the following to say about Alumni Channel's features:
We are extremely happy with our choice of Alumni Channel. Chis Gehringer has been a pleasure to work with throughout the implementation process and after we went live. He is always accessible and will quickly respond to any questions we might have. Do yourself a favor and make the decision to move to the Alumni Channel today!
We are able to get more people registered through class participation.
Pros
Ability to add classes to the software. Classes have the ability to have a page within the general site.
Cons
Need to be able to record finances better of groups.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
The site is simple and easy to use with a quick learning curve.
Pros
The simple and easy to use system allows me to quickly upload news and other information.
Cons
It would be nice if the page creator utilized style sheets to maintain a consistent look when information needs to be moved off the main page (because of length, tracking, etc) on to a new web page.
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Highly recommended to any organization looking for a "home" for its users. Communication tools and registraton process is excellent.
I was tasked with finding brilliant minds and passionate hearts to help our organization serve our growing thousands of faculty, students, administration, alumni and parents.
Pros
Many of the pros of the system are its ease of use, customizable databases and interfaces, meet the needs of end users on all computer levels, and feature an ever changing list of enhancements that try improving the system; while maintaining superior customer service.
Cons
I to date have seen no cons with Alumni Channel.
Rating breakdown
5 star ratings in every category, highly value this product/service
Pros
Very user friendly, fantastic customer support/ response time, software features, discussion boards, click and pledge feature, view finder...475 users w daily registrants...good activity from alums, 5 stars in every category!
Cons
none at this time
Rating breakdown
I highly recommend Alumni Channel.
As admin would like to have an easier way to edit someone's profile
Pros
Finding information is easy.
Cons
Have problem exporting individual classes to excel - doesn't work.
Rating breakdown
Exporting class data to an external file can easily be accomplished using your Membership Report in the admin page. Just pull up the report and click Revise to enter the criterion Year = xxxx. You also can easily edit another's profile by selecting the profile and clicking 'My Details'. Then select the option below the profile you wish to edit.
students like to use alumni good mean to get infos accross
Pros
easy to use and update, delete, advertise short instruction on top of what to fill in/edit good features i.e. email-blast
Cons
a bit restrictive for layout features (photo editing i.e.) date format not standardized on all pages
Rating breakdown
There are some other similar sites out there, and they either offer a similar level of service for an overinflated price, or they force alumni to pay for every little feature and drive them away.
Pros
And the site features are exactly what we need for an alumni communication center.
Cons
The only Con that comes to mind is that the product advertiser that is the default on the site is nowhere near as responsive and got or name wrong for a long time. Their loss, as no alumni would buy a product with an incorrect name on it.
Rating breakdown
Recommended if you are somewhat web-savvy, and don't mind using that knowledge to get things going. Bottom line, the service works to create a community. If that is your end goal, alumnichannel.com will do it.
Pros
Operator is very involved, has good recommendations to create a successful alumni site, keeps on top of things. Implementation of requested features happens relatively quickly. The service does work to create a community.
Cons
No way to easily re-design the site, but I'm sure it would be added if asked (I haven't asked yet).
Rating breakdown
I would recommend Alumni Channel for organizations who want to increase communication between members.
I would recommend this to other groups in our position.
Pros
I like the ability to modify student searches to look for specific information (like if they did co-ops).
Cons
Sometimes the site can be a little hard to navigate, especially when you are trying to figure out how to do something in the site.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Other
Chris has been excellent working with us individually to design a site that suits our needs.
The A&A website really is a great way for our members to connect. Several alumni have reunited through this medium.
I am still learning and hope to do amaising thing with this site.
The product is fine if the administrator has time to be on the site.
Pros
The profile section is good with all the links available. Our rep is good about helping answer alumni questions and using the product.
Cons
Actually, they are not that easy for me to add either.
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Kathy, let's connect some time this week or next for a review of the site, including signing up seniors, adding Upcoming Events, adding photos, new photo options, etc.
While there are plenty of competitors in the current market for alumni and membership groups, I wouldn't recommend any other than Alumni Channel. The products and services offered, features and benefits, and excellent customer service and support - combined with extremely reasonable price points will be the reason that my alumni network will continue doing business with AC for many years to come. Finally, with a very generous referral program, alumni and membership group leaders can run their networks virtually for free by promoting the power and potential of Alumni Channel.
Pros
While I had a background in graphic and web design, pratically none of my expertise was needed from a design perspective.
Cons
However, from my experience, based on the needs of my alumni network, there are no issues I can think of at this time.
Rating breakdown
The structure/functionality of the data library is a little confusing for folks who don't know their way around computers already, but once you get a feel for it everything operates as expected.
I absolutely recommend this product. In today's technological world, it is vital to provide this online community outreach to alumni.
Pros
The Alumni Network is an excellent vehicle for interactive communication with alumni.
Cons
Their is some transition to implementation/usage...with picture storage/retrieval, etc. The Alumni Channel has wonderful support in place and is accessible when needed.
Rating breakdown
I would recommend the Alumni Channel to any school or group that would like to reach out to their community !
Pros
Great site...great support...the community has responded very well to the site. The stie can support a lot of features the alumni find interesting and informative.
Cons
I wish I had more time to devote to developing the site.
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As ideas I need: - for the preparation of changes on the platform, improvements, change appearance, proposals, ideas to know about 1-2 months before, - for the Romanian language, to be able to use all diacritics - I can not currently use , (if is possible), - a possibility to have permanent access to the number of graduates of all promotions/all data entered on them - if the graduates may delete their account, this is no longer possible - we have the institutions that require these data as numbers or files with the complete data.
