How to Enhance Your Next Alumni Event Experience
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The pandemic-era has brought monumental change to many aspects of our lives: improved communication and collaboration tools for business, grocery delivery for convenience, QR codes in place of restaurant menus and event tickets. Many of these new norms have improved user behavior and sustainability.
The way we conduct business, collaborate and engage with the world around us has changed and will continue to do so. Higher education technology for alumni engagement is no exception.
Alumni Engagement Technology
With a busy event season upon us, this is a great time to evaluate the event experience for attendees and administrators alike. When considering your campus event experience, you may want to consider:
Can attendees easily connect with one another?
Can event administrators reach attendees outside of email?
Do you provide a sustainable alternative to printed schedules?
Is the check-in process streamlined for attendees and staff?
Can event managers report on attendee data from across campus in real-time?
Can attendees continue to network after the event is over?
CampusGroups Mobile App - Event Hub
Improve your event experience using the CampusGroups mobile event hub. There are many benefits, for both alumni and administrators, to have a dedicated mobile-app for alumni events.
Alumni can easily see who has checked in, and send in-app messages to fellow attendees. They can also seamlessly check-in without a physical ticket and add agenda items to their personal itinerary.
Administrators can quickly send push notifications, communicate with attendees and scan QR codes to track attendance. The event hub is easily editable on the fly and can link to external sources, becoming a true one-stop-shop for attendees.
The event hub is also part of the alumni community app experience, which means alumni will have access to their alma mater long after the event is done. It is also an excellent mechanism to build long-term value and visibility for sustained engagement.
While face to face interaction will never be replaced, mobile apps enable a more engaging, sustainable event experience for attendees. They also create a more efficient event management experience, enabling staff to focus their time on engagement instead of logistics.
If you’d like to learn more about mobile alumni or event hub experiences for your fall Homecoming and Reunion events, we would love to work with you!
Connect with a product expert today so that we can help evaluate your alumni engagement goals and create a customized experience for your community.
ABOUT ANASTASIA:
As an Account Executive at CampusGroups, I have spent my career in higher education technology as well as in alumni relations and fundraising. I have a Bachelor's degree from Worcester State University and an MBA from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. I live in Massachusetts with my husband and three children and am an avid photographer.
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