Comments on: Rams for Life – Online Community Idea for Colorado State University (CSU) Alumni

By: Mergen

Mergen — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:32:15 +0000

@michaele Yeah, I saw the site. It looks interesting. I’ve forwarded it to CSU Alumni office. I think they are already tired of spending a ton of time and money on things that don’t quite work.

BTW, on the site, it said that regroup.com was founded at Stanford. What kind of penetration rate do you have on Stanford alumni? For example, CSU Alumni Association has about 2.66% penetration of registered users on the alumni website (4,500 out of 169,000 alumni).

By: Michaele

Michaele — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:39:09 +0000

I saw your post on Twitter and thought you might be interested in what we have to offer.

Regroup.com is an enterprise communications platform that integrates Twitter + Facebook + LinkedIn + Email + SMS + RSS + much more. We also have an integration with old-fashioned list management tools such as listserv, mailman, majordomo, etc., that will provide a robust and easy user-interface onto those products, making them infinitely more searchable, browsable (through threaded topic pages), and more.

You can reach us anytime through our site: regroup.com

Thanks!
-M

By: Mergen

Mergen — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:21:32 +0000

@michael ok, thanks for the feedback.

btw, do you have any needs to connect with other CSU alumni that you cannot fill through LinkedIn or other platforms?

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:28:50 +0000

I agree with Anne. I love Linkedin, so if there is a way to have the group part of that, then I’m in. – Thanks, Mike

By: Mergen

Mergen — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:27:58 +0000

@anne thank you so much for the feedback and the twitter retweet.

I’ve thought about all the profiles people already have online at all these other places. I don’t think we want to duplicate the efforts. Maybe we can offer a simple way to pull the existing profile information from either or both LinkedIn and Facebook.

I think both LinkedIn groups and Facebook fan pages are missing things – They either do not have enough mass or they do not allow for job postings (for both job seekers and employers alike). And, CSU Alumni website does not offer these things to its full extent either. Maybe the CSU Alumni page could add those functionality and that might just solve the issue.

Then again, maybe us alumni are the ones that could create the ultimate platform that unites us and really provide value. I am real curious to hear from others as well as CSU Alumni Association and its chapters located around the country/world.

Please pass along the link so that we can have real great discussion here. Thanks!!

By: Anne - @nitesdaydreamer

Anne - @nitesdaydreamer — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:08:58 +0000

I love this idea, but I wonder if it is reinventing the wheel a bit. I have so many profiles, on so many networks and I think its hard to keep track of them and foster strong relationships on them all.

I end up focusing on the big three Facebook, Twitter, Linked In. As a web marketer I feel it is usually in your best interest to go where people already are instead of asking them to become invested in something new. Are there ways to use existing networks that are not being utilized? I think there has been a lot of growth recently among the CSU Alumnae groups on those networks and there is still room for development there before starting completely fresh.