This year’s national alumni conference in Sweden is hosted by Stockholm University, KI, KTH and Södertörn högskola, and will take place on Campus Frescati at Stockholm University. It’s a two day event with a lot of exciting lecture for everybody who works with alumni relations at universities and university colleges in Sweden. You can read more about the conference on … Read More
Talouselämä on alumni relations in Finland
Finland’s leading business weekly Talouselämä had a big article in the latest issue (# 26) about the importance of alumni relations. Salla Häsä (alumni coordinator for TKK) and Susanna Ritala (alumni coordinator for Helsinki School of Economics) are interviewed among others. The article also covers Hanken’s ongoing fundraising campaign.
The CASE benchmarking opportunity for Alumni Relations
Don’t miss the chance to use the CASE benchmarking tool that’s open for everyone to use for free (and anonymous), next year it will only be open for CASE members. To participate you go to http://benchmarking.case.org and log in. If you’re not a member of CASE and don’t have a log in just contact the CASE organization by mail and … Read More
CASE conference 2009 Liverpool, England
This year annual European CASE conference takes place in Liverpool, England. As usual there are delegates from all over the world and the four tracks “Alumni Relations”, “Fundraising”, “Marketing” and “Communication”. From Denmark there are four schools represented, from Finland seven, Norway three and eight from Sweden. Big news is that Aarhus University School of Business in Denmark won silver … Read More
Miras new Facebook module is ready!
We are happy to introduce our new Facebook (FB) module. It’s a lot more advanced than the present and will be of great support for getting updated personal information about your alumnus and for your alumnus to recruit new members amongst their Facebook contacts. This module will:– Market your university and your Alumni activity on FB– Help recruit new members … Read More
Seen on CNN news
Last week CNN reported on how the economy crisis in the USA has changed how some universities now focus on their alumni relations. Traditionally the university is the one that calls up the alumni to ask them to support their school in different ways. But with the financial crisis people don’t have the same possibilities to give support so now … Read More
New client: School of Business at Stockholm University
Marina Mourad, Head of the career center at The School of Economics, Stockholm University Stockholm Universitity is already a client of Miras when it comes to managing the Universitys alumni relations, but now we have started a collaboration with their School of Business. This year they will start building a new career center for their students. This work is lead … Read More
Service disruptions
Unfortunately this year has started with some service disruptions. These have affected some of our clients in different ways and we want to take this opportunity to clarify that we have spoken to all of our clients who were affected. So if we haven’t been in contact with anyone in your organization it means that your system has not been … Read More
Vad får man skriva om en alumn eller en bidragsgivare?
Normalt uppstår inga problem när man hanterar personuppgifter, men det finns fallgropar. Det berättade jag om vid Miras kundkonferens i november. Reglerna finns främst i Personuppgiftslagen, men även Sekretesslagen styr när personuppgifterna hanteras av myndigheter. Dessutom påverkar en rad andra lagar och EU-direktiv på vad man får och inte får göra. Observera att lagarna inte gäller uppgifter som lagras i … Read More
Hanken och fundraising
I det senaste numret av Tekniika & Talous (http://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/) finns en artikel om Hankens satsning på fundraising. Hankens fundraiser Kristina Pentti-von Walzel förklarar att de börjar en treårig fundraisingkampanj i sambnad med Hankens hundraårsjubileum nästa år. Hanken använder sig av Mira Networks lösning för fundraising.