1. Fostering and promoting a community of online alumni mentors - the warwickgrad.net story

2. Hi! Claudie Combelas, Head of Alumni Engagement
Dave Musson, Senior Online Communications Officer (social media)

3. A bit about Warwick Founded in 1965 Russell Group member
Over 200,000 alumni
warwickgrad.net launched 2014

4. Coming up… Why create warwickgrad.net? The warwickgrad.net journey
How do we promote it?
What has worked well?
What hasn’t worked so well?
Top tips to takeaway

5. WHY CREATE WARWICKGRAD.NET?

6. Why? Digital has disrupted things It’s what our graduates wanted
A USP for Warwick
Great for data!

7. THE WARWICKGRAD.NET JOURNEY

8. The journey Linkedin Group Funding Volunteer tab Personal invitation
0-500
Transfer of s
E-journals
Students become alumni

9. SEE OUR PLATFORM: WWW.WARWICKGRAD.NET

10. HOW DO WE PROMOTE IT?

11. Promotion - online Social media E-newsletters (AE, SCS, Depts)
Our website (& others)

12. Promotion - offline With individual departments
With our careers department / advisors
Showcase/demos in our Library spaces

13. Useful tool 1 – an infographic

14. Useful tool 2 – a case study

15. WHAT HAS WORKED WELL?

16. Yay… E-journal access boosted numbers
Linked-In plugin – easy sign up & good for our database
warwickgrad.net is becoming THE go-to space for our graduates and soon-to-be graduates
Reporting using a simple infographic has been a big help for internal buy-in

17. WHAT HASN’T WORKED SO WELL?

18. Nay… Not enough case studies – we need to chase mentor/mentees
Need to train our users more to ‘complete’ a mentoring stint
Reporting
Admin log-in

19. TOP TIPS TO TAKEAWAY

20. Tips 1 Thank you emails Tell members to add a photo
Want to get students involved? Show them how to use it
Add things like journal access & lifelong to make it a really compelling offer

21. Tips 2 Don’t just talk about it online – promote IRL too
Push it regularly on social media
A simple graphic can be really effective
Keep at it!

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ANY QUESTIONS?