Looking to reminisce about old times at Union? Share news of your new business with friends? Send a Union postcard to a neighbor? Create your own web page?
Union's new alumni online community allows alumni to do all these things and more. Features include free web-based e-mail for all alumni as well as information on alumni events, alumni forums, a business card exchange, web postcards, and the opportunity for alumni to create their own web pages.
“The online community allows alumni to keep in touch with one another and with the College,” says Saul Morse, the College's webmaster. “And it's all free for alumni.”
To join the community, alumni should point their Internet browsers to http://www.union.onlinecommunity.com and follow instructions to register for a user name and password. Once obtained, this will give alumni access to other features of the site, which include:
Lifetime e-mail
Web-based lifetime e-mail is available for free to all alumni. New addresses will be a user name of your choice followed by alumni.union.edu. E-mail can be checked from anywhere that alumni have access to a Web browser, and mail can be forwarded to another e-mail account. Using this new account, alumni can send and receive mail with attachments, change passwords, and create multiple mailboxes.
Information on special events
Information about Union events such as ReUnion and Homecoming will be highlighted in the online community, and alumni will be able to register and pay for these events online.
Alumni Forums
Alumni Forums will provide for threaded discussion boards with real-time posting. A job board/networking forum is also included in this feature.
Business card exchange
Alumni may post information about their businesses in a searchable database that will be available only to other registered alumni.
Web postcards
Union electronic postcards will be available for alumni to e-mail to friends and family.
Build your own Web page
The College is offering space and page building tools for alumni web pages. Alumni are encouraged to develop their own pages and then register for a link from one of Union's main pages.