That's how I would present it to the Board. Communication, continuing involvement, and keeping those addresses updated are 3 big pushes for me this year. But another big push is to find the classes of 2004-2007, almost all of which were never entered into the database. Some chapters have NO guys from thast class recorded. That's just outrageous, to me.
My hope is that a facebook-like system will find these guys, as their brothers bring them in one by one and create their networks. I'm not sure how it would work out for the job bank ot networking/mentoring aspects of my long-term plan. That's why I'm experimenting with it.
A real big question is, "Will the older alumni use it, or is it too foreign to them?" We have blogs, listserves and websites available to actives and elders, but there are few that use them. I need something the men will use.
That darn bio card, which was written for the old database, should be replaced soon by one which is directly importable into the RE database. The utility is 6 months over schedule. If we go with the facebook-like idea, it will be in use only until the new idea is up & running, which is OK by me.
I'll go look for the Alpha Mu guys on Myspace.
TKPhi,
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