Alumni Portal for the Executive Academy

The Executive Academy aims at realizing a sophisticated service for their Alumni. The planned Alumni Portal is a further developement of the existing Executive Academy Portal, which has already been implemented by Knowledge Markets. The Alumni Portal is based on the Community Framework OpenACS.

The portal offers:

• Networking
• Career Center
• Event Management
• Notification/Announcement Management
  

Networking

The OpenACS package Contacts enables Alumni to network with each other. This package offers the possibility to add contacts to contactlists, to send private messages to these contacts and to present ones own profile. Users can choose the complexity of public profile information.

Each community can use shared applications e. g. filestorage, photo gallery, forums, calendar, wikis.

Career Center

The Career Center includes

• contacts of personnel consultants
• job offers including an efficient search

This part of the Alumni Portal allows members to get into contact with personnel consultants and companies in order to exchange experience and interesting job offers.

Event Management

The Event Management allows users to inform preselected communities about events like "regulars' tables" or community-relevant talks. These events are displayed in an overview (overview of all appointments, events, personal entries). Registered users can register online for offered events.

Appointments and events can be forwarded to contacts ("Are you there?").

Notification/Announcement Management

News can be edited and published to one or more communities. Important and current news are displayed on the start page. If the notification deals with an event or seminar, the date will be adapted by the calendar automatically.