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| Challenge |
 The alums of the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna, Italy, required a communications suite. They requested tools to interact amongst themselves, with current and former faculty members, school administrators, and students, who are scattered around the world. Also, they needed to have a forum to express their thoughts in writing and through intellectual exchanges. |
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| Solution |
| CorpImages.net, via its founder and former SAIS Bologna alumnus, designed a site complete will the latest communications tools online. The clean and easy-to-navigate site provides for such features as online voting, networking listServs, real-time chat, international affairs pop quizzes, and topic-specific, personalized mailing lists with opting out capabilities. In addition, alumni may request his/her own POP3 e-mail account with the SAISbologna.org domain to express solidarity and identification. The process is automated, and includes personalized configuration instructions sent via e-mail. Furthermore, the site thrives in alumni participation by encouraging submissions of written work, quiz ideas, poll requests, interactive recommend-this-site form and alumni updates from the contact us form. |
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| Results |
| Alums have coordinated periodic virtual chats with faculty members and current students and conducted online interviews. Also, participation is enhances with content contributions from them, though mailing list submissions and quizzes. Click here to view site |
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