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Why You Need a Community Mission Statement

A community mission statement should be the central pillar of the community—you should turn to it as a guideline for all actions.

Princeton University Advancement Partners With Hivebrite to Maximize Alumni Engagement

We are delighted to announce that Princeton University Advancement has chosen Hivebrite as its Alumni Community Management Platform.

Lumity’s Community Journey From an Idea to a Vibrant Hub

Our fireside chat with Lumity explored its community journey from an idea to a vibrant, successful HR hub.

Community Managers: What They Do and Why You Need One

For your community to flourish it needs to be nurtured (with passion) and coordinated with intentional, strategic actions.

Guiding Your Business Through a Pandemic with the Help of an Online Community

Online communities are now proving to be a lifeline for organizations wanting to connect and collaborate with dispersed co-workers, customers, and peers.

Must-Have Features for Your Alumni Management Software

There are some universal features that all great alumni management platforms provide to strengthen engagement and create the best user experience!

How to Create a Great Intranet

Here's how to create a successful intranet that your employees will want to use and that will drive value throughout your organization!

Managing your Alumni Network: 6 Mistakes to Avoid

Here are some common alumni management mistakes and how to avoid them!

How to Create the Best Community Onboarding Experience

Your community’s onboarding process plays an essential role in member engagement and retention. Here are our top tips for creating an outstanding onboarding process!

How to Monetize your Online Community

The best way to monetize your community is with initiatives that will add value to it! Here are six ideas to inspire you!

How to Increase Engagement in Your Community

Here are some best practices to boost engagement that can work for most types of community.

How to Ensure Your Community Supports Your Organization’s Business Strategy

Here are 5 steps to build a business case for your community and ensure it brings value throughout your organization.

How to Create Content That Will Delight Your Online Community

Content is essential for growing and maintaining a healthy online community. Here's how to create a content strategy for your community

How to Measure Alumni Engagement

While there is no one-size-fits-all solution for measuring alumni engagement, there are some fundamental approaches that can work for many communities.

Why You Need an Email Marketing Strategy for Your Online Community

Understand why an email marketing strategy is essential for engaging your community and get our top tips to ensure that your campaigns are a success.

How to Run Successful Online Fundraising Campaigns

Online fundraising is a valuable skill for now and for the future. Here are our top tips to ensure campaign success.

The Fight: How the University of Notre Dame Raised $8.7M for Their Student Relief Fund

Large organizations like Notre Dame have complex requirements across the board. But especially when it comes to their network of charitable giving.

Celebrating the power of community during COVID-19

Disruptions, such as the ones that have been caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, require communities and community programs to swiftly adapt to new realities.

Hivebrite Offering Free Access to Donations & introduce Virtual Events

Hivebrite's donations is robust enough to serve the needs of complex fundraising projects.We've also built a video conference integration for virtual events

How to keep your community engaged with a virtual event

Online event don't mean less engagement. If you need to cancel the physical event you planned, here is some advice to get you started with virtual events.

How To Stay Zen During Your Online Community System Migration

The platform migration process will often be something that community managers experience with anxiety. Here are a few tips to help you to handle the online

How an ‘Alum from Day One’ strategy can transform your alumni engagement

Institutions are recognizing that from the moment students set foot on campus, they are an important part of the institutional ecosystem.

5 Benefits To Attract And Retain Community Members

Building a community around your organisation is not easy. Consider real benefits for your potential members that will capture their interests such as

Celebrating Hivebrite's first year in the US

Thanks to our customers, employees, investors, friends, and family, we’re celebrating the completion of our first year in business in the United States.

Know The Two Fundamental Phases Of Building A Successful Online Community

Getting an online community off the ground can seem like pretty hard. You need to know the two fundamental phases of building a successful online community

Do you need a mobile app for your online community?

It's no secret that mobile use is only trending upward.Mobile apps will become more and more a means to help manage online communities.

How To build A Case For An Online Community Platform

When you are trying to build or power your online community you need to convince others within your organisation that the effort or the cost are worth it.

Why You Need To Start Investing In Alumni Relations

Nurturing and maintaining relations with alumni is essential for higher education institutions today. Marketing, Fundraising Objectives, Support for events.

5 Key Steps Not To Forget When Building An Alumni Network

Alumni organizations are an important way to continue building and maintaining the important connections students make at university.Your alumni community..

How to find the best content for your alumni

Staying in touch with alumni and keeping them engaged is critical part of any school’s community relations.The key is producing the right content for them

We joined our first Customer Meetup in Oxford, England!

At Hivebrite we value customer feedback! Few weeks ago we went to Oxford to meet with our UK User Group to learn what is important to them. It’s an everyday priority to understand customers needs and make sure we deliver the best platform to manage their communities. That’s

How to be a good host on your community platform

Have you ever invited someone to your home?This is like hosting a community. Three key concepts to incorporate in your approach for your online platform

10 false ideas about community management

We’re all a part of some sort of digital community. Whether it’s something as large as an online community of 100,000 members or as small as a local gardening club forum, they all have at least two things in common: 1 - From the outside, managing a

How to keep your Alumni engaged in the long run ?

An alumni network is an invaluable asset, both for organisations (fundraising, branding, placement) and for their Alumni (opportunities, mentoring, knowledge). However, keeping alumni engaged over time can be hard: one needs to find the right strategy and tools for it. After years of collaboration with top institutions, we’ve learnt

Alumni Relations: Stupid question, but should we involve external parties in our interactions with Alumni?

Right off the bat let's get this straight. A stupid question, it is not. In fact, it's an integral question that any school (or corporation) needs to ask itself when setting up its Alumni efforts: Should we involve external parties in our interactions with our Alumni? The answer is never