UC San Diego Crowdsources Alumni With AlumnIdea

Mar 31 2009 Comments

alumnidea logoViolet Mae Lim tipped me off about UC San Diego’s latest creation for its alumni network: AlumnIdea!

    

Tightening Alumni Networks During The Recession

AlumnIdea is a crowdsourcing site for UCSD alumni. UCSD created the site as a way to have UCSD alumni submit their ideas towards building a tighter alumni network, which every University/College can stand to do right now. The site couldn’t have come at a better time. I’m sure many college grads and current students are utilizing as many alumni connections as possible to stay afloat in shaky job markets.

Similar to Digg, UCSD alumni can submit their ideas and vote others up and down. UCSD plans to implement the most voted ideas into their alumni association network. As far as I’m aware, UCSD seems to be the first university to utilize the power of their alumni network in this fashion. According to Violet,

“They understood the need for open/two-way communication and the power of community.  UCSD wanted to hear directly from their alumni.”

     

The Power of a College Community

AlumnIdea

Some of the ideas listed on AlumnIdea are absolutely great! The alumni are up-to-date on today’s technological happenings and pushing UCSD to stay updated as well. What student wouldn’t love a University iPhone app with the latest news and upcoming events? Sounds like a great investment to me!

I’d love to see something like this for current and prospective students of UCSD. It’s honestly a great way to motivate the community to take action and help make changes pertaining to their university/college.


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  • Cool! Looks like they're using the Uservoice Feedback Engine
  • This is a great idea, obviously borrowed and innovated on corporate crowdsourcing portals such as Dell's IdeaStorm and MyStarbucks. I am currently working with an alumni association and I think it's a brilliant innovation that I will certainly deeply consider. I wonder - why don't all nonprofits and companies open the doors this way for new ideas? Thanks for sourcing and publicizing this interesting innovation.
  • I checked out the site and it does seem like a great idea to be able to share ideas with "like" minds. I really hope that my former university adopts an application like this one, or maybe I could write it ;-)
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