Latest news on the E.MAlumni Inaugural Meeting – Brussels, 21 May 2010
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Are you an E.MA graduate? Register to the site?
You are encouraged to write posts in whatever discussions and boards.
Login and start by checking the last discussions, campaigns, vacancies, ideas…
Note that if you have just registered you have only restricted access; the site administrator will validate your account very soon and grant you full access.
For a brief introduction to this website please have a look at the following video or read the text below.
The alumni of the E.MA live in the five continents; this social network website is designed to be an inclusive instrument for their interaction. Here they can find useful tools for social and professional communication. The light layout is aimed at effectiveness, ease of use, accessibility and short loading time. The content is written by the users’ community and updates are automatically streamed in the most popular social network platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
Members
Although guests are welcome to visit the site, at the moment the full-membership is restricted to E.MA alumni. After their registration they are verified by the administrator and recognised as members of their E.MA academic year group. Registered users can communicate with friends and interact with groups by clicking on the “Profile” button.
User Profile
User registration is easy and swift; the professional section of the profile must be filled in a second step. Profile update is highly simplified by the multiple choice form. The user profile is meant to be essential for time-saving purposes, to increase participation and for an “easy-to-do” profile up keeping Alumni are invited to attach a CV to provide full detailed information themselves.
E.MAlumni menu
The functions listed in the “E.MAlumni” menu are updated in real time on the base of the users’ profile. “Statistics” display charts on the alumni’s expertise and professional experience. The “World Map” shows real-time alumni’s localisation city and country based. By clicking on a name in the map relative user profile will be shown. “Search Profile” is a cross-search tool to perform expert searches in the alumni directory. “Mission Board” is the tool to exchange professional, logistic and social information about destinations.
Static and dynamic pages
The site is made of a small number of static pages edited by the site administrator as the menu “About Us”. For the rest, the content of the site is edited by the whole alumni user community. Dynamic content is based on forums and blogs where users can edit new topics or comment to existing topics. Menus “Activities”, “Discussions” and “Career” are sets of forums and blogs.
Activities menu
This menu resumes the activities carried out by the alumni in the framework of the association. In this menu alumni can contribute in four areas: “Reunions”, “Events”, “Projects” and “Researches”. This is the virtual office of the association, the space where alumni can cooperate in the organisation of the work and implement concrete actions. No matter if contributors are spread in the five continents.
Discussions menu
This is a virtual meeting room for parallel debates about professional and social topics. The forum “Human Rights and Democracy” is open to visitors while the forums dedicated to the association and socialising are restricted to alumni. The list of forum is built ad-hoc on each alumnus upon his/her membership in groups. For example, each alumnus has a link to the forum of his/her academic year and restricted forums are available for the governing bodies of the association.
Resources menu
Among this set of documents and information, “Web Links” is a shared repository collaboratively built to exchange useful sources with the enhancement of comments and tag. This is a human rights and democracy specialised database of web sources. “Documents”, “Videos” and “Pictures” are repositories of the files attached to the posts of the entire site.
Career menu
Alumni exchange information on job/internship vacancies as well as educational possibilities such as summer academies, call for papers and PhD opportunities. In this section the interaction among alumni is for the benefit of occupation seeker but also for those looking for collaborators or offering vacancies for which the E.MA degree represent a guarantee.
Voting menu
This is the place to discuss, take decisions and proceed with elections inside the association, an instrument for internal democracy. A poll can refer to a referendum or to an election, in “Ranoff” the referendum or the election is described. “Campaign” is a forum for the presentation of arguments pro and against the vote; it is also the place for campaigning where candidates can present their programme while others can support them. In “Poll” each alumnus can vote once in the time limit assigned to the vote.
EIUC/E.MA menu
This is an under-construction contribution to the EIUC and E.MA, a window towards the institution that allowed for the creation of E.MA, and therefore the E.MAlumni.
Digest and feeds
Apart from being easy to navigate, the E.MAlumni website would like to reach its users through the internet application that they use the most, without forcing them to check the site constantly. For this reason the E.MAlumni website automatically streams its updates in the association’s profiles of the most common social networks and provides a customisable e-mail digest and rss feed.
Comments are welcome
All the sections of the site are open to improvement and scalable in conceptual as technical terms. Any feedback is welcome. Feel free to contact us.
