Your alumni site is your chance to connect with a vast network of alumni and create a powerful business channel. By cultivating relationships with alumni and demonstrating your commitment to current employees, you can open the door to referrals, new business opportunities and potential rehires.
Alumni sites are a powerful way to connect with your firm alumni and build an important business network. Use your alumni site to deliver value to past employees and establish your reputation as an employee-focused firm.
Sample Functionality
- Alumni Directory search features
- Profile update capability and standard export function
- Event registration and mailing capability
- Submit job feature
- Contact Us mail-to form
- Print to PDF
- Print-friendly pages throughout the site
- Site search by section
- Site maps
- Contact forms and event sign-up forms
- Flexible navigation options
- Spam-proof e-mail addresses
- Dynamic and editable title and meta tags
- Editable vanity URLs (e.g. firmname.com/IP)
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- Secure e-mailable pages
- Site caching for accelerated page loading
- Multiple browser support
- Multiple traffic and reporting options
- Bookmarked and saved pages
- Ability to add highlights throughout the site
- Web 2.0 and new media features
- Google Sitemaps
- Rich text editing of page content
- E-mail notification of changes
- User and group level security
- History tracking
- Photo/image upload
- Out-of-the-box integration with Hubbard One products
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Additional Capabilities
- Sophisticated flash design and implementation
- Data integration with internal or third-party systems
- A range of search engine optimization services
- Suggest searching with type-ahead functionality
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- Personalization
- Multilingual site management and management of unlimited site visitors
- Handheld sites
- Custom development
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Related Client Services
Consulting & Strategy
Firm alumni are a powerful network that can lead to business and talent relationships beyond the reach of your firm. Alumni already have an established relationship with your firm, and Hubbard One helps you keep those relationships going. We will work with you to define the goals and objectives for your alumni program. Then we help you create a sustainable alumni program that encompasses alumni communication plans, onboarding procedures and internal staff positions. Leveraging years of experience targeting legal alumni, we help you define best practices for keeping your alumni engaged and connected. Our understanding of your alumni program and firm messaging also helps enables us to develop a creative design for your site that incorporates your brand, site functionality, engaging copy and features and software that allows your firm to manage its alumni program seamlessly.
Creative Services
Hubbard One takes a holistic approach to creating alumni sites that provide a complete user experience for firm employees, past and present. We offer a consultative approach to design that marries creative direction, usability and site feature functionality. We work with you to translate your firm’s alumni program into a distinctive digital design that reflects the personality and connectivity of the program. An effective and successful alumni site incorporates user-friendly features and organized site information. Whether you decide to launch your alumni site as an extension of your corporate site or as a mini-site, at Hubbard One we’ll help you create a distinctive design and visual message that matches your program vision.
Project Delivery
Cutting edge solutions can be complex, but with Hubbard One you have a dedicated team and project manager to help guide you through the process. Our team of project managers has successfully managed more than 200 Web sites and has developed a defined process and methodology to ensure a smooth delivery. Working as an additional member of your team, your project manager will help you define outcomes, scope and budget for your project, and work with you to set a budget and schedule based on your requirements. Your project manager helps you kick-off your project internally and ensures your project stays on schedule, within your budget and scope and maintains a high level of quality throughout the entire process. Your project manager works with your to ensure your complete satisfaction from beginning to long after your project is completed with ongoing support and quality assurance.
Technical Architecture
Hubbard One has been developing alumni sites specifically tailored for the legal space for more than seven years. We offer a customized approach to using core features that allow a timely alumni site launch. Our alumni sites are highly secure, offer a fluid automated registration process and a fully integrated alumni database. All of our applications are architected for the best performance, scalability and usability. Our approach has been validated by our certification as a Microsoft Gold Partner.
Integration Services
Having worked with many of the world’s largest law firms, Hubbard One understands the sophistication and complexity of integrating technology. We work with clients to define and build custom integrations to fit their exact needs and requirements when our out-of-the box offering is not enough. Hubbard One can help you with integration into your firm’s existing systems, including human resources software, contact management software or your firm’s intranet. We can also provide easy user authentication by passing through lawyer and staff network credentials so that logging in can be smooth and seamless. Our integration services also include standard application programming interfaces to ensure seamless communication between all of your Hubbard One software.
Content Services
The tone of your website speaks as the public voice of your firm. An effective voice speaks directly to your intended audience and converses with them in their own language. Hubbard One specializes in creating web content specifically for legal alumni sites. Our process begins with a round of interviews to gain a deep understanding of your firm’s alumni program objectives and audience-specific messaging. We help give your firm a consistent voice that converses with alumni in a consistent, engaging and resourceful manner that fosters program participation and reinforces your brand identity. From alumni profiles, careers and databases to events, news and publications, we can help you create alumni-specific content that creates a dialogue with alumni and keeps them connected to the firm.
Hosting & Maintenance
Your alumni site is your chance to connect with a network of business development and recruitment resources. We offer hosting services to ensure you consistently stay connected. For more than 11 years, Hubbard One has been hosting leading law firms websites in our fully redundant, scalable and load-balanced environment. Your Hubbard One-hosted web application provides a fast, reliable experience for your site's visitors. Our secure hosting environment is monitored 24 hours a day by a team of specialists, and we regularly review backup procedures in light of various state regulations.
Training
Having the right training can make all the difference. Optimize your alumni site investment with Hubbard One’s training series. We offer an array of courses developed and taught by our in-house trainers. All of our courses are available online or on-site and are based on the latest industry practices and updated regularly to reflect current technologies, trends and issues. From site management and content management to HTML coding and security and configuration, we give you the tools to make the most of your alumni site features and functionality.
Analysis & Optimization
Having worked with some of the most progressive and creative firms in the world, Hubbard One understands what it takes to get the most of your web solution. We help hundreds of firms maintain their software for optimal performance and functionality by leveraging our industry expertise, technical capabilities and knowledge of your firm and each unique project. Through our strategic and industry vision, we help ensure your web solutions continue to evolve and provide a platform for business relationships. We work with you to ease firm-wide implementations, manage change and draw inspiration from industry and out-of-industry trends. Our breath of experience and creative thinking enable us to help support your firm’s growth through training efforts, thought leadership and our revolutionary industry vision.