[Peter Gulka]

Our department is going to be redoing our website completely. Target launch date is this time next year. I have been asked to find 2 or 3 examples of some really outstanding alumni or advancement department sites that we can use as "best practice" examples on how to do a website properly.

List your recommendations here!

[cseebald]

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Originally Posted by Peter Gulka

Our department is going to be redoing our website completely. Target launch date is this time next year. I have been asked to find 2 or 3 examples of some really outstanding alumni or advancement department sites that we can use as "best practice" examples on how to do a website properly.

List your recommendations here!

Duke University's site has long been an example for those of us in Advancement Services (see https://www.giftrecords.duke.edu/). You might also want to take a look at the winners of CASE's Circle of Excellence Awards at Council for Advancement and Support of Education - Circle of Excellence Awards: Winners 2000 - Present.

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[digitalslacker]

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Originally Posted by Peter Gulka

Our department is going to be redoing our website completely. Target launch date is this time next year. I have been asked to find 2 or 3 examples of some really outstanding alumni or advancement department sites that we can use as "best practice" examples on how to do a website properly.

List your recommendations here!

www.usna.com isn't bad

It's almost entirely BBNC. Some fuctionality uses iFrames but very little

[Peter Gulka]

Thanks for the tips guys! Keep them coming!

[jkramp]

(I notice your request didn't limit responses to BB:NC sites, so here's my top pick so far):

http://www.xavier.edu/alumni - Designed by Hanson Dodge Creative, powered by iModules.

I think this site is great, both from a design standpoint as well as integration of personalized data for a member. ( Although you can't fully appreciate that part of if you're not logged in. ) It also serves a number of constituencies--not strictly alumni. They use it as a vehicle to engage students, donors, alumni, business partners, etc...

The entire "Great Wonders" Channel is really well done. If you poke around the Annual Fund pages, there are some neat things there as well. The best part is that each member is assigned a regional development contact and when logged in, that customized information is displayed for them rather than the general fund contact. Goes towards building a personal relationship with a specific development staffer rather than a generic inbox.

Same for giving messages--e.g. if you're logged in as an Edgecliff alum, then you see specific giving messages and articles (Edgecliff was a women's school that merged at some point). That personalized level is sort of the next level for development sites. I'll post a couple screenshots of the logged in portion if interested.