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Looking
for Long Lost Friends? Find them at www.Alumni.NET!
October 13, 2000 |
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(Manila,
Philippines) - Alumni.NET, a global alumni registry hosted by
Infophil.COM, just launched its new version on October 13, 2000.
The web site, which has over 1.4 million members from over 50
thousand schools world wide, now offers faster and better services
to its members. With its new look and functionality, it aims
to increase its membership base and improve the communication
among school and work friends with the use of the Internet.
Alumni.NET began in 1994 when its founder and president, Eric
Tomacruz, Ph.D. wanted to get in touch with his high school
friends. He began a web site for this purpose, and soon expanded
the Registry to include other schools in the Philippines. With
the demand for an online service like Alumni.NET increasing,
the site began listing other countries and since then has continued
to grow, mostly through word-of-mouth initiated by satisfied
members of the site.
The new site not only sports a new look but offers its members
added features. It is now much easier to register and to find
an organization or location. It also allows users to search
for any person on the site, regardless of locality or organization.
Members can upload their recent picture, send e-mail to a friend
and own a "My Alumni Page". The "My Alumni Page" provides a
central area where each member can update their profile, and
view all the organizations they are a member of. The next feature
on Alumni.NET's agenda is a bulletin board system for each organization,
which will make communicating with fellow alumni even easier.
The launching of the site also brings an expansion into Alumni.NET's
concentration. Instead of merely listing High Schools and Colleges/Universities,
Alumni.NET now allows its members to list their Companies and
other Generic Organizations. Each organization may also contain
sub-organizations, such as departments or groups.
"We are very happy with the launching of the new site. Alumni.NET
has continually grown over the past 5 years and our dream has
been to dramatically improve the site. We believe we have been
able to do that today. We only keep our members best interests
at heart," states Mr. Eric Tomacruz.
Since Alumni.NET is worldwide, the site aims to reach different
people from different countries, regardless of their nationality
and the language they speak. That is the reason Alumni.NET has
decided to go multilingual. As of launch, the site already supports
Traditional Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish. It plans
to add more Asian and European languages soon.
"Our Multi-language feature helps the site cross cultural boundaries,
one of the primary objectives of the Internet. The world is
indeed becoming smaller, and we want to help that happen." adds
Mr. Tomacruz.
To increase the popularity of the site, the team has come up
with an incentive program, called the Affiliate Program. A member
receives US $0.50 for every new member that registers with the
site as a result of his or her referral. They also get the chance
to win a US $500 monthly bonus if they have the most number
of referrals in a month.
A co-branded service offered by Alumni.NET is People Search,
which is an email-white page that repackages information collected
from Alumni.NET's database. It is a free service offered to
different web sites around the globe, and offers the users the
ability to search for and email fellow alumni. Some People Search
partners include www.Inquirer.net,
www.Pinoycentral.com,
www.Achuki.com.
Alumni.NET is run and hosted by Infophil.COM. Sister sites are:
www.TravelSmart.NET,
www.JobsCity.NET,
www.SmartShopper.NET,
and www.Chow.NET.
For more information about these sites please visit www.Infophil.COM
or call +632-8966043.
Copyright Holder: Alumni.NET |
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