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| September 2006
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| Find Those Lost AU Friends and Reconnect
Were you hoping to see old friends at an alumni event, but were unable to make it? Have you lost touch with someone who moved? Now you can find and connect with college friends through AU's new incircle Online Community. Vanessa Yost, director of Alumni Programs, teamed up with the makers of inCircle to provide alumni a better way to find and stay in touch with fellow alumni, whether they’re across town or across the globe. The inCircle community has a slew of cool features to help keep those college memories from fading - and make your daily life easier. There’s a chat feature; you can upload photos and create links to your blog; you can join - and create - groups that coincide with your interests, region, graduation year or other topics; and you can post (or find) classified ads in the community section announcing items for sale such as tickets for concerts and sporting events, furniture, housing for rent, etc. The online community is growing every day; more than 1,700 alumni have registered in just the last few weeks since it was officially launched. Ashley Philips, SOC/BA ’02, SOC/MA ’03, president of the Young Alumni Chapter, started a group for YAC. “It’s a really good way to reach a larger group, especially when the Young Alumni have an event going on,” she says. “You can quickly post something that gets viewed by a lot of people.” She adds, “I think it’ll help retention rates once students graduate by connecting to the greater AU community.” The new site is similar to other social networks such as Myspace.com and Friendster.com in its ability to link friends and friends-of-friends, but inCircle is strictly for AU alumni. That aspect gives everyone the opportunity to upload posts seeking other AU alumni as roommates, job candidates, and much more, while ensuring a level of safety and exclusivity not found with other sites. If you haven’t signed up yet, go find your old friends, and invite others to do the same. You can even create an @alum.american.edu e-mail forwarding address. Log in today at: https://incircle.alumni.american.edu. Note:
If you've tried to register but received an error message, the office
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