Digital Engagement

Auto-remove all engagement and email preference check boxes if a person is marked deceased. That way, there is no chance that emails are sent to their email inbox only to be returned by a family member. (It's happened to us a few times).

Affiliations such as social clubs, etc are important to alumni. It would be helpful to be able to filter on the directory search by custom fields (or in our case, affiliations) which would include such affiliations or give customers the ability to use as needed.

There are multiple questions we do not want to ask our alumni like the Diploma they pursued and also want to add some additional fields relevant to our school on the form. But these are not possible today.

I'd like to see a redesign of the individual directory tile as well as the full profile. For the individual profile: if no photo, use first initial of first and last name (see inconsistent use of initials in screenshot below) provide options for users to add other (limited) fields in the white space like title, company, education add additional filter fields: deceased For the full profile: badges/callouts for certain groups of alumni (Reunion committee members, alumni association board members, etc.) admin options to re-order how info displays (ex: move employment info higher) add the ability to search for a verified group. When admin create a new verified group, create a selection for "search on directory." remove "% complete" indicator - this drives alums crazy when they can't reach 100% The directory is the powerhouse of the platform and is the main driver of traffic to our site, but it could be drastically improved in both function and aesthetics.

Allow users to sort by last name, first name on the directory and/or allow organizations to establish a default sort.

The user directory can only list alumni alphabetically or by last name. In addition, allow the User directory to be sorted by Year of joining.

It seems incredible to me that as a user, you cannot see the nickname of a fellow alum unless they are single. I.e. not married. This makes no sense to me as a platform for alums who probably have lost touch with one another. A user get's on, searches for "Casey Smith" instead of Cassandra Arlington. When they find the profile (since search does take nickname into account 🙏🏻), they cannot see the actual nickname of the person. This seems pretty odd to me. You don't see it in the profile on the banner nor do you see it on the profile on the lefthand side panel (where an admin would see it). It seems to me that you should be designing for the end user first and the admin second. I think the name on the banner should default as it currently does: First Name Last Name (Maiden Name) and then (Nickname if no maiden name) The left hand side bar should show BOTH the FIRST NAME field and the NICKNAME field -actually show to the VIEWER/USER. The Nickname field should offer the user the option to "Make Your Nickname Your Display Name" when there is a nickname in that field. Default should be CHECKED. If CHECKED, then the profile banner would show: Nickname Last Name (Maiden Name) Examples: #1. We have an alum whose First Name is Elizabeth and Nickname is Liz. She prefers to go by Liz. She enters her nickname AND Checks "Make Your Nickname Your Display Name". Her profile banner would show: Liz Last Name (Maiden Name if she has one) and the side panel would show both Elizabeth and Liz in the correct fields #2. We have an alum whose First Name is Kimberley and her Nickname is Kimmy. She unchecks the box "Make Your Nickname Your Display Name". Her profile banner would show: Kimberley Last Name (Maiden Name if she has one) and the side panel would show both Kimberley and Kimmy in the correct fields The nickname preference should carry over to other feature modules of Almabase such as Spaces. If I tag someone in a post, such as Alum #1 above, it should say @Liz Jones and show Liz Jones in the drop down when I am tagging her. Because that's what she prefers. If I tag Alum #2 in the example above, the dropdown should show Kimberley Smith in both the dropdown and the tagged post because that's what she prefers. Not only would I use this EVERY SINGLE DAY but so would the actual end users. And I think the Alum Directory would make more sense and be much more user friendly. I'm putting this as membership??? But please recategorize to where it makes sense.

Ability to add custom colors throughout the platform in pages, forms, giving in fonts and all places like buttons/widgets, etc.

Currently if a person's maiden name is entered on a profile, that shows in the banner heading of the profile instead of Nickname. To show nickname, you either have to change First name, or there cannot be a maiden name. I.e. Maiden name takes precedence in hierarchy. I propose FIRST MAIDEN LAST (NICKNAME). I see that there is a planned change to remove MIDDLE NAME, HOWEVER, we really need NICKNAME too! When users are looking for classmates and the like, they need to see the nickname at the top in the profile AND when searching using the alum directory. This would impact DAILY user experience and greatly improve satisfaction among alums searching for classmates.