The University of Notre Dame Alumni Association recently unveiled an online engagement center with social-networking capabilities fit to engage — and elicit gifts from — even the feistiest of the Fighting Irish alums.

By Abny Santicola

The role of the alumni association is to offer services that continue the high-caliber Notre Dame experience and help alumni better connect with one another and the university. To do that better, the alumni association selected the Kintera Sphere platform, an online alumni community product, and created Irish Online, an engagement center with social-networking functions.