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

Private network
Irish Online is a mentoring and career network that offers MySpace functionality, but better. It allows alumni to set up personal Web pages where they can post photos and list information about themselves and their interests, post and search for jobs, reconnect with fellow alumni they might have lost contact with, send and receive e-mail, keep up with alumni news, and track their giving history.