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

“I’m not much of a MySpace or Facebook user or specialist myself, but I have heard some people say that one of the challenges is that the community is pretty open; that is one of the things that gives it the strength and width and breadth that it has,” Bellairs says. “The downside of that is maybe there are people that are in that space that you don’t want to interact with.