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 alumni club network has continued to grow, to the point where a Cape Cod club recently formed so that alumni in that area don’t have to travel to the Boston club or to a club in Rhode Island. Nanni says the formation of this club signaled the need for alumni services that transcend geography.

IrishSpace?
The Notre Dame Alumni Association had developed a presence online in 1998, something Chris Bellairs, associate executive director of the alumni association, says he’s pretty proud of considering in 1998 Google still was two guys working out of a garage in Menlo Park, Calif. But from 2001 to just recently, it didn’t make a lot of advancements.