IIM Alumni Society

Also allow me to use this query for e-mail pitch for IIM Alumni Society (can send powerpoint deck/pitch on request)

Business Case
If only we had all 20,000+ alumni of all IIMs on one "intranet" portal then life would have been easy for all of us. We wouldn't have to send a mail rather could directly reach that person (if his/her setting allowed that). Below are some tools/concepts that myself and friends are using to have a ZERO OVERHEAD IIM Alumni Society which can at right time be used to create a real world IIM Alumni Sociey with chapters globally and offices in Bay Area, NYC, London, Sanghai etc etc

Some Links to explore the best of Business 2.0 + Web2.0 + Internet 2.0 + Marketing 2.0 etc etc

1. Intranet
http://iim-alumni.collectivex.com (will be transferred to www.iim-alumni.org whenever we are ready with that)

Our Events need not pay commission to payment sites rather we used, below are some recent events
IIM Europe Event
IIM- AProfessors Meet at NJ

and the latest event tomorrow
Tie NJ Phily Chapter Launch This Friday (12th Oct'07)

Above intranet Include...- Member Profiles - Calendar - Discussion Forums - Email Blasts - File Storage - Photo Galleries and is free

2. Internet (Web Presence via Blogs, Facebook, Linkedin )

IIM Alumni Blog, http://iim-alumni.blogspot.com
IIM A Network on Facebook, IIM-A Network on Facebook
IIM Alumni Society Group on Linkedin, IIM Alumni Society

3. E-Mail
atul@iim-alumni.org , media@iim-alumni.org , iim.europe@iim-alumni.org already used for our Stern and London Events

Imagine the branding power of mehmood@iim-alumni.org, chitra@iim-alumni.org, marti@iim-alumni.org, ajay.banga@iim-alumni.org or indra.nooyi@iim-alumni.org ,

4. IIM Alumni Society
Proposal being discussed with senior alumni, professors at IIMs, Alumni at US,India,MiddleEast,Europe

,Singapore,Korea etc,

We are re right now in concept stage and these web based efforts are attempts to "prototype" and "test" the waters before making forays in real world since that would require money,time.

(Vision, Mission, Charter, Operating Mechanism, Values - Transparency, Collaboration, Integrity etc etc)

Do let us know if any of you want to join the "underground" efforts that will be called as making of IIM Alumni Society. We are leveraging the best practices from "Asia Society", "Japan Society", "World Affairs Forum", "Tie" , "Nasscom", "CII" and of course various clubs that Columbia,Harvard, Wharton,Yale, MIT, IIT etc I

To give you broad ideas
1) IIM Alumni Society can focus on "generating 500 Crores for IIM-A that is planned. Prof. Arvind Sahay & Prof. Manikutty have promised to share the project details with us. Had a good chance to discuss with them after a Radio Talk show on EBC Radio at NJ which we had arranged for them to talk about PGPX and got a good response. Like wise efforts by other IIMs are also in progress and Prof. Devi Singh at IIM-L is like common thread to most IIMs and has some good ideas as well on how to "manage" the "HRD/GOI" etc

2) Network the Alumni for personal & professional growth in career & business

3) Social and cultural support Sytem for "new" migrants to a new city or country

4) In future, IIM Directors and Professors won't have to book a hotel for interviews, they will do this at IIM Club or Society Office at whichever city (London, NYC etc) which moves fast enough to setup an office

5) Socio-Cultural Events at respective chapters .. Diwali, Id, Christmas,Independence Day, Ganesh Chaturthi etc

many more