Will the Internet Obsolete Alumni Associations?

Many alumni associations stubbornly cling to the idea that alumni relationships should be hosted on a .edu website. But we’ve grudgingly populated Facebook (Groups, then Pages), LinkedIn (individual profiles, then Groups), and Twitter (individual streams, then institutional ones).

Several signs point to a more effective accommodation between alumni associations and the online venues that have usurped their roles.

Read Andrew Shaindlin’s full article in The Huffington Post.