OnePIN^® Creates Online Community for Baruch College Zicklin School of Business

OnePIN Supports Baruch’s Strategic Direction of Enhancing Alumni Service by Providing a Turnkey Communication and Collaboration Infrastructure

WESTBOROUGH, MA,  August 19, 2004 - OnePIN, Inc., the market leader in group management solutions, today announced that Baruch College Zicklin School of Business has incorporated the OnePIN Group Management System to enhance its online community for its alumni. Baruch College Zicklin School of Business is the largest business school in the USA, and one of the most academically prestigious. The Zicklin School of Business is situated in the heart of Manhattan, the center of global business. The Zicklin School of Business offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs, featuring the 14th ranked part-time MBA, a new accelerated part-time MBA, and a new, highly selective full-time MBA program.

Chris Koutsoutis, Administrative Director of Executive Programs, anticipates viral growth of web-based communications among alumni using the OnePIN solution. “As our programs have grown, our alumni have developed a growing sense of community and pride in the Baruch College Zicklin School of Business experience. OnePIN is helping us reconnect alumni with each other and their university, creating a dynamic online network for alumni no matter where they live or work.”

One of the Zicklin EMBA Program’s strategic directions is process improvement. They believed they needed to improve the way they connect with alumni and to develop a way in which the alumni’s contact information (name change, address, phone, email, company, etc.) is automatically updated. OnePIN is used to organize their alumni into a variety of groups, initially segmented in year of graduation and major. All alumni have been added with additional emphasis on those that were not currently accounted for. Within the first month of implementation, 35% of the alumni activated their OnePIN account. In addition, the OnePIN solution has helped increase the known addresses of its alumni by 33%. These are individuals that the Zicklin School of Business had “lost” as they moved toward an online (email) community.

Jeff Schiebe, Vice President of OnePIN, says that creating an online network is a fast way to build a sense of community among alumni, faculty and staff. “Baruch College Zicklin School of Business understands the importance of reaching alumni online where they work. OnePIN’s data security and usability combined with the opportunity to connect and reconnect with other Baruch College alums online, will make this network a popular, fast growing choice for personal and professional communication and collaboration.”

About OnePIN, Inc.
OnePIN builds the infrastructure for the human network and delivers innovative communication and collaboration applications via web and wireless services. With its patented universal identifier technology and permission-based solutions, OnePIN enables people to keep each others’ contact information accurate, up-to-date and accessible anytime, anywhere. OnePIN provides its services to mobile operators, educational institutions, organizations and corporations throughout the world. OnePIN is a privately held company headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts, USA.

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