Call for Innovation Partners – Winter 2009

Michael Staton

Seeking Thought Leader Institutions To Deploy Social Media Solution for Prospective & Current Student Engagement and Retention

Inigral has been fortunate enough to have great Founding Partners – a group of forward thinking colleges and universities who took the opportunity to be our earliest customers.  These are schools that bought into the vision of meeting their students where they spend their time online – on Facebook.  They helped us mold that vision into something palatable – our Lifecycle Engagement Platform – with a coherent set of capabilities that would extend the power of Facebook and Social Media for Higher Education. In close collaboration with our Founding Partners, we’ve designed, built, and delivered our Lifecycle Engagement Platform, Schools on Facebook.

Our goal is to bring in five more partners this season; this time we’re calling the Innovation Partners – they still get preferential pricing and relationship status.  More important, they will deploy our white-label Facebook Application, Schools on Facebook, to engage their prospective and current students, building a sense of community & belonging while helping to achieve goals around yield and retention. Mark Triest, our company President, and I have been in conversations with over thirty thought-leader institutions and ahead-of-the-curve individuals.  We’ve heard great feedback and there’s a lot of excitement around what we’re doing.  Two institutions have already committed and are going live sometime soon.

If you think your institution is ready to move forward with the premium Facebook experience in Higher Ed that shows potential to impact yield and retention, let us know.  We would like to start work soon, collecting your input, and delivering a solution to engage your new “Class of 2014”, from accepted to enrolled (yield), through Freshman on boarding, retention, and beyond. Let’s discuss the possibilities, and start the journey.