The Internet Strategies Group provides on demand courses that help alumni and development offices create comprehensive Internet strategies to increase participation, data collection, registrations, communication and contributions. Our consulting team provides audits, conducts surveys, accesses staffing and resource allocations along with strategy development and implementation.

Your organization should be investing in training and providing educational opportunities to you and your team so you can successfully lead your organization in developing a scalable Internet strategy. By participating in our Executive Briefings, Webinars, Courses, Strategic Discussions and listening to industry best practice podcasts you become more confident of what services, technologies and strategies will best serve your mission and your alumni.

Yes, we are! You need to join the Internet Strategies Group in order to participate in any of our Webinars, workshops or engage our consulting services. Why? Because we want you to rub shoulders with others who are like you that are committed to use Internet technology to better serve their constituents. We want to bring together bright, visionary people who will become more valuable to their organizations by leading the development of their Internet strategy.

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Executive Briefings are high level reviews of issues and strategies that Vice Presidents, Alumni Directors and those charged with creating their Internet strategy need in order to effectively lead their organization in creating comprehensive Internet strategies.

Two heads are better than one, twenty are best! Strategic Discussions assembled concerned, committed professionals who want to get together to solve some of the most pressing problems the industry faces in developing their Internet strategy. Depending on the discussion some Strategic Discussions are by invitation only.

Internet Strategies Group courses are truly interactive and utilize many different techniques to deliver background information on each topic. The primary lecture is augmented with podcast(s), bulletin board discussions, research information and links to examples.

Hot Topic Webinars offer you an opportunity to connect with industry leaders on time sensitive issues and techniques. We offer both presentation style and roundtable discussions that give you an opportunity to ask the questions you’ve been searching for the answers.

They are GREAT! Technology Workshops give you hands on experience on how to adopt Podcasting, blogs, Wiki’s, RSS feeds and other technologies to automatically increase participation on your website. Consumer generated media is the hot buzz word today. Content is KING. Constantly changing content on your website will increase visits. These sessions will enable you to employ what you learn – immediately!

With a decade of using Internet technology, many associations are doing running ahead of the pack and implementing very successful Internet strategy. The good news is they are willing to share that information with you. Each month we feature a category of Best Practices that have been featured in Wiredcommunities.com.

We are focused on helping you identify what you want to achieve and provide support and expertise to implement your idea. Actually there are four different ways. First, all of our courses focus on helping you develop your Internet strategy. We don’t offer courses that for example share with you how to organize an event. Secondly, the online courses include supporting research material like pod cast interviews with industry professionals, supplemental reading like reports, white papers and blogs. Our goal is to give you additional materials so you can drill down into the subject as deep as you want. Third, with each course you take you be given assignments and homework to help give you a deeper understanding of the course topic and fourth, at the completion of the course you will have an opportunity to identify what ideas you want to implement in your organization. Our courses include an alert system that will remind you what you wanted to accomplish.

If you are taking the courses in addition to handling your other responsibilities, we recommend you give yourself two to three weeks to complete a course. You have a number of resources available to you that are fun to explore, plus we’ll encourage you to do your own research and share what you find in the discussions with others who have taken the course. Remember, we are expecting you to take the knowledge you have learned and put in motion plans to implement them.

Tuition payments are due when you register.

We operate just like your university. Only one person is assigned to take a course. You are welcome to have more than one person watch the course presentation but we ask that you not share your password information.

The Internet Strategies Group was founded in 2006 by Don Philabaum who also founded IAC a world leader in providing online communities to organizations worldwide. Don has written three books, “Create a NET-Centered College Campus”, “Alumni Web Strategies, 101 Strategies to build community online” and “Create a NET-Centered Alumni Office” He also created www.wiredcommunities.com to recognize industry leaders for leading their organizations with innovative Internet strategies. Don has assembled a group of industry leaders who participate in Webinars, podcasts, articles, reports and whitepapers.

We’d love to hear from you. Tell us about your ideas, or what you want to share with others!

Podcasts are a great way to see what your peers at other institutions think about the issues you are facing and to learn what successful Internet strategies they are adopting. Downloadable so you can listen to them on your iPod, in your car or while you work, it’s a convenient way to stay abreast of industry buzz.