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COMPANY CONTACT: Gayle Cline Director, Marketing Communications Golden Parachute, Inc. Tel: 650.787.8042 Email: gayle@goldenparachute.com URL: www.goldenparachute.com
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December 6, 1999
Golden Parachute Releases Communi ,ty Builder TM to License to Universities and Colleges Offers An Online Networking Community Platform To Enhance Alumni Relations
Redwood City, Calif. - December 6, 1999 - Golden Parachute, creators of the premier business, career and social networking community site exclusively for alumni and students of top
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universities and colleges worldwide today announced Community Builder tools that enables a networking
a suite of web site
community platform to be rapidly deployed onto a University or
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College portal web site. Community Builder
can be easily customized to reflect individual
college web site styles and format and is designed to integrate seamlessly with other college web site applications. Golden Parachute's Community Builder
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is being showcased for the first time during
the C.A.S.E. District VII Conference at the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, which opened on December
4 th and
runs through December 7% C.A.S.E. (Council for the Advancement and
Support of Education) hosts regional conferences, worldwide for university development and advancement professionals who are concerned with building services to promote organizational success for their institutions. "As a former senior development officer at institutions raising hundreds of millions of
dollars, I understand the importance of each school staying connected to and involved with their most valued asset, their alumni," said Greg Kayser, vice president of university and college relations. "Community Builder
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offers these institutions a powerful Internet tool that has been
proven with tens of thousands of alumni of over 150 institutions worldwide. For each university or college this suite of online networking tools will offer their valued alumni a reason to come home."
2800 Bay Road Redwood City, CA 94063 (650) 364- I000 tel (650) 261-9975fax
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Community Builder
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offers university and college alumni a trusted environment for community
quality interaction hosted by their own alma mater. It provides a closed networking with state-of-the-art developing business, resources and mechanisms
for alumni to connect on multiple levels for
career and social relationships. Golden Parachute's expertise, exclusive focus and success developing
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Leveraging
engaging alumni networking applications, Community Builder community networking features. Community
offers a full suite of integrated to create
application modules function synergistically
'worlds' that keep track of member information from one networking activity to when engaging in new
another, alleviating the need for alumni to re-enter personal information interactions. Community Builder communicate
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offers a discreet messaging system so alumni can
via email without revealing or overloading their personal or business mailbox.
In addition, Community Builder TM offers the opportunity for an alma mater networking environment • that provides:
Alumni Search & Directory: A powerful, multifaceted search mechanism and directory designed with peer-to-peer networking in mind.
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Personal Profile Builder: A simple-to-use, sophisticated home-page builder offers clean graphic-art design and integrated information sharing with other community modules. Members can build and maintain a personal homepage profiling their skills and showcasing their successes
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Mentoring:
An opt-in mentoringprogram
allows mentors to set their level of desired
activity and anonymity while providing valuable and rewarding service to prot_gds. It includes sophisticated search features for members to connect with mentors in their field of interest, professional status and geographic location. • Career & Recruiting: A job search and resume posting service integrated with resume
search tools, career opportunity and job posting features. Members have the ability to browse through jobs under the categories such as marketing, finance, operations, etc. or conduct a specific search using criteria such as keywords. Employers have the ability to register online and fill out a job posting form, outlining the job description and their employer profile, or they can search through the candidate resume database using very specific criteria, such as graduating school, year, degree, major, GPA, test scores, job function, etc. As a resume is being viewed onscreen, employers have the ability to rank the resume and add any relevant notes, all of which can be viewed in summary format at any time. This feature is especially useful in that it allows employers to track all candidates being reviewed and rate them accordingly in one single location.
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Entrepreneur Ventures: A forum for connecting and collaborating with peers who are starting new business ventures. Members have the ability to fill out a profile template of their goals, generic description of their business idea and the kind of business partner they
are seeking. Members can then browse through other members 'profiles and contact each via email. • Sports Village: A forum for meeting others with similar sports interests and offers a streamlined process for setting up sport activity arrangements. Sports Village is the 'arena'
where members can connect with other members interested in athletics - to find a local informally organized game or 'pick-up game ', a new tennis partner, someone to train with for the next marathon or competition, or simply to meet someone to take to the ball game. • Events Calendar: An online calendar where members can post and learn about various social events in their area and regions they are traveling to -from alumni club activities, university fundraising bashes, to get-togethers at the coolest city jazz club. • Roommate Connection: An online bulletin board designed for members to advertise
vacancies and connect with other professionals to find housing in various cities. • Discussion Groups: Threaded discussion group and chat facilities offer a private community-within-community. • Alama Mater Email: A free, permanent email service enables alumni to identify their alma mater with their email domain address.
About Golden Parachute, Inc. Golden Parachute, Inc. was established in 1998 to bring together the alumni and students of top universities and colleges to promote networking and collaboration using the best that the Internet has to offer. Unlike other online communities and general-purpose portals, Golden Parachute focuses on the specific needs of its membership to offer engaging activity and manage the quality of experience. Additionally, as a licensor of community products, Golden Parachute, Inc. provides Universities and Colleges Community Builder TM tools to create a seamless online community for their students and alumni. Golden Parachute, Inc. is a privately held company based in the heart of Silicon Valley, with investment funding from Elliott Associates and Garage.com. To date, the company has established alliances with Garage.com, Peoplescape.com, Salon.com, Top Echelon, TopStartups.com, Vault.com and Vcapital.com. The company can be reached at (650) 364-1000. To receive information via the Interact, address your request to info@goldenparachute.com, or access the company's Web site at http://www.goldenparachute.com.
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