Hbcuconnect.com Boosts Business On-Line Interactivity

Hbcuconnect.com major player in social networking, with new feature-rich platform, designs a way for partner businesses to transform offerings, stay in tune with clients.

COLUMBUS, OH (PRWEB) August 24, 2006 -- HBCU Connect, the on-line social network mega-site that connects Historically Black College and University students, unveils its powerhouse networking platform for technology-savvy organizations interested in branding and customer relationship management.

The HBCU Connect “Connect Platform” offering enables partners to build their brand and manage their company image, using the same model that has made HBCUConnect.com so successful over the last six years.
The on-line community has grown to more than 300,000 HBCU student, alumni, faculty, and family members. The user-friendly “Connect Platform” comes complete with training on best practices in achieving these results, as well as the latest information on maximizing its value as an economical public relations tool.

Clients use the connect platform to bolster customer loyalty, query community members on their needs and to drive word of mouth marketing, without the high cost of using an outside PR firm or without time consumption of more traditional methods.

The features that HBCU Connect community members have found to be the most valuable are available to other organizations for the first time in the on-line social networking platform.

HBCU Connect community members stay connected through member-to-member communications, member blogs, video blogs, photo albums and interest groups. The site links people from all over.

The HBCU Connect platform links employers to talented HBCU students and alumni through the on-line career center. It also links its community to the most innovative, new products and ideas through its advertisers.
(HBCU Connect) has done a wonderful job of bridging our people together nation-wide, commends one St. Augustine’s College student, S. Isaiah Harvin.

It is close interaction with community members like Harvin that is paramount to HBCU Connect knowing what members want and in bringing those things to the site quickly, said William R. Moss III, president and CEO, HBCU Connect, LLC.

Organizations that don’t have an on-line reach to customers or have the capability to see immediate results from their initiatives are starting to consider the value of on-line social networking communities.

About HBCU Connect:
HBCU Connect manages HBCUConnect.com, launched in 1999 to link graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The community now consists of HBCU students, alumni, family and friends. The company has extended to not only link graduates, but students with money for college, graduates with employers as well as maintains an active presence in the HBCU communities.

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