Health app conjures up Aston College directo

• Health app utilized in lockdown sparked ‘lightbulb’ second
• Aston for Life platform was launched on 11 July
• Alumni can assist one another professionally via personalised content material and networks.

A health app used throughout lockdown has impressed one girl to maintain tens of 1000’s of people that studied at Aston College related.

The unique on-line house unlocks the experience throughout the Aston College world alumni neighborhood of graduates, enabling them to assist one another of their skilled lives via personalised content material and networks.

The Aston for Life platform, launched in entrance of 200 friends on Tuesday 11 July at Aston College’s college students’ union, is the brainchild of the College’s govt director of alumni relations and growth, Kerrie Holland, who received the thought whereas she was understanding in her bed room through the pandemic.

She was impressed that the app she was utilizing created a personalised programme of content material for her and determined the identical might be created for the College’s many graduates.

Kerrie mentioned: “Little did I believe that one thing as primary as utilizing a health app would result in a means of maintaining tens of 1000’s of individuals dwelling internationally related.

“Whereas there are many off-the-shelf alumni platforms round, even the large US universities should not providing personalised growth or involving alumni in content material creation at scale.

“Our alumni neighborhood has been actually enthusiastic from the start, and greater than 500 of them have labored with us to design and develop a platform that may meet their skilled wants. “

The platform can have 4 principal options: a personalised feed; a content material library filled with movies, articles and podcasts, networking alternatives and a global alumni listing.

Aston for Life challenge supervisor, Abby Sweeting, added: “That is just the start – we’ll be persevering with to develop the platform over the approaching months.

“We wish to say thanks to our world alumni neighborhood who’ve been with us since we started. They took half within the session to form the platform, they created content material, they examined the beta model, and so they’ve even been fashions in our advertising supplies!”

Aston College alumni who wish to get entangled and assist the platform ought to contact the alumni relations and growth crew at [email protected]