Oakland University
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Why join GrizzLink? It’s free to OU alumni and offers so much!

Through GrizzLink you can search for OU alumni, even if someone is not a GrizzLink member!  We have nearly 84,000 alumni in GrizzLink and more than 27,000 of them have an email address. You can search for alumni by class year, geography, a variety of other criteria or by looking up a single name.  Even if an OU alum is not a GrizzLink or OUAA member, if we have an email address on their profile you can still send them a “blind e-mail” through GrizzLink. Also, many OU alumni have added photos to their personal profile page.

On GrizzLink, you can post a class note and include a photo about your new life event – a job, marriage, new child, or promotion and your class note is visible immediately to all OU alumni. More than 300 OU alumni class notes are in GrizzLink. Visit grizzlink.oualumni.com and your class note will also be included in the next OU Magazine

Visit GrizzLink to learn about upcoming OUAA events, see who is attending, and register yourself using a secure credit card login.

GrizzLink also has business networking. Post your business Webcard and join more than 300 alums who have posted a business webcard. Have something you want to sell? Post a classified advertisement. Looking for a job?  Post your resume along with more than 230 alums who have added their resumes. Employers (OU alumni employers and outside employers) visit GrizzLink and look at the resumes for OU alumni who have the skills they are looking for.  Employers are posting job opportunities as well.

Are you receiving regular communication from Oakland University?  Do you need to know your OU Grizzly ID to access your transcripts? Join GrizzLink for free at grizzlink.oualumni.com and visit your profile. You can update your address or let us know of a name change and locate your OU Grizzly ID from your GrizzLink profile page.

The OUAA works hard to maintain a strong Web presence on a variety of social media sites including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.Facebook is our social media Website and we now have more than 650 fans. Become a fan of OUAA on Facebook for fun, interactive communications. We post photos, event information and other informational items. LinkedIn is our business networking Website and we now have nearly 2,600 members. Our OUAA LinkedIn site is active with jobs postings, business and career tips and other links. You can find links to all these Websites on GrizzLink at www.grizzlink.oualumni.com.



Created by Bris Roberts (berobert@oakland.edu) on Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Modified by Bris Roberts (berobert@oakland.edu) on Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Article Start Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010