Hivebrite vs. PeopleGrove

Hivebrite is a great platform if you and your team do not want to manage a custom-built website - which can be both time-consuming and costly.

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Peoplegrove works incredibly well for our students in the College of Liberal Arts and some Caspersen Graduate School programs (Master in Finance, Data Analytics). It does not function as well for our Theological School students.

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• Fast responding customer service with enthusiastic willingness to solve your tech problems.
• Continual upgrades to platform's UX/UI.
• Comprehensive support resources and articles.

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• Innovation. PeopleGrove regularly works on the platform to provide the best possible experience, tools, and opportunities for the end user and to make administration of the platform as seamless as possible for the administrators of the platform within Drew.
• Responsiveness. When a support ticket is submitted, PG generally responds within less than a day. That said, support tickets are rarely necessary because PG has so much online guidance available for administrators.
• Customer Service. PG has an amazing support team for each customer. We have been very happy with the support we receive from our contacts within PeopleGrove.

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• LMS - It would be great if native learning management system functions could be added to the platform.
• 1:1 Conversations - the private messaging feature could definitely be improved upon.
• Language integration - being able to translate comments and conversations on the platform would be helpful to our global audience.

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• There is a feature within groups where an admin of a group can add a resource, but cannot pin the resource. Only the hub admin can go in to pin the resource. It would be preferable to allow group admins to perform that function.

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Mighty Networks is another platform that is insanely cheap but does not have any upgrade options.

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We actually evaluated several companies when selecting the platform in 2017 but most of the other businesses no longer exist. We selected PeopleGrove over Graduway because at the time Graduway appeared cluttered while PeopleGrove was then and has remained "clean."

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• The Hivebrite platform has taken our community from 0 to 2000+.

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• Approzimately 1/3 of our students across the CLA and Graduate School are on the platform to use it to explore the alumni network.
• The platform has features that ease staff burden; gone are the days of manual matching of students and alums. Students can access alums directly -- and when a program is implemented, matching can be done automatically after just noting a few parameters. And reminderr to meet are automatic!

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