Software to Engage Your Community
Share your school's value with the world with our software and tools.
An awesome web experience designed for the school community.
From alumni and parent volunteers to your local community, the Finalsite platform makes it simple to create true engagement. With new inbound tools to personalize the site experience, dynamic calendars and forms to keep everything organized and social feeds to share your events and successes, you can boost school spirit and community relationships in a platform that's simple enough for anyone at your school to manage.
Community Engagement Tools and Software Built for Schools
Social Media Feeds
Finalsite Feeds allow you to pull in social posts into specific site pages, letting you share hashtags or accounts of interest to alumni or parents.
Digital Calendars
Keep your community in-the-loop about upcoming events using Calendars, complete with alerts and notifications.
Email Marketing
Send responsive, personalized emails to your community, track engagement, and more.
Inbound Tools
Personalized page elements, A/B testing, and drip campaigns mean sharing the right content with community members, and measuring what works.
Request a Free Website Audit
Meet one-on-one with one of our website consultants for a free analysis and report of your website's design, content and overall strategy, and the steps you can take to improve community engagement.
From The Finalsite Blog
Dive into our library of blog posts of examples, strategies, tips and inspiration to help you improve your school's communication strategy.
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Sarah Englebert
Over the past few decades, the education space has become increasingly more competitive with more paid and free education options available to parents. Get ahead of the competition with these tips to kickstart your charter school's digital marketing strategy!
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Andrew Martin
In this episode of Apply Yourself, Tim talks with Jennie Winton, Co-Founder of Mission Minded, to discuss how schools can increase applications and their online presence with clearly defined marketing and branding messaging.
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Debbie Eisenach
The British School of Milan, a Top 10 British School, shares their smooth and successful transition story from Fluency to Composer.
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Andrew Martin
Here are eight steps to building a solid crisis communications plan that focuses on student safety and protecting constituent information to ensure that your school is prepared for any crisis at any time.
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Andrew Martin
Looking to invest time and resources into email automation but not sure where to start? Here are eight best practices your school can use when building your first automated email campaigns.
Additional Resources
Learn more about how to successfully engage your community with additional free resources.- On-Demand Webinar
Angelo Otterbein, Chief Innovation Officer, shares some new and engaging designs that schools around the world have deployed with Finalsite.
- Toolkit
- On-Demand Webinar
Get a first look at Finalsite's email marketing platform, Messages, and learn how to use it to improve your school or district's email communications.
- On-Demand Webinar
Learn digital solutions to survive and thrive in the competitive international school market.
- eBook
In this eBook, we provide a complete action plan for engaging millennials where they spend their time — in search, on social media, your website, and on mobile.
- On-Demand Webinar
Learn why your digital brand matters to millennials and what they're looking for in your school brand.
Explore Community Engagement Software
Discover the tools behind Finalsite's software to help grow your community engagement.
Webinar On Demand: Optimizing Search, Social, and Your Website for Engagement
Learn new strategies for generating more qualified website traffic, lowering bounce rates, and getting more conversions in this webinar on demand.