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Hello, I'm Roz Allison, I'm head of Alumni Relations.
I'm here to tell you about what we do in our team
and to tell you a little bit more about Platform
and all the other benefits and services we have for you.
Hopefully within this website
you'll find all sorts of ways to get involved with the university
and things to interest you,
from careers services to help you develop,
through to groups and societies, all sorts of opportunities.
Please have a look around and see what you can find.
So how do we keep you in touch with the Open University?
It's quite a difficult task,
there's many things going on in the university.
We've found one way - one way is this Platform website
where hopefully you'll find out
about all the developments of the Open University itself,
our opinions on the things that are going on in the news,
and hopefully some idea of the different things
your fellow students and alumni are doing.
Please get involved with the university.
Tell us your news, tell us your successes.
You can do it through the website,
you can send it through the Contact Us section,
you can just simply email us on alumniopen.ac.uk.
We're really keen to hear from you -
any ideas you might have and any success stories you have.
We're also here to try and encourage you to act as ambassadors.
We know you do that already and we can hardly prompt you any more
so can I just say thank you for doing that on our behalf.
We're also committed to finding a wide range of benefits and services
that bring great value to being a member of the alumni association
and of the student body.
Then there's Sesame, the student alumni magazine,
with articles and features to really get you thinking.
And finally we've got the degree ceremonies.
This is our one opportunity to meet you.
We love it. It gives us so much integration for the rest of the year
because we get to find out all about your successes firsthand.
What we want to do is to harness your support for the university,
to harness that interest and find ways
for you to keep involved with the university,
to support us morally, physically and if you want to, financially.
Thank you for listening. Enjoy the website.
I do hope we hear from you soon.