Form a small committee
- Find a small planning committee of interested Alumni and form a planning committee.  This can be as small as 2-3 people. 
- Remind alumni that by getting involved, they meet more people and get better networked.

Happy hours - easy, fun, cheap
- Start with free happy hours. 
-  Pick an upscale bar/restaurant/hotel lobby bar, set a date and time, and get the word out.  Upscale and trendy is important because it draws out the younger crowd, who is more likely to volunteer.
- Don't get complicated.  Happy hours are should be easy to plan.
- Host one each month and get to know the 'regulars' who attend.  Start focusing on them to join your planning committee.

Networking events
- Alumni want to network.  By giving them ways to engage with one another, they'll be more likely to participate and get involved in the future.
- Set up purely networking events.  Speed networking, breakfast networking, industry-specific networking are all great ideas.

Don't burn out your volunteers - keep it simple!
- Planning events doesn't have to take a lot of time.  In fact, the smaller the committe, the more efficient. 
- Remember that the more efficient you are, the more likely your volunteers will help again in the future.  If you have too many conference calls, meetings, etc, people will burn out quickly.

Tools to help with efficiency
- evite.com:  use evite's polling tool to find times that work for multiple people for meetings, calls, etc.  Using evite saves you the hassle of collecting emails from everyone with their responses. 
- freeconference.com:  is a way to hold conference calls for free.  Each person calling in pays the long distance charge rather than the club having to pay.
- surveymonkey.com:  is a free online tool for taking surveys