Upcoming Webinars: December 2025

Webinar
Written by Kate Daniels

Join Our Final Webinars of 2025!

This month, we’ll explore how understanding and leveraging shared experiences can transform your digital engagement strategy.

Across two live sessions, you’ll discover the power of common narratives, collective memories and cultural touchpoints, and how they create stronger bonds in online communities. You’ll learn practical techniques for identifying, activating, and amplifying shared history to:

  • Increase participation

  • Deepen relationships

  • Build more engaged digital audiences

Don’t miss your chance to finish the year with fresh ideas, proven strategies and inspiration you can put to work right away!

 
 

Shared History: A Digital Engagement Superpower

📅 Thursday 11th December 2025

⌚ 11am GMT

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Shared History: A Digital Engagement Superpower

📅 Wednesday 17th December 2025

⌚ 12pm PST, 3pm EST, 8pm GMT

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We look forward to seeing you there! If you can’t make these dates, and would like to find out more, please do not hesitate to send us a message and we can arrange for a recording to be sent your way!

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How to Build Donor Relationships That Lead to Legacy Gifts

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How to Use Alumni to Identify People in Old School and University Photographs
How to Use Alumni to Identify People in Old School and University Photographs

From reunion identification projects to digital crowdsourcing and facial recognition, discover how schools, colleges and universities can turn their alumni communities into an invaluable resource for preserving institutional history.

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How to Share Photos of School Life Securely: A Practical Guide for Schools
How to Share Photos of School Life Securely: A Practical Guide for Schools

More schools are reconsidering how and where they share student photos. This practical guide explores how to keep families connected to school life while maintaining greater control over who can see, access and use those images.


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From Memories to Momentum: 9 Alumni Campaigns to Try This Year
From Memories to Momentum: 9 Alumni Campaigns to Try This Year

Nine low-effort alumni campaigns you can run this year. From photo prompts and word clouds to a playful graduation-year giving ask, each one turns memories your community already has into a reason to engage.

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School Archives: What Should You Digitise First?
School Archives: What Should You Digitise First?

Most schools are sitting on decades of history (photographs, VHS tapes, school magazines, year group records) and not enough time to tackle all of it. This practical guide helps schools and universities decide what to digitise first, with a free prioritisation matrix you can use with your team today, a 12-month roadmap, and a worked example showing the framework in action.

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SocialArchive + Canva: Turn Archive Content into Beautiful Designs
SocialArchive + Canva: Turn Archive Content into Beautiful Designs

Announcing the new SocialArchive + Canva integration: making it easier than ever for schools, colleges and universities to push archive content directly into Canva and turn it into beautiful, on-brand designs in minutes.

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School and University Testimonials: Building Trust Through Real Voices
School and University Testimonials: Building Trust Through Real Voices

Learn how schools and universities can collect, organise and deploy student, parent, alumni and bursary testimonials to improve admissions marketing, donor engagement, community trust and AI-driven discoverability.

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School Digital Archives: The Complete Guide
School Digital Archives: The Complete Guide

Most schools are sitting on decades of photographs, publications and records that are at risk of being lost. This guide covers everything you need to know about building a school digital archive, from choosing the right approach, to using your history to reconnect alumni, support fundraising and make the most of a milestone anniversary.

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Young Alumni Engagement: Building Relationships That Last Decades
Young Alumni Engagement: Building Relationships That Last Decades

Most institutions send the same newsletter to the class of 1989 and the class of 2022. For older alumni, it often works. For someone who graduated three years ago, it rarely lands. Young alumni engagement isn't about compressing the relationship, it's about investing in it early, so that when the conditions for giving are right, the connection is already there. Here’s how to do it.

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Turn Alumni Reunions into Year-Round Engagement Campaigns
Turn Alumni Reunions into Year-Round Engagement Campaigns

Alumni reunions are emotionally powerful moments but treating them as isolated events leaves enormous engagement and fundraising potential on the table. This article sets out a practical three-phase framework for advancement and alumni relations teams who want to turn their next reunion into a twelve-month engagement campaign, from building anticipation months in advance, to capturing stories on the day, to sustaining momentum long after attendees have gone home.

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Should Schools Post Photos of Students Online?
Should Schools Post Photos of Students Online?

Schools have traditionally shared photos of pupils on websites and social media to celebrate achievements and build community. However, growing concerns around safeguarding, consent, digital footprints, and emerging risks such as artificial intelligence and deepfakes are prompting many schools to review their approach.

This article explores why schools are rethinking how student images are shared, the practical challenges of managing consent and permissions, and what safer alternatives might look like, including secure, school-controlled environments for sharing photos with families.

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How to Start a Digital Archive at Your School (Without an Archivist)
How to Start a Digital Archive at Your School (Without an Archivist)

Starting a digital archive doesn’t require an archivist, a perfect system or a major project. This practical guide explains how schools can begin small, capture meaningful stories, and build a sustainable digital archive that supports engagement, storytelling and long-term continuity.

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