Upcoming Webinars: December 2025

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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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School anniversaries are powerful opportunities to strengthen alumni engagement and community belonging. By treating your milestone as a campaign (not a one-off event), collecting personal stories, creating shareable content, bringing history to life on campus, and building a digital home for your archive, you can create an anniversary experience people remember and that continues delivering value long after the celebrations end.

The Early 2000s Memory Gap: Why Schools and Universities Need to Collect These Stories Now
The Early 2000s Memory Gap: Why Schools and Universities Need to Collect These Stories Now

The early 2000s represent a critical, and often overlooked, gap in many institutional archives. While this period marked the first wave of mass digital photography, fragile storage methods, obsolete technology and fragmented platforms have left many schools and universities with surprisingly little material from these years.

This article explores why early 2000s memories are at risk, why now is the right time to collect them, and how schools and universities can run effective memory campaigns.

Upcoming Webinars: January 2026
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10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your School’s Digital Archive
10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your School’s Digital Archive

Digital archives in education are no longer just places to store the past. When used strategically, they become active tools for communication, engagement and belonging. From creating instant videos and personalised alumni content to powering admissions storytelling, capturing student voices and informing strategy through analytics, this article explores ten ways modern digital archives can support the everyday work of schools, colleges and universities.

Capturing the Stories of Your Final-Year Students: Why It Matters and How to Do It Well
Capturing the Stories of Your Final-Year Students: Why It Matters and How to Do It Well

Final-year students are on the edge of one of the biggest transitions of their lives… leaving school or university and becoming alumni. This moment is rich with reflection, gratitude, uncertainty and personal storytelling, yet most institutions never capture it. By collecting student voices before they leave, schools and universities can build stronger alumni relationships, create powerful long-term marketing content, and preserve memories that matter. This article explores why final-year reflections are valuable, how to gather them effectively, and simple engagement ideas you can introduce right away.

Upcoming Webinars: December 2025
Upcoming Webinars: December 2025

Join our final webinars of 2025 and discover how shared experiences can transform digital engagement. We’ll explore how common narratives, collective memories, and cultural touchpoints create stronger bonds in online communities. Learn practical techniques to deepen relationships, increase participation, and build more engaged digital audiences.

Do You Really Have the Capacity for an Archival Project?
Do You Really Have the Capacity for an Archival Project?

Schools hold decades of stories, traditions and memories, but turning that history into a living digital archive is harder than most teams expect. While the intention is strong, the day-to-day capacity is often stretched thin. This article takes an honest look at why so many archival projects stall, and how a more realistic, phased approach can help schools preserve and share their heritage without overwhelming their staff.

How Nostalgia Drives Support: Emotional Storytelling in Development Campaigns
How Nostalgia Drives Support: Emotional Storytelling in Development Campaigns

This article explores how emotionally driven storytelling helps schools and universities inspire generosity, foster belonging and turn memories into meaningful support. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience and digital engagement trends, it reveals how archives can power fundraising campaigns through authentic, human-centred storytelling that reconnects alumni with the moments that shaped them.

The Power of Participation: Why Every Alumni Voice Matters
The Power of Participation: Why Every Alumni Voice Matters

When it comes to alumni engagement, real connection comes from participation, not just communication. Every alumnus has a story that shapes your school’s collective history. This post explores why participation is the key to belonging and how to make it easier for every voice to be heard.

Upcoming Webinars: November 2025
Upcoming Webinars: November 2025

This month, we’re hosting two inspiring sessions designed to help you turn history into connection, celebration and support.

From using your school’s story to fuel alumni giving, to celebrating the shared experiences that unite your community, each webinar is packed with practical ideas and creative approaches you can put into action right away.

Whether your focus is on engagement, fundraising or building a stronger sense of belonging, these sessions will help you bring your community’s past to life in meaningful ways.

7 Reasons Every School Needs a Digital Archive in 2025
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