Upcoming Webinars: December 2025
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
Shared History: A Digital Engagement Superpower
📅 Wednesday 17th December 2025
⌚ 12pm PST, 3pm EST, 8pm GMT
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!
Articles that may be of interest:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Remember when “the archives” meant a dusty cupboard and a few mystery VHS tapes? Not anymore. In 2025, digital archives are smart, searchable, and downright inspiring. They help schools connect with alumni, boost engagement, and celebrate their stories in fresh, creative ways. Here are seven reasons every school should have one.
America 250 is a once-in-a-generation chance for schools to celebrate their history and connect generations. This post explores five meaningful ways schools can celebrate America 250, with ideas for digitising archives, recording oral histories, and creating living digital legacies using SocialArchive.
The festive season is one of the best times to reconnect with your alumni community. Christmas naturally sparks nostalgia…memories of school concerts, nativity plays, and end-of-term traditions, making it the perfect opportunity to reawaken emotional ties and create lasting engagement.
From personalised digital Christmas cards and online galleries to festive fundraising ideas and digital advent calendars, this article shares 10 creative ways to engage your alumni this Christmas.
Every photo taken at sports day, every alumni story shared on LinkedIn, every video of a school concert... that’s tomorrow’s archive. Yet most of it will be lost. Schools and universities often assume history will somehow preserve itself, but digital clutter and platform fragility mean today’s memories risk disappearing before they become tomorrow’s heritage. This article explores the concept of the living archive: a proactive, technology-enabled approach to capturing and curating school or university life as it happens.
Join us this October as we bring you two exclusive webinars designed to spark fresh ideas and showcase practical ways to engage your community.
From reimagining how shared history can fuel alumni giving, to building a careers library of voices that inspire the next generation, these sessions are packed with insight, innovation, and real-world applications you can put into practice.
The Latymer Foundation has transformed its archive from a backroom collection into a powerful tool for connection, storytelling and fundraising. By integrating history with alumni engagement and development, and using platforms like SocialArchive, the school has shown how archives can strengthen belonging, inspire giving and reconnect communities across generations.