We’re pleased to announce the social archive is sponsoring the IDPE Annual Conference 2023 taking place in Nottingham on 15-16th May. We will be exhibiting, presenting, and running an informative roundtable discussion at the event. We look forward to seeing you there!

Many schools, colleges, and universities are already harnessing personalisation in their interactions with alumni and supporters, but this is often to only a basic level, mainly because institutions lack the systems and resources to implement it cost-effectively.

So, whilst you may already be aware of the power of personalisation, you might not be sure how you can practically deploy it in your engagement activities. In this article, we will give you some useful ideas as to how you can make your communications more personalised.

Recently, The Institute of Development Professionals in Education (IDPE) hosted our webinar: Harnessing nostalgia to create alumni engagement.

If you were unable to attend, the webinar is available to watch now from the IDPE members’ resource library.

This year will mark the 26th anniversary of a seminal essay by Wired magazine's founding executive editor, Kevin Kelly, titled "New Rules for the New Economy." The article made a series of predictions about culture and its direction of travel. One of these was the expectation that the primary commodity of the future would be attention.

We have now clearly arrived in an attention economy, one where capturing people's attention (including that of your alumni) becomes more challenging every day.

What implications does this transformation have for professionals in the fields of alumni relations, development, and advancement?

Our March webinars have been announced. Learn how to turbo charge your alumni engagement, reconnect with lost alumni, and use data to find out more about your alumni. Read on to find out more.

Exhibiting at the CASE (Europe) Alumni Relations Institute 2023

Our January webinars have been announced. Learn how to turbo charge your alumni engagement whilst learning more about your community. Read on to find out more.

Our December webinars have been announced. Learn how to turbo boost your alumni engagement whilst understanding more about your community. Read on to find out more.

Have you recently started an alumni programme for your school, college, or university, or maybe inherited one which hasn’t been particularly active?

Are you looking to improve your alumni contact data or strengthen connections with volunteers, donors, mentors, and ambassadors?

If so, take a look at our 10 top tips for reconnecting with lost alumni.

We are pleased to announce that our clients, The Duke of York’s Royal Military School, have been nominated in the IDPE 2022 Development Awards. They have been nominated in the category of “School’s Engagement Campaign of the Year”.

Our November webinars are here. Whether you’re looking to reconnect with lost alumni, or want to know how your history can be used to drive engagement with alumni, we have a webinar for you! Read on to find out more.

We have two fantastic webinars lined up for October and would love for you to join us. Read on to find out more.

Since first appearing in the late 2000s #ThrowbackThursday, or #TBT, has become a mainstay of social media, with people and organisations posting all sorts of throwbacks (past moments) such as recollections, photos, videos, and even documents, every week across all social media platforms.

In this article we discuss how schools and universities can maximise the impact of using the hashtag.

Link your archive to the groups, pages, and accounts that you manage on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter and you can not only directly post archived content to those accounts but can schedule content to be posted in future.

We have two fantastic webinars lined up for September. Read on to find out more.

Join us on Wednesday 17th August at 2pm BST to learn how "the good old days" can help you build a bigger, better community where members have a stronger sense of social connectedness with your institution.

Join us on Wednesday 27th July at 1.30pm BST to learn how data can be generated using the power of the social archive® to help you better understand your alumni community.

Join us on Wednesday 29th June at 2pm BST to learn how personalised content can be used to drive engagement.

We’re pleased to announce we’re exhibiting at the IDPE Annual Conference 2022. The event is happening both in-person (Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st June), and virtually (Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th June).

What is the engagement gap? In the simplest terms it’s difference between the number of people who are members of your official community, or that you are in touch with formally, and the number who could, or should be.

In this article we discuss ways it can be closed to increase the quality and quantity of those engaging with your institution.