{"id":1416,"date":"2024-08-22T15:58:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T05:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/?post_type=article&#038;p=1416"},"modified":"2024-08-23T13:53:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T03:53:25","slug":"1416","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/article\/1416\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing with Alumni, Archivists and Atwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Article submitted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sandy-goddard-2a30533a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sandy Goddard<\/a> | NSW\/ACT Committee Member | Director of Community Development, Canberra Grammar School<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Alumni SIG was hosted by St Andrew\u2019s College at the University of Sydney early in June. Attending were 22 members whose responsibilities ranged from Directors of Community Development, Alumni and Community Relations Manager\u2019s to those in Communication and Marketing roles and Archivists. It was a great professional development opportunity combined with positive networking.<\/p>\n<p>A \u2018meet and greet\u2019 game to match the right person with their name badge encouraged the conversations amongst the group. Following the \u2018ice breaker\u2019, groups were formed to discuss a range of topics: Alumni events, Mentoring, Software and database and communications and publications. Networking platforms were also a point of discussion. \u00a0Of course, Budgets were not missed and ranged considerably!<\/p>\n<p>So much to discuss and with limited time, people were able to share their experiences and suggest ideas which provided great \u2018take aways.\u2019\u00a0 The encouragement to reach out on LinkedIn and arrange coffee meetings was suggested, and the role and support of Educate Plus as a network was recognised and appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Drinks and Canap\u00e9s followed sponsored by Educate Plus. Thanks go to the leader <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hannah-atwell-a6bb8b3b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hannah Atwell<\/a><\/strong> (Director of Advancement, St Andrew\u2019s College) and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/clare-lacey-0964a965\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clare Slattery<\/a><\/strong> (Head of Community Relations, Newcastle Grammar School)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 36%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1420\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/08\/1-IMG_1286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/08\/1-IMG_1286.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/08\/1-IMG_1286-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/08\/1-IMG_1286-225x150.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1419\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/08\/1-20240605_170920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/08\/1-20240605_170920.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/08\/1-20240605_170920-768x359.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/08\/1-20240605_170920-1536x718.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/08\/1-20240605_170920-321x150.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Article submitted by Sandy Goddard | NSW\/ACT Committee Member | Director of Community Development, Canberra Grammar School &nbsp; The Alumni SIG was hosted by St Andrew\u2019s College at the University of Sydney early in June. Attending were 22 members whose responsibilities ranged from Directors of Community Development, Alumni and Community Relations Manager\u2019s to those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-1416","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nsw-act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}