{"id":1338,"date":"2025-03-26T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/?post_type=article&#038;p=1338"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T01:10:33","slug":"thats-a-wrap-first-qld-sig-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/article\/thats-a-wrap-first-qld-sig-for-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s a Wrap &#8211; First QLD SIG for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The first Queensland Special Interest Group sessions were held on Thursday 20 February across Alumni Marketing and Communications, Fundraising and Admissions pillars.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Marketing \/ Communications \/ Alumni:<\/strong> Robust conversation and peer-to-peer sharing was the name of the game as Marketing, Communications and Alumni professionals came together to discuss the topic \u2018Crafting dynamic content to engage alumni and the wider community\u2019. The session broke down the planning process and provided tips and tricks for thoughtful, relevant and relevant topics including user-generated campaigns (i.e. \u2018share your first day at the school\u2019), \u2018where are they now\u2019 and gamifying content. Thank you to everyone who attended the session.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>Admissions:<\/strong> The Admissions group debated the myriad challenges that arise when the admissions office is your responsibility, and the best place to start in terms of capturing the data for leadership teams, a SWOT analysis of what\u2019s on offer at institutions and how to leverage the admissions cycles in your institution relative to its annual diary of events hosted. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>Fundraising:<\/strong> Our fundraisers were tasked with live \u2018ask\u2019 conversations after some best practice tips were shared and modelled. This interactive session was very well received and left members wanting more practice time. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">All in all, it was a fantastic for the over 55 members in attendance. A great start to the year!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1349\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/03\/SIG-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/03\/SIG-2-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/03\/SIG-2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/03\/SIG-2-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/03\/SIG-2-1-225x150.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1345\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/03\/SIG-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/03\/SIG-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/03\/SIG-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/03\/SIG-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/03\/SIG-3-225x150.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The first Queensland Special Interest Group sessions were held on Thursday 20 February across Alumni Marketing and Communications, Fundraising and Admissions pillars.\u00a0\u00a0 Marketing \/ Communications \/ Alumni: Robust conversation and peer-to-peer sharing was the name of the game as Marketing, Communications and Alumni professionals came together to discuss the topic \u2018Crafting dynamic content to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-1338","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-qld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}