No editorial calendar is complete without a list of both real and obscure holidays and celebrations. These occasions offer a fun way to connect with your audience on social media channels. Here is my list of the more scholarly (read: geek chic) milestones coming up. There are 13 ideas, plus September is National Literacy Month.

September Holidays and Celebrations

• Thursday, Sept. 3: Skyscraper Day
• Monday, Sept. 7: Labor Day
• Tuesday, Sept. 8: International Literacy Day and NYIT's first day of classes
• Sunday, Sept. 13: Programmers Day and posthumous birthdays of Milton S. Hershey and Roald Dahl
• Thursday, Sept. 17: Constitution Day
• Saturday, Sept. 19: Talk Like a Pirate Day
• Monday, Sept. 21: United Nations International Day of Peace
• Thursday, Sept. 24: F. Scott Fitzgerald's posthumous birthday
• Friday, Sept. 25: National Comic Book Day and Shel Silverstein's posthumous birthday

Choose your holidays and celebrations wisely and make sure to tie your posts back to actual content or at least find a clever way to connect the subjects to things relevant to NYIT. For example, I celebrated #WorldPhotographyDay in August with a photo of NYIT students taking a selfie in celebration of the occasion.

For more examples, follow NYIT on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.