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Vanderbilt Women’s Club moves to Omni, gets an updated look
Aug. 22, 2014— The Vanderbilt Women’s Club consists of women who work at or have partners that work at the University or Medical Center, are alumni, or simply have an avid interest in Vanderbilt. Their former site was maintained in Dreamweaver. We moved them to OmniUpdate, allowing them to maintain the site themselves, and we assisted with a...
Peabody College infographic
Aug. 18, 2014—Our Anna Whinnery designed this infographic for Peabody College’s Graduate Student Orientation.
Academic Strategic Plan public-facing website
Aug. 10, 2014—We worked with the Chancellor’s office on creating the public-facing web presence for the Academic Strategic Plan. It’s a simple website that presents an executive summary of the plan, an organizational chart, and encourages visitors to download a PDF that includes the full text of the Academic Strategic Plan.
A new home for Warren and Moore
Aug. 6, 2014—Vanderbilt’s newest halls of residence opened to students in the fall of 2014. Warren & Moore Colleges house approximately 330 upper class students, and each college is led by a faculty director and two graduate students in residence. Web Communications worked closely with these faculty directors and students to bring the College Halls site to...
OmniUpdate being upgraded to Version 10
Jul. 25, 2014—Hello Omni users! All of our Vanderbilt OmniUpdate accounts are being updated to Version 10 in the coming weeks. What does this mean for you? The backend tool/interface that you use to update your website will have a different look (editing pages) — but your public-facing website will not change at all. Please note that...
CASPAR moves to Omni
Jul. 23, 2014—CASPAR is the College of Arts and Science’s Pre-major Academic Advising Resources office. We redesigned their site to be more in line with other university sites, and to help clarify navigation.
New provost, new website
Jul. 1, 2014—Susan Wente was named the new provost of the university in the spring, and took over from the previous provost, Richard McCarty, July 1. As part of the transition, we worked with her team on redesigning the provost’s web presence. It is still powered by WordPress, but the look has been updated and the content,...
We’ve won a major award
Jun. 16, 2014—No, it’s not a leg lamp, but it’s the next best thing: The Tennessee College Public Relations Association honored us with an award for one of our social media campaigns! More than 220 entries were submitted by universities and colleges across the state for the annual competition, which was judged by advertising, marketing and public relations...
Milestones
Apr. 28, 2014—One of the things our office does is track web and social media analytics: What were the top five most viewed Vanderbilt news stories of the week? Which Facebook post had the greatest reach? How many likes did we get on Instagram? That sort of thing. We report this information to a variety of people,...
Web Comm helps welcome Coach Mason
Mar. 20, 2014—The university announced Derek Mason would be its next head football coach Jan. 17, 2014. Web Communications worked closely with Athletics, Photography, Video and Creative Services in the days leading up to the announcement to produce a world-class online experience, not just on the website but also in social media. The Coach Mason site went...
Trademark Licensing moves into OmniUpdate
Mar. 20, 2014—The Office of Trademark Licensing, which ensures that Vanderbilt’s brand identity is properly represented on goods and services, moved into OmniUpdate and went live with a redesign at the end of February. Thanks to Mary Ann Daniel-Kaszuba for being such a great partner on this project!
Federal Relations launches new site in Omni
Feb. 5, 2014—Vanderbilt’s Office of Federal Relations advocates on behalf of federal legislation, regulations and policy that could affect Vanderbilt University. They recently launched a shiny new website, now managed in OmniUpdate. We have consulted with them over the past year on their new social media presences as well — they’ve launched both Twitter and Facebook presences...
Our year in social media
Dec. 19, 2013—Take a look at our most popular Facebook posts, most ReTweeted Tweets, most watched YouTube videos, most liked Instagram photo, and more memorable moments from 2013. 2013 Year in Review >>
Get social
Dec. 19, 2013—Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIN, Google+, Flickr, YouTube – the list goes on. With so many ways to keep up with what’s happening at Vanderbilt, it can start to feel a little overwhelming. Now you can get all of your social media in one place: Get Social, an aggregator of various social media platforms and...
Sitemason retirement
Dec. 2, 2013—If you have Sitemason tools associated with your VUnetID, you should have received an email from VUIT on November 30 about the upcoming Sitemason retirement. This email contained a link UNIQUE TO YOU asking for information about your Sitemason tools. If you did not receive an email – please let us know and we will...