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Using your vunetid for the first time with Omni

We are pleased to announce that we can now use VUnetID and E-Password with our OmniUpdate content management system. The first time you attempt to login to your Omni-managed website after we have enabled this for your site, you will need to do a few things. A screen will appear asking you to verify the entity...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
March 20, 2012
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Vanderbilt Facebook Tabs — Add one today!

Are you the administrator of a Vanderbilt-related Facebook page? We provide the following Facebook tabs for use on any official Vanderbilt page. Add one or more today! VUCast – Vanderbilt’s Weekly Video Newscast Add to your page Research News at Vanderbilt Add to your page Undergraduate Admissions Add to your page General Vanderbilt News and...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
January 30, 2012
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Admissions, reimagined and simplified

Simplify. Simplify. Simplify. That was the overarching theme of many of our discussions with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions when imagining a new Web presence. Let’s step back and make things easier for the user. Focus on the key MESSAGES that UoA wants to get out there about Vanderbilt. What are the key ACTIONS we...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
January 27, 2012
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How can I import content from another WordPress website?

Part ONE: www.domain.com/yourcurrentsite Login to your current WordPress website. Click on EXPORT under TOOLS. Choose to export all content.  And click Download Export File. It will then download a file to your computer with the export from your site. You will use this file in the next part. Part TWO: www.domain.com/yournewsite Login to your new WordPress website....... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
December 15, 2011
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Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering launches WordPress site

The Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering  (ViSE) is an interdisciplinary, trans-institutional center whose mission is the creation, development, implementation, clinical evaluation and commercialization of methods, devices, algorithms, and systems designed to facilitate interventional processes and their outcome. Or in simpler terms, Vanderbilt engineers and doctors are working together on some REALLY cool projects. This...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
November 18, 2011
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HighEdWeb Conference Presentation on Vanderbilt news and WordPress

Earlier this week, I gave a presentation at the 2011 HighEdWeb Association Conference in Austin, Texas. I presented on how universities might use WordPress as a centralized news presence (highlighting the benefits of centralization), with multiple front doors for various audiences, and used Vanderbilt’s news website (and the merge of many of our content sources)...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
October 27, 2011
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Student Accounts

We recently worked with the Office of Student Accounts to redesign and rebuild their website in OmniUpdate. This was one of those satisfying projects that took a design and structure that was badly in need of an upgrade and brought it into the present. The site had last been redesigned in 2005 and was running...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
October 18, 2011
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How to: Delete images or documents in Omni

To delete an image or document (word document, PDF file, etc): Login to your website in Omni. Click on CONTENT and then PAGES. Click the PRODUCTION tab on the right (so that you’re on the live server). Browse to the folder you’re wanting to delete the image from. Click the delete button on the far...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
October 7, 2011
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Can I manually build my menu? How do I arrange the links in my navigation?

There are a few different ways you can handle your navigation. By default - the menu is automatically built. The order is based on the order in which the pages were created. Using Page Order to rearrange menu You will most likely want to change this order.  If you still want to keep the AUTO...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
October 3, 2011
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Register now for DigitalVU technology events

The fourth annual DigitalVU month is underway. The month of workshops, open houses, lectures, discussions and more is designed to share information on all things online, from social media, to video, to programming topics and more with members of the Vanderbilt community. More information about the month’s events, with descriptions, speakers and locations, is also...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
September 30, 2011
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MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience

This new site and its partner site about law and neuroscience at Vanderbilt showcase the work of Vanderbilt researchers involved in the groundbreaking field of neurolaw. Funded with a $4.85 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the new network brings together brain imaging, neuroscience and legal scholarship to explore  the...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
September 26, 2011
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Undergrad Psychology + WP = Psyched

Working on a new website was a fun summer project for the Undergraduate Psychology program. Now a WordPress site, they can easily maintain their website. Recent news is populated from the Vanderbilt News website stories that have been tagged with psychology. Thanks to Leslie Kirby, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology, for being awesome (oh...... KEEP READING »

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Posted by Lacy Tite
September 14, 2011
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