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2012 has been a busy year in Web Communications! We’ve launched projects, trained users, answered hundreds of help desk tickets, tweeted, facebooked, flickr’d and youtube’d—and had a pretty good time through it all. Here’s our year in review—as an infographic, what else?!? :)Posted by Lacy Tite on December 20, 2012 in Info, Launch, infographic, web comm, year-in-review
Anyone who follows me on twitter knows I am a HUGE Vanderbilt football fan. I paint my nails black and gold for home games, am a season ticket holder, and bleed black and gold. During home games, I also post for Vanderbilt on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sooo… when we get to the point in the season...
In September, the Blair School of Music migrated their website from Drupal into OmniUpdate and WordPress. Alongside the migration to a new content management system, we also redesigned the site — streamlining navigation and adding in some standard Vanderbilt theme elements to the design (a modified brand bar and footer section — which tie in...
Earlier this fall, the School of Engineering launched their new web presence powered by OmniUpdate and WordPress. As part of the move to OU and WP, we also rolled our a brand new look for their site — with a cleaner, streamlined look, simplified navigation. Their homepage includes easily editable content blocks for featured stories...
Earlier this year, we began working with Peabody on migrating their large web presence into OmniUpdate. They were with another vendor, and had been unhappy with the features and ease of use for quite a while. Omni was a perfect solution for them — providing easy to use content management tools and built-in workflow allowing...
Earlier this year, we launched a brand new web presence for the Health and Wellness division, which is comprised of four departments: Health Plus, Occupational Health Clinic, Work/Life Connections and the Child and Family Center. Previously five separate websites — we merged the four internal department sites into the overall Health and Wellness site —...Posted by Lacy Tite on March 20, 2012 in Omni Tutorial, omni, shibboleth, vunetid
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...Posted by Lacy Tite on January 30, 2012 in Info, Launch, facebook, social media
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...
The Graduate Program in Biostatistics is a master’s and Ph.D. program housed in the School of Medicine’s Department of Biostatistics and administered by the Graduate School. The program needed a new website to recruit students, provide information for and showcase the work of current faculty and students, and provide information about the field of biostatistics....Posted by Lacy Tite on January 5, 2012 in Launch, graduate school, wordpress
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OmniUpdate Dependency Manager now enabled for binary files
» 2013-05-09
We’re looking for an awesome web developer… is that you?
» 2013-04-22
Off our nut: Squirrelcast
» 2013-04-02
Telling the Vanderbilt Story
» 2013-03-19
Provost’s presence peps up
» 2013-03-19
Spring cleaning for Nashville
» 2013-03-19
We need a website TODAY: The beauty of my.vanderbilt.edu
» 2013-01-17
Kudos to us!
» 2013-01-10
Web Communications presents: Open office hours
» 2013-01-10- MORE »
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