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Watch: Blogging best practices
Oct. 31, 2011—Watch video of popular blogger and social media expert Jessica Turner sharing some of the industry’s best blogging practices to create a space that is read, utilized and shared on a regular basis. Turner has much experience working with individuals and companies to create blogs that reflect their personalities, achieve their goals and generate traffic. The event was...
HighEdWeb Conference Presentation on Vanderbilt news and WordPress
Oct. 27, 2011—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)...
Watch: Using technology to engage students beyond the classroom walls
Oct. 21, 2011—Watch video of an Oct. 20 presentation “Using technology to engage students beyond the classroom walls” with Corbette Doyle and Stephanie Milne. This session provides a hands-on look at Twitter as a tool to encourage students to think critically about course content — before, during and after class ends. To increase faculty comfort with the...
The Ingram Commons … powered by Omni
Oct. 20, 2011—The website for The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons has been redesigned and is now powered by Omni. Front and center of the new site is a YouTube playlist featuring Commons-related videos produced by the fabulous video team at News & Communications. Also new to the site are pages for each of the 10 Houses, with...
Student Accounts
Oct. 18, 2011—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...
Register now for DigitalVU technology events
Sep. 30, 2011—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...
MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience
Sep. 26, 2011—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...
Vanderbilt Gives consolidates employee giving
Sep. 15, 2011—The new Vanderbilt Gives website was designed to provide one stop shopping for all Vanderbilt-supported charitable giving by faculty and staff. The site consolidates the previous campaigns the facilitated giving the university and medical center and to the community into one place. It links out to a form that enables internal giving as well as...
Undergrad Psychology + WP = Psyched
Sep. 14, 2011—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...
Honor Scholarships moves to WordPress
Sep. 14, 2011—Previously managed in Dreamweaver, the Office of Honor Scholarships (OHS) website is now maintained in WordPress. OHS was happy with their color scheme and banner image, so we carried those elements over to their new site. New functionality for the site includes being able to easily search all of the scholarship opportunities available; scholarship group...
Vanderbilt International Office moves from Drupal to Omni
Sep. 2, 2011—After a busy summer of work by all parties, the Vanderbilt International Office launched its new site in Omni on Sept. 1. This site, which previously was maintained in Drupal, offers information both for Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff wishing to collaborate with colleagues abroad and for international faculty and students to come to Nashville...
Divinity School becomes first Vanderbilt college in Omni
Sep. 2, 2011—The new Divinity School website launched today, making it the first of Vanderbilt’s colleges and schools to move into our content management system. The previous site was designed in 2004 by an external vendor and maintained in Dreamweaver. The school was very ready for an updated look and wanted the functionality that Omni offers to...
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
Aug. 26, 2011—The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities has a launched a new site – their first design update since 1998! They wanted a fresh look, and wanted to reflect the official Vanderbilt Web presence. They also wanted to showcase their history and their programs, which we did in the header and the photo slideshow....
A new era at Vanderbilt: The College Halls
Aug. 22, 2011—Vanderbilt University is set to begin construction of the next phase of its residential college system – College Halls at Vanderbilt, and as part of that, a new website was needed. Using the architectural renderings of the new buildings as inspiration, we created a site that contains information about the new buildings, plans for the...
Scholarships website moves to Omni
Aug. 18, 2011—The Merit Scholarship Opportunities website moved to Omni this week. Previously manually maintained via Dreamweaver, now the site is centrally managed within OmniUpdate and can be easily edited and managed by staff in Financial Aid and Admissions offices. This site migration was what we should refer to as a “lightning round migration” … we migrated...