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Web Communications wins CASE Grand Award
Mar. 4, 2011—Huzzah! Vanderbilt Web Communications was recognized by CASE Region III with a Grand Award for the overall university Web presence and an Award of Excellence for the Vanderbilt homepage at the CASE Fusion conference in New Orleans in February. Go team!
Vanderbilt Healthcare Improvement Group goes live with WordPress site
Feb. 28, 2011—The Vanderbilt Healthcare Improvement Group (VHIG) is an interprofessional community of Vanderbilt management, medicine, and nursing students committed to advancing education and student participation in quality improvement in healthcare. The group’s new WordPress website serves as the central location for all information relating to activities of VHIG and includes a blog as well as a...
House Organ magazine launches WordPress site
Feb. 28, 2011—House Organ is the magazine for the staff, faculty, volunteers, and students of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. It is published monthly by the Office of News and Public Affairs of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Previously a manually built website, the site is now housed in WordPress. Issue archives are automatically generated, the jquery slideshow is built...
Vanderbilt Law Review goes live
Feb. 14, 2011—We assisted the Vanderbilt Law Review in updating their existing WordPress site. Prior to their redesign, they were running WordPress with approximately 18 active plugins. We were able to reduce this to only one – while also cleaning up the code and making the site run more efficiently. The Vanderbilt Law Review site is using...
Strategic Initiatives and Assessment launches new Omni site
Feb. 10, 2011—The Office of Strategic Initiatives and Assessment will use its new Omni website to foster collaborative relationships with academic departments to enhance the student living and learning experience. Omni was the perfect CMS for the site because it gives staff members an easy, intuitive way to add content. The RSS sidebar includes news feeds from...
Division of Administration redesigns with Omni
Feb. 10, 2011—The Division of Administration recently switched their content management system from Sitemason to Omni. The new site is built using the Vanderbilt template and makes it easy for staff to update text and add images. Kudos to Anna Letcher in DOA for her hard work in making this happen.
Research News @ Vanderbilt showcases discovery
Feb. 2, 2011—This week brought the long-awaited launch of Vanderbilt’s new online news channel, Research News @ Vanderbilt. The site spans the institution to showcase research from all fields and disciplines with the goal of educating and interesting a broad audience in science and discovery. Development Notes The same backend that powers the Vanderbilt News site powers...
social.vanderbilt.edu – VU social media, all in one place
Feb. 1, 2011—Having trouble keeping up with all that’s going on at Vanderbilt? Heard of Twitter and Flickr but not sure what they are? Knee deep in social media but looking for a way to pull it all together? A new website, get.social@vanderbilt, helps meet all of these needs by aggregating Vanderbilt’s main social media accounts on Facebook,...
Traffic and Parking parks their new website
Jan. 26, 2011—Traffic and Parking approached us about redeveloping their website, and moving it towards a more Vanderbilt branded look while also simplifying some of their daily data processes. We migrated them into Omni, redeveloped their entire events management system into an easy to use, simplifed php/mysql application. Reports can now be generated with the click of...
Human Resources moves into omni, adds functionality
Jan. 25, 2011—The Human Resources website has a new look and improved functionality to better serve employees seeking information they need to do their jobs and manage their benefits. “This is a great first step in making information about working at Vanderbilt more accessible for Vanderbilt employees and job seekers,” Traci Nordberg, associate vice chancellor and chief...
Mission accomplished for new Army-ROTC website
Jan. 21, 2011—Vanderbilt’s Army ROTC wanted a visually enticing site that would connect primarily with high school and college students. Another item on their wish list was an easy way to add photos, videos and social media. Omni provided the perfect vehicle to get the mission accomplished.
New Omni website for the Vanderbilt Clinical Research Connection
Jan. 19, 2011—The Vanderbilt Clinical Research Connection (VCRC) serves as a bridge between Vanderbilt undergraduates and VUMC principal investigators and helps place students in labs. The VCRC wanted a website that was easy to maintain, and Omni was the perfect solution to solve the problem.
CASE interview with Melanie Moran about Coach Announcement
Jan. 11, 2011—Our own Melanie Moran was interviewed for the CASE Social Media blog recently. The topic: Vanderbilt’s announcement of our new head football coach on Facebook. “The discussion of the coach search – and so many of the conversations about college athletics overall – lived in social media. We wanted and needed to be where those...
Vanderbilt welcomes Coach Franklin
Jan. 6, 2011—The university announced James Franklin would be its next head football coach Dec. 17, 2010, ending weeks of rabid speculation by mainstream and social media about the coach’s identity. Leading up to the announcement, Web Communications worked closely with our colleagues across Public Affairs – Creative Services, Athletics, Video – to be sure we had...
Division of Animal Care migrates from Drupal to Omni
Jan. 4, 2011—The Division of Animal Care approached us about migrating their site from a Drupal installation to Omni. They were hosted with an external vendor and had been working with a third party design and development firm. They had numerous issues both with using Drupal and with authenticating through VUnetID. We moved them in-house onto Vanderbilt’s...