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Click here to find out why you shouldn’t use “click here” on your website
Jul. 17, 2017—We’ve all seen it… To sign up, click here. To watch a video on this topic, click here. Read more about this topic here. But just because “click here” is ubiquitous on the web, doesn’t mean it’s best way to help your readers navigate your website. Here are a few reasons to avoid it: SEO:...
Omni 101 training unavailable Dec. 16-20
Dec. 12, 2016—Omni 101, our online training for new OmniUpdate users, will be unavailable Dec. 16-20 due to Vanderbilt’s learning management system, the Learning Exchange, being upgraded for Vanderbilt University Medical Center users. Read more »
Add us on SnapChat!
Aug. 9, 2016—Add VanderbiltU on SnapChat! You can also follow Vanderbilt on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. See all Vanderbilt social media on the Get Social website. Learn more about how Vanderbilt uses social media by reading the Social Media Handbook.
#VUSwift contest awarded Silver by TCPRA
Jun. 3, 2016—The University Web Communications social media team was honored with a Silver award by the Tennessee College Public Relations Association during the organization’s spring 2016 conference. For the contest, students were asked to share on social media, using only Taylor Swift lyrics, “how Vanderbilt has made your ‘Wildest Dreams’ come true,” a reference to Swift’s latest...
Reliability and Risk Engineering Management
Mar. 5, 2015—The multidisciplinary Reliability and Risk Engineering and Management Studies project is the first in the world to study and develop integrated multidisciplinary computational and experimental approaches to assessing and managing risk and reliability. Moving this site into OmniUpdate makes the maintenance much easier for the clients, and gave us the change to design it to...
Undergraduate Research at Vanderbilt
Feb. 12, 2015— We worked closely with the Office of the Provost to launch a new website celebrating undergraduate research at Vanderbilt, in part to support the new strategic emphasis on the immersion experience for undergraduate students at the university. Undergraduate Research at Vanderbilt is designed to expose students to the scope of research opportunities available at the...
VINSE: Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Jan. 14, 2015—VINSE’s move into OmniUpdate includes a cleaner design, easier to use back-end apps, a simplified news feed from a my.vanderbilt site, an events feed from the University Calendar and much more. It was a pleasure working with Sarah Satterwhite and Ben Schmidt on this project.
Communication of Science and Technology Program move into Omni
Jan. 7, 2015—We worked with Professor David Weintraub to move this site out of Dreamweaver and into OmniUpdate, and gave it a redesign in the process. This Communication of Science and Technology Program provides students a strong background in both science/engineering and communication/humanities; we’re happy to assist them in their goals of communicating the complexities of science to...
Department of Economics moves to Omni
Dec. 13, 2014—The Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Science was maintained through Dreamweaver, with a template that matched the standard university web branding. We migrated the site to OmniUpdate, where it will be much easier for their staff to maintain. We also moved their faculty, staff and student pages into a database.
Master of Liberal Arts & Science moves to Omni
Dec. 12, 2014—The Master of Liberal Arts & Science (MLAS) is a graduate program for Nashville’s adult learners. We moved their site out of Dreamweaver and into OmniUpdate, making it easier for them to update their content. Moving this site, and all the sites we work with, into a content management system such as Omni also brings...
Summer Sessions website transitions to Omni
Nov. 22, 2014—Vanderbilt students attend Summer Sessions to get ahead with credits toward graduation, to catch up on a rigorous subject, or to explore a topic that doesn’t fit in their regular academic year schedule. Undergraduates from other universities are also encouraged to attend summer classes at Vanderbilt. Admissions information, academic policies and more can be found...
Class of 2018: By the Numbers
Oct. 9, 2014—We created a snapshot of the newest class of Commodores, the Class of 2018. Working closely with our partners in Undergraduate Admissions, we created an infographic that captures some of the vital stats on #VU2018.