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University Web Communications named greenest group on campus!
Nov. 24, 2015—University Web Communications was the winner of this year’s football sustainability competition and was named the “greenest group on campus” for the football season! We celebrated our win with a catered tailgate and on-field recognition during the Vanderbilt vs. Kentucky football game Nov. 14. Read more about the award »
2015 Higher Education Web Professionals National Conference
Nov. 16, 2015—Beth and I recently attended the 2015 Higher Education Web Professionals annual national conference in Milwaukee. I presented two 45-minute sessions and one 3-hour workshop at the conference; slidedecks for the two sessions can be found below. One of my presentations on the collaborative communication tool SLACK, won Best in Track. Woot! (And at this...
Web Communications Teams
Nov. 2, 2015—We’re excited to share with you some changes that are occurring within Web Communications. We have all seen our group come together into a team over the past two years (since the web merger); the knowledge sharing and synergies of having all of the web-focused staff together have been made evident time and again. We...
Can’t Find People Finder? It’s Still On The Homepage!
Nov. 1, 2015—As part of the August 2015 redesign of the homepage and top levels, we took the advice that we frequently share with our clients: we did a content audit to determine what could be deleted or consolidated. While most of the content on the homepage and top levels stayed where it was, a few pages...
It’s a new Vanderbilt.edu
Aug. 21, 2015—A new and improved Vanderbilt homepage and top-level pages launched the evening of Aug. 20, with a focus on the four pillars of the university’s Academic Strategic Plan while also showcasing the institution’s dynamic academic, research and campus life offerings. The new homepage is designed to show, rather than tell, how the university’s strategic plan...
2014 with Web Communications
Dec. 18, 2014—2014 has been a big year for Web Communications! We’ve moved into new offices, launched projects, trained users, answered help desk tickets, tweeted, facebooked, instagrammed and youtube’d—and had a pretty good time through it all. (Thanks to Anna Whinnery for her graphic skillz putting together all our random numbers into a spiffy infographic!)
WebComm assists Registrar with lookup for course renumbering
Dec. 12, 2014—The University Registrar is in the process of renumbering all courses at Vanderbilt. They requested an interface for faculty and students to be able to look up an old course number and easily find the new number. We built a simple database tool that allows the user to start typing in the search box and...
VUIT Products and Services Lookup
Dec. 7, 2014—We worked with VUIT on simplifying their products and services lookup. VUIT provides many services to the university — and many are known by several different names — and fall into various support groups. We built a simple database that houses all the service/product information, keywords, and groups to which the service might be associated...
Divinity School Refreshed
Oct. 18, 2014—The Divinity School went live with a cleaner, more streamlined homepage mid-October. Blog is powered by their VDS Voices my.vanderbilt.edu website Upcoming Events is powered by the University Calendar Highlighting the message from the Dean each month
Public Affairs website gets a refresh
Oct. 12, 2014—This year the Public Affairs website transitioned to OmniUpdate. The project required input from all major areas of Public Affairs, and the end result is a site that is more streamlined and functional than its predecessor. New features include an organizational chart for the department, as well as updated information about staff and administrators. This...
New web presence for the Graduate Department of Religion
Sep. 25, 2014—The Graduate Department of Religion launched a brand new web presence in mid-September (it was previously just a subsection of the Divinity School website — even though GDR is part of the Divinity School and the College of Arts and Science. Having a separate website hopefully helps them clear up some of the confusion about...
Academic Strategic Plan public-facing website
Aug. 10, 2014—We worked with the Chancellor’s office on creating the public-facing web presence for the Academic Strategic Plan. It’s a simple website that presents an executive summary of the plan, an organizational chart, and encourages visitors to download a PDF that includes the full text of the Academic Strategic Plan.