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Peabody launches new site powered by Omni
Sep. 18, 2012—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...
Health and Wellness move to Omni/WordPress
May. 25, 2012—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 —...
Vanderbilt Facebook Tabs — Add one today!
Jan. 30, 2012—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 To add these...
Admissions, reimagined and simplified
Jan. 27, 2012—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...
Biostatistics site recruiting next generation of researchers
Jan. 5, 2012—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....
Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering launches WordPress site
Nov. 18, 2011—The Vanderbilt Initiative in Surgery and Engineering (ViSE) is an interdisciplinary, trans-institutional center whose mission is the creation, development, implementation, clinical evaluation and commercialization of methods, devices, algorithms, and systems designed to facilitate interventional processes and their outcome. Or in simpler terms, Vanderbilt engineers and doctors are working together on some REALLY cool projects. This...
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)...
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...
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...