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Web Communications presents: Open office hours
Jan. 10, 2013—Beginning this month — each Tuesday from 1 to 3 p.m. — Web Communications will be offering in-person assistance with any questions/issues you may be having with your Web Communications supported website. You can drop by our offices in Baker Building and a member of our office will assist you with your questions. No appointments necessary —...
2012 with Web Communications
Dec. 20, 2012—2012 has been a busy year in Web Communications! We’ve launched projects, trained users, answered hundreds of help desk tickets, tweeted, facebooked, flickr’d and youtube’d—and had a pretty good time through it all. Here’s our year in review—as an infographic, what else?!? :)
Anchoring Down with BOWL CENTRAL
Nov. 28, 2012—Anyone who follows me on twitter knows I am a HUGE Vanderbilt football fan. I paint my nails black and gold for home games, am a season ticket holder, and bleed black and gold. During home games, I also post for Vanderbilt on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sooo… when we get to the point in the season...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
We’re hiring! (update: we’ve hired!)
Jul. 16, 2011—Update This position has been filled by Kelsey Wynns, who joins our team Sept. 12. Welcome, Kelsey! University Web Communications is looking for a talented full time Web developer to work in a fast paced team on high profile university Web sites. View full details and apply on the Vanderbilt HR website » Job Description...
New Services: Monthly Training and Help Desk
Jun. 7, 2011—Monthly Training Sessions University Web Communications now holds monthly training sessions on two university-supported content management systems, OmniUpdate and WordPress. New users will be trained at this time as well as users who need a refresher. Persons interested in learning more about OmniUpdate or WordPress may also attend. Registration is requested so that we can...
Free range content
Apr. 15, 2011—More stories. More platforms. Shrinking media market. Same amount of staff. What’s a content producer to do? Set your content free. Allow it to graze and mingle where it, and its readers, listeners and viewers are. Let it reproduce on any and every site that wants it. House it in a flexible and adaptable barn...
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...
College Web Editor interview with Lacy Tite about email and wordpress
Nov. 30, 2010—I was recently interviewed by Karine Joly of collegewebeditor.com about using wordpress to create email newsletters. “Now the [myvu preview] email is sent out as an HTML email including thumbnails for top stories – graphical links to social media and recent videos — and other than the initial setup, I am not involved in the...