‘video’
YouTube tips and tricks
Sep. 12, 2014—When having your videos uploaded to the university’s YouTube channel, it’s important to include descriptive titles, good tags and a helpful description. Remember, these will not only help your videos be found on YouTube, but everywhere else too: YouTube is the world’s second-largest search engine. So write with search engine optimization in mind: Title Keep...
Watch: Web usability design
Nov. 1, 2011—Watch video of Carlos Hooper from VUMC Strategic Marketing speaking Oct. 31 at a DigitalVU month event. Hooper, who holds an MFA in interactive design and teaches at the Art Institute, discusses best practices of UI design. The event was part of DigitalVU month at Vanderbilt, co-coordinated by Medical Center Web and Creative Servicesand University Web Communications with support...
Watch: Blogging best practices
Oct. 31, 2011—Watch video of popular blogger and social media expert Jessica Turner sharing some of the industry’s best blogging practices to create a space that is read, utilized and shared on a regular basis. Turner has much experience working with individuals and companies to create blogs that reflect their personalities, achieve their goals and generate traffic. The event was...
Watch: Using technology to engage students beyond the classroom walls
Oct. 21, 2011—Watch video of an Oct. 20 presentation “Using technology to engage students beyond the classroom walls” with Corbette Doyle and Stephanie Milne. This session provides a hands-on look at Twitter as a tool to encourage students to think critically about course content — before, during and after class ends. To increase faculty comfort with the...
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...
Department of Chemistry debuts new site
Oct. 28, 2010—The Department of Chemistry site was redesigned using Omni. The site features videos, a Google calendar, a Prezi graduate student viewbook, a facility tour, and a Current Graduate Student Dashboard with links to commonly accessed resources. A big part of this site’s redesign was rewriting content in a fresher, livelier style. This is something we...
Video for HTML Email: Coding Like It’s 1999
Oct. 25, 2010—Presentation for digitalVU month — Tips and tricks for building HTML emails … because it’s definitely not like coding for a website! Suggestions on ways to compensate for the differences between the hundreds of email clients out there, how to track your results, how to use the Vanderbilt listserv to send out your html emails,...
myVU gets brand bar, php templates and more!
Jul. 22, 2010—This was another fairly quick template swap. The old myVU templates were xsl, we moved them over to php, updated some stylesheets, added the VU brandbar, added a new video player that displays videos from the VUCast playlist and launched. We’ll be cleaning up the site over the coming weeks – but our goal was...
New Vanderbilt News site launched; new video player available campus-wide
Jun. 21, 2010—Keeping up with the latest news from Vanderbilt is now easier than ever. The redesigned Vanderbilt News website launched June 14, featuring a dramatic new look, a robust new back end and features that are available for all Vanderbilt departments. New features and technology available Video is a focal point of the new site, showcasing...
April digitalVU meeting
Apr. 30, 2010—Anna Belle Leiserson from the Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center talks about what’s new in Web technologies, with topics including HTML5, changes in browsers / OS, Apple vs. Adobe and what it means for us, the mobile Web and Google adding speed to their algorithm. John Brassil from ITS talks about their new streaming delivery platform....