From our presentation at the Drupal Bootcamp earlier this week, here are ten tips for better web content. Follow these and your page will automatically be ahead of most of the others out there. Use brief introductory copy on every major page: three lines max, aimed at new users Avoid dense blocks of text Make page [...]
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Welcome Callie!
Thursday, March 7th, 2013Web Comm team is thrilled to have Callie Zilk on board as our new writer/editor. We’re excited about her webby predilections and her journalism background. With a degree in journalism from Mizzou’s storied program, and stints at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Southern Poverty Law Center, she bring great experience to our group. She’s relocated [...]
Month in review.
Thursday, February 28th, 2013Gratuitous Animated Beaver Gifs Post
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013We’ve been having some fun with Benny lately, he’s shown up in some of our recent projects. He made his animated gif debut in a project for the Office of Admissions, appeared on a holiday card and recently came out the beaver den to wish everyone psychedelic Valentine’s day wishes.
What is a User Experience Specialist?
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013So whenever I am in a meeting and we do the typical lets all introduce ourselves spiel. I inevitably get asked what I actually do or get the typical confused/intrigued facial expressions. I guess I should preface this by saying my official title is User Experience Specialist. Most of the time I give a fairly [...]
Teenagers and Web Usability
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013I was recently sent an interesting article. It was a study done by the Nielsen Norman Group on Teenagers and how they use the web. It contrasts this study with others done on different age groups. If you are interested in the subject I encourage you to read the full article. I will be honest it [...]
State-focused recruiting pages
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013We recently partnered with the Admissions Office at OSU to update some Web materials for state-by-state recruiting efforts. By building a custom experience for prospective students from individual states, we hope to personalize the digital admissions process, showing what it’s like to come to campus and give them state-specific information. The sites are simple, small [...]
Demo Reel
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011The Web Communications Office now has a demo reel of recent video, multimedia and motion graphics work. Thanks to our team of phenomenal interns for putting it together (and for doing much of the featured work). YouTube Direct HD motion content is now a primary facet of communicating on the web, and our goal is [...]
HighEdWeb Presentation ’10
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010Powered by Orange: Lessons from a digitally driven campaign on Prezi
YouTube breakout
Sunday, October 10th, 2010One of our amazing and talented interns organized a “flash mob” dance to bring awareness to diversity issues on campus. To date we’ve had well over 50,000 views and counting since the beginning of the month. YouTube Direct
