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Behind the scenes of an OSU home page story

The idea came from an off-hand comment in another interview I was having with Ron Mize, the director of CL@SE at OSU. We’d talked about the subject of the story: The Tenured Faculty Diversity Initiative for almost half an hour. At the end of our chat, I asked him what he does for fun. Of […]

Analytics: May/June 2014

The campus community was extremely excited about the opening of the new Centro! That’s a great thing and further reinforces our hope to post more stories about some of our more underrepresented groups. I’m also pretty proud of how well our dance story, “A common step,” did in the short amount of time it was […]

Analytics: March/April 2014

In this period, our most popular homepage feature story was undoubtedly our tribute to Beth Ray, hosted on our Life at OSU blog. The passing of our first lady was of interest to just about everyone in the campus community. The Olympics also had a far-reaching appeal, and Oregon State was happy to have a […]

Analytics: Dec. 2013-Feb. 2014

If you think we’ve gotten a bit sluggish about analytics lately, you’re wrong. Back in December, though? Well, that might have been a different story. These pageviews include December all the way up to Feb. 28: “Celebrate the season” happened sort of last-minute, and it had about a 2-week run on the homepage, explaining its […]

CASE 8 Conference in Vancouver

Well… Where to begin? CASE 8 held a lot of firsts for me: It was my first time at a CASE Conference. It was my first time at any conference. It was my first time in Vancouver, and my first time in Canada. I didn’t even really, fully understand the term “advancement” until a few […]

Analytics: Oct./Nov. 2013

We are in the middle of the holiday season at the moment, but that doesn’t mean we still can’t take a look back at the past few months of web traffic: Here’s a look at the stories we took down. Floralia was up on the homepage for a very, very long time. It was our […]

Analytics: July/August 2013

July and August were all about getting rid of the (awesome) commencement stories we worked so hard on in the spring and replacing it with awesome content that could see us through the summer and straight into school. Here’s a look at the stories we took down. Stories up on the site at this time […]

Analytics: End of Spring Term-ish…

Each time a homepage story is uploaded, one is taken down. When it is, we make sure to take a look at the analytics of the stories we remove. Here’s a look at the pageviews of previous homepage stories: Many videos are also attached to these homepage stories. Here’s a look at the analytics from […]