Sometimes, you just need to publish something quickly so there’s a page online with information for people to access. Sometimes, you want to publish something awesome, but it only need two sentences. This might be an updated time and location for an event, a faculty accomplishment or award, an intimate performance with a guest artist, or urgent news about student registration.

Announcement posts can be used for those times when the thing you need to publish isn’t a story and there is little to no imagery. Reserve your blog posts for larger stories and use announcements for smaller, well, announcements!

There are variety of icons to choose from to perfectly represent your announcement. These icons will appear next to your announcement’s title to help your audience identity the nature of the content.



Below are examples and best uses for Announcement Post-Types from across Chapman’s blog network.

1. Event, Calendar Update

Screen shot of Chapman blogpost about professors being featured on "Health Matters"

2. Awards and Recognition

Screen shot of Chapman blogpost about the Institute for Quantum Studies article winning "Best of 2013"

3. Musical Events and Performances

Screen shot of the Chapman Blog post about the Guest Artist in Recital Annoucement

4. News and Information

Screen shot of the Chapman University Blog post about the MA in International Studies Workshop on November 4th

5. News and Announcements

Screen shot of Strategic Marketing and Communications post about the new navigation bar



Announcements are an optional add-on which are disabled by default, but the web team highly encourages you to use them! Contact your web coordinator to turn them on.

 

Featured image by Beverly via Flickr.