Hello Web Authors / Content Owners, It is beautiful to see so much content in Chapman’s new website! We are going to wait until tomorrow to launch the beta site as many of us have been working all day on the site and changes still need to publish. Tonight at 2AM the entire site will
Dear Web Authors / Content Owners / etc., Congratulations to each of you on surviving the first week of content migration! The Web Team and I are delighted to see content flying into Chapman’s new website, and I can’t wait to see what progress this next week brings. Keep up the good work. More caffeine
…and now we want to pay it forward! Char and the SMC team surprised the Web and Interactive Marketing department with this: Because so many individuals across campus have helped with this project, we’d love to invite you to come eat some of this! If you are in the neighborhood, and have contributed to Chapman’s
Hello Web Writers / Content Owners / Content Migrators, Congratulations! We’re in the home stretch, and things are looking up. Thank you for all your hard work and support over the last few months. Now it’s time for one last push. With your help, I’m sure we can reach the university’s web goals. Writers, content
Readers, Some of you have noticed the new version of Chapman Happenings. This has been made possible by a local instance of “WordPress,” a popular open source blogging solution. We are also excited to announce that more blogs are on the way. Over the years Chapman has created a variety of blogs on a variety
Web authors / content owners / content migrators, Thanks so much for attending last week’s training. Remember, the first training was online and is still available for review. We do have recordings of the ‘in person’ training available as well – be sure to listen to the last ten minutes or so if you had to leave early.
Readers, Our office has coordinated with Chapman’s Webmaster in IS&T and people at Hannon Hill to create dynamic work-flows for Cascade, the new content management system for Chapman’s new website. Work-flows allow pages that are submitted to be approved prior to being live. What does not need to be approved? News Events Social Media Feeds
Dear Web Author, We are excited to announce the first chapter of training for Chapman’s new content management system (CMS): Cascade Server by Hannon Hill. This product is a significant improvement to the current CMS (Active Campus) and we anticipate you will enjoy editing pages more in this new system. Barkley REI, our consultant firm
Hello Web Advisory Committee / Web Authors, Remember that images can be re-sized and cropped within our new CMS (Cascade Server). Having said that, I did post dimensions onto our MyWindow workspace. Feel free to consult that file as you continue to search for images. Thank you, -dm
Strategic Marketing and Communications has authored a unified university policy for social media. To aide your social media efforts, outreach, and communications, we recently published the 4th draft of the Chapman University Social Media Policy. Based on university staff and faculty feedback, we have updated these guidelines and will be applying the “best practices” to