Our ground rules for meetings
Hands up if you love meetings. Anyone? No? Here are a couple of ‘inspirational’ quotations for you: Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything — John Kenneth Graham The least productive people are…
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Introductions
The Digital Communications team is growing and we would like to take this opportunity to introduce our four newest recruits. We’re pleased to have Duncan Sanderson joining our team as a web developer, mainly working on…
The challenges of resource management in our Agile team
Over the last year, as we’ve been formally trying to work in a more agile way, one of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a project manager is resource management. In other words, How do we know how much time each…
IWMW 2015: Agile content
Considering that the digital communications team is committed to working in an agile manner, and I’m the lead digital content person for the University, a workshop titled “Working in an agile way: content creation,…
Digital prospectus business case
On Wednesday 16 September, the Digital Communications Portfolio Board approved a business case for redevelopment of the external University website. In essence, what we will be creating is a digital prospectus where…
A useful social media response flow chart for businesses
Corporate responses on social media is a topic I’ve seen reemerging recently. The people who maintain the flood gates of a corporation’s social media account are some of the most patient people in the digital world. If…
Social media to drive engagement: a case study
These days it is expected that every major (and minor) institution and organisation should have a social media presence. Social media is a great means to share information and reach new audiences. However, all too…
The impact of changing the graduation web presence
Back in June, the digital communications team launched a new version of the graduation webpages. The main reason we were so keen to get the graduation website updated was because more and more of the visits to the…
IWMW 2015: An introduction
I was lucky enough to attend IWMW – Institutional Web Management Workshop – 2015 a couple of weeks ago. The theme of this year’s session was “Beyond digital: transforming the institution”, which, if you’ve read any of…
Visual design principles for the University of St Andrews website
On 15 June 2015, the digital communications team launched the new University of St Andrews homepage. This is the first major milestone in a project that has been on-going before I started work here in 2013. We have…