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…
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Carley is the Head of the Digital Communications Team. She is responsible for the strategy and communication of the team, and oversight of the external website programme. Carley is also undertaking a part time Masters in Philosophy and a big fan of board games.
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,…
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…
How to submit an idea
One of the updates that the digital communications team has been working on for the last year has been our processes for taking on new projects. Having spent a lot of time developing and documenting our engagement…
Why is the user important?
As we may have mentioned a few times already, the digital communications team is committed to a user centred approach to our work: whether that be research, design, content or build. We have placed users at the heart…
“What’s the value in pixels?” – the ethos of digital change
Two weeks ago, Paul Boag, co-founder of digital consultancy Headscape and author of Digital Adaption gave a lecture to staff at the University. Titled ‘Digital change’, the talk outlined how digital has changed the…
How do you solve a problem like a content management policy?
One of the projects that I (Carley) have been working on over the past few weeks is a review of the content management policy which Duncan and I worked on during the final phase of the Study at St Andrews project. (It…
Study at St Andrews progress report: 19 February
Hi all, Carley here again! Today has been a meeting filled day, but one which has left us looking forward past the Study at St Andrews website and into the future, which is quite exciting. Entrance requirements This…
Study at St Andrews progress report: 12 February
A quick update from Carley today! Content updates Duncan has been working hard on content tweaks and updates across the site. It feels like we’re getting closer to something which we’re happy launching with, which is…