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Updates to the University homepage
The digital communications team have made some significant improvements to the University of St Andrews homepage in line with user feedback gathered from the survey that was featured on the University homepage over the summer.
10 October 2018External website redevelopments Projects
New social media training courses
The digital communications team are launching two new social media training courses as part of a refresh to the digital visa. ‘An introduction to social media for beginners’ and ‘Developing a social media strategy’ will replace the previously offered social media basics course. The new courses have been created in response to feedback which showed…
8 October 2018Social Media
News and media centre website
The new website for news and media was launched on 7 June 2018. The new website provides a number of enhancements over the old site. For example: news can be categorised and tagged so it’s easier to find news can be shared on social media users can make comments on news news can be viewed…
21 August 2018External website redevelopments
Our research survey says…
In order to inform the design of the new University of St Andrews research section, the digital communications team wanted to establish what the top tasks were for users of the current research website. We did this by using a survey, the results of which can be found below.
9 August 2018External website redevelopments
Internship with digital communications – Mhari Nimmo
Mhari Nimmo completed a four-week internship with the digital communications team. You can read about her experience in her own words below. Four weeks ago, a month seemed like an awfully long time – but as everyone knows, time likes to go faster when it’s summer, and unfortunately the end of my internship within the…
7 August 2018Team
New global contact page
On Tuesday 31 July 2018, the digital communications team launched a new general contact page in our updated style to assure future accessibility for users. This post looks at some of the changes we’ve made.
31 July 2018External website redevelopments
IWMW 2018: Let’s improve our training
Recently, I attended the IWMW(Institutional Web Management Workshop) 2018, a UK-wide conference for anyone working in digital in higher education. Roughly 150 delegates attended from all over the UK and Ireland. Every university’s digital team provides training for their internal staff to some extent. While St Andrews is a front-runner in terms of the training…
27 July 2018IWMW
Scheduling social media posts
Graduation week is always one of the busiest and most important times of the year for the digital communications team and our colleagues across Corporate Communications. Both the University website and the social media channels see a significant increase in traffic, as students and their friends and family look for information and updates about their…
25 July 2018Social Media
Internship with digital communications – Sara Fay
Sara Fay completed a four-week internship with the digital communications team. You can read about her experience in her own words below.
23 July 2018Team
Introducing the Admin A to Z project
The digital communications team have been aware for some time that, in order to finish our external website programme, we would need to tackle the Administration A to Z section of the website. We’ve now kicked off this project, which aims to put information about the University’s Schools, Departments, units and teams in the locations…
19 July 2018External website redevelopments