Digital communications team update – September 2020
Latest updates from the digital communications team and useful articles and resources relating to digital best practice for September 2020.
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How to film a vlog
A vlog may seem simple to create at first, but there can be a lot of unforeseeable hurdles during production.
Degree conferral ceremonies 2020 analytics data
The data in this blog post will look at the engagement of the YouTube videos during the degree conferral week in 2020 at University of St Andrews.
Digital communications team update – August 2020
Latest updates from the digital communications team and useful articles and resources relating to digital best practice for August 2020.
Digital communications team update – July 2020
Latest updates from the digital communications team and useful articles and resources relating to digital best practice for July 2020.
Writing a video description for YouTube
Video descriptions can be as valuable as a video title. A video description helps viewers, and YouTube’s algorithm, understand the content of a video.
Academic Schools project
The Academic Schools project has lasted nearly two years. With the launch of the School of Biology on 4 June 2020 it brought to completion the redesign of 24 different websites.
Remote staff training – lessons from Covid-19
When lockdown hit the UK in March 2020, I had to quickly transform the Digital Visa staff training programme to work remotely. Rather than cancel all sessions, I wanted to make sure we continued to offer training for…
Optimising images for the web
When you open any web page, your device downloads all assets that populate that page. Images on web pages are also downloaded and cached to your browser’s memory. Depending on the speed of your download connection,…
How to customise your background in Microsoft Teams video calls
Microsoft Teams will soon be rolling out a new feature that allows users to add custom backgrounds to their video calls. While they currently support their own supply of pre-populated background images, there isn’t an…