STORIES

Three sites and a new designer

The Web Comm team has had a hand in a few successes recently. We helped with the launch of three new websites, including the colleges of Veterinary Medicine and Education, as well as a new site for our Veterinary Hospital, which includes a fancy new parallax slider and a nifty video piece. Of course, Central […]

Where marketing meets storytelling

Relentless, Justin Smith’s film about our student formula racing team, marks a major change in how we do online storytelling. We’ll be releasing the film on the web this Saturday, and hundreds of race fans and other teams are already queued up to see it as soon as it launches. It’s a strong, compelling piece […]

Student created content

I just want to say something ahead of this video. We definitely don’t agree/identify with the message these guys are delivering about Fraternities and their members. The Greek System at OSU does more good with their philanthropy and volunteering than most students ever consider. That being said, if you don’t find this amusing, you need […]

New commercials

Our talented team worked with University Marketing to produce OSU’s two latest television spots:    

The Battle for YouTube

It’s Civil War time again and battles of all types have been raging between Oregon State University and the University of Oregon. In the middle of it all the Web Communications department has been waging a war of our own.

OSU on iTunes U

Oregon State University’s official iTunes U site is now listed the main directory on Apple’s iTunes store. All of our content is also searchable in the main index. iTunes integrates with our OSU Media Manager, so if you’re publishing course material or video series with that tool, it’s a snap to add it to iTunes. […]

Flip Tips

If YouTube were a stand-alone search engine, it would be the second largest search engine behind Google. That’s incredible when you think of it. It shows the saturation of Web video and illustrates how much video demand is exploding. Video production is an art and a craft, and there’s no substitute for the proper training, […]

YouTube has to be part of your media strategy

Since the Web first came out (in my world that happened when I bought my first copy of Adobe Pagemill in 1996), the field of communications has been in a continuous state of upheval. Now add the current economic crunch and anything can happen. And anything is happening. Newspapers, magazines and other media outlets are […]