Oregon State Productions Blog

It’s official, Whitehouse.gov has followed OSU’s lead and made the switch to Drupal. It just goes to show that this content management system is versatile, reliable and, unlike other open source projects where support and development might dry up over time, this one isn’t going away anytime soon. A large number of OSU sites have […]

This past summer we formed a project team and steering committee to address the design of OSU’s home page and top-tier pages. The home page is OSU’s public face, with more than 70,000 hits per day, it regularly reaches a broader and more diverse audience than any other communication. The timing for this redesign is […]

Beginning on October 1, Kegan Sims officially joined Web Communications as our full-time Social Media Specialist. Join me in welcoming him aboard. For the past few months Kegan has been devoting several hours per day to fostering conversation and driving traffic and membership to our various social media groups. He’s sponsored popular contests and earned […]

We’ve launched the latest version of the Powered by Orange Web site. So far, the PBO initiative has netted us thousands of pageviews and thousands more social media connections. This week’s events marry online activities with live events to celebrate the start of a new communications effort, a new school year, and a year of […]

OSU Web sites were recognized as top performers in a blog post about SEO and college sites. The author notes: Congratulations go out to you, the web and marketing teams and anyone else who touches the Oregon State University website because you’re all doing a tremendous job at effectively optimizing your site for search engines. […]

We’ve added a new blog page to the Students section of the main OSU Web site. Seven student blogs are highlighted, and an RSS feed links to the aggregate posts of these featured blogs. More student blogs can be found at blogs.oregonstate.edu, which also houses blogs for faculty and staff. This blog service was created […]

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. […]

We’re pleased to note that the Powered by Orange Web site was awarded “Best Integration of Social Media” by both judges and peoples’ choice category in the EduStyle Awards. It’s a great honor and testament to the hard work of the Web Communications and University Marketing offices at OSU.

We’ve become avid users of the photo sharing service Flickr here at OSU. We go way beyond merely having an official OSU account on the service.  Key content on our main OSU site and top level pages is integrated with our account. Press releases (like this one) created by our news office use Flickr images. […]