Nazareth Web Team Blog

Welcome to the Web Team's Online Headquarters!

The Nazareth Web Team is pleased to welcome you to our very own blog, our home-away-from-home on the Internet where we can keep you in the loop on all sorts of exciting goings-on, including:

• the redesign of naz.edu
• sneak peeks of projects (before they go live!)
• the latest in emerging best practices and technologies for the higher ed set 
• who IS the Web Team, and what we do here at Nazareth 

We hope you will come back regularly to see what's happening on the Nazareth Web, and to chat with us about projects yet-to-come.

Web Team Honors "On the Wing"

The Web team is pleased to announce that one of our projects, www.FlightoftheFlyers.com, created in partnership with Alumni Relations and with interactive, design and development partner Wall to Wall Studios, has won a whole BUNCH of amazing awards!!

In the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Region II awards, the site won a Bronze medal in the category Website: Microsite; it also won a Public Relations Society of America PRism award for Best Not-For-Profit Website, AND an honorable mention in the annual Admissions Advertising Awards.  Wow! 

But perhaps even more exciting, we also threw our site into the ring for the national CASE Circle of Excellence Awards, putting it up against hundreds of other colleges and universities throughout the country.  Excitingly, thrillingly, FlightoftheFlyers.com brought home not one, not two, but THREE top awards!  It won Gold medals in the categories Individual Sub-Website and Alumni Relations Programs: Creative Use of Technology and New Media.  Even better, the site took the Grand Gold Medal in the Alumni Relations category, which means that it beat out every one of the other 126 entries submitted in the Alumni Relations section for "Best in Show" (including work from schools like Cornell, Georgetown, UC-San Diego, Tufts and RPI).

Colleen from the Web team and Kerry from alumni relations were recently interviewed about the project in preparation for the upcoming CASE Leadership Summit.  Read the interview and overview, "Flight of the Flyers: Social media and real-world action."

Featuring ... the newest member of the Web team

You might think that summer on a college campus is a quiet time: students have graduated or are on a well-deserved break, the weather is warm, and things work at a different pace.  In the Web office, however, summer is when things actually pick up speed!  Summer is a time when we are working on some large initiatives, preparing for the year to come.  We even have new folks join us: case in point, meet our awesome new intern, Kelly (we'll let her tell you a little about herself in her own words).

 

Kelly writes:

 

Hi, there! I am Kelly, the newest intern in the marketing and communications department at Nazareth.  I am a soon-to-be senior at Naz majoring in communications and rhetoric, and I also have an information technology minor.  At this point, the areas of communications/IT that I am most interested in are public relations, advertising, and web design.  I am so excited to be an intern here, and hope to help out and learn as much as I can about the naz.edu redesign… and pretty much anything I can get my hands on!

 

Welcome, Kelly.  The Web team is glad to have you on board!

Featuring ... the Photo Gallery

They say a picture is worth a thousand words! No, I don't know who. Just "they." You know -- "them." And I happen to agree. This is why the Photo Gallery is another new feature on the www.naz.edu homepage. This space allows us to bring exciting Nazareth events to life through vivid images that show us the story unfolding. Similar in purpose to Now@Naz, the Gallery is intended to help us visually represent the four pillars of the Nazareth identity: challenge, innovation, connection and preparation.

We feature a new photo gallery every few weeks, and each picture in the Photo Galley space on the homepage will link you to the latest Nazareth College posting on Flickr. Once you’re at Flickr, be sure to take a look around and check out our other photo galleries!

As always, if you have an idea for a future photo gallery, or photos of your own that you want to share, submit them via our online form at http://story.naz.edu/stories/.

Featuring ... Naz Blogs

Want to know what our students did on Spring Break?  Or perhaps learn more about application and financing for your future college education?  Or maybe hear more about Nazareth's President Braveman, in his own words?  Then check out our list of excellent Nazareth College bloggers -- and it's even easier than ever to view them, now, as President Braveman's and other blogs are featured parts of the new naz.edu.

We're very excited to feature the blogs via the "blog toggle" on the homepage.  One of the toggles always features the President's blog, and the other "Featured" toggle displays the latest posts from a random blog from our blog list. It's wonderful to be able to feature the voices of the College this way, so that all of our Web visitors can hear more about life at Naz from the people who are out there every day, living it.

Later this year, we're hoping to form a Student Web Corps of bloggers, videographers, photographers and the like to help us show the world what Nazareth is all about. If you're a current (or future!) Naz student who is interested in being a part of the Web Corps, beginning in Fall 09, drop us a line via the comments or at web @ naz.edu. 

Submit Your Story

On any given day there are a multitude of great things going on at Nazareth and many stories to tell about them. One of our goals with the new homepage was to make it easier than before for people to share their Nazareth experiences and newsworthy happenings with us. The result is the "Send Us Your Story" submission form.

Look on www.naz.edu for this section:

Clicking anywhere on this section leads to a form where you can fill in a summary of the story, add photos and web links, and leave contact information. If the story is something we'd like to feature online, we will contact you.

The next time you see something around campus or about Nazareth and think, "People need to know about this!" well...send it over!