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[UPDATE] Facebook’s Cover Image Area

By on May 3, 2013 in Design, Facebook

Facebook recently changed their cover photo rules. Facebook now allows brands to list contact information, calls to action, and product details in their cover photos. Read more about it here. *** Starting on January 15, 2013, Facebook will regulate the amount of text included in your Page’s cover image and news feed ads to no more [...]

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Announcing the Winners of #pictureDuke Earth!

By on April 25, 2013 in Design, Events, Instagram

Spring has most definitely sprung. Need proof? Look no further than the lush and iridescent photos captured during our latest photo walk. Prize Winners After seeing a number of excellent submissions in a tight competition, we are pleased to announce the following prize winners from last Friday’s photo walk: Grand Prize: “Asparagus at Duke Farmers Market” by Natalie [...]

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Higher Education and Google+

By on April 17, 2013 in Google+, SEO, Video Projects

Have you tried this? Bring up Google+ in a room of marketers and communicators. Just mention the social network and see what happens. You will hear mixed reactions. Some will sing the praises of search engine optimization  and network influence, while others will look at you like you’re a cat speaking Latin on TV. Our social [...]

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Upcoming Google+ Hangout with Steven Churchill

By on April 9, 2013 in Google+, Video Projects

Duke is doing a science-themed Google+ Hangout!   At 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 11, Duke University is offering a live Google+ Hangout with paleo-anthropologist Steven Churchill, who led the analysis of the remarkably complete arm of MH1 and participated in most of the other papers as well. Churchill will have casts of several [...]

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[UPDATE] One Day At Duke: All Day, All Duke, All You

By on March 26, 2013 in Duke Communicators, Events, Video Projects, Viral Content

[UPDATE] This event was originally scheduled for April 5th, but has been rescheduled to Friday, April 19th due to weather. APRIL 19th, 2013: Be A Part of Duke’s Next TV Spot! We’re crowd-sourcing Duke’s next 30-second TV commercial and we need your help. On Friday, April 19 we’re inviting students, faculty, staff, alumni—you name it—to [...]

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Social Media 2013: Internet users who use social networking tools

By on March 19, 2013 in Blogging, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Twitter

The folks over at Pew Research Centre recently compiled their annual research on the demographics behind social media users on different platforms. The infographic below (courtesy of Adweek) takes Pew’s data and displays it in a nice visual, including these key takeaways: Women are five times more than men to use Pinterest City dwellers are [...]

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A Wrap-up of Duke’s Science Photo Walk

By on March 6, 2013 in Events, Instagram, Viral Content

Another photo walk has come and gone, but some stunning images are here to stay. The walk is a curious experiment — we bring a variety of people together, cluster them into small spaces with a mere handful of minutes at each location, and step back to see what happens — yet we are impressed with [...]

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Join us for our next Photo Walk: #pictureDuke Science

By on February 27, 2013 in Events

Join us Friday, March 1, 2-4PM on a photo walk featuring Duke’s many labs and research sites, including the Canine Cognition Center, colorful greenhouses and the newly-opened Mary Trent Semans Center. Get a behind-the-scenes look at Duke’s cutting-edge technology and showcase your talent to the Duke community — all you need is a camera phone to participate! [...]

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Duke Chats During The State Of The Union

By on February 13, 2013 in Design, Events, Twitter, Viral Content

The Duke community  joined a Twitter chat during President Obama’s “State of the Union” address last night. Several faculty and students participated in the chat, tweeting their reactions to the president’s speech using the hashtag #DukeChat. The chats provide an opportunity to have a “public classroom” about issues in real time. We had a ton of [...]

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Duke’s 2013 Social Media Roundup

By on January 27, 2013 in Blogging, Chinese Social Media, Duke Communicators, Events, Facebook, Twitter, Viral Content

For our most recent Duke Communicators event, I organized a fun tour of what’s happening across our community in social media. At our 2013 Social Media Roundup, my colleagues described how they are using social media to promote bloggers, share photos, reach new international audiences and much more. Each person spoke for five minutes, in [...]

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