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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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[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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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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A Big Week of Hangouts for Duke

By on December 21, 2012 in Events, Google+

Did you know Google has an office in Chapel Hill, North Carolina? It’s located in Southern Village, just a short drive down 15-501 from Duke University. Because of their proximity, I’ve had the chance to meet with Google Higher Ed reps a number of times over the past year. Some of these conversations resulted in [...]

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Talking Duke Mobility

By on December 14, 2012 in Duke Communicators, Events

Responsive design. Mobile apps. Optimized for mobile devices. Our most recent event of the Duke Communicators Network covered the topic of mobility. There’s a lot to talk about on the subject, and Blyth Morrell with the Office of Marketing and Strategic Communications gave a brief overview of the history of Duke mobile, trends in mobile [...]

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Searching for Answers with Duke Communicators

By on November 26, 2012 in Duke Communicators, Events

In our most recent Duke Communicators meeting, we talked search. I presented with Leon Malahias and Blyth Morrell on search engine optimization and we talked about ways we can build Duke websites to get the most eyeballs on our content. We provided an overview of search engines, described what affects search results, clarified paid versus [...]

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A PhotoWalk: Picture Duke University

By on November 9, 2012 in Events

A group of Duke students, staff and Durham residents recently took part in Duke’s first Photowalk, an adventure in photography across our campus. The PhotoWalk was intended to build community by giving some budding photographers in our area some pointers and access to parts of campus they might otherwise not be able to see. Several [...]

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