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RE: Names of IT newsletters for university community

Posted By John Mazzarella 07-13-2024 03:30:42 AM
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I love this post, thank you! I have three things to share from us at UMass Boston. First, we used to have a print newsletter back in 90's, before we even had an "IT Department", and we were called "Computing Services". The newsletter was called Byteline. It was a newspaper format publication consisting ...

RE: IT Community Day

Posted By John Mazzarella 04-05-2024 11:04:00 AM
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We used to have an annual "IT Expo" event UMass Boston that sounds similar. We had tables for each team within IT (labs, networking, telecom, etc etc) where they brought hardware or software to touch and learn about, students got a stamp for visiting each table and were entered into a raffle if they ...

RE: IT Strategic Communication Plan - do you have one? can you share?

Posted By John Mazzarella 11-06-2023 01:26:00 PM
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I'd love to get a copy of other examples of similar documents you've gathered for inspiration if you could share! We don't have a communications plan for this beyond the few things I wrote informally in my first email. ------------------------------ John Mazzarella Assistant Vice Chancellor, ...

RE: IT Strategic Communication Plan - do you have one? can you share?

Posted By John Mazzarella 10-31-2023 01:15:00 PM
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Hi Phyllis, Here at UMass Boston, we have an annual process led by our CIO with the IT leadership team where we plan our Goals and Objectives. For the goals, we have university-wide goals and then we create an IT-level goal which maps to each of the university's goals. Then we plan individual objectives ...

RE: IT Strategic Communication Plan - do you have one? can you share?

Posted By John Mazzarella 10-31-2023 01:14:30 PM
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RE: Giveaways for internal IT staff - Mottos for IT staff swag?

Posted By John Mazzarella 04-01-2023 05:49:00 AM
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Another thing this made me think of. MGM Resorts had a big public campaign a few years ago around the slogan of "Welcome to the show" which all of their advertising centered around for a while. At the same time, they launched a companion campaign internally to their staff with the same kind of central ...

RE: Giveaways for internal IT staff - Mottos for IT staff swag?

Posted By John Mazzarella 04-01-2023 05:44:00 AM
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At UMass Boston, our CIO led a "shared visioning" exercise for the whole department to work on creating our Mission, Vision, and Values. See what we came up with here. From there, we did several things with the values. For one, we designed some icons representing each one which you can see on the ...

RE: Promo items for students

Posted By John Mazzarella 02-15-2023 06:06:00 AM
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We used our campus makerspace to 3d print keychains of the UMass Boston logo. We used this to promote the makerspace itself and attached it to a postcard publicizing the service. A plastic logo keychain isn't the most interesting thing in the world, but the fact that it was 3D printed made it interesting ...

RE: Communicating essential IT updates to faculty

Posted By John Mazzarella 01-28-2023 05:48:00 AM
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We have a full time position in IT that is a specialist in marketing and internal communication with graphic design experience. This person's job is to translate technical IT topics into messages anyone can understand, and they serve as a resource for IT staff to broadcast the messages their users need ...

RE: Communicating IT's Value to Campus Stakeholders

Posted By John Mazzarella 01-28-2023 05:20:00 AM
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At UMass Boston, we also do a narrative yearly publication. We have an annual report that's more traditional, but we also do a separate yearly publication in print, a glossy magazine with purely narratives telling the stories of our collaborations and successes this year. We have an interviewer/writer ...

RE: Communications for storage quota limits on services like Box and Google

Posted By John Mazzarella 01-18-2023 09:12:00 AM
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We had this topic at UMass Boston recently, as Google is reducing our storage quota. We sent out a broadcast email to Google Drive users (link below) with some info on the change, some FAQ's, and a request to contact our Service Desk if people needed help with a migration. In fairness, we're not primarily ...