UM-Flint University Relations

The most powerful communication, marketing, and customer service tool within all of higher education is the university website. Before they set foot on campus, receive recruitment material in the mail, or talk to an admissions counselor, perspective students first visit the websites of the schools they are considering. Online, the university website is the university.

I’ll be the first to say that I’m not an illustrator, nor am I a classically trained designer, however that does not mean that I can’t draw.  Humans by nature are visual thinkers, which historically can be shown by the cave paintings in Lascaux in France.  Drawing allows us to present the ideas in our head to […]

There’s a line from Basement Song by the Adam Ezra Group that’s echoing in my head: The conflict that will arise do I choose to concentrate on all the things I love or try to fix the things I hate? I love that lyric for the simple reason that  it’s a shared experience we all […]

Social Media Facts and Figures Below, a summary of our social media efforts in the month of June. Our Audience: The UM-Flint Twitter page (@umflint) has grown to 453 followers. In June, UM-Flint’s Facebook fan page gained 104 fans (up to 3,667 from 3,563). The UM-Flint YouTube channel’s videos had now been viewed over 36,557 […]

As a new homemaker in the early 1990s, I just had to have one of the hot appliances of the times:  the automatic breadmaker.  Panasonic produced the most popular version of this insta-bread making wonder.  All you

Last month Paul Woolcock and I gave a small presentation detailing some of the features that LiveSite offers as it pertains to authoring pages.  Since then, I am happy to say that we have major moves towards being able to roll out LiveSite to production. Last week Paul, Tim Todd, and I worked with Kevin McMonagle, […]