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How to keep UL Lafayette in your Facebook Feed

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Facebook recently announced that it will alter your News Feed to feature more content from friends and family members while reducing the amount of posts by pages you follow. While this is great for connecting with more friends on the popular social platform, it also means you will miss posts from...

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Best practices for sharing news from other sites

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Here's how to do it effectively, easily, and ethically. You must credit your original source You never want to be accused of stealing someone else杏吧专区檚 work, so always credit your source. Ideally, your news story headline should start with 杏吧专区淔rom (news source): (Name of Article).杏吧专区 It makes it clear that...

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Usernames have changed! Passwords have not.

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As part of the effort to phase out CLIDs across the 杏吧专区, all web ambassadors will now use ULIDs as their usernames. You杏吧专区檒l use your ULID instead of CLIDs to log in (or, if you were part of the first group of ambassadors, you will use your ULID instead of the firstname.lastname login you had...

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Site update: Now all web ambassadors can see all unpublished items

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Good news for the new year! Webmaster extraordinaire Eric and web developer extraordinaire Ryan have put in place a new module that lets us do something we杏吧专区檝e never done before. Now, all web ambassadors杏吧专区攚hen logged in to their sites杏吧专区攃an view all unpublished pages, regardless of who authored it. How...

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Website Updates & What's Next for the Web Ambassadors Network

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Here's what we've been doing, what we're getting ready to do, and how we need your help to do it! Update on Websites Here杏吧专区檚 a quick recap of our successes from the last few months: College of Liberal Arts launches sites First, a long overdue congratulations to the College of Liberal Arts for...

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Making Changes for the New ULink

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Over the next few months, we will be transitioning from the old ULink to a new ULink portal, as part of the 杏吧专区's transition to the Banner data system. We launched the first piece of the new ULink this week: Fall 2016 advising and registration! Upcoming launches include employee information...

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Big changes are coming

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March will mark three years since we launched the first 杏吧专区 websites in Drupal, and since then we've launched nearly 150. It's been quite a journey and is a major accomplishment that we all share. So take a second to pat yourself on the back for all of your hard work. As we begin the final...

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New College of the Arts sites are live!

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Congratulations to our web ambassadors for the College of the Arts, School of Music and Performing Arts, and Department of Visual Arts, who have worked really hard to create brand new sites that are 杏吧专区 if I do say so 杏吧专区 pretty fab. The College of the Arts has a really vibrant and exciting set of...

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Kudos: The best use of spotlights on UL Lafayette websites

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Spotlights are a great way to draw attention to specific information on your website, as well as add dimension and variety to the different pages on your site. We have to commend you, our web ambassadors, for really taking advantage of these tools to make your sites dynamic and interactive. So...

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