Updates - SMILE

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This time, we're joined by Jane Oswald (Head of Marketing) from University of Sunderland to discuss our top stories: US unis doubling marketing spend; University of Sunderland making students the star of its story in a new hero video; And the renaissance for print publications at universities.

November 23, 2021
15 mins

Project Update

November updates to SMILE Tools for HE Digital Pro’s

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This month we've released a lot of updates to some of our backend tools like Hijack and Content Flow. We've even released a portal, where you can request new, upvote and subscribe to features, and get updated as we release!

November 15, 2021
2 mins

Insight

Joe Marshall’s (UEA.ac.uk) effective project management tips for university website overhauls

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Joe Marshall (Senior Project Manager) from UEA discusses his take on how to manage a flagship website project, without upsetting the apple cart! Learn techniques like the big red button, and juggling stakeholders in this interview.

November 10, 2021
13 mins

Insight, Opinion

How the University of Bristol wins with YouTube

In this episode of Most Clicked, find out how the University of Bristol and London Business School are using YouTube to help recruit students, with great success.

November 9, 2021
17 mins

Webinars

Webinar: Everything will be fine… Probably.

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A webinar (7th December 2021) with highlights from university marketing's post-lockdown return and predictions for 2022, including who’s on track to clean up at the next HEIST Awards.

November 1, 2021
1 min

Roundups

SEO advice from Amy Cousins (Newcastle University)

Amy Cousins from Newcastle University joins us to talk about the blog that she manages and dives into her SEO specialism. We also talk about a COVID vaccination campaign from Slippery Rock University and yet more frightening Facebook tales.

October 26, 2021
17 mins

Bringing you the new Stoke-on-Trent College website

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We recently worked alongside Stoke-on-Trent College to launch their new website with a whole new look and feel.

November 1, 2021
3 mins

Everything else

Extending your WordPress site with plugins

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WordPress, the content management system (CMS) that underpins the sites we build at SMILE, comes with a limited amount of core functionality out of the box. The core of WordPress has been purposely kept lean and ‘pluggable’ — this allows…

October 19, 2021
2 mins

Roundups

Unibuddy Global Conference 2021 Presentation Slides

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Missed our talk at the Unibuddy Global Conference 2021? Or want to re-visit the slides? Our roundup has you covered!

October 14, 2021
1 min

Insight

Authentic student ambassadors with mdx.ac.uk

In this episode of Most Clicked, we're joined by our first special guest - Lydia from Middlesex University - discussing student ambassadors and community building.