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Introducing the Mailster email newsletter plugin

We are excited to introduce Mailster as a replacement for the MailPoet email newsletter plugin on your website. Mailster supports similar features to MailPoet and offers improved features to make your communications easy-to-read and attractive!

Why community engagement matters

Everyone who uses social media has heard it before: “Don’t read the comments.” Comment sections on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Reddit, among many other platforms, are notorious for enabling vicious arguments and disseminating misinformation. Comment threads can grow like wildfire and it can seem impossible to differentiate between genuine…

Upcoming Website Maintenance Scheduled for March 2020

UF Health Web Services will be performing maintenance on website media storage to improve its function and use for our users and website visitors. Please refrain from making any updates during these times as it may result in the loss of your data. Some forms may experience a temporary interruption…

Inclusion Matters: Making Social Media More Accessible

At the January Social Media Lunch & Learn, UF Health began rolling out guidelines around accessibility to ensure content shared from UF Health and UF Health-affiliated social media channels is accessible to all members of our communities, especially those living with disabilities. The goal is to ensure everything that we…

Apollo 2.0 Upgrades

Over the last seven months, we’ve had an incredible reception to the Apollo 2.0 WordPress theme. Thanks to the hard work of our content editors, we’ve launched over 100 sites in the new theme since February 2019. With an additional 150+ sites in development, we’ve continued to refine and…

Getting started with editorial calendars

We’ve all been on the fast, reactionary side of social media. An email comes in with content to post, we get tagged in a tweet, a news story gets released. All of this content can get overwhelming awfully quick! But what if there was an easy way, we could organize…

You can never be too prepared

At her previous university, Erika had hundreds of social accounts managed by different people. To navigate crisis communications and create a consistent voice and tone in responses she created this helpful response chart.

Optimizing Your Apollo 2.0 Site

In the last few months, we’ve moved over a dozen websites into the Apollo 2.0 WordPress template. As part of the process, the Web Services team conducts an optimization report right before launch – we review the site for any potential issues related to accessibility, navigation and usability, and make…