University of Florida Communication Network
Projects
The following are projects the UFCN is currently involved in. If you would like to contribute, please contact a committee chair or a represenatative of the uFCN in your unit.
UF Communicators Boot Camp
Print-to-web ideas, web site supplement ideas and a
host of other topics
to improve the integrity, quality and enjoyment of UF publications.
Think Before You Ink Campaign
The UFCN has developed and is executing an awareness campaign for the Think before You Ink campaign, designed to reduce publications expenditures at the University. Elements of the overall campaign include:
- Letters from key administrators to tagret audiences
- Guerilla campaigns
- Powerpoint presentations by University Relations and UFCN members to key audiences across campus
- Think Before You Ink website that supports all three intitiatives with information, guidelines, tools, and support services
There are three key initiatives in the campaign, and a set of strategies have been developed to help communicate each to the University.
I would say our next project is a UF communicators boot camp, featuring
print-to-web ideas, Web site supplement ideas and a host of
other topics
to improve the integrity, quality and enjoyment of UF publications.
Print-to-Web Conversion
The goals of this campaign is to create awareness of this program, drive traffic to the Think Before You Ink website, and to provide tools to facilitate conversion
- e-mail blasts to UFCN listservs
- mini-seminars to explain objectives, provide guidelines and support for departments w/o IT support
- website toolbox with guidelines, templates, and support services
- Powerpoint presentations to key audiences across campus
- creation of print advisors (potentially the same person as sustainabaility amabassadors) to advise and oversee processes
Photocopy/Printouts
The goals of this campaign is to create awareness of this program, change wasteful habits, develop ongoing communications process for maintaining good copy/printout habits, convert appropriate photocopy/printout documents to the web.
- e-mail blasts to UFCN listservs, as well as all other appropriate listservs to reach offcie managers, faculty, and students
- Powerpoint presentations to key audiences across campus, such as faculty senate
- Guerilla cmapaigns such as placing "Think Before You Ink" tags on all UFCN members emails, stickers on campus copy machines and printers
- guidelines to photocopy vendors requesting them to police wasteful practices
Printer Certification
The goals of this campaign is to create awareness of this program, drive traffic to the Think Before You Ink website, and to provide tools to facilitate use of certified printers
- e-mail blasts to listservs
- mini-seminars to explain procedures/forms
- website toolboxes with list of printers/capabilities, forms
- creation of print advisors (potentially the same person as sustainabaility amabassadors) to advise and oversee processes