Posts Tagged ‘MariettaSports.net’

Club MC

Club MC is tonight starting at 5 PM and running for a good long time.  Stop by the Writing on the Mall / MariettaSports.net / Pioneer Online Media booth, or say hi to me at the Interfraternity Council booth.  I’ll be all over the place.

New MC Website Brings New Direction

As in new content that will be updated throughout the year. The new Marietta College website will actually be somewhere that students will want to visit.  The site launched with six feature articles, including the following:

• Events celebrating the 175th anniversary of Marietta College
• A letter from the Student Senate President, Kyle Thauvette
• A connection piece featuring the importance of resident life at MC
• Matriculation piece welcoming the class of 2013
• Feature article on Jim Tracy, manager of the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball
• Pioneer Pride day announcement asking all members of the Long Blue Line to take a picture of themselves in their favorite MC shirt

The idea seems to be to incorporate the past, present, and future all into one nice package.  Visual appearance has improved greatly, with large images and prominently featured 175th anniversary logos.  Content is more easily accessed and easily added/updated.

According to a press release from Tom Perry, the Director of College Relations, we should expect anywhere from 4-8 articles a month, which should keep things fresh and interesting.

As a side note, we have been recognized by the college as a local news outlet, which is a huge step for us.  We will continue to provide a look at Marietta College from the student’s perspective.  Writing on the Mall is still a student owned and operated blog…just expanding our readership and promoting our wears.

Get Well Soon Dave St. Peter

Just a quick note.

I wanted to wish Dave St. Peter, the man behind the curtain at the McKinney Mass Media building a quick recovery and good health after he had to spend a day or two in the hospital. Without him, a lot of things wouldn’t go quite right, and I hope to see him the first day of classes. St. Peter also does high school sports coverage for WRRR is St. Mary’s, West Virginia.

Feel better Dave!

Website Re-Designs

As you may have noticed when you visited Writing on the Mall today, we decided to jump over to a new look.  I think this theme is much better than the last one, as it has a wider area for articles and makes integration of other items easier.  This theme is the same used on Writing on the Mall’s up and coming sister site, MariettaSports.net.

Also, if you have a hankering to see the new Marietta College website, here’s a link to what it looks like.  It is much improved (in my opinion) from the old version of the site.  I am awaiting its official launch patiently.  The new website is the third and final part of the college’s web re-development.  MyMC (Student and Faculty portal site) was replaced with MyMarietta (I was a big fan of PioNet, but that’s just me), and WebCT was updated and integrated better with MyMarietta.

In all, the changes will benefit students (well, maybe all except using Zimbra, which is receiving a lot of complaints now that it is live), but time will tell the true benefit of all services.