During my time as a Communications Designer at La Sierra University, I designed and synthesized university news updates and notices from 40 departmental resources. Our department, The Office of Student Involvement, uses the SYMON TV interface system which broadcasted about 30 posts per day.

One of my tasks as a Communications Designer was to create and distribute the Eagle Cry emails to students about campus activities and news. We got our email list from the registrar's office where they kept all current active students for the quarter. Then we stored them in the OrgSync database until our next email distribution.

OrgSync is a campus engagement network that connects students to organizations, clubs, and departments on campus in a private online community. It's sort of like having our own private social media platform. It offers many benefits on the administration side such as streamlining digital paperwork, create events and analyze all our email campaigns to better understand our students. Since it was our first year using this service, we wanted to beta test it to our students before the university would commit to a contract. We wondered if our students would be using the service in the hight of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.