IT Hosts Hornet 365 Event and Promo Campaign

The month of April saw a major marketing push to promote the new Hornet 365 university portal and digital platform.  The ESU Web & Digital Strategies team hosted a tabling event in the Memorial Union this past week to bring awareness directly to students.  In addition to meeting around 200 students, we were able to demo Hornet 365, answer questions and hand out custom t-shirts and mugs.  The month's campaign featured the IT Robot, a character created for the marketing initiative.  The robot appeared in short video vignettes, but made his public debut at this week's tabling event.

The campaign included weekly email updates, video vignettes, one-on-one meetings, the tabling event, digital, printed and animated posters, a project website and culminates with a digital scavenger hunt this week.  

A special Hornet 365 issue of IT Showcase, our regular publication, will be available in printed and digital editions the first week of May.

Hornet 365 is fully functional and available now at hornet.emporia.edu.  The current portal, BuzzIn, will be shutdown later this summer.

Brian Osbourn
Director, Web & Digital

New Hornet 365

A couple weeks ago we unveiled our most up-to-date version of Hornet 365. The latest version includes upgrades to accessibility, loading speeds, and even more helpful 'tiles' for each page. Every day we work on adding more content to create an even better University Portal. The feedback we have received for Hornet 365 has been helpful with a lot of great suggestions that we've been able to immediately add to the site. We thrive on the feedback because that is our best way to satisfy our audience, you. Within the first seven days of launch, Hornet 365 had over 10,000 pageviews! This is great to see as this University Portal will be the easiest way to find any online service that the university provides. We're very happy with the results thus far, but we are always looking to improve our services. Head over to hornet.emporia.edu to check it out and leave feedback!


Sam Derksen
Web Developer
Web and Digital Strategies

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