Eastern Washington University has now gone 24/7

Faculty and staff newsletter undergoes format and name changes

EWU's Marketing and Communications Department is transforming the Good Morning Eastern (GME) online faculty and staff newsletter into a new internal website that will be continuously updated with the latest campus news.

The new Eastern 24/7 (http://blogs.ewu.edu/Eastern247) will be easier to navigate and will provide content updates daily. The most notable change will be the visual design of the page. Feature stories will be accessible without having to scroll up and down, announcements will be individually selectable, instead of the current long list that you get now, and everything will be completely searchable, either through the built-in search bar or tags.

“On the heels of launching our new university website last fall, we wanted to follow that up by creating a fresh and informative avenue to share campus news,” Teresa Conway, director of Marketing and Communications at EWU, said in a press release. “Eastern 24/7 will be a critical communications tool for the campus community.”

University-wide events will feed in from Eastern's main webpage, giving a better view of what's happening on campus than ever before. Stories from the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Education will also be automatically fed into the site for easy browsing.

Unlike GME, Eastern 24/7 will allow readers to search the story archives with a simple search.

Multimedia content will be more easily integrated into the stories and announcements, meaning submissions can come in more than just written formats. Editors will also be able to integrate photography, video and graphics into every element of the site. And, over the next year, there are plans to add weather, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and better mobile functionality.

Readers will have the ability to submit feedback and comments on every story and announcement, giving a level of interactivity that is impossible with the existing site. Readers will also be able to feed Eastern 24/7 updates directly into their email client, browser or their mobile devices through RSS subscription.

Submissions to Eastern 24/7 will be completely through email at [email protected].