Introducing UKNow - The University of Kentucky’s Online News Portal

Let me begin by saying that I do not personally work on the University of Kentucky account (only University of Kentucky Athletics) so I don't have all of the details about this INCREDIBLE communication piece. But, I did want to share it with you and then have the UK team that developed it follow up (when they come up for air). 

There is no better way to show our capabilities than to allow you to see and tool around with the work yourself.

Check out this site.....you will be impressed - http://uknow.uky.edu/

UKNow is a news portal that integrates familiar social media techniques to help build a community and organize preferred news. The site allows users to create accounts or use Facebook connect to quickly start a UKNow porifle that saves the desired content configuration on the homepage. Example: Move around the News Modules and Edit the sub-categories that interest you in particular.

Additionally, the site has Twitter style "following" system that allows you to follow professors, students, general users and staff of UK PR/UK Now News team. This style of "headline/status" organization allow you to see updates from the users you are following. Example: The President and other professors will have blogs so you will see the blog headline in your feed. Similarly, the News Writers will have articles so when you follow them, you receive their article headlines with links to the story. A general user can update their status, just like on Twitter and Facebook. And, if you "follow" this user, you will see their status update just like the headlines and blog entries.

AMAZING work!!! Congratulations to all of the Cornett and UK PR team members that worked so hard on this.