Starting today, the University’s e-newsletter DailyNews has switched to a Drupal-based presentation format. Subscribers have been automatically redirected to the new version.

The two formats had been running in parallel since a soft launch at the start of the month, says Richard Dumala, manager of the Web Services Group in IT Services.

“We are confident that the platform has proven robust enough to justify this change-over,” he says. “We hope that subscribers will be patient and alert us to any glitches they note as a result of the switch.”

The new version takes advantage of syndication tools in the University’s Drupal content management system and improves integration with social media, says DailyNews editor Kevin Johnson. In addition to original articles, the site features campus events pulled from a central calendar, stories about Lancer athletics, and links to mentions of the University in external news media.

“We hope to encourage greater information-sharing across the campus,” Johnson says. “The new back end will make it easier to repurpose our content as well as for us to pull feeds from other sources.”

To provide comment on the design or features, use the new Contact page.