What does the Students Association do? The Digital Communications team

<p>We want OU students living in secure environments to understand more about the OU Students Association&comma; the work we do and all the ways we help students&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Digital Communications or &&num;8216&semi;Digi Comms&&num;8217&semi; team &lpar;made up of Kate&comma; Andy and Ciara&rpar; are responsible for passing along information from the Association to students&period; They communicate in a variety of ways to make sure the Association&&num;8217&semi;s messages reach as many students as possible&period; Information is shared along various channels including Facebook&comma; Twitter&comma; LinkedIn and on our website&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One of the major projects the Digi Comms team worked on in the last year was the launch of a new website which was an exciting new development for the Association&comma; as it enabled us to build a totally new site to reflect our values&comma; who we are and what we offer&period; The Digi Comms team&&num;8217&semi;s Optimisation Officer describes the website as our shop window displaying what the Association has to offer&period; It is therefore important for the Digi Comms team to keep this tidy and in order so that students are able to navigate it with ease&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"fr-fic fr-dib wp-image-15423" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;thehootstudents&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;07&sol;The-Hoot&period;jpg&quest;w&equals;1160&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" alt&equals;"The image shows the Hoot logo" data-id&equals;"15423" data-recalc-dims&equals;"1" &sol;>Another site we manage is The Hoot&comma; our online student magazine that is alive with new articles from students&comma; Association staff and OU staff too&period; The Hoot covers so many topics and students can write and submit articles about absolutely anything that interests them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Digi Comms team also do lots of important work collaborating with other teams collecting content &lpar;at graduation ceremonies&comma; Freshers&comma; Student Leadership Team events and more&rpar;&comma; promoting awareness days and managing the Association brand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Based on feedback from the last issue&comma; we know that readers wanted to learn more about the Students Association and what our amazing teams do for students&period; We hope that this article has given you an insight into the work done by the Digital Communications team&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;zombify&lowbar;post&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

Ciara Linehan
Ciara is a member of the Students Association staff team.