Following a post from Brian Kelly, I started thinking about how University of Portsmouth let students/staff know that it was closed today.
We had a number of sources:
- Twitter:
- Websites
- Email … though there only seemed to be an all staff email, not an all student one too.
- Facebook
- University page
- Uni Library page (who add they’ll not charge fines that are due today :))
- & it was announced with the school closures on Radio Solent.
I guess some will also have had the news second hand in some way; e.g. re-tweets, via friends in Facebook, via Victory if staff put information up there etc.,
What I’m not sure about is which route staff/students actually used. I’ve asked on twitter – so far everyone who is on Twitter used it – and also one other staff member via email – which is how she found out. (And how many haven’t investigated, so have a cold walk in)
Unlike Bath, we don’t have text messaging options – which would be useful today I think, as not all staff/students have access to the Internet at home.
Don’t forget our facebook page as well which has been doing updates constantly.
http://www.facebook.com/portsmouthsu
I’ve just seen that there is now an all student email – but it wasn’t sent until 11:33 – also, someone told me that there was information on The News website.