DN’s Community Desk provides outlet for all campus groups about upcoming events

The purpose of the Daily Nebraskan has always been to inform the readers about issues affecting the university, the campus and the Lincoln community. A part of our duty is to let our readers know what is happening on campus. While the DN tries to highlight as many events that happen in Lincoln and on campus, limited space makes it impossible to cover each individual event. In order to reach out to the community and all student organizations,  Jenna Gibson, the DN editor-in-chief last year, created Community Desk. Community Desk is a page on the Daily Nebraskan website where student organizations can submit event information and get it uploaded to the site to promote the event.

The Daily Nebraskan encourages all student organizations, fraternities and sororities to email any event information to community@dailynebraskan.com. If there is a press release on the event, please include it in the email. Community Desk is essentially free publicity for student organizations. Event information will be seen by those who visit the Daily Nebraskan website and those who follow the newspaper on Twitter.

There are several things during the school year the Daily Nebraskan is planning to do to improve Community Desk. The first is to use Twitter more to promote the events that student organizations hold during the year. This would include tweeting interesting information about the events and encouraging the student body to attend prior to when the events start. We also hope to live tweet some of the events for students who want to attend events but are unable to because of other commitments. Twitter has become an increasingly relevant social media tool, and Community Desk will take better advantage of it.

We also hope to get a widget on the front page so students know what events are happening today, as well as compile a calendar of events for the Community Desk page. The Daily Nebraskan will continue to have a weekly rundown of events submitted to Community Desk in the paper.

The Daily Nebraskan encourages student feedback of Community Desk and suggestions to make it better. The newspaper is excited to continue Community Desk and hopes it serves as a valuable tool for the student body and organizations.

kimbuckley@dailynebraskan.com