MyLynn Week Debuts: Looking For Feedback

The Marketing and Communication Department Wants Lynn’s Feedback

By KATIE BLACK

This past week the Communications and Marketing Department has put together, ‘myLynn’, week. All 5-days encourages students and faculty to vote for their favorite myLynn features. Why? Some may ask. The department wants the Lynn community to help them plan for a totally new myLynn (debuting in the fall of 2010).

A whole campaign of sorts has gone into getting the word out about the celebrated week. “I want you to want me,” by the band Cheap Trick Mantra has been their slogan. “Vote for myLynn,” T-shirts has been visibly donned throughout campus.

They even have, what looks like a real ballot, to vote on. Categories include: Home, Academics, and a Personal Section both for employees and students and Community. Other questions include: ‘what do you currently access on a myLynn’ and ‘what would you like to see on myLynn.’

Debbie Stern, the writer and editor of myLynn, wrote on Knight Writer that half way through the week she was thrilled by the outpour. “Everyone – and I do mean everyone from students to staff to faculty to even our own CIO- has been more than willing to stop and take 30 seconds to fill out ballots, even proudly wearing the “I voted for myLynn” sticker.”

Stern and Jason Hughes, Director of Public Relations, have had tables set up around campus each day. Suvery’s were taken at the cafeteria, Ritter, ASSAF and outside the Library.

The Three Legged Stool, (Lynn Online Experience), has been the theory behind the community of Lynn. One leg represents Lynn.edu, which is targeted for prospective students. The second leg represents myLynn, representing the current Lynn community. Alumni haven taken on the last leg, OurLynn.

“I think it’s really great that they’re doing this,” Ashley Feldman, senior, said. “MyLynn is something everyone here has to use. Feedback is essential, and their going right to the source to get it.”