Content Hub

  • April 28, 2022

    Social media shares increase Mason’s digital impact by connecting with potential new visitors and improving a news item’s search engine ranking.  Even if you have no distribution plans of your own, web content is highly shareable, and one can’t predict which stories will be shared by your readers.

  • March 10, 2022

    News Items with the same Topic Tag will appear together in a news item filter list and are grouped into a taxonomy list. News Items shared with a site will export to the designated subscribing site.

  • March 10, 2022

    This 'Display Date' field is used to list news items by 'Display Date' order in a news list filter block. This field appears near the top of a news item admin screen.

    The 'Display Date' does not affect the page's visibility to end-users. To schedule the news item to publish on a specific date, please use the publication settings at the bottom of the news item's 'Edit Settings' screen.

  • March 9, 2022

    The text here will display as the search engine result snippet. This text is the item's 'elevator speech', a one-sentence highlight of your content.

  • May 2, 2023

    SiteMasonry's versioning workflow allows content to be modified in an un-published Draft state without changing the publically viewable (Published) version of the page or content item (news item, profile, or program)

  • May 9, 2023

    Mason prides itself on its dedication to inclusivity. Each Mason web editor is required to support digital inclusion at Mason. One key component is adding alt text to images.

  • May 8, 2023

    The SiteMasonry's distributed content library, Content Hub, allows editors to add and share news articles, faculty profiles, and program descriptions to any (or all) sites on the SiteMasonry platform. Here's how to edit an existing item in Content Hub.

  • November 22, 2021

    A snappy, robust profile is a great way to show off a Mason community member's accomplishments.

  • May 8, 2023

    The SiteMasonry's distributed content library, Content Hub, allows editors to add and share news articles, faculty profiles, and program descriptions to any (or all) sites on the SiteMasonry platform.

  • April 25, 2023

    Files that are being shared off Mason sites need to be stored in Blackboard. Review the steps you need to take to make a file public.