Fierce News Feed

If your unit is not currently utilizing a News Feed, please contact the ITS Web Admin Team or the Communications and University Relations Web Team.

Create a new News Article

  1. Log into Omni
  2. Navigate to your news section
  3. Select the year (and month if you choose to break your news out by month) you’d like the release to reside in
  4. Click the “New” button in the top right corner
  5. Select “New News Article”
  6. Page Title: Preferred naming format is Page Title | LSU Unit Name. Page titles are required for accessibility.
  7. Description: Add a summary of the news article topic
  8. Image Title: A brief title of the image you want to associate with the news article
  9. Image: Paste the full URL to the image you want to associate with the news article
  10. Image Description: This is the Alt Text for the image. Provide a description specifically for the image for those unable to view it.
  11. Filename: The filename for the news article should only contain lowercase letters or dashes
  12. Click the “Create” button
  13. Click "Edit Main Content" and add the content of your news article
  14. To add a Call to Action Button:
    1. Click on the "Properties" tab
    2. Click on the "MultiEdit Content" tab on the left
    3. Add the link titles and URLs for any Call to Action buttons
  15. To add Contact information
    1. Click on the "Properties" tab
    2. Click on the "MultiEdit Content" tab on the left
    3. Check the "Display" checkbox
    4. Add contact information for up to three contacts
  16. Save
  17. Submit/Publish

Create a Redirect

  1. Log into Omni
  2. Navigate to your news section
  3. Select the year (and month if you choose to break your news out by month) you’d like the release to reside in
  4. Click the “New” button in the top right corner
  5. Click the "New Redirect" option
  6. Add URL for the redirect
  7. Add the filename using only lowercase letters or dashes
  8. Click "Create"
  9. Submit/Publish

Example Feed Embed Components

Card Display

For its annual Audubon Day, LSU Libraries will host a viewing of the famed double elephant folio edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America (London, 1827-1838) on Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Hill Memorial Library on LSU’s main campus. Audubon was a talented and complicated artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. His illustrated compendium of the birds in the United States, Birds of America, is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed.

An LSU researcher has developed a new vaccine against bovine respiratory disease (BRD) and related illnesses that kill around 8 million calves each year and cost the U.S. cattle industry more than $1 billion.

LSU broke ground on Friday, March 15, on the Our Lady of the Lake Health Interdisciplinary Science Building, having achieved a $148 million funding goal to expand research and teaching laboratories in science fields.