We are all now MU Cows?

CaoimH_in

Maynooth University, eh? Far from Maynooth University you were born!!

Rebranding, eh? Notions is all, notions about yerself is all!

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/education/now-its-maynooth-university-as-the-college-rebrands-30543358.html

Xscreamokidx

Personally I prefer NUI Maynooth

mickstupp

So dumb. They give out about budgets, cut funding from departments that desperately need it, then spend a tonne of money rebranding the place and changing everything, new logo, new websites, new ID cards. Morons.

Oh for Christ's sake, I see they've updated the library website now to make it just as utterly unusable as the rest. Wonderful.

ConstantJoe

Is there an actual real reason for doing this? Like I suppose really Maynooth students have as much links to NUIG students as they do Trinity students, so the NUI name (beyond senators I guess) to the average student is a bit meaningless. But is there going to be any push for NUIG, UCC, and UCD to change their names too?

banquo

'MU Cows'. Absolutely brilliant.

banquo

Also, I have some great stories about the web designers used that I cannot type here, as is against boards.ie rules.

banquo

Also, also, hold onto your hats, crazy kids, for it is the Database Of The Week.

banquo

Twitter logo isn't a transparent png, white background still visible. Bleedin' amateur hour.

endacl

banquo wrote: »

'MU Cows'. Absolutely brilliant.

Better than 'Nuimanuis', surely?

banquo

Facebook link literally brings you to Facebook.com.

Facebook is blocked in the Library.

banquo

"Events & Exhibitions" has no content in the excerpt, also the headings in those boxes are underlined, which was in fashion in 1999. Hey, while you guys are there can you warn the Clinton administration about 9/11?

banquo

Don't drink and post.

XxMCRxBabyxX

We [url={http://touch.boards.ie/thread/post/85111802}]discussed[/URL] this last year when it was first announced. MU is the "cool" attract students name. I stand by NUIM. Could be worse though, they could have gone for UM.

banquo

"So where do you go?"

"UM?"

mickstupp

banquo wrote: »

Twitter logo isn't a transparent png, white background still visible. Bleedin' amateur hour.

It's blurry as hell on my linkedin page. Whoever stuck that up there has no clue.

banquo

Get me drunk some time and I shall tell you a tale, friends, of my relationship with a certain web design company.

mickstupp

Jesus Effing Christmas Cake all I want to do is get to JSTOR why did they change the site. Whose idea was it to make everything LESS user-friendly? AND HOW DO I FIND JSTOR> FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF:mad:

agent graves

mickstupp wrote: »

Jesus Effing Christmas Cake all I want to do is get to JSTOR why did they change the site. Whose idea was it to make everything LESS user-friendly? AND HOW DO I FIND JSTOR> FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF:mad:

type it into the library search..

mickstupp

Turns out it was easier to just login to the JSTOR site itself.



Those site 'designers' were clearly a bunch of drunk monkeys.

banquo

Very often how these things go in a public sector setting are:

1. A bunch of web designers who know what they're doing get hired.

2. They are ignored, as a bunch of people who have no idea what they're doing and have never worked on something like this before "brainstorm" in a committee, usually with terrible results.

3. The results of this nonsense are then passed to the web designers, who are lumbered with the task of building a piece of tripe.

4. Underpaid and hating the job, they don't exactly put their heart and soul into it. Also they're probably doing like 11 other jobs at the same time.

XxMCRxBabyxX

banquo wrote: »

Get me drunk some time and I shall tell you a tale, friends, of my relationship with a certain web design company.

I love drunk banquo. He's so informative.

FatherlyNick

At least it's not Tallaght Institute of Technology.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

aaabbbb

banquo wrote: »

Facebook link literally brings you to Facebook.com.

Facebook is blocked in the Library.

Not in the new parts....

Lucena

banquo wrote: »

Very often how these things go in a public sector setting are:

1. A bunch of web designers who know what they're doing get hired.

2. They are ignored, as a bunch of people who have no idea what they're doing and have never worked on something like this before "brainstorm" in a committee, usually with terrible results.

3. The results of this nonsense are then passed to the web designers, who are lumbered with the task of building a piece of tripe.

4. Underpaid and hating the job, they don't exactly put their heart and soul into it. Also they're probably doing like 11 other jobs at the same time.

Sounds a bit like this:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

banquo

That is exactly what happened, guaranteed.

RobbingBandit

Was somebody watching South Park when they came up with this name.

D_s

banquo wrote: »

Facebook link literally brings you to Facebook.com.

Well, I mean, they're not wrong.

banquo

If it brought them to their own Facebook profile that would be acceptable...

banquo

Everybody's fired.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

T is already missing from the front sign.

Xscreamokidx

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

T is already missing from the front sign.

Heard it was those f**kers from Trinity :P

CSSE09

No worries can always rearrange the letters to spell Mu niversity, sell the rest to yahoo.

banquo

Moo University.

/lures cow to sign

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Sign is ****ed. That lasted a while.

GarIT

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Sign is ****ed. That lasted a while.

Wont be in for another week, pics?

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Get one when I'm walking down for lunch.

SpaceTime

ConstantJoe wrote: »

Is there an actual real reason for doing this? Like I suppose really Maynooth students have as much links to NUIG students as they do Trinity students, so the NUI name (beyond senators I guess) to the average student is a bit meaningless. But is there going to be any push for NUIG, UCC, and UCD to change their names too?

The NUI tried to force the universities to change to NUI*
Only Maynooth and UCG went along with it.

UCC and UCD absolutely point blank refused on the basis that it would damage their brands.
UCC from what I remember even started to question why the NUI even existed.

I've no idea why Galway went along with it as UCG was also a long established brand.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Sorry Gar sign is gone completely now.

RobbingBandit

I'm going to pop a book back to the library on friday or saturday, anyone know if it's open saturday

GarIT

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Sorry Gar sign is gone completely now.

Its grand what was on it? I'm assuming some cows?

zl1whqvjs75cdy

All kicked over and various letters missing. I'm just disappointed they didn't rearrange it to spell "i eat ****" or something along those lines. Missed a trick there. Kids these days.

PopePalpatine

I would've just wrote "Edgar is the one in the hole" on it.

TheGoldenAges

Walking through Maynooth at about half 2 I noticed someone carrying the e from the north campus sign.

RobbingBandit

There is no E in North Campus, we are a drug free environment...

penzo

anyone else feel like this was the plan the whole time on behave of the college to get the 'maynooth university' sign to go viral to spread the new name? cos i've seen it all over the place online, and It seems too obvious that letters just placed like that wouldnt be left untouched during freshers fortnight.plus the glenroyal had it on facebook with some little competition thing.



or am I giving the college too much credit?

banquo

Definitely too much credit. But if that was their idea, it was actually pretty clever.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Waaaaayyyyyyyyyy too much credit.

penzo

hmm i'm still suspicious there might have been some smart thinking behind this with the local businesses involved.

banquo

^^^ 10/10.

Thwip!

I'm just disappointed at the lack of anagrams

SHIT YOUR MAN VEIN TOY was right there.

RobbingBandit

Thwip! wrote: »

I'm just disappointed at the lack of anagrams

SHIT YOUR MAN VEIN TOY was right there.

Just a few to indulge you.

A Moonshine Ivy Rutty
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