Online Presence

O’Neill website, online policies, and procedures

The O’Neill website is our school’s main marketing tool targeted to our primary audience: prospective students. Testing and stakeholders show that this audience is primarily interested in program information, costs, what O’Neill offers them, and how they will be successful after college.

Update information on the O'Neill website

Send updates to your directory profile to the Office of Marketing and Communication's (OMC's) web content specialist. To update your CV, send your updated pdf or word doc as an attachment to oneillfa@iu.edu.

For all other updates to the main O'Neill website, send the page link and details to OMC's web content specialist.

For larger projects, new site sections, and reorganizations, contact OMC with an overview of your idea. We will follow up to see how we can assist.

Get your own IU website

Review IU's detailed approval process. If you believe your site meets IU's criteria, you can apply for approval. We can help!

If space is granted, your website will be yours to create, update, and maintain—but we are here to help get you started, provide training, and offer troubleshooting along the way.

Update your passwords

Whether you have an IU website, blog, social media, or other online O'Neill-related resource, if the password is changed, IT needs to be notified so they can update the website configuration accordingly.

Passwords should only be shared via IU Secure Share.

Other online options

If you were not granted IU web space, or just seek a different method to get your information out there—you have options! IU provides alternative suggestions, or see more information below:

IU offers a free, simple Word Press option at blogs.iu.edu. This provides IU branding and limited support through IU.

The O’Neill School does not typically offer support or pay for outside services or sites. If you seek a website, app, or other online resource outside of IU, please first consult with the Office of Contract and Financial Administration regarding payment. You will be responsible for following IU’s policies regarding outside sites.

Outside sites must make clear within the site—often in the footer—who is responsible for the site and its content.
Outside sites should be converted to .info domains or hosted at an edu domain.You will be responsible for this outside service, the data that may be stored there, and the updating and transition of these sites.
The site must not have IU/O’Neill branding unless otherwise negotiated, although you may link back to O’Neill if your project/team is associated with the school in some way.
Remember that certain types of data (anything not public from the Classifications of Institutional Data list) do NOT belong outside IU sources or sanctioned services.

Before developing your own social media channel, contact the OMC director to see if your needs might be served by an existing O’Neill channel.

Additional considerations

All sites must adhere to copyright and trademark laws, so be certain that any language, logos, photos, or artwork you use within your site are either original to you, appropriately purchased, part of the public domain, or documented permission for your use has been granted.

IU will no longer grant IU framework sites for student organizations. Beinvolved.indiana.edu may offer alternatives.

Most O’Neill student organizations (possibly all) do not qualify to use “Indiana University” or “IU” before their organizational name and no one outside of specific IU offices is authorized to create any logos using the trademarked block IU.

Any outside website that is affiliated with O’Neill must:

Portray O’Neill in a positive and professional way
Clearly link back to the O’Neill website
Not solicit funding or sell merchandise
Not contain admissions information or otherwise portray themselves as an IU admissions or O’Neill applications-related site
Use the standard O’Neill lock up, if a logo is used, without alteration. Custom O’Neill logos are not permitted. (See special information for student sites, above)

All entities and groups should follow the policies below to make OMC and IT aware of your site.

If you are using the main O’Neill website or an IU provided WCMS/IU Framework site, you may skip this section.

To obtain a fully qualified domain name for your website, follow the guidelines explained below. If you need something outside of these options, contact oniellit@iu.edu.

Custom domains that do not fit into any of the above policies should follow these guidelines:

A custom IU domain can be obtained via oneillit, and will look something like http://mydomain.oneill.indiana.edu.
Alternatively, you can request a go.iu.edu link which will generate a random iu.edu link that will redirect to your site. If you have a little more time, you can request a custom go.iu link through University Communications and Marketing.
If you feel you must have an external domain, the only allowed top level domain (TLD) is .info. Something similar to http://myoneillproject.info could be requested.

Read IU's policies on domain names

As per the policy above, no .com/.org/.net/.biz or others are allowed.

Your unit or project must follow the procedures below with regards to your domain.

You must make provisions to store the external login credentials for the management of this domain in a shared space for your team. We highly recommend that you also send this info to ONEILLIT as a backup store of these credentials.

We do not recommend, fund, or support external domains.

Online Presence

O’Neill website, online policies, and procedures

Update information on the O'Neill website

Get your own IU website

Update your passwords

Other online options

Blogs

Outside websites for IU-related work

Social Media

Additional considerations

Copyright and trademarks

Special information for student sites

Requirements for outside sites affiliated with the O’Neill School

External domain policies and recommendations

Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs resources and social media channels