Nicholas Gunner

New Media Manager at SUNY Fredonia. Documentarian & digital storyteller.

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Wacky Buttons

Geoff Letson started wackybuttons.com in his dorm with a bunch of friends. He says: “It was just a bunch of goofy kids having a good time... I took it too far!”

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2014 Fredonia TV Commercial - You've found Fredonia

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Commencement 2014

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Snowy Campus

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Find your calling at SUNY Fredonia

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Find your calling at SUNY Fredonia

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TV Commercial

*Note: The soundtrack for the web version of this video is different from the soundtrack used for TV broadcast.

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Find your calling at SUNY Fredonia

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Find your calling at SUNY Fredonia

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Find your calling at SUNY Fredonia

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Find your calling at SUNY Fredonia

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Find your calling at SUNY Fredonia

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Commencement 2013

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Commencement 2013

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Fog

Via Nicholas Gunner - I love when campus is covered with morning fog. It gives everything a quiet, almost mystic feel.

Do you agree? Why or why not?

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Street Art

Via Nicholas Gunner - Students from the Guerilla, Graffiti and Street Art honors class installed this pac-man inspired street art early this morning in Reed Library.

Sticky Post-it notes were used to depict Pac-man and one of his enemies, a ghost. Written on each note is a word or phrase describing something that either stresses students out(blue notes) or makes them feel happy(yellow notes). All notes were collected from students at the 2013 Student Research and Creativity Exposition.

“Good things eat the bad.” said one student about the intended message of the piece. 

The stress destroying nature of this art fits in perfectly with this week’s “De-stress for Success” initiatives.

The students say the piece was inspired by “Invader”, an internationally known street artist whose works often resemble pixelated video game characters. They say they learned about the artist along with many others in class.

Leesa Rittlemann teaches Honors 224: Guerilla, Graffiti and Street Art. The class aims to offer an in-depth look at art made for exhibition or performance outside of the museum or gallery. The class increases student understanding of contemporary art beyond traditional textbooks and institutions.

“2 other teams created a Moss Graffiti installation and Poetry Bomb respectively,” Rittlemann said. “I thought the Post-It note team did a nice job developing a project that is visually bold due to the neon Post-It hues, visible to all… It also offered a fun opportunity for students to write down their stressors and triumphs in these last busy weeks of the term. The team’s choice of the Pac Man and Ghost symbols worked well with the content and is in keeping with the Post-It note movement in general.”

This piece serves as a reminder that in order to score high this semester, one must not run from their stress, but rather tackle it head on. 

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How to make Apple Caviar

A video about an honors course at SUNY Fredonia that is focused on the science behind food.

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One Year of Social Media at SUNY Fredonia

Where our primary accounts were in April of 2012:

Twitter: 

Facebook:

Where they are one year later:

Twitter:

Facebook:

Where we're going:

In the last year, we've been successful at maintaining a consistent social media presence for SUNY Fredonia. We've engaged our audience on a daily basis with original content, giving current students, prospective students, alumni, donors, media outlets and local communities a transparent view of daily happenings at our institution. Our primary goal moving forward will be to continue transmitting these glimpses of Fredonia. 

There is a lot more to do. To start, we are monitoring up-coming social networks and are beginning the process of cultivating new communities online. We recently started promoting a SUNY Fredonia Instagram account as well as pushing content to SUNY Fredonia Pintrest Pinboards.

We've created a repository for glimpses of Fredonia as well as experimental multimedia on a website called Fredpost. We'll continue to experiment with new ways of presenting content on Fredpost.

A major aspect of Fredonia social media that must be addressed is the segmented nature of social media accounts within our campus community. We must agree on a communication plan that not only allows departments, faculty, staff, clubs, etc to have their own social media, but to also ensure that they are maintaining a common SUNY Fredonia brand. We hope to work closer with the campus in the coming year to promote interaction between groups on social media and to channel more of their communications through our main accounts.

We've created some great content across the SUNY Fredonia campus over the past year. Now we need to learn to share that content to amplify its reach and overall impact.