Nicole Youmans

Niki Youmans

Digital Strategist

Biography

In her role as a digital strategist, Niki Youmans:

Serves as the UMC and university lead to manage and fully utilize the capabilities of software and tools to audit and analyze the overall quality of the university website;

Serves as the UMC and university lead to implement, manage and support Siteimprove, the university's official website accessibility software;

Ensures implementation and optimization of search service and functions across the university website;

Ensures identification and implementation of meta tags, keywords, overall changes, etc., in an effort to benefit the website's SEO;

Gathers and analyzes website data and user behavior data and develops and shares reports and strategies based off of this data;

Delivers data-driven recommendations to web editors across the university on how to improve their pages and content;

Serves as the UMC and university lead and primary point of contact to plan, implement and manage the university鈥檚 Concept 3D interactive map.

Education

  • B.S. in multimedia/web development | Dakota State University | 2004
  • B.S. in graphic design | Dakota State University | 2004
  • Minor in business administration | Dakota State University | 2004
  • Minor in art | Dakota State University | 2004
Mailing Address:
Communications Center 105
University Marketing & Communications-Box 2230
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007
Office Location:
Communications Center
Room 105