{"id":4714,"date":"2010-10-14T02:03:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T18:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/something-out-of-the-box\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:06:36","slug":"something-out-of-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/something-out-of-the-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Something out of The Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curtin&#8217;s &#8216;The Box&#8217; website has taken out top prize at the Australian marketing industry&#8217;s night of nights in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The highly interactive website was lauded last night at the Australian Marketing Institute Awards dinner attended by 500 industry leaders from across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>After winning the &#8216;Education&#8217; category early in the evening, &#8216;The Box&#8217; claimed best overall prize at the climax of the night from a field of 18 fellow national award winners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/13\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/The-Student-Box3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6373\" title=\"The Student Box\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/13\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/The-Student-Box3-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Box is a digital tool that helps students make the transition from their final year of high school to university.<\/p>\n<p>Launched last year, and now called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studentbox.com.au\/\"><strong>The Student Box<\/strong><\/a>, the website has opened the eyes of thousands of aspiring university students to the opportunity that Curtin provides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We created a new channel of communication for kids in high school that gave them an opportunity to ask questions and interact with each other and find out about tertiary study opportunities in a whole new way,&#8221; said Curtin&#8217;s Digital Media Unit Director Rick Barrett.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We effectively took a huge punt and it has paid off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Student Box has lots of great tips on study, university and life in general.<\/p>\n<p>Curtin&#8217;s Director of Marketing Karen Carriero said the website would not be resting on its laurels.<\/p>\n<p>She said the The Student Box had now engendered a &#8216;less talk, more listening&#8217; approach that allowed users to take control of the site themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The Brand Agency and Longtail worked with Curtin to create the award-winning website.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tc_E-Mf7FOY[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtin&#8217;s &#8216;The Box&#8217; website takes out Australian marketing industry&#8217;s top prize for 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-4714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 17:18:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}