Team meeting 2/6

Zach finished his Thomas Olsen article. He is doing research on the Wind Energy story. June at NRRI gave him the name of a person to contact. He is still waiting to hear from the actuary club and from Michael Montano.

Kat is working on the eating disorder article and has lined up interviews with Dori Decker and Kitty Westin. She has also been doing projects for Cheryl.

Maeggi sent out a lot of emails. She wrote up the feature items tips. She is updating the chancellor info on his webpage.

Jess interviewed the student from LSBE featured on the video spot. She hopes to go to Glensheen this week with Cheryl and Maeggi regarding the Saturday Evening Girls article. She will work on the Polar Plunge/Out Cold Week article. She has also been working on binders for Betty.

Cheryl spoke to someone about the Arts Alliance. She will talk to Bill Payne to see if we want to do a news release. She is working on Land Grants. She is working with Fox News on the Indigenous Doc. Education story. She wrote that up. She is working on a problem with the postal system. The Bridge will be proofed tomorrow and go to print on Thursday. MPR is not coming Friday, maybe 2/24. He wants to go with a student to the hockey game.

Christiana is working on how to post news releases. She is working on news releases for MTAG open house, Tim Wise lecture, Darwin Day, and AFA/ASL/SFA on Sundy. She is working on the Brief. She will put in Indigenous Ed Programs, possibly, Art Alliance and Taconite Tailings. She asked about doing a story on Boulder Lake Environmental Learning Center. Zach will take that one.

Kathleen has been working on Currents which goes out tomorrow and on homepage changes which change out tomorrow. She is writing 25 words and cropping photos for that. She updated story ideas after she met with Cheryl and Christiana this morning.

Team Meeting 1/31

Christiana is on vacation and Kat couldn't make the meeting today. Here is Kat's update:

On Tuesday Kat worked on her Anna House Foundation story and set up interviews for the Something for Annika news release. On Thursday she had interviews for the new release Something for Annika and wrote the news release.

Jess dropped a class and is now able to attend the team meetings. She is doing research for Cheryl. Jess will be helping Betty put together some portfolios this afternoon. Jess heard back from Arden about the Saturday Evening girls and will be sending Jess more info. We agreed that doing a reprint of the Jim Paymar story made more sense than having Jess do another one. She will contact LJ about someone else to interview - possibly the young man in the LSBE 30-second video.

Zach said Michael Montano had the flu last Friday and so they have to reschedule their interview. He has the Tom Olsen interview on Wed. He is waiting to hear back from someone in the actuary club. He just emailed them on Friday.

Maeggi started writing about the warrior arts studio alumna. She is waiting for some quotes from vets. Last week she proofed the Bridge. She worked on the Chancellor's column for the Bridge. She is also working on some feature story writing tips.

Cheryl said that the Bridge is very close. She will be editing the Chancellor's column. She is redesigning the post card for the Bridge mailing. She asked for ideas.

Kathleen is writing The Miracle Worker homepage article - just waiting for some info from Sherise. The homepage changes out tomorrow. She already confirmed with Cheryl what should go up. Kathleen needs to crop photos and write the 25 words. Kathleen edited the American Indian article for Cheryl. Kathleen is also working on the next issue of Currents.

Team Meeting for 1/23

Unfortunately Jess isn't available on Mondays at 1:15 pm so we discussed a possible Tuesday at 8 am meeting. Kathleen will email Jess about that possibility.

Zach finally heard back from Mike Montano, and it sounds like they will be meeting on Wednesday. Last week he did some research for Christiana on taconite. Today he updated legislator info for Betty.

This morning, Maeggi sat in a Skype interview with Cheryl and a woman in Chicago. That article will go into the Bridge.

Last week Kat finished her puppetry article. She did a few various projects for Christiana and Cheryl. She also worked on Currents.

Cheryl is waiting to hear about the cover for the Bridge and how that will impact the contents. The new year greeting from Dr. Black is going out this week. She will be in the cities on Wednesday.

Christiana continues to meet with people about the Vlog. She and Kathleen are meeting with Lisa Erwin on Wednesday. She is working on the FUSE Duluth project. Tomorrow she meets with the ASL Club and hopes to get an update on their involvement on The Miracle Worker. She is working on news releases on the Nissim Award and taconite tailings. She is also looking into stories about CSA farming, Lincoln Park Food Access, Scholar Athlete event and Frozen Four Women's Event. Zach will take the article on the actuary club and Kat will take the article on Eating Disorders Week.

Kathleen is working on the Bridge, Currents and the Homepage. Homepage changed out today and the new issue of Currents goes out tomorrow. She proofed the Bridge over the weekend and gave her ideas to Cheryl.

Team Meeting 12/21

Cheryl came at the very end of the meeting. She will, no doubt, blog her update. Zach was unable to make the meeting. Kat wasn't able to be here either but here is her update:

On Wednesday Kat finished and sent off her puppetry article to be edited again. On Thursday she worked on Winter Bridge articles and did some research on vloging. Monday she finished the information for the Winter Bridge for the AIA Chicago award and the UROP Puppetry story.

Jess worked on updates for the Bridge. She also spoke to Cheryl today about a vlogging internship. Jess will write the press release based on Zach's language ap article.

Kathleen has written the 25 words and cropped pictures for the two articles that are going up tomorrow. She worked with Christiana on making sure that we had the most up to date version of the Professor Chee article. Next Tuesday Kathleen will be interviewing Shawn Grund who is a Peace Corp volunteer in Rwanda.

Christiana is waiting for approval on the hockey ranking article. She will be blogging a couple of stories on the Area Voices site tomorrow. She also is applying for her job and updating her portfolio. She was sorry to say that she couldn't find a professor who would talk about Santa.

Team Meeting 12/15

Jess is working with Betty today on putting together branding task force binders. She is also working on researching an internship (re: the vlogging project) and wants to talk to Cheryl about the process.

Kat received quotes from Janelle so she can finish the puppetry UROP article. She is also working on vlogging research.

Zach said the Violent Paradox UROP article is almost done. He spoke to Eric H. Olsen about the vlogging project and he was interested in it.

Cheryl has a meeting next week regarding how to do a project with multiple departments: ie. the process for the Bridge, Annual Report, Chancellor invites, etc. She will be putting together a timeline.

We are going into the next Bridge. Cheryl hopes to have it mailed the first two weeks of Feb.

Cheryl is also working on the fourth Fox News segment. She was thinking a story about international programs. Everyone liked that idea.

Cheryl also did a powerpoint for Betty.

Christiana is working on a number of news releases including the latest award for Swenson. She is waiting for correction on the Master of Civil Engineering. She is also working with FUSE Duluth regarding expanding the campus connection beyond LSBE.

Kathleen has been working on homepage changes. Edited the stories, cropped photos, and wrote the 25 words x 4 for the homepage. She has also started the next issue of Currents this week. She has been getting spring semester schedules from the students (thank you) and will put the January calendar and marketing/comm webpage asap. Kathleen also worked on the copy for the Strat Plan e-newsletter yesterday.

We reviewed what we need for edited versions of the UROP articles for the Bridge and edited versions of homepage stories for UMD Updates in the Bridge. After the meeting, Kathleen updated the new document Winter Bridge which incorporates the UROP info and the UMD Update info and links. She sent an email to the team telling them about that.

Cheryl asked Christiana to get back to television reporter regarding a math or physics professor to talk to about Santa!

Team Meeting - 12/7

Cheryl had left for Chicago. Sue attended the meeting.

Zach worked with Cheryl yesterday to get pictures of students with ipads. The ipad story is now up. He has to make one correction to a caption. He has his UROP interview on the violence paradox tomorrow. He has been doing some research on the subject. He also put up posters on the holocaust trip study abroad for Cheryl.

Last Thursday, Kat spent time looking for a woman study picture. She has been working on the puppetry UROP article. She is waiting for the student to answer some questions.

Jessica and Kat are working on the alert system story. However the professor hasn't gotten back to them so it will probably have to been pushed back to January. She is waiting for pictures on the Jean Baptiste story. She will be sending the story to his advisor for feedback. Today she was researching Rwanda for Kathleen for an upcoming article. She got the internship with PBS for next semester. She said she'd get us a tour when she is on the "inside."

Kathleen has been working on Currents. The last one for 2011 went out yesterday. She has been working on homepage changes: wrote 25 words, cropped photos, sent the changes, and updated the index. Christiana and Kathleen interviewed Joseph Maiolo yesterday. Kathleen revised the article, Christiana edited it, then sent the link to Joseph. The plan is to put that and the "point to" NRRI article up tomorrow. Kathleen has been getting the student schedules for next semester. Zach will send his as soon as he has it. Kathleen got quotes from John Arthur on Monday and finished her Kenyan UROP article. She sent the link to the student and John for changes. She still hasn't been able to connect with an LSBE UROP student. She's been working with ITSS to get her computer networked to the new color printer and get Matt's computer networked to the old color printer (now in his office).

Sue said that two of the six 15 second videos are done. They will be used by television stations, Amsoil Arena, My Nine, posted on websites and YouTube, and shared with alumni relations, donors, and admissions. Sue would like to have a Red Carpet Event and invite the students who were in the videos. The Branding Task Force meets next Thursday. Invitations have gone out. She would like to do a survey of the campus and the region about UMD branding. The deadline for completion is the end of spring semester but at exactly what stage the process needs to be in is yet to be determined.

Christiana has been working on the Carmen Latterell news release. She has also been working on the American Blues news release. She sent it to Chicago papers and also to alumni relations. She spoke to Lisa in CE about the certifications for gambling addiction and sustainable food. She has a couple of new projects: an award that Swenson labs received and the UMD Women's Hockey Team jersey auction. She had an idea about vlogging (video blogging, not a typo). She is interested in videotaping news releases to use on RSS feeds. People come listen to them in their car. They would also be useful for people who are vision impaired and could be broadcast on KUMD. Sue said to brainstorm about it and talk to Bill Payne and Linda Deneen. Zach suggested talking to Professor Eric H. Olsen who is a former reporter for KARE 11. Sue thought maybe it could be kicked off sometime in January. Christiana set up a brainstorming session with the students on Monday morning.

Team Meeting 11/30

Cheryl was in the Twin Cities, and Zach had a test and needed to study. Cheryl wrote a blog update, and Zach emailed an update which I shared with the group.

Zach has finished the holiday tree story. He has a few updates to make to the iPad story. His UROP meeting with the person for violent media enjoyment paradox is next Thursday. The Tobin Stanley article is up. It can't run on the homepage until after the Star Tribune runs their article. Mike Montano hasn't gotten back to him.

Jess said her UROPs are almost done. Mysteries is finished. Heikal is being edited. She is meeting with Jean Baptiste for his photo shoot. She has a few more questions for him and then will finish that article. The Civil Engineering Masters article is done.

Kat has written and edited the Puppet UROP. It is on Dreamweaver. She received a couple of changes from the student.

Christiana has been working on a lot of news releases and is waiting for approval to send them out. They are: diversity award, Carmen Latterrel, NSF Chippewa Language video, Andrea Schokker. She sent the holiday tree news release to the Statesman and KUMD. Most of the television stations had already covered it. She sent out the news release for the civil engineering masters. She sent out the LLO Nat Geo info to Biz Buz. She is working on a news release for American Blues Theatre. She is also working on the Brief.

Kathleen put her UROP on a dreamweaver page. The faculty advisor is in Australia this week and she will speak with him next week. She is still trying to find an LSBE UROP student to interview. She put together a google docs for the UROP projects with contact info and links to articles. She worked on homepage changes yesterday, edited articles, cropped photos, wrote 25 words, and updated the index. She notified LJ that an LSBE article was going up on the homepage. They are probably going to put it up on their homepage. She has been working on Currents - a lot of notices still coming in. UMD Events Calendar pictures need to change out next week so she has been coordinating that. She updated a couple of media emails that had come back as bad. She emailed the student employees asking for their spring semester schedules when they have them.

Jessica and Kat will team up to do the Alert System article. Hopefully that can be done by Tues. They will also team up to interview Shawn Grund, an alumnus who volunteered in Rwanda with the Peace Corp. We scheduled that article for January after J-term when the students are back.