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.

Team Meeting 11/15

Cheryl said that there are just a few more changes to the annual report, and it will be done. She and Jessica are making headway on Heikal, and they are working on the Mysteries project. Cheryl is waiting for corrections on the Maureen Tobin Stanley article. On Friday, she will write the American Blues article and the article about Milan's book.

Kat worked on the annual report on Monday. She also worked on the AIA article. Cheryl will email puppet pictures.

Jess blogged on Monday. She has been working on Heikal. She wrote the first draft on the Mysteries project, and she wrote the first draft on the Jean Baptiste article. She hung snow advisory posters. She found the map really confusing and will try to create a new one when/if time allows. She also compiled a list of local American Indian radio stations. She and Christiana are waiting for changes on Civil Engineering article.

Zach's eye tracker article is done. He receive corrections, made those and the correction were approved. He worked on the Annual Report with Cheryl. The Statesman would be willing to run his article on Mike. Zach has heard from Mike yet however.

Kathleen has been working on the annual report, proofing, editing, etc. Currents went out yesterday. She is working on the next issue of Currents and putting together a list of events for the Dec/Jan Night/Day ad. Homepage changes were made yesterday. She has all the UMD Facts back and can proceed with making changes. She will talk to Duane in LSBE about UROPs. He was out this week.

We reviewed what photographs need to be taken for the Bridge. Cheryl will contact Brett.

Jess suggested that we obtain a list of advisors for student organization so we can email them information about how student organizations can publicize their events. Jess also said that we need a new camera in our department.

Team Meeting 11/9

Cheryl is working on the speaker article (we can't remember the name) and the American Blues event. Cheryl could use some help on Friday. Jess offered to come in Friday 9-10 and Zach offered to come in Friday 1-3.

Cheryl is working on the annual report. She wrote the message for the Chancellor. She hopes to have the first proof reading on Friday and changes back by Monday night. She is working on the t.v. spot. She is working on speeches for students for Beaujolais nouveau. She met with Connie Black regarding a new year's/winter's greeting e-card. The graphic designer position will be posted any day now.

Kat worked on Currents. She also filed Christiana's files. She took part in the t.v. spot focus group on Monday. On Friday, she will take notes at a class regarding the puppet UROP.

Jessica worked on the ASL club zoo event on Monday. She is starting the Civil Engineering Masters article and will work next on the Mysteries UROP>

Zach is done with his Eye Tracker UROP article and is just choosing photos. He made corrections on the Tobin Stanley article. The end of the article needs to be cleaned up. He will follow up with the Statesman regarding Mike Montano. He needs a new story idea and if the Statesman isn't doing an article on Mike Montano that would be a great one for Zach to talk. Zach also worked on Currents this week.

Christiana is working on the Ianni Hall rebate news conference to be held on 11/22. Brett will be doing photographs. She is working on Brief for next week. She will add Joycelyn Dorscher's Woman of Distinction award. Also look at adding Civil Engineering on the cover of the Nov./Dec. 2011 issue of Chicago Architect. Christiana sent out news release on the ASL zoo event. She is working on the Hoagie scholarship article. She is going to the hockey game on Saturday to speak with him. She is working on the puppet UROP.

Christiana asked the students to help on a couple of projects. Zach and Kat work on a LSBE homepage story about student volunteering in the community. Christiana will get student emails. Jess offered to help put up snow advisory posters. They are already printed. They just need to be stamped and approved and then posted.

Kathleen has been working on the annual report. On Thursday, she came in and interviewed Muhammad Kasim. On Sunday she wrote the article and emailed it to him. He sent a couple of changes, and she made those on Monday. She edited and rewrote the writer's five articles. She proofed the Chancellor's message.

On Monday, Kathleen sent UMD Events Calendar picture and text changes to Matt. Yesterday, she wrote 25 words for the homepage, cropped photos, sent changes to Andy and updated the index. She spoke with Dr. Dorscher today and was able to finish that article. Andy was able to post that article and she updated the index.

She sent an email to another LSBE student regarding their UROP project. She has been working on Currents. She updated the team calendar with vacation days.

Team Meeting 11/2

We had a nice afternoon party at Cheryl's home. We decided not to have an actual meeting but everyone promised to blog.

Team Meeting for 10/26

Cheryl was out ill this afternoon, and Sue and Betty couldn't attend the meeting.

Kathleen wrote the Land of Plenty article on Sunday. She finished it on Monday and then emailed it out for feedback. She made changes yesterday, and it's ready to go. The Silver Bay article went up on the homepage yesterday and Friday, after the rally, the Land of Plenty article will go up. On Monday she checked the umdnews website and updated the stories ideas doc. She also worked on obtaining photos for the Events Calendar changes the week of 11/07. Yesterday she attended the Social Networking Tech Tuesday Talk. She has been working on Currents with Kat.

Today Kathleen worked on the Chamber of Commerce listing. She will send that to Cheryl and Sue when it is done. She edited the Night/Day ad. She interviewed her first UROP student today. Updated the team calendar. Updated media contact emails.

Zach finished up his Duane Millslagle UROP article. Now he is working on the Maureen Tobin Stanley article. He's also been doing odds and ends for Cheryl.

Kat has been working on Currents. She interviewed Ann Bergeron with Christiana regarding the puppet UROP. She wrote the Area Voices blog entries for the Fisheries event and the Zombie Symposium. She also found images for those entries. She has also been helping Cheryl with projects/research.

Jessica finished her facebook article. She is waiting for a quote. She is writing the Heikal UROP article. She has an upcoming UROP interview. Today she helped Cheryl with the campus directory and made posters for it.

Christiana has been working on news releases including Safe and Sober and the Haunted Halls. She is working with Mindy Granley on the Ianni Hall Energy Rebate news conference. She will be contacting MN Power to see if they want to be involved in the conference.

Christiana is working on the Brief for next week: AILRC, Silver Bay and Land of Plenty. She met with a student about the Fitgers Holiday Forest event. The student hopes to get decorations donated from various offices, departments and programs. We brainstormed about possible ornaments.

In addition to meeting about the puppet UROP with Kat, Christiana met with a professor/advisor for the Intelligent Helmet UROP.

Team Meeting 10/19

We won the Homecoming decorating contest!!! We will be having a joint pizza party with Advancement (the other winners).

Our department will be meeting with Advancement once a month.

Kathleen attended the Creating a Respectful Workplace meeting. She made copies of the handout and went over some of the key points. Cheryl asked that it be put into the student notebook which Kathleen will do. She will send copies to Brett and Matt too.

Sue said that she is trying to move department positions along but that she has encountered some "speed bumps."

Sue met with the TC campus folks. She met with Diana Harvey who is in charge of news media. They talked about reorganization, about having a beat and UMD would work with one person. Sue stressed UMD's uniqueness and would like that person to visit once everything is established. Diana mentioned creating a centralized pool of approved writers and graphic designers. Sue told her we probably won't use it as we need to channel dollars into this economy and have people who understand this region.

Sue also met with Ann Aronson regarding branding. Sue said that the Student Association is very interested in it. Sue told Ann that we are going through a rebranding process. She said that we might be similar to the Twin Cities but that we need to be distinct. Possible use of Driven to Discover as a tag line. Sue asked about helping financially. Ann said that their budget is already spent. Sue said that in the RFP they are stressing that the chosen group will know and understand the Duluth and Northeast community. She believes that Mayor Ness will be on that task force.

Cheryl has been working on the 30 second video and getting proposals for that. It will be used during televised sports events, but they also want it to be more evergreen for use by alumni, development and admissions. She is working with Matt on the annual report. They hope it will go out in December. She has been working on the Silver Bay Victus Farm project.

Kat has been working on Currents. She and Christiana have an interview about the UROP puppet project on Thursday. She also did research on algae oil for the Victus Farm project.

Jessica attended a couple of meetings today. She attended the Heikal interview . She will start writing that up and plans on attending a photo shoot next week. She also attended the meeting on the Black Student Association rally next week. She wrote the news release for the Salute to Sustainable Fisheries event and is working on the article on the Mysteries UROP project.

Christiana is working with Mindy Granley regarding the Ianni Hall $18,000 rebate. She has been working on a number of news releases.

Kathleen has been working on coordinating picture changes for the Events Calendar, Currents, and Homepage changes. She interviewed the playwright for Land of Plenty today. She has been having difficulty getting a hold of her UROP people.

Zach met with Professor Millslagle yesterday regarding his UROP project. He got a some quote and took some pictures. He will be working with Cheryl on the Maureen Tobin Stanley interview.

Betty asked if we were done promoting Food Week. Cheryl said that we had done a homepage article, news release and Area voices. Christiana said that there was an article in the News Tribune on Saturday and KBJR covered it in a segment on Monday. It was agreed that we were done with that project.

Regarding legislative work, Betty is working on President Kaler's visit next week and the Capital Investment Committee visit.

Cheryl said that Matt is redesigning the American Indian Learning Resource Center fact sheet. Sue is working on the news release for that.

Sue is hoping there will be a Chancellor Black op-ed piece in the Sunday News Tribune. Christiana suggested that perhaps students involved in the rally could contact Jena at the Star Tribune. Sue will confirm with Jena.

Team Meeting 10/12

We met without Cheryl (who is at the event on Torture and Accountability) and Christiana (who is in the cities researching the Snoopy statues).

We talked a bit about the homecoming decoration project. We will get together on Friday morning to work on the decorations.

Jessica has been researching the Heikal article. Zach did too. He will give her his research as he can't make the interview. (I added Jess's name onto that UROP in story ideas). She has also been doing some research on the Mysteries project. Interviews are scheduled for next week. The facebook project is not a priority. We need to confirm the status of that with Cheryl.

Kat has been working on Currents. She is scheduled to work on two UROP articles with Christiana.

Zach has finished the fish contest story. He sent the link to Sharon Moen for her approval. Zach is going to look at the list of CLA UROPs to see if one of them interests him.

Kathleen has been working on Currents. There has been so many events to add. She worked on homepage changes and also updating story ideas and keeping people informed of changes. Working on UMD Calendar of Events photo changes. Also working on updating UMD Facts.

Sue and Betty stopped by. We made introductions.

Team Meeting 10/5

Jessica has both of her articles up on the homepage! She is now researching an article about UMD facebook pages. She will be looking into some demographics.

Jessica spoke to and emailed Olaf Kuhlke today about CLA UROPs. Hopefully he will send those shortly.

Kat is working on Currents, and she put up posters for Cheryl.

Zach has been working on the Julie Etterson article. He is now working on the fisheries contest article.

Christiana has contacted SFA about the ASL club signing for The Miracle Worker and connecting that play to the larger community. She is still waiting for Heartwalk stats in order to send out that news release.

Regarding news releases, Christiana is working on one for the faculty art show, homecoming and Julie Etterson. She is working a Biz Buzz for Shane Courtland. She is meeting with Rachel Gilbertson tomorrow regarding Food Inc. She is working on next weeks Brief: NRRI, Eddy Lecture, and Julie Etterson.

She and Zach are going to the farm tomorrow (they got rained out last week) for Champ photos. Christiana also talked briefly about the Bulldog statue initiative.

Cheryl is working on the job description for the fulltime graphic designer. She is working on background info for Sue regarding the history of the Block M.

She is working on a piece for Twin Cities donors. We've been asked to take over the You Tube video page. We need to do a 30 second video UMD video. She will research what's been done before and will probably do an RFP on that.

Governor is coming on Friday. We are waiting to see if we need to do a news release on that. We may need to do a message piece on the American Indian Learning Resource Center. President Kaler is coming to the campus on 10/27 & 10/28.

Kathleen spent some time today working on the story ideas doc. Homepage changes went up today and Currents was sent out yesterday.

We reviewed UROPs for the Winter Bridge. We set due dates of 11/1 and 12/1 with 12/15 as the final drop-dead date for all Bridge articles.

Team Meeting 9/27

Hi, All. I ran out of time today at the office, so I am blogging from home. Hopefully the PR gods will smile on me and this will work.

Cheryl mentioned that our Getting the Word Out event went well. Sue Banovetz started this week, and she and Cheryl (and many others) have been dealing with a media crisis. The next Bridge will come out in Jan-Feb. It will focus on UROPS.

We reviewed some possible articles for the Bridge from LSBE, SCSE, and SFA. We chose what we thought were the most compelling and assigned them around the table. Kathleen will update the story ideas doc with a Winter Bridge section.

Christiana has been working on a number of news releases. They are: Heartwalk (over 400 UMD people participated), Eun-Kyung Suh at the Weisman, and Eddy Lecture. She hasn't heard back from Jay Austin on LLO Grant news release.

Christiana is following up on SFA Society of Promethean event. She has contacted the Dance Team - possible story early next year. She is going to the farm with Champ (aka Zach) tomorrow. She blogged Dan Fishback on Area Voices.

Jessica is finishing up the homecoming homepage article. She and Christiana attended the first sign language club meeting and our working on their article.

Zach is working on the goldenrod article and finishing it up. He's also been doing various projects with Cheryl this week.

Kat is working on Currents which goes out next week.

Kathleen has also been working on Currents. Corrected the broken links this week. She wrote 60 words for homepage, cropped photos and sent changes to Andy. She updated the index. She has been doing a lot of editing and proofing. She is working on the faculty art show article which is due on Tuesday.

Other business - Christiana mentioned the homecoming department decoration contest. She asked our students for their ideas. They were enthusiastic.

Team Meeting 9/21

Cheryl

She will be at the televising of President Kaler's inaug. She will see if they used the videos or the student stories we provided.

The Planetarium media event is Friday.

At 3:00 today, she has a UROP meeting. She wants to identify five to ten students/projects for the next Bridge.

She is going to the farm on Friday. Zach will join her. It is for the filming of the next Fox spot. The first spot is airing tonight.

Our new director starts on Monday.

Jessica

She interviewed Lacey last Thursday about homecoming. She is making changes to her first draft of the article. Cheryl provided her with info about the pep rally.

Jessica and Christiana met with Kendra about the Sign Language Club. Jessica is going to the meeting next week and hopes to get pictures from that.

Kat

She working on the next issue of Currents and has been helping Cheryl with projects.

Zach

He will follow up tomorrow with Teri about the National Student Day story. He will be working on the Farm homepage article.

Christiana

She is working on news releases about Sue, Apple Orchard tour, UMD is military friendly, V2V, Bunny in MSW, and Dan Fishback. She will work with Jess on the ASL story.

She is working on the Brief: UMD is military friendly, V2V, Bunny in MSW, and Dan Fishback

The Kaler inaug received a lot of hits on the blog.

She is also working on media passes.

Kathleen (expanded version since she hasn't blogged all week)

Currents went out yesterday. She is working with Kat on the next issue.

Put together October Night/Day ad info for Cheryl and Matt.

She wrote 60 words, cropped photos and then sent homepage changes to Andy. Updated the index.

Wrote the Dan Fishback article. Christiana proofed it. Kathleen sent the link to LJ.

Proofed lots of things this week for Cheryl, Christiana, and Jessica.

Posted two events for Finance per Betty's request.

Updated story ideas and marketing/comm page.

Updated team calendar.

Christiana and I worked on the fabulous thank you card for Bill!

Team meeting 9/14

Our two new work study students, Jessica and Katarina, introduced themselves.

Cheryl said that Sue Banovetz, our new director of external affairs, will be here Monday and then be starting the following Monday.

Kathleen has been working on Currents, homepage changes which went up yesterday, training Katarina and Jessica, and setting up the team schedule for the semester.

Matt is working on the menu and program for the Ianni Hall dedication. There are more changes. Betty will bring the documents up to her meeting with Lucy to get some of Matt's questions answered. He is working on invites and envelopes, the campus directory and the Bridge website.

Cheryl said that the Bridge is at the printer as is the Bridge mailer. The campus directory is looking good. Betty is hoping to get a phone number for our new department soon. The first Fox news story is on two sisters and their first year experience. She is going out on the Blue Heron with the new MPR contact next week. The story is on a freshman calculus class that uses real data taken from aboard the vessel. US News and World Report issue came out. We dropped from 34 to 36.

Betty is working on acquiring office furniture for Sue's office. A lot of it will be reused pieces. She is also working on the UMD listing in the Chamber of Commerce directory.

Zach is working on the online Bridge. He emailed Teri in the store regarding National Student Day. He will visit her tomorrow. We are not optimistic that there is a story here.

Jessica got the office tour and an overview of highlights (blog, story ideas doc, marketing-communications page). She started working on the homecoming article. Cheryl said that there will be a pep rally at the Holiday Inn Event Center. Jessica contacted the Chamber of Commerce about that. She would also like to speak to Bill Wade and the Alumni office but neither were in today. She has an interview with Lacey about homecoming tomorrow. She will review the handbook.

Katarina got the office tour and reviewed the handbook. She will start learning Currents today with Kathleen.

Team Meeting 9/7

Cheryl, Kathleen and Christiana interviewed three candidates for the work-study position. Cheryl will request writing samples so we can make a decision soon!

Cheryl said that Milan is having a reading at Fitgers bookstore on 922. Fox News Education Connection is a go.

Matt is working on the postcard for the Bridge. He is working on the Campus Directory which has changes. He is working on the invite and the program for the gala. The Giving Plan brochure is being checked.

Christiana is working on the annual media passes email. She is working on media release for Twins Game and Diversity project. Brief for next week is Diversity, Planetarium renovation, and Twins Game. She will be contacting Adam about Gates Millenium Scholar, and she will contact Joyce Strand about Welcome Back SCOPE dinner. She is working on Hogie Scholarship article and has a meeting with the V2V professor and students tomorrow.

Kathleen has been working on homepage changes. Currents went out yesterday and she has started the next Currents. She updated the story ideas after meeting about them with Cheryl and Christiana. Military Friendly article is ready to go. She will work on Susan Mulholland article tomorrow. Kathleen will make sure the Bridge stories that are on dreamweaver and ready to go when they are needed. She will also proof the Bridge. She needs to update the team schedule with Zach's schedule info.

Team Meeting 8/31

It's Abby's last day!! Thank you, Abby.

Cheryl needs to write the green wrap. Matt said it needs to look less like junk mail to get a better response.

She met with Fox News. They will give us four stories. The first one will be about a freshman. Will film around 9/15 and air 9/22. Other possible stories: Lacross team mentoring young people at Fond du Lac. Also Julie Edderson - NSF grant.

Matt is working on the campus directory and redoing the cover. He is also working on employee giving brochure, Beaujolais nouveau, the videos for Kaler inauguration, and the green wrap.

Zach has been scrapbooking our work from the past few months. Thanks, Zach. He is working on the video gamers story. Needs to get some stats.

Christiana finished three news releases this week - Ianni Hall, Strat Plan, and Welcome Week. She will videotape and LSBE student tomorrow. She is working on Hoagie Scholarship article.

Kathleen has spent a lot of time proofing the Bridge which is now at the printers. Yeah! She is also working on Currents for next week and did homepage changes.

Team Meeting 8/24

We have external affairs director interviews next week. Cheryl will take photos of the office for the candidates since they won't be able to see it.

Cheryl:

We are rolling out the Strategic Plan at the faculty breakfast. Faculty and staff will receive bookmarks with tassles. Welcome week students will receive bookmarks, no tassle (they have to earn those, you know). We are also mailing bookmarks to some community leaders.

Ianni event - the invites are at the printer. We are waiting for addresses.

The Bridge is being proofed by many people.

She is also working on the Campus directory. There will be a vendor event in the Kirby Commons for paid advertisers in late October. They will have tables and promote their wares.

Abby and Cheryl will be doing an audit of campus banners this afternoon.

Abby:

She has been doing research on sustainability minded magazines for Christiana.

She is working on the student employee/internship handbook.

Also working on the Hoagie Scholarship article.

She will be in the booth on Saturday at the Fair.

Kathleen:

Proofed Bridge again and combined various people's corrections into one copy of the Bridge.

She has been working on homepage changes, the upcoming issue of Currents, and updating the story ideas doc. She also helped with the Night/Day ad.

Betty:

She is compiling a list of issues and areas of interest for the new director when she/he comes on board. Some areas she mentioned are providing legislators with a "map" of where in the state/region students come from. Also organization of the office area and staffing issues.

Betty asked that we let her know if we had any other issues or concerns that should be added to the list. Cheryl mentioned:

- contacting new legislators who are UMD grads

- Rebranding

- expanding media coverage regionally and nationally

- meeting community leadership

- social media in a coordinated manner - video stories, facebook, twitter.

Kathleen mentioned having cost centers when we do work for other departments so that we have a better idea of where our time and resources go.

Matt:

He finished the publication handouts.

He is working on the campus directory today and tomorrow.

He will make final Night/Day ad changes and send a pdf to Cheryl.

He is correcting Christiana's name on on the website. Apparently it is wrong on our pages.

August 10

Cheryl is working on bidding the Bridge, and bidding the mailer (which Matt doesn’t know about yet). For the Bridge, she is getting more photos for Matt, working with Brett to take photos of Ianni Hall, writing the captions for the Ianni Hall Bridge story, finishing the Chancellor’s column, and finishing the strategic plan story. She is working on the strategic plan rollout (news conference, mailing and bookmarks) and the Ianni Hall dedication. She’s working on getting a truck for the State Fair and other State Fair arrangements. She’s helping on the Twins event.

She will meet with a possible intern, Eliza on Friday. She is working on getting a new student to do Currents (good idea Kathleen) and getting a place for Zach to stay so he can come back a week early. She is working with Lucy to secure the team through March 2.

Kathleen set up the homepage for next week and finished the homepage for this week. After the meeting she revised the Tweed storytelling news item and rewrote the Eddy piece. (beautifully, I might add.)

Christiana is writing the class of 1951 stories for the Bridge. She is sending a business announce to the campus about SWAT team practice at UMD. She is working with KBJR to film the precambrian camp. She and Kathleen took the NRRI tour.

Abby finished Tim Bates and did short descriptions of the championship wins for the Bridge.

Matt did an Ianni Hall dedication invitation, a T-shirt for Welcome week, and a lot of work on the Bridge (which is beautiful.) He finished the bookmark. Campus Directory starts next week!

To plan for: We need to make a flyer for new faculty packets about How to Get Your News and Events Published. We should schedule a training session for September and get it into the handout. IDEA. What if Abby looks through the last year of clippings and writes down the names of UMD faculty who are quoted. Then, let’s invite them to join the Expert’s List. I noticed many prominent faculty aren’t listed yet.

Team Meeting 8/3

Possibly one of the fastest team meetings we've had in a long time. Maybe we are more productive as External Affairs.

Christiana finished the Brief. She wrote the Huskies news release and the UMD Farm news release. She also compiled a news release by school analysis. We are heavy on CLA and SCSE, not so much on SFA and LSBE. CEHSP lags behind.

Matt is working on the Save the Date for the wine event. The Ianni Hall invite is in progress. The bookmark went to print, and he is working on the t-shirt. He needs to work on the calendar. He is having trouble with accessing it through his Mac.

Kathleen edited the Storytelling at the Tweed article for the Bridge. She has an interview with Dan Fishback on Monday. No word on the Pikka Scholarship. Cheryl will follow up with Tricia. Kathleen has been editing things for Cheryl and Christiana. She has also been working on homepage changes and the next issue of Currents.

Cheryl said she hadn't heard anything from Fox television so she thinks that the education series probably won't happen. She recently completed a Twin Cities business feature with LJ. Ianni Hall dedication is 9/16. She and Christiana are working on the news release. Cheryl is working on the Strat Plan coordination.

We reviewed the Bridge. Cheryl finished the McCray article and the Phillips article. She reminded the development team about the Development Scrapbook. Susan Mack will be on the Blue Heron and get pictures there. Cheryl will contact Rob about pictures taken by Woman Today at the Big Dig.

Team Meeting for 7/27

We are all going to try to make Wednesdays at 2:00 pm our team meeting time throughout August. Go team.

Matt will be out Thursday and Friday. He will send email telling people to contact Cheryl.

Abby is working on second draft of Precambrian article. She wants to get that on a webpage today to send out for approval. She will next write the Freshman outdoor article. She will edit Sam Helland article and NSF article for the Bridge. She will also do some research on sustainability magazines. Cheryl suggested the Writers Market book in the library.

Christiana is working on sustainability homepage article today. Abby went to the farm yesterday with Christiana and took some great pictures. Christiana sent out media releases on the experts lists and june berries. She is finishing up the media release on Issac Odim. Next week is new vice chancellor, UMD farm and the state fair. She is also blogging. She will be working on editing articles for the Bridge tomorrow. She is trying to get a hold of Dr. Chee for the Bridge article.

Christiana met with Mindy Granley and a student, Nate, who is designing the Champ goes green t-shirt. She plans on taking pictures of Champ at the farm during welcome week and at the apple pressing later in the fall. We discussed a possible "Day in the Life of Champ" video where Champ takes part in classes and goes around the campus. Also possible video contest "Your favorite UMD Building."

Matt is working on the Bridge. He is also working on the Beaujolais nouveau invitation. Hopefully the save the date postcard will go out next week.

Cheryl is waiting for the new org chart to email to the campus about the directory. She needs to send out a state fair email to the campus and also the interview with Dr. Kaler to the campus. She needs to write three articles for the Bridge: McCray, Bodell and Phillips. She is interviewing a donor for SCSE on Friday. She is thinking that the chancellor's column can be a tribute to the achievements at UMD in the past year. She is working on the op-ed piece and got feedback from John Hatcher.

Kathleen has started the next issue of Currents. She finished the Vizlab article and sent it to Lisa. She is working on the UMD is military friendly and the Susan Mulholland article. Two students from Susan's dig called yesterday so she has quotes from them. She has edited all of her Bridge articles except one. She will contact Dan Fishback for his interview. Also waiting to hear yet from Tricia and Carrie about the Pikka article.

Cheryl will contact development about Development scrapbook for Bridge. She is waiting to hear about editing Eddy Foundation Speech clinic article for CEHSP article in Bridge.

New Griggs dorm will be named in honor of former Chancellor Ianni.

7/20 Meeting

Cheryl is working on the organizational chart for the directory. After the chan cabinet reviews it, she and Matt will get it ready for the directory.

Lisa Erwin would like a press release to go out Monday.

State Fair is shaping up. UMD will be there Sat. 8/27. Cheryl is working on organizing the trophy and on-stage events.

She needs to write Frank McCray article for Bridge as well as interview Jesse Bodell and Mark Philips.

Matt is working on the directory photos and the various sections.

He had a sample of the Bridge cover, and we reviewed the various pages.

Christiana is working on her community gardening article. She has a tour on Monday and will get pictures. She will speak to Mindy about a student who can be Champ.

Brief went out.

She is working with Rob to set up interview with Dr. Chee. She will edit her Bridge articles next week.

Kathleen sent Currents out yesterday. She put the 2011-2012 dates on the Currents webpage and added the 2010-2011 issues on the past issue page.

She set up the team calendar in google docs. She was having some glitches. She asked that people see if they like it, otherwise she can put it up a different way.

Homepage changes were made.

She has three articles that she needs to write: Viz lab, UMD is military friendly, and Susan Mulholland's archeology project. Also needs to edit articles for Bridge.

Team Meeting 7/13

Cheryl will be in the Twin Cities tomorrow or Friday. Cheryl will also be looking into the State Fair and branding issues. She is also interviewing the McCray family and President Kaler.

Susan Mack may have her donor story lined up for the Bridge.

Cheryl is working on the campus directory.

Christiana sent out the NSF news release. She is working on the bike walk week and the Saints game news releases. She is working on the writing institute story, Bridges and the Sustainability/community farming article. She has contacted Mark Phillips for the Bridge and is waiting for info from his staff.

The Champ is going green champaign has been well received and t-shirts are being designed. There are a couple of events in August and in September that he will appear at.

Next Brief is 7/27.

Christiana will measure her office to see what size desk would work well for her.

Matt will look for a carpel tunnel keyboard for Christiana.

He is taking pictures of Glensheen for a project, and he is working on the Washington DC reception invite.

Matt will coordinate the campus directory photo shoot with Brett. It will be either of the Hub or the new Griggs Dorm.

He has been updating Wikipedia. The Strat Plan is at the printer.

Kathleen issued an extension on Currents and has been getting more info in. That issue will go out Tuesday. She has been coordinating/shepherding story ideas with Christiana, the Bridge, and homepage changes. Sent Anne Dutton's article to her and interview Lisa at the Viz lab today about the invasive species interactive display.

We all discussed the next issue of the Bridge. It looks like we will go with 32 pages. Matt will lay it out and let us know word counts for stories that need to be edited.

Team meeting 7/6

Matt was working on the strategic plan and couldn't attend the meeting.

Cheryl is interviewing for the PR assistant on 7/12. She will be on the Blue Heron tomorrow and with the Chippewa elders on Friday. Also on Friday, NSF will be interviewing Dr. Black about the Chippewa language project.

Cheryl will be out of the office on 7/14 and 7/15. She will be in the Twin Cities interviewing the McCrays and also President Kaler. She is also going to see if she can interview Jesse Bodell at Periscope.

Cheryl started working on the directory and will give us an updated organizational chart so we know who is who.

Kathleen has been working on the homepage changes and all that entails (photos cropped, 60 words written). She has been doing a lot of editing recently. Also checking currents, umdnews, and updating the story ideas doc. She started writing the article on Anne Dutton for the Bridge. The Viz lab article was put off as the Great Lakes Aquarium doesn't have the exhibit up. She hopes to interview Lisa Fitzpatrick next week so the article will be ready to go when the exhibit is open

Christiana worked with Abby to finish the Market Day article. She also finished the RSOP article and made some edits on the Timo article. She is working on the SCOPE article. She is waiting to hear from Mark Phillips for the Bridge article.

For the upcoming Brief, Christiana will include the alumni Saints game and NSF. For Area Voices blog, she will include Market Day and Glensheen events on Wednesdays. She'll also add a note in the Market Day homepage article that this is open to the community. She and Abby have been working on the UMD Wikipedia page which is looking very good.

6/29 Meeting

Cheryl had a story idea - Rec Sports Women Climbing weekend. If possible, it would great to have the article for 7/05. She has an interview with Dr. Kaler mid-July.

Abby has been working on the edible garden tour article. She talked with Teri Glembin and a couple of other people about Market Day for the article she is writing. Rachel took photos. Abby and Cheryl have an interview with Timo in Finland on Friday at 8:30 a.m. She has also been working on Wikipedia.

Matt said that the strat plan is very close to being completed. He and Cheryl are working on the envelop. He is also working on the Night/Day ad and the Foundation thank you. Matt is working on Wikipedia citations and pictures (!) He is working on adding a spotlight picture. He has NSF footage and will be taking more this weekend with Cheryl. Other projects include the wine project, engineering card, alumni identity, and phone director cover. We discussed the Bridge and having a team meeting about that next week or the following week if next week is filled with NSF.

Kathleen has been shepherding the Bridge along and trying to line up interviews. Cheryl will take Jesse Bodell and Christiana will take Mark Phillips. Kathleen interviewed Anne Dutton today for the Bridge. She will interview Lisa Fitzpatrick next week about the aquarium project for the homepage. She is working on the next issue of Currents and, along with Christiana, keeping the story ideas up to date.

Christiana has been updating Area Voices regularly. The classic rock music poster article got a lot of hits. Cheryl asked her to bring stats to the next meeting. Christiana has been working on Wikipedia and news releases - including what is going on at Glensheen in July. She is researching camps on campus. Cheryl suggested a homepage article on the experts list including five faculty with great websites. Christiana will update Crisis Plan with new head of police. She is also working on ideas for Champ Goes Green.

Cheryl said that UMD will be at the State Fair on Sun. 8/28. Cheryl is working on an op-ed for Dr. Black.

June 22

Just Matt and Kathleen at the meeting today. Matt had a copy of the Night/Day ad. He'll talk to Cheryl regarding whether she wants to highlight one event at the top as we usually have done or if we should highlight one event in the body of the ad with an extra photo.

Matt was able to post a new picture on the events calendar page. Yeah. He said it is no problem to either change the picture once or twice a month or have a cycle of three like other UofM sites do. I imagine that often times we could use pictures from events that are covered on the homepage.

Matt brought the revised Strat Plan up to Denny and is waiting for more changes. Matt is also waiting for changes on the Thank You wrap. In the meantime, he is changing photos to CMYK. Matt is meeting next week regarding an Alumni identifier.

Matt is researching art museums in Minnesota and also looking at Wikipedia editing.

Kathleen has been working on confirming Bridge articles with the development directors. She gave Matt some copies of the most recent Bridges so he could see what we have done in the past. She's been doing lots of other things too but if she lists them here, she won't have anything to post so . . .

June 15

Christiana went over the Wikipedia changes we need to make. Matt will do some research to see how we can make our changes last.

Susan Mack attended the meeting. She will identify a donor for the Bridge and run it by Tricia. Kathleen will make copies of SCSE donors that have been profiled over the last few years. Susan thought someone from the Engineering Scholarship Committee or possibly ROTC might be good.

Matt is adding NRRI experts that he recently received. He is waiting for approval/changes on the Foundation piece from the Chancellor's office. Matt needs to talk to Andy about changing the photo on the events calendar page. Cheryl will send him some info as well. Regarding YouTube, Lisa doesn't want it but we can't take it. It would have to come from Linda Deneen. Matt will show Cheryl designs for the Night/Day ad.

Cheryl, Christiana, and Kathleen had met earlier and went over story ideas. Kathleen will follow up on the Bridge with development directors. We reviewed homepage stories coming up.

Abby wasn't able to make the 2:00 pm meeting. She is doing some source research for the Wikipedia site. We want to make sure that we have all the books about UMD that are out there. She will do a homepage article on Market Day. She is also going to make copies of donors articles for Bob in CEHSP so he can be familiar with what's been done in the past.

May 31 Team Meeting

Matt has created the Sami Poster. He'll run it by Cheryl when she comes back on Friday.

He has been working on the thank you wrap. He has the images but still hasn't received text.

Matt has created a new layout for the Strat Plan. Denny is out until 6/6. Matt hasn't heard yet if they still want to add the SWOT info.

The About Us page is finally working!

Christiana has been editing the UMD Alumns NEMBA media release. She write the orchard media release tomorrow assuming we do indeed win.

She has contacted June about the International Association of Great Lakes Research conference to see what kind of media release has gone out - had to leave a message. Christiana will also call Sharon at MN Sea Grant.

She has been blogging on Area Voices.

Abby has been doing research on the orchard competition to give Christiana some info for the media release.

Kathleen wrote 60 words for articles going up tomorrow on the homepage. She updated the story ideas doc after meeting with Christiana. She checked umdnews and currents. Updated Currents in Dreamweaver.

She called and emailed Amy Shuster about Rania article. Amy is out of the office until 6/21 so that article may not be ready to go up on the homepage on 6/7.

May 24

Matt, Christiana, Abby and Kathleen met.

Matt is working on the About Us page and still wrestling with making the RSS Feed pretty.

He is working on the Strat Plan brochure. It is no longer accordian style. Now it will be a booklet. He will be adding text from Denny on the SWOT portion of the strat plan and asked if Christiana and Kathleen would edit it. We said "sure."

Matt did up the ad for the Hermantown Star. We reviewed it. Wording is the same as the ad in the Bridge so it seems fine.

Christiana and Matt have been talking to Lisa Fitzpatrick about the UMD YouTube channel. Lisa would really like PR and Marketing to take that over. We will discuss with Cheryl when she gets back.

We brainstormed on video ideas. We would like to have students and departments contribute a number of videos. Ideas were as follows:

Video Storytelling class

Civil Engineering experiments

Art (throwing a pot), Theatre, and Music

Biology experiments

Planetarium and Robodome

Climbing

Clubs

Multicultural Events.

We talked about various people on campus saying "Good morning, UMD." Abby suggested having people saying it in different languages.

Matt suggested that if we proceed, we talk to the folks at the multimedia hub as they would know which professors ask for video components in their classes.

Christiana is attending the Social Media Conference tomorrow.

Kathleen has been busy with homepage changes, currents, how to send the currents email out, umdnews.

Abby finished some research for Christiana on which UMD news releases recently received coverage in the media. Abby is also working on her Princeton Review Green campus article.

May 17th

Matt, Christiana, and Kathleen met for a meeting. Kathleen went over what Abby's hours will be.

We reviewed articles that are going up today (Brenna Oelfke, Jim Eishen and Blue Heron "point to"). We will move the LSBE Retail Marketing Analytics homepage article up since the media release has now gone out. Kathleen will change it in google docs.

Christiana wrote the media release on Bob Sherman and is waiting for his O.K. Then it can be sent out. She is cleaning up the video she took at the AdFed Random Person Project presentation. Christiana went over some stats regarding the DNT blog. People are either finding it through the DNT or doing a web search looking for it.

Matt showed us the strat plan brochure. He is waiting for feedback from Denny Falk. In the meantime, he is working on making the brochure even more visually appealing. He is also working on the Foundation Thank You wrap (yum). He has been working on the RSS feed. Lastly he put all the 20 words on the media release page (which now looks gorgeous.

May 10th

We reviewed the homepage articles. Today faculty awards/retirees and the orchard articles are going up. Next week, we have the article about Brenna Oelfke going up and possibly some of the others written about graduates if they have been picked up by the media.

Christiana reviewed the Brief. This week will be Commencement and the Senate honoring the UMD Bulldogs. A special issue of the Brief later this month will highlight Glensheen events.

Zach has been writing short descriptions for the Random Person Project. He also found some job descriptions for the Government Liaison position.

Matt is working on the Strategic Plan Action Plan booklet. This will go to regents, deans, faculty, visitors, and possibly community leaders. He will put a how to edit web pages on google docs.

Mandee wrote 20 words for all of the news releases going back to the beginning of the year. Christiana will forward that to Matt.

Cheryl found the link to send media releases to hometown newspapers so we can proceed with that. The campus directory company is pulling out so she is looking at alternatives. She assigned Zach a special investigative report on students and "video" games for over the summer.

May 3rd Meeting

Met in Matt's office. He needs some artwork, posters, stuffed toys, something. It's pretty sterile down there.

Cheryl met with Dr. Black. Matt has an assignment to make a book out of the Strategic Plan Action Steps. (I'm thinking comic book, action figure motif.) Dr. Black made changes to the website info and the press release. Cheryl will write the email to the campus regarding the Strat Plan.

Cheryl reviewed the conference call with Dr. Black. Driven to Discover will continue but more student focused.

Zach wrote the Jocelyn Laroque article. The Jim Eischen article is done. Zach also made changes to Currents.

Kathleen reviewed articles that are going up on the homepage today and next week.

Matt is working on RSS feed. The experts list is done but he still needs to talk to Andy about search function.

Team Meeting 4/26

Cheryl and Christiana missed a fabulous meeting. Matt handed out Faberge eggs that his family received from Czar Nicholas. Thanks, Matt. Mine is simply stunning.

We reviewed articles for next week. Zach has researched and written about General Helland. Mandee is going to the entrepreneur awards tonight and will write up that article.

Kathleen and Christiana both interviewed their graduate students last week and now have to write their articles.

The last Currents of the school year is coming up. A memo was emailed via biz announcement.

Matt is busy updating the various Public Relations and Marketing webpages. He is also working on the experts list and that should go live later this week.

April 19

We had our meeting - sans Cheryl.

Mandee has the Issac Odim article done and asked if Cheryl would review it. She interviewed Sarah Pollema last Saturday and will write that up. She has the LSBE award article yet to work on.

Zach said that the Sam Helland article is still a go. Zach has sent an email to Jim Eischen but hasn't received a reply yet.

Christiana is just finishing up the Odyssey article. Kathleen will call Sherise for the names of the students in the picture. Matt will take pictures of a book cover.

Kathleen edited Currents today and Zach made changes. She is working on homepage changes today.

April 15

I have everything installed on my new computer and it's working great!

Edited and sent Christiana some photos for her story on the Planetarium. Christiana and I might work on an extra photo on Monday.

The UMD News blog is looking really good! Added categories and a few links (on the right side). We can add as many as you would like... any ideas for new additions? I would also like to add a few more pages to the blog to make it a little more interactive. Any ideas for other pages?

I updated the story (A Global Energy Action Forum) on the homepage for Howard this morning(4/15). (changed a photo, removed a person and added another).

New Logo page that I mentioned in the previous post. I also got in and fixed the SCSE Logo for Mechanical Engineering. I also added wordmarks for UMD on the logo page! If you need any other various on it let me know.

Last but not least. I am working on the Experts List still... I started working on the Layout. It is in a testing format at www.d.umn.edu/currents/experts/newex. After I get more information I will have to meet with Andy and figure out how to get it all to work right. Any input on layout/creative is cool with me! I can't really find a photo for "Experts" so I thought silhouettes of UMD's many "experts" would be interesting. I think I will redo the one that is currently on there before I am finished, but just to get the idea it's there.

I am happy to do anyone's photos for stories rather than have you bother with it! I can bring my camera in and edit them for you!

Logos

I updated the logos on the main logos pager today. If you have to use them in the future try to redownload them the website. They will be high quality and look better on the web.

http://www.duluth.umn.edu/currents/logo/umd.html

April 12 - one day later

First and foremost, we welcome Matt to the team. (Your jersey, like your computer, is on order).

Cheryl is putting the finishing touches on the NSF project. Kathleen and Christiana will proof it. Her next big project is writing the Paul Vesterstein article. Jocelyn Larocque isn't available until May so that interview will need to be put off a bit.

Kathleen will email Fatima about the Amy Shuster article. Kathleen received an ipad pic from Michelle in the med school and has asked Fatima to send her the article so she can put it on a Dreamweaver page.

Zach hasn't heard from Sam Helland so that article may or may not happen. He has been working on Mill City talking points, and he has the interview with Jim Eishen coming up.

Mandee couldn't attend the meeting but had updated Kathleen that she has rescheduled with Sarah Pollema for this Saturday.

Christiana went over the Brief. She will add info about the planetarium renovation at the end of the Odyssey media release. Kathleen will forward an email about the renovation to her. Carol Bock said no to an article. Christiana will be interviewing Brenna next week. She met with Randall Hanson this week about farming.

Christiana said that the UMD blog is up on the DNT. She wrote an opening blog and will post about the hockey party. After that she will put up the article about Storytelling at the Tweed.

Matt was able to fix the color on the UMD blog. He is going to work on removing the ads that are on it now, although that may need to be done on the DNT's side. He will call about his computer. Expert list postings are coming in. He will talk to Andy about his being able to put the media releases up on the UMD website.

Kathleen is writing the Emily Gaarder article. She took a picture of John Arthur's class and is just waiting for his revisions. She is meeting with Linh Scally, the CEHSP grad, next week.

April 5

We reviewed upcoming articles. Next week we will put up Jerry Moore, AAAS, and Honors Energy Policy.

We assigned articles that didn't have authors. For the commencement articles we will send to the media, they must be done (perfect and approved) by Friday April 29. They are:

Issac Odim (SCSE) and three student athletes (Mandee)
Jocelyn Larocque (LSBE) and three student athletes (Cheryl)
Profiles on three students - tie in to commencement:
Linh Scally (CEHSP) - Grad student in Social Work (Kathleen)
Brenna Oelfke (CLA) - editor of Honors Program/Journal Aisthesis (Christiana)
Jim Eischen (SFA) - Iraq war veteran - designed lighting for South Pacific (Zach)

Christiana and Kathleen will make sure that the dates on the marketing/communication page and the story ideas google docs are in sync.

Christiana reviewed possible Brief submissions.

Cheryl outlined her Paul Vesterstein article.

Zach and Kathleen are finishing up proofing Currents

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