Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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.

Friday, April 15, 2011

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.


Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

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

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

New Blog

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