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.