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.