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.