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.