Team Meeting for 10/26

Cheryl was out ill this afternoon, and Sue and Betty couldn't attend the meeting.

Kathleen wrote the Land of Plenty article on Sunday. She finished it on Monday and then emailed it out for feedback. She made changes yesterday, and it's ready to go. The Silver Bay article went up on the homepage yesterday and Friday, after the rally, the Land of Plenty article will go up. On Monday she checked the umdnews website and updated the stories ideas doc. She also worked on obtaining photos for the Events Calendar changes the week of 11/07. Yesterday she attended the Social Networking Tech Tuesday Talk. She has been working on Currents with Kat.

Today Kathleen worked on the Chamber of Commerce listing. She will send that to Cheryl and Sue when it is done. She edited the Night/Day ad. She interviewed her first UROP student today. Updated the team calendar. Updated media contact emails.

Zach finished up his Duane Millslagle UROP article. Now he is working on the Maureen Tobin Stanley article. He's also been doing odds and ends for Cheryl.

Kat has been working on Currents. She interviewed Ann Bergeron with Christiana regarding the puppet UROP. She wrote the Area Voices blog entries for the Fisheries event and the Zombie Symposium. She also found images for those entries. She has also been helping Cheryl with projects/research.

Jessica finished her facebook article. She is waiting for a quote. She is writing the Heikal UROP article. She has an upcoming UROP interview. Today she helped Cheryl with the campus directory and made posters for it.

Christiana has been working on news releases including Safe and Sober and the Haunted Halls. She is working with Mindy Granley on the Ianni Hall Energy Rebate news conference. She will be contacting MN Power to see if they want to be involved in the conference.

Christiana is working on the Brief for next week: AILRC, Silver Bay and Land of Plenty. She met with a student about the Fitgers Holiday Forest event. The student hopes to get decorations donated from various offices, departments and programs. We brainstormed about possible ornaments.

In addition to meeting about the puppet UROP with Kat, Christiana met with a professor/advisor for the Intelligent Helmet UROP.

Team Meeting 10/19

We won the Homecoming decorating contest!!! We will be having a joint pizza party with Advancement (the other winners).

Our department will be meeting with Advancement once a month.

Kathleen attended the Creating a Respectful Workplace meeting. She made copies of the handout and went over some of the key points. Cheryl asked that it be put into the student notebook which Kathleen will do. She will send copies to Brett and Matt too.

Sue said that she is trying to move department positions along but that she has encountered some "speed bumps."

Sue met with the TC campus folks. She met with Diana Harvey who is in charge of news media. They talked about reorganization, about having a beat and UMD would work with one person. Sue stressed UMD's uniqueness and would like that person to visit once everything is established. Diana mentioned creating a centralized pool of approved writers and graphic designers. Sue told her we probably won't use it as we need to channel dollars into this economy and have people who understand this region.

Sue also met with Ann Aronson regarding branding. Sue said that the Student Association is very interested in it. Sue told Ann that we are going through a rebranding process. She said that we might be similar to the Twin Cities but that we need to be distinct. Possible use of Driven to Discover as a tag line. Sue asked about helping financially. Ann said that their budget is already spent. Sue said that in the RFP they are stressing that the chosen group will know and understand the Duluth and Northeast community. She believes that Mayor Ness will be on that task force.

Cheryl has been working on the 30 second video and getting proposals for that. It will be used during televised sports events, but they also want it to be more evergreen for use by alumni, development and admissions. She is working with Matt on the annual report. They hope it will go out in December. She has been working on the Silver Bay Victus Farm project.

Kat has been working on Currents. She and Christiana have an interview about the UROP puppet project on Thursday. She also did research on algae oil for the Victus Farm project.

Jessica attended a couple of meetings today. She attended the Heikal interview . She will start writing that up and plans on attending a photo shoot next week. She also attended the meeting on the Black Student Association rally next week. She wrote the news release for the Salute to Sustainable Fisheries event and is working on the article on the Mysteries UROP project.

Christiana is working with Mindy Granley regarding the Ianni Hall $18,000 rebate. She has been working on a number of news releases.

Kathleen has been working on coordinating picture changes for the Events Calendar, Currents, and Homepage changes. She interviewed the playwright for Land of Plenty today. She has been having difficulty getting a hold of her UROP people.

Zach met with Professor Millslagle yesterday regarding his UROP project. He got a some quote and took some pictures. He will be working with Cheryl on the Maureen Tobin Stanley interview.

Betty asked if we were done promoting Food Week. Cheryl said that we had done a homepage article, news release and Area voices. Christiana said that there was an article in the News Tribune on Saturday and KBJR covered it in a segment on Monday. It was agreed that we were done with that project.

Regarding legislative work, Betty is working on President Kaler's visit next week and the Capital Investment Committee visit.

Cheryl said that Matt is redesigning the American Indian Learning Resource Center fact sheet. Sue is working on the news release for that.

Sue is hoping there will be a Chancellor Black op-ed piece in the Sunday News Tribune. Christiana suggested that perhaps students involved in the rally could contact Jena at the Star Tribune. Sue will confirm with Jena.

Team Meeting 10/12

We met without Cheryl (who is at the event on Torture and Accountability) and Christiana (who is in the cities researching the Snoopy statues).

We talked a bit about the homecoming decoration project. We will get together on Friday morning to work on the decorations.

Jessica has been researching the Heikal article. Zach did too. He will give her his research as he can't make the interview. (I added Jess's name onto that UROP in story ideas). She has also been doing some research on the Mysteries project. Interviews are scheduled for next week. The facebook project is not a priority. We need to confirm the status of that with Cheryl.

Kat has been working on Currents. She is scheduled to work on two UROP articles with Christiana.

Zach has finished the fish contest story. He sent the link to Sharon Moen for her approval. Zach is going to look at the list of CLA UROPs to see if one of them interests him.

Kathleen has been working on Currents. There has been so many events to add. She worked on homepage changes and also updating story ideas and keeping people informed of changes. Working on UMD Calendar of Events photo changes. Also working on updating UMD Facts.

Sue and Betty stopped by. We made introductions.

Team Meeting 10/5

Jessica has both of her articles up on the homepage! She is now researching an article about UMD facebook pages. She will be looking into some demographics.

Jessica spoke to and emailed Olaf Kuhlke today about CLA UROPs. Hopefully he will send those shortly.

Kat is working on Currents, and she put up posters for Cheryl.

Zach has been working on the Julie Etterson article. He is now working on the fisheries contest article.

Christiana has contacted SFA about the ASL club signing for The Miracle Worker and connecting that play to the larger community. She is still waiting for Heartwalk stats in order to send out that news release.

Regarding news releases, Christiana is working on one for the faculty art show, homecoming and Julie Etterson. She is working a Biz Buzz for Shane Courtland. She is meeting with Rachel Gilbertson tomorrow regarding Food Inc. She is working on next weeks Brief: NRRI, Eddy Lecture, and Julie Etterson.

She and Zach are going to the farm tomorrow (they got rained out last week) for Champ photos. Christiana also talked briefly about the Bulldog statue initiative.

Cheryl is working on the job description for the fulltime graphic designer. She is working on background info for Sue regarding the history of the Block M.

She is working on a piece for Twin Cities donors. We've been asked to take over the You Tube video page. We need to do a 30 second video UMD video. She will research what's been done before and will probably do an RFP on that.

Governor is coming on Friday. We are waiting to see if we need to do a news release on that. We may need to do a message piece on the American Indian Learning Resource Center. President Kaler is coming to the campus on 10/27 & 10/28.

Kathleen spent some time today working on the story ideas doc. Homepage changes went up today and Currents was sent out yesterday.

We reviewed UROPs for the Winter Bridge. We set due dates of 11/1 and 12/1 with 12/15 as the final drop-dead date for all Bridge articles.