{"id":4520,"date":"2014-12-11T12:45:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T17:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsuenglish.wordpress.com\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2018-11-12T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T18:40:34","slug":"telling-our-story-meet-the-pr-interns-for-fall-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/telling-our-story-meet-the-pr-interns-for-fall-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling Our Story: Meet the PR Interns for Fall 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Cathy Day<\/b><\/h2>\n
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(l to r) Taylor Wicker, Becca Austin, Lauren Lutz, Daniel Brount<\/p><\/div>\n

Did you notice a difference this year in the English Department?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If so, it’s because of this group of students.<\/p>\n

These are the #bsuenglish PR Interns. Supervised by me, the Assistant Chair of Operations, they coordinated the internal and external communication needs of the department.<\/p>\n

Let me explain to you their specific duties as members of the team and what they accomplished in a relatively short amount of time.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong> They worked 10 hours a week. Their first responsibility was to complete office tasks. Then they were ALL MINE. (evil laugh)<\/p>\n

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Daniel Brount<\/h2>\n

Daniel was our InDesign guru.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

He also posted events\u00a0to the Google Calendar on the department blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let’s say I get an email from a faculty member that she is bringing a speaker on October 13. Can we put it on the calendar and make a poster?<\/p>\n

Daniel starts that process.<\/p>\n

He also created our new blog banner, our new social media avatars, as well as promotional materials and handouts.<\/p>\n

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  • Like the Stars to Steer By posters<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Like the Professional Experience Checklist<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Like the Career Week poster.<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Like the poster that launched our #bsuenglish hashtag campaign<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    He had a vision for the “look” of our\u00a0online presence that was consistent, clean, cohesive, welcoming. Some folks call this “branding,” and well, it made people think that we had our s*** together.<\/p>\n

    Daniel also took pictures at a lot of our events and created FB photo albums<\/a> (which we then repurposed for our alumni e-newsletter).<\/p>\n

    Yes, our first ever e-newsletter<\/a>. He worked with Alumni Services to design the header and navigation buttons, and he worked with me to organize and edit\u00a0the content.<\/p>\n

    NaNo Project:<\/strong>\u00a0Then there’s this: Daniel decided we needed to organize a NaNoWriMo competition. All I had to do was book a room for Weekly Write-Ins, but Daniel and the other interns did everything else. Daniel figured out how to publicize the event internally and externally.<\/p>\n

    I’m sort of heartbroken, but not surprised,<\/strong> that he’s leaving us to take over as the Managing Editor of the Ball State Daily News.<\/p>\n

    Thank you, Daniel.<\/p>\n

    Lauren Lutz
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    Lauren was our social media guru.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

    That faculty member who’s bringing the speaker on October 13? Lauren uses social media to promote the event. Tweets, FB posts, FB events. (It’s hard to get people’s attention these days.)<\/p>\n

    She also sent out gentle reminders about registration and other departmental happenings, like dissertation defenses.<\/p>\n

    She promoted events across campus that were of interest to English department faculty and students: symposiums, speakers, films, and local cultural events. This built cross-disciplinary and “town-and-gown” relationships. Because we shared their stuff, they shared our stuff.<\/p>\n

    The English department’s many good works are now visible outside of Robert Bell, and that’s a very good thing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Lauren interacted with students and faculty, liking, favoriting, and retweeting. Her weekly Storifies <\/a>are a thing of beauty (and often great comedy).<\/p>\n

    NaNo Project:<\/strong>\u00a0Lauren helped Daniel with publicity and figured out how to engage current students and alums.<\/p>\n

    She changed the voice and persona of our online presence.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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    Push through it, everyone! pic.twitter.com\/phGWhcwyGH<\/a><\/p>\n

    — Ball State English (@bsuenglish) December 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n