So obviously there is the promotion work. I've talked to some folks about some papers to hit:
* Trisha, if you want to try to make contact with copy editors in Rochester, at the paper, Mayo or any other places, that would be a great help.
* Emily and I have traded e-mails with Kate Kompas in St. Cloud, so that's taken care of, along with her connections to Fargo. I take it the Pi Press has a connection with Duluth? Anyone else with any ties to Forum Communications? I sent along a note to a former Duluth editor I know.
* Nancy Olson was going to approach the Mankato paper, Mankato State, UMD and Gustavus.
* I've reached out to the neighboring newspaper associations, along with Minnesota's. I've worked my connections in Nebraska and Iowa and also started reaching out to South Dakota papers. Anyone know North Dakota?
* As for Wisconsin, a Strib copy editor is married to a UW Eau Claire journalism prof. He sent word along at the school plus to the Western Wisconsin Press Club. I asked Jenn Bellefeuille if she wanted to reach out to other Wisconsin papers. (Milwaukee is big in ACES, so I think we can skip them.) Any help there?
Otherwise, Deirdre mentioned that we should focus on rounding up some auction items, as well as pens and notebooks and other items for the conference bags. We're shooting for at least 300 on the pens and notebooks. We might be good on notebooks. But pens, even commitments for 25, 50, 100, will be welcome. I know times are tough, but any little bit helps.
Sounds like the afterparty is shaping up for the Local. We have in an with ACES members who is friends with the owner, so I will be cancelling the space saved at Gluek's here soon. Also, a couple of logos are done for the bags, pins and perhaps other items for sale.
By the end of February or the beginning of March, I'm going to start work on the info packet: Cheap places to eat, the way to Target and other places where one might need items, light rail info, taxi, skyways, times for weekend Twins game, maybe a suggestion or two of offbeat or unique places to go. (I was thinking the observation deck atop the Foshay.) Any other topics people can think of?
And of course, any other suggestions are welcome.
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OK, I touched base again with the Daily at the U, and ended up talking to an assistant desk chief. Also talked to the editor of the UW Eau Claire paper. Sent both a few graphs and a link to the conference page that can be shared with staffs, students, profs and more.
I also got a couple of suggestions from Nancy about inroads into North Dakota, so I sent off a note to a former Strib reporter in Grand Forks as well as two Strib reporters whose daughter is a reporter in Fargo with requests to pass info along to the copy desks at their papers.
Oh, and I talked to Howard Sinker, who isn't teaching at Macalester this spring but will forward along the info to the j school leadership.
I got the word out to a journalism guy at SCSU, too.
Who's in charge of printing the guides and such? I know printing some stuff was part of our deal, but I don't know the details. Vince and Jeff, let's touch base on this at some point.
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