Relay for Life Team
At the last meeting we decided that UToledo PRSSA would form a team for Relay for Life. The event will take place on Feb. 26, 2010 6pm-12pm.
Please follow these steps to join the team:
1. Visit relayforlife.org
2. On the front page there is a button that says start/join a team
3. Enter zip code (43606)
4. Choose the event @ UT on 2/26/10
5. In the upper right hand corner click view teams
6. Click join team under UT PRSSA
7. Select Sign Up Now
8. You can make a donation now or select I prefer not to make a donation now
9. Keep your individual fund raising goal at $100.00 that’s the minimum (you don’t have to raise that)
10. Click Next Step
11. Select new user
12. Fill out all areas with asterisk
13. Agree to terms
Our group goal is to raise $500, if you have any questions please direct them to Sarah Ritenour or utoledoprssa@gmail.com
Join us Sept. 28
This upcoming Monday, Sept. 28 our guest speaker will be Mary Jo Borden from UT’s Career Services. She will be talking about different types of career paths and different options for what a student with a PR major can do. She will be talking about specific things such as work environment and possibly have information about available internships and jobs.
We will also be electing leaders for our Regional Activity committee. Possible committee positions include activity coordinator, public relations director, hospitality director, program director, promotions director, logistics planner, finances manager and social chair. Please read the Regional Activity Handbook that can be found on the PRSSA homepage.
Visit the Events page to see topics for upcoming meetings.
We look forward to seeing you Monday!
National Conference
As you may know National Conference is coming up Nov. 6 and we are very excited! Deadline to register is Oct. 5. The theme for this years National Conference in San Diego, CA is “Creating Currents: Surfing the Waves of Change.” Some of the session topics we are excited about include event planning, media relations, international PR, entertainment, and fashion.
*Important* If you are already registered, be sure to update your resumes and business cards and bring them for the career development and networking workshops.
Hope to see you there!
Interns Needed
We just got word that Josina Lott Residential & Community Services are looking for 1-3 marketing interns. Find out more about them at their website. http://www.josinalott.org/ If you are interested in this unpaid position email your resume to Karen Weisman at kweisman@josinalott.org
Sept. 14 Meeting Overview
Thank you to everyone who came to our meeting yesterday! In case you were not able to be there this is what you missed….
We are going to be getting T-shirts! They might look like this…
If you have any other suggestions please send them to utoledoprssa@gmail.com by Sept. 20 at 5pm.
We have some exciting things coming up this semester. At our next meeting, Sept. 28, we will be forming a committee for hosting a PRSSA Regional Activity and discussing what someone with a PR or Marketing major can do with their degree. We are also asking that everyone brings some sort of baked good for our bake sale to the meeting as well!
We are going to be placing a bid for The University of Toledo to be able to host a PRSSA Regional Activity. It will be a great opportunity for us if we get accepted. We are going to start planning the event and will be looking for some speakers and a good location.
PRSSA National Conference is coming up sooner then we planned and we couldn’t be more excited! It is a five day conference in San Diego, CA. The deadline to register is Oct.6 and you can register online.
http://www.prssa.org/conference/register.aspx
First Meeting
Monday, August 31st, we held our first general meeting of the year, and it was quite a success! We were very happy to see several new faces and look forward to expanding membership this year! If you missed the meeting, don’t sweat it, there will be many more to come. We have many exciting events and fundraisers planned for this upcoming school year. Monday night’s meeting consisted of new officer introductions as well as getting to know new potential members. We also addressed the benefits of being a member, our goals, events for the semester and the importance of internship experience in the field of public relations.
Thank you to everyone who came!
Upcoming events to watch for include this week’s Northwest Ohio chapter PRSA meeting. The chapter’s annual professional development program will be held on Friday, Sept. 4 at WGTE Public Media, 1270 S. Detroit Ave. The half-day workshop begins with coffee and refreshments at 8 a.m. and will focus on social media. The workshop will feature Scott Monty the global digital and multimedia communications manager for Ford Motor Co. Following his presentation, the remainder of the morning will be spent in rotating table discussions led by local practitioners with experience using social media as a relationship-building tool. Rounding out the morning will be a “Writing for Social Media” teleconference with instructor Ann Wylie, president of Wylie Communications Inc. The workshop will end at noon.
Reservations for this professional development workshop are due by noon on Wednesday, Sept. 2. Costs are $35 for members, $55 for non-members and $20 for students. Lunch is not included in this workshop.
Hurry and make your reservation today!
Upcoming School Year
We are the University of Toledo’s chapter of Public Relations Student Society of America and are very excited for the new school year to start. This year we are taking on a theme of “building character.” This means that our group will be focused more on the students and developing them as professionals and we will be hosting events about things such as resume writing or mock interviews as well as having many social events. We will also be having fundraisers in order to help our members get to the PRSSA National Conference in San Diego, CA. Future blog posts will consist of newsletters and special topics such as importance of internships or new trends. The options are endless but they will all be based around our chapter announcements and building character.
