Update-Campaign News

The PR Club has taken on a project for the Central Illinois Chapter of PRSA. They will be working in conjunction with State Farm to deliver PR awards to collegiate individuals and groups who submit their work for recognition. The SCIBU PR Club will be heading this campaign and creating the awards for PRSA. The award theme was voted on at our last meeting.
The "PR SOAR AWARD" is the working title of the award campaign with SOAR being an acronym for Student Opportunity for Achievment and Recognition. We plan to use shooting stars as the theme for the logo and any other printed material. We have commissioned Travis Harmony (a PR Club and Art Club member) to help us design the logo.

Here are the catagories and specifications we have come up with thus far:

1)Web/Electronic design and layout
Social media
Blogs
Websites

2)Multimedia
Pod casts
Vcasts
Commercials (audio/video)
PSA’s

3)Print media design and layout
Logos
Brochures
Fliers
Newsletters
Other printed publications

4)Overall Campaign
PR campaigns (Individual and Group)
Advertising campaigns (Individual and Group)
IMC campaigns (Individual and Group)

5)Research
Research papers (Individual and Group)
Theses (Individual and Group)

*Judges reserve the right to award honorary mentions in any category in addition to the award winner

If no entry is deserving of the award no award will be given in that category

Professional Development

We came up with another professional development idea at this weeks meeting. We hope to have an evening meet and greet session with SCI students and industry professionals in early April. We are looking to Liz to help us find a few business people that would be willing to come network with our club and any other interested SCIBU students. More info on this soon...

YOUR 2009 PR CLUB BOARD!!!!

PR Club members voted in the Board of Directors at last weeks meeting.
President: Katie Davis
Vice President: Amie Suter
Treasurer: Laikyn Cheffy
Secretary: Gina Collebrusco
Communications Chair: Katie Davis
Historian: Amie Suter
Membership Development Chair: Laikyn Cheffy
Professional Development Chair: Gina Collebrusco

Congratulations to all new board members!!! We are looking forward to a very successful first year!

Would Mondays work better?

We haven't had the kind of member involvement we would have liked at the last few PR Club meetings. We are willing to change the day of the week that we meet on if that works better for our members. We were contemplating Mondays at 5:15... Please feel free to e-mail Katie regarding this issue or with any other thoughts or suggestions. katie_davis@sci.edu

PR Club is now on Facebook!

PR Club hopes to reach out to as many students as possible and continue with membership development throughout this semester so we have incorporated social media into out plans. We are now on Facebook so if you'd like to belong to the group find us at SCBU PR Club. MAKE PR CLUB YOUR FRIEND!!

Jill Watkins to speak at 1st Professional Development Seminar

At our last meeting we decided to have an SCI graduate come and speak to the group about public relations and it's impact on society. Jill Watkins is the Public Relations and Communications Director at Illini Hospital. She got the job prior to graduating last spring and is very excited to come share her real world experience with us. We plan to have her speak on March 4th at 5:00 in Angela 104.

First potential PR Club Project: Student Awards Campaign for Central Illinois Sponsored by Central Illinois PRSA

The SCIBU PR Club has been invited to create a series of individual or group awards for PR Clubs and organizations throughout central Illinois

· Possible categories for awards include: web based design, print media design, and advertising/campaign development
· Our PR Club would be in charge of formulating the campaign for PRSA. This would include doing research to discover what central Illinois colleges and universities have PR programs, clubs, and organizations, developing all materials for the campaign including award name, logo, list of contacts, letters to schools and brochures.
· This would be a long term project for the PR club; this semester we would do the initial research, create the name and the logo for the award, establish important due dates, and send letters of intent and brochures to central Illinois colleges. Next semester we would send another wave of brochures, and the award applications. We would also be responsible for designing the awards.

We would like to open the logo design and award name to all SCI students. Art students may be interested in designing the logo. We hope that this may also increase interest and knowledge of PR Club around campus. If you know of anyone who might be interested in designing a logo for the award campaign please let us know!!!

Happy Birthday Mr. Lincoln

Katie, Amie and Gina will be volunteering Thursday at the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration. They will be helping sign in and news media and directing them and other visitors where to go. President Obama will also be attending the celebration! We'll post more on this topic soon.

EXCITING!!!! Potential campaign for our first PR Club project!

The Central Illinois Chapter of PRSA (Public Relations Society of America) has commissioned the SCIBU PR Club to help them with an award campaign for central Illinois PR Clubs and student organizations. This is a very exciting opportunity for SCIBU PR Club which we will talk about in more detail at our next meeting (this Wednesday 2/04/09) We will also vote whether or not to take on this project at the meeting.