Board Meeting Notes–11/8/16
WESU Board Meeting — 11/8/16
Beth:
- Almost done with pledge drive PR–sending out La Boca press release soon
- Might do one now and one closer to the date
- Making a poster this week for La Boca stuff
- Are tickets being sold at the box office? Slightly confused on this point–Beth will contact Bryan
Adam/Helly:
- Thing’s are going well–L has been helping out a lot! Other people have been coming to help out
- Two reviews are up
- Going to be checking up on new releases starting the end of this week
Wyatt:
- Usdan tabling on Thursday 4-6pm–no volunteers yet
- Worst case scenario, Wyatt can volunteer but won’t be available for take-down
- Post on WesAdmits
- Reserving tables for lunch next week as well
Lara:
- Make a pledge drive promo!
- Staff pledge drive promo competition next semester
Zazie:
- Might find out which public affairs shows don’t have promos yet
- Will look at making labels for everyone who won labels for things in the station
- Hoping to meet with Debbie on Friday morning
- Mandatory trainings outside of staff meetings next semester? This is up for discussion
- Should we shoot for doing training the first meeting back next semester? We can have a student lead this specific to us
- B has met with Debbie too
Ben G:
- Staff party–let’s schedule this soon–for 12/2 or 12/3–potentially underwater themed
- Soundcloud to be worked on soon
Babe:
- New spinitron requests coming in–yay! Should we make categories for our shows on the spinitron page? This seems maybe unnecessary for a free-form radio station
- Looking into a free StreamRewind alternative?
Julia:
- Training is over! Congratulations Julia!
- This Sunday is Tips & Tricks–we have one student to volunteer. Lara might also join. The test will be after and two sexual harassment questions have been added
- OB has been added to the staff list
Abby:
- Weekly email announcements–mailchimp or gmail?
- Might try to move forward with this mailchimp
- We only have one announcement, Wyatt’s, this week–we will start sending the newsletter next week
- Pledge drive–what else can we be doing?
- Shirts! They are $15
- We should make personal Facebook posts more!
- Maybe we should change the streaming audio to a pledge drive plea–let’s ask Ben M
- What about Red & Black or Swings brunch for WESU? Let’s talk to RD–Adam or Abby will reach out to him
- Postering around Middletown community? And poster for the La Boca dinner?