Econ Summit take 2 got postponed. So after weeks of going non stop things are finally slowing down for a little bit. That said I have COLI collection this weekend (Cost Of Living Index) so I will be driving all around Norman Thursday morning for work. I love getting the analysis of the COL across the nation, lets me look at different places I might want to live later in life.

I am not a graphic designer

That said, I'm creating a logo for the National Weather Museum. Now it's come a long long way from the first draft, but I'm still not sure how professional I can make this look. I have to bring in my laptop from home to work on it because my work computer only has Illustrator, and for what I need to do I need Photoshop. I'm sure you can do it on Illustrator, but I'm a lot better with Photoshop and actually know how to do what I have imagined in head. Not that I expect it to come out how I imagine it but still, this gives me the best chance of having it look nice.

Abstract.... again

Fixing the Abstract again. Just small changes that either I didn't catch or my boss wants changed. I proof read each page a dozen times, but because I'd been staring at the same thing for multiple months I'm not too surprised there were still a couple typos. After a while everything just blends together, they were easy to fix though. Now I'm trying to get a print estimate from Transcript Press, hopefully this time they will reply.

This week I worked 16 hours

Economic Summit Take 2

We are currently planning a follow-up to the Economic Summit to field any questions/concerns in regard to the bad press following the first one. Hopefully this will help improve relations with the community, we have already begun working on things with OU.

More crisis management experience!

Working on another press release for webaPeel and a letter to the NASA representative where we get our grants from. Over all a lot slower than it has been for the past couple weeks preparing for the Agio announcement.

Next week I will be talking with the PR rep from Agio again to analyze the success of the announcement and what we should be doing now.

This week I worked 17.5 hours.

Agio Announcement

Over 100 people came to the announcement yesterday! I met Andy Rieger, managing editor of the Norman Transcript, and Jason McCarty, public relations coordinator for the State Commerce. I helped set up for the announcement and the luncheon, but by that point there wasn't much left to do. I was running around before the event making sure the press release was sent out, everyone knew where it was and the programs were ready. It is so incredibly relieving to know that this event is done and it was such a success.

So far it has been picked up by the Norman Transcript, who printed the whole press release and then also wrote an article about the expansion, and KSBI 52 news had a 30 sec. clip over the announcement.

The location of the AGIO announcement is changing, and considering the event is one week from today that throws us a pretty big curve ball. Also I am still waiting on confirmation for the press release and invitation so I can send those out, I keep calling and talking to people there but because there are 5 people assigned to over see each step it's impossible to have anything finalized.

Lesson of the week: delegate to one to two people, simple tasks do not need a whole committee.

*Forgot to post again, this week I worked 16 hours