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Hello All —

Below in red are my suggestions/comments.  Your ideas are great.  My only concern is having enough tasks for an intern to do to earn credit that wouldn’t require a LOT of oversight from me :).

Thanks so much for your hard work.  Please be free to contact me with any questions or if you need clarification on anything.

Ellen

On Apr 4, 2016, at 9:58 AM, Alyssa Medina <amedina8@uwyo.edu> wrote:

Good morning, Ellen!

It was great to see you last week for our presentation, we can't wait to get started on the next phase of our project. We will be looking at contacting the Haub School of ENR this week with the intention of finding out what exactly their internship requirements are. This should help us to formulate and document a more cohesive plan for you and MBNA to work with. We'll be sure to keep you updated each step of the way. Until then, here's a quick list we came up with that entails most of the initial issues we discussed.  Please edit as you see fit; we'd love to know what isn't really necessary to you and what could be added:

Update website — We use a free google platform (google sites) for our webpage.  We like the free part (and the ease of editing).  I don’t know if it is possible to change the front page (I really haven’t spent much time with it…).  We are open to suggestions/changes, even regarding the platform, but it does need to be accessible to non-web-savvy folks like myself for editing purposes :).

• Connect blog to website (rather than 2 separate sites)
• Update event calendar — an ongoing issue!
• Streamline front page for easier access (combine links, fill out pages, organize links by importance rather than alphabetical?)

Manage social media — great ideas

• Interaction with fans on Facebook
• Take and share pictures of trails/events
• Brainstorm how to engage the community year-round (sharing user photos, ski tips, general questions?)

On-Campus Advertising  — again, great ideas.

• Design fliers/posters
• Organize and operate table in union
• Communicate with Nordic Ski Club

Miscellaneous

• Keep track of issues between different trail users and implement ideas to promote better signage/encourage sharing — a big issues but unfortunately our hands are tied as far as implementing — everything must be approved by the USFS
• Build/strengthen relationships with community businesses
• Anything budget-related (possibly in conjunction with advertising?) — this is all done by our treasurer so wouldn’t be in the purview of an intern.  Any spending requests over $200 have to be approved by the board of directors.  Other requests go directly to the treasurer.
• Help existing employees with daily tasks — Aside from the goomers, the ski school director and I are the only employees and neither of us have “daily" tasks.  A few things that might be helpful are setting up a database of members.  Right now I keep track of all of our members in an excel web site and it is tedious and not very efficient.  Helping with ski school is also an option — advertising/soliciting volunteer instructors/etc. (things that the ski school director does) could help.  The only other frequent task I have is responding to members — acknowledging donations by email and updating the excel spreadsheet.  A fair amount of my time is spent doing this and it might be something an intern could take over.

We'll be getting together in class on Tuesday to discuss where to go from here. Thank you for all of your input, it's been very helpful! 

Alyssa

Clarissa 

Lauryn

Stone

Kevin