Creative Resources
Show us your Stuff!
Ever wonder what your communications colleagues have been working on? Now you can find out, in the Communicators’ Forum Portfolio.
We’re inviting everyone to “show us your stuff”: websites, print materials, signage, whatever you have that you’d like to share. We’re hoping you will be inspired, informed, and entertained!
To have your project included:
- PRINT: Send a pdf or a jpg (hardcopy samples also accepted, but electronic files are preferred)
- WEB: Send a URL
to Communicators’ Forum, Argus 1, 535 W. William, Suite 2100, Ann Arbor 481093-4978, or email to cf.comment@umich.edu, and we’ll post your sample.
With each submission, please give us your name, your department’s name, and a brief (1–2 sentence) description of the piece.
Producing Podcasts
View the Windows Media webcast segments below for an overview of podcast production.
Want to produce a Spanish-language podcast? Contact Vivianne Schnitzer at vsh@umich.edu or 763-0368 for details.
- How to Interview for a Podcast
- How to Produce a Podcast
- Podcasting with Michigan Productions
- Podcasting at UMHS
Social Media
Communicators’ Forum Tweetfest—May 8th, 2009
On May 8, 2009, Communicators’ Forum sponsored a “Tweetfest” on social media. The meeting included the introduction of working groups, and an overview of social media’s opportunities and challenges.
Social Media Teams
Campus-wide social media teams are forming to discuss various aspects of this important new communications tool. There’s still time to join. Team leaders can give you more information about groups and meeting times; just email the leaders of the team(s) you’re interested in. You don’t need to have experience in social media tools to join—all communicators are welcome!
Crisis/issues management
Team leader: Kelly Cunningham
kecunham@umich.edu
This team will look into how we can best use social media tools in managing crises, and develop a basic plan of action for implementation. Show/hide team members.
Official University presence
Team leaders: Brett Ashley bash@umich.edu
Kallie Bila Michels kallie@umich.edu
This team will make recommendations and guide our presence on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Ann Arbor-pedia, and Wikipedia (and others, perhaps). Show/hide team members.
Tech and trends
Team leader: Kallie Bila Michels
kallie@umich.edu
This team will serve as our “eyes and ears” regarding trends in social media, giving advice on what we need to be doing to stay on top in this area. Show/hide team members.
Blogging
Team leader: Laura Lessnau
llessnau@umich.edu
This team will suggest ways we can use blogging to get out our messages most effectively. Show/hide team members.
Video/audio
Team leaders: Brett Ashley bash@umich.edu
Nancy
Connell nconnell@umich.edu
We are interested in helping to coordinate video resources and expertise across campus with regard to use in social media and online. This team will explore how we can use video and audio more effectively, and consider what standards we should set. Show/hide team members.
Design and Communications
Michigan Marketing & Design (MM&D)
MM&D offers strategic marketing planning, website design and development, print design and production, writing and editing, and print buying. Visit their website to read about rates and services, and to see their portfolio.
UMHS Public Relations & Marketing Communications (PRMC)
PRMC is responsible for internal and external communications support and strategy for the U-M Health System, including the Hospitals and Health Centers and the Medical School. Their website includes press releases, fact sheets, UMHS images, and a UMHS style sheet, among other useful items.
Student Organization Resource Center (SORC)
To reach the campus community—especially students— SORC is the place to go. This unit handles placement of commuter bus signs, Diag boards, plasma screen ads, table tents, and more. Visit their website or email them for more information, or drop by their offices on the 4th floor of the Michigan Union.
LSA Development, Marketing, and Communications
LSA Development, Marketing, and Communications offers integrative services in four areas: Development, Marketing, Communications, and Student Recruitment to LSA divisions and departments. Visit their website to learn more and to see their portfolio.
Engineering Communications and Marketing
Engineering Communications and Marketing offers CoE staff help with and resources for websites and print projects. They also have a wide range of photos available for use. For more information, contact director Byron Roberts by email or by phone at 647-7086.
Photography and Video
U-M Photo Services
Photo Services provides high-quality photography at competitive rates for the campus community, the media, and the general public. You can purchase images from their U-M stock image gallery, or schedule a photo shoot with one of their photographers. Check out their website for examples of their work, or email them for more information.
Bentley Historical Library
Need to know what the campus looked like in 1910, or want to read a 1940s menu from Win Schuler’s? Or maybe you’re looking for a map of the state of Michigan in 1817, or want to read the history of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry. The Bentley Historical Library is the place to go. The Library, located on North Campus, offers a wealth of material—including the Michigan Historical Collection, which comprises 65,000 printed works, over 10,000 maps, and nearly 1.5 million visual images. The Bentley image bank provides historical campus shots, many of them free to the U-M campus community. For more information, visit their website, or email the Reference Desk for help searching the collections.
Michigan Productions
Contact Michigan Productions for your educational, documentary, and motivational program production needs. Their team of videographers and producer-directors will help develop your concept and suggest creative and cost-effective solutions that will deliver your message to your audience. Michigan Productions can handle program design, planning, scriptwriting, casting and auditions, graphics and animation, editing, music, and even duplication. Visit their website or email them for more information.
Printing Services
U-M Printing Services
U-M’s Printing Services division offers standard and custom 1- and 2-color printing, including online ordering of stationery packages. (And they’re the only printer approved to use U-M watermarked letterhead.) Quick turnaround on projects from NCR forms and newsletters to invitations, note cards, and more. Special services include embossing, foil stamping, and custom diecutting. For more information, visit their website, or email them.
External Vendors
Procurement Services has made available a list of vendors who have been approved for University printing jobs; the list can be accessed on their website.
If you plan to produce premium items such as coffee mugs, t-shirts, giveaways, or items for re-sale or for commercial purposes, you should contact the U-M’s licensing office to make sure your selected vendor is on the approved vendor list. (These vendors have been approved to print items using the U-M trademarks.)