[sakai-pmc] UPDATE > Sakai Marketing Interns and Support

[Josh Baron]

Colleagues,

I want to update folks on some of the plans that are underway to bring 
some more marketing support into the Sakai community and specifically the 
PMC.  I would be happy to provide more details, answer questions or 
address concerns.

Over the past few weeks I have been working to finalize plans that I noted 
in an earlier post to engage Marist students in our School of 
Communications and the Arts to provide marketing and communication support 
and expertise to Sakai.  With support from the Apereo Foundation and 
Marist College I'm excited to share that we have now created two Sakai 
Marketing and Communication Internship positions, one which is being 
filled by a Marist undergraduate and the other by a recent graduate from 
our Masters in Integrated Marketing and Communication.  Both interns, who 
will both be paid, will be under the supervision of Dr. Mark Van Dyke who 
is a senior faculty member in our School of Communications and who has 25+ 
years providing communication leadership in the US Navy. 

In addition, Both Mark and Dr. Jennie Donahue will be working to 
incorporate marketing and communication activities for Sakai into their 
fall semester graduate courses.  The first phase of this work will focus 
on developing a strategy marketing and communication strategy which we 
hope to complete over the next 8 weeks.  Following this, students will 
focus on implementing this plan over the remained of the fall.  If this is 
successful we will work to expand the efforts going into the spring which 
could include engaging additional institutions.

I NEED YOUR HELP...
Although Mark will be providing oversight and supervision of this work, 
this team will need to connect with experienced Sakai community members as 
they conduct research, analyze our needs and provide recommendations.  I 
would value having 2-3 PMC members come forward who would be willing to 
engage with the students over the fall.  The amount of time and effort 
should be relatively small (a few hours over the semester) and I think you 
will find this to be both fun and rewarding as you'll be helping to 
provide a powerful learning experience for these students as they help us 
better market Sakai.

Finally, if you think there are faculty at your institution who might be 
interested in replicating this model and working with Mark next semester 
please let me know.

Thanks, Josh
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Joshua Baron
Senior Academic Technology Officer
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York  12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron
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