June 17th, 2010

Have important news you want to run in Campus News? Got a message you want to go out to faculty and staff without cluttering people’s inboxes? Want to boost your group’s profile on campus? Or maybe you’re just aware of something impressive someone else deserves some credit for. Here are your guidelines:

• Do a short writeup of your event or information. Make sure you’ve got all the pertinent information included.
• Send it to campusnews@keene.edu. Do not send it to the individual e-mail addresses of the folks who work on Campus News; your item may still make it into CN, but it also may get lost in one of those individual e-mail inboxes.
• If you’re sending Family News not about your own family, Marketing and Communications will need to check with the affected individual before putting it in CN. If you want to avoid a time lag, check yourself and include the e-mail trail when you submit the item.
• Marketing and Communications staff reserves the right to cut or edit Campus News items for style, content, and length.

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You may recall that a few weeks back, we solicited your ideas for the name of our new “cause” feature.

Mary Pleasanton, Academic and Career Advising, gave us the winning idea:

Noteworthy Cause On Campus News!

Noteworthy Cause on Campus News it is! Thanks, Mary, and thanks to all who make the Campus News community a little more engaging with your comments.

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Welcome to a new recurring Campus News feature — maybe. This is a break with the way we’ve done things, but it seemed worth a try, in the interest of fostering the community that’s so important to all of us.

We’re going to try running a regular “support-this-cause” column. You can participate in two ways:

1. When you have cause-supporting news, send it (and all your other Campus-News-worthy news) to campusnews@keene.edu. This is your newsletter, and it depends on your input.
2. Suggest a name for the new column in the comments section below. The winner receives all the honor and the glory of seeing his or her idea in print. Heck, if you leave it with your real name, we’ll even acknowledge you publicly.

Ready for our first sample? We thought you might be.

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Thanks so much to the KSC community for your well-wishes after last week’s announcement. Robin Dutcher has done a fantastic job with this newsletter for nearly five years, and she leaves big shoes.

As I try to fill them:

• Please be patient. I will likely make mistakes here or there. Please let me know when I do, and I’ll try to correct them promptly.
• Give me feedback. There are a few changes potentially coming, and one that’s in effect immediately: Comments are enabled on all new posts. Please, take advantage of these new forums. And please, let me know what you love about Campus News, and what opportunities you see for improvement.
• Give me news. I am happy to be able to share your news with the campus, but I will do that better if you share it with me. E-mail the Campus News address with your professional updates, personal news, opportunities to do good in the community, policy shifts — whatever you’d like to share with your colleagues.

Thanks again for your support.

Best,

Lucy Webb
Marketing and Communications

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