1. Gopher Bridge Elisa Tvete, Tim Weiland, Kerry Lewis, Regan Sieck, and Sam Maresh
2. The Issue: We noticed a disconnect between students and what’s going on campus Students weren’t hearing about events and other happenings on campus Students are missing out on potentially important information Event planner, etc weren’t seeing the turnout they desired
3. What’s been done before: Posters on campus Ads in the Daily Mass emails sent out from the University administration that not many read Explore U day during Welcome Week
4. Why was that not successful People don’t see the ads if they do they DON’T CARE! Too much information
5. What we are planning to do Start a regular email to students who would like to receive it Include news and events that all students could use Facebook group and possibly a twitter to do the same thing on a smaller scale
6. The big picture We want students to know what’s going on and around campus We want them to take advantage of that KNOWLEDGE = POWER
7. Main Players Students The people and groups with the information that students need to know Adminstration Student groups Businesses around campus Twin Cities community organizations
8. Who can create change Everybody does, but students have the most power Students have to demand the information and actively seek it out
9. Obstacles: We have been having trouble finding the information Narrowing down what information is important, relevant Getting student support (people signing up)
10. Getting over obstacles Creating relations We have to make our offer irresistible to pass over
11. Action steps Finding information - talking to student groups - talking to programs on campus that deal with student events 2. Creating relationships with organizations -building social capital with key players for what’s going down on campus and the community
12. 3. Finding students - informing people about the issue and the effect we want to have on campus - getting people to sign up
13. 4. Creation of the means to accomplish this - email - facebook - twitter - This step can be done at any point in time
14. 5. execution Collecting the information Putting it into a useable format Sending it out on a regular basis
15. How will we measure success Measure how many people subscribe to our email and facebook group Ask them to respond if something was helpful
16. Why pick us? Well, our idea is simple, but can potentially benefit the entire student body in some form or another While we don’t need the money to operate, we could use it to help pay for advertisements and help involve our technology capabilities.
