Not much to update on my end. Sorry for the delay in my post, I gave my first official presentation for my internship yesterday (109 slides..1.5 hrs) so that's been taking up a lot of my time.

Just think, 2 more posts and we'll all be back in Ann Arbor.

Enjoy the rest of summer!

~Jenna

We have a little over one month before most of us are moving back to school. We need to plan a meeting before school starts in which ALL OFFICERS AND ADVISORS can attend. If you know what day you will be moving back to school, please post it. So far, we have Nate for Aug 24. The earlier we can plan this meeting, the better. The first month of school is always very hectic for DEX so we need to get things organized and start recruiting!

I hope all of you have gotten a chance to read Tom's email regarding the Michigan International Speedway for a fundraiser from August 14-16. I highly encourage you to attend if you can. Please respond to Tom ASAP, even if you cannot attend.

Also, let's get t-shirts at the beginning of the year so we can have them at our informational meetings and give them away when people pay their dues. Please send me t-shirt designs!

Thank you all for your updates. I have to admit I have been a little sidetracked by my internship but I will hammer out all the details of what we need to do for the next couple weeks to plan for the beginning of the year. I want to encourage all of you to do the same because it is such a pain to scramble to pull everything together last minute. We obviously don't want to leave anything out!

Harry Potter tonight!

Vickie

Hello:

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer.

We had interest in working MIS again this year. I need anyone that is
committing to working to get in touch with me in the next couple weeks. I need
to confirm camping as well as our count to ensure we have enough workers.

If, your student is committed to working, I will need the following information
for everyone working: Full Nsme, Birthdate, Driver's License or Social
Security Number. I will also need to know if they have their own camping items
or need some provided.

If, you have any questions please feel free to let me know.

Regards,
Tanya Blehm

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Success with this fundraiser is very important for help support other fundraisers Julia and I have planned throughout the year. I would love to see people from the UM chapter come to support DEX. If you want to come, email me or call me. My email is tstowers@umich.edu. My number is (248) 229-0703.

For a social event, on Sunday January 17th U of M is playing UCONN in basketball. Assuming we are decent this year it will be a pretty good game so maybe we could reserve those long tables in the back of Buffalo Wild Wings and watch the game with everyone. As far as the meal, I would need to talk to Shane about funding. Maybe we could do something where we pay for $6 of everyones meal, or we just order a ton of different types of wings and pay for the whole meal, or we don't pay at all. Just throwing around some ideas.

Nate

Hope that everyone is having a great summer!! Sorry about neglecting the DEX blog but I just figured out how to submit an update and also don't have much to report. On an unrelated note: I'm having a great time in DC. To answer questions from wayyyyyyyyy before: Circle K is November 14-15 so I think that's a good way to get people involved first semester. I'll try to brainstorm some recruiting ideas for my next update. Good to hear from all of you and Happy 4th of July!!

-Kathleen

I hope your summers are still going swell.

At my internship we have a lot of Lunch & Learns, and seminars to teach us how to be better employees, marketers, teammates, and people. The session last Friday was called "The Right Start" and it was about making the transition from "school" to "work" (or college, to a job). We did a bunch of fun activities on teamwork, personality, and collaboration.

He has done workshops at colleges all over the country, and I think it would be great to have him come out and do a session for DEX. As we would have to hire him to come, it would be great if we had a solid audience (~20-30). We can't have it too big, or the workshop looses its functionality and personal interaction.

His website is www.jb-trainingsolutions.com. The guy is quite the comedian too, and very enjoyable.

Let me know what you think!

~Jenna

My summer has been amazing so far and I hope you are all having a great time :)

Don't forget to post your updates even if it's just to pop in and throw around some ideas -- I haven't heard from some of you in a while. Only heard from Alex, Nilesh, Jenna and Nate last round.

Here's a couple things on my mind:

Speakers - any word from KPMG, Google, Erich Freiny? Did Target pick a specific topic yet out of the several ideas?

resume, cover letter, & internship search seminar - I like the idea of the resume, cover letter, & internship search seminar. Were you thinking of just having people come in to speak for this? Or doing more of a peer tutoring session?

Social event & budget - How much money do we have allocated to this in our budget for this year? (more of a question for Shane)

target grant - Any updates on this? Do you need our help on answering any of the questions?

Michigan International Speedway Fundraiser - Haven't heard about this in a while. Is this still happening? Who from UM is participating?

Finally, Alex and I were brainstorming possible event ideas for the month of october, besides our sports marketing event. Alex and I both thought that DEX should host a resume, cover letter, and internship search seminar in either late september or early october for its members. Since there is a career fair in October, we thought it would be beneficial if we prepared our members to land themselves the best possible internship. It would be kind of like an insider information to getting the best internship and also what avenues students can take to seek that great internship. Lynne and Kay would be able to help us with this event seeing as how Lynne works in the career center and has a strong understanding on how to perform the internship search and prepare students for job interviews. Kay has a strong knowledge of public speaking skills and how to present yourself in an appropriate manner that would make prospective employers like our DEX members. If we combine both of their skills into one event I think it would be beneficial to our students. Especially if we hold an event like this earlier in the year this way it gives our members an edge over other organizations on campus and its career outreach events. Let me know if this is a good idea and I can go ahead and speak to Kay and Lynne and see if they would be interested in being our speakers for this event. It would be again at the end of september or beginning of october and only open to our DEX members.

Take Care. Enjoy your summer.

Nilesh Dagli

Salutations!

PD is moving forward on all fronts, so I will get right to it. I recently received confirmation from Ella Arroyo from Target that they will be our opening speaker for the year on 9/23/09. Although Ella will not be speaking herself, she said that she will let us know who will be speaking on behalf of Target as the date approaches. Regardless we should be very excited to have such a reputable brand as our kick-off. The speakers will be potentially addressing the following:

-Target is known for unparalleled branding: How does branding work on a local level in your experience in comparison with the national
approach?

-What types of internships does Target offer; what advice would you give our students to gain a competitive edge? Depending on the speaker we hope to have the representatives collect resumes/cover letters for those interested.

Secondly, Emily Shahady has also confirmed her availability to speak to DEX on 11/11/09. She was a big hit last year and I am personally very excited to have her back again. She is flexible in terms of the content of her speech; these are the ideas we sent to her:

-From your expertise as VP Account Director, tell us how client
management works in an ad agency; what is the process of turning a
lead into an account? How is this relationship maintained and expanded in the future? Can you give us examples in your experience?

-What are positives and negatives of advertising in a poor
economic-climate? Two perspectives: From the account side, is it more
important to gain new clients, or to expand on the services of
existing accounts? From the creative side, what messages/ideologies
are most important?

These are a bit specific, but they are simply "conversation-starters." Also, we will again ask if she will be collecting resumes, and see if she would be willing to speak on Troy's internship program.

Similarly, I have talked with our new co-adviser Lynne Sebille-White who will be providing us with a contact at Google, and hopefully at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. More on this story as it develops.

Lastly, for the hands-on marketing project where we approach a business and actually provide a written plan and course of action for improving their marketing, I agree that those who want to take this on must be fully dedicated. So before we implement anything, we need to feel out interest, and the level of interest.

For potential businesses I feel that the Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase, Blimpy Burger, Zanzibar, and other localities could be interested. I will draft a better plan outlining prospective businesses after I find out who is interested. On that note, I will be sending out a survey for immediate response.

Well, I have started to ramble, and so I will go back to picking corn out in the fields of South Dakota. Good day.

alex

Well, more like a computer lab. That I share with 6 other interns.

I'm at work, doing commercial research in the QSR industry, trying to see what competitors are doing with interactive media.

As far as DEX, I don't have any updates. Like Vickie said, just try to stay on top of things, and always be brainstorming for events and activities we can do this year. For example, do we want our social thing to be food? activity? (whirly ball, pool, bowling) party?

Doing something with a business twist could also be fun, as that is the focus point of our club. Maybe if we did something with teams, we could make each team name be of a big name company.

That's all I can think of for now. Hope everyone is enjoying their summers. So weird to think that we're more than a month into it already. We'll all be back in Ann Arbor promoting DEX before we know it.

Enjoy.

Nate

I'm at work right now so I have to make this short. I got assigned to work in the Social Media group at Starcom, which is great because I'm on twitter and facebook all day :)

Nothing new to update but just wanted to make sure everyone is still on track with everything. I'm excited that speakers have been booked, and the Member Development survey was great. Results? Nate, I also like the idea of members sending in questions before meetings - especially because we can have things to talk about, and also people who are shy can still get their questions answered.

Alex, a marketing project where we work with a local business in AA is a cool idea, but this is something that needs to be VERY well-planned and organized if we are going to do it, because we obviously don't want to hurt the business. A couple clubs at Michigan do this already, so we also don't want to overlap clients. Do you have anyone in mind?

(Jenna-ness)
I apologize for my tardyness, but I haven't been on my own computer in almost 4-5 days. My life consists of working at the golf course at 6am, working out, and shopping. Then the occasional hanging out and playing monopoly or Mario Kart. Needless to say, i'm looking forward to the weekend so I can sleep. Move to chicago on Friday, Start work Monday. Vickie visited me in Naperville today (and reminded me to write this, haha) which was really fun.

(DEX-ness)
-hooray that we have a new co-advisor!

-glad to see that things are moving along with our MD and PD peeps. Keep up the great work guys, we are already great steps ahead of last year's summer prep.

-I've been thinking about speaking topics for the mini-lunches and various contacts that I have in fields that could be helpful to people in DEX. I'm much experienced in marketing/advertising, but have friends in pretty much every discipline. Maybe compiling this type of info could be useful for the club.

-Shane and I have been in contact, and he has been looking at various options for corporate grants. I also sent him information on making the budget so that'll be underway soon.

-I think that's all i've got for now. so back to packing.

Peace out DEXY Kids
~Jenna

But i got some good news, (well kind of). I have booked one speaker already for October 7th, its going to be anywhere from 1-3 representatives from the michigan sports marketing department. The departments representative has confirmed that date with me, however she hasnt confirmed who exactly will be speaking and how many people will be speaking at this event. So its kind of an unofficial confirmation. But they seem very willing and my contact wit the department, Katy Jackson told me to speak with her in August when she will have a better idea as to who will be speaking and then DECA can promote accordingly.

Also, I spoke to the Red Wings representative that Vicki told me about, and he will be holding a career day sometime at the beginning of the regular season in October. His name is Eric Freiny and he has cordially invited our DECA members to this event. He will send me more details later as they get confirmed.

On one final note, I am going to this KPMG career thing on wednesday and I was going to speak with one of their HR reps to see if a recruiter or somebody from PR would like to come out and speak to our DECA members sometime in november or january of 2010. I will let you guys know if I am successful with getting a confirmation with a spokesperson from KPMG.

One more final final note, alex and I have been throwing out some contingency plans just in case we arent able to book the speakers in the months that we would like. Once we finalize those contingency plans we will let all of you know.

Thanks hope you guys are having a great and relaxing summer!!!