Wisconsin Engineer Goals

2007 - 2008 Wisconsin Engineer Goals

-Improve Story  Team communication

-Better captions, better photos 

-Meet deadlines

-Improve ad sales 

2006 - 2007 Wisconsin Engineer Goals

1. Improve Visibility on Campus Done, Photo Contest, Increased circulation, ICE, Polygon representation
   
   1. New Distribution Points Added 16 new racks with magazine logo on them
      
2. Promote Student Organization Feel Needs work. Only a few socials. Release party worked very well.
   
   1. Socials!
3. Eye on Finances We did much, much better than we expected. More than enough to fund 4 issues
   
   1. Steady rise in funds to the point where we can fund 4 issues
4. Act Professional Done and done. Polos worn at meetings, events. Responded to mail quick. Ethical decisions made with Linak and JOM.
   
5. Improve Quality of magazine April issue is best yet. Period. Good copy editor.

Additional Comments:
Could work on deadlines, department responsibilities, delegation and Wisconsin Engineer facebook

2004 - 2005 Wisconsin Engineer Goals

1. Get more money in the bank Ads, stronger fundraisers, revenue from circulation
2. Find a new printer Meg, Carl, and Brad searching over the summer
   
3. More artistic layouts Shifting out responsibilities of production heads
   
4. No more color problems Production staff has been educated
   
5. Circulation Follow paper trail, Tom Best send out memo to all receiving magazine, asking to renew subscriptions
   
   • How do we pay for it?
   • Get more people to pay for magazine
6. Win more awards at ECMA Be Fabulous
   
7. Apply for and receive more grants Be Fabulous
8. More themed issues Brainstorm Ideas
   
9. Get items on department wish list Get more money!
   • new keyboard, monitor
   • updated AP style book
   • Adobe Illustrator
   • Headset for phone
   • More Cameras
   • Cashbox
10. Continued communication between department heads Continue from last year
    
11. Ease transition to 2005-2006 Documentation, pick new staff early

Additional Notes:
Research and get a national ad rep
Get a magazine T-Shirt

2003 - 2004 Wisconsin Engineer Goals

1. Get out of debt Done, fixed ad-department, coupon clip
2. Less stress at time of magazine hand off to printer Done, flex time built into schedule, great heads
   
   • Meet deadlines
   • More Communication
3. Cleaner Magazine Getting there, good heads, complements at ECMA
   
   • Fewer typos / mistakes
   • Stories, layouts
4. Interesting (creativity) Improving, new staff members
   
   • to read
   • to look at
5. More Communication Much Better, Communication between people instead of through people, department heads know each other, story teams helped a lot, ads and business working together closely
   
   • Between Department Heads
   • Between Staffers
6. Productive Ed's and Head's meetings Debatable, Meetings only last 30-45 mins, get a lot done, not many off topic conversations
7. Quality not Quantity =), Fewer stories, fewer pages, fewer things to juggle, more attention to detail

Additional Comments:

• Two Awards at ECMA
• Repaired relations with Don Woolston
• Repaired relations with the ECS staff