Communications Corner | May Recap

Welcome to the Communications Corner ㅡ a once a month recap blog post sharing what NCI’s communications team has been up to!

May was the start of a busy summer with various events on top of our everyday communication and marketing tasks. Let’s recap this month’s events:

Webinars

Our team helps market, run, and recap NCI’s various webinars hosted several times each month! Learn more about each webinar from this month by reading our blog posts:

Webinars keep our team busy as we prepare them from start to finish each week. Before each webinar, our team creates the graphics, website content, Zoom registration and links for panelists and attendees, registration and reminder emails, social media posts, as well as taking time to do run-throughs with each speaker. During the webinar, at least one person from our team attends as host to ensure everything runs smoothly and records for people to watch after. Once the webinar is finished, we upload each recording and send out emails to those who were not able to attend live, and finish with a blog post. 

Courses

NCI hosted 2 in-person courses this last month; Human Food Safety and Animal Food Safety. Since there were no online participants or speakers, all our team had to do was create the name tags and signs for participants as well as prepare the packets with materials needed for the course!

Our summer is booked with a variety of online and in-person courses, so we are always planning ahead and making sure we have everything that we need!

& More!

Between the busyness of webinars, courses, and traveling…our team has also been hard at work editing videos, writing press releases, blog posts, planning, & more for upcoming events.

Drone photo from our recent visit to Mahnomen, MN to kick off our planting to harvest video project.

Read the latest NCI Video Production blog post to get more details about what videos we are working on and what’s coming up. Video production has become a huge part of what our communications team works on, so check out our blog to learn more! We are currently working on a video project that will showcase a variety of crops from planting to harvest, so stay tuned for updates!

By the Numbers

This last month, our communications team:

  • Created 4 videos

  • Helped promote, run, & recap 4 different webinars

  • Wrote 4 blog posts

  • Assisted with 2 in-person courses

That’s all for this month’s recap! Check back in next month to see what else we’ve been up to!

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