Services

Having trouble communicating? Don’t feel bad. It happens to the best of us at times. You’ve come to the right place.  We can help with:

Communications strategy, including marketing and advertising strategy

Writing and editing

We can provide editorial leadership to ensure that Web sites and publications are inviting, clear, consistent, and professional. Our editorial services include:

• Brainstorming and concept development
• Content development and original writing
• Substantive editing and copy-editing
• Proofreading
• Fact-checking

Design

We can help you with all areas of Web and publication design and work with printer vendors to coordinate production. Our design services include:

• Publication design
• Web design
• Information design (e.g., maps)
• Photo research and editing
• Sourcing printing services
• Photography
• Illustration
• Identity development   

Web Development

In addition to Web site production and maintenance, we advise clients on e-marketing, content management, and Web usability best practices. Our Web services include:

• Information architecture
• User research and usability testing
• HTML and CSS coding for templates
• Dynamic Web applications
• Software product and solution research
• Troubleshooting, testing, and customer support

News

Our services include:

• Crafting press releases on newsworthy events, awards, and grants and sending them to appropriate media contacts
• Writing news briefs and posting them to the CC Web site; distributing to media when appropriate
• Responding to print, television, and radio requests for interviews, data, photos, or information by locating on-campus experts; coordinating and following up on interviews
• Working with faculty, staff, and students to help prepare for media interviews
• Working with community relations manager to promote events to community groups
• Assisting with editing and placement of op-ed articles
• Working with students teaching them the basics of press release writing and distribution
• Taking photographs for Web and to accompany various articles
• Maintaining Experts Guide, a CC resource for media
• Sending notice of awards, grants to faculty alma maters
• Sending notice of newsworthy events to students’ hometown newspapers

Community relations

We can help you reach the local audience for your event or program and build connections to sustain your long term efforts.  Our services include:

• Event marketing and promotion
• Consulting and advising services for event management and planning
• Referrals
• Neighborhood relations
• Conflict resolution and mediation
• Project oversight and collaborative management

If you are an off-campus community member, we are available to partner with your organization on worthwhile programs that benefit the community of Colorado Springs, and we offer limited services to local non-profit organizations.  

• Event marketing and promotion
• In-kind sponsorships
• Free event venue spaces and planning for non-profits (as available)
• Collaborative partnerships

Athletic media relations

For Colorado College Division I and III athletics programs, our staff duties include:

• Supervising activity in the press box at athletic events
• Keeping statistics
• Writing press releases and communicates with media
• Writing, editing, and producing brochures and media guides
• Updating and overseeing the athletic department Web site
• Coordinating photography for athletics