The Heersink communications team promotes news from across the school. The team will help guide which channel your news and announcement is most appropriately suited, including the weekly Heersink School of Medicine newsletter and social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

Story: fully developed stories or ideas for potential stories about individuals, teams, or units. These may include stories about awards, honors, service, teaching, research, diversity and inclusion, community work, volunteerism, discoveries, and patient care.

Announcements: key messages that pertain to at least one core group within the school: faculty, trainees, students, and/or staff. These may include grant and funding opportunities, call for award nominations, compliance news, facilities updates, and more.

Events: relevant events that pertain to at least one core group within the school. These may include one-time seminars, symposia, employee events, and more.

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Our team works closely with UAB Web Operations and Web Communications. We set the look and feel across all sites, provide technical support, and provide recommendations and best practices for your site projects and updates.

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We work closely with School of Medicine Advancement to produce materials for donor and alumni relations. These include items such as proposals, brochures, invitations, save the dates, posters, etc. Some of the larger proposals require several rounds of drafting and editing, so we ask that you please submit these requests as far in advance as possible. We are aware that many advancement requests are "last-minute" and will always do our best to accommodate these as our capacity allows.

With the introduction of our new school name, all department's marketing and promotional efforts (internal or external) using the name or logo of the Heersink School of Medicine are now required to be submitted for approval before submitting to the UAB marketing approval process.

 Marketing and promotional efforts include but are not limited to:

• Apparel, merchandise and promotional items
• Ads (print, TV, radio, billboard, and social)
• Large-format printing (posters, banners, elevator wraps, graphic displays)
• Brochures, booklets, pamphlets
• Publications (magazine, annual report)
• Promotional videos
• Sponsorships
• Signage

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Branding support: if you have questions about branding or have a special branding scenario that you need help with and isn't covered in the Heersink brand resources toolkit or on the UAB toolkit, submit a request and we'll be happy to assist you.

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