What is Blogcasting?

Blogcasting is the face of radio. Blogcasting is a method of development used to create writing and speaking outlets for vets who struggle in school. The program started with the Journalism Certificate Program at Madison College and will finish with the Business Plan Certificate by merging blogs with podcasts. Blogcasting is a podcast and blog writing development process to teach mechanisms of catharsis through on-air and feature writing.

Overcoming Impossibility starts at Madison College. Once the veteran transfers from their 14-week Cognitive Processing Therapy at the Madison VA, fast-writing methods will be offered through a welcoming committee to calm anxiety that become a daily exercise. The Madison College Writing Center tours will be offered to connect those who wish to pursue the Journalism and Practicum programs.

Blogcasting internships will begin the next phase of writing and speaking taking the individual from crisis to catharsis, who become the catalyst. Speaking and writing develop in an effort to purge thoughts into research. Opportunities are made available to all who complete their therapy.

Madison College assists veteran transfers through the Veterans Integrational to Academic Leadership (VITAL) program provided at the Truax campus. The VA offers therapy and support for all who are struggling with symptom management.

https://www.annarbor.va.gov/services/VITAL.asp

None of the other University of Wisconsin campuses offer this tool to succeed, which makes Madison College the right choice for vets who struggle overcoming the impossibility of managing anxiety and depression once therapy completes.

The Madison College Challenge introduced business plan writing during the Spring semester of 2018. As a perk for competing, I was offered the Kaufmann Template that taught me methods of brainstorming. Brainstorming calms anxiety. Executive summaries are lengthy, requiring maximum concentration to develop prototypes, which helped me stay grounded to overcome periods of panic.

After becoming acquainted with Madison College and academia, I started attending free entrepreneurship seminars that led to the blogcast ideation. What is one thing we all agree about radio? We never see who is behind the microphone. How can anyone trust what is broadcasted? Seeing is believing right? Exactly. Those who invest in blogcasting watch their development.

Blogcasting improves Terminal Brain Injury. Outpost 422 was developed during the Launch Your Business program that lit the brainstorm during the summer of 2019. Social Media Writing and Practicum pilot writing developed the talk show at Clarion Radio. After an eye-opening discovery, the revelation occurred that broadcast, along with speaking on-air, develops fluent speech—a disability symptom as a result of TBI. Slurred and broken speech plagued my ability to communicate.

Blogcasting is a form of outreach to connect with the crisis veteran to offer methods of catalyst.  When the 11th hour of crippling panic sets in, blogs and widgets help those in crisis have the tools to communicate. Outpost 422 blogs are the backpack radio in the watchtower.

The Outpost 422 weekly show was granted through the Madison College Clarion General Manager of Broadcast position. Outpost 422 was branded through the Launch Your Business six-week entrepreneur summer program prior to launch. The WordPress branding was developed through the Social Media Writing Course and is now an entry to the Madison College Challenge 2020.

 

The Outpost 422 priority is to serve active duty and veterans who are faced with crisis to offer an opportunity to find their way out. The primary job is to connect indirectly by establishing trust.  The main goal is to provide as many chances to succeed as possible. Between broadcast, documentary, blogs and testimony, the odds greatly increase through social media connects.

As General Manager of Broadcast, ethics is the top priority, by meeting the inspection of the viewing audience. Being gunned down in a guard tower in Port au Prince one night severely changed my life—my on-air story. Talking about it through case study research opens portals to healthy living.

Transitioning from the Madison VA into college has been overwhelming at times. Outpost 422 is the campus watchdog look out surveying the needs of those who are needing extra help. Blogs and podcasts converge on our WordPress website to distribute information.

Outpost 422 weekly broadcasts at http://www.clarionradio.com focus on the one listener who may need to hear the words from someone who was there. Overwhelming chaos and intrusive thoughts take every ounce of energy to overcome. I certainly hope all who listen will also interact through blog comments and connect with our listeners at our Facebook page available in the widgets section at Outpost 422. Thank you all for your continued support.

 

Metal Max and Brad Burt host a late night metal review at Madison College called “The Witching Hour.” The show takes on death metal from a pragmatic approach to survey the ecstatic human nature of warrior culture through case study.

Outpost 422 future surveys seek to offer cathartic methods to overcome the impossibility of conquering ideations during the trauma informed 11th hour.

The argument? Death metal is warrior catharsis. Outpost 422 is surveying combat active duty and veterans to prove their point. Please continue to tune in on Saturdays at 3 a.m. CDT at http://www.clarionradio.com or click on the “CR” link in the widget section.

Stop by and give Metal Max a shout. Max hosts the Witching Hour’s “Metal Max Maximum Metal Top 5” picks of the week. Max is an articulate critic and an expert reviewer of the Madison, Wis. metal scene.

Go to: www.askmetalmax.com to learn more.

 

 

What is Outpost 422?

We are the academic brand of veterans who transition from the Veterans Crisis Line to Madison College who help veterans survive the appeals system. We are a meet and greet tabling service to assist those who deal with communication struggles overcome the impossibility of being trauma-informed. Our mission is to develop a welcoming committee at the Madison College Truax campus who assists with fundraising and philanthropy event organizing for suicide awareness.

We are alumni of the Madison College UW Liberal Arts Transfer program and Technical College Apprenticeships. Our responsibility as veterans is to offer our mental health stories as a means to end veteran suicide. We are panelists who assist corporate philanthropies with WordPress blog sample and survey prototype assembly to spread awareness of PTSD and how to organizing a workplace veteran coalition to end veteran suicide.

We take donations for our Bravo 6-6 CAV at FOB Fenty in Afghanistan. The canteen is the place we veterans come to when we are dog-tired to replenish with coffee and conversation in the field as light fighters. We assist our community as battle buddies to open portals of discussion to can improve how we communicate with the trauma-informed and how to treat one another.

Our Mission:

• Share intel gathered from all American Legion, VFW, and DAV National and Department Conventions.
• Exchange intel through the Oracle Cloud survey and sample collection services our group provides.
• Tell veteran stories and hand out vouchers.
• Meet and Greet “Each Veteran Has a Unique Perspective” Story.

Life is a Landmine Tour expo open speaker meetings set up concerts and expos to donate our time to pursue internships to serve the USO overseas for undergraduate research. We take perks and running costs off the top to cover our expenses and the rest will be invested in our campaign to end veteran suicide. The 422nd Rescue and Recovery Brigade is operated by veterans who have found their way out of the abyss.

“We speak the truths about suicide, VA opiate addiction homelessness, to teach writing mechanisms through the Outpost 422 Practicum Internships we are creating.” -Outpost 422 Mission Statement.

 

Anonymous tips receive a $20 Voucher for homeless survey. Homeless will also be required to keep downtown clean and free of pollution from garbage trucks. The Freegan business district at Peace Park is my Culture Park business plan through the Madison College Challenge we are hosting titled, “Operation Restore Americana.”

We are teaching homeless to barter vouchers and develop entrepreneurship strategies to prepare for a possible opportunity to clean up and go back to school through VA VITAL.

• Sacred Warrior Outpost 422 Chaplain “The Sacred Warrior Chaplains of the United States Intervention and Prevention Program.”
• Broadcast PBS Podcast from the Clarion Broadcast Medium through Practicum.
• Introduce techniques shared by the VA through the Cognitive Processing Program.

Outpost 422 Executive Summary Academic Transitional Flow Chart

The veteran starts out at Building 22 at the Madison VA after a Veterans Crisis Line referral.  The VA does not treat patients who are pre-9/11 right away because they are backlogged. The company EAP Program I attended screened my condition and notified the VA I was in urgent need of extended care. Had it not been for corporate EAP, Gov. Walker’s ACT 385 and a few social workers helping me survive, I was told my VA Comp and Pen doctors I did not qualify, which led to me developing Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder due to the VA’s policy to deny all pre-9/11 combat veterans.

Corporate Employee Assistance Programs helped win my appeal. The Mission Act helps private doctors allow the right to screen workplace veterans and receive hiring grants throught the Federal government.

Outpost 422 is your assurance of success. The program is now entering into the undergraduate research phase that utilizes classroom research projects for veterans to exchange scientific information for research abstracts. The interns develop through the Madison College Journalism Certificate Program prior to transfer to spit-shine their reading, writing, grammar, syntax, social interaction and classroom professionalism.

Our interns will enter the first phase of Truax part-time to get acquainted. The interns start out by frequenting the writing center at Madison College and speaking on-air while writing blogs for their weekly talk show appearance. The following courses will be introduced the first semester:
-Intro to Literature
-Written Communication
-Practicum 1 or a College Writing prep class

The Outpost 422 Pilot was written to create new opportunities to mentor VITAL transfers through a method called “blog-casting.”

Practicum starts out the veteran scholar through a literary beginng phase after completing 14 weeks of Cognitive Processing Therapy at the Madison VA.  Journalism is the core foundation of the Madison College Veterans Integration Transitional Leadership (VITAL) program that offers catalyst into rapid recovery for crisis through catalyst.

Our corporate VA Diversion model takes the crisis and fast-tracks development through voucher rewards-based programs also available for company EBITDA business models. We are only as strong as our weakest link and leave no veteran behind. We turn learning into entrepreneurship by selling professors and philanthropies a solid product.

What exactly happens when you get out of the military and end up with a service-connected disability? Post 9/11 combat veterans receive red carpet treatment who go to the front of the line at the VA. The rest of us, those who served in combat in diplomatic wars during the Somalia era, are left in the OutCountry. The VA throws us into appeal and makes us starve financially to tap out. I am currently on my sixth year in remand for a left knee condition I sustained in 1995. Why do you do in the meantime? You fight.

Picture everything you aspired to be turned inside out and you will have what I call a “9/10” disabled veteran. We are disenfranchised for our service who gets ran off the job for seeking help for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. We listen to you when you tell us to call the Veterans Crisis Line. When we end up at the VA, we get interrogated to the third degree who are marginalized beyond compare. We develop Complex PTSD and are filled with a mail-order painkiller death sentence.

There is no yellow brick road. There is no happy ending. Your sacrifice means nothing to the Comp and Pen evaluators at the VA.

• You are collateral damage. A liability.
• Your only hope is to try to salvage the grace of an employer who will grant mercy on you and your situation.
• They tell you to “grow some thick skin.”
• You are now an outcast, a problem child, who is sent to the OutCountry.

They loved you when you were “over there” in-country. You made your family proud because you served loud. You suspect there may be something wrong, but you know if you use the Employee Assistance Program they will run you off the job. You let the pain manifest beyond any threshold you can bare.

 

The bottle becomes your nightly embrace. The VA painkillers tell you to take more and the pain will go away. The pain manifests into incarceration. You swear you won’t do it again and pledge to get well. The warrior credo runs through your blood, but you continue to believe the lie there is nothing wrong and you roll the dice at happy hour one more time. The police show up. The soldier and his legacy are flushed down the gutter. One last time to make it up to your mother. She weaps silently praying beside her bed, knowing if her son keeps this up, he will end up dead. PTSD devours all hope. The VA dishes out mail order dope. Another one bites the dust.

The OutCountry is not the end. Outpost 422 is a crisis central website for you to connect with many portals to reach out to any of us who have lived through the crisis to tell the story. The world will change and you will find your niche. There is an extraction helicopter waiting for you until then. We live in a world of conflict and contemplation. Knowing there is a solution changes the game for everyone.

Please take a moment to review all the videos in times of despair and know Outpost 422 harvests support to help you see this through. We are your back up battle buddy. We are here to help you overcome impossibility. You are worth every ounce of courage you can muster. Download the PTSD Coach App and see this through. Even though we live in a cold and dark society. We have each other. We are your sisters and brothers. Stay as long as you like. You are welcome here.

Welcome to the Witching Hour. This week we will be featuring great death metal bands who have visited Madison, Wis. over the years and hope to see them play again. If you are a local, regional or global death metal act and want to be added to our playlist, go to the Grin Reefer on Facebook and drop your video. We upload from Spotify as well. Happy Hauntings.

 

Our playlist for the week is as follows:

Note: The playlist will appear after the show airs Feb. 2.

Thank you for tuning in. We are a University of Wisconsin PTSD Communications Research endeavor. We hope you will listen to our show with an open ear to explore the pragmatic origins of death metal from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. CDT. You can do so by either clicking on the Clarion Radio icon on our Outpost 422 widgets section or by going to http://www.clarionradio.com.

Thank you to all who are serving our military across the globe. We hope you will use our show to flush out the infidels and scream along in times of crisis. Channeling dark energy through catharsis is a coping mechanism proven to work according to our research. We hope our outreach will give you the strength to reach out to the Veterans Crisis Line right away. Please download the PTSD Coach app as well. Please leave a comment below if you need to connect with someone right away.

By Bradley J. Burt

Madison, Wis.—High Noon Saloon featured one of the best metal bands hailing from the north winds who showed up to the Capitol Jan. 10 to melt faces and did. They are from Two Rivers, Wis. who call themselves “Micawber.”

Micawber put on an impressive show blowing away Madison-area bands. After sticking around for the headliner after the Micawber set, I headed for the door after the change over in disappointment. Madison dance metal could not hold their end of the social contract being featured by High Noon Saloon’s “Wisconsin Metal Fest.” Strike one goes to High Noon Saloon for hosting Madison mishaps. Being a metal band is about being the means to produce quality original musical bedlam, not modes of electronica and poorly tuned snares—totally not metal. Now Micawber, on the other hand, brought the metal.

High Noon Saloon kicked out early birds who were forced to stand out in the elements as ice sheets came down.

• Strike two for poor quality venue ethics. Buyer beware—show up on time if you plan to see any bands.
• You will be spending the next day recovering from getting soaked in subzero temperatures.
• High Noon Saloon scored a flawless victory for being a Madison-area metal fan adversary.

Micawber started out the show working their merchandise table. Great dudes who interacted with fans. T-shirts were fairly priced and multi-colored that made for an incredible score to help continue funding the touring efforts of the band.

Fans can buy Micawber merch here.

Micawber tours the globe through national record label “Prosthetic Records.” Their fans brought the venue down with an all-out moshpit circle that engulfed those who were there to watch. Micawber is loved by fans on YouTube as well. Check out Youtubers who support them. Great group of dudes who melt faces with metal. Stop by and give them a shoutout on Facebook.

Micawber on Facebook can be found here.

The Witching Hour Micawber Review—the band, the myth, the legend.

Critics are everywhere. Fans of death metal are relentless. Musicians who play death metal are ruthless and aggressive when judging live performance. The Witching Hour takes on a different aspect by looking into songwriting from a cultural and pragmatic aspect versus live performance.

The sound at High Noon Saloon was weak and am not grading Micawber on sound. Strike Three for poor sound quality. The overhead speakers barely picked up the drums and guitars were hard to hear. Our scout was on the scene last night who went live via a smartphone where the Witching Hour first impression was taken.

The second review came from the use of a Go-Pro 4K. Again, the sound quality was subpar through overheads. High Noon’s subs were cutting out and made reviewing performance difficult. Micawber gets a blast beat 10/5 stars for making the audience circle pit the entire venue as a result of High Noon’s default.

• Overcoming impossibility starts with fan interaction.
• Bad sound always makes a first and lasting impression.
• Micawber’s “Beyond the Reach of Flame (2018)” video and sound will be reviewed instead.
• The band’s legendary status dispells myths death metal is dead.

The myth? Death metal is great for veterans who struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Witching Hour seeks to survey vets who end up in the University of Wisconsin to collect communications research and Micawber is one of our featured experimental bands.

The Legend: If you are currently serving, take a minute to tune in and scream along when times of crisis arrive. Cultures use myth as a form of religious persecution.  The satanic and occult subversive and dismissive methods used by organized religion labels death metal bands as outcasts dismissing veteran adaptive aid in times of crisis. Vikings used catharsis and Norse legend to conquer in battle. Death metal is a pragmatic art and the Micawber legend definitely lives up to the face-melting religious prototype.

Micawber’s ax-wielding sweep picking mastery meets the listener’s ear with destroying double bass delivery. Micawber has been an amazing band from day one. The Wisconsin metal scene continues to thrive as a result of their efforts.

“Beyond the Reach of Flame (2018)” as a song in general masks the era of Wisconsin death metal prototypes found in the early years at the Rave’s Milwaukee Metal Fest. Micawber’s song-writing mastery exceeds the expectations of every death metal critic. Death metal musicians and their criticism can be harsh and brutal, which makes Micawber stand out even more. Micawber melts the face of every critic and will always be a featured band weekly on the Madison College server available for all who are serving across the globe.

The Wisconsin Metal Fest at High Noon Saloon was a low-cost show of an affordable ten dollars. Micawber was worth every cent. The venue sound, staff and booking were awful. The Madison-area bands did not bring the metal. If standing out in a blizzard to catch Wisconsin’s best metal act is your thing—by all means go to the High Noon Saloon in Madison, Wis. to be treated like garbage and sit through ear bleeding electronica, poorly tuned snares and subs that cut in-and-out. Micawber made the trip out in the blizzard worth it and hope all continue to support this great band as they tour for Prosthetic Records.

 

 

The Madison College spring semester kicks off in two weeks along with a newly formatted show featuring Wisconsin death metal acts to entertain our troops who are checking in.

What is the Witching Hour? The Madison College Clarion Broadcast General Manager’s show sharing stories about being in the band, living up to the myth by being a legendary drummer at Appleton West High School class of ’93. We are creating a soundtrack for Documentary Storytelling through Blog-casting.

The Witching Hour Blog-cast is a prototype for the Outpost 422 entry in the Madison College Challenge. We are pursuing our startups to write a documentary that interacts with our Facebook audience. The documentary will be called “Batshark—the Mike Fleury Story.”

We are assembling Wisconsin death metal musicians to pay their respects who will be session musicians for benefit shows through the Life is a Landmine Tour Mike Fleury helped get off the ground. The Witching Hour format selects songs from his favorite bands around Wisconsin.

Go to The Clarion Broadcast General Manager’s Facebook page and drop a comment requesting songs or giving a shout out to the troops here: https://www.facebook.com/clarionradio

 

What can listeners expect? An in-depth overview of how death metal songs develop from prototypes from the ’90s commonly heard at Apple Emporium in Appleton, WI, which closed its doors never to be seen or heard from again, thus vanishing into a myth. Apple Emporium was a legendary place where teens gathered to play hacky sack and plan opportunities to explore the Necronomicon. Listeners can expect nothing short of the most brutal death metal being played on Saturdays from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. at clarionradio.com.

Do expect to hear masterpiece engineered music followed by stories of myths and legends. The Witching Hour also investigates what bands are playing in the Madison, WI, and Capitol area. Our first featured story talks about a Two Rivers, WI band who is being backed by a major record label called “Prosthetic Records.” The Witching Hour featured band “Micawber” will be sure to turn many heads as they develop as seasoned musicians and masters of their craft. Check out their video featured below:

Please do tune in and support the Wisconsin music scene. Our efforts across the state will be used for the University of Wisconsin communications research to end veteran suicide through a method called “warrior catharsis.” Screaming along with death metal cruising down the highway is therapeutic when panic sets in. Let out the frustration through channeling dark energies to turn critical moments around 180 degrees.

By Bradley J. Burt—Madison College Clarion General Manager of Broadcast—Consortium Student Through UW Whitewater

In August 2017, after taking a leap of faith, the decision was made to go back to school after completing therapy at the Madison VA. The VA introduced me to a new path in life with a new campus pilot program to guide me. There was only two weeks to register for school left and had to get off the pot.

Travis Seehaver at the Milwaukee Vocational Rehabilitation Office issued a dare to enroll in UW Madison.

Seehaver closed my case and laughed at me knowing the probability of getting into UW Madison at my age was impossible. Or was it? We 10th Mountain Divison climb to glory and accept every challenge with rigor and integrity with determination to succeed.

Madison College offers a 27-credit UW Madison transfer commitment requiring a minimum of a 2.7 GPA for admission. There is a method for veterans to get into to UW Madison and opened the door despite what Seehaver said. The allure of UW Madison wore off after a transfer pitch and a campus tour of UW Whitewater that landed me in a writing career as a journalist instead.

Madison College taught me early on to explore all avenues and that all paths lead to the University of Wisconsin through the UW Liberal Arts Transfer Program. Doors begin to open after meeting with advisors on campus. Transferring from Madison College to the university is easy. Writing is the first obstacle. Overcome Impossibility.

Outpost 422 was created to help the next veteran avoid making unnecessary mistakes due to walking into unforeseeable circumstances with academic writing. The professors at the Madison College Truax Writing Center kept me cool and collected in times of uncertainty and highly recommend new VITAL vets use this great service.

Outpost 422 and the “Overcome Impossibility” mission statement care only about one thing—veteran academic success. We carry each other in times of distress. Check-in with the Writing Center to track progress before crisis creates setbacks. The Writing Center also gauges students through feedback at the end of each session.

Are you new to Madison College and need help with academic forms of writing? Look no further.

• The Student Achievement Center on the Second Floor will assist you.
• Outpost 422 is a group of veterans of the University of Wisconsin looking out for you to reach out to anytime.
• Using the Writing Center is free to help you develop a system.
• Writing is our method of combating PTSD.
• Welcome to our campus guided tour.

Professors also recommend using the UW Madison online writing center for students who intend on transferring. I found MLA and APA resources available after hours were extremely helpful. UW Madison Writing Center online offers every outlet imaginable for all forms of academic writing used by Madison College professors.

The UW Madison Writing Center Website is also a helpful writing source. Click here.

The Madison College Library accompanies academic writers looking for research resources outside of the Writing Center.

• Plagiarism and grammatical errors irritate professors who grade academic writing.
• Progress pays huge dividends.
• Don’t risk putting your reputation in jeopardy.
• Get to the Writing Center. That’s an order.

Going back to school at 42-years-old was not on the list of potential career changes. Academic writing felt like getting on a tricycle after spending twenty years working in manufacturing and construction. Overcoming old age along with overwhelming fear of writing essays for assignments made matters worse. That was until I found support from the Writing Center.

The Writing Center delivers sound advice and will walk veterans through their writing process every step of the way. The Writing Center is the key to opening the treasure chest lock full of writing development resources for overcoming impossibility available to veterans in times of academic crisis.

 

Grammarly was a short cut I discovered that cut my anxiety in half. Downloading Grammarly cuts anxiety in half when the Writing Center is closed. Grammarly offers plagiarism checks and document scanning. Taking advantage of outside sources develops tenacity to tackle assignments free from fear. Grammarly is worth every cent.

Utilizing Grammarly helped develop a strong writing voice. Every time a new assignment was issued by a professor my excitement replaced my anxiety knowing Grammarly would help map out the areas of improvement. Professors commented on papers on how impressed they were with my progress. Grammarly was a life-saving device through plagiarism checks as well. Knowing the work being turned in was 100 percent authentic made stress disappear instantly.

 

Professors seek one main key ingredient: Active writing voice. The Madison VA Speech Therapy services helped me overcome my writing fear due to terminal brain injury that was causing my anxiety.

I was taught to write Subject-Object-Verb through News Writing for Media at UW Whitewater Fall 2019 semester, which would have helped me grasp in the beginning. Active writing voice practice sheets are available through the Writing Center upon request and strongly recommend all aspiring writers to practice often.

Veterans who enroll at Madison College should visit the Writing Center once-a-week as a rule of thumb. Your success depends on your ability to impress your professor. Utilizing the Writing Center will open new opportunities.

 

Setting up an appointment is fast and easy. In order to utilize the Writing Center, a student must reserve a time slot. Professors prefer students to meet with a professor at the Writing Center rather than a peer. Rough drafts and brainstorms start the writing process. Feel free to meet with a peer during the rough draft process. Making an appointment is easy. Please follow the YouTube above to make an appointment. All are invited to leave comments for new students to help out our Wolfpack community stay academically fit and lead the nation in being awesome.

 

 

Madison, Wis.—Public Relations Director invites journalism students and interns to schedule public relations tours prior to visiting the archive at the Wisconsin Historical Society starting Dec. 13.

The Wisconsin Historical Society is one of the largest journalism resources in the University of Wisconsin system located at the UW-Madison Library Mall. The Wisconsin Historical Society facility hosts journalism exhibits located on the fourth-floor available for view through the archive. Wisconsin’s Historical Society boasts having one of the largest newspaper collection outlets, which is a great place to go for campus investigative projects.

“The Wisconsin Historical Society’s Outreach team delivers statewide programs, support, resources and services to further the Society’s mission throughout the state,” said Janet Seymour Interim Director of Outreach.

Exploring collections link

Connecting with the society page

Setting up a tour with the society public relations office assists visitors with navigating the facility and locating hard to find items. Public relations assists students and interns by taking a deeper look into how society operates through public opinion. Setting up a tour allows those who are new to the journalism field the ability to find examples of personalities in print who specialize in their journalism craft.

“In addition to serving the public as a whole, the Wisconsin Historical Society library and archives is part of the UW-Madison Libraries system, making its collections seamlessly discoverable for all UW-System students,” said Cynthia Bachhuber North American History Librarian.

Discovering your community page

Public Relations Director Kara O’Keeffe offers her facility tour services upon request. O’Keeffe offered to assist with a last-minute request that offered more than the average tour. Her passion as a director is to help students and interns who visit for their first time avoid getting lost in their search. Her goal as a tour guide is to teach fast-track methods when locating journalism resources on site.

“We welcome all students of the University of Wisconsin to explore our Wisconsin Historical Society through tours upon request and wil assist journalism and multi-media interns with interviews as well,” said O’Keefe.

Visit the Wisconsin Historical Society website here: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Students of the University of Wisconsin who would like to set up public relations tours should notify O’Keeffe with a request, preferably by email first prior to visit and plan the whole day when they visit.

Tour Requests:

Name: Wisconsin History Public Relations Tour, Information
Division: Office of the Director – Public Relations
Email: Kara.Okeeffe@wisconsinhistory.org
Phone: 608-261-9596
Address: 816 State St.
Madison, WI 53706-1482

The Tour:

The Wisconsin Historical Society building offers a nostalgic aura combined with a monolithic marble presence. Between the ambiance of the fourth-floor archive met by the aura of the hallway’s presence the facility’s character is welcoming to all who visit. The first-floor hallway welcomes guests to investigate and explore trophy cases filled with literature and artifacts of yesteryear.

The entire facility is filled with labyrinths from the days of old. Tours start at the Circulation Desk in the library that assigns quiet rooms for literature and newspaper reviews. The Wisconsin Historical Society hosts both scholarly figures and scholarly sources. Librarians will assist with interviews who are highly recommended when seeking to interview knowledgeable academic sources who know where to find material on site.

The overall operation runs on public donations. Once the tour was completed the facility noted the Wisconsin Society Foundation maintains the archive and building on public donations. The foundation has kept the state facility afloat throughout long periods of financial uncertainty. Although donations are not mandatory, they do keep the facility operational for future journalists to share their relics as well.

The Wisconsin Historical Society is a free-will offering and can be found here:

Donations

The Archive Investigation:

The first place to start when investigating resources is by visiting the library to conduct a Google search. Google searching led to unearthing the Wisconsin State Historical Society YouTube channel, which is also a valuable source. Google searching and YouTube are new methods of archive. Artifacts come to life through documentary, which are forms of journalism as well.

Accessing archives and Wisconsin State Historical Society files.

 

Starting out with a practice procedure helps. Investigating the ’67 Dow Riot on the Wisconsin Historical Society website combined with retrieving the Stuart Brandes File located on the fourth-floor archive will help those who are new fast track how the archive record request process works.

Google Search: https://www.worldcat.org/title/dow-chemical-protest-papers-1967-1968/oclc/145773972

Records Retrieval:

The 1967 Dow Riot example features many forms of journalism writing located in the Stuart D. Brandes file. The 1967 Dow Riot during the Vietnam War brought out campus protest that quickly escalated and the Brandes file tells the story from an eyewitness account. Brandes’ methods of writing articles from start to finish exhibit the process of published writing. Having an example helps writers discover their significance as journalists.

Students who utilize the Wisconsin Historical Society can only view newspaper articles on-site through the archives. Archive staff requires new students to follow their proper methods of archive retrieval. The first part of the archive retrieval process is to notify staff you would like to view files. Staff will ask viewers to stow away all material in a locker with facility issued keys prior to entering the viewing area. Viewers can use smart devices for picture taking but are not allowed to use pens or office items other than pencils that may cause damage to archive files.

               

The ’67 Dow Riot Brandes folder exhibit contains examples of ways to write award-winning editorials by journalists who were on the scene fast-tracking crowd protest that escalated into rioting as eyewitnesses. State, National and global media outlets were on-site that can be viewed through the society archive. The University of Wisconsin saw a moment in time when the Vietnam War brought out the worst in administration as well. Archiving is a form of journalism often overlooked as a resource. University of Wisconsin journalism students and interns will find the Wisconsin Historical Society a helpful tool during times of writer’s block that will quickly guide them through the archives when attending the newly available public relations tours.

1967 University of Wisconsin Library Mall Dow Riot

 

White Elephant is my favorite holiday gift exchange. Parties and get-togethers all over the world gather for one common goal—trade and steal junk. White Elephant is also a great way to celebrate diversity at the office.

White Elephant will be sent downrange to Afghanistan this year through the 10th Mountain Division adopt-a-platoon at Madison College thanks to the Clarion. Let’s take a journey through:

“The Top 5 Funniest Gifts for Any White Elephant Celebration.”

Rules of Engagement. First things first, let’s get something straight—there are rules—you just can’t do whatever you want. Please click on the link below to follow along and enjoy your holiday cheer with a little American democratic structure. We can’t have holidays without it! You know that! This is America! We don’t settle for gift exchange without a little Robert’s Rules of White Elephant Order.

White Elephant Things To Know

The Top 5 Funniest Gifts for Any White Elephant Celebration.

Number Five— A used toilet plunger. Be sure to let the toilet paper dry onto the plunger before gifting.

Number Four—Bowling Shoes. The sole purpose of the White Elephant is to steal your gift. Bowling shoes are rarely stolen so the joke is on you! HAHA!

Number Three—Grandpa’s False Teeth. Thrift stores oftentimes sell false teeth. The look on your guest’s faces is priceless. Showing up to the party with the funniest gift gets you a special reward. False teeth are a guaranteed crowd favorite.

Number Two—Used Gift Cards with Zero Balance The best way to impress your boss is to be the employee who spent the entire balance of their gift card on yourself! Be sure to include receipts and selfies to turn their gears even more.

The Number One White Elephant Gift—Gag Winning Lottery Tickets. I have witnessed employees tell their bosses off at company parties and quit. Family members become truthful as well. Fake lottery tickets usually lead to siblings letting mom know what their other siblings really think of them. Mom often responds by telling siblings they are not getting any of their inheritance.

The funniest fake lottery ticket White Elephant prank of all-time I have ever witnessed was watching a cashier at a gas station reveal the bad news. The gift was watching the attendant’s reaction after telling the ecstatic soon-to-be-loser the lottery tickets were bunk. The attendant pointed their index finger declaring they would be calling the police if they try cashing the tickets again.

Disclaimer: Never get your hopes up going into a White Elephant Gift Exchange. You are the punchline the minute you open your gift. Stealing is the name of the game and being a good sport is the best part of holiday cheer. Got a brilliant idea for a White Elephant gift? Leave a comment.