Friday, 22nd February, 2013

We held our Pool Competition in Red Square this Wednesday. It was a great turned out  considering it was Donegal Tuesday the day before. We had 24 people entering the competition at 4 euro each. It was a great day to have majority of the team together and have some bonding time as a team. It was an enjoyable day to get to know our team-members a bit more. Ariane took some great pictures at the Pool Competition, Luke & Brendan made a simple & direct Pool Competition Poster, Rachel made an Event on Facebook for our Pool Competition,  Aisling & Paula made some buckets with Console logos on them for donations , Daniela is responsible for a money box to give change to people, Aidan was the judge and he have all the rules for the competition, Caitriona provided some Red Bull for our attendees and Mary was responsible to approach people to come to our event at  Union Square and she was brilliant at it. (She managed to get 8 guys to join our competition in   5 minutes). *Gary never turned up at the Pool Competition no apology was send.   

Participants at our Pool Competition

Participants at our Pool Competition

Luke doing up a score board.

Some of our Mobster's team-members 

Aidan & I with the Winner & Runner up at the Pool Competition. 

Aidan & 2nd runner up at the Pool Competition.

Emma, Daniela & Marese from our team.

Aisling, Paula & Daniela from our team.

I set up a Facebook Like Page for our event Mob Masquerade Ball and it is up and running with almost 100 likes at the moment. We are getting some great support from Local business, fellow students and friends & family.

Our Facebook Like Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mob-Masquerade-Ball/501278493246822?bookmark_t=page

I put up few statuses and pictures on our Main Event page in the hope to attract more people to come to our Pool Competition and I found out that by tagging people in photos on Facebook you can reach a wider audience (By viewing the insights you can see where the views are going to..e.g your post, status or picture).

It had been a busy week and will be even busier in the next 2 weeks with Car Wash, Business Symposium and Quiz Night to come. So far I think our team is very cooperative and we haven't had any major issues with working with any team-members and we are coming together as a team. Although some members could contribute a little more to the team.

Friday,15th February,2013

This week we are focusing on our Pool Competition which is to be held on the 20th February at Red Square at GMIT's Galway Campus. The process is going well so far and delegating jobs to the team. Luke was responsible for the Pool Competition's Poster, Rachel to set up an Event for the Pool Competition on Facebook and Gary & Alan are to sent out emails to all students in the Galway Campus to inform them about our Pool Competition.

We are also working on the Car Wash event to happen on the 27th February at GMIT's loading bay. Brendan is responsible for the Car Wash Poster. Print the posters and put the posters up around college.

I have contacted Nicola Mcguire from Jazz Cats in the hope to perform at our Mob Masquerade Ball event and we felt that her band will fit our event theme very well. She have to perform at an event on the same date but will try to arrange some musicians for our event and try to make it at our event on the night. We will have to wait for her response.

I also contacted few other sponsors such as Elles Cafe , Sara Boutique and Upstyles Galway. They all are interested in sponsoring our event and will be giving us some vouchers for Quiz Night, Pool competition or our main event. We need to give them more details in due course.

Caitriona was responsible to book Flannerys Hotel for our Quiz night for the 27th February,2013.

We are still struggling with our Team Logo and still seeking help from the team. Few ideas include a girl with Mask and guy with hat going back to back or MM with a hat on one M and a mask on the other M.

I think we are making some good progress on the Event Planning Process but some team members need to put more contributions in the team. We felt the need to add some pressure to some people in order to get them to achieve more.

I am responsible to make our Mob Masquerade Ball Event Poster with the help of Daniela from our team as she have experience in Visual Design and other members' suggestions. The poster is attached in the Blog Entry. We look forward to held the Pool Competition next Wednesday.

The Event Poster I made for Mob Masquerade Ball

Friday,8th February, 2012

This week, as team-leaders of our event team. Aidan & I went to meet with Margaret Tierney from Console Galway this week. Our meeting was mainly to give Margaret details of our event and after a long conversation with Margaret we found out more about the charity and what they do. She is a lovely who enjoys and committed to what she is doing. She told us a few cases she is currently following and one is involved with a girl Nicki who used to work in the Ardilaun Hotel where I used to go very often and where I met her through repeat visits to the hotel. I was moved by Margaret's work and that the charity is doing so much for the community and receiving lack of support for HSE and the government. (Console Galway only received €2800 funding from HSE in 2012) After our meeting with Margaret , it really motivated us to host a successful event and raise some money for a great charity. Even though, our main aim is to host a successful event not raising money for charity but Aidan & I felt that we could succeed if we plan the event well , put in the effort and work into it. 

We are required to come up with fundraising ideas to raise seed capital for our Mob Masquerade Ball . We came up with few ideas such as Table Quiz, Pool competition and Car wash. We agreed on Pool competition and Car Wash to go forward first. And table quiz will happen after the Pool Competition and Car Wash.

We are having troubles with motivating the Marketing Team to provide us Posters, leaflets and logos. The team tried to come up with some poster ideas but they are not up to standard. I find it hard to motivate the some of the members from the  Marketing Team as they don't seem to enjoy what they are doing as much as the Operations team. I personally make an attempt on a simple leaflet through Microsoft  Word the day before meeting with Console and the leaflet only took 30 minutes to complete. We're all Year 3 students and by now you would think they could use simple software such Microsoft Word & Powerpoint after all the modules in computing we have done such as CIS, BIS and E-Commerce. It is quite obvious who put in the work and who don't. 

I contacted a friend of mine studying Digital Media in GMIT in the hope that he could help us with our Event Poster. He made few attempts at the poster but the group didn't seem to like them .

We also went for a site inspection at Karma this Wednesday with the team. Aidan showed us around the venue and we discussed what we can do on the night with the tables,pillars, photo areas, cocktail/ champagne receptions and poker.  

The Team discussing the decorations & lighting.

The Team outside of Karma Nightclub.

Posters in the venue. *Emphasis on Standard posters.

This week I will be responsible for ordering masquerade masks , hats and some decorations on a Chinese manufacturer which is a lot cheaper than to purchase in Ireland. I need to order 175 masks and 120 hats for the event. 

I am also organizing a full squad signed Manchester United Signed Jersey as a Spot Prize for our Raffle for the event. 

Sat, 26th Jan,2013

I just want to write a quick entry for today to acknowledge the team-members' hard work. 

A lot of them (Daniela, Luke, Marese Aidan and Brendan) are private mailing me on facebook or posting their progress on our facebook event management page! Our group "Mobsters" are starting to shape and working very well as a team. They are all very engaging and co-operating with Aidan and myself. 

It's great to see all of the team-members are interested in the event that we are planning and try our best to host a great event.

We are making a good progress on contacting bands such as (Keywest, Amazing Apples, The Kanyu Tree and Soldiers can't dance), DJ (Lisa Brady from I-Radio), MC (Fergal D'arcy from I-Radio), Singer (Janet Devlin from X-Factor), Models (Rosanna Davison and Shahira Barry) and Sports personalities (Joe Canning from the Galway Hurling Team and the Connaught Rugby Team). 

We have also contacted sponsors such as Bacardi, Red Bull, The G hotel and many more.  

Marese managed to get a 40 euro voucher from Barrett shoe shop in Eyre Square shopping center and a voucher for lunch for 2 at a bar in Moycullen.  

Caitriona's minutes which was posted today. (Sat, 26th Jan,2013)

Luke's status on our Event Management Group page about contacting celebrities, sports personalities, DJs and MC.

Brendan's Post about the band "Soldiers can't dance" on a friday evening.

Ashlee's status about Console. 

Model- Rosanna Davison

Connaught Rugby Team

Red Bull

Bacardi

Popular Irish Band- Keywest

The only 5 star in Galway - The G Hotel

Thurs,24th Jan,2013

We had a very productive meeting today with the team. 
There are few things to be discussed at today's meeting:

1. Event Name
2. Event Slogan
3. Team name
4. Charity
5. Location
6. Guests - Celebrities (Models, Sportsmen and singers)
7. Date of the event
8. Roles for the team-members

We have decided our Event Name as 1) " The Mob Masquerade".

2) The slogan for our event will be "Gangster meets Glamour"/ "When Gangster Meets Glamour".

3) Our team name will be integrated with "Mobsters" along with a logo/ image.

4) A voting took place in the meeting, as all of us have named various charities and we cut down to the last two charities. And they are Console (9 votes) and Cancer Care West (7 votes).

5) The team mentioned few places in Galway city which were Karma Night Club, Halo Night Club, Monroes Live and Roisin Dubh. And almost every member voted for Karma. So Aidan will contact the manager at Karma to get the details off the manager. And hopefully to organize a site inspection for next week. So the team can have a look at the venue and have a general idea of what we need for decorations and if there are any issues regarding the site.  

6) I had a brief discussion with Aidan about getting guests such as celebrities and models at the event. Which hopefully can bring in more attendees to the event. We came up with Joe Canning (Galway Hurling team), Damien Duff (Ex- Irish International Player), Shahira Barry (Model) and Rosanna Davison. 

We will try to get Fergal D'arcy from I-Radio to be our MC of the night and Lisa Brady from I-Radio to be the DJ at our event.

7) We came up with two proposed dates for our event. We hope to have our event on a Tuesday and  after the Easter Holidays. So they are either the 9th April,2013 or 16th April, 2013.

8) Roles such as looking at prices for decorations, contacting celebrities (Agencies/ Clubs), contacting the charity, contacting the venue and looking for sponsors. 

Everyone was very co-operative and contributed to the meeting. In fact half of the class stayed an hour extra after the meeting. We discussed furthermore about decorations , colour themes for the event, celebrities and other issues (Poker, props and working with other Third Level Institutes)  regarding the event. 

Our New Team Name- MOBSTERS

Our Chosen Charity- Console

Proposed- Venue

Proposed DJ- Lisa Brady

Proposed MC- Fergal D'Arcy

Proposed Guest -Joe Canning (Galway Hurling Team)

Tues 22nd Jan, 2013

Aidan and I met up in the library at 9 this morning to discuss our combined idea "The Mobsters' Masquerade". We put some pictures together to show the class. And I showed him a Sample poster I made from last night of our combined event.  I came up with the name "Mafioso's & Midnight Gals"

At the class meeting, Aidan and I have to present the "Mobsters' Masquerade Party" in front of the class. Everyone seems to be very pleased with what we came up with and that we have resolved the Dressing up issue for guys. After that we have to give everyone their roles in the team. Aidan and I were elected as the chairman and chairwoman.

Roles:

Chairman- Aidan 

Chairwoman- Ashlee 

Treasurer- Daniela 

Secretary- Caitriona 

Operations- Emma, Gary, Marese & Luke 

Marketing- Rachel, Brendan, Paula, Aisling 

IT/ Promotion Video- Alan, Jeremy & Ariane.

Lastly, we have to come up with an event name. Everyone have to give one event name idea. We left with 2 event names which are "The Mob Masquerade" and "Gangster meets Glamour". We have to vote between the 2 in our next meeting.

After class, Aidan & I briefly spoke to few people in the group about the different charities they have in mind that they would like to work with. I looked up a few charities after class and the following charities are all deserving charities. Its going to be hard to choose one of them. 

• Cancer Care West
• Croí (Irish heart & stroke charity)
• Console (Provide Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention Service in Ireland)
• Hand in Hand (Children's Cancer Charity for the West of Ireland).   
• Cope Galway (Provide help to homeless and elderly people in Galway)

It will be up to our team members to choose at our next group meeting on Thursday.

 "Mafioso's & Midnight Gals" Sample Poster

The Poster I made for Event Management 1

Mon 21st Jan, 2013

Today at our Event Management lecture. We have to vote for our favourite Event Concept. There are 3 ideas that stood out and voted by the group. We had a group discussion about the 3 event ideas. It was between my idea "The Masquerade Ball", Aidan's "Mafia Themed Party" and Brendan's "Dragon's Den Event".

After the voting, The Masquerade Ball got most of the votes. It was 7 votes to 5 for the "Mafia Themed Party". Few male group members mentioned that Irish guys don't like the idea of dressing up for an event. We took these suggestions into consideration and brainstormed at the group session.

We came up with a solution to combined the 2 concepts" Masquerade and Mafia themed" together. Which could work very well. As both of them are from around 1930's /1940's.  

Our lecturer Monica asked Aidan and myself to work to together to combine the two ideas together and present it to the class the next day. 

A Facebook Closed Group is created for our Event Management Team. It will allow us to communicate easily via Facebook and we can discuss opinions & issues on it and upload any information required for the event. 

http://www.facebook.com/groups/407110489367279/?bookmark_t=group