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