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The Young Dems Made Me Sick: Event Planning Lessons



cross posted at/adapted from my blog

It’s been a rough week.  Work has been very busy and Mr. D (my live-in boyfriend) and I single-handedly planned and executed a Young Democrats event on Thursday night.

This event, which had been talked about and conceptualized for about two months, literally came together in less than two weeks.  With some (read: minimal) help from the Board President and other members, we created and mailed about 1100 post card invites, learned “constant contact” and sent email invites to current members with its email marketing application, spruced up the website and myspace page to advertise the event, shopped for and prepared all the food and drink for about 70 guests, set-up and broke-down the day of the event…I am totally shocked it went off (seemingly) without a hitch.

Beer

Hi ya’ll.  Tonight I’m all about beer blogging.  It’s unconventional, I know.  But if it goes over like a lead balloon I’ll keep doing it ’til someone gives me praise.  So heap on the praise and I’ll stop…

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