TTWNYC 2009 2nd Staff Meeting

2^nd TTW_NYC_2009 Staff Meeting notes from Thursday July 23^rd 2009:

THANKS for coming out in the rain and joining me!

New blood!

Katrina McDaniels and her friend Nicole came to the meeting and we now have a Registration Coordinator (handles zombies at the event) / Online officers (Promotes and edits online network groups). As well as Camilla Plummer who will be our new finance officer! Camilla please, if you could give me the honor of creating a TTWNYCfinance@gmail.com account then I can send you the shared documents. And my fiance has been talked into being our Zombies Care Coordinator his name is Gene Chiang.

Venue:

We (Celena, Kat L, and Kathleen) and new blood discussed our options in the Times Square area. We later met up with Scott and he and I walked back through the Times Square. Amada has Brilliant change of PLANS. I am going to get a permit for 45^th-47^th Streets and although one half of the group is on the other side of the street we can still dance all together if the sound is set up correctly. Stage being on one corner of the street and basically taking up two blocks. It’s going to be AWESOME. Forget Duffy’s Square or Military Island-We are now focusing on reserving those two blocks. That’s enough room for 2000 zombies!! And probably just one SAPO permit.

We are still looking for nonprofit organizations or corporations to help us with securing the permits in the form of certificate of insurance. If anyone knows someone willing to help please contact Diana at TTWNYC_Sponsor@gmail.com or myself, Amada ttw09.nyc.manada.biz@gmail.com. THANKS!

But JUST IN CASE-Can we discuss a backup venue???? Ideas?

Communication:

I also am going to send out a massive email to everyone asking for their help with suggestions for potential sponsors, dance studios, and any corporate or non profit organizations who would want to help us make this happen and it can happen we just have to have persistence, patience and a smile on our face especially when we ask them for the MOOLAH! J

Graphics:

Ok. We covered that graphic ideas/LOGOS will be presented on August 7^th. Also she said she could help with creating the press release. YAY! If anyone knows how to or has press contacts can u send them over to me??

Fund/Promotions: We discussed bake sales, auctions of 80’s things, dance-a-thons, Kat L has a list of ideas popping outta her head we just need to get started!

Charity:

I’ve tried contacting Make A Wish foundation/Heal the World (MJ Charities). Have not heard back a reply. I want to create t-shirts to sell on Café press to donate to our charity. It is possible…but the logos will come later for this idea once we secure our charity to make a linked t-shirt to say something like “TTW NYC makes a wish come true and so can u” IDK just bubbling with thoughts now…

Registration:

Buying bracelets for day of for Staff to wear as well as our registered zombies so we know for sure who is part of our Guinness world records team & they can receive discounts at various sponsored places.

Guinness: Kat K is already in the process of filling out our forms but we are waiting another week before sending to see if we can fill in the blank space to answer regarding charity and sponsorship.

The MJ Dance Team:

We are meeting this Sunday July 26^th at 3pm to walk through all the movements and make sure we are all on the same page and we can designate ourselves into appropriate groups as well as scheduling. So our blood thirsty zombies can get what they have registered for!!

Sponsorship:

We talked about companies such as Red bull, Coke (but we should try Pepsi first since they owe MJ a favor for accidently burning his head!), Sony and Epic records. The Hard rock café, Starbucks, Planet Hollywood, All local Hotels for ballroom rental, all local dance studios for rehearsals, All local colleges and universities use of their dance/makeup/costume departments. Also we should check with local charitable celebrities like Rosie’s Broadway dance studio/Alvin Alley/Kids dance studios? (when I was younger I wanted to learn Thriller), Also Daniel has some great ideas for sponsorship from Ricky’s and local costume shops.

Ok. I think my heads gonna explode and brains go flying. OH!!!

We have as of today exactly: 91 days to do all this!!

Sincerely,

Amada Anderson

Event Organizer/Director

Email: ttw09.nyc.manada.biz@gmail.com

website: www.thrilltheworldnyc.com

TTWNYC 2009 1st Staff Meeting

Notes from TTWNYC 2009 1st Staff Meeting -Union Sq on Thursday July 16th 2009

Ok, first and foremost-I have yet to determine our venue but I am shooting for Times Square. I mean this is going to be the biggest year ever and we should do Thrill The World and Michael Jackson justice!

So in regards to securing Times Square we need for a non profit organization or corporate company to sponsor us in the forms of a certificate of insurance. If you or your company would like to sponsor us please contact our newly designated sponsorship coordinator Diana Leary (TTWNYC_Sponsor@gmail.com). We are also looking for all types of donations and local sponsors to donate goods and services to our thirsty hungry zombies the day of. Please send ideas and suggestions for her to send out the letters to..

Fundraising! With or without Sponsors we will need moolah now for all these permits and things. Kat Lundy (TTWNYC_fundraising@gmail.com) is going to head up our fundraising team. She’s going to organize ways for our zombies to get involved now and help. Zombie Car washes/Danceathons/All that jazz!!

Kat Kiernan (TTWNYC_WGRecords@gmail.com) is going to be our World Guinness Records officer. She fills out the applications for us and gives us all the goody details on how exactly we qualify.

Celena Sinko (TTWNYC_documentation@gmail.com) is our documentation team leader. She will handle all aspects of exact photos we will need for Thrill the World as well as be the go to for all other photographers. I would like everyone to take as many pictures as possible but we need professional videos/pictures to qualify.

*We Still want a CHARITY as well. Ideas? Thoughts? I would like to work with nonprofit organizations or local charities because I believe Thrill The World is the perfect car for raising money for a charity.

We need a logo for our website/flyers (WE HAVE THE HOOK UP WITH RAY's PIZZA's THANKS to Anna Cordera my co-assistant organizer and friend)/t-shirts etc and Daniel Rivera had a great idea for how we can stay true to TTW’s logo but claim NYC as our event ID. Ideas were tossed around and Kathleen Marie (TTWNYC_Graphics@gmail.com) is going to design our logo! Her title shall be Graphic Designer.

And of course…Tarah Blasi (TTWNYC_Danceofficer@gmail.com) is to be our Lead Dance Instructor/Officer and Xiomara Forman is to be our second in command. They will
need help, lots of help organizing spaces/zombies and all our very helpful assistant dance instructors so that our zombies will learn Thriller quickly and then run and tell their friends!!

We have the rehearsal schedule posted below and of course if you are registered you will receive the email blasts with all updates pertaining to our event. And as soon as we are ready we will begin teaching thriller to the hungry ZOMBIES!!!

If you have any ideas and or suggestions please feel free to email me or post comments on the blog. Thanks so much!!

Sincerely,
Amada Anderson
Event Organizer/Director
Email: Ttw09.nyc.manada.biz@gmail.com
Website: www.thrilltheworldnyc.com

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