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- From: grimmund@edsi.plexus.COM (Grimmund Blackwing)
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- Subject: Re: Help, first time autocrat!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.021422.24183@edsi.plexus.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 02:14:22 GMT
- Article-I.D.: edsi.1992Nov18.021422.24183
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- Well met!
- You might want to get a copy of _Event Planning for Autocrats_,
- available from the Calontir Kingdom Seneschal's Office.
- Cople things to think about...confirm the site, in writing.
- Decide on the feast menu *real* soon. Decide if you want to serve
- the feast or let them serve themselves. (Hint: much easier for
- them to serve themselves, requiring less staff for you. More
- elegant to serve the feasters, though.)
- Get an agenda established *real* soon. Don't go overboard on
- detail yet, but it helps to have some idea of what you're doing
- and in what sequence, and how much time you'll have for each
- particular segment of the event.
- Delegate jobs to responsible volunteers. Troll, Security,
- Feast, and Fighting all get thei own job bosses, who are
- responsible for recruiting and organizing their own crews. Get
- progress reports, but don't dog their every step-that's why you
- need to recruit people you trust. Let them do their jobs; that
- way you'll hav etime to do yours.
-
- This is my advice, based on how I ran my first event last June.
- It worked pretty well for us, although I didn't have a Troll boss
- and ended up doing that job myself <sigh>.
-
- Grimmund
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